Locations: inside learner car, 6th form centre, test centre, outside Simons house, Simons car, outside wills house, outside jays house, Thorpe park car park, Thorpe park, changing room, nemesis ride
Storylines:
- Simon is learning to drive, on his lessons he bumps into a car. He has his test coming up and they try and arrange a trip to Thorpe park is he passes.
- Neil announces he can get them free tickets as he works at Thorpe park and the boys make jokes about his dad needing the money to pay for rent boys.
- Simon has a female driving test examiner who is overly flirty with him. She gropes his leg and makes advances toward him in return for him passing his test. He doesn't share the details of this with the boys but passes.
- Simons dad has bought him a car but it is bright yellow. He is humiliated as are his friends but they are happy he parked his car.
- Simon and Will are met by Donovan who is rude to will and spits on the car.
- the boys argue about shotgun as will doesn't know what it means.
- simon, nervous about driving, is encouraged to follow a car of girls, he however pulls out in a funeral procession and looses them also leading them to arrive at Thorpe park with only two hours left. It is also revealed the girls they followed earlier are also at the theme park.
- jay opens the car door early when parking and the door comes off. Leading them to have to car the door around the theme park. Jay mentions that Neil's sisters boyfriend is a mechanic and will fix the door.
- they look for Neil and discover him dressed as a monkey. Neil is stung by wasps in his costume and it is revealed that he is naked underneath.
- the boys argue over going on the rides or looking for the girls. Jay leaves to find the girls while the boys stay with Neil, who deals with his wasp stings and discovers his clothes have been stolen - something he says happens all the time, he laughs.
- all the boys agree to go on nemesis - a ride will has been talking about all day, jay says he saw the girls head for the ride. After queuing an extra half an hour for the front 4 seats, will kicks off when there is only one space left only to discover the people in the other 3 seats are disabled. He is humiliated.
- Neil reveals that his sisters boyfriend actually works in BP garage and so Simons car can't be fixed by him. Simon is furious and jay makes more lies about having a friend in F1 who owes him a favour and can fix the car. Simon says the make beleieve friend won't help them.
- they get back to the car to discover it has been trashed. As they wonder who by, a bus with the disabled people will insulted drives past and they smile and swear at the boys. Jay is furious and wants to chase after them but is stopped by the others.
- will reveals the lessons the boys learn during he episode including that no car will ever make them look cool - linking in to the title of the show - Inbetweeners.
- finally simon rings his dad to tell him about the car starting with "it wasn't my fault" his dad his clearly furious by Simons reaction.
This episode works well as a mid series episode as it continues to introduce the characters. In comparison to coupling this show doesn't have much of an over arching storyline. Each episode is self contAined and more or less just touches on aspects or jokes from the past such as Neil's dad, jays lies or Simons crush on carli. I think I personally prefer the storytelling style of coupling as it feels more like a real life story rather than just jokes. As much as the Inbetweeners is funny it doesn't have much heart to it and that's what I'd like to bring to my show.
Stay safe,
Helen
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