The final season of Laura’s Diary continues with Laura coming face to face with Ben’s new girlfriend at a night out, and making an awkward confession to her father about smoking — while Mary reads out the entries and shares family stories about Christmas traditions and their dad’s hypocrisy.
Mary, Laura’s sister, returns to read the second instalment of Laura’s Diary from August 1998. In one entry, Laura describes meeting Ben’s brother Rouse’s new girlfriend at Silks nightclub — a woman she found odd, wearing cropped tasselled tops, knee-high boots, and hot pants, and who took Laura to the toilet to show off a mushroom tattoo on her hip. Laura drank seven bottles of Hooch that night while Ben got so drunk he was sick and had to be put in a taxi home.
The main drama comes when Laura decides to come clean to her father about smoking socially in the pub. Rather than appreciation for her honesty, her dad tells her she’s let him down and wasted her private school education with “filthy habits” — despite Laura pointing out that he smokes himself, particularly at Christmas. He dismisses this as different. Frustrated, Laura then obsesses over the last song on a mixtape Ben made her: U2’s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” convinced this is a bad omen for their relationship.
The show also features the phone book game, where Scott calls Americans with amusing names — including Willie Stroker and Harry Beaver — and attempts to get them to say their own names on air. Scott also launches an appeal for someone to take his mum to see Andy Abraham (the bin man from EastEnders) on tour, as she wants to go but has no one to accompany her. Finally, the team tests whether a florist will write increasingly outrageous messages on cards, finding that the florist will write almost anything — including deeply inappropriate birthday messages.
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