 Throughout Christmas Day Clive grows closer to Belinda and more distant from Rachel.Finally around midnight, after a drunken game of snakes and ladders when Belinda and Clive believe everyone has gone to bed, they attempt to have sex in the sitting room but they are thwarted when they set off a toy drumming bear which rouses everyone else.On Boxing Day, Bernard goes through the rehearsal of a dreadful puppet production of "The Three Little Pigs".