Anyone watching The New Outnumbered?

[LittleBairn]

My god how old do the kids look now!

Fluck me I have just said that! Ben has a really deep voice, I've yet to see Karen is she is hot pants with her chest hanging out?

Karen just looks tall.
Ok I know kids grow like weeds but what have they been giving them some sort of growing steroids! Ben looks older than his older brother!

Just as tragic as every other Outnumbered. The world's most tedious show. Fact.

What bloody happened to them?

The eldest ones's hair is funny!

Also thus show annoys me for many reasons. Tonight's is that is a person with the norovirus turned up at my house I'd ask them to leave.... But noone would ever go out in this state!

The lad that plays Ben is only 13, he could pass for an 18 year old.
Bens rumblings just don't work without him being a cute kid.

Yes I wouldn't even open my door to someone with norovirus!

Fluck me?

I like outnumbered but I know it's not a MN top 10 favorite.

Karen has changed beyond all recognition. Her delivery is same head in the clouds nonsense. I hate the way they try and rationalise things with her and never discipline her.

It's not real. Breathe.

Oh I don't know Zen I've known a few kids like them. Usually the parents just give up.

Ive always liked Karen but Ben really annoys me. That said it was much funnier when the kids were younger.

It's not the same at all, kids arnt funny after the age of 8. They just become obnoxious and annoying.

My 4 yr old is sleeping with a big grin on her face, my 9 & 11 yr olds are still wandering around upstairs declaring they can stay up later than me and catch "father Christmas out" lots of nodding and winking between them and I'm sure I have spied a can of silly string being passed between them

I thought it was really funny tonight.
I loved the party and the racist neighbour Norris.

I thought it was very funny tonight. I've never been able to watch a whole episode previously, so to me it was funnier/more entertaining.

I'm sure after surviving the hell that Ben's toddler years must have been, the parents would never have recovered sufficiently to even start disciplining Karen.

I've always liked her though. I like how she gets to the heart of the matter.

All the children seem to have aged about 3 years.

The new season starts in 2013 BTW.

Jane arriving with Noro Virus could have been a MN AIBU thread.
It would have been full of outrage.

I can't stand it. My DC got massively into Outnumbered over the summer and watched the early shows (endlessly) on catch-up.
Then my 13 yo DS started copying (subconciously perhaps) Ben's irritating as f**k whingey droney voice.

So I had to stop them watching (and the annoying voice stopped)

I'd still do Hugh Dennis. Twice.

Just watched it.

Not as funny as when they were young but still funny I think.

I would fight you for Hugh

I thought it was poor - Jake has been old for a while so that was OK but Ben clearly a lot older than 12 and Karen no longer cute and funny, just really annoying. Also why is she called Karen?? Who has children called jake,Ben and Karen??? Jake and Ben's sister is Emily or Izzy or Jess or Charlotte, surely? Karen is my mate along with Clare, Susan, Julie and Tricia.

Still like Hugh tho yumyum.

Do you remember the episode when the mum was on Mumsnet?

Glad I read this. I have stayed away from ON this year (and I think, last Xmas?) because the children are just TOO OLD for their lines, In little kids, it's cute and funny. At their ages they're obnoxious and a bit embarrassing.

I can't watch the last Harry Potter for the same reasons. It's like Blue Remembered Hills!

Ben clearly a lot older than 12

The actor was 13 in October.

Clary,
You are absolutely right. There is no way a girl that age would be called Karen. She would definitely be an Emily, Holly or a Lucy.
Karen is in her mid forties and works in HR. She is not a little girl

I quite liked it.

I was aghast too to see how Ben seems to have gone from about 9 years old to about 15 and might need to start shaving any day now, in the space of a year.
Though never seem to watch the series in the correct order,so may have missed a series?

It had never occurred to me, but yes Karen is a rubbish name. But then it suits her character. Maybe she's channelling her 40-something Head of Strategic Planning namesake.

But I think that Jane turning up with Norovirus is spot on, that's exactly the sort of thing she'd do.

I loved it, thought it was better than before. The kids were better, they seemed less "try hard to be funny". Loved Karen and her online gambling!

Hugh Dennis is lovely, have a soft spot for him (his Dad John who is a bishop confirmed me and was my dad's (who is a vicar) boss for a few years) - apologies for terrible grammar!!