It's Christmas, and Lee is not happy that Lucy has got tickets for them to see her teenage crush, Jason Donovan, in panto. In bed, Lee has an unsettling dream.
Wendy paints a portrait of Lee's late father, Frank, and gives it to Lee and Lucy as a present. She is expecting them to love it, but that would require the painting to be not just competent but good. Once it's hanging on their wall, Lee and Lucy must contrive to lose the painting without Wendy or Geoffrey noticing.
When Lee accidentally sends a rude text about Anna to Lucy, he makes the stupid mistake of sending it to Anna herself. Lee and Lucy now face the impossible task of stealing Anna's phone and deleting the text before she reads it.
When Lee promises Lucy that he will make more of an effort to be friendly with other parents in the playground, he makes the mistake of starting with Keith.
Recovering from knee surgery, Lee sits by the window day after day, spying on his neighbours through a pair of binoculars.
Lee does jury service and joins eleven other jurors to debate whether the accused is guilty or not. A simple enough task - until Lee decides to put the other jurors on trial.
Lee organises a family camping trip into the back of beyond, where they soon discover that no one can hear them scream.