So John and Kayleigh drove off into the sunset together in Peter Kay’s Car Share. Well, no, actually they didn’t, because Peter Kay had a nifty little joke up his sleeve for the last scene of this funny and poignant, but never icky, finale.
It took up where the second series of Kay’s will-they-won’t-they left off: when John (Kay), the daft ’apeth, was unable to reciprocate Kayleigh’s (Sian Gibson) declaration of love. Early next morning, a nervous John dropped off a cassette tape (a nice touch for the technophobe recipient) at her house.
It contained a sweet song, Will You Be My Car Share Buddy?, that John, who had been up all night, had written and sang for her. The song, in one of the fantasy...