The WORST episodes of 2 Point 4 Children
Every episode of 2 Point 4 Children ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of 2 Point 4 Children!
They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps.
#1 - Family Plot
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1994
In order to enjoy an evening without the TV, the radio and the stereo, Bill disposes of the fuse wire. Then the troubles really start.
#2 - Curiosity Killed the Cat
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1994
Bill is sick in bed and worried sick about what's going on outside her bedroom. Ben is looking after the Grimes's cat during their latest holiday, and its imperative nothing happens to it. Then it wanders out of the house. And just what is Rona up to as viewed through Bill's telescope?
#3 - One Night in Bangkok
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1992
Ben is repainting the house. David brings a St Christopher back from one of his trips playing in the graveyard, Rona wants Bill to go and see some male strippers and Tina arrives to tell Ben that their father Frank is returning from a brief visit from Thailand, where he now lives. Ben confides that he has always resented Frank's distant personality. At the airport, everyone is stunned and in Tina's case, horrified to discover that Frank now has a young Thai bride. After another argument, this time concerning Frank's attitude to his wife, Bill chats with Rona about her own aborted wedding many years earlier. When Tina's prejudice drives the new addition to the family to Bill in distress, Bill and Rona decide to take her with them to the strip show. Back at home, Ben makes some attempt at building bridges with his long estranged parent. At the show, Rona recognizes one of the unclothed bodies as her almost-husband all that time ago. They meet again, and turn the tables on Tina.
#4 - Leader of the Pack
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1991
Bill visits Jenny's school and discovers she is missing class to go out with a boy with an interest in motorbikes. Bill's anger is tempered by the fact that she herself has accidentally met a mysterious young biker, who she finds impossible to dismiss from her mind.
#5 - When the Children Are Asleep
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1993
Staying up late with Ben in the house at night, Bill sees what she believes is a burglary next door at the Grimes's. This triggers a series of events culminating with the revelation that the unfortunate neighbours have been tied up in the house all the time.
#6 - Frenzy (1)
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1994
Bill's new kitchen is finished at last. But she is too busy working in it to deal with Jenny's problems with a well-developed rival at the school show. Rona's baby making attempts have now become so strange that Tony is planning to leave. The discovery by Bill and Rona of two escaped cobras trapping them in the living room gives them time to consider their lives. The Bill spots something out of the window that will alter everything.
#7 - Hormones
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1992
Jenny is malingering to get off games. Or is she. Bill is worrying about Ben and David's seeming obsession with violence. And that's not all-- she is concerned she might be pregnant and has bought a tester. A drive to David's parents' evening brings out the aggressive tendencies in Ben who imagines himself as the Terminator, cutting up an unidentified driver in a white Escort. At the school, Bill blames David's strange activities on Ben, who denies it. Meanwhile Rona confronts Jenny about the real reason for her sickness. Next day, Bill discovers the other tester is missing and jumps to the conclusion that Jenny is pregnant. But she isn't, and Rona persuades her to tell her Mother about her bulimia and ask her to go with her for treatment. Ben, having issued a challenge to the Escort driver is shamed when he turns out to be disabled. Bill arranges a fair race for them to settle the score and Ben is obliged to race round a track in an old wheelchair, losing the race. He reveals that he
#8 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1991
Bill and Ben seem continually too exhausted from life to have sex. Ben insists on having Sunday lunch with his frilly-curtain-loving sister Tina and her boring husband Brian. After discovering David has sneaked a rat into her house a hysterical Tina slaps him, prompting an argument. Bill storms out of the house and drives David off in Ben's van. David reminds her, once they are speeding along that in her haste she has forgotten that she does not in fact drive. At that moment the biker appears beside her and talks her to a safe standstill. He disappears but not before Bill finds a note, apparently from him, giving a telephone number.
#9 - Badger's Bend
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1993
Ben is addicted to the video game Ninja Badger and resolves to go cold turkey. Meanwhile, Rona visits her old school to drum up catering business. A prissy schoolmate forces her to lie to get a job, but this seems to set off a strange sequence of circumstances. Bill meets a sinister figure in a subway that whispers ""Don't Go, Mia."" Back at the house Ben has discovered that watching a goldfish recently brought home by David calms his nerves and enables him to cope with his addiction. Unfortunately, he has placed it in the liquidizer.
#10 - Dirty Bowling
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/1991
Ben is lying to Bill about strange assignations in a shady-looking lockup. Bill meanwhile is taking her driving test at last. A new sexist bottom-line-conscious manager at the bakery where she and Rona work complicates this. He forces Bill to take her test immediately after a dental appointment, when her mouth is still numb from the injection. Despite this, she passes, thanks in part to a fleeting appearance of the biker. In celebration Ben takes her bowling where they make a pact to force Ben to do all his own washing if Bill wins. Meanwhile, at home, Jenny reveals to Rona that her boyfriend has left her. Rona tells the story of her own teenage wedding which ended with her bolting from the church. Back at the lanes, Bill wins, and Ben takes her to the lockup to reveal his secret: a pale blue classic Chevy he has bought with his rebate money. Bill is not pleased.
#11 - The Secret Diary of David Porter
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1993
Bill is faced with the problem of luring her cantankerous Aunt Belle from her locked flat, due to an ongoing feud the old lady has with Bette. At the same time, Adam, Rona's brother is left alone with Ben, the fact that he has a weakness for larger man unknown to him. Belle and Bette are persuaded to make up, and Rona decides in the light of this to build bridges with Adam, who stole her boyfriend many years earlier.
#12 - Fortuosity
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1994
Bill receives a chain letter threatening dire bad luck if not continued. Against Ben's wishes she tears it up, and unlikely events begin occurring. When another four copies of the letter arrive, suspicion falls upon Rona causing an argument. Meanwhile, Ben is about to jump out of an aeroplane on his very first parachute jump.
#13 - I'm Going Slightly Mad
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1992
Bill wakes up in bed with the biker. But this is only a dream. Coming downstairs Bill reminds herself she is still unemployed. Jenny is embarrassed in front of her friend by the appearance in the Porter garden of Mrs. Grimes's elderly dog Farty, an old Labrador with flatulence problems. After the house empties for the day, Bill is left alone with only interminable phone calls from Bette for company. Eventually, one of these causes her to be late for signing on. On the way her car breaks down, and the fortuitous vicinity of a mechanic is ruined by a sudden appearance of Anneka Rice and film crew who whisk him away for a challenge before he can help Bill. She is forced to seek help from the public. Arriving late, she is humiliated by an interview with a member of the social security staff. On the way out, she encounters Jenny in a school party, who ignores her in front of her friend. Later, Jenny is guilty when she finds out Bill has taken a job with Rona making Airline Meals in a factor
#14 - Young at Heart
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/1991
Bill, having trouble driving a car the size of the Chevy meets the biker one more time. As she leaves we see the word ""Angel"" on the back of his jacket. After a run in with the obsequious Dawn, the bank teller, Bill returns to work for further confrontations with Rory, her boss, who implies that if Rona sleeps with him, he could make their lives easier. Rona wonders what to do. Meanwhile, Bill visits the home of Sammy, David's best friend, on a poverty-stricken Council estate and counts her blessings, while Ben has a heart to heart with his son about the facts of life. Later, when matters at the bakery come to a head, Bill and Rona resign in an unusual way. Back at the house, Ben bemoans the loss of Bill's income to the family and considers selling the car again. Bill realizes how much she loves him for all his faults and persuades him to keep it. The whole family goes to Battersea Park to take part in the Chelsea Car Cruise.
#15 - Love and Marriage
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1991
Ben returns home with the first of his fads: a karaoke tape. His fun is short lived however when Bill's mother Bette arrives to attend the funeral of an old girlfriend from her youth, disrupting the household. Ben, out on a plumbing job, runs into an old girlfriend himself who seems to be very interested in him. When Bill discovers school has closed early she runs home from the bakery worried that Jenny and her boyfriend are alone in the house together. She is delayed by another meeting with the biker who chats with her about relationships, and then, remembering her worries rushes home and up to the bedroom to find Bette in bed with the widower. Mother and daughter talk about the difficulties of fidelity and Bill seems happier with her life with Ben. Ben, however is acting as if he has a secret to keep.
#16 - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Shopping
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1991
Forced by Ben's whim to unearth the garden barbecue, Bill accidentally pulls down the entire climbing rose display on Mrs. Grimes's house. During the hideous barbecue Ben reveals he has been summoned to the income tax inspectors, and Jenny turns vegetarian. While musing whether to ring the number she believes is that of the biker, now part of a huge papier-mâché dinosaur David has made, Bill is accidentally arrested in the supermarket for shoplifting. After returning home in triumph, she discovers the number is in fact that of a plumbing customer. Ben, meanwhile returns to reveal he has had a tax rebate.
#17 - The Truth Is Out There
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1995
Rona is in danger of losing her house unless her late Mother manifests herself somehow, amid Ben and David's pathetic attempts at psychical research. Against all expectations, Rona discovers she is not alone after all.
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#18 - We'd Like To Know A Little Bit More About You For Our Files
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1995
Just where was David when he was presumed to be in bed asleep? Discovering a piece of paper with a cryptic clue while out looking for a warehouse in which to continue her business, Bill begins to follow a trail which ultimately leads to some surprising answers.
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#19 - You Only Live Twice (2)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1994
The house is on fire. After the fire brigade leave, Bill realizes that she has a second chance to sort out her life. Meanwhile, Rona has suggested to Tony that he stays whether or not they have a baby. But starting afresh is not as easy at it sounds.
#20 - Bird on a Wire (1)
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1992
On the day of Rona's wedding, with Auntie Pearl in command, Bill gets her head stuck in the catflap, while Rona is simultaneously hooked up in her wedding dress on the light fitting. Eventually they escape in the nick of time, but discover David, who has been complaining of feeling ill earlier has become seriously ill. They rush him to hospital, leaving Rona to get to the church under her own steam.
#21 - The Skeleton in the Cupboard
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1992
The St Christopher causes an argument between Jenny and David, resulting in it being left behind in the house with Bill. Shortly afterward she senses a strange presence in the house, watching her every movement. At work, Rona confides that she has rekindled her relationship with her ex-husband to be, Gordon. There's just one problem: he has erroneously gotten the impression that she is a virgin. At home again, Bill rashly suggests that she and Ben change places with the kids so that they can see what its like running the house. They are both banished to the bedroom with no dinner. Out in a bar with Gordon, Rona is forced into revealing the truth about her past. In the bedroom, Ben gives Bill a letter he picked up earlier; an interview for a job she applied for. Next day, arriving at the interview after a string of disasters, Bill discovers a naked man interviewing her, later learning that he has had a nervous breakdown and there is no job to apply for. She returns home, depressed, when
#22 - Bedtime for Bonzo
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1992
With disruption in the house from Bill's new job it is the worst time possible for Ben to take to his bed ill. Things are further complicated by Bill's having to look after Farty while the Grimeses are on holiday. Having both to cope with, Bill gives Ben a doggy aspirin when she runs out of regular ones, resulting in him being ever sicker. Worrying about this, spending the night on the sofa, Bill is further frightened by a massive thunderstorm that nobody subsequently appeared to hear. Part of this portent is clarified when Farty falls ill and Bill and Ben reluctantly decide to have him destroyed. Another aspect is the triggering in David of an increasingly morbid obsession with death.
#24 - The Sweet Hereafter
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1998
Having been identified by a Market Researcher as the Head of a Completely Average Family, Ben returns home with a box full of new products to test. But strangely, one of these, an innocent looking chocolate named a ""Drool Bar"" seems to have a worrying effect upon all who eat it.
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#25 - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1993
Rona has decided to have a baby and is looking for the ideal father. Jenny has argued with her latest boyfriend, and Christine is just her usual self when Bill attempts to cater for a wedding. A further shock is the appearance of Tina, who has suspicions that Brian is cheating on her. During the course of the chaotic events in the kitchen, Rona spots a likely candidate, Tony the DJ, Jenny makes up with Jason and Tina's suspicions are proved to be founded. Ben, meantime has difficulty breaking into the house having forgotten his key.