Ep 3. Cash and Curry
- TV-PG
- September 22, 1981
- 28 min
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8.1 (538)
Del and Rodney open their own market stall selling a range of yoga merchandise, including incense and loincloths. After a poor first day of trading, the brothers receive a call from their friend Mickey Pearce who tells them about a deal on a consignment of 50 boxes of ‘Era’ brand extra hot chilli powder. Believing they can make a fortune selling the powder at the market, Del and Rodney decide to take a chance and buy the consignment from their friend for a reduced price.
When they arrive to collect the spice, they find themselves in the company of a group of Indian businessmen who have also come to purchase the same consignment. The businessmen offer to buy the brothers’ consignment and outbid them by offering twice the amount that Del and Rodney had paid for it. However, fearing that the businessmen are 'robbing' them, the brothers refuse to sell the spice to the businessmen and instead, opt to try and sell it at the market themselves.
Their first attempt to sell the extra hot chilli powder at the market went wrong after selling a pack to a customer who is later rushed to the hospital with pepper burns. Undeterred, they devise a plan to mix the spice with Branston pickle and sell it as a non-lethal curry powder. However, the plan fails as no one at the market wants to purchase it.
Del finally finds a potential buyer in Denzil, a market worker who expresses his desire to purchase the curry powder. Del and Rodney go to Denzil's friend's restaurant, and to their dismay, find out that the restaurant they visited was the Indian businessmen's new restaurant and that Denzil was actually an agent for the businessmen. The trio then gets kidnapped by the businessmen who then blackmails them to deliver the curry powder to their restaurant. The episode concludes with the trio attempting to deliver the curry powder to the businessman's restaurant and encountering various obstacles along the way.
Overall, the episode is filled with humor, from the brothers' overconfidence to their failed attempts at selling the extra hot chilli powder. The conflict between the brothers and the Indian businessmen also adds a thrilling element to the episode, making Cash and Curry a must-watch for fans of the series.