When E4 had eventually grown tired of showing endless repeats of Friends and Scrubs, the channel eventually spat out its own unique programming, aimed at the sort of person that hecklerspray writers aren’t; the young, the cool, the hip and the trendy. Arseholes, basically.
On one end of the spectrum, there was Skins, a programme which captured everyone’s dream college lifestyle, in a show which frequently used drugs, booze and sex, but portrayed them in the most extreme way to great effect.
Skins was escapism for most whilst The Inbetweeners offered a firmer dose of reality, especially for hormonal teenage boys. These are the sort of people who couldn’t quite make that move from fingering a girl to using an empty packet of Space Raiders as a makeshift condom when that first awkward sexual experience arrived.
The Inbetweeners film, which is bafflingly going to see the light of day, ran in to a bit of bother a while ago in a move that was in no way an exercise in drumming up some interest in the film in a PR exercise.
Remember us telling you about Simon Bird and how he was refusing to appear in the movie unless he got more cash? Well, that’s all history now as he’s signed up to appear in the forthcoming flick.
That’s good news isn’t it? Good news if you’re the kind of dimwit who likes hurhurring at the word ‘clunge’ and watching a group of 46 year old men try and pass themselves off as schoolboys. Honestly. You’d call it ‘grooming’ anywhere else in the world.
Growing up, the hardest question we ever had was “daddy or chips?” Depending upon on your upbringing, the answer was simple.
We picked daddy as he took us to football matches, gave us our first slurps of lager and didn’t tell us off for watching ropey late night content on Channel 5. Other people didn’t get it as good and picked chips. Michael Jackson would opt for delicious baked potato sticks because his daddy beat him senseless every day.
The modern argument for UK teenagers is whether they want to be an Inbetweener or a layabout character, mirroring the scamps from Skins. Frankly, we didn’t spend our time chomping drugs like they were Skittles and hosting house parties that look like the inside of Gatecrasher. So, in our mind, being an Inbetweener was better due to the awkward situations we often faced with girls. Feast your eye sockets on the trailer for series three of the programme, coming to E4 ridiculously soon.
The Inbetweeners is rubbish. 40 year old blokes dressing up like schoolboys (hang on! That sounds like that stupid bloke from AC/DC!) and blithering on with themselves and inventing the worst swearword ever in ‘clunge’. It’s Coming of Age with more expensive cameras.
Unfathomably, the show has become something of a success and bafflingly, there’s a film being made of the show.
However, it has run into some sticky stuff as Simon Bird (who plays Will McKenzie) has apparently refused to sign a contract to appear in the upcoming shitflick. Read More >>>
When E4 had eventually grown tired of showing endless repeats of Friends and Scrubs, the channel eventually spat out its own unique programming, aimed at the sort of person that hecklerspray writers aren’t; the young, the cool, the hip and the trendy. Arseholes, basically.
