Inbetweeners funny or cringe now?

[mids2019]

The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird makes heartbreaking announcement https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13864779/The-Inbetweeners-reunion.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Well Simon Bird is definitely distancing himself but was it that bad?

It's brilliant, how can you not find it funny !! Briefcase wanker

Funny. DH and I took the DC to Thorpe Park and sniggered at appropriate points, much to the DC's bemusement. We also go "awww, fwends!" quite a bit.

We are serious grown-ups with big important jobs and stuff.

I love inbetweeners. It’s the stupid days of school that brings back funny memories. Me and DH quote loads of the lines. Our 3 kids love it too.

DH and I quote it to each other all the time, it is cringe but wasn't that kind of the point? "And I was just toe fucking the one on the floor"

BUMDER!

It was silly and not all that clever but I think that's the point. I love the films, especially Malia. And also the spiritual pretentious twats in Australia. It's relatable, slap stick humour.

Simon Bird went on to do Friday Night Dinner which was only slightly less ridiculous.

I was waiting for a bus outside a national trust property a couple of months ago and a car drove past the stop. One of the passengers wound down the window and shouted "bus wankers" 🤣 it's just an everyday phrase now. Lots of The Inbetweeners is. Great programme, very funny.

I still love it.

My DS was an inbetweener, they even went to Greece last year to celebrate post Alevels. His friends are defo identifiable within the characters. DS is defo a “Simon” with a touch of “Neil” although he was sport at school so slightly elevated. He has a “Jay” friend and there are several geeky ‘Wills” he knocks around with.

I think “Inbetweeners” applies to most school years, because there will always be that social group that don’t quite make the “cool kids” but desperately aspire to them.

They are all at Uni now, would love to see a similar comedy about uni students, there was Jack Whitehall’s “Fresh Meat” which DS is binge watching before leaving for uni, but again a little dated.

It all changes at uni and often the r cool groups struggle, leaving the Inbetweeners to thrive because they are often the nicer kids anyway.

that's what I was going to say, it was cringey at the time, they were supposed to be embarrassing and ridiculous, that was what made it funny!

I may have said 'bus wanker' just the other day....

My teenage son loves it. Absolutely loves it. So I think it still has appeal. It was one of the funniest things on TV ever to come out when it was first aired.

I always found it massively cringe, but funny though. I always got really bad second hand embarrassment for them so would watch it with a cushion to hide behind 😂

I still watch it if there’s fuck all else on and I see it when doom scrolling through TV channels

We quote it to each other all the time.

I liked the first film, but not so much the second one.

I really liked Friday Night Dinner as well.

Ah the memories!! Another perfect Inbetweeners moment...

Gilbert: “No, there is nothing funny about testicles, Cooper, as you'll discover tomorrow in my office.”

😂😂😂

Still funny, and it’s supposed to be cringe!

I was a teen when it came out and loved its representation of teenage life, felt a lot more realistic than Skins which was popular at the same time.

Obviously some aspects have dated but so much is still as relevant and hilarious as it was fifteen years ago.

I left the UK in 2007 and Inbetweeners and Gavin & Stacy were my lifeline to home.
The characters were so cringingly familiar, and so fucking hilarious we would wheeze laugh through each episode.
The one when Neil beats the fish to death in the boat made me wet myself.

Totally going to rewatch these later now!

Loved it and still do.

So many classic moments already mentioned, and I’d add Simon’s wardrobe malfunction at the fashion show. I read that he hadn’t forewarned all of the other cast members that he was going to reveal his own actual nut, which makes it even funnier on a rewatch- the reactions of some of the fashion show audience 😂

Haven't seen it in a while but have been laughing to myself reading these. Me and Dh mutter bus wanker to each other frequently when passing stops.

I always found Jay to be too much for me, i hate crude language and i wish it had been even just a little toned down.

The actors were amazing in fairness. Especially Simon, when he got embarrassed or stressed he was just brilliant.

Can't remember the quote but I love when Will is doing yoda quotes to impress a girl but she doesn't know what he is on about and thinks he has some issue and needs to get assessed. Or Tara choking on the condom, beyond hilarious.

We love it here. The DCs recommended it as compulsory viewing for a couple of their cousins who came over to study at Uni here. They deemed it an essential part to understanding UK culture.

I think many of us could have this as our Master Mind topic.

Feisty one you are!

To me that article comes across like he is digging at the guy who played Jay. Can't remember his name but he has a podcast /ticktock with his wife and all he talks about (that I've seen) is everything Inbetweeners. Also the way Emily was treated, if true and getting dropped from the reunion was horrible. I think he comes over as a bit of a arse, saying he can't remember sayings etc.

I loved Inbetweeners me and dh watched it at the time. Not watched it for years, will put it on the list to re watch. When Simon is sick in front of Carly is just so funny. Really hope it's just as good when we re watch.

As a Londoner me and my friends have often quoted 'London and muff go hand in hand' - as a joke of course...

We still love Inbetweeners in our house, and so do my teens and their friends.

Gilbert: Shit, indeed.

Simon’s actual bollock at the fashion show. I wheezed laughing.

Agree that Jay was too much at times, but there are lads like that and I liked the dynamic of them all still being friends with him anyway.

Bus Wankers! Is legendary. Saw a bloke at a bus stop once with a Bus Wanker tshirt on.

Our lovely neighbour go on cruises every year, and they have become the self named Cruise Wankers!

Agree that a lot of us could go on Mastermind with this as a special subject, which makes the show itself rather special.

I’m really hoping for a third movie, a stag do abroad, a couple of them having wives or girlfriends and babies at home, Mr Gilbert randomly turning up.
I saw a little yellow car with a sun strip saying Simon and Carly, cheered me right up!

I'm a woke, left wing bleeding heart etc...
But I think the Inbetweeners is hilarious. The entire point is about what a cringe fest being a clueless teenage boy is.
And it's pretty true to life if you were a teenager in the early 00s.

I think it’s hilarious, but I agree it should be left where it is. I probably shouldn’t watch it now I have boys similar ages 🫢