The WORST episodes of Friday Night Dinner
Every episode of Friday Night Dinner ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Lord Luck
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/25/2018
Dad annoys everyone with his old ventriloquist dummy Lord Luck, while Jonny's recently dumped friend Ben comes for dinner in need of cheering up.
#2 - Mr Morris Returns
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/4/2014
The family are distraught when Grandma gets engaged to Mr Morris, her horrible 85-year-old boyfriend.
#3 - The Surprise
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/18/2018
Mum plans her own surprise party which backfires when Dad gets involved. Get ready for the party from hell.
#4 - The Tin of Meat
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/11/2018
Mum's friend Val moves in and causes havoc when she finds that Dad is hiding a tin of 20-year-old meat in his shed.
#5 - The Other Jackie
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/4/2018
Mum and Dad get a hot tub, much to the horror of Adam and Jonny, and Jim brings a date round for a disastrous dinner.
#7 - The Piano
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/18/2014
Dad has bought a piano, and the world's most sarcastic piano tuner comes round to tune it. Meanwhile, the family spot Aunty Val having an affair. What should they do?
#8 - The Sofabed
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2011
Dad has forgotten that he asked a man off eBay to come and pick up their old sofabed, which gets stuck on the stairs, trapping Mum and Adam upstairs. Will Mum ever get to see Masterchef?
#9 - The Curtains
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/2011
Mum's excited about the new curtains, but the boys and Grandma think they're horrible. Dad drops Mum's beef casserole on the kitchen floor, so Jonny and Adam head to the pub.
#10 - The Loft
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2012
To get out of cleaning the loft with Dad and Adam, Jonny claims to have dislocated his shoulder. But when Adam discovers he's lying, he threatens to tell mum immediately.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Girlfriend
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/20/2014
Adam finally brings a girl home for dinner, but the evening is ruined when the family suddenly have to look after eight-year-old Katie, who has a massive girlie crush on Adam.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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'.
#20 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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'.
#25 - 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.