The problem with this show originally was that it was based around the character of the titular "cuckoo", who was irritating and deeply unfunny, while it turned out that everyone around him was an absolute scream. The writers got wise to this eventually and shifted the focus onto Greg Davies and Ken Collard who are a double act to die for. If you are playing catch-up, completely ignore the first season and start somewhere in the middle of season two. Then it gets to be a cracking good show!

As you do now-and-then you search for new comedy, this came top of the search: First episode, I wasn't sure, but with nothing else to do... here I am having binged on season 1. It's safely fun --too so at times-- and takes the p##s out of things that need a good dose of 'reality check' bring down to size: New age mumbo-jumbo, hipsters and others, all set amongst the generational perceptions of Generation X and their offspring. Some willy, sex and toilet jokes is a staple of UK comedy, mixed with the wacked out Californian. It works.Is it me or is Greg Davies, from facial mannerisms, voice, tone and actual comedy a large version of --the missed-- Rik Mayall?

The first season is excellent. The chemistry is great between all the cast members but after losing half the cast season two and three go off the rails in chemistry and writing. They ruin the whole premise of the show. The first season is a great funny series that works well and they should have left it at that. Instead they tried to create some off the wall story line where Cuckoo's son of some island girl comes back as a type of shaolin monk who falls in love with his step mother. Its too disturbing and not really funny. You may get a few chuckles here and there but over all its DOA. I thought it an American thing to try to keep a dead story going way past its sell by date but the brits have shown they can screw up a good thing as well as the US.

Born British and living in the USA, I usually appreciate keeping my cultures separate. However in this case a bit of co-mingling of USA and British comedy works really well.The premise of a really "good" daughter jaunting off with friends and on a whim marrying this man who is so different from her, actually makes sense and of course a great basis for a British Comedy.Greg Davies is brilliant as the bewildered father who week after week cannot fathom what has happened in his household overnight.Andy Samberg is so meant for the role of the hippie, pot smoking, free loving, non-working husband of the "good" daughter.You have to watch all of the episodes as the relationship between father and son-in-law changes and grows, because that's what this series is really about.I loved this and cannot wait for the second series which I heard will air in 2013. Maybe Andy will be able to balance filming Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the USA with a hop back over the pond to continue his evolving relationship with Greg Davies!