The first episode of 'I'm Not Enjoying This' begins with Frank moving into Anton's flat. Anton is characteristically unwelcoming and achieves his goal of being the most hopeless and unhelpful tenant possible. Having overcome this, Frank then starts his temporary job as a call centre worker. The team leader at the call centre, Barbara, takes an instant liking to Frank, flirting with him throughout their initial exchange with each other. On his first day at work Frank also meets Stu, a 19 year old chav wannabe rapper, who shows Frank the ropes and "busts a few of his sick raps" by way of a welcome.
After the first week at work, a "your mum" joke made by Stu backfires after Frank turns down an invitation for a night out. Frank instinctively responds, untruthfully, by saying that his mum is dead. Stu believes Frank, though, and offers to buy him drinks all night if he goes out on Saturday. Frank agrees on the condition that Anton, who he claims is his brother, gets free drinks as well. Out of guilt, Stu accepts.
Anton and Frank meet up with Stu and his crew, who are incredibly late in showing up. Anton immediately shows his anger and agitation towards their lateness and immediately targets Stu and one of the other crew members, DJ Malfunktion, to vent his frustration. However, as the evening continues Anton starts to bond with Stu's crew and suggests he becomes a member, forwarding the name Al-Qaeda for the collective. Stu's crew are unsure, but give Anton a chance to prove himself with a "sick rap". Anton performs well and is accepted into the ranks. Frank walks away as Anton and Stu's crew continue to bond, and bumps into an attractive woman called Anne-Marie. Both of them are immediately attracted to each other as they get talking, however, Anne-Marie's friend is horrendously drunk and ruins the moment for the two of them, so both go their separate ways.
As Anton, Frank and Stu's crew wait in the queue for Liquid nightclub, Stu informs Frank that he will attempt the "round and down", a borderline sexual assault manoeuvre, on a girl he fancies in the club. Frank warns Stu that this might be a bad idea, but Stu ignores the warnings, adamant that it will succeed.
In the club, Frank meets the girl Stu fancies - a shotgirl. Stu buys 10 shots off her and drinks them all for Dutch courage for the "round and down" he will be attempting. Frank and Anton then meet Nicola, a 21 year old WAG wannabe, who's sole-intention is to sleep with as many Crawley Town footballers as possible. Anton is completely besotted with her and displays extreme annoyance when she shows an instant liking to Frank; so much so that he storms off. Frank follows him and the two of them argue as Anton leaves the club.
As he's leaving he sees Stu, who's now sitting with the shotgirl and starting to attempt the "round and down". Just as his hand is on shotgirl's breast, Anton tells Stu that he's not Frank's brother and his mum isn't dead. Shocked at this revelation Stu starts to look queasy and shotgirl turns around and faces Stu as his hand is placed on her breast. Stu then throws up on shotgirl.
Frank follows Anton out of the club and the two continue to argue, which leads to Anton chucking Frank's keys away, before he walks off. Frank then meets Anne-Marie again, who has also been left by her friend, and they end up going back to her place. However, they don't have sex, they instead just enjoy each other's company.
In the morning, Frank wakes up with Anne-Marie, who informs him that she's barely just turned 18 and heading to university in a few weeks time. Both reluctantly decide to leave things as they are and Frank heads back to the flat, where the front door is wide open, Anton passed out on the sofa in his pants with kebab meat on his bare chest. As Frank enters his bedroom he finds a note on his door from Anton saying sorry. Frank sighs and heads to bed.
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