Funboys - Episode Guide

The three funboys, Callum Brown, Jordan McCafferty and Lorcan Boggin, may have taken the scenic route through emotional development, but they're trying to make the most of life in rural Ballymacnoose.

While working at the local shop, Callum acquires his first-ever female admirer in the form of Gemma, who is new to town and seeking friends. Unfortunately, Callum's burgeoning relationship means that he no longer wants to play video games all weekend with the fellas. This is too much for Jordan to bear and the PSNI are called to restrain him (again).

Despite Jordan's warnings about the devastating dangers of post-nut depression, Callum goes on his first-ever date. And things are going well until he gets an urgent call from Lorcan about a friend in peril: Jordan has jumped off a bridge in the village.

After a gas leak at his flat, Callum moves in with Lorcan and his dad, Sammy, aka the biggest git in Ballymacnoose. Driven by a desire to no longer be a pushover, and in a desperate attempt to get over his break-up with Gemma, Callum goes under Sammy's wing and unleashes his own inner git.

Meanwhile, Jordan's two dads are finally tying the knot, and Jordan is caught up in all the excitement of the wedding. But whilst Jordan's attention is focused on suit fittings and stag dos, will Callum's transition to full baddie cause an irreparable breakdown in the funboys' friendship? And will there be any other disastrous consequences to Callum's personality transplant?

With Callum now unwelcome at Boggins' farm and his flat still out of bounds because of a gas leak, Callum turns once more to his oldest, dearest friend, Jordan. And things seem to be going well – Jordan's two dads show Callum some much-needed sympathy and introduce him to the foreign concept of "talking about his feelings." Unfortunately this new-found bond doesn't go down so well with the other member of the house… Jordan.

Meanwhile, Gemma brings home a pet and unwittingly causes Lorcan to relive some very painful memories. Will his emotional constipation cause their romance to founder on the rocks or can he break the cycle of masculine silence and find a way to process his grief?

Gemma and Lorcan throw a party at Boggins' farm and it's the biggest social event in Ballymacnoose with a whole eight people attending. One of those attendees is Gemma's brother, David, who is tall, cool and very emotionally articulate. And weirdest of all, he seems genuinely interested in being friends with Callum. Has Callum finally found someone he can be himself with, who he can let his guard down with and who won't take advantage of him?

Meanwhile, Gemma finds one of her old personality quirks coming to the fore again as she struggles to maintain her identity amidst the intoxicating brew of Lorcan's old-fashioned country charm. Will Lorcan pick up on his lover's signals or barrel on as normal like a dumb pig?

And while Callum focuses on his new friendship with David, Jordan decides to branch out himself and become mates with Frank. But can he handle Frank's famously toxic banter?

The gang belatedly get involved in the Great Famine, the one thing they didn't need to get involved in. Callum's new job at the Ballymac Folk Museum sends him down a spiral of method acting as a starving peasant. And he's helped along in this grovelling subservience by his new boss, tyrannical land steward Phillip. The sudden news, to Jordan, that a million people died during the potato famine causes him to finally develop empathy, and it turns out to be a real pain.

Strange things are afoot in Ballymacnoose: animals in small clothing, paranormal sightings of leprechauns, and most bizarrely of all, Callum gets his first ever match on a dating app. The one prickle on the pickle is that Gwen, Callum's dream girl, is also in an open relationship with the 50-year-old Grainne, a woman who disembowels chickens for a living.

Meanwhile, Gemma becomes obsessed with dressing farm animals in tiny clothing and causes Sammy to spin out in paranoia thinking that his farm has become infested with leprechauns. So Lorcan has no other choice but to introduce Gemma to the dark secrets of the Ballymacnoose Paranormal Society, also run by his da and Frank.

Life in Ballymacnoose becomes very complicated when Callum accidentally walks in on Gemma and Lorcan trying out a new form of lovemaking. The sight triggers a long-buried childhood trauma in Callum and raises uncomfortable questions about the town's deeply repressed relationship with sex. Can Ballymacnoose open its heart to true love?

Meanwhile, Jordan has officially begun dating his much older lover, 50-year-old Grainne. But as their relationship deepens, Jordan is confronted with another harsh reality of adulthood: he's going bald. Faced with the slow retreat of his hairline and the love of a good woman, Jordan must decide whether to cling to denial or embrace manhood in all its forms - love, responsibility and mushroom carbonaras.

As Callum begins slowly unravelling under the strain of Jordan's relentless night terrors about baldness, he stumbles upon a flyer for Ballymacbot Wars - a local robot combat tournament offering a generous cash prize and potential ticket out of Jordan's bedroom.

Meanwhile, Jordan is uncharacteristically uninterested in the whole affair. He's become a bald hermit, terrified to leave the house and expose his creamy scalp to the outside world. That is, until, like a dagger in the night, a hooded burst of inspiration sends him back out into the world… and the robot wars.