This is a list of episodes of the British television programme Sugar Rush, which was broadcast by Channel 4 from 2005 to 2006. The programme has two series; the first aired in 2005, and the second in 2006. Each series consists of ten episodes, each 30 minutes long (including advertisements). The episodes do not have individual titles.
Series 1 (2005) The first series consists of ten episodes, and follows 15-year-old Kim's unrequited crush on Sugar.
Episode 1 Kim and Sugar are on the waltzers at Brighton Pier, and Sugar slowly moves in to kiss Kim. Kim is then in bed under a duvet with her eyes closed, and whirring is heard. There is a knock at her door; she jumps up, and the whirring stops. Kim was using an electric toothbrush to "masturbate about her best friend".
Kim's family is new in the neighbourhood. Dave and David, a gay couple, are neighbours who recommend a handyman for Nathan and Stella and imply that he might be gay.
Kim describes how she met Maria Sweet (Sugar). She is obsessed with her, but Sugar is straight. Kim was outside a clothes shop when Sugar ran out of the shop after shoplifting.
Kim wonders how she knows she is gay if she has never had sex with a man. A male student starts flirting with her, and she replies, "Die"; he responds with "Dyke". Kim tells Sugar that she wants to have sex (quickly adding "with a man"), and Sugar thinks Kim has a crush on a boy.
Kim meets Dale, the handyman, to whom Stella is attracted. She calls Sugar, tells her about him, and is invited to her flat for tips on flirting with men. Sugar tells Kim to strip, and says that few men would be attracted to her in her clothes. They get drunk, and try on clothes. Sugar throws Kim onto her bed, climbs on top of her and tells her to flirt with her, pretending that she is Dale. Kim, aroused, leaves.
She says that trying to sleep with Dale is not important anymore because Sugar has replaced him. As Kim enters the house, she hears banging and assumes it is Dale working. She hears moaning, and finds Stella bent over the kitchen table having sex with Dale. She runs out of the house, followed by Stella, who says that nobody is perfect.
Kim leaves the dinner table saying she is going to be sick due to the amount of sexual innuendo. The doorbell rings; it is Tom, the adopted son of Dave and David with whom she has nothing in common. He kisses Kim (quickly saying afterward that he is not queer) before going into the bathroom. Kim leaves to meet Sugar at a club. Sugar introduces her to Daz and "the Donkey", the worst DJ in Brighton. She gets intimate with Daz, and Kim sits next to the Donkey.
Nathan massages Stella's feet, talking about the fact that Kim is acting strangely and does not call him Dad. Stella reminds him that they have asked the children to call them Stella and Nathan.
Sugar finds Kim (who has locked herself in the bathroom), goes into the cubicle next to hers and climbs over. She outlines her foot on the cubicle wall with a marker, and does the same with Kim's. Sugar advises Kim to get drunk and forget her problems, and Kim cries as she walks home from the club. She goes to check on her brother, but stops when she sees Stella in her bedroom on the phone with (presumably) Dale. Nathan goes to Kim's room with food and, as he asks if something is wrong, she calls him Dad.
Episode 2 Kim is getting ready to go out, and Stella tries to keep her from telling Nathan she is having an affair with Dale. Sugar tells Kim that she should get revenge on her mother, and Kim tries to thwart Stella's plans to meet Dale by telling Nathan that she was planning to take the family bowling. Nathan reminds Stella and Kim that they have a parents' evening at Kim's school.
Kim's teacher asks her parents how they think she is settling in, and if moving may have disrupted her life. The teacher says Kim seems distracted, as though she is worried about something.
Kim does not enjoy a "mother and daughter day" with Sugar at a spa. Stella leaves her credit card on a table as she and Sugar continue drinking and discussing her affair. Kim tells Stella to end the affair with Dale, but Stella tries to blame her. Kim walks out, and Sugar follows. She asks why she was so nice to Stella; Sugar asks if Kim wants revenge, and takes out Stella's credit card. They buy clothes, and discover that the shop has a Chip and PIN terminal; Kim keys in her mother's PIN, and Sugar orders a crate of alcopops by phone.
Kim realises that Sugar only wants Kim for her mother's credit card, and tells her that she will not continue being her lapdog. When she returns home, she finds Stella and Dale in the front room about to have sex when Nathan and Matt return. Kim covers for Stella, who says that the family will stay together if Nathan does not know about the affair.
She meets Sugar at the club, who is getting off with Ray (the doorman). Kim says no to watching them make out, but then turns back.
Episode 3 On Nathan and Stella's fifteenth wedding anniversary, Stella is continuing her affair with Dale. Chewing gum is stuck to Sugar's knickers, and she throws them away. Kim retrieves them, and puts them into her bag. She begins to consider date-raping Sugar because Sugar said she was too drunk to remember having sex with anyone. Stella says she has a hairdresser's appointment, and meets Dale at a hotel. Matt paints a doll blue, and dunks his pet hamster in the paint.
Kim leaves a handful of pills on a table. Stella and Nathan leave for their anniversary dinner, and Matt has painted himself blue. Sugar arrives with a bottle of wine and a pizza. Kim puts the pizza on the table, on top of the pills; Sugar picks up the pizza and is surprised to see them. The pills disappear, and Kim sees Sugar lying on the sofa with her eyes closed. Kim puts her hands on Sugar's breasts, begging her to breathe. Sugar blows cigarette smoke in Kim's face and removes an earpiece, wondering why Kim is touching her breasts. Nathan and Stella return to find Matt unconscious on the floor; he took the pills because he thought they were "space-food'.
Stella and Nathan bring Matt to a psychologist. Sugar lets Kim stay at her flat and they sleep in the same bed, facing opposite ends. Kim learns that Sugar cannot sleep without sleeping pills, and disappears under the covers.
Episode 4 At the beach, it is cold and raining. Nathan and Matt are wearing scuba equipment, and Stella and Kim are in the car. Kim goes to Sugar's house, planning to tell her that she loves her or their friendship is over. Sugar opens the door in her underwear, with cream on her pubic area; she has pubic lice, but does not know from whom.
Kim realises that she also has lice, and Stella wears her jeans without her permission. Kim washes her clothes and teddy bear. Stella goes out with another false pretext. She and Dale learn that they also have pubic lice. Nathan is faithful to Stella and Dale is the only other person Stella has had sex with, so she assumes the lice are from him. Kim is convinced that she gave her mother the lice, and they use lice shampoo. Nathan notices an odor; Kim and Stella attribute it to "hair remover", since Stella thinks she gave Kim the lice. Kim later tells Stella to stop borrowing her clothes and to end the affair with Dale if she does not want Nathan to find out.
Kim and Matt are awakened by Stella and Nathan arguing. Nathan now has pubic lice, and tells Stella that he has not had sex with anyone but her for eighteen years. Stella admits the affair; Kim goes to see Sugar, crying on her doorstep. She may still be infected, and Sugar tells Kim to take her clothes off so she can apply lice-killing cream.
Episode 5 Nathan says that he does not want Stella in the house anymore, and does not care where she goes. Kim is introduced to Sugar's French boyfriend, Guillaume, who does not speak English; Sugar does not speak French, and wants Kim to bridge their language barrier. Stella has moved in with Dale (whose house is a mess), and continues their affair. Asked who will translate for her, Kim tells Sugar to fuck off in French.
Sugar calls Kim to ask how to say "cunnilingus" in French. Kim does not know, but later realises that she can have Sugar if she breaks them up; she calls Sugar back and tells her how to say that she wants "anal sex" in French.
At the fair, Sugar tells Kim that she did not get what she was expecting the night before but it was still good. Kim begins deliberately mistranslating what Sugar and Guillaume are saying. Sugar wonders why Guillaume wants to leave, and Matt tells her that Kim told him that Sugar needed some alone time. Nathan is sleeping on what was the kitchen table. Sugar and Kim move him to the sofa, Sugar says she will forgive Kim if she can get her one more night with Guillaume. Kim meets Guillaume, who returns to Sugar one more time before he leaves in 48 hours.
Kim goes to Dale's flat, wanting Stella to return home. Stella is cleaning and cooking (which she did not do for Nathan), and thinks her family are better off without her. Kim returns home without her, and Nathan is getting back to normal.
Sugar does not want Guillaume to leave. He calls her "my little whore" in French, but Kim translates it as "my little angel" to spare her feelings. After he boards the coach, Sugar asks what else he said; Kim says that he said he loves her, and would like to see two women kissing. Sugar kisses Kim, stunning Guillaume as the coach pulls away.
Episode 6 Kim is happy after Sugar's kiss, but Sugar prepares to go to Paris to see Guillaume because she thinks he loves her. As she is about to board a coach for France, Kim tries to admit lying to her. After realising that Guillaume does not love her, Sugar returns home with Kim carrying her suitcase. They go to the club, and see Tom; Kim and Sugar sit together, and Tom watches them from the other side of the bar.
Sugar talks about why things go so wrong for her, and Kim flirtatiously tells her that she may be looking in the wrong place for romance. Sugar replies that she is looking for somebody to fuck, not somebody to love. Realising that Sugar does not have feelings for her, Kim walks away and sits on a fairground ride. She decides, again, to tell Sugar how she feels. She goes to Sugar's bedroom, and speaks to a body under the sheets. Sugar comes in; Tom is under the sheets.
Kim wakes up, regretting being too drunk to remember what happened the night before. Sugar tells her about the amazing sex she thinks she and Tom had the night before, and Kim kidnaps Tom's dog when he is in a shop. Tom gets a text telling him to collect his dog at 8 pm. Kim ties Vanessa (his dog) to a lamppost and leaves her on the side of the road. Matt acts out.
At the club, and Sugar tells Kim that Tom cancelled on her at 7:55 pm. He arrives where Vanessa was tied, but she escaped her lead and was killed by a car.
At the pier, Sugar says that Kim and Tom would probably be a good couple. Kim says that Tom is definitely not her type; Sugar jokingly suggests that she may be more Kim's type, and Kim does not deny it. Sugar realises that Kim has feelings for her; Kim leaves, and she thinks.
Episode 7 Kim remains in her bedroom for a week. Sugar calls her frequently, but she does not answer. Sugar knows that Kim is gay and attracted to her, but is acting like nothing happened; this worries Kim.
Sugar asks what lesbians do sexually, but Kim does not really know. Sugar asks how she knows she is gay if she has never had sex with a man, but Kim wants to change the subject. Sugar tells Kim that she is done with men, and it is time to find other ways to enjoy herself. When they are sitting in deck chairs next to each other, Sugar puts out her hand and Kim holds it.