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tvchoice · 2025-04-13T09:20:12+00:00

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😊

PrincessHoneysuckle · 13/04/2025 13:04

The inbetweeners is still comedy gold

Hoplolly · 13/04/2025 13:10

The Inbetweeners was and still is hilarious. It's almost nostalgia from a time when we didn't have to be quite so politically correct as we do now. We quote stuff from it regularly and I've probably not watched it in 10 years!

dontforgetme · 13/04/2025 13:12

Funnily enough I rewatched some eps of The Inbetweeners the other day, first time in years, and I didn’t laugh once! Back in the day I used to cry laughing.

Friday Night Dinner is brilliant, currently watching this with my dc and we all love it. Martin being all of our favourites!

dontforgetme · 13/04/2025 13:13

James Buckley and his wife have a podcast and it’s absolutely brilliant!

TimeForTeaAndToast · 13/04/2025 13:18

I watched Inbetweeners for the first time a couple of years ago. I'm in my 50s and went to a girls' high school, but I thought it was funny.

The whole point is that they talk a lot of shit, but are massively insecure. Jay is the worst with the by bull he talks but he has such an awful father that you feel sorry for him.

FiveBarGate · 13/04/2025 13:27

Isittimeformynapyet · 13/04/2025 10:27

You've certainly got your finger on the pulse OP!

You talk about "lad jokes" - I think the entire premise of The Inbetweeners was what dicks teenage boys are, so ultimately the opposite of laddish.

This. Even the title is poking fun at that period where everyone thinks they are grown up in sixth form but are actually idiots.

I particularly enjoy the gap year observations in the film.

It's quite clever beyond some of the crude humour, which is in keeping with the characters.

Love Friday Night Dinner but just because they feature the same actor they are not a direct comparison.

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 13/04/2025 13:29

I love the inbetweeners. The car door being sliced off still makes me laugh.

MaggieBsBoat · 13/04/2025 13:32

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.

mumuseli · 13/04/2025 13:34

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!

Oldmothershrubboard · 13/04/2025 13:35

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!

TObewrongtoberight · 13/04/2025 13:41

MrPrehistoric · 13/04/2025 10:24

Respectfully, I think the Inbetweeners is a cultural masterpiece. I've never seen a show that relates so directly to a whole generation (Gen Z I suppose). It's truly like watching a documentary of a British secondary school, rather than a scripted comedy.

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!!

SharpenerHarpenden · 13/04/2025 13:43

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.

TObewrongtoberight · 13/04/2025 13:48

mumuseli · 13/04/2025 13:34

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!

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

Shubbypubby · 13/04/2025 13:49

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.

RubberyChicken · 13/04/2025 14:09

honeylulu · 13/04/2025 12:27

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.

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?

MummaMummaJumma · 13/04/2025 14:15

RubberyChicken · 13/04/2025 14:09

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?

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ChompinCrocodiles · 13/04/2025 14:16

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 🤣

Katemax82 · 13/04/2025 14:17

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

RaindropBloom · 13/04/2025 14:50

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!

Comedycook · 13/04/2025 14:52

I absolutely love both!

MissJeanBrodiesmother · 13/04/2025 14:58

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

JackdawRoost · 13/04/2025 15:09

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.

Octopus45 · 13/04/2025 15:19

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

Maitri108 · 13/04/2025 15:22

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.

Growlybear83 · 13/04/2025 15:27

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.