Outnumbered

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Why another series? The kids are too old and they've run out of ideas.
Even DD2 was playing on her iPod during yesterday's.

They've got the character of Jake spot on - have been wondering where the hidden cameras are in my house coz he's almost the same as my almost 16 year old.

Agree Ben isn't as funny as the earlier series but I still like Karen and can relate to her growing up issues - bitching friends/wanting more grown up clothes etc.

I still think it's very good, except Ben, who unfortunately has probably become a victim of his own success. The writers clearly thought Ben was The Star and have kept him doing things, that in all honesty,look really trite and staged now. Jake seems to have come into his own, and Karen still "works" but has probably only got another series in her.

We watched the whole of the previous series on Gold over the summer and now the new series which is rather fun. Agree Jake is much more natural now, Ben a bit too cocky. dd(10) is showing a tendency towards Karen-esque behaviours now though!

God, I can identify with a lot of it. The stuff with Karen and Tanya- surely every girl owner could share some of that?

My DC were watching the re-runs in the school holidays but my DS (who is 11) picked up some of the annoying Ben traits.
Had to keep 'reminding' him that he (Ben) is a fictional pain in the arse character and much younger.Finally managed to beat it out of him.

So I won't let them watch the new series.

I love it. All the kids are great, as are the parents. Their house always seems so messy though, lovely but messy!

I like it. But Sue is irritatingly ineffectual (realistically so, though).

I agree about Ben.

I am now cringing as my middle daughter seems to be Karen with alarming Ben tendencies. DD1 is like Jake in that she gets exasperated if DD2 so much as breathes. I wish it didn't, but the chaos of the house reflects my life (except they are better off - I certainly couldn't afford to live in a London suburb!). DD2 even looks like Karen. I must get my life in order...

agree about the karen/tanya part, it is very subtle, but so can relate to it, girls can be very bitchy even at that age.

I found myself last night actually thinking how quickly this series will date, with its refernces to FB, Hole in the Wall, X factor etc. The art of good sitcom is their timelessness. Witty and topical but also very much of its time.

They will probably be showing it to history / sociology Joint Course students in 2110, as an example of how life used to be.

I prefer Modern Family.

would you let your 9yr old ds watch it?

Am not sure if I should though he is dying to but because it is on late.......I am .....puzzled.........

I love it!

I love it - have sky plussed it to see if the kids find it funny.

i too have a 'karen'

we look at 'Outnumbered' as a documentary

I have kids all the ages of the kids in Outnumbered (15, 14, 12, 9), including a 9-year-old, and they love it!

The guardian have advised us to "stick with this series, it ends magnificently"

It ends next week. I am wondering if they will co-opt/virtually adopt one of Angela's younger stepchildren to get another young child in. I did enjoy the previous series more but still liking this. I miss the younger Karen and her reenactments of reality tv shows.

i havent caught all of this series, but the couple i have seen have made me with recognition,
the older girlfriend, telling jake his girlfriend will be put on the sexual offenders register! and mum checking facebook, and more i wont reveal
funny

LizS- the dating thing is a really interesting point, it is a funny mixture of timeless and dated. It might be that the context will make the time-specific stuff clear in the future, or it might just be incomprehensible, will be interesting to see.

I don't think Outnumbered's success ever lay in the cuteness of Ben and Karen but about it's ability to oserve and I don't think that has changed a bit.nwell observed humour.As the children get older a whole new set of storylines come into play.

I like it
Jake is dry and accurate (and quite a good actor)
Karen is getting to the point of girl friendships and the obsession with appearance and keeping in with the bitches
The parents are a bit ineffectual but funny with it

What I don't like is that Ben seems to me to have proper, documentable behavioural problems (?) and however affectionate and knowing they are about it, it's still taking the piss out of someone for things they can't help.

I still very much Outnumbered...agree that Ben just isn't right anymore, though. He is supposed to be in secondary school now but his behaviour doesn't seem to have developed much, where as Jake and Karen have both clearly changed.

I still love it, and the Parent/Teacher evening was fabulous as each teacher tried to think of a word for Ben. Basically Ben needs a school for the gifted or some kind of alternative school.
I loved the cliffhanger at the end of this weeks episode. And who didn't want one of Brick's Kids to escape.
I'm pretty sure this is the last series.
We have both Jake and Karen in our family, but no Ben. However I think teachers are surprised that DC2 is the sibling of DC1, just like Jake and Ben.

BTW we all watch it including the 8 year old, but then she has long ago been corrupted by the older ones.