THE IN-BETWEENERS:
A bus wankers cunting for Channel 4, as they seem to be mulling over a reunion of the Unbetweeners. Far, far too late in the day.
Everyone has a guilty pleasure and mine is for the very un-PC comedy show which ran from 2008-2010, dealing with four sixth forms lads, Neil, Simon, Jay and Will , and their comments and jokes were disgusting. Just go on You Tube and see things like “Will’s mum” or “Inbetweeners watch Two Girls One Cup” and you will see what I mean.
At the time of recording the lads were meant to be between 16 and 18, though the actors playing them were in their twenties. Today two of them are 40 (Simon Bird and Joe Thomas), 39 (Blake Harrison) and the baby of the group (Jay) is 37.
Even if you could find some excuse to bring them together, times are so different, and the yoof of the country so puritanical you would never get away with lines like “My dad ain’t bent” or “knee deep in clunge” or “she’s on the blob” or “If she wasn’t your mum, would you fuck her?”. I can’t see where Mr. Pea Dough Kenendy would fit in now, or the elderly ice cream lady. Neil’s fingering in the car and “she wanked me off a few times” would certainly not get past the script editor.
You can just picture the audience and the production team clutching their pearls, and sniffing their smelling salts, while they get RSI posting their distaste on X for “likes”
Only one of the cast (Joe Thomas) doesn’t look dissipated – two of them look frankly raddled, one frankly looks like a tramp (“I think you are meant to call them homeless these days” as Simon had it).
I am a dirty old man of many years standing, and I sometimes watch the old shows on DVD if I am feeling really down just for a good laugh, but as Thomas Mann wrote “you can’t go home again”. Far better to leave them as four teenagers with foul mouths than bring them back as middle aged politically correct bores.
Why are the company even thinking of doing it?. It will never work.
Nominated by: W. C. Boggs
