Outnumbered/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • After Pete tells a fat, Turkish kid to stop stuffing his face with crisps. The kid's dad calls him a racist.

"He said I singled him out because of his religion and weight, which is now a glandular problem, which I guess compels him to thrust pies down his throat."

  • There is normally one per episode.
  • When Pete goes to watch Ben play soccer, he talks with several of the other parents and finds himself correcting Ben's various Blatant Lies about him (such as Pete being a trained SAS officer).

Mark: You're Ben's dad, aren't you?
Pete: Yeah.
Mark: He's told me all about you.
Pete: Has he? Well, he will have made it all up, OK? It's just something he does. Whatever story he has told you, it will be a lie. What did he tell you?
Mark: He said you're a history teacher.
Pete: ...Right. No, that one's true.

  • Pete tries to fix a washing machine himself, claiming he needs no help to do so. An ironic cut later goes to outside the laundry room door, where the audience can clearly hear him angrily shouting and violently hitting it.
  • Sue starts thinking Ben has become an avid sexist, and this isn't helped when he asks for bacon.

Sue: For example, why did you direct that to me and not your father?
Ben: Because you're nearest the fridge.

  • The ending of the 2011 Christmas Special, in which Ben messes around with Grandad's bed, and Karen messes up with a graph recording some vital levels. Jake is also clearly drunk by this stage.