Outnumbered Xmas special

[Rollergirl11]

BBC1 9:40 pm. Who’s watching?!

Apparently the highlight was the ‘new hyena kid’, plus Ben who has ‘always been the best one’.

I enjoyed catching up with them all. Not up there with the best episodes but nice to see how they all turned out

I turned it off. Certainly don't need a cancer storyline while waiting for results over Xmas. Who on earth thought that was a good idea?

Sadly disappointed (especially so after Gavin & Stacey last night)

it just didn’t work & was boring throughout. Such a shame.

I agree with previous posters they should have made the grandkids or foster kids the story with Pete and Sue.

A story featuring having to babysit grandchildren would have worked better.

It’s Christmas and the plot is depressing. Good writers could have written a great story-look at Gavin and Stacey as an example.
Ben was good, but it could all have been brilliant.

We loved it. Four 50-somethings and a 19 year old. Laughed our way through it. Fabulous.

That was soooo disappointing, especially after the brilliance of Gavin and Stacey yesterday.

I liked it. Mirrored my own family at the moment including the 'not Christmassy but got to just get on with it' cancer storyline.
Am shocked at some of the comments on here. Talk about empathy bypass.

Loved it

What on earth was that utter rubbish and a cancer story, really?

I say story but it had no beginning middle or end it just randomly went off on various odd directions with none of them concluded.

I wanted to relax enjoy and smile pure escapism. Sadly it fell way way below that 😔

I fell asleep while it was on.

It felt lacking in energy and the action mainly comprised of people walking between one room and another.

Dull & disappointing. We didn’t make it to the end.
The only funny line was that they were doing Xmas on Nov 23rd.

It's supposed to be comedy! I don't want to have to feel empathy, it's supposed to escapism not realism (and depressing realism at that!)

So much in the news about cancer all year. DM died from it and many of us just want to bin it. Or even thinking about it at Christmas. We turned it off.

I enjoyed it but it's original magic was the children being little and the improvisation.
I'd also hoped for an appearance from Auntie Angela. It would have been fun to find out what she'd been up to and what her relationship with Sue was like at the moment!

The phone contract was a moment in our house 😭

Seriously weak. Another one who thinks it was made even weaker by comparison with last night's Gavin and Stacey. Really terrible - not funny at all.

Jake and the father looked dreadfully ill and Jane is a vile and unfunny character.

Turned it off - Dad died of cancer in April and I’ve got cancer and currently having chemo so it felt a bit gloomy …. Without that storyline though it just didn’t do it for me .. part of the appeal was the unscripted hilarity of the kids which is now lost sadly ..

Which bits did you laugh at? What was funny?

I thought it was ok a few funny moments.
Jake looked like a homeless person drugs.

I don’t really understand why it’s so popular, it’s no Gavin & Stacey.

Jake did look awful, didn't he. I also thought he looked like a druggie.