Friday Night Dinner

The Goodmans are a family who have made an art form of their eccentricities. In this first episode, mum and dad are having a clear-out, but dad is reluctant to chuck away all his old magazines roping in Jonny to secretly hide the stash back at his flat. Later, Dad has forgotten to come and pick up their old sofabed and as they carry it downstairs, it gets stuck on the staircase.

When Adam and Jonny come home to find Dad secretly peering into his underpants with a magnifying glass, they're desperate to find out what he's looking at. Meanwhile, Mum is just trying to have a nice Friday night, but Jim - the neighbour who's terrified of his own dog - keeps interrupting the meal. Dad takes Adam - who's single - into the toilet to have a private chat about `females'.

Mum's excited about the new curtains, but the boys and Grandma think they're horrible, so Mum is annoyed. Meanwhile, Dad drops Mum's beef casserole all over the kitchen floor and it looks disgusting. Dad scoops it back into the dish, but the boys are not happy about their meal. Later, the argument about the curtains spreads, and Jonny leaves in a huff to go to the pub.

When Mum finds out that Dad didn't throw away his old boxes of science magazines in their clear-out, she goes mad. So Dad builds a bonfire and promises he'll burn them all, but Dad is only pretending to burn them, instead squirrelling the boxes off to his shed in the garden. Mum is excited as her best friend, Val is popping around with her new dress for her daughter Karen's wedding.

It's Adam's birthday and as he arrives home, a silver Mercedes almost runs him over. Inside, is Sheila Bloom. She is famously obsessed with her Mercedes, and after some catty remarks about Adam's `Yugo', she speeds off. Dad reveals that he used to have a thing with Sheila years ago, the boys can't believe it and Mum's not happy. Later, the family abandon dinner and go for a Chinese, but Sheila is there.

Adam comes home to find the house looking immaculate, with classical music playing in the living room, Mum's posh bowls on the dinner table, Dad in a smart suit, and most mysteriously - the table is set for five. The doorbell rings and in comes Tanya Green, a girl Mum has been trying to fix up with Adam for months. What follows is possibly the most excruciating family dinner scene of all time.