Outnumbered

- Season 3

(2010)

It's Boxing Day and already Karen is making New Year resolutions - chiefly for others - and the family have been burgled,though selectively,causing Sue to cheat on the insurance claim. Sue and Jake go to collect Grandad from the retirement home where he now lives,only to find he has sloped off to the pub again with Scots mate Mac. Sue ends up asking Mac back for dinner though his thick accent creates a language barrier for Karen. Sue's divorced friend Jane is also invited and though the children fail to appreciate her present for them,a goat donated to Oxfam,Pete ...

Pete's mother Sandra takes the family to London for the day to help Karen with her World War Two project,though Karen as ever ends up asking precocious questions,this time about the monarchy. Ben is disruptive,pretending to 'kill' the lions at Trafalgar Square whilst Jake is merely bored. Sue is horrified when Sandra,having offered money for the children's schooling,announces that her marriage is on the rocks and she is getting divorced,especially as Pete refuses to get involved. Back home the children continue to the bane of their parents' lives.

After finding an image of a woman's bare breasts on the computer Sue accuses Ben though it turns out to be a photo of Jake's teacher sun-bathing topless. Sue also finds that somebody has logged onto a cancer website and wonders if this is why Sandra is giving money to Pete and his sisters as she is terminally ill. In fact it was Pete - Sandra is giving money away because she is hooked on on-line gambling and fears she would lose it otherwise. Ben wins a chess tournament by bizarre means whilst Karen spreads the word that the family is rich when a Readers' Digest '...

Pete is due for a colonostopy,awakening the kids' curiosity as to whether he has cancer and leading to Jake and Ben fighting. Sue and Pete then fight as to who should have the morning out with friends. Pete wins the toss to play tennis but has Karen and Ben dumped on him and their attempts to umpire do not go down well with his opponents. Sue accuses Jake of sexism by referring girls as objects but plays the dumb female card when asked to sign a petition.

It's Friday the Thirteenth and,whilst Pete recovers from a hangover following a work's do and Sue tidies the house for prospective buyers,Karen tries to get out of going to school,fearing that she will be ripped apart by wild bears,though she survives to have an argument with Ben about crucifixions. Pete is surprised that the estate agent knows about his colostopy but then Karen did put it on Facebook. The prospective buyers arrive and,whilst Pete assures them that it is a happy house,Ben's quizzing of the pregnant wife and an almighty row between Karen and Sue as Sue...

Pete has freaked out a friend of Karen on a sleep-over by appearing nude and Karen,having seen off a telephone canvasser,is in trouble for hitting the boy at school who stole her sausage roll but worse is to come. Not only did Pete kiss Mimi,a sex-starved parent,during a slow dance at a leaving do but Angela has returned from America with Brick,her new man,an annoying therapist who fits in with all Jake's stereotypes.They have brought Taylor Jean,one of his five children,which prompts Karen to ask Angela why she has suddenly obtained such a large family 'at her age'. ...

Despite the truce when they allied against Angela and Brick Sue is still angry with Pete for kissing Mimi and,whilst Ben attempts to climb Everest on the stairs, Karen is quick to pick up on her mother's feelings and grills Pete about his infidelity whilst also worrying about her important triangle solo in the school orchestra. Pete makes it clear to Howard from down the street that he will not be joining his campaign against speed bumps when Karen is hit by a car whilst Sue is arguing with another parent. Whilst the parents anxiously wait in Casualty Kelly looks ...