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“Remembering the time I almost had an aneurism when my dad presented me with a clay sculpture he d made of my head,” Robert Popper tweeted last Sunday. The sculpture in question has to be seen to be believed: it s like a version of yourself you might meet in a nightmare. It s also, as it happens, exactly the sort of thing that Martin Goodman, the lovably strange patriarch played by Paul Ritter in Popper s Channel 4 sitcom
Friday Night Dinner, might do. Goodman is a frequently topless (“I’m baking”) hoarder (“they’re collectibles”), who hides roadkill in his freezer so that he can get the corpses stuffed before his wife, Jackie (Tamsin Greig), notices. In the comments below the tweet, someone asked Popper if the head inspired the episode in which Martin paints a terrible portrait of Jackie. No: that was actually inspired by his father painting a terrible painting of his mother.