The BEST episodes of Friday Night Dinner
Every episode of Friday Night Dinner ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Friday Night Dinner!
For the Goodman family, Friday Night Dinner is just like Sunday lunch: just take two days away, change the meal to dinner, and you’ve pretty much got it. Adam and his brother, Jonny, view Friday night dinner as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with mum and dad.
#1 - The Females
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/1/2020
Adam and Jonny bring their 'females' home to meet the parents. Cue an overexcited Mum and an extremely embarrassing Dad.
#2 - The Mouse
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2012
There's a mouse in the kitchen, Mum's hiding in the shed, Dad's in charge of the cooking, and Jim is delighted when he ends up invited to have dinner with the family.
#3 - The Big Day
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/25/2014
It's Grandma's wedding day, and she's getting married to the horrible Mr Morris. The family are distraught, but will Grandma really say 'I do'?
#6 - The Yoghurts
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2012
Jonny's in a pickle: he wants to split up with his 43-year-old girlfriend/boss, but he's too scared. Grandma offers him some advice, and some dancing lessons in the kitchen.
#7 - Dad's Birthday
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/17/2020
Dad has the birthday blues - not only has he worked out the date he's going to die, but then 'Horrible Grandma' turns up uninvited. Can Jim's magic do the trick?
#9 - The Fox
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/27/2014
Dad is keeping a dead fox in the freezer in the garage because he wants to get it stuffed. But when Mum needs to use the freezer, Dad enlists Adam and Jonny in a desperate attempt to hide the animal.
#10 - The Anniversary
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2014
Mum and Dad's anniversary is ruined when Dad paints a portrait of Mum that looks like Margaret Thatcher, Jonny gets a tattoo of a skull, and Jim sleep-walks around their house, causing havoc.
#11 - The Caravan
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/27/2020
Dad's bought a grotty caravan. Jim's got a new dog. And the boys have new 'females' but can they bear to tell Mum?
#12 - Buggy
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2012
When Jonny finds out that Adam threw his beloved 'Pandy' toy in the bin when he was 11, Jonny swears revenge, threatening to destroy 'Buggy', Adam's old rabbit.
#13 - The Mercedes
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/2011
Sheila Bloom - also known as 'Bitchface' - almost runs Adam over on his birthday. When Dad reveals that he used to have a thing with Bitchface years ago, the boys can't believe it and Mum's not happy.
#14 - The Date
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2011
Adam comes home to find the house looking immaculate and the table set for five. The doorbell rings and in walks Tanya Green, the girl Mum has been trying to set up with Adam.
#15 - The Cage
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/24/2020
Jim sets up a giant dog cage for Milson in the Goodmans' living room, and Aunty Val's got a hot date with a 'sex robot'.
#16 - The New Car
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2012
Jim has made a cake to celebrate his dog Wilson's birthday, while the family return from a spin in Jonny's new but uncool company car to find something awful has happened to the house.
#19 - Mr Morris
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2012
The boys are excited, because Grandma (Frances Cuka) is coming for dinner, and she's bringing her new boyfriend. 'He's not her boyfriend,' says mum, he's her 'male companion'.
#21 - The Jingle
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/2011
Adam and Jonny are desperate to know why Dad keeps peering into his underpants with a magnifying glass.
#23 - The Plastic Bag
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/3/2020
Dad's obsessed with retrieving a plastic bag from a tree. Jonny's sense of style is out of this world. And Adam discovers hell hath no fury like his Mum scorned.
#24 - The Au Pair
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/10/2020
The family's cream-tea-obsessed former au pair pays the Goodmans a surprise visit. But there's nothing sweet about this reunion.
#25 - The Dress
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/2011
Mum finds out that Dad didn't throw away his boxes of old magazines. Adam and Jonny are convinced that Mum's friend's daughter has a face like a foot. And Jim's distraught when Wilson goes missing.