Nothing to see here, just Mr Morris letting off some steam...
Grandma Nelly has some exciting news to share with the rest of the Goodman family, in that she's found a man that loves her...Mr Morris.
Tropes:
- Chekhov's Gag: Mr Morris repeatedly calls anyone he disagrees with a "punk rocker", which he opines at the family for not liking around the dinner table earlier in the episode.
- Continuity Nod: This is one of the rare Friday Night Dinner episodes that requires knowledge of a past episode to understand The Goodmans' annoyance with Mr Morris (Series 2's "Mr Morris" specifically), and the references to Mr Morris' behaviour
will fly over any uninformed viewers' head otherwise. While the family do briefly remind Grandma Nelly what happened (Mr Morris acting like a lunatic, badly parking in front of their house, trying to fight Martin while topless), they don't go into great detail. Adam also mentions condoms under his breath when Mr Morris takes a photo out of his pocket, in reference to the former buying some in that episode too. - Drives Like Crazy: As per usual, he's terrible at parking, and the house shot of him arriving is just the car crashed into the house.
- Epic Fail: Mr Morris goes and walks to the pins on the bowling lane, and somehow still misses by throwing the ball into the gutter.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Mr Morris says to the family that the drinks are on him when they go out and says that they don't have any limit in choice...but only £4.50 per head.
- Not Hyperbole: Nelly mentions to Jackie that Mr Morris has a system, where if he gets angry at something, he goes into his car and yells into it to quell his rage and calm down. Moments later, Mr Morris is doing precisely that, much to the bemusement of everyone, because Jonny said he didn't like coffee.
- Ordered Apology: Nelly essentially forces Mr Morris for the events of his debut episode, which has him dryly read off a piece of paper to the Goodmans. To say the family are not convinced would be an understatement.
- Running Gag:
- Grandma wanting to look in the mirror to admire her hair.
- Martin keeps calculating certain numbers on an old white calculator; first the amount of time spent with Jackie (14 million minutes), then the distance to the sun if they walked there (1,290,108).
- Sickening Sweethearts: In an inversion of the previous episode starring Mr Morris, he overcompensates for his past behaviour by kissing Grandma and calling their relationship "Erotic", at every opportunity, enough to put Jackie, Adam and Jonny off their dinner (not Martin though, he "loves scraps").
- Oh, Crap!: Jackie's wide-eyed expression is this when Mr Morris asks Nelly to marry him.
- What Does She See in Him?: Nelly claims that their relationship is "all a bit of fun" a few times in the episode, though she is definitely aware of how angry Mr Morris was, and still is, and it seems they only get hitched partially out of spite for Jackie and the rest of the family disapproving of their relationship, and partially due to wanting to be with someone who will give her affection.
