To think The Inbetweeners is crap?

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And Friday Night Dinner is much better (both containing Simon Bird)? Just find that the Inbetweeners is full of too much dirty language for no reason and irritating 'lad humour'. At least with FND, the dynamic between the family (particularly Jackie and Martin), but also brilliant supporting characters such as Jim and the two Grandmas, make it a much better TV show? Does anyone agree?
On the poll, YABU means the Inbetweeners is better and YANBU means Friday Night Dinner is better😊

Yeah people who think it’s misogynistic don’t get it.

Fair enough - I think that's valid

Inbetweeners isn't for me. But I have male colleagues maybe 35/45 who see it as their actual lives at sixth form and therefore hilarious

Inbetweeners is brilliant and so clever, I love it

Neil had a sweet gormless innocence to him.

My daughter will always say "Too Jazzy?" When I look at clothes and am undecided

It was rated as a 15 for a reason

I watched the Inbetweeners series again recently and the first film. And I still love it. It was excellent for it's time and I still smile seeing it.

I have never watched FND but might try it now to see if I like it too.

I love them both, my children (19 and 22) do too and we use sayings from both frequently (too jazzy, bus wankers, bumder, hello bambinos, hello Jackie you look nice, lovely bit of squirrel).

I rewatch them both all the time. I don’t think they’re comparable shows, but both brilliant.

Anyone who has ever had prolonged dealings with teenage boys will know The Inbetweeners was genius. Greg Davies' portrayal, too - though it helped that he used to be a teacher.

I agree, it was nostalgic even when it was written. It reminded me of my schooldays in the 1990s.

I love it. Not watched it for years and I’m sure it hasn’t aged well but it will never not be funny. It’s of its time and that’s how boys were around girls then - not all boys but we had a group like that at school.

American Pie is the same. I was about 14 when it came out and it made me cry laughing then and it still makes me cry laughing now. It’s one of those films I watch every time I see it’s on. I don’t think it would ever be made today, it’s aged horribly and my inner feminist hates me for it but it takes me back to that time of my life.

It’s like comparing apples to oranges. Written for two different audiences, I will happily re watch FND by choice but I wouldn’t look out inbetweeners but happily watch it if came on if that makes sense.

Just find that the Inbetweeners is full of too much dirty language for no reason and irritating 'lad humour'.

That's the basis of the programme though, agree it's not for everyone and hasn't aged well, but it was rare to have such a realistic representation of teenagers in an average school. The reason a lot of my friends still find it funny is because it did seem to capture that moment in time really well, and lots of people could relate to it (for better or worse). I don't think things like that necessarily stand the test of time, but i don't think they need to.

The 2000s was the last good sitcom decade. Loads of classic ones.

Not many good ones since. DEI/Woke isn't conducive to good comedy. Gen X the last good generation of comedy writers as well by and large.

I haven't ever watched Friday Night Dinner.......that needs to be remedied

Inbetweeners was of its time. It wouldn't be made now and I agree the female characters are poorly developed and poorly treated. But I still found/find it very funny. (I do have the sense of humour of an adolescent boy, despite being a 50 year old mum.) A few years ago before we all had tablets/streaming we used to take a portable dvd player on holiday and our teen found Inbetweeners absolutely hilarious. We are always quoting bits of it like "bus wankers" and "I'll just sit here next to these inconsiderate arseholes" etc.

We liked Friday Night Dinner too but not quite as much. I thought the Jim character ruined it - my heart always sank when he showed up. Simon Ritter was fab though, RIP.

It captures a very specific sort of behaviour very well. My secondary school days were in the 90s but I absolutely recognised some the ways teenage boys can be obnoxious, as well as the insecurities and anxieties of being a teenager.

It's social observation, not model behaviour.

I've watched and enjoyed both.

I’m 47 , had no male friends and went to an all girls convent school and I still love the Inbetweeners. Regularly watch episodes of it now. I do like ‘cringe’ comedy though….love the Office for example.

I loved The Inbetweeners when it came out and was probably the target audience in terms of age, but it's very of its time and has aged terribly. I will still watch occasionally but it's not a patch on FND

Hate Simon Bird and James Buckley, think they’ll were really scraping the bottom of the barrel with them. The rest of the cast was pretty decent and the show would have been funny if they had cast differently for just those two.

It's social observation, not model behaviour.

This is a really good way of putting it!

It's at least as much a Gen X show. The writers are in their 50s, the show was originally set in their 80s schooldays with their 80s sensibilities and was only updated to (then) contemporary times in order to cut costs and appeal to a contemporary audience.

Yeah, they're definitely the two characters that let the whole thing down. 😶