This programme makes me laugh and I can't wait to see more. The one thing I don't understand is when the dad's swearing and says 'S*** on it'. I've never heard the expression before and think it sounds really stupid. Am I the only one who thinks it sounds really out of place?
shareYes but this is completely in keeping with Dad's character. He can't even swear correctly :D
shareI think it's a good saying & different so fits the character.
shareYeah that's true.
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A second season has been agreed!
shareRobert Popper gave an interview where he mentioned *beep* on it' simply because his dad actually says that and he thought it was weird thing to say anyway...now i've started saying it without realising....
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I couldn't agree more. My Family is the biggest load of tosh in the history of television. Friday Night Dinner, on the other hand, is very very funny. I agree with an earlier post that the mother role isn't that funny but the rest of the cast are great.
I do have my favourite bits (Episode 2 in the toilet about going online to find 'females' and most of episode 6)
I'm already looking forward to the next series. In fact, I was a little peeved when the continuety announcer said next year!!
I hope they make more than six episodes in series two (but unlikely).
She is in quite a few british comedies and the sole reason why I started watching this right now. If you saw her in her other roles, just looking @ her in this one will make you laugh! It's just so funny seeing her w/ the different hair and the outfits lol.
Anyway, 4 episodes in and so far so good. As per the *beep* on it" expression, I honestly thought that was a normal expression in England and thought nothing of it.
Does anyone remember Martine McCutcheon saying "Piss it!" in Love Actually? That was the worst, lamest and least appropriate "swearing" in the history of cinema.
Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!
S*** on it is a great catchphrase. I loved when he called Johnny a S****ing idiot in front of Tanya in Friday's episode. How inappropriate can you get. The guy is absolutely hopeless on just about every level and all the funnier for it.
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It sounds like a mistranslation, the German equivalent of *beep* it! literally translates to English S**t on it.
That sounds like a good posibility.
I think it might have come about by accident. You know when someone says something out of order but they keep saying it, everybody laughs, and it sticks. Thanks for sharing that comment btw :)
I agree. It just gets better and better. If you haven't seen the final ep, the one where Jim (the neighbour) comes to dinner, that's one of the funniest things I've ever laughed my ass off to. Priceless !!!!
I so hope they make a season 3. But the dvd extra from season1 shows that the producers are so relaxed, i think perhaps too relaxed, in their attitude to work. It`s all good and fun I guess but I believe thats why they have been so slow to get a new season. I love the dad. S*** on it. I actually find myself saying it in times of stress. It works cuz it makes you laugh off whatever it is you're going through. I think the dad says that because it's consistent with all the other things he does that are out of place or says things that are not the normal convention. Like, does he ever have a shirt on when the boys arrive. He's always doing some weird, silly project that always lands them in hot water. Remember the hiding of the magazines in the shed?
If anyone is reading this and thinking whether or not to watch, please do. The re-curring themes are so funny and you come to expect it each ep. It's just a matter of when it happens. And just when you think it's about to happen, and you think of the worst case scenario, it often happens more funnier and or outrageous.
I also say (when I go to someones place for dinner)..... that's a nice piece of squirrel !!
My father was in the navy and complained when they had been out to sea for a long time they got SOS everyday. It stood for "$hit on a shingle" or "chipped beef on toast". That showed what they thought of it.
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Well Comedy_Fan, picture this: Even if you didn't heard of it, it may still exist... Now, my point is this, here in Romania we have this expresion and it's quite common. From what I can remember, the dad said in S2, EP5 or so that he's Portuguese or something, so maybe, just maybe, they also have this expression and he uses it in english...
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I love this show, I'm a late comer, caught up with it all months ago, this will be the first series I watch as it airs.
I love the Dad's saying 's##t on it', I also say it in real life now and it makes me laugh instead of being annoyed.
I did hear that the writer of the show, Robert Popper, he said his father is strange like the dad in the show and he actually says this. So it comes from him.
I think it may come from different sayings, like when someone does something good and then someone ruins it and says they s$$t all over the good they did. Perhaps?
I'm starting to say it too.
My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2