To think The Inbetweeners is crap?

I think the Inbetweeners is of its time, but it is funny. There are some one good liners. I haven't relly watched much of Friday night dinner, but might try and get in to that.

The inbetweeners was fantastic satire. Total opposite of misogynistic, it shows four insecure teenage boys being repeatedly shown up by the girls as the hormone fueled idiots they are.

I'm confident most of us from age 18-80 can recognise people from our past or even ourselves in some of the characters and their behaviour. This is what makes it so funny.

The Inbetweeners is like a documentary of secondary school life in the 90s. Interestingly I re-watched with DS age 14 and he was shocked and said secondary school is nothing like that nowadays. Which was quite reassuring.

Oh I love them both.

I watch the Inbetweeners fully in the knowledge that it was of its time whilst still very much enjoying it (the trip to Thorpe Park is always a favourite in my house). I love the film's too, although find the second one much funnier.

FND will never not make me laugh and I'm so glad they got to finish it was a beautiful ending before the untimely passing of Paul Ritter. Just the sight of him.with his top off saying "Hello Bambinos" makes me smile.

It's so hard to find actual funny sitcoms these days IMO, they all seem to be too try hard or too safe. Think the most recent ones I've enjoyed were Derry Girls and Here We Go.

Now you've put
"On the poll, YABU means the Inbetweeners is better and YANBU means Friday Night Dinner is better"
I can't vote, as they are / were both great shows. But shows aimed at different target audiences despite the fact lots of people found both to be funny

YABU to suggest The Inbetweeners is crap. It was hilarious.

They’re just not supposed to be aspirational though! You’re supposed to think “what knobs”.

I watched both and enjoyed them. My son could absolutely relate to the Inbetweeners. We all love FND and still quotd from it although I wasn't keen on the later ones . Jim was fine as an occasional character but didn't like when he got more air time as I felt it got too silly.

I still watch repeats of the Inbetweeners regularly, and still think it is one of the best comedies ever. I disagree that it’s not aged well.

They're completely different programmes, you can't compare them. One is about a family getting together for dinner and one is about stupid teenagers.

I think some of the Inbetweeners is brilliant but always cringe at the misogyny.

I think both are comedy gold. Love the family dynamics in Friday Night Dinner, as a Mum of two boys I can relate to it. My 15 year old Son and I regularly binge watch The Inbetweeners. Love the character of Mr Gilbert, he has a similar dry sense of humour in Cuckoo and The Cleaner

Inbetweeners is such a perfect snapshot of being that age at that time, I can still laugh at it because it was well observed and so British. Friday Night Dinner is one of my "comfort watches" in the background, love it. In a similar vein I also love the Here We Go series. Just captures British family life, raising teens etc in it's ridiculous mundanity and I love it.

I love inbetweeners - so funny. I didn't like FND as much.

I absolutely love both!

I loved Inbeetweeners when it first came out used to cry with laughter. Not watched it for years. It's definitely like a documentary of lads at school in the 90s. I kind of feel a bit cringe whenever I see the guy that played Jay, his whole life appears to be clinging on to a character he played in the early 00s.

Loved FND only discovered it a year or two ago and have binged it a few times. I do think they went a bit far with the brothers immature relationship especially the salt!

I can't vote either way as I love both,however yabu to say inbetweeners is crap

I like it and I do find it funny - but in small doses.

Happy to watch an episode, or two at a push, if I happen to come across it. I couldn't sit and watch several in a row, it gets tiresome quickly.

And yes, dh and I still quote 'bus wankers' to each other if we find ourselves on a bus or coach 🤣

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Was it a caravan holiday? Did you get a sense of freedom you just don't get on other holidays? And did everyone get a bit?

I’m mid 40s and found Inbetweeners hilarious and reminiscent of my sixth form college years in the late 90s. I still find it funny today if it happens to be on but don’t actively seek it out. FND is amusing but not laugh out loud funny like the Inbetweeners.

Maybe they should watch it as a great lesson on how not to act! 😂

I was at sixth form when it came out and it was so relatable and hilarious. In my 30s now and still find it very funny. Also like FND but that had a broader appeal. Definitely a millennials show.

I agree, the boy that used to make out he had loads of girlfriends (forget his name) was the spitting double of someone we used to know). It resonated with millennials too (me), maybe more so? We thought it was hilarious, I don't think I would think that now as much, maybe I'm too old, and would see it more from the parents' perspective. If I rewatched American Pie, I'd see it from the older viewpoint, and find it funny in a different way, I think.

The cast are a similar age to dh, and I, although they were obviously playing younger characters.
As we got older, we watched Friday night dinner and absolutely loved it, esp Jim!!

Inbetweeners is of its time. I loved it because my DH and his 3 mates clearly were inbetweeners and all his tales of his lads holiday all fell into place. He admits it now. Briefcase wanker!

I loved Inbetweeners at the time, and felt it was spot on in terms of how teenage boys were. I do get that it wasn’t really misogynistic as the joke was on them being losers really. However….. watching it now makes me feel really conscious that I wouldn’t want my teenage son talking like that about females. Call me woke if you want but I like to think that things have moved on in terms of what is acceptable. (Well I think we all know that things have probably worse got in some ways eg with Andrew Tate incel culture… but at the same time we’re trying to move on and teach our boys to not objectify women 🤷‍♀️)
I still love all the general ribbing of each other in it, just not the talking about girls’ bodies and what they’ve done/ would like to do to them - ugh!

I hadn’t ever watched FND until last year when (for elaborate reasons) was stuck in a hotel for a week with my non UK DH and all we could get to download was FND. We binged the whole of it and have done again since. It has become our tv fallback. Hilarious! Even for someone who is not British so that’s impressive.

I then tried to watch Inbetweeners again, having watched it at the time it came out and loved it. I just found it too cringe and couldn’t bear it. Maybe I’m just too damn old now.