OUTNUMBERED BBC 1 tonight at 9.05pm

[MaryAnnSingleton]

this is fab...I highly recommend it...

I like this. Yes, the younger two children might be a bit precocious, but it is a television show. Loved the scene when the children were playing hide and seek and the parents were drinking wine. DD2 said to me "you used to do that" . Perfect family next door are excellent too.

it bothers me that the father is a teacher, yet the live in a huge London house - how is this possible..are teachers rich after all ?

Yes, MAS, I was thinking that too. It really doesn't ring true, esp as their next door neighbours are obviously loaded.

Dh and I are convinced the scriptwriters have been breaking into our house and watching us. We love it - yes some of the kids' behaviour is hair-raising but then it's comedy and so exaggerated (weak parents, bolshy kids taken to extremes - although I know some v feeble parents who are permanently outwitted by their kids.) And why shouldn't a teacher live in a big house? Maybe he bought a flat in 1990, when they were 50p, maybe when his wife worked, she was a hedge funder. Who knows, but I know a lot of teachers who live in all sorts of houses, from big to tiny. V patronising to assume all teachers are living in weeny flats in dodgy areas.

Great great comedy, I loved the mouse burial in particular (Murdered by Mummy).
And I know a teacher whose wife is a mature student, with 3 children at private school, who live in a massive period house in the most expensive part of Bristol.
Not typical, but it does happen....
Have recorded last saturday's episode and will watch tonight.

I don't assume that all teachers live in shit holes actually (2 of my BILs are teachers as is a good friend) - it just doesn't seem realistic is all I mean.

I'm not quite sure what realistic has got to do with comedy....

fair enough - but it just bothers me a bit,for some reason

anyway, don't have a go at me - I started this thread in praise of the programme !

ah, well fair enough

I didn't recognise you under your Christmas name!!

arf !

It's not a particularly huge house IMO, it's just like the Victorian terraced that we used to live in in Balham. London is full of that style of 3 bed terraced house, how much they are worth depends on where they are. That house would be a fortune in Fulham or Hampstead but affordable in Leytonstone or Peckham (these are random examples before anyone shouts at me).

I agree that the parenting style is very London "informed" (ie trying to implement bits of parenting guru advice while supressing the urge to clip the child 'round the ear).

that style of house would cost a pigging fortune in lowly Brentford

a house like that was worth about £120,000 in haringey in 1999.

it's more than 3 beds too ! sorry to go on though,I' getting a bee in my bonnet about it !

Agree about the house - its not mega huge - looks like typical Victorian terrace to me, with kitchen extension at back

We live in west London and lots of teachers at the DCs school have very nice houses (nicer than ours LOL!)

Next week they fly abroad - can't wait for that.

Why has an "informed" parenting style got anything to do with London? We do have books, magazines and the internet oop north you know.

LOL at Twinklemegan who can't bear to be thought less neurotic than Londoners. There are other places besides London and the North you know. I've never lived in the UK outside of London but I have lived in other cities in other countries and London is the only place that where there is a trend to parent according to the wisdom of popular gurus rather than the way that their parents parented.

It's a great show - although the Grauniad only grudgingly gave it a good review, calling it "gratingly middle class". Err, wtf is wrong with being middle class? As if there's something wrong about the realistic portrayal of how millions of people live their lives (and probably the life of the Grauniad reviewer). Can't imagine them describing anything as 'gratingly working-class'.

best bit last week was the Articulate scene - so true that the idea of playing board games is much better than the reality...

I hate playing board games although I feel pressure that I should make the whole family sit around together and play them

Although watching "Outnumbered" together is a family activity for us!!

Is outnumbered the prog with the funny kids?

I do like it but was very irritated yesterday with their weedy control over the kids - I'd find Ben especially trying

lmao at tania bryer saying she'd be proud if they were her kids in todays guardian.

is the daughter one of the worlds most beautiful children?