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.

I have just caught up with the latest series and I'm afraid I think Ben is bringing the whole thing down to just-another-sitcom-level.
Jake, as someone else said upthread, is really coming into his own, after being a bit bland in the earlier series, he's really funny now, and his dad obviously mortifies him. Karen still has some mileage, and the thing with Tanya is very realistic, but Ben, oh dear, he seems to have gone from utterly brilliant, and having me rolling on the floor, to making me cringe every time he speaks.
Does anyone know, are the children still ad-libbing like they were in the earlier series? Because Ben just seems like he's learning very poor lines and reciting them (badly)
I think Ben's agent needs to pull him out and put him in something different, because he no longer works in Outnumbered, which is sad because he was fabulous.

There are kids just like Ben.

I agree about Ben. He's supposed to be 11 and he's behaving like a particularly thoughtless 4 year old (e.g.sucking toys into a vacuum cleaner). He doesn't act his age at all and he comes across as 'a few sandwiches short of a picnic'.

I liked it when the parents had the house to themselves and didn't know what to do. That was realistic.

loved tonight's episode, with the exchange student turning up.

Collision - my 9y DD watches it, often on iPlayer the next morning. Not come across anything on it yet that concerns me particularly.

I really like it. My 13 year old son enjoys it and we laughed alot last week with Ben and the dummy.

The parents are ineffectual and I think it works well. The kids have grown on me, Karen used to irritate me more than she does now.

I really can't stand it. I have tried watching it time and again and I just don't get it. I can't relate to it and I find the kids a pain.

i can relate more to 'The middle' Now that makes me laugh and I am switched on with that. Modern family is brilliant too.

I think I find Outnumbered a bit twee.

The exchange student made Friday's episode. Hope he stays for a while.

i think it was the last in the series.
it was good.
the adults make me laugh more than the children on the whole

Yes they are still ad-libbing. I read an interview with the boy who plays Jake, Tiger Drew-Honey (great name!) and they are given an idea of the scene and what the producers etc want to happen but the children are given freedom to say what they like, no script. Also, the Outnumbered crew use the house next door where they go for their school lessons, prepare to go on set etc as it's more convenient. I hope Tiger D-H and the girl who plays Karen go far.

I think it's one of the best things on TV at the moment, though that's not saying much!

I do like it however; I loved Ottfreid the foreign student, and also the scene when the three children were watching the youtube clips.

I was quite surprised when DS (12) asked me to record it because 'I'm the only one at school who hasn't seen it'. He said he enjoyed it.

Am also a bit because some of you think the house looks messy - compared with ours it's immaculate!

I wish I could like it but they all annoy me.
I have tried.