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?

I find it funny that they're the same age now as Greg Davies was at the time.

Just remembered the scene with Jay jumping on the car screaming 'friend!' And giggled to myself

If (when) I'm stuck on the couch ill I'll always put it on. Ultimate comfort watch. I'm nearly 40 and I still know people who act like Jay!

I also didn't realise how old they are in real life!

Plebs is another one that's good.

Inbetweeners will never not be funny.

We use so many of their lines in various moments in daily life and we're the wrong side of fifty!

Bus wanker, bumder, aw fwend!, been to Africa in a pedalo, completed it mate! I'm sure there are more.

My favourite scenes from the films, obviously the nightclub dance and in the second film when Neil is falling asleep at the wheel
Neil (in his sleep) awobabobbob?
Simon: what?
Neil (waking up): I said - what time is it now?
Jay: no you fucking didn’t you said awobabobbob!

Just typing it out has made me laugh 😆

It's paedo Kennedy!

What!!!! How does one funny guy play a comedy head teacher like he did but 20 years later they're not old enough to play that role. That's crazy

“I thought it was a fart sir. I thought it was a fart!”

How long’s my lunch hour?

Outlawed? In what way? In the way that this show and the movies are very successful and readily available on multiple platforms decades later?

What a curious definition of outlaw you must have. Are you the type to use ‘woke’ and insist ‘nobody can say anything these days’?

You presumably wouldn’t be allowed to commission a sitcom with an entirely white cast in 2024. But other than that, I honestly don’t see why The Inbetweeners couldn’t be made today. I don’t think there’s anything particularly shocking or dated about it. It’s not a Little Britain type show that punches down at people. It’s always the boys who end up as the losers.

I thought it was brilliant. It captured perfectly the way teenage boys speak and interact. Yes it was cringey but that's the point.

🤣🤣

"With Mr Cartwright confirming that Jay hadn't hosted an orgy on the foldout table we started to wonder what else he had lied about"

“If he says he’s gonna deliver, he’ll fucking deliver”

”ahhh, like a postman with Tourette’s”

😁

Absolutely 💯 funniest scene in a film ever 🤣 😂

I mean who could forget Pussy Patrol. And everyone says Bus Wankers, I mean it got changed to Petrol Station wankers a few years ago during the media influenced fuel shortage.

The Inbetweeners was funny because it was so true to life. A bit like Outnumbered.

A lot of comedy these days is so forced and just unfunny.

Me and my DH do this to each other all the time!

I think you're so right but what changed!? Our school dramas are now po faced with the likes of Ackley Bridge and Waterloo Road giving the audience a message.

I do think the fun factor is hard to introduce into comedy as it seems a little righteous now. Inbetweeners was good because it captured purile adolescence perfectly with great characters. Yes, teenagers can be a rude, but it's about teenagers! If the cast were playing office workers maybe the humour wouldn't be there but they're not.

If they made it now it would be;

It was just so familiar! I felt myself nodding at pretty much every stupid thing that happened...that was the late 80's to early 90's I fondly recall 🤣 ...and constantly pissed myself laughing. They nailed it, it was perfection.

It wasn't of it's time. It is timeless. The people saying it wouldn't be made today are the (sometimes accidental) fun sponges who talk up that kind of restrictive outlook. It was and is reflective of its subject and perfectly suited to its audience! Anyone between 15-60 is going to love it still I reckon.

When we see a daffodil we still say:

"Ooh look at me, I'm all yellow and out first"

I was actually quite moved by the episode where Jay gets an actual girlfriend and is really sweet to her, until his horrible dad convinces him to be a controlling knobhead and she dumps him.

Give way to the fucking left!!!

Haha love The Inbetweeners

Waterloo Road was around before the Inbetweeners. They are totally different shows. I would liken The Inbetweeners to something like Bottom or even The Big Bang Theory - perceived 'losers' constantly making tits of themselves. Waterloo Road is a drama not a comedy.

On a more serious note, and maybe I'm stretching a bit here, but Inbetweeners wasn't woke because teenage boys are not woke. They're a bit self-centred like all teenagers, and they care about: where they fit in socially, banter with their mates, not getting in too much trouble with parents/school, and whether they might eventually get any "clunge".

We can allow them to care about this stuff while also nudging them towards being decent human beings deep down.

I think the constant po-faced focus on wokeness and everybody calling each other out for being "phobic" is off-putting. I do wonder if it's created a gap for the likes of Andrew Tate. I think as a teen you need to be allowed to care about girls (or boys) and social status, and make a bit of a tit of yourself at times. I think teens watching the show can absolutely recognise when the characters take it too far.

Sorry, that's the end of my social critique of The Inbetweeners!

“Hmm feisty one you are!”

Absolutely this

I actually called DH a Briefcase Wanker last night