Friday Night Dinner

[Freedomofspeech89]

Anyone watching the reunion? It's so emotional. What a bloody brilliant bloke Paul Ritter was.

 

[BigBrenda]

I think this new series is so bad anyone else?

 

[Doodlebug005]

Anyone watching the reunion? It's so emotional. What a bloody brilliant bloke Paul Ritter was.

Very upsetting to see Paul . Reunion show was brilliant.

 

[Freedomofspeech89]

Very upsetting to see Paul . Reunion show was brilliant.

I actually cried at the beginning when Tamsin did the opening. He's one of those people who you feel like you know on a personal level. So glad he was able to be on the 10 year reunion before he passed

 

[FoksiOska]

Such awful news and no age. Martin and his sayings were my favourite part of the show.
He was fantastic in Chernobyl too if anyone watched that.
May he enjoy endless crimble crumble

 

[Lars Guinard]

I loved last nights episode! Thought Sally Phillips was hilarious. It was a totally mad episode but when is FDN not mad?

Your comment makes Gibby very happy. Now we must go for cream tea

I think last nights episode was the best in this series yet.

 

[DrLoomis]

I didn't believe it to begin with when a friend sent me an article about Paul Ritter's death. It is such sad news. FND was a firm favourite in our house and we quote it so much. We are making our way through the box set in tribute to Ritter. So sad to think that both Grandmas have passed away recently as well.

I don't know about anyone else but when an actor from a TV show dies I find myself thinking about how the characters of the show would react. It would be a very sad time in the Goodman household at the moment but I can't help but see Jim appearing at the door in a black suit with a top hat on with a black tie on Milson... of course he would bring some sort of mourning gift which would be a bag of carrots or something random like that.

 

[StephenTJackson]

The show has definitely lost its way this series. Which is a real shame because it has been a great show up until this series.

 

[~vix~83~]

So sad, I’ve recently just re watched. It won’t be the same without Martin.
He can eat his nice bit squirrel In peace now!

shit on it!

 

[hrh89]

Kind of wish they would put the entire series up at once I’m not used to watching one a week much anymore

 

[Noseybonk]

Young man, would you like a yoghurt

I have suspected CV so I am living in the bedroom whilst the family are downstairs. Symptoms are quite mild (touch wood) so I watched last nights on my phone this morning and I am rewatching the older episodes on all4. Bloody punk rockers, they slandered me

 

[Lars Guinard]

Can you imagine what someone who has never watched it would think reading this thread?

I mean what's it all about? Oi you, little legs...what's it all about?

 

[StephenTJackson]

Love it so much this show. And not just because of my crush on Tom Rosenthal, but because of how ridiculously barmy it always is. Such chaos over a lovely bit of squirrel and crimble crumble.

 

[maytoseptember]

The actor who plays Jim plays the headmaster husband of Dawn French in her latest series. First time I’d seen him in anything other than Jim. And yes, the Jim character is too much.

Mark Heap is a brilliant comedy actor and has been in some of the best British comedies of all time - Spaced, Green Wing (which also starred Tamsin Greig) and Big Train - some of my favourite shows ever. Totally worth checking out if you never have.

He is skin crawlingly creepy as Jim though!

 

[memoii11]

Awful news.

 

[InstaFamousDoesntCount]

Jim be like...

 

[kev1974]

Shit on it


Did not know he had been in so much stuff such as Harry Potter and Chernobyl.

 

[Barbs89]

Definitely trying too hard to be funny, it went from Jim being an almost believable strange neighbour, to him now being this nut job who walks into their home and invites himself out with them. The silver coat thing was pointless, the Milton thing is too much and the lights in the caravan was too far as well, martin would not have done that! Spoilt!

 

[StephenTJackson]

I thought the character of Gibby was just stupidly OTT and unbelievable but I still found the rest of the characters funny.

Still think Jim is good but only just about, I think he's stepped a bit too far over the OTT line too.

Jim definitely only works in small doses. Becomes very annoying and too much when he becomes a central character in an episode. And Gibby, well, the less said about her the better. Bloody awful.

 

[narcosaurus rex]

Really shocked and sad to hear the news. He was the funniest character. I wonder if FND will continue? I don't think it can without him.

Unless the show massively changes, to Jackie being the annoying mother-in-law, or something.