Ranking all Friday night dinner episodes
Ranking all Friday night dinner episodes
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- StarsTamsin GreigPaul RitterSimon BirdAdam and Jonny bring their girlfriends round for dinner. Cue an overexcited Mum and an extremely embarrassing Dad.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterDad is secretly hiding a dead fox in the outside freezer as he wants to get it stuffed. But when Mum needs to use the freezer, Dad is desperate in his attempts to hide it from her.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterIt's Adam's birthday and,as he arrives at the house,he is almost run over by the dreaded Sheila Bloom,or Bitch-face as Jackie and the boys call her,an old flame of Martin's,in her much-prized silver Mercedes. Martin gives Adam a book on the S.S, as a present and cooks the dinner since Jackie has done her ankle in. It is a disaster so the family,plus Grandma,head to the local Chinese,only to find Sheila and her husband Eddie there. Sheila's insistence on telling the family that her mother died in the Mercedes reduces the boys to laughter and worse is to come when,discovering that he has taken Eddie's coat by mistake,Martin calls on the Blooms to return it - and backs into the Mercedes. Grandma's insistence on trying on her bikini and getting locked out of the house rounds off a very eventful birthday for Adam.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterAdam has been staying at Jackie and Martin's all week, and has settled in rather well, largely due to Jackie fawning over him. Elsewhere, Jim passes his driving test, and a mishap leads Adam and Jonny locked out of Adam's car half naked.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterThe boys arrive home to find a 'For Sale' sign in front of the house. How will they stop Mum and Dad from selling the family home?
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterDad has accidentally invited the 'wrong tony' to dinner.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterJackie is having a night off from cooking as the family go to a Chinese restaurant but the evening is anything but relaxing for her as they have left a blind, sarcastic piano tuner called Mr Greencock in the house who has walked muddy foot prints all over her newly cleaned carpet. The visit is cut short due to the sight of Aunty Val with her toy boy and a domestic crisis when Jim sets his bath on fire. Val's husband Larry arrives mistaking Jim for Val's lover and though the couple make up Mr Greencock's sarcasm prompts Jackie to throw him out. Unfortunately he returns to exact revenge.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterThe boys are already bickering when they arrive for dinner and Martin, stricken with a cold, sneezes all over them. However when Jackie produces their box of childhood belongings and Jonny learns that Adam binned his toy panda when he was eleven, all hell breaks loose with Jonny setting out to destroy Buggy, the toy rabbit that Adam still owns. For safe keeping Adam gives Buggy to Jim who gets rather attached to it and whilst he returns Buggy an accident with a Flymo precludes a happy reunion.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterThanks to cowboy builders the house is in a mess and Martin in charge of cooking as Jackie is hiding in the shed from a mouse - which the lads believe they have squashed. Jim comes by to help but has an accident caused by the building works which leads guilt-stricken Jackie to ask him for dinner. Her menfolk goggle - and no wonder,given Jim's strange eating habits and desire to appear Jewish. The reappearance of the mouse means the meal is finished in the shed but,on returning to the house,Jim has a more spectacular accident - this one involving large amounts of red paint.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterOn Dad's annual hinge-oiling evening he accidentally spills oil on Mum's carpet prompting a race against time to clean it before she finds out. Weird neighbour Jim calls round with his new cat, Watson.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterThe boys are threatened with no crumble if they do not help to assemble a wooden shelf, while Jim's dog Wilson frequently does his business in the Goodmans' flowerbed.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterIt's Uncle Saul's funeral, which means 'Horrible Grandma' is back, and leaving a trail of broken furniture in her wake.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterMartin,put on a diet by Jackie but eating goodies smuggled in by his sons,has bought a Fax machine. Jonny has a company car but it turns out to be little more than an advertisement for the estate agents who employ him and the family are unimpressed. Jackie is even less impressed to learn that Jonny is having an affair with his boss Liz,who is forty-three. After another bizarre visit from Jim,who has bought a cake for Wilson's birthday,the family goes for a spin in the car but on their return see a burglar making off with the Fax machine. The police are called but fail to stop a second thief driving off in the company car.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterGrandma brings her boyfriend Lou Morris to dinner. He is a rude,critical man - likened by Jim to Hitler - who crashes his car into the front of the house and demands the Goodmans pay for his headlight. Furthermore he is still married and is having an affair with Grandma so Jackie asks the boys to find out his intentions but they are all too cowardly to cross him - until he goes too far. Fortunately Grandma knows how it will end.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterGrandma turns up to dinner sporting a new hairdo and ecstatically happy though the Goodmans are horrified to discover why. She is engaged to the odious Mr Morris, now a widower, who also arrives at the house, claiming to be a changed man though there is little evidence to this effect. He takes them all out to the bowling alley, where it is apparent that not only is he still extremely rude but insanely jealous of anybody he thinks is eying up Grandma. This includes Jim, dressed as a dog to raise money for charity, and a fight breaks out. Sadly this does not seem to have changed Grandma's opinion of her beau.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterAdam is not happy when he is forced to play his violin for Mum and her best friend Val, while Jonny is relishing every moment. Dad is obsessed with his old microscope.
- StarsTamsin GreigPaul RitterSimon BirdMum is in hospital having a 'woman's procedure', so Aunty Val is tasked with making the Friday night dinner.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterJackie insists that Martin burns his old magazines so he builds a bonfire,though his plan is to hide them all in the shed. Jackie's friend Val arrives to show off the dress she is wearing at her daughter Karen's wedding and Martin cannot resist scaring her with his Prince Charles mask whilst Adam cannot resist teasing Jonny since his supposed girlfriend is unable to attend the wedding.Jim appears,firstly to return Jackie's scales and then to report his dog Wilson missing though Wilson does return,bearing a pair of shoes. Jackie finally makes Martin burn his magazines but somehow in the confusion caused by Jim's visit Val's dress has got put in with them and goes up in smoke.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterIt's Jackie and Martin's twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. As a present he has painted a portrait of her which is as unpopular as Jonny's new tattoo and Jonny takes a watery revenge on Adam for exposing it. Order restored the Goodmans sit down to dinner but are interrupted by Jim, who has accidentally taken too many sleeping pills and promptly nods off. Then he starts sleep-walking, locking the family in the spare room until Grandma arrives to rescue them. He does however sort out the problem of what Jackie should do with her portrait.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterAdam is horrified to discover that Jackie has invited Tanya Green,with whom he used to play as a child,to dinner with a view to pairing them off. A look at his baby pictures,Martin's burping,Jonny bloodying his nose with a pickle jar by accident,Jim arriving,having been locked out of his house when his dog swallowed the key - can things get any more embarrassing for Adam? At least Tanya shares his awkwardness and at least Jackie can be pleased that Tanya fancies one of her sons.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterMum's friend Val moves in after rowing with her husband, but upsets Dad by tidying up the house and chucking away his stuff - including his "lucky" 20-year-old tin of beef from the shed.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsSimon BirdTom RosenthalTamsin GreigMartin is increasingly obsessed with trying to retrieve a plastic bag from a tree. Jonny's sense of style is out of this world. Meanwhile, Adam discovers that hell hath no fury like his Mum scorned.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigPaul RitterSimon BirdBoth Adam and Jonny have new girlfriends, but decide it is probably best not to tell their mother. Martin has bought a disgusting, old, battered caravan which is propped up on bricks in the drive.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterThe Goodman's weird neighbour Jim is spotted in a restaurant on a date with a woman with the world's most annoying laugh. To the horror of Adam and Jonny, Mum and Dad get a hot tub.
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterChristmas gets off to a bad start for Jackie when Martin brings a huge tree into the house. It gets worse for everybody when, along with nice grandma, Martin's mother Horrible Grandma arrives for the day. She brings no presents as usual but her own sherry and her own turkey as Jackie's is too dry, along with her dog Boudacea, who is so old and ill she needs an oxygen mask. Sadly Jackie's turkey is indeed dry, causing Adam to choke and Martin to use Boudacea's oxygen mask to revive him, which does not please her owner and leads to a fight between the two grandmas. Martin manages to make his mother laugh but then the tree intervenes, though Jim, disguised as Santa Claus, manages to bring a little seasonal peace to the gathering.