Friday Night Dinner, Ranked
My ranking of the comedy series that sees a family try to sit down to dinner each week, as hilarity ensues...
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- 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.8/10
- 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.7.5/10
- 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?7.5/10
- 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.7.5/10
- 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.7.5/10
- StarsTamsin GreigPaul RitterSimon BirdAdam and Jonny bring their girlfriends round for dinner. Cue an overexcited Mum and an extremely embarrassing Dad.7/10
- StarsTamsin GreigPaul RitterSimon BirdMum is in hospital having a 'woman's procedure', so Aunty Val is tasked with making the Friday night dinner.7/10
- 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.7/10
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterAdam brings new girlfriend Emma to dinner. She has a good sense of humour and is not deterred by seeing Martin wash dog mess from his foot in the toilet or his asking if any of her family has been murdered. Things go downhill for Adam though when Emma's sister sends him a series of sexy texts, which are seen by eight year old Katie, whom Jackie is baby-sitting, and who blackmails Adam - to whom she has taken a shine - into playing with her or else she will tell. Emma feels neglected and is puzzled by Adam's strange actions but worse is to come when she sees what Jonny has done to Adam's old bedroom.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterDad has accidentally invited the 'wrong tony' to dinner.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterJonny is pretending to have dislocated his shoulder to get out of helping Martin clear the loft but when Adam threatens to expose his deception he counters by threatening to tell Jackie about the blind date Adam dumped because she smelt like her,forcing Adam to give in. The boys are puzzled by the fact that their parents are not speaking having rowed over 'something sexual',Jackie inviting her friend Val round to support her. Things escalate with Jackie throwing the menfolk out of the house,Jonny really dislocating his shoulder and the reason for the parents' row finally coming to light.7/10
- 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.7/10
- DirectorMartin DennisStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterAs Jackie's birthday approaches Martin has been charged with organising a surprise party for her so the boys take her to the pub whilst he gets things ready, returning home early when Adam's car catches fire. Unfortunately Martin has got the dates wrong so hardly anybody turns up, forcing him to admit his mistake. He arranges an alternative celebration but the evening eventually ends up with a surprise - though not the kind Jackie was expecting.7/10
- 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.7/10
- 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.7/10
- DirectorRobert PopperStarsTamsin GreigSimon BirdPaul RitterMartin becomes obsessed with a ventriloquist dummy and Jonny's depressed friend comes round for dinner.7/10