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"The Snooker Player, the Black Canadian, the Turkish Terrorist, and the Peanut" is the third episode of the IFC and More4 television series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.

Plot Summery
Todd(David Cross) goes to work where he confronts Dave(Blake Harrison) about Sainsbury’s. Dave protests, and tells Todd that he was only following his orders. Todd ultimately backs off, and asks Dave to recommend a lawyer. Dave tells Todd to do an internet search for “Young and Not” Legal, which returns ten million hits.

Todd then goes to get a liquor license for Alice(Sharon Horgan), and while in the waiting room he gets the idea to have a celebrity athlete endorse Thunder Muscle. Todd then tries to simply ask the government employee he’s seeing for a liquor license. When that doesn’t work, he tries a bribe, but is unfamiliar with British currency and fails.

Todd then visits Ahmet and Sons, where he meets Ahmet(Stewart Scudamore). Ahmet wants to do business with Todd, and agrees to forge a liquor license for him in exchange for seeing Todd’s passport under the pretenses of writing a book about passports, which he actually photocopies. Todd then goes to Alice’s café, where he manages to come across as a racist inadvertently. He gives her the liquor license and she invites him over for dinner.

Dave has Todd meet him at the pub, where Todd meets celebrity snooker player, Steve Davis. Todd bungles the negotiation process, and being unfamiliar with the concept of exchange rates, he gives Davis more money than he’s authorized to.

Todd then goes to Alice’s apartment, where he meets her Canadian ex-boyfriend, Hudson(Colin Salmon). Alice, being a proponent of molecular gastronomy, has produced an eclectic meal that includes: oxtail toothpaste, pancetta gas (“Ham farts?!”), edible plates and a photocopied dessert. Meanwhile Dave is seen dealing with the Turks from Ahmet and Sons. Todd is vastly overshadowed by Hudson, and ends up eating the chocolates he had brought for Alice. Unfortunately for Todd, he had told Alice he was allergic to nuts, and when she acts alarmed he has to fake having an allergic reaction. Hudson goes to get his Epipen and stick Todd with it, sending him into spasms. An ambulance is called, and Todd is soon calmed, being left with the sides affects of a persistent erection and having voided his bowels. Todd not only finds out that the 50,000 pounds that he’s paying Steve Davis is actually worth $80,000 but Brent Wilts(Will Arnett) calls and tells Todd that he’ll be in London tomorrow. After all of that, a violinist that Todd had hired shows up to help Todd “seal the deal”, further adding to his humiliation in front of Alice.

Back in Todd’s Portland, OR apartment vultures and wolves have appeared to eat the dead animals contained within.

Todd's Lies

 * Todd lies about having offered a bribe.
 * Todd lies about staying in a dilapidated apartment while his actual building is being renovated.
 * Todd lies about his dad's death, again.

Cultural References

 * In the beginning of the episode Todd is in police custody being read a list of charges that includes:
 * Consumer fraud
 * Trafficking in child pornography
 * Drug running
 * Destruction of Hindi artifacts
 * Todd originally wants David Beckham to endorse Thunder Muscle.
 * Todd tries to bribe the government official with a "Benjamin Franklin", but realizing that the currency in England is in pounds, he then tries to guess who appears on their notes, including:
 * Winston Churchill
 * Alfred Hitchcock
 * William Shakespeare
 * Robert Lewis Stevenson
 * The "guy who wrote Winnie the Pooh"
 * Winnie the Pooh
 * A bulldog
 * Monty Python
 * The Beatles
 * An old lady drinking tea
 * Tony Blair
 * King Kong
 * Ultimately he checks, and sees that Adam Smith is on the £20 note.
 * Todd wears a t-shirt bearing the slogan of the British National Party, believing it to be simply an "I Love England T-shirt".
 * Hudson has won several Genie Awards, the "Canadian Oscar".