Friday Night Dinner - S6E4 'Dad's Birthday'

if you ever get round to 'Plebs' you'll hate Tom in that too :D

I'm glad the old boots dead....she was an utter cu*t!

If only the computer was right about Martins death date Jim obviously has learning difficulties....Jackie puts up with him

Plebs would be a great replacement one day, really hope you watch the documentary on this worth a watch in memory of Paul Ritter (Martin)

Perhaps I'm being too uptight again and I just need to laugh at funny things on screen, but I'm finding a big problem with subtlety in this final series, that makes me like it a lot less than all previous series. Last week had already been a letdown and a massive waste of the comedy genius that is Sally Phillips. 'I am the Gibby, don't you remember the Gibby, the Gibby loves the creamy tea' over and over and over is not so much a non-native-English-speaking woman with lots of quirks but still grounded in reality (like the hilarious Minna that Sally plays on 'Veep') as someone with a severe mental disorder completely gone from the world, which I just can't laugh at. And then in this episode everyone is just a regressed cartoon version of themselves. In her first appearance Horrible Grandma was a very believable portrayal of an awful in-law, with these passive aggressive digs at Jackie like bringing her own food to the Christmas meal. Contrast to 'it's crap, your food is crap, it's crap' in this episode, which seems written by a 6-year-old. Martin's outburst at the end too is much too hammy and over the top. Mike's suggestion, that he was happy because Horrible Grandma dying sooner than predicted meant that his own date of death was invalid as well, would actually have been a much funnier and wittier resolution than, what? A man laughing simply because his mother's dead, as horrible as she was? Add on top all the gross-out humour with the boys rubbing ball sweat on each other etc. Granted, there was always a gross-out aspect to previous series too, but not as exaggerated as this, I find. I've only ever watched this series the once before (as opposed to over 5 times for the previous ones that I have on DVD), curious to find if the final two episodes are an improvement!

Martins Mum is really the worst

The computer was wrong!!

There is no such thing as a 1/4 marathon as far a I know. Its normally a 10K which is 6.2miles

Please watch outnumbered

Don’t feel bad we all rejoiced at the end of this character 😂 I believe the actress is lovely though

You will like Tom's character in "Plebs"

You’d love Rosalind Knight aka Horrible Grandma as Beryl in Gimme Gimme Gimme ex prostitute lol unfortunately Rosalind Died a couple of years ago 😔

#mike@jess Please check out a brit show called The Royle Family. Its very grounded and reflects the average working families life. Very relatable to many people. Or put up a poll see if others are interested

shows like this run for six seasons and more while good shows run only for a season or two such sadness

Hope this is ok to say. But looking forward to seeing whether or not you spot evil grandma in the only fools and horses episode. Won’t say which one. Will be keeping an eye out though to see if you pick up. Obviously she will be slightly younger in OFAH

😂😂😂♥♥

It's not very often you have a urge to knock out an old woman, but this one....yeah, fuck this one... She's getting a right hook!

Not wanting to go to deep but horrible grandma's age and accent imply she probably had some experience of nazi Germany. I think I read an interview with Robert Popper where he says he used to be fascinated with his own grandmother's history in germany during the war

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Another reminder as the end draws closer to watch the 10 years and a lovely bit of squirrel special about the making of the show and in memory of Paul Ritter.

I don't know how I'd feel if could get a pretty accurate prediction of the year I'd naturally die. Part of me would want to know, just so I can make sure I live enough life. But also it would be daunting having that year get closer 😅

21:53 Stick it to her Martin!!

Jackie after Jim has been naked in their bath and Jacuzzi without permission, thrown paint all over the living room, shit all over the dining room, his dog has broken their furniture and more: "Yes, Jim, come on" *smile*. Jackie after Grandma says she can't cook: "GET THE FUUU-" The show doesn't make sense because we just allow lazy writing for the sake of the moment, and be the fun police for dare noticing. Great comedies are written well AND have great jokes. This and Peep Show miss the mark for me (Mark pun unintended lol) Great moments disguised under lazy writing. The moment is priority numero uno, the characters are meh, whatever gets to the joke we wanna tell. I'm the asshole DazzTheJazz on YouTube that had people pissed off at me for dare question a shows writing, because it's a comedy

In a way... I did sort of make her disappear

Martin is the only consistent character I like, being that he is the only consistent one lol Martin is Martin and Paul was a gift to give such a performance. Never changes for the plot of the episode nor has to be moulded to fit. He stands strong in every episode, relevant to a moment or not. Man this is a hard watch Martin talking about death

🤣🤣@20:50 - "😮OUR hair's AMAZING!" 😂

"Your family is crap" 💀

Great episode! I thought, after Martin had stopped laughing, he was going to say, “Best birthday present ever!” Martin’s mum was played by Rosalind Knight, a veteran of stage, screen and television. One of her most famous comedy films was in “Carry on Teacher,” (1959) the third of 30 films made under the “Carry On” banner, where she played Felicity Wheeler, a Government Minister of school inspectors who starts off in the film as a stuffy, sexually repressed woman who eventually finds love with one of the teachers at the school she’s been sent to inspect. Wonder if Mike and Jess would ever entertain the idea of watching a “Carry On” movie? Now that would be something to see!

It's all quite poignant given Paul Ritter's very sad death, which was far too early.

When I watched this episode for the first time, I can't lie, I cheered. 😂

Good morning Bambinos

A nuts episode in all the correct ways. The bit about Martin predicting when he was going to die was pretty tough though.

Its time for some Friday Morning Dinner! Xoxo

Good morning

Ohhhh can’t wait for your reaction to the ending of this!!!!

Good morning Mike and Jackie 😄