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"What Can Only Be Considered a Dreadful Day for Todd" is the sixth and final episode of the IFC and More4 television series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.

Plot Summery
The episode opens with Todd(David Cross) thanking Alice(Sharon Horgan) for bailing him out after the incident at the Remembrance Day ceremony. Alice confronts Todd about the mistakes he’s made, including: not being able to sell and Thunder Muscle, being unfamiliar with the concept of exchange rates, destroying her café, and ruining her kitchen drapes. She tells Todd that he doesn’t have to lie so much and try so hard to which Todd responds by telling Alice that his new apartment is in the Houses of Parliament, an obvious lie that Alice causes Alice to leave in disgust. As she’s leaving, Todd tells her to come back the next day at 8 pm and he’ll prove it.

When Todd returns to his apartment, he finds that Pam(Sara Pascoe) as given birth. When he actually enters the building he finds that she’s given birth in his apartment, and neglected to clean it up. As Pam leaves for a night out with her friends, Todd cleans up after her, starting with the box containing Alice’s drapes.

Todd then goes to the office, dejected, where he starts to call his company to tender his resignation. Before he can though, Dave(Blake Harrison) returns and Todd confronts him. Todd wants to quit, but Dave tries to change his mind. Quite coincidentally the phone rings and an order for Thunder Muscle is placed. More orders start coming through, which Todd is quite optimistic about. Todd tells Dave to book him a tour of the Houses of Parliament.

Meanwhile, Brent Wilts(Will Arnett) is in his hotel room, masturbating to the television coverage of the day’s oil prices when there’s a knock on the door. It’s Doug Whitney(Spike Jonez) who enters Wilts’ room and fires him. Whitney tells Wilts that he’s been investigating him, and found out that Global National is nothing but a shell company registered to a hut on the island of Antigua. Wilts tells Whitney that all he knows is that he was a temp when he received a call from a Mr. Malford, who gave him the promotion, the company credit cards, the cell phone, etc. Whitney responds that he’s never heard of Malford. Suddenly, the hotel manager is at Wilts’ door telling him there’s a problem with his credit cards, to which Whitney is overjoyed.

Back at Parliament, Todd shows up for the last tour of the night. As he’s waiting for it to begin, he tries to talk to a young woman also waiting for the tour. She doesn’t acknowledge him, which he considers rude. The tour he’s waiting for is actually for the deaf, to which Todd plays along. At one point he’s asked to talk to his fellow tour members, which causes Todd to fake signing and speaking with a deaf accent. He gets a shoe thrown at him, and is subsequently admonished by the tour guide. Todd asks to go to the bathroom, and proceeds to fall asleep on the toilet while waiting for 8 pm.

While waiting, Todd overhears a politician in the restroom requesting an orange, the back of a door and a tank of nitrous oxide over the phone. Todd pretends to be deaf once more, and excuses himself. Meanwhile, Alice heads off around 8 to see if Todd was able to pull of getting into Parliament. As she’s leaving the television shows a photo of Ahmed as a potential terrorist, although the name attributed to him is Todd Margaret.

Todd sneaks into an office and is spotted by Alice, who congratulates him but tells him that it’s time to come down. Todd continues to pretend he lives there until a police officer shows up to detain Todd. As he’s leaving, Todd sees the same politician from before hanging from the back of the office door with an orange in his mouth and his necktie wrapped around his neck. Todd tries to explain that he got lost to the police officer when Alice shows up. She tells the officer that Todd is harmless, if foolish, and the officer agrees to take Todd to his apartment in order to clear up the confusion.

Meanwhile, we see Dave exiting a fancy party and entering a limo, where he is addressed as Mr. Malford by the driver.

When Todd, Alice and the police arrive at Todd’s apartment, they find Wilts having sex with Pam. They also find the box once labeled “Alice Drapes 4 Kitchen” now says “Alice Rape Kit” due to Todd’s attempts to clean Pam’s baby’s blood off of it. The officer calls for back-up, Alice calls Todd a creep and Todd’s father(Russ Tamblyn) shows up. Everyone is shocked, and Todd lies one last time and claims that he is a ghost.

The episode, and season, ends with the Thunder Muscle commercial airing, complete with footage spliced in from the pornographic film that Dave was shooting.

Todd's Lies

 * Todd lies about his dad being dead.
 * Todd lies about his place being renovated.
 * Todd lies about living in the Houses of Parliament.
 * Todd lies about growing up in Leeds.
 * Todd lies about being deaf.
 * Todd lies about his dad being a ghost.
 * Todd lies about everything.

Cultural References

 * In the beginning of the episode Todd is in police custody being read a list of charges that includes:
 * Breaking and Entering
 * Libel
 * Airing Pornographic Material
 * Money Laundering
 * Murder
 * Subtle Antisemitism
 * The father of Pam's new baby plays for Layton Orient football club, although she doesn't know who it is, only that he plays for the reserve team.
 * Todd's homesickness causes him to sing America the Beautiful incorrectly.
 * Whitney "put on [his] best Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew outfit" when he was investigating Wilts.
 * He was also "working with the CIA, FBI, and Scotland Yard just as soon as they return [his] calls".
 * While Todd was waiting in the Parliament bathroom, he read Andy Capp in The Daily Mirror, the front page of which detailed the multi-million pound lawsuit by Sainsbury's against Thunder Muscle.