This Christmas Special was among the Top 10 most-watched programmes for the week in the London and South regions, yet didn't make the National Top 20.
At just a fraction longer than 27 minutes, this Christmas Special is the shortest edition of the whole series.
There's a running gag with a darker tone, where "members of the public" the Desponds don't realise that their mother/mother-in-law is psychotic. This takes a particularly dark turn in this edition, where they reveal that she played hide and seek with the neighbour's children, then never revealed where she'd "hidden" them.