Outnumbered

It is a Tuesday morning for the Brockmans, and the children are getting ready to go back to school.

Dinner-time at the Brockmans is a noisy affair, as Ben's friend Deion joins them and proves to be another liar - with his stories of a drunken father who puts rats in his bed, and a mother in jail for attempted murder. Ben doesn't help by wrapping him in toilet paper to make him into an Egyptian mummy, and blaming him for hiding his meal under a cushion. Karen refuses to eat as she has not been given her usual bowl - in fact it is a replacement for one Sue broke, and hoped Karen wouldn't notice. A remark from Jake forces Pete to admit that a joke he made about a ...

On Karen's birthday, Sue brings the family to a farm park along with Granddad and Auntie Angela.

Sue and Pete aim to have a quiet night in, but this plan is disrupted by delays.

Ben makes a claim he is too sick to go to school, and Auntie Angela pays a visit to the household explaining her boyfriend dumped her.

Sue and Pete hold a dinner party, but when Auntie Angela states she will be leaving to go back to America without caring for Granddad, she gets into a feisty argument with Sue.