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Mum and Dad are having a clear-out of their garage, but Dad is reluctant to throw away his many old New Scientist magazines. He ropes in younger son, estate agent Jonny, to secretly hide the stash of magazines that he is supposedly throwing out at his flat. Mum is excited because it is the final of MasterChef; elder son Adam and Jonny however, are not interested in the programme. Mum is trying to cook dinner. Their strange, lonely, middle-aged neighbour Jim, who is attracted to Mum and is accompanied by his Belgian Shepherd dog Wilson which he is afraid of - frequently interrupts them to use their toilet as he has broken his own. Dad tells Adam that he has ordered fifty copies of New Scientist from 1965 to be sent to him. Dad wrongly believes that Chris Parker (Matthew Holness) is coming to pick up their old sofa bed tomorrow. Adam and Jonny prank each other by spiking each other's drinks with salt. Chris arrives, surprising Dad, who was mistaken about the date. Chris wants it for when his ill father comes to stay with him. The sofabed becomes stuck between the banister and the wall while it is being carried downstairs. Mum sees Jonny put the magazines in his car, as well as the receipt for the back copies which Dad gave to Adam. Chris receives a call on his mobile phone informing him of his father's sudden death. Chris is horrified when drinking from a mug and a glass which have salt in them, and leaves. Jim tells Mum who has won MasterChef and the sofabed falls, breaking the balusters.^[2]

Grandma (Frances Cuka) visits. Mum is delighted with the new set of curtains she has bought, which she says are cream. Mum is angry when Grandma and the boys say they hate them and that they are yellow, which does not suit the room. Dad drops Mum's beef casserole over the kitchen floor. It looks disgusting, yet Dad scoops it back into the dish. Adam spikes Jonny's water with gin. At the dinner table, Grandma spills something on her crotch. The doorbell rings; the boys answer - it is Jim and Wilson. Jim does not say what he wants; Wilson licks Grandma's crotch. Back in the house, Grandma gives the boys each a wallet containing a pound coin each, Dad a wallet and Mum a yogurt. Jonny deliberately scares Adam by hiding in a black bin bag and jumping out of it, causing him to drop Mum's favourite dish that he is holding. Mum argues with Grandma about the curtains and how they speak to each other. Mum criticises Jonny for not bringing his girlfriend Alison to the house. Jonny leaves in a huff to go to the pub, The Black Boy, with Adam following him. Due to having very little cash on them, they share a half-pint of lager. They are disappointed when Jim arrives and joins them. Jim buys Wilson a pint of lager; it makes Wilson too drunk to walk. The boys carry Wilson home, accompanied by Jim. At home, Mum and Grandma are not talking, so Adam tells Mum and Grandma to apologise to each other to resolve the argument.^[4]

When Mum finds out that Dad did not throw away his old boxes of science magazines during their clear-out, she is angry - so Dad builds a bonfire in the back garden and says that he will burn them all. Dad is pretending to burn them whilst squirrelling the boxes off to his shed. Jim calls at the front door with Wilson and returns bathroom scales that he had borrowed, after taking his shoes off and weighing himself at the door. Wilson walks off with the shoes and goes missing, leaving Jim distraught. After Mum calls Wilson, he returns with the shoes. Mum is pleased when her best friend, Val (Tracy-Ann Oberman), visits with Val's new dress for her son Neil's wedding. She looks very similar to Mum: hair and clothes. Mum is disappointed when Jonny tells her that Alison will not be attending the wedding. She and Val try to get Tanya Green to go as Adam's guest, even though he does not want Tanya. Val tries on the dress and later it falls into a box of the magazines. Mum finds out that the magazines have not been burnt. Mum makes Dad burn the magazines and everyone is horrified when they notice that the dress is burning with them.^[5]

The boys are excited, because 78-year-old Grandma is coming for dinner, and is bringing her new lover, whom Mum describes as her 'male companion'. 82-year-old Lou Antony Morris (Harry Landis) is a selfish, angry, aggressive, arrogant, married man. He sports a trilby hat, a toothbrush moustache, and is obsessed with cleanliness; wiping his hands on the bathroom curtains when there is no hand towel. He is a very bad driver, parking his battered old car right up against the front doorstep, smashing an indicator. He also has a strong dislike of dogs, including Jim's dog, Wilson. And he is also married to a 93-year-old woman. The Goodmans hate him and cannot understand what Grandma sees in him; Dad hides in his shed. Lou and the boys go to a garage, where Lou buys bulbs for his car indicator and condoms. When Adam and Jonny try to take the condoms out of Lou's pocket whilst he is sleeping, Lou loses his temper. Lou rips a light fitting out of the wall and his shirt and tries to provoke Adam, Jonny and then Dad into physically fighting him. The family stand in the drive, locking Lou inside until he has another (his 4th) heart attack.

It is Christmas Day, so Mum has made Christmas dinner. The boys are pleased that Grandma is coming round, but horrified that Dad's mother - Horrible Grandma (Rosalind Knight) - is coming too. Horrible Grandma arrives with her chronically ill dog, Boudacea, which has to wear an oxygen mask. Horrible Grandma hates Mum's turkey because is it very dry due to being overcooked, and Mum feels insulted when Horrible Grandma brings her own turkey with her to eat. Dad and the boys are jealous, as they too secretly loathe Mum's turkey. Mum embarrasses Jonny by making him wear a childish jumper with a dragon on it. Adam chokes on the turkey and Dad makes a bad attempt at administering the Heimlich manoeuvre, then puts the oxygen mask on him. After dinner, the grandmas argue and pull each others' hair. Dad breaks them up by pouring water over their heads. Jim turns up three times; on the third occasion, he is dressed as Father Christmas. After this, Boudacea dies.

Dad mistakenly ordered huge quantities of some items when online shopping. He has bought a piano. A very sarcastic, blind piano tuner, Mr Greencock, visits to tune it. He frequently exploits his condition to guilt-trip the family. The family dine in a restaurant; whilst there, they see Val apparently on a date with a man (Renton Skinner). Val tells the Goodmans - who are surprised to see her with a man other than her husband Larry (Steve Furst) - that he is her distant cousin, then cries and leaves. The Goodmans arrive home to be told by Greencock that Jim is present due to a fire in his house. Mum throws Greencock out after he jokes that the house is on fire; in revenge, he enters the house through the unlocked side door and repeatedly smashes the piano's keys with a hammer. Larry accuses Val of having an affair and visits the Goodmans' house, trying to find the other man - incorrectly assuming it to be Greencock, Martin and Jim.

Grandma and Lou's wedding is to take place today at a synagogue. The family attend, but are distraught at her bringing Lou into their family. When the rabbi (Paul Kaye) asks her if she will take him for her husband, she suddenly collapses and an ambulance is called which drives her and her family towards hospital. During the journey, she tells them that she faked being ill in order to avoid marrying a horrible man. The whole Goodman family is ecstatic.

It is Dad's annual hinge-oiling evening but when he accidentally spills oil on his and Mum's bedroom carpet, he tries to clean it up himself. When that fails, he hires a cleaner. Dad takes Mum and the boys to Mario's restaurant - where a young pretty waitress whom Adam is attracted to works - whilst the cleaner works on the carpet. At the restaurant, Jonny tricks Mum and Dad into thinking that the waitress in question is one who is plain and considerably older, until Adam corrects them. Arriving home, Martin is pleased that the oil spill has been removed, but then the boys find the cleaner lying dead on the floor of the same room. Jackie enters the room and Martin suggests that they should go to Paris by Eurostar. Jim is taking care of his brother's cat, Watson, while he is in 'well not prison', as Jim puts it, and it is revealed that he is scared of cats as well.

The family are due to celebrate Adam winning an award for his musical talent. However, it is overshadowed when Jonny arrives home from a holiday in Las Vegas, bringing his new American wife Lisa (Skye Bennett). The family are shocked at his marriage, because he had not mentioned it - or her - prior to his return, while Grandma is more happy for the couple. The couple - who barely know each other - split up. It is Jim's birthday.

Val, who is divorcing Larry, moved in ten days ago. She has taken over, which Dad is resentful of and the boys are puzzled by. Jonny's boss Nick (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) is coming round to pick up some keys. Mum and Val are very keen to meet him, much to Jonny's annoyance. Adam pranks Jonny by swapping the keys, causing Jonny to give Nick the wrong key twice. Val repeatedly refuses to let Larry have their car. Later during the meal, Larry drives off with the car. Val takes out revenge by covering the car with crumble, and Larry retaliates by covering Jonny and Dad's cars with curry. Dad is hiding a tin of meat in the shed which expired in September 1996, claiming it brings good luck. Val hides it away, prompting Dad to search the house for it. When he finds it in Val's handbag, he opens it and eats it, claiming that it is still edible. He quickly becomes ill and is taken away in an ambulance to hospital However, Jim reassures the boys that he, himself, eats 30-year-old meat.

Dad annoys the family by repeatedly using his megaphone in the house. He frequently looks at hair under his microscope, and infuriates his family by plucking or attempting to pluck their hairs out. The police knock on the Goodmans' door and tell that there has been a burglary nearby. The family learn that Jim is the victim. Another burglary happens later during the night. Adam is expected to play his violin for Grandma, so he is delighted when she cannot visit due to her having had a fall. Jonny invites Val and her son Spencer (who the boys claim cheated in his medical exams - although never proved) to the house – from Mum's mobile phone – in order to annoy Adam. Adam is not happy when he is forced to play his violin to an audience of the family, Val and Spencer – whilst Grandma is listening via the phone before she commences in defrosting the freezer. Jonny is relishing every moment of Adam's embarrassment. However, things end badly for Jonny when Adam injures Jonny’s nose with a megaphone, leaving him at the hands of Spencer much to Adam’s satisfaction.

The boys are threatened by their parents with no crumble if they do not help to assemble a wooden shelf. Martin forgets to put any apple in the crumble. Jim's dog Wilson frequently defecates in the Goodmans' flowerbed and later dies in their front garden. At Jim's request, Wilson is buried in the flowerbed by Adam and Jonny. To Mum's horror, Jim constructs and plants a cross, which is several feet tall, in Wilson's grave. Adam is awaiting an important phone call from work in regard to an American client. Jonny repeatedly rings Adam's phone, making him think the call is from work – until Adam smashes Jonny's phone with a hammer. Adam's phone rings from Wilson's grave, Jonny having put it there during the burial.

Jonny and Adam arrive to see workmen carrying out repairs in the street. Parked in the drive is an old caravan which is in a terrible condition and is standing on bricks. Mum tells them that Dad bought it several days ago and has dinner in it alone every evening. Mum and the boys hate it and brand it a 'shithole', angering Dad; she refuses to go inside it. Dad talks to Mum, the boys - and later, Jim - via the 'talkie-walkie'. The boys tell Mum that they have new girlfriends, both of whom are named Lucy. She is delighted about them being in relationships, but disappointed that her sons do not want them to meet the girls. Jim introduces his new dog, Milson, to the Goodmans. Dad takes the cooked chicken from the kitchen; Adam and Jonny bring it back in the house. Jim’s house is badly flooded by sewage and workmen are repairing the damaged pipe which caused it. He asks to eat some of their chicken in the caravan, which the Goodmans allow. The caravan's toilet is full of excrement; Jim brings its waste tank in to the house. He accidentally drops it, spilling its contents onto the floor of the Goodmans' dining room. The Goodmans start to eat in the caravan, but are interrupted by it falling from its bricks and crashing into the house. They exit the caravan, which then catches fire.

Jonny arrives in his car as Adam arrives after running and is sweating. They enter the house and give Dad presents, but he is unhappy. He is disappointed after reading an article on the news says that people will be able to go toMars in 2050. He realises that he is unlikely to live until then and tells Mum and the boys when - according to a website's calculations - they will die. Jim visits and fails in his attempt to perform magic. They intend to leave, but Horrible Grandma arrives unexpectedly so they stay in the house. She deliberately throws red wine on the chairs and walls, then insults them all - so they make it clear that they hate her. She tells them that she is staying at the house to make them unhappy. Jim visits again and annoys them with more magic attempts; his last trick is to make her disappear. Like all the other tricks, it does not work - but she dies suddenly. Dad briefly cries, then laughs loudly.

The boys arrive at home, only to discover Val on her own - Mum has had a 'women's procedure' at hospital, so Val will be cooking instead. However, even as Mum and Dad arrive back home, Val is distracted as she has arranged a Tinder date with Colin aka LoverBoy309 - whom she has stalked for months - that evening at the Goodmans. As a result, the family eat their food quickly, even when the date is apparently cancelled. Everyone is soon distracted with the arrival of a dog cage, Jim having had it posted to the Goodmans and then set up in their living room as so to avoid attracting Milson's attention. Val becomes upset at the date being cancelled and her previous breakup from Larry, as she serves the family her notoriously disgusting rice pudding. Because everyone hates it, they trick Jim into eating all of it under the guise of it being a high honour for a gentile to eat 'Jewish rice pudding'. Jim eats all four bowls, vomits out the window and leaves the house. Colin changes his mind and comes to the house, sending Val into a frenzy at the expense of a sore Mum - resulting in Adam and Jonny, after playing pranks on each other with their phones using Dad's new duct tape, taping Val's phone to the inside of the dog cage. Mum locks Val in as a joke, but accidentally pulls the handle off just before Colin arrives. The Goodmans decide to leave Val and Colin to talk as they get some ice cream, only for Jim to arrive to collect the cage - which he tells them is for him. He walks into the house, unaware of Val and Colin's presence.

Arriving at home with their new girlfriends, both called Lucy, an anxious Adam and Jonny go into the house whilst the Lucys are in the car in order to lay some ground rules for their parents regarding how to behave that evening. Dad tells the boys that he accidentally dropped glass shards into the chicken soup and to not tell Mum. The boys quickly tell the girls; the Lucys and Dad distract Mum to stop her drinking the soup. She is annoyed and thinks that the Lucys dislike her cooking. Next, a horrified Dad discovers glass is also in the roast chicken. The Lucys, not wanting Mum to think her food is awful, tell her about the glass. They are about to eat the crumble, only for Dad to accidentally smash a glass over it; seeing Mum lose the last of her patience, the girls both reveal they are pregnant in an attempt to defuse the situation. Adam is pleased that he will become a father, but Jonny is shocked at his fatherhood. Mum is delighted at becoming a grandmother; Dad is pleased to a lesser extent. Within all of this, Jim pays visits with Milson who vomits onto the Goodmans' drive and then down the side of the house. He later tells them that Milson has given birth to seven puppies, which he shows them. After Adam and Jonny talk about how they both now need to grow up now that they are expectant fathers, Mum gets everyone to take part in a boogie celebration, which Jim joins. Dad picks up the radio, then drops it - breaking it. A tribute to Frances Cuka, who played Grandma, is in the end credits.