Mrs Brown’s Boys returned to television screens on Christmas Day with a new festive episode and fans all said the same thing about the BBC One show
Mrs Brown’s Boys star had to snog his own father in scenes which aired as part of the BBC One show’s Christmas special.
Fans of the hit comedy series tuned in on Christmas Day for its annual special instalment which saw Cathy Brown (Jennifer Gibney) decide to cook Christmas dinner for the first time as Agnes (Brendan O’Carroll) hoped for a quiet day with her family.
Buster Brady (Danny O’Carroll) called round and tried his luck at wooing blonde Kathy with a doorstep scene inspired by Love Actually. However, after being turned down, he was back in the kitchen with Mrs Brown when he made another advance. Buster later pulled out mistletoe in the hope of convincing his crush to lay a kiss on him..
He told her: “Kathy a woman cannot refuse a kiss under mistletoe. Now pucker up and lay it on me.” However, Kathy avoided Buster, and he instead shared a intimate kiss with Mrs Brown, who is played by his real life father. Fans took to social media to share their verdict on the newest episode of the show.
Taking to X, formerly known as social media, one fan penned: “I don’t care, I bloody love Mrs Brown’s Boys.” Another person added: “I don’t understand, if you don’t like Mrs Brown’s boys don’t watch it.” Someone else wrote: “I know Mrs Brown’s Boys is marmite. In this instance I love marmite.”
However, one viewer penned: “Ok, recycled jokes that weren’t funny in the first place. Maybe time for a break and a reassessment of the cast and material. Bored now. I’m gutted as this used to be hilarious! I think I could actually help them!” A third viewer commented: “I feel physically sick. But maybe that’s because I’m stuffed with turkey and Ferrero Rocher.”
It comes after creator Brendan O’Carroll says people who hate Mrs Brown’s Boys can just “feck off”. Snooty critics have blasted the popular BBC sitcom over the years but O’Carroll isn’t bothered. The 68-year-old said: “First of all, I’m well aware that comedy is very subjective. What some people like, other people just detest. So I don’t take it too serious.”
The Irish star also revealed that the show is still a huge hit with families, who lap up Mammy’s one-liners, and has even helped autistic children. He explained: “When we started… by about the fourth or fifth episode, we got a couple of letters from people who had autistic children.
“It started as a couple of letters and it’s now been over 3,000. And they said that their kids watched Mrs Brown and they heard them laugh in context for the very first time. One woman said she was in the kitchen and heard her son laughing for the very first time. So when you get a letter like that I don’t care what the critics say. That’ll do me.” Brendan admitted he’s blown away by the show’s success.
He told BBC Radio Sounds: “People say to me you must be living your dreams. I’m so far past my dreams, that it’s not true. I started doing a five minute thing on radio. There’s now been 240 episodes of it on the radio. It’s been just unbelievable. My mother had a great saying, my mother used to say that success is like disco music, just dance to it.”
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