Being 18 when the Inbetweeners came out was like someone holding a mirror up to the teenage school boy experience in the UK at the time. What I loved about it is that they never really won. Sure they'd have little victories here and there but they always ended up the butt of the jokes or whatever thing they were trying to achieve failed. You think it'd be depressing but it never was. No matter what shit happened to them, they were all back taking the piss out of each other and getting on with it in the next episode. A metaphor for teenage life: you think everything's going to be great and you're going to look cool because you've been coached that way by American teen movies... but in reality it's all the failures and sillyness that really help you to grow. And those are the things in 20 years time you'll be laughing about with your mates (trust me). It's so innately British. Lovable losers always more appealing than the idealised perfectionists.
Yeah, classic British comedy trope: glorying in shitness and mediocrity, aspiring for better and failing or getting torn down for it and put in your place . For me it was the perfect antidote to the unrelateable nonsense of Skins.
I loved how most of the time, they were 100% responsible for their own fuck ups, you would see a few hints and foreshadowing of what would happen later and it was so funny and cringe inducing when it all came crashing down. I think the relatability was spot on, both the characters and plots. You might not have a friend exactly like Jay, but you do know someone similar who said stupid edgy shit to sound cool or bragged about watching porn too loudly. You might not have your mum being talked about daily by the year but you've been there when someone decided to make mum jokes about you for a week straight because they showed up to your school. It is insane how they were able to exaggerate these stories but still keep so much realism.
I do hate it when actors like Simon bird talk about how the show had homophobia or sexist language it kinda feels like he’s almost condemning the show. People need to understand that this is what real people are like saying offensive things to eachother as a show of love for one another it’s the British way
he was asked whether it would be commissioned today. He answered honestly. There are more regulations now. There is more space online for 'outrage'. It's why it's difficult to produce shows these days because producers are petrified of pushing anything 'edgy' onto the screen. Simon Bird's comments reflect this worry.
@@Matthew-bu7fg I do agree I’m just saying the way he worded it it just sounds like he was condemning it that’s all. The sad truth you can’t get shows like this anymore can you
@@lollandgibbons878 indeed thats the hard thing. I mean take Friday Night Dinner. A truly great comedy. But far less edgy because it was produced later and thus had more scrutiny (for want of a better word)!
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178oh Neil… A bit hot isn’t it, might be too hot, might be And I know you’re in there, I can see your feet All still part of my vocabulary at 25
As a UK Northerner born in 1996, and went through high school from 2007 to 2012 and then college 2012 to 2014, this show was the most accurate depiction of British high school hierarchy, college and friendship groups I'd ever seen. When people ask what high school and college was like, I direct them to this show, it is absolutely spot on. I couldn't talk to a girl in college without my mates absolutely rinsing me about it and taking the piss. The best part is I genuinely don't think people ever believe you when you say it is exactly like this show, BUT IT IS!!
I’m also a ‘96 northerner. I live in the dales so we had a few more sheep like, but every episode essentially happened to me or one of my pals. We are the lucky ones mate!
Same year group, same region, same experience lol! A lot of the stuff in the show is cringe but genuine so also nostalgic. I'll probably be watching it for decades
It's actually ironic that The Ladbible gets its own special mention here. Talk about The Inbetweeners being difficult to produce today, The Ladbible has to be the most watered down and irrelevant media outlet compared to what it was 10 years ago.
@@Jaytwisty23 I don't know why they havent remarketed it. It's so far removed from what it was when it begun. Now it's just like an online version of a newspaper/tiktok hybrid. 🤮
Surprised you didn't mention that Joe Thomas was also in Fresh Meet, a show about the life of uni students in shared house. Not as good as inbetweeners but still some relatable moments!
Fresh Meat was solid, even ignoring that it might be slightly less relatable to many because fewer people have been to uni. It still had a great cast and writing. A character for everyone to relate to in some way. Loved it.
On council estates, most didn't have holidays abroad, cars as teenagers, nice houses, or stay in education after year 11. But the Inbetweeners is still the most relatable show for how accurate the dialog and banter of the teenage boys is. Iv never seen another programme get it so right.
@@mister_manager not really comparable tho. One's a cultural icon that a generation will remember for it's authenticity. Also it was never disgusting 🤣 apart from Neil and the coke can :/
@@AdamOBrien29 Also Will shitting himself in the exam then bringing his shitty trousers to the pub, that was grim. Funnily enough someone I knew had something similar happen to them and they lived it down about as well! I think that's what was so genius about the inbetweeners, everything that happened in it probably also happened to either you or someone you knew.
“I didnt have the personality or intelligence to deal with it” Buckleys incredibly open and vulnerable here about what was a really shit position to be put in.
I'm over half your age (18) and it has also been in my top ten for a few years now. It still is relevant today, and I can imagine its also somewhat relevant to before when it was released too
@@darrentaylordigital Peep Show, Inbetweeners, Only Fools and Horses, Utopia, The Office, Peaky Binders. Just a few of the many excellent UK programmes in my top ten.
Schools just haven't changed. I grew up in the late 70's and 80's and every bit of the Inbetweeners was relevant to me. Even watching it in my 40's it was still brilliant. Although my vocabulary might have increased the description of things I'd do to Will's mum. (Sorry Belinda)
I was at school a little bit after the Inbetweeners aired and it was 100% relevant. Over the last year I've worked in schools as basically a travelling subject expert and it's still 100% relevant. That's just how school is in the UK and seemingly will always be.
I think it's a great gateway for Americans as well, you might need translation for a lot of insults but it's a surprisingly good look into what teenage years are like in year 11 and 6th form.
The Inbetweeners is the last truly great comedy, a truly properly funny sitcom. Along with Peep Show, the best sitcom of the 21 Century. As I grew up through school at the same time as them, the Inbetweeners was so relatable and connectable.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say this. It has a nostalgic feel and has its own style compared to most other teen shows. But I think even to this day a lot of gems are being made they might not be the most popular or mainstream but that’s kind of how it’s always been. Things are great, they get discovered and then the public ruins them. Very few great things avoid this course
It’s funny to think that Skins was airing at around the same time, it was so edgy and sexy etc and made it seem like that was the standard teenage experience, then Inbetweeners came along and said “nah not really, this is.” Like when Jay’s bullshit bragging gets called out over and over 😂
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 oh I didn’t realise haha. Simon, will, Neil and Jay could not sound less northern. Neither does Mr Gilbert - none of them! Strange how they did this. Neither does Carly nor anyone. Maybe that bully sounds a bit northern. That’s about it.
@@madams989 probably just about northern England, but one of the less heavy accents, probably closer to the Wales side if I had to take a guess. IIRC, I believe in one episode they did mention going "Down" to London, which is mostly a Midlands and Northern thing, given basically all the south says "Up" to London.
I'm in the very lucky age range who went to sixth form at the same time as the Inbetweeners came out, going through it all alongside these fictional yet relatable characters made it so much easier. Amazing show.
Bless them, absolutely love them lads. You can see James is absolutely gutted they didn't get to do a reunion like he visualised. It was what everyone wanted and what they deserved
Ironically, the American's already had a version of the Inbetweeners and it was American Pie, and it was perfect for American audiences. Trying to replicate it the UK version just looked like a poor low budget version.
Exactly, films like American Pie and Superbad are the US coming of age story, trying to map the American experience onto a British one was never going to work
@@AlexSmith-th3ht I don’t understand your ok? Comes across on text as very passive aggressive. You said we all know a Simon, Will, Neil or Jay and I agreed with you.
Its mad im a teaching assistant and work in a school and the same goes on now but to be able to put it on telly wouldn't be possible. Some of the insults I hear are gold and not meant in a derogatory way
I think this came out in a period of high-quality British comedy and is a bit of a swansong to it really. The show had absolute, mirror-like realism of being a teenage lad at that time, was utterly hilarious due to how they basically fail over and over again. Massively relatable as it showed that true, strong bond of friendship. Would be good to see another episode where they're in their 30s with families, but we're not in the cultural climate for it. Probably one of the last great British comedies.
I was in York one time, waiting at a bus stop. A car drove past and shouted "bus wankers!" at us. I can't complain, that was hilarious. Made my day honestly.
*I still can’t believe how many of my favourite shows Channel 4 responsible for producing including The Inbetweeners (Of course), Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Friday Night Dinner and Derry Girls.*
Sad we would never get a comedy like this now. It did feel like a realistic way teenagers speak and interact. Not how mainstream media would like teenagers to speak and interact. A modern version would be a box ticking exercise and lose any authentic feel as we've seen in most modern media.
When I first watched it (was after it aired!) I felt like I was in a time machine back to my secondary school days. The posters, shoes, bags was exactly the same to my school! I showed it to my italian husband to show him my school experience and he loves the show !
These lads were what most teenagers were like when I was at school, and that was the late 80's / early 90's. I'm 48 and still find the show funny. One of my favourites.
With all respect to Simon Bird, he clearly hasn't been a teenager in a long time. As someone who finished high school at the end of the 2010s/beginning of the 2020s, the dialogue and actions of the characters are absolutely spot on to this day. Obviously, it's somewhat exaggerated for comedic effect, but the general feel of the programme and first movie is absolutely genuine and accurate to this day.
As an American kid I’d visit my family in the UK and one of my cousins introduced me to the inbetweeners. Instantly became one of my faves. I was so disappointed with how mtv did the American version. I still go back and watch the og online from time to time
I watched this for the first time when I was in year 10 and i'm so happy I did because it felt so authentic and accurate to how my school life was at the time.
Not only is the show the most realistic depiction of secondary school in England, but the cast and writers seem to genuinely care about its legacy. It’s always better to leave people wanting more than give them a disappointing ending!
James able to reflect and think he didnt have the personality, charisma or intelligence to bounce off jimmy carr comes across as very humble and related - hang on a minute, that was the whole premise of the show! They really hit such a sweet spot with this program, got "us" to a tee.
I remember being in 6th form when it came out - hit the nail on the head of what it was like growing up back then in that environment, great times that I dearly miss. It would get canceled all the way off the air now after a few episodes.
I absolutely adore this show, it was more aimed at ages like my brother in 2008, but when I got into high school a couple years later, this show was referenced by EVERYONE - it was a fucking institution! It's one of my favourite comfort shows to this day, and it will never not be hilarious to me!
Always argued this was the last sitcom to have an impact on pop culture NOTHING i can think of has come close Only descent comedy drama I've watched in the past 10yrs is Detectorists
@@dogsbollocksgenius9480 not really I can just enjoy a show Also there weren’t really any political takes in either show so not sure why you think it’s ’woke bs’
I remember back when I was in My first year of high school (Scotland), I remember getting called "Dogger" everytime I'd come back to school, as the word "Dogger" means someone who deliberately stays off school, which means they are "dogging" it for example! Very 2009 for Me! 😅😅😅 I dogged it quite often, because I had problems coming into school because of all the NEDs and Chav like people that were in school at the time, kind of like what Will from The Inbetweeners had to go through, that was kind of like that for Me! 😌😅 The Inbetweeners is pretty much My high school experience!
No political messaging or leaning is why this show is so successful, it’s just a bunch of teenagers acting awkward and making stupid and hilarious decisions, there is no message, just pure comedy.
@@GERBOY90 yeah but like only 20-30% of shows have intrusive political messaging so ur implying that the other 70% are all good just because of the fact they have no poltical leaning?
I remember watching it when i was 5 or 6 and finding it hilarious. absolutely loved it, but was frankly horrified to find out eventually that i had hit their age.
I had just started high school around the time this first came on air. It was really relatable to how high school life was like. With a lot of quotes being used from the programme in high school
I think I had just finished school / started university when the inbetweeners came out and it is quite literally a snapshot of what it was like as an average male teenager at the time. Everyone knew someone like each of the characters and that’s why it was so relatable. Sure some of the things they got up to were far more ridiculous than real life but you could imagine it happening and experienced similar things yourself. It’s quite funny looking back, a lot of the stuff is quite close to the bone, doubt they would get away with it now. It’s kind of like what I imagine the American Pie films were to Americans of the time, I loved them too, but they weren’t as relatable as the US is a very different growing up experience. Same kind of completely ridiculous but at the same time relatable stories.
Mate this should have been the Christmas special, you have made me feel very nostalgic for a programme I fucking loved growing up hats off to you bro #ladbibleisthenewsun
The first inbetweeners movie was always meant to be part of the narrative and it fit the natural story. The second inbetweeners movie was crowbarred in, purely made because of the success of the first film.
I agree completely, I always felt like the first film in 2011 was a perfectly-fitting end to The Inbetweeners, especially the boat scene at the end and where they all met a girl. The second film in 2014 definitely wasn’t necessary in my opinion.
I agree. The first film felt like a satisfying conclusion where, after all the bad stuff the lads had to put up with during the series, they at least had some sense of victory in this. Will ended up having a girlfriend, Jay got over all his lying and could be completely honest with the woman he loved, Neil didn’t have much happen with him at the end, but Simon saw Carli for what she was and ended up moving on. This is exactly what a finale should do: Give a sense of closure and finality for character arcs set up at the start. The second movie was just unesscary and just flipped everything over by making all of the lads miserable again. Yeah, at the end there is a sense that they’re all firm friends but still, the first film was more than enough.
Inbetweeners hit exactly when I was starting my A levels in secondary school. It works so well and resonated with so many people because it was such an authentic yet surreal look at school life, and remains so now.
Inbetweeners wouldn't get made now. Probably because it was about 4 white guys. None of them gay, non binary or trans, no tick box black or Asian guy. The friend group was a realistic rep of a white suburban area. I'm a mixed race girl and I grew up in a majority white town and I knew classmates like them so I found it relatable! The offensive language is literally what 16yr olds were like! The meme culture was iconic. I never knew they made a US one which panned. That makes so much sense because you just can't recreate British awkward humour, they'd have to make it more like American Pie to work. British humour is more hidden, awkward while American humour is more in your face.
Was that Jamie t at the start? The beat from stick n stones- banger- it’s beyond impressive how well written this show is- absolutely perfect casting also
Because it was genuinely hilarious and quite similar to the experience of growing up in a normal school in the early 2000s. When kids were still allowed to be kids...
I have very fond memories of being at secondary school and just waiting to get home to watch the new Inbetweeners episode. It's still easily one of my favourite comedy shows out there all these years later. I've never laughed so much at a show in my entire life.
I love the fact that American audiences didn't like the first film, this demonstrates that there was enough British humour for Americans not to get it.
Best analogy I've heard for the difference between American and British comedy is "Comedy is like having a scalpel and a sledgehammer. Americans go at everything with the sledgehammer, until the joke is about a social issue, then they use the scalpel. British comedy goes at everything with a scalpel, until the joke is about a social issue, then they use the sledgehammer."
i find it funny sometimes when people my age (mid twenties) are like "wtf is skibidi toilet ohio fanum tax rizz party" when all you have to do is watch a original vine compilation. we created this evil xD
Most of them don’t to be fair from what I’ve seen. Gay is no longer the biggest insult etc as more young people are openly gay and it’s not the big issue it was back then. They’re still petty and dumb a lot of the time to be fair, just the hang ups are different.
England in another Euros Final & a Phat Memer video about The Inbetweeners. We're so back 🏴😮💨
come on england
I don't know how they've managed to stuff their way to the final...
@@phatmemer69 the entire world outside England is backing Spain
@@AdamOBrien29nah lots of England fans here in Canada at least
@@BradTheThird We just sucked slightly less than the opposing teams.
“When I say I deliver, I fucking deliver”
“Like a postman with Tourette’s?”
Never understood that line. Is it just the addition of "fucking" ?
@@lt8400Yeah it's just the addition of 'fucking'.
@@lt8400 what’s the problem with it
Being 18 when the Inbetweeners came out was like someone holding a mirror up to the teenage school boy experience in the UK at the time. What I loved about it is that they never really won. Sure they'd have little victories here and there but they always ended up the butt of the jokes or whatever thing they were trying to achieve failed. You think it'd be depressing but it never was. No matter what shit happened to them, they were all back taking the piss out of each other and getting on with it in the next episode. A metaphor for teenage life: you think everything's going to be great and you're going to look cool because you've been coached that way by American teen movies... but in reality it's all the failures and sillyness that really help you to grow. And those are the things in 20 years time you'll be laughing about with your mates (trust me). It's so innately British. Lovable losers always more appealing than the idealised perfectionists.
Yeah, classic British comedy trope: glorying in shitness and mediocrity, aspiring for better and failing or getting torn down for it and put in your place . For me it was the perfect antidote to the unrelateable nonsense of Skins.
I loved how most of the time, they were 100% responsible for their own fuck ups, you would see a few hints and foreshadowing of what would happen later and it was so funny and cringe inducing when it all came crashing down.
I think the relatability was spot on, both the characters and plots.
You might not have a friend exactly like Jay, but you do know someone similar who said stupid edgy shit to sound cool or bragged about watching porn too loudly.
You might not have your mum being talked about daily by the year but you've been there when someone decided to make mum jokes about you for a week straight because they showed up to your school.
It is insane how they were able to exaggerate these stories but still keep so much realism.
Well said
I was in my sixties when it came out and it reminded me of my teens some things never change
We've all known a Jay who's never actually had sex but never stops talking about how much he's getting 😂
I do hate it when actors like Simon bird talk about how the show had homophobia or sexist language it kinda feels like he’s almost condemning the show. People need to understand that this is what real people are like saying offensive things to eachother as a show of love for one another it’s the British way
he was asked whether it would be commissioned today. He answered honestly. There are more regulations now. There is more space online for 'outrage'. It's why it's difficult to produce shows these days because producers are petrified of pushing anything 'edgy' onto the screen. Simon Bird's comments reflect this worry.
they wouldn't have it today because its too realistic pretty much
@@Matthew-bu7fg I do agree I’m just saying the way he worded it it just sounds like he was condemning it that’s all. The sad truth you can’t get shows like this anymore can you
@@couchdoggo 😂 sad times
@@lollandgibbons878 indeed thats the hard thing. I mean take Friday Night Dinner. A truly great comedy. But far less edgy because it was produced later and thus had more scrutiny (for want of a better word)!
People in school were quoting this before they even knew what it was. The impact this show had on our culture cannot be understated
"Fwiends. Fucking Fwiends." will forever be part of my vocabulary, due to this show.
genuinely one of the most influential british shows ever made
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178oh Neil…
A bit hot isn’t it, might be too hot, might be
And
I know you’re in there, I can see your feet
All still part of my vocabulary at 25
Superbad is as close to The Inbetweeners that americans can get
Yeah
Yes 100%. They're two of my favourite programs and films too. I've lost track of how many times I've watched both of them.
And American Pie
Yeah but there is a huge difference, in Superbad they win at the end of the day and get the girls, while in Inbetweeners they keep diving into misery.
The truest statement I've ever heard
"They'll be sorry I'll show them!!"
"Columbine massacre show them? or futile gesture show them?"
Whichever ones worse
Whichever’s worse
As a UK Northerner born in 1996, and went through high school from 2007 to 2012 and then college 2012 to 2014, this show was the most accurate depiction of British high school hierarchy, college and friendship groups I'd ever seen. When people ask what high school and college was like, I direct them to this show, it is absolutely spot on. I couldn't talk to a girl in college without my mates absolutely rinsing me about it and taking the piss. The best part is I genuinely don't think people ever believe you when you say it is exactly like this show, BUT IT IS!!
I left school 10 years before this came out and it was exactly what my time at school was like.
I’m also a ‘96 northerner. I live in the dales so we had a few more sheep like, but every episode essentially happened to me or one of my pals. We are the lucky ones mate!
Same year group, same region, same experience lol! A lot of the stuff in the show is cringe but genuine so also nostalgic. I'll probably be watching it for decades
Yes! I watched it years after airing and I felt like I been in the time machine!
The posters, bags everything was my school!
Fun fact - 2 months ago I got drunk and paid 1500 quid for a replica of the inbetweeners car and I still have it.
Beepity beep beepity beep ooh time for another fiat update 😂
@@Anonymous66623oh sorry sorry I'm sorry sorry for my little shit car
That's the most valuable gift you'll ever get
It's quite a good car. I think it could do a ton.
Bus wankers
James Buckley is a proper sound bloke, his TH-cam channel is great
He's a legend, subscriber to the channel as well!
@@phatmemer69 Oooooh channel friend! 👍👍
@@dbz9393brilliant 😂
@@dbz9393 brilliant
completed his channel. was a piece of piss
It's actually ironic that The Ladbible gets its own special mention here. Talk about The Inbetweeners being difficult to produce today, The Ladbible has to be the most watered down and irrelevant media outlet compared to what it was 10 years ago.
I started calling it lassbible. You just knew it hit rock bottom when ladbible started showing nail art and fancy fairy cake videos
@@Jaytwisty23 I don't know why they havent remarketed it. It's so far removed from what it was when it begun. Now it's just like an online version of a newspaper/tiktok hybrid. 🤮
@@Jaytwisty23 bit of a shit name considering there is a lass bible
Ladbible is such wank, honestly I reckon in an influencer said to unlike them because of their bullshit, literally everyone would
British buzzfeed
I'm Aussie and we also love this show. It was very British but the show still has a universality to it
Same here, it’s legendary to my peers and I because again the uk and aus are quite similar compared to the US so the representation was on point
Same as NZ
There's a lot of overlap. I'm British and Summer Heights High is very relatable to anyone who went to school here for example.
My U.S friend says its the funniest thing he has ever seen.
I dated an Aussie girl for a while who said I was most like Will
inbetweeners and peep show two quintessentially british shows I can happily re-binge time and time again
Those two and one of the 'Uni' shows basically capture the whole life of a british person
Surprised you didn't mention that Joe Thomas was also in Fresh Meet, a show about the life of uni students in shared house. Not as good as inbetweeners but still some relatable moments!
I forgot about Fresh Meat! It was brillaint
Fresh Meat was solid, even ignoring that it might be slightly less relatable to many because fewer people have been to uni. It still had a great cast and writing. A character for everyone to relate to in some way. Loved it.
On council estates, most didn't have holidays abroad, cars as teenagers, nice houses, or stay in education after year 11. But the Inbetweeners is still the most relatable show for how accurate the dialog and banter of the teenage boys is. Iv never seen another programme get it so right.
It's funny because the guy who played Donovan is actually really well spoken and to be blunt, a bit posh, but he did a really good job.
Told the teenage story before social media destroyed adolescence
We still have Big Mouth as far as shows that are all about being disgusting lol
@@mister_manager not really comparable tho. One's a cultural icon that a generation will remember for it's authenticity. Also it was never disgusting 🤣 apart from Neil and the coke can :/
@@AdamOBrien29 Also Will shitting himself in the exam then bringing his shitty trousers to the pub, that was grim. Funnily enough someone I knew had something similar happen to them and they lived it down about as well! I think that's what was so genius about the inbetweeners, everything that happened in it probably also happened to either you or someone you knew.
@@mobyduck648”I thought it was a fart 💨 sir” 😂😳
@@mister_managerbig mouth is extremely left wing, it's woke.
“I didnt have the personality or intelligence to deal with it” Buckleys incredibly open and vulnerable here about what was a really shit position to be put in.
Anyone who doesn't like The Inbetweeners is a bus-wanker
I'm 39 and this show is in my top ten of British programmes ever. Just brilliant.
Hear hear!!
It never gets old even though I know what’s coming. 😂
I'm over half your age (18) and it has also been in my top ten for a few years now. It still is relevant today, and I can imagine its also somewhat relevant to before when it was released too
This and Peep Show makes 2 of the top 5
You bumder 😂
@@darrentaylordigital Peep Show, Inbetweeners, Only Fools and Horses, Utopia, The Office, Peaky Binders. Just a few of the many excellent UK programmes in my top ten.
As a Notherner who went high school between 2002 and 2007 it was exactly how teenagers spoke in the 00s 😂
i went to school between 02-07 too
@@MFC343 1991 club?
@@lemonlazer5687 yes:)
I went to school between 2013 and 2018 at it was still exactly how teenagers spoke. I’d bet good money teenagers today still speak that way.
Schools just haven't changed. I grew up in the late 70's and 80's and every bit of the Inbetweeners was relevant to me. Even watching it in my 40's it was still brilliant. Although my vocabulary might have increased the description of things I'd do to Will's mum. (Sorry Belinda)
or Neil's sister
@@Matthew-bu7fg I can't comment without ending up on a register
I was at school a little bit after the Inbetweeners aired and it was 100% relevant.
Over the last year I've worked in schools as basically a travelling subject expert and it's still 100% relevant.
That's just how school is in the UK and seemingly will always be.
will's mum was an off the charts level MILF
@@helvete983you have truly captured the feeling of every boy watching the inbetweeners
i wish england would reverse back in time to the 2000s bruh
It was a great time to be in secondary school. I always say 2007 was the best year of my life. It’s obviously partly nostalgia but good times man.
Unironically we'd probably have a better economy and better Internet.
360/PS3, Facebook before your parents were being racist on it, everything not being wildly politicised. Take me the fuck back 😂
@@BBoySnakeDogG frl the world got too soft after 2015 bruh
I literally yearn for it daily
From the US and loved this show. Took me a minute to understand some of the lingo but the subtle humor in the writing was amazing.
I‘m so sorry that someone thought they need to make an American version. I wonder how many have never seen the way funnier original.
I think it's a great gateway for Americans as well, you might need translation for a lot of insults but it's a surprisingly good look into what teenage years are like in year 11 and 6th form.
The Inbetweeners is the last truly great comedy, a truly properly funny sitcom. Along with Peep Show, the best sitcom of the 21 Century. As I grew up through school at the same time as them, the Inbetweeners was so relatable and connectable.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say this. It has a nostalgic feel and has its own style compared to most other teen shows. But I think even to this day a lot of gems are being made they might not be the most popular or mainstream but that’s kind of how it’s always been. Things are great, they get discovered and then the public ruins them. Very few great things avoid this course
Friday night dinner is brilliant too
And Fresh Meat which also has Joe Thomas
I would also recommend "this country "
@@iolo1920 In my eyes Kingsley in Fresh Meat is just Simon but at uni, it's basically the same character.
The era of E4 with Inbetweeners was special
Now it’s all utter woke nonsense.
@@jmozgonna cry?
@@Zoey-gt8erPiss off Zoey
Over used and meaningless word@@jmoz
It’s funny to think that Skins was airing at around the same time, it was so edgy and sexy etc and made it seem like that was the standard teenage experience, then Inbetweeners came along and said “nah not really, this is.” Like when Jay’s bullshit bragging gets called out over and over 😂
The difference is, one set had super powers, the other set were northerners XD
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178who were northerners? Skins was set in Bristol? I think Cook is from Derby or somewhere though
@@madams989 IIRC, the school the Inbetweeners is set in, is just about considered to be northern England.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 oh I didn’t realise haha. Simon, will, Neil and Jay could not sound less northern. Neither does Mr Gilbert - none of them! Strange how they did this. Neither does Carly nor anyone. Maybe that bully sounds a bit northern. That’s about it.
@@madams989 probably just about northern England, but one of the less heavy accents, probably closer to the Wales side if I had to take a guess. IIRC, I believe in one episode they did mention going "Down" to London, which is mostly a Midlands and Northern thing, given basically all the south says "Up" to London.
I'm in the very lucky age range who went to sixth form at the same time as the Inbetweeners came out, going through it all alongside these fictional yet relatable characters made it so much easier. Amazing show.
Same with me. We even went to Malia the same year they did!
You should make this a series, do a video on Gavin & Stacy, peep show ect
I just love the inbetweeners - it's one of those comfort shows. No matter how many times i've seen an episode it still manages to make me chuckle.
Tbh the way the show ended was perfect and solidified its status as the greatest show about teenagers.
Bless them, absolutely love them lads. You can see James is absolutely gutted they didn't get to do a reunion like he visualised. It was what everyone wanted and what they deserved
Ironically, the American's already had a version of the Inbetweeners and it was American Pie, and it was perfect for American audiences. Trying to replicate it the UK version just looked like a poor low budget version.
Exactly, films like American Pie and Superbad are the US coming of age story, trying to map the American experience onto a British one was never going to work
Great point
"Trying to replicate it the UK version just looked like a poor low budget version."
Not true at all
the inbetweeners is one of the best shows made. dont even fight me on that its true
Thing is about the inbetweeners is that we either know someone like Simon/will/Neil/ Jay. Or our friendship group is will/simon/Neil/Jay
I’m 100% Will 😂
@@Courtneyburns90 OK?
@@AlexSmith-th3ht I don’t understand your ok? Comes across on text as very passive aggressive. You said we all know a Simon, Will, Neil or Jay and I agreed with you.
@@Courtneyburns90 I just said ok
@@AlexSmith-th3ht sorry, it was just because you added the question mark, it just came across to me like a “wtf?”
We need a version with them as dads and husbands it would be amazing 😂xx
Would love that!
With Jay's dad being the gross grandad
They all bump into each other at a reunion and we spend a season of them getting mixed up together again?
Its mad im a teaching assistant and work in a school and the same goes on now but to be able to put it on telly wouldn't be possible. Some of the insults I hear are gold and not meant in a derogatory way
non-derogatory insults eh? amazing
Apart from "Bus-Wankers", that was always meant in a derogatory way to people who have to use the bus. :P
I think this came out in a period of high-quality British comedy and is a bit of a swansong to it really.
The show had absolute, mirror-like realism of being a teenage lad at that time, was utterly hilarious due to how they basically fail over and over again. Massively relatable as it showed that true, strong bond of friendship.
Would be good to see another episode where they're in their 30s with families, but we're not in the cultural climate for it.
Probably one of the last great British comedies.
"Aww friends!"
"Don't forget the thumbs up!" 👍 😆
Friend! Football friend!
I was in York one time, waiting at a bus stop. A car drove past and shouted "bus wankers!" at us. I can't complain, that was hilarious. Made my day honestly.
"He just threatened to kill me, mum!"
"Well I'm glad you're making friends."
As someone who is the age of the Inbetweeners now nothing has changed and the show is still incredibly culturally relevant amongst us
*I still can’t believe how many of my favourite shows Channel 4 responsible for producing including The Inbetweeners (Of course), Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Friday Night Dinner and Derry Girls.*
Sad we would never get a comedy like this now. It did feel like a realistic way teenagers speak and interact. Not how mainstream media would like teenagers to speak and interact. A modern version would be a box ticking exercise and lose any authentic feel as we've seen in most modern media.
When I first watched it (was after it aired!) I felt like I was in a time machine back to my secondary school days. The posters, shoes, bags was exactly the same to my school!
I showed it to my italian husband to show him my school experience and he loves the show !
It categorically was how teenagers spoke at the time.
And still ... Obviously
For me, the magic in this show was all in the casting
These lads were what most teenagers were like when I was at school, and that was the late 80's / early 90's. I'm 48 and still find the show funny. One of my favourites.
It’s one of them series you can just watch over and over
With all respect to Simon Bird, he clearly hasn't been a teenager in a long time. As someone who finished high school at the end of the 2010s/beginning of the 2020s, the dialogue and actions of the characters are absolutely spot on to this day. Obviously, it's somewhat exaggerated for comedic effect, but the general feel of the programme and first movie is absolutely genuine and accurate to this day.
Well yes he hadn't been a teenager in 5 years when the show came out lmao
When your friends with someone, its brotherly love, you will bully each other in the meanest of ways but with love.
As an American kid I’d visit my family in the UK and one of my cousins introduced me to the inbetweeners. Instantly became one of my faves. I was so disappointed with how mtv did the American version. I still go back and watch the og online from time to time
It was 100% a reflection of how teenagers spoke. 😂
I was in 6th form when this was out. The accuracy is crazy. And how their catchphrases became our catchphrases
As an American, the only thing I hate that it's only 18 episodes
I watched this for the first time when I was in year 10 and i'm so happy I did because it felt so authentic and accurate to how my school life was at the time.
Not only is the show the most realistic depiction of secondary school in England, but the cast and writers seem to genuinely care about its legacy. It’s always better to leave people wanting more than give them a disappointing ending!
And they gave a disappointing ending with the abysmal second movie lol
James able to reflect and think he didnt have the personality, charisma or intelligence to bounce off jimmy carr comes across as very humble and related - hang on a minute, that was the whole premise of the show!
They really hit such a sweet spot with this program, got "us" to a tee.
I remember being in 6th form when it came out - hit the nail on the head of what it was like growing up back then in that environment, great times that I dearly miss. It would get canceled all the way off the air now after a few episodes.
Would actually love to see a current version of the Inbetweeners where they're all miserable blokes in their 30s
I absolutely adore this show, it was more aimed at ages like my brother in 2008, but when I got into high school a couple years later, this show was referenced by EVERYONE - it was a fucking institution! It's one of my favourite comfort shows to this day, and it will never not be hilarious to me!
Joe Thomas is incredibly intelligent. Like him a lot.
The soundtrack absolutely nailed it.
One of the best British series ever made. Could genuinely recite every episode word for word the amount I’ve rewatched it 😂
Which series are you talking about?
I loved this show, I get happy thinking about all the joy and laughter this show gave me as a young person.
Buss wankers and football friends and the two most iconic quotes
Cant believe this is the 1st Inbetweeners essay video when the show ended 14yrs ago!!!
Always argued this was the last sitcom to have an impact on pop culture
NOTHING i can think of has come close
Only descent comedy drama I've watched in the past 10yrs is Detectorists
Latchmere being used on the soundtrack is the highlight for me. Love that song.
Love your style, keep rocking it!
I’m glad white gold got a mention
That show was genuinely really good, Tripped with the actor who plays Neil (Blake Harrison) is also good
Never even heard of it untl now, somehow
Woke BS
@@dogsbollocksgenius9480 not really I can just enjoy a show
Also there weren’t really any political takes in either show so not sure why you think it’s ’woke bs’
@@Alphoric white gold was a load of feminist BS
@@Alphoriccause he's a snowflake
I remember back when I was in My first year of high school (Scotland), I remember getting called "Dogger" everytime I'd come back to school, as the word "Dogger" means someone who deliberately stays off school, which means they are "dogging" it for example!
Very 2009 for Me! 😅😅😅
I dogged it quite often, because I had problems coming into school because of all the NEDs and Chav like people that were in school at the time, kind of like what Will from The Inbetweeners had to go through, that was kind of like that for Me! 😌😅
The Inbetweeners is pretty much My high school experience!
No political messaging or leaning is why this show is so successful, it’s just a bunch of teenagers acting awkward and making stupid and hilarious decisions, there is no message, just pure comedy.
The majority of most shows have no political messaging mate. You think breaking bad and game of thrones have “political messaging” in them.
@@Shazam123_ no but that’s why they are good
@@GERBOY90 yeah but like only 20-30% of shows have intrusive political messaging so ur implying that the other 70% are all good just because of the fact they have no poltical leaning?
@@Shazam123_ Didn't GOT have a heavily feminist theme? All the rulers and best fighters were women lol
@@Shazam123_ i bet you're left wing, that's why you're running to defend identity politics far-left messaging.
40 years old. Was in Greece last week in the sea and called some people “boat wankers”.
You didn’t have to grow up in England or live there to live this show. It was a fantastic show coz it pulled no punches.
Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon just moved in at the top of my road really good ppl
I’m Australian and even we talked to our mates like they did in the show
I remember watching it when i was 5 or 6 and finding it hilarious. absolutely loved it, but was frankly horrified to find out eventually that i had hit their age.
I had just started high school around the time this first came on air. It was really relatable to how high school life was like. With a lot of quotes being used from the programme in high school
I love this show so much because the lads nearly perfectly mirrored my own friend group. I think we all relate to something in that show.
I think I had just finished school / started university when the inbetweeners came out and it is quite literally a snapshot of what it was like as an average male teenager at the time. Everyone knew someone like each of the characters and that’s why it was so relatable. Sure some of the things they got up to were far more ridiculous than real life but you could imagine it happening and experienced similar things yourself. It’s quite funny looking back, a lot of the stuff is quite close to the bone, doubt they would get away with it now.
It’s kind of like what I imagine the American Pie films were to Americans of the time, I loved them too, but they weren’t as relatable as the US is a very different growing up experience. Same kind of completely ridiculous but at the same time relatable stories.
Mate this should have been the Christmas special, you have made me feel very nostalgic for a programme I fucking loved growing up hats off to you bro #ladbibleisthenewsun
The first inbetweeners movie was always meant to be part of the narrative and it fit the natural story.
The second inbetweeners movie was crowbarred in, purely made because of the success of the first film.
I agree completely, I always felt like the first film in 2011 was a perfectly-fitting end to The Inbetweeners, especially the boat scene at the end and where they all met a girl. The second film in 2014 definitely wasn’t necessary in my opinion.
I agree. The first film felt like a satisfying conclusion where, after all the bad stuff the lads had to put up with during the series, they at least had some sense of victory in this.
Will ended up having a girlfriend, Jay got over all his lying and could be completely honest with the woman he loved, Neil didn’t have much happen with him at the end, but Simon saw Carli for what she was and ended up moving on.
This is exactly what a finale should do: Give a sense of closure and finality for character arcs set up at the start.
The second movie was just unesscary and just flipped everything over by making all of the lads miserable again. Yeah, at the end there is a sense that they’re all firm friends but still, the first film was more than enough.
Inbetweeners hit exactly when I was starting my A levels in secondary school. It works so well and resonated with so many people because it was such an authentic yet surreal look at school life, and remains so now.
I was that age in the mid seventies and it nailed it for me too, it doesn't have to be era dependant because it got teen boys 100% right.
Sticks n stones playing in the intro was too much nostalgia
Inbetweeners wouldn't get made now. Probably because it was about 4 white guys. None of them gay, non binary or trans, no tick box black or Asian guy. The friend group was a realistic rep of a white suburban area. I'm a mixed race girl and I grew up in a majority white town and I knew classmates like them so I found it relatable! The offensive language is literally what 16yr olds were like! The meme culture was iconic. I never knew they made a US one which panned. That makes so much sense because you just can't recreate British awkward humour, they'd have to make it more like American Pie to work. British humour is more hidden, awkward while American humour is more in your face.
Inbetweeners was the best show to ever be shown on TV 🤣🤣
They should make a 3rd movie where one of them gets married , like American Pie: The Wedding
Was that Jamie t at the start? The beat from stick n stones- banger- it’s beyond impressive how well written this show is- absolutely perfect casting also
Because it was genuinely hilarious and quite similar to the experience of growing up in a normal school in the early 2000s. When kids were still allowed to be kids...
Still game and Inbetweeners were my favourites 🤣🤣
I have very fond memories of being at secondary school and just waiting to get home to watch the new Inbetweeners episode. It's still easily one of my favourite comedy shows out there all these years later. I've never laughed so much at a show in my entire life.
the comment section is NOT a bad place to sample the iconic lines from the show
I wish white gold was more popular, its so good.
I love the fact that American audiences didn't like the first film, this demonstrates that there was enough British humour for Americans not to get it.
Best analogy I've heard for the difference between American and British comedy is "Comedy is like having a scalpel and a sledgehammer. Americans go at everything with the sledgehammer, until the joke is about a social issue, then they use the scalpel. British comedy goes at everything with a scalpel, until the joke is about a social issue, then they use the sledgehammer."
i find it funny sometimes when people my age (mid twenties) are like "wtf is skibidi toilet ohio fanum tax rizz party" when all you have to do is watch a original vine compilation. we created this evil xD
No yoh didn't lol
We deffo need the school reunion special episode for the 20th anniversary
Half of my language is the inbetweeners quotes
If Simon bird thinks teenagers don’t talk like that in 2024, it’s cos he’s gotten old..
Most of them don’t to be fair from what I’ve seen. Gay is no longer the biggest insult etc as more young people are openly gay and it’s not the big issue it was back then. They’re still petty and dumb a lot of the time to be fair, just the hang ups are different.
This is the right if passage for every British lad
*rite of passage