Not Going Out (TV Series) Car (2017) User Reviews

Car

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 17 February 2017]

Like that episode in One foot in the grave, this is a car based episode although one with three kids in the back and one of them is feeling sick, in fact one of them has just thrown up over his mother and the car now stinks.

The family are driving to France to attend a wedding. They have the wedding clothes, the sat-nav programmed and some bikes on the roof rack. However traffic delays means they are running late, Lee is taking a short cut which is making them even more late and having the bikes on the roof means they may not meet the height rules to get on the ferry.

However the big question is will the family actually get to the ferry on time and will they need to cancel and re-book as passengers who can then get on the ferry carrying the bikes.

Rob Brydon makes a vocal appearance as the sarcastic agent for the ferry company who gets Lee irritated. Lee Mack gets to the heart of what is like travelling with kids when you are in a rush.

Seemed Funnier Before...

[Robinson2511 · 7/10 · 4 February 2017]

I saw this episode filmed, well I say filmed, I, along with the rest of the audience saw it through a screen after the filming of Romance, and I must say, it seemed funnier then!

Not to say of course that this episode wasn't funny this time. It had some brilliant lines and very funny scenarios, and it could be quite tense in places, but the humour didn't stand out as well as I remember.

The plot feels like something that's been done by almost every other sitcom ever made, Keeping Up Appearances springs to mind, and it didn't really contain anything original. Having said that Mack has a skill for ramping tension and excitement in his scripts.

When the kids began kicking up a fuss and all the shouting began, it was always followed by a brilliant moment that had the audience in stitches. The bridge scene being the best moment.

Rob Brydon's voice-over role was great, as he brought some brilliant sarcasm to the episode that had me laughing out loud at some points, but I do wish we'd seen him in person. And we definitely need a David Mitchell cameo now!

The regulars once again do a great job, and the episode brilliantly highlights the pain of taking your kids out for a road trip, even if it doesn't go horribly wrong.

Overall... I enjoyed... Car. That's a really dull title by the way! It had some brilliant lines, the Hannibal Lecter one being my favourite, and some fantastic moments, but I can't help but feel it could've been funnier.

It may be because I saw this with the real audience who were laughing in hysterics so loudly it was hard to hear the episode at points, and I definitely feel they lowered the volume of the laugh track too much, but just like Romance, it feels like an example of the series needing to try a little harder to match up with the quality of Series 3 or 7.

Even so... we're off to a good start, it's definitely more worth my time than the recent series of Still Open All Hours or The Big Bang Theory!