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- Ageing widow Agnes Brown has three sons - Dermot,Mark and Rory and a daughter Cathy,whilst her father-in-law also lives with her. When he is taken ill Agnes misreads his rectal thermometer which leads to his ending up in hospital. However a more pressing problem is the rift between Dermot and his soon-to-be bride,middle class nurse Maria Nicholson. Ever the meddler Agnes offers them advice,which only aggravates the situation,so Cathy, a psychology student,counsels them instead,which puts her mother's nose well and truly out of joint -though she does reveal how she gets rid of unwanted suitors.
- Agnes is annoyed that the family are being secretive: Cathy will not let her meet her new man friend; Mark's wife Betty has thrown him out; and Dermot, who dresses up in outsize costumes to advertise products, has told Maria's wealthy parents that he actually has a high-powered position. Agnes confronts Betty and they come to blows--observed by Maria's mother, who declares the Browns unfit to attend the wedding, which will now take place in Italy instead of Dublin. When Agnes spots Betty with another man, she instantly thinks the worst and has a go at her...and learns that Mark is the partner with the secret.
- Dermot is keen for his childhood friend, wheeler-dealer Buster Brady, to be his best man but Agnes feels he is unsuitable (especially as Cathy is dating a policeman) and prefers Mark. Agnes ultimately persuades Maria that Dermot should be allowed to choose. When next-door neighbor Winnie's husband Jacko is rushed to hospital and she needs money for his operation, Buster's lottery scam seems to be the best way to get Winnie her 5000 euros, as well as money for the wedding.
- Annoyed that Kathy thinks she's too old to come to her hen night, Agnes tries to discover its location from Dermot, but she is misinformed and crashes in on a giant dildo....and discovers that she's at a solemn wake. To make amends and prove that she's a perfect middle-class hostess, she invites Maria's mother to a meal served by Rory and his friend Dino, but she's so nervous that she gets disastrously drunk; meanwhile, determined to impress, she has had a second toilet fitted into a downstairs cupboard.
- Suffering from pre-nuptial nerves, Dermot shuts himself into the cupboard under the stairs, so he's still there when Father Quinn arrives to give the happy couple their premarital talk. What finally draws Dermot out is Buster's moving best-man speech (initially he could find nothing good to say about the groom) and he promptly asks Agnes if he and Maria can live with her. Agnes also discovers that her son Rory is gay after Cathy gives her a book on homosexuality, but she accepts the news with her usual tactless tolerance: "I know all about your illness."
- While newlyweds Maria and Dermot feel stressed not having their own place, Father Quinn fears that he is losing his parishioners to another church, and Grandad decides he wants a dummy-run of his funeral so he can hear the mourners pay him tributes. Agnes makes funeral arrangements but initially mistakes the visiting Mormons who are responsible for Father Quinn's problem for undertakers. However, she eventually engages them in a religious argument about the absurdity of Noah's ark that sends them running. At the funeral, none of the mourners have anything nice to say about Grandad, so the corpse suddenly comes to life--which Agnes declares to be a blessed miracle.
- Mrs. Brown and her family get ready for Christmas--always a hectic time at the Browns'. Buster is his usual self, selling Mrs. Brown a tin of outdated biscuits and a "fresh" turkey. This year Mrs. Brown wants the Virgin Mary role in the church Nativity play. This Christmas what she really wants more than anything else is to have her whole family around her, including her son Trevor who is away doing missionary work.
- Agnes is anxious to help Dermot and Maria, who are living with her, to get their own place, so she tells the insurance company Granddad has died so they can collect the money. This means that every time the bell rings, an agitated Agnes has to disguise her father-in-law as a table, though ultimately a claim assessor visits, detects the scam, and threatens Agnes with prison. Fortunately, somebody higher up in the insurance company has a relative who is looking out for Agnes so she won't need to kill Granddad after all.
- Agnes is not happy. The kids keep pinching her toast; Dermot and Buster, dressed as wild animals for an ad campaign, are savaged by a randy escaped circus lion. But Winnie is delighted: the side effect of Jacko's new medication has rebooted her sex life. Cathy rounds up the family for a group counseling session for her college project but it descends into chaos until her boyfriend Mick arrives and the family closes ranks in exposing secrets he's kept from Cathy.
- Maria brings a robot baby home from her prenatal class to practice mothering, but Grandad sits on it while Agnes is minding it and her efforts to mend it only make it worse. It's not the best time for Cathy to introduce Agnes to her professor (and new boyfriend), who wants to interview her on motherhood. Fortunately Maria is forgiving, her attitude much helped by having been told to expect twins.
- When all of her kids declare that she's overweight, Agnes reluctantly begins a diet, but she soon begins to cheat. Suffering from heartburn she innocently swallows pills that Rory confiscated from the hair salon, where he's been promoted to manager, but they're not heartburn pills and they make her act oddly. Professor Clowne, Cathy's boyfriend, finds Agnes' behavior fascinating and becomes more determined to interview her for his book.
- Family dog Spartacus is 15 years old and sick and the family discusses putting her in a home 'with other old bitches,' but when Agnes overhears she thinks they're referring to her. Their search for the right moment to tell Agnes coincides with the surprise birthday party they're throwing for her, and their secretive nature is driving her to distraction. Ultimately the truth is revealed and the family heads to the pub for Agnes's celebration; unfortunately Spartacus has worsened and has had to be put to sleep.
- After Rory and his boyfriend argue and make up, Cathy feels that Agnes should make more effort to get on with Hillary, so Agnes asks her out to the pub. Initially Hillary is unimpressed, but after a couple of ciders she's ready to arm-wrestle anybody. But the outing is cut short when Maria is rushed to hospital and gives birth to triplets. After Mark shows Betty his romantic side, the only way to end the series is a song performed by the entire cast.
- Mrs. Brown accidentally destroys her Christmas tree; and when Father Damien visits to tell her she can't be the Virgin Mary in the church Nativity play because there won't be one this year, she writes her own version. Cathy fools her into believing that she's being filmed secretly for a "mother-of-the-year"-search TV show, and suddenly Mrs. Brown is uncharacteristically nice to everyone.
- Agnes prepares for her unorthodox Nativity play, "Men Are Bastards!" She finds parts for all the family and their friends, though the animals provided by Dermot are not exactly biblical. Having survived being locked into a wrist magnet to cure her rheumatism Agnes takes to the stage, but the production is a disaster: Buster's Angel Gabriel gets badly singed, Father Damien's trousers are ripped off him by the magnet, a shocked Hilary faints on stage, and Agnes has lost the Baby Jesus doll and enlists Grandad for the role It's time for Cathy to sack her mother and rally the family for a more traditional Nativity play - though of course Agnes has the last word.
