List of The Inbetweeners episodes
The Inbetweeners is an award-winning British sitcom written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris,[1] and broadcast on E4. The series follows the lives of four sixth form students – Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland. The series is narrated by Will (Simon Bird), who acts as the programme's lead character.
The first series introduces the characters, following private school-educated Will and his attempts to acclimatise to a comprehensive school. Despite his status as a "briefcase mong" with "clumpy shoes", he befriends Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley), and Neil (Blake Harrison). Will's credibility increases in the first series, as he embarks on a short-lived relationship with Charlotte (Emily Atack). Simon's quest to seduce his childhood sweetheart, Carli (Emily Head), is never completed – often due to Jay's intervention. Neil, however – despite being somewhat less intelligent than the other lads – spends a night with a goth in Simon's car.
The first episode, First Day, was shown on E4 on 1 May 2008. The first series consisted of six episodes and ran until 29 May 2008. The second series began on 2 April 2009 with The Field Trip and ran for six episodes, also on E4.[2]
Overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release date | ||
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| 1 | 6 | 1 May 2008 – 29 May 2008 | 2 June 2008[3] | 1 | |
| 2 | 6 | 2 April 2009 – 7 May 2009 | 18 May 2009[4] | 1 | |
Series 1: 2008
| Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s)[1] | Original airdate | Ref | |
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| 1 | "First Day[5]" | Gordon Anderson | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 1 May 2008 | [6] | |
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The series starts with Will (the main character) on his first day at a new school. Previously Will attended a private school but because of money problems, has been relocated to a state school. The experiences of his first day include being bullied by fellow students and insulting his head of sixth form, Mr Gilbert. Later on in the episode he meets the three other main characters: Simon, Jay and Neil. After hearing about a student gathering organised for later that evening at a local pub, Will decides to join them. Trying to impress his new-found friends, the underage Will attempts to illegally purchase alcohol. After failing to convince the bartender of his eligibility for the purchase, Will vents his frustration and, as a result, unwittingly reveals the underage status of all the students, getting them all thrown out. | ||||||
| 2 | "Bunk Off[7]" | Gordon Anderson | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 1 May 2008 | [8] | |
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This episode follows the boys' day as they bunk off school. The episode starts with Will and Simon meeting up and faking (poorly) to Mr Gilbert they are both ill. After this they meet up with Jay and Neil, and Will buys them all alcohol. After this they head back to Neil's house and all get drunk. To their surprise, Neil's dad walks in but Will, who is drunk, bullies Neil's dad about his alledged homosexuality. Neil's dad takes exception to this so the boys make a quick escape. Simon then realises he loves Carli D'Amato and is desperate to tell her. They go round to Carli's house and he sprays "I love Carli D'Amato" on her driveway in spray paint, only to be embarrassed when Carli and her friends turn up. However, somehow Simon gets invited to Carli's house where he gets drunk and ends up throwing up on her little brother. | ||||||
| 3 | "Thorpe Park[9]" | Gordon Anderson | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 8 May 2008 | [10] | |
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Simon is about to take his driving test, but doesn't feel confident that he will pass, whereas Will, Jay and Neil are over-optimistically discussing the possibilities of one of their group owning a fully-fledged licence. Before Simon even takes his test they have already decided to go to Thorpe Park - where Neil works. During Simon's test he is examined by a female examiner who tries to put him at ease with the use of sexual connotations; Simon is submissive to her advances and ends up passing his test. His dad then buys him a small yellow Fiat Cinquecento Hawaii, much to his dislike and embarrassment exacerbated by taunts from friends. Simon then goes to collect Will and Jay to take them to Thorpe Park. After the journey - which includes "stalking" a car full of girls and interfering in a funeral procession - the boys finally arrive at Thorpe Park; although things do not go to plan there either. Jay detaches the passenger side door when he impatiently opens the door whilst Simon is still driving, and Will finally gets to the front of the queue for Nemesis Inferno, only to find there is only space for him and not his friends at the front. He insults whoever has pushed in, before sitting down next to them to see they are from the "Happy Foundation", a charity for people with Down syndrome. After the ride they return to the car which is covered with food and has had the windows and doors smashed, presumably by the Happy Foundation. | ||||||
| 4 | "Girlfriend[11]" | Gordon Anderson | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 15 May 2008 | [12] | |
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The boys somehow end up at a cool party and - even more shockingly - Will ends up pulling Charlotte "Big Jugs" Hinchcliffe. They get into some heavy petting, but the experience is short-lived as Charlotte's ex-boyfriend Mark comes in. The next day Will brags to Charlotte about how many girls he has had sex with, and she suggests they meet up again for more than just a kiss. Will goes to the rest of the boys and tells them about this, but Simon tells Will that Charlotte is obviously just using him to get back at Mark - leading to Will storming off. Friday comes and Will and Charlotte engage in "intercourse", with the latter being let down by the experience. After Neil wins an unwanted date with Susie at the school's charity Blind Date, Will is then dumped in front of the school when Charlotte takes part in it in an effort to find a boy "who knows what he's doing". In a sub-plot, Jay gets teased by the rest of the boys for having a friend outside of the group and even a special goodbye of two thumbs up, leading up to him finding this friend's car and jumping up on the bonnet, screaming that he's not his friend, whilst Neil and Simon look on in shock. | ||||||
| 5 | "Caravan Club[13]" | Gordon Anderson | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 22 May 2008 | [14] | |
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Jay invites the rest of the gang to come to a branch of Caravan Club with his family. Will, Simon and Neil arrive and their experience does not get off to a good start - as the boys are eating dinner in the Cartwrights’ caravan, Jay’s dad goes to the toilet in a loud and unhygienic manner. Later, the boys head off to the main building in the complex for a party. Will is offered sex by a goth; but loses his chance when he decides to take his shoes off and slide across the hall floor instead. After some flirty text exchanges, Simon tries his luck with a girl who Jay has claimed to have sex with; but when he leads her outside and takes his pants off, she is shocked and reveals she doesn’t want sex, before running inside to tell her parents. Meanwhile, Will’s shoes have been stolen by a group of eight year olds, and he takes to getting one of them into a headlock to get them back. The boys then head off - albeit without Neil, who cannot be found - before Simon can get in trouble for his earlier stunt with the girl. The following morning, the boys find Neil and he explains that he spent the night with the goth that Will rejected in favour of sliding across the floor. However, it is only on the Dual-carriageway on the way home that Neil reveals that he spent the night with the goth in Simon’s car - which should explain why the seats are so wet. | ||||||
| 6 | "Xmas Party[15]" | Gordon Anderson | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 29 May 2008 | [16] | |
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It’s the end of Will’s first term and he has been elected as chairman for the Christmas party committee - mostly due to the fact he was the only one to apply. He also manages to rope Simon, Jay and Neil into helping him. At the party, Simon attempts to woo Carli, but when he goes to declare his love of her - with all eyes at the party on him - he fails to get the words out. Luckily, everyone is distracted from Simon making a fool of himself when a drunk Neil attempts to kiss the Biology teacher Miss Timms. Donovan then appears and threatens Will after seeing him talking to - and kissing - Charlotte, but everyone at the party tell Donovan to leave Will alone, saying he has organised a good party. Donovan sees Charlotte giving him a dirty look and goes after her, and Will attempts to say a thank you speech - only to be ignored as the party continues. The party ends and the boys reflect on the past term on a trampoline in the gym. Jay then appears and tells the boys he has just received a blowjob in the DJ booth. He then caves in and admits it was a only a handjob "outside of the trousers" and after a bit of gentle teasing, he dives on the rest of the boys and the gang end the term play fighting on the trampoline. | ||||||
Series 2: 2009
| Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate | Ref | |
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| 1 | "The Field Trip[17]" | Ben Palmer | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 2 April 2009 | [18] | |
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It's a new term and the boys have signed up for the annual Geography and Sociology field trip to Swanage. Although Neil doesn't take either of the subjects, he is allowed to come along by agreeing to help Mr. Kennedy, an alleged paedophile. When the boys are moved from the back seat of the coach by Mark, the school bully, Will gets a stroke of luck when he gets to sit next to new girl Lauren. The two get on well and Will falls for her, but Lauren unfortunately has her eyes set on Simon, and Will's constant Yoda impressions that Lauren doesn't understand aren't helping either. The boys arrive in Swanage, and as Will and Simon both attempt to woo Lauren, Neil and Jay set off to find the legendary "Swanage MILF" that allegedly has sex with a pupil every year. Simon realises that he still loves childhood friend Carli and Will takes the opportunity to invite Lauren on a boat trip. The trip is crashed when the boys return, Neil and Jay MILF-free. After a number of unfortunate incidents on the boat, such as Simon falling into the harbour and beginning to develop hypothermia and the boys being "attacked" by a fish, Jay sets off an emergency flare and the boys are saved, albeit at the expense of looking like idiots to the rest of the field trip party. | ||||||
| 2 | "Work Experience[19]" | Ben Palmer | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 9 April 2009 | [20] | |
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It's Valentine's Day and after comparing cards, Will catches up with Charlotte, who he sent a card and a bouquet of flowers, and she invites him along to an underage disco in which she will be bartending. Before that though, the boys have to endure work experience. Jay has set himself and Simon up at his dad's plant hire, but that turns out to be nowhere near as fun as Jay promised. Will's request to be placed at a local newspaper is mixed up and he is instead sent to a car garage, with Neil going to the newspaper. Neil does fine at his placement, but Will struggles to fit in with a group of people working at a place he hopes he will never work. In order to impress his workmates, Will tells them of his date with his "horny girlfriend" later that night. Simon, Jay and Neil also decide to come when Will unwittingly tells them of his date. Friday comes and the boys head to the disco. Simon is attacked by a young boy in retribution for barging into him earlier in the episode. The boy gets pulled away, but Simon, Jay and Neil head off to hide in the toilets. Will goes to Charlotte for some help, but she refuses to help when a man from the garage turns up and relays all of things Will had said he and Charlotte had done. Will then decides to ring his mum and the boys leave, being considered "saddos" even more than ever. | ||||||
| 3 | "Will's Birthday[21]" | Ben Palmer | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 16 April 2009 | [22] | |
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Jay steals a flyer for a "sexy" party being held by a girl in their school and the boys decide to go. However, the party clashes with Will's sophisticated birthday dinner and Will eventually persuades the others that his dinner is more important. The boys all attempt to get a date for Will's dinner, but everyone seems to be going to this party being held, with Will's love interest Charlotte rejecting his dinner. Simon introduces his French "friend" Patrice (played by Vladimir Consigny) that he has to look after for a while, and Will's mum takes a particular shine to him. Will's birthday comes and his present from his mum is a black vest that his mum thinks looks cool. The day doesn't get much better as his dinner comes along and there isn't a female in sight. After being branded “paedophiles” by a group of drunken young girls and finding an angry stripper on the doorstep, Will agrees maybe going to the party is better than nothing. The boys (except Patrice) are denied entry to the party and all but Will decide to climb the fence, with Will deciding to crawl under the fence (crawling through dog faeces in the process.) Having to take his jacket off, he is revealed to be wearing his black vest and gets ridiculed from many people at the party for doing so. Will gets a shock when he finds Patrice and Charlotte in bed together. The boys receive a brief respite from their bad day when Donovan turns up looking for Charlotte, and the prospect of Patrice getting beat up is a happy one. | ||||||
| 4 | "Night Out in London[23]" | Ben Palmer | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 23 April 2009 | [24] | |
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Will decides the boys need to lose their "saddo" tag and that they should go clubbing in London to kickstart this "new life." Jay and Neil both warm to the idea, but Simon is reluctant to do so, stating that his dad will kill him if he drives down to London. He is later persuaded to go after Neil says he has a car and will happily drive the foursome down to the capital, as well as Carli telling him that she and her friend Rachel will also be going down to London on the same night. As the boys prepare for the night out, Simon is informed that he will have to drive seeing as Neil's car has no engine yet. Still excited by the prospect of going to the same club as Carli, he agrees to drive. When the boys arrive in London, however, things begin to get a little pear-shaped. Simon is attacked by some men from a nearby bus stop after Jay decides to lean out of the window and call them "bus wankers" as they drive past. Simon has to swap his trainers for a homeless man's urine-soaked shoes in order to get in. As Neil and Jay walk off to find some girls, Will and Simon prepare for their "dates" with Rachel and Carli, respectively. Both dates don’t go very well, with Rachel smitten by another man and Carli feeling put off Simon after smelling the urine from his shoes. After Neil is thrown out for "masturbating" in the toilets (he was actually inspecting the cut on his penis he received earlier whilst urinating into a beer can in Simon's car), the boys decide to call it a night. | ||||||
| 5 | "Duke of Edinburgh Awards[25]" | Ben Palmer | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 30 April 2009 | [26] | |
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Will is picked to run the school's Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, and although Jay is reluctant to help, Neil and Simon agree to participate. Will signs himself, Simon and Neil up at a local retirement home in order to fulfil one of their “D of E” modules. The boys go to the home for the first time, and Daisy tells him how she wants the following day and night off so that she can attend a friend's hen party. Once again Will volunteers himself and his friends for the shifts (after also persuading Daisy to go on a date with him), but Simon then reveals that he has to spend time with his dad and cannot complete the shifts. Jay agrees to help, but only if he receives money for it. The next day Will finds himself exhausted and falls asleep in the common room at school. After Jay and Neil play a prank on Will, his pubic hair falls out. Will panics before his date and quickly stuffs a woman's wig down his pants at the retirement home. Will tries to keep Daisy from finding out about the wig after their date, but she finds out and tells Will to leave after thinking that he did not have any pubic hair in the first place and that she was too old for him. The next day, Will tries to explain to Daisy, but she is too embarrassed to talk to him. Meanwhile, Jay becomes bored watching over the old people and sneaks off to an apparent unoccupied room to masturbate. When he is discovered, the boys are kicked off the scheme. | ||||||
| 6 | "Exam Time[27]" | Ben Palmer | Damon Beesley & Iain Morris | 7 May 2009 | [28] | |
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In the final episode of the second series, the boys are facing exams. Will is overworking himself and relying on energy drinks to keep him going; Simon is ignoring his revision and helping Carli revise Geography; Jay is smitten by his new girlfriend Chloe and Neil is preparing for his exam in PE by playing Pro Evolution Soccer. After the revision, Carli and Simon exchange several kisses and Carli accepts the invitation to join Simon and the rest of the gang at the nearby pub for a post-exam celebratory drink, and Simon rushes to tell Will - only to be shunned by his friend, who is cracking under the pressure of the looming exams. Jay is advised to make sure he always knows where Chloe is, and he begins texting her on a regular basis. The final exams come and both Simon and Jay are too distracted with their love lives to do any work on the paper. With all of the energy drinks he has taken in, Will begins to develop stomach trouble, and poos his pants in the last exam. The boys go to the pub without Will, and as they get the drinks in, Will turns up wearing some tracksuit bottoms from lost property and not caring about the exams and how he likely failed them; instead he begins drinking pints of lager. Both Simon and Jay get dumped by their respective girls, and the boys drive off thinking up new nicknames for Will; now unarguably the biggest "saddo" in school. | ||||||
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