Inbetweeners to return

A lad I worked with was on holiday in Ibiza or somewhere when they were filming the Inbetweeners film.
They ask loads of people if they fancied been extras .
Got paid 200 a day to get pissed on a boat
Funny as fuck program.
I know a couple of people who were extras in the first one (guy who barged into will when they first got to the strip and his mate next to him). They got to go to the premiere.
Same situation of them being on holiday there at the time and just got asked to go and film.
 
Plenty of gay stuff that would probably get classed as homophobic now, "bumder" wouldn't happen nor would the "Mr chippy" line. a couple of instances of sexual interactions with underage girls, such as the caravan club girls, the girl chasing Simon at the underage disco. The paedo kennedy part would be questionable. Some of it you might still technically be able to do, but it wouldnt be recieved the same way.
The more mature generation would lap it up, like Neil’s dad with a cup of jizz
 
I guess it depends how they do it, if they try and recreate it like they are teenagers again it will be a disaster if they go down the route of leaning into them being older mid 40s and not understanding the world anymore it could be quite funny.

Neil recreating his dance, getting stuck and needing physio, Simon having terrible indegestion, Jay unable to sit through a conversation without needing a pee, and Will running out of anti-anxiety tablets will be a right riot aye!

Won't lie, quite looking forward to it. Yes the challenges of the time gap are there, but the nostalgia alone should more than cover for that hopefully.
 
Always nervous about reboots given the tragic slop we've been dealing over the years, but the Inbetweeners has a very good chance of success here for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, the humourous situations can be replicated outside of school life. We've not seen it before, but if they are allowed to keep the language and the humour in today's society, then no reason why the format can't work in a more grown up environment.

Secondly, the fans. We laughed at the time because "that was us". We all knew someone who had a reputation as an exaggerator, we'd all tried furious as teenagers to pull, that first time we'd all had a bit too much to drink, passed a test and used that person as the taxi driver in an effort to impress and woefully ignored the fact that hanging out of a rusty micra that revved like a grandma's fart wasn't the sex magnet we all imagined it was.

The fans themselves are older now and have more life experiences too, so a bit of online dating, work situations, the trials of kids growing up and losing your own freedom to it, unexpectedly seeing that for girl from school randomly walking around Tesco and instantly being transported back to high school, with your mates commenting on how she must have had a rough life and lucky escape, losing contact with mates and seeing them on Facebook pretending life is fantastic yet their profile pictures changes more times that United's manager, it's all very relatable now to that same core group of fans.

Looking forward to it.
 
It’s a weird one.

How many 40 year olds still socialise with the same 3 people they did at 15?
Most of my mates at 15 were complete balloons.

The jokes were mainly funny because of their age. Would it be funny watching 40 year olds acting with a 15 year olds humour?

You can get away with 20 odd year olds acting like kids but they are too old now.
I'm 44 and I've got the same circle of mates that I did at the age of 6 at primary school.
 
It’s a weird one.

How many 40 year olds still socialise with the same 3 people they did at 15?
Most of my mates at 15 were complete balloons.

The jokes were mainly funny because of their age. Would it be funny watching 40 year olds acting with a 15 year olds humour?

You can get away with 20 odd year olds acting like kids but they are too old now.

Met all my close mates from the age of 11 till 17 , 15 of us went to Ayia Napa last year for are 50th nothing really changed still got stuck into the Jack and Jill’s
 
Ha, I’m sure we do all have some friends from when we were kids.

However this is a TV show about just those 4 friends.
Its not like in the reboot we can now meet all their other friend groups as they’ve grown up.

My point being the 4 of them weren’t really that alike in the show and most people, as they grow up, get different friends as we change so it’s unrealistic that those exact 4 would still just be in a group of those 4.

However thank you @Jack74 @Georgian Maestro and @Bluesince1979 for telling me you still have the same friends all your life.
That’s very nice.
 
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A lad I worked with was on holiday in Ibiza or somewhere when they were filming the Inbetweeners film.
They ask loads of people if they fancied been extras .
Got paid 200 a day to get pissed on a boat
Funny as fuck program.
It was in Malia as I saw them filming down the strip. I was just out of the camera that was filming them. Think the filming was in Malia and Magaluf.
 
Its going to flop, you can't have laddish/blue/crass humour in the post me too, woke, toxic masculinity world.
 
Its going to flop, you can't have laddish/blue/crass humour in the post me too, woke, toxic masculinity world.
They def need it to be more like men behaving badly than some of the sterile stuff around, fuck Tarquins sensibilities.
 
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Really? I love Partridge but I didn't laugh once last night, I was desperate for it to be good. The writing on this is really bad. The writing was on the wall with This Time but.it had a few bits of genius in it.

Comedy so tough nowadays to please, it’s not groundbreaking but it has the odd very funny moment , bit like This Time.
 

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