Outnumbered (2007) s03e05 Episode Script

All I'm saying is, you can't stroll around the house stark naked.
All I'm saying is that you should've mentioned that Karen had a little friend staying the night.
I did, you just forgot.
I did not forget.
On two or three occasions, I mentioned, "Don't go out starkers.
" She's got a very piercing scream, hasn't she? So have you! Look, Maisie hasn't got a dad so she's not used to getting up in the night and encountering a great, hulking, hairy, naked man.
I did tell her not to scream.
"Karen's daddy stood there naked and told me not to scream," that will sound good in court.
Anyway, we've got to be at the restaurant in half an hour.
We'd better get ready.
One night, Karen and her stupid friend Maisie were playing on the climbing frame, but little did they know that they were about to fall to their death, and Maisie died! And then, Karen died! Oh, hello.
Is your mum or dad in? Er, well, I don't know where my mum is.
And your dad? He's on the toilet.
Right.
Do you think he'll be long? Well, he can be very long, but Do you want money? No, no, I'm here to save your mummy and daddy money.
Hi, Karen.
Oh, hi, Lauren.
She came round to our house.
My daddy says people like her should be shot.
My dad's on the toilet.
Bye.
So, do you want money or not? Little did Lady Victoria know that she was standing on top of a hot volcanic geyser.
I'm I'm here to save your mummy and daddy money by combining their internet and telephone access to fibre optic technology.
Who is it, Karen? It's some person trying to sell cyber optic technology.
Fibre optic technology.
Tell them we're not interested.
We're not interested.
But it's a really good deal Tell her to go away.
Go away.
The rebels have to escape a deadly cloud of gas.
Argh! Burns, it burns! Everybody else is dead, it's just me.
It's just, I need to make a sale Well, I mean, you can always try other houses.
But I really can give you all Down there there's some old people.
They're a bit crazy in the head like most old people are, so they'll buy anything.
He was wrestling the giant spitting cobra.
You're not going to spit at me! Argh! Or maybe you should maybe make some drinks and say, "Here, have a drink.
" Or just bake something like cakes or cookies and then say, "Would you like a cookie? You get a free cookie if you buy my the internet thing.
" They really would save money throughout the year.
We don't want to buy it, so But it really is a good deal.
Look, I just think you need to get better at this job and, well, I'm fed up so I'm going to go.
Karen, can you not tell strangers that I am on the toilet? But you are.
Yeah, OK, but tell them, tell them I'm busy or something.
But you weren't busy, you were just sitting there, only your bottom was busy.
And there was no need to slam the door in her face like that.
But she wouldn't listen.
Like all grownups.
They're idiots.
Are you not going to answer that? It was the headmaster.
That top looks nice.
That's three you haven't answered since you got home.
Is it? No, that looks really, really nice.
No, won't do, will it? I don't want my sister making one of her charity shop jibes.
Yar! Is Aunty Angela coming here then? No, I booked us in for dinner at that Italian place round the corner.
Rather shrewd manoeuvre on my part.
Neutral ground.
Less chance of anything untoward happening between Mum and Aunty Angela.
What, like Mum kicking her up the arse again? Well, that's hardly likely to happen twice, especially in a busy restaurant, in public.
Well, the wedding reception was in public.
You said that last time.
This time Aunty Angela will be on her best behaviour because she's be with her new bloke, Brick.
Oh, God, I bet he's a pillock.
You know nothing about him.
He's a therapist, he's American and his name is Brick.
Fair enough.
He's got to have a fake tan and a ponytail.
No, not both, no, that would be too obvious.
So, that's a quid on the ponytail and a quid that at some point he'll use the phrase, "low self-esteem".
OK.
But I'm not letting you off bets any more.
You lose, you play.
OK, OK.
You still owe me from that bet about how many people would die in that episode of Casualty.
You cheated.
You saw the gas explosion on the trailer.
What in God's name have you been doing? Watering the plants.
Mum said I could do it.
Oh! How long have you been? Oh, my God, it looks like The Somme.
Go upstairs and change into your smart stuff.
Why did you let Ben loose in the garden with the hose? The big no-no's - Ben and water, Ben and fire, Ben and depilatory cream.
I was wondering whether we should've bought Angela a wedding present.
Still, she didn't actually tell us that she was getting married, so Who's Mimi? Um Only, she wants to talk about the other night, she's confused.
Mimi? Are you confused as well, because she's texted you seven times in the last two days.
You've been looking at my texts.
Who is Mimi? If I can't hit him, how do I stop him Not now, Karen.
From stealing my sausage rolls? Hey? She got into trouble for hitting this boy at lunchtime.
You mustn't hit anyone.
Mrs Bassoon said it was unladylike.
Well, she's never said Ben hitting anyone is unmanlike.
You don't hit him, you go tell a teacher.
But he'll have licked it by then.
Then hit him in a ladylike way.
That is just ridiculous.
Can I hit him or not? It's a simple question.
No.
We'll get back to you on that, now, off you go.
Because I need to know.
So now you've had plenty of time to think of an answer.
After Mike's leaving do, we went onto this pub that does music.
And this Mimi was there and she came over and we had a dance.
Slow dance? Well slowish.
A medium slow, more Derek Underwood than Shane Warne.
It was nothing! Show me.
Sorry? Show me how you danced with Mimi.
Don't be silly.
How did you hold her? Look, don't be ridiculous.
Show me! Well, I suppose Oh, God, get a room! Oh, Mum Jake, give us a few minutes, please? All right then.
And this is what she got confused about, is it? I think she gets confused You know the sink plunger, do they make them 500 times bigger for really big sinks? Why would you want one that big? So I could pick up a much bigger tortoise and I could go like that and I could use it a bit like a tortoise club.
Wouldn't that be cool? Yes, it would.
Now, if you don't mind, darling, Daddy and I think I left the hose on.
Come on, kill it! Look, we danced and at the end of the night, she kissed me, and I think she may have got the wrong idea.
I'm very sorry but I was very, very drunk, so I I kissed her back a bit.
But honestly, the state I was in, it could've been anyone.
It could have been anyone.
No, I don't mean it could've been Except me, presumably.
Oh, I'm sorry, but I Can I wear my bridesmaid's dress? No! So you got pissed and snogged a total stranger.
She wasn't a total stranger.
So, who is she? Why don't we talk about this after the meal with Angela? She was the mum of a boy in Year Two.
Oh, God, it'll be all around the playground.
No-one saw us.
How do you know? Were you alertly scanning the room when you shoved your tongue down her throat? Listen Just like when Beatrice's mum turned up at the nativity play, it all went quiet and everyone heard Mary say to Joseph, "That's the one who sexed the plumber.
" Jesus, Pete! It's not like that at all.
What sort of a name is Mimi anyway? Short for Mia.
It is not short for Mia, it is bloody longer than bloody Mia.
You've just snogged a woman who is so stupid that she's shortened her name to something longer.
Shush! Don't tell me to be quiet.
It's Jake.
What?! Jake.
Oh, God! Do you think he heard? See what you've done? We can't pretend this hasn't happened.
You're going to talk to him.
Am I? Oh, who the hell is that? It's Aunty Angela.
Oh, God! - Do I look normal? - This is Brick.
Absolutely.
But look, with Angela, can you just control yourself? You want me to control myself after what you've?! Hi.
Hello.
I thought we were meeting in the restaurant.
Yeah, well, we were a bit early so we thought Brick.
Great to meet you at last, Sue.
Hello.
Pete, how's it going? Hi.
This is Taylor Jean.
Say hi to everyone, honey.
Hi.
I didn't know you had a little girl, Brick.
We have five kids.
Five?! Misty, Dune, Plymouth and Mustang couldn't leave Phoenix right now.
Is Phoenix the youngest? His place, Sue, where we live, with our five kids.
Oh right.
Did you buy your children? Buy them? Yes, like Madonna.
Well, Madonna didn't actually buy her kids Last time you were here, you didn't have any kids, so it's impossible to have five kids now, and especially at your age.
Karen, that's rude.
No, no, no, it's fine.
They're my kids, Karen, from a marriage I was in before and now they're Angela's kids.
But where's their mummy? Taylor Jean, who is your mum? Angela is my mum.
Hey, you've got to be Jake? Hi, big guy.
I like your ponytail.
Great.
So, that leaves the legend I crossed the Atlantic to meet.
What I haven't heard about Ben.
Ben has actually had a very good year, hasn't he, Pete? Yeah, he's been picked by the school as being exceptionally gifted at chess.
He's discovered his intellectual side.
Rarr! Hi, Ben.
He's so muddy.
Oh, cool! Hey, fella, I'm Brick.
Brick? Yeah, Brick.
Is that a name? Yes, it's a name.
You mean Brick as in brick, the thing? Ben, Ben, go and get changed.
Go on, then we can go round the corner to the restaurant.
Brick? What a weird name.
I think it's a great name.
What's it short for? Well, what were you christened? Brick.
I was christened Brick.
Oh, better still.
So, where is her real mum? Karen! So sorry about that.
It's fine.
We've all got kids so we understand.
So, which one is she? I just want to know who they're talking about when they giggle and point at me.
She's the one with the ginger boy who broke his foot last term.
Her?! Yeah.
Her?! What? Nothing.
God, you must've been That is insulting.
Look, I didn't I'm going to catch up to Angela and you're going to explain to your son why you kissed someone older and fatter than me.
So, how was school today, Ben? Great.
We had sex education.
Right.
They show you a film or something? No.
Mrs Bradley asked us to shout out all the names we knew for men's bits.
Really? We got to 18.
Though Mrs Bradley wasn't sure about pink bazooka.
She said Abraham had made it up.
Hiya.
Which he had.
Jake.
Look, I think you may have heard something this morning you really shouldn't have heard.
I couldn't help hear it.
OK, well, I want you to know that I hugely regret what I did.
What did you do? I didn't hear that bit.
OK, maybe we don't need to talk.
No.
No, Dad So, you've put the house on the market? Yeah, yeah, we just wanted an upgrade.
Everything good with you and Pete? God, yes, absolutely.
Very good.
Great, terrific.
Top-notch.
Fantastic.
Listen, Sue, what you did to me at the wedding reception, I just want you to know, I've already forgotten it.
Oh.
Great.
Shall we just turn over a new page? Sue, I've turned over two new pages.
In fact, I've turned over an entire novel.
I didn't know this place had an upstairs.
So, Dad, what is this? Are you having an affair? No! Shush! Listen, Jake, I need you to be really grown up about this.
I got very drunk and I kissed this woman.
Mimi? Yeah, that was I thought you said you didn't hear? Yeah, well, I heard that bit.
She's the ginger kid's mum.
Warren's dad had a thing with her when I was in Year Six.
Oh, right.
Warren says she's only desperate because she's lonely.
Used to call him up all the time and cry down the phone.
Did she? She used to sit outside his house in her car.
Uh-huh.
And she posted him lots of Yeah, all right, thank you.
Hi, there.
Hi, Kelly.
I didn't know Kelly worked here.
Did you? Hello? Jake? OK, big fella, you sit there, TJ next to me Oh, no! No, this is no good.
Kelly.
We seem to be in a room on our own.
Yeah, we had a bit of an overspill so we put you in here.
Yeah, but we, we like eating where the action is.
You know, amongst lots of people, don't we? This is great.
We are full downstairs.
Lovely.
Come on, Hugh Grant.
You come sit across from me.
Let's start with a bottle of red, honey.
Choose us something nice.
Actually, I don't think we'll I'll have a Bloody Mary.
Oh, this is great, isn't it? This is just great.
Jake.
Quick reminder, try looking at her face, women like that.
They're not so keen on being looked at like some slab of meat.
That goes for you as well.
Now, guys, I just want to say a few words.
Now, I don't need to be a therapist to see there's an elephant in this room.
An elephant? A hidden source of tension between two people who love each other, but I like shooting elephants.
Now, we all know there's been history between these sisters.
Can we forget it? No, we can't.
You can't shoot elephants.
Can we acknowledge it? Yes, we can.
Can we move on? Yes, we can.
Why does he keep repeating, "Yes, we can?" into a positive? Yes, we can.
Of course we can.
Taylor Jean, can we be one, big loving family? Yes, we can.
Yes, we can! Why are we clapping? Have we won something? Thank you, Brick.
Yes, thank you, Brick.
That was, um that was special.
Hm fantastic.
So, where is Taylor Jean's real mum? Karen, now's not the time.
Hey, it's cool, Sue.
Kids need answers.
The answer, Karen, is that sadly there are some mothers so damaging that kids prosper best without them.
Brick was amazing.
He just wouldn't stop fighting for his kids.
Wouldn't he? It was you coming on board that clinched it with the judge.
Hello? Taylor Jean is so much happier now she doesn't have to go to Tucson at weekends.
I'm so much happier.
Well, yes.
Pete was naked.
But he'd forgotten that Maisie was staying overnight.
Well, I'm sorry she's having trouble sleeping, but Well, yes, he is quite hairy.
At least it won't come as a shock to her in later life, will it? No, sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK.
Bye.
Sue? Please.
Another bottle of red, honey.
Here we all are at San Diego Zoo.
In fact, it was Misty's giraffe poem that won us the trip.
Lovely.
Didn't you used to think that children got in the way of being a free spirit? God, no! What spirits could be freer than the spirits of kids? There's such wonderful energy in a big family.
I know, it's great.
Well, yeah, I mean, you've got quite a big family, Sue, but when there's seven of you, believe me, that is a big family.
So, what shall we all have for pudding? Here we are in Hawaii.
Angie is the most phenomenal mother.
Both interactively and as a role model.
She just never stops giving.
She's helped Misty overcome her food issues.
Is that Misty making the big splash in the swimming pool? That's Dune.
Misty had issues with under-eating.
The Banoffee pie looks very tasty.
Brick's ex put her under so much gastric stress that the poor child had to have so many tests.
Did she have to have a camera put up her bottom? That's what happened to Dad.
Turned out I have diverticular disease.
Very mildly.
Quite mildly.
It's one of those syndromes which is present in quite a few people his age.
It's not a syndrome, it's a disease.
It's not a disease like leprosy.
No, but it is more serious than a syndrome.
Ben! Ben that behaviour is inappropriate.
I'm bored of that word.
So, when you replaced her real mum, what did you do with her real mum? Karen, stop it, it's not But it's not fair, none of my questions get answered, and you still haven't got back to me about the hitting.
Hitting? Yes.
They said they'd talk to me about when I can hit this boy at school Well, obviously, you can't.
We said that.
No, you didn't.
You said I could hit in a ladylike way.
It's never right to hit, not for children.
Then, how am I supposed to stop someone from constantly stealing my sausage rolls? You get a court order stopping them from coming within 50 miles.
Why don't you kids place a game of Consequences or something? Good idea, Hugh Grant.
Actually, I don't sound much like Hugh Grant.
You do a bit, you've got that charming, "Oh, ah, oh," thing going on.
No, I haven't.
You do, you're doing it now.
It's charming.
OK, Jake? Oh, Jake, have I got something on my face? You just sort of keep staring at it, and so does your dad.
No, your face is great.
Well, it's OK.
It's nicer than OK.
Right, right, yeah, thanks.
I wish that guy with the ponytail would look at my face now and then.
Oh, I know.
Some men just treat women like they're slabs of meat.
That's a very mature observation.
Oh, I'm quite mature, actually.
I'd better Mm-hm.
You should get Brick to do a session with Karen about the hitting.
She doesn't need it.
You'd do that, wouldn't you? Sure, honey, they're family.
She's fine! He does this great game with the kids where they platy hide-and-seek only they have to try and find themselves.
Find themselves? Yeah.
That'd be easy.
You just look down, and there you are.
No, Karen.
Sometimes you try and find something inside you that you didn't know was there.
Like a tapeworm? No, not like that.
Like a spoon that you swallowed by mistake, or? No, it's She's very literal, isn't she? We've all got dark places inside our heads.
Well, of course we have.
It's entirely dark unless we put, like, a window or sawed the top of our head off.
Karen.
And that wouldn't be very good because then we'd die eventually.
Well, it's like if you're in a dark room and you put a plant in a dark room and it never had any sunlight, it would grow all twisted and tangled and it wouldn't be good, so It wouldn't grow at all, it would die.
It might grow a tiny bit.
Have you ever eaten a tadpole for a bet? Yes.
Have you ever have you ever put fish food in your dad's tea? Yeah.
Have you ever taken a seagull into a hotel bedroom? Have you ever run away from home and got as far as New Mexico? Yeah.
You find that actually there are hidden feelings inside all of us that we only have to acknowledge.
You have to give these feelings a name.
We need to say, "Bob," if say we called these feelings Bob, "Get back" Why Bob, when you can call it anything like Steve, or a girl's name like Lucy? Why do you have to call it Bob? Well, you could say, "Lucy, get" It doesn't work for me.
Is this your job to just say stuff like this? Trust me, it's a very useful Well, I don't trust you.
Because you're just talking nonsense.
Then, if you'll just listen to me for two seconds.
It's not something a child necessarily understands, but it is, it is something But I do understand what you're saying, it's just it doesn't make any sense because Well, I think I am I'm not entirely sure your technique is going to work with Karen.
She sure has a lot of defences.
Welcome to English repression.
I really think we should order some, some pudding and some coffee, because we've had quite a lot of wine now.
What does repression mean? Ah, excuse me.
It's what everyone in England does, Ben.
Don't let out the anger that's inside them.
My mum lets out her anger.
Yeah, well She kicked you up the Ben! And, she let out lots of anger when she found out that Daddy had kissed a woman which isn't her.
I'll just give you a couple more minutes to decide.
You did what? How do you know about that? We heard you and Dad talking about it.
OK, OK, everyone calm down.
It was just a stupid incident that happened.
And Pete is not having an affair if that's what you're thinking.
Stuff happens.
We're animals dressed up in clothes pretending not to be animals.
Sometimes we forget to pretend.
Look, stuff has not happened and I think that we should all move on and I, for one, am moving to the ladies.
I'll just go see if she's OK.
No, no.
Actually, Angela, I don't think that very good idea.
Sue, I am so sorry.
There's nothing to be sorry about.
We're fine, really.
Totally.
Listen, Brick is a great therapist.
In fact, you should get him to talk to Pete.
What about? Well, he's a licensed sex addiction therapist.
Pete? A sex addict? He can help you both if you'll only let him in.
You've got to think about what this could do to the kids.
The kid?! Last year you were saying that kids turn you into a zombie, this year you're Maria Von Bloody Trapp.
You'll make plenty of mistakes with Brick's children.
I doubt I'll ever leave one of them behind on a Scottish island.
I thought Pete had him, OK? Look, let's just stop this before we I was merely expressing surprise that you've suddenly discovered children are so wonderful.
I found out they all weren't like yours.
You have no bullets.
So, Hugh Grant, I thought you were one of these pussy-whipped English guys.
I'm sorry? I'm sorry.
You don't have to be sorry, we're men.
As men, we are evolutionarily hardwired to nail as many women as we can.
You'll get better at it.
And then you won't get caught.
What?! Everything OK? Yeah.
So, where's Angela then? She Still in the toilet.
Right, but you haven't So, any decisions about pudding? Why don't we just skip pudding and get the bill? Ah, I'll get that, honey.
That's kind, but let's split it.
Everything all right? Yes.
That's me.
No, I said let's split it.
You're on teachers' wages, I'll pay.
I'd really rather you didn't.
Ouch.
Some low self-esteem issues here.
That's for you, good-looker.
Don't play the therapist with me.
Pete.
Pete's one of those guys who thinks charlatans become psychotherapists.
And the Serbian war criminals.
Pete, just Whoa, Hugh Grant.
And if you call me Hugh Grant one more time, I'm going to take your platinum Visa card and I'm going to shove it right up your I want my mum.
It's all right, sweetie.
No, I want my real mum.
I'll pop back in a tick.
We need help fast.
The triceratops is having a heart attack.
If Mum and Dad had a divorce, who would you live with? Don't know.
I mean, Maisie, well, she lives with her mum and if she sees her dad coming, they have to press a button which goes straight to the police.
Do they fire rockets at him? I've got Ben's bin.
Paper, paper.
Plastic.
God knows, but I don't like the look of it.
Are these Ben's pants? Put them in the compost.
Well, I didn't think the meal would end up like that.
Angie holding Brick back and shouting, "He's not worth it.
" Well, I told you all that stuff he said about women.
You're a well-known champion of women's rights.
I keep thinking about those poor children.
Poor fat Dune, poor thin Misty.
Poor scary Taylor Jean.
Oh, there are the car keys.
Aunty Angela is his third wife.
What? Mm-hm.
His second one is in a clinical facility in Tucson.
Well, who told you that? Taylor Jean.
Brick doesn't allow her mum's name to be spoken in the house.
Oh, poor Angela.
God help her.
It would be really hard to choose because if you chose Dad, then you'd really miss Mum, and if you chose Mum, then you'd really miss Dad, so if they do get a divorce, you'd have to choose.
Listen, I just want you to know, your dad and me, we're absolutely fine and we're going to stay together and so there's no need for you to worry about anything.
Isn't that right, Pete? Yes! Absolutely.
Now, go and clean your teeth, you two, and we'll come up and kiss you goodnight.
You just did that to make them feel better, didn't you? No, Jake, I didn't.
I mean, did you see that lot today? It made me grateful for what I've got.
I love your dad, and if he's done something wrong, then it might take me a few days but I'll forgive him.
So why don't you go and get ready for bed too? Ah! You owe me a quid, Dad.
For the ponytail? I paid you.
No, for the low self-esteem.
He got in a couple just before he asked you to step outside.
Did you google him? Come on, Dad, there's not many therapists in Phoenix called Brick Bollinger.
I specialise in low self-esteem issues.
Yeah, well, that's not fair.
Well, you know, the gas explosion in Casualty wasn't fair, Dad.
Don't mess with the googling generation.
Thank you for that just now.
For the forgiveness.
You didn't believe me, did you?