The Inbetweeners 

Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school.

Stars:

Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison

13 wins & 14 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Simon Bird	...	Will McKenzie 18 episodes, 2008-2010
James Buckley	...	Jay Cartwright 18 episodes, 2008-2010
Blake Harrison	...	Neil Sutherland 18 episodes, 2008-2010
Joe Thomas	...	Simon Cooper 18 episodes, 2008-2010
Greg Davies	...	Mr. Gilbert 13 episodes, 2008-2010
Emily Head	...	Carli D'Amato 11 episodes, 2008-2010
Martin Trenaman	...	Alan Cooper 10 episodes, 2008-2010
Belinda Stewart-Wilson	...	Polly McKenzie 10 episodes, 2008-2010
Robin Weaver	...	Pamela Cooper 9 episodes, 2008-2010
Henry Lloyd-Hughes	...	Mark Donovan 9 episodes, 2008-2010
John Seaward	...	John 9 episodes, 2008-2010

Storyline

The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex. Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland have been friends for some time. Insecure Simon's main quest in life is to get long time friend, Carli D'Amato, to be his girlfriend. Jay is the big talker whose stories, especially about his sexual conquests, are more fantasy than reality. And slightly dim-witted Neil is generally two steps behind everyone else in comprehension of life, and who is always defending his father from beliefs that he's a closet homosexual. Into the group comes its fourth member, Will McKenzie, who met them when he transferred into their school, Rudge Park Comprehensive, at the start of sixth form, as Will's newly divorced mum could no longer afford his private school tuition. Nerdish and ...

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Plot Keywords:

bully | black comedy | drinking | frustration | clumsiness | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

The four main characters are in their mid-to-late teens, but when the first episode was broadcast in May 2008, the actors playing them varied in age from 20 (James Buckley) to 24 years of age (Joe Thomas).

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Goofs

The registration plates on the front and back of Simon's car are different throughout all episodes where the car is seen.

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Alternate Versions

The version aired in the USA censors "f*ck", giving it a TV-14.

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Connections

Referenced in Good Morning Britain: Episode dated 20 November 2018 (2018)

User Reviews

Definitely not for the faint hearted, gut bustingly hilarious for everyone else

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

Will (Simon Bird) is a privately educated, well spoken young man who for reasons beyond his own control is moved to a state comprehensive school, where his middle class mannerisms and appearance gain him a less than warm welcome from the other pupils. However, he soon makes some new 'friends' in the shape of Jay (James Buckley) a rather unpleasant young man with a disturbing obsession with all things sexual, Neil (Blake Harrison) a gormless looking young man whose father displays unfortunate homosexual tendencies and Simon (Joe Thomas) the most well rounded of the trio and their only means of getting around with his 'sh!tty little yellow car', the uncoolest yellow vehicle in a British sitcom since Del Boy's Reliant Robbin. We follow this comically mismatched group around as they stumble from one misadventure to another with hilarious consequences.

It's interesting to note the path British sitcoms have taken in the last thirty years or so, from being the sort of stuff you could comfortably show repeats of on daytime telly nowadays to the alternative comedy that tends to find it's slot late at night on Channel 4. Art imitates life, though, not the other way round, and so this is really just a reflection on changing social attitudes and society in general more than anything. And so we have The Inbetweeners, which hits you like a hammer with it's sheer excessiveness, which, shockingly just makes it even funnier.

It's actually quite a high concept idea of a posh looking/speaking young man and placing him with ordinary looking teenagers of today, and even more subversive to make everything so gratuitous. But clever writing makes this show as much as anything else, coming mainly from Bird's continuous voice overs each episode, where he runs over the pratfalls of everything the group have found themselves in with a great condescending tone. A running trade mark of the show is for him to let rip at the end at how ridiculous or unfair something he has got caught up in is (apart from one where he launches some drunken homophobic abuse at Neil's dad!) as well as to have a recap at the end of each episode on the events that have just gone past where the most hilarious line ('inconsiderate arseholes', 'bumder!', 'will you stop staring at my t!ts?') somehow hits home all the harder.

A relentless onslaught of foul language, crude sexual referencing, cynical cruelty and outrageous indecency, The Inbetweeners is a thoroughly depressing, but well written and very funny, reflection of young people today. Well, some...****

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 January 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Inbetweeners

Filming Locations:

4 Whitley Close, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bwark Productions, Kapital Entertainment, Young Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min (12 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9