I can’t wait for The Inbetweeners reboot – it could be even funnier

For a series that only lasted just over two years, The Inbetweeners made quite the splash.

The Channel 4 sitcom – which aired between 2008 and 2010 before spawning two films in 2011 and 2014, respectively – remains one of the crown jewels in British comedy today.

Depicting the adventures of four friends – Will McKenzie (Simon Bird), Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas), Neil Sutherland (Blake Harrison) and Jay Cartwright (James Buckley) – the series managed to capture with unfiltered and unbridled success what it’s like to be an awkward teenager on the pull.

With its endlessly quotable dialogue and countless hilarious situations – from Neil punching a fish to death to Mr Gilbert correcting Will for referring to him by his first name – it was undoubtedly the funniest thing my friends and I had ever seen during my years at secondary school.

But growing up in the early noughties, The Inbetweeners wasn’t just entertainment for me.  

A far cry from the slick dramas imported from the US like One Tree Hill or the OC, here was a show that finally captured the messy reality of being a British teenager, where the main protagonist stumbled over his words in front of a group of girls and was distinctly uncool. 

That is why, following the announcement that a reboot is officially in the works, and that a deal has been struck to revive all four characters, I could hardly contain my excitement at the chance to spend more time with my favourite bus w***ers.

But it appears a large portion of fans do not share the same opinion.

One comment on X, for example, said: ‘It’s just not going to hit the same. Why would you touch something that lived a perfect life and had a perfect burial? Even the movies were perfect’.

Another X user, meanwhile, said ‘Just let it be. Was an amazing series at the time and the first film should have been the end.

While I firmly disagree, because I am desperate to see how each of these characters’ lives would be transported into a post-Covid era, even I can see why some may have their doubts about The Inbetweeners returning to our screens.