Sun, Nov 11, 2012
Thanks 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.
Sun, Oct 14, 2012
Grandma 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.
Fri, Apr 1, 2011
It'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.
Fri, Apr 8, 2011
Adam 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.