The Inbetweeners - Episode Guide

The series starts with Will (the main character) on his first day at a new school. Previously Will attended a prestigious, fee-paying school but due to his mother's financial problems, has been relocated to a state school. The experiences of his first day include being bullied by fellow students and unknowingly insulting his head of sixth form, Mr Gilbert. Later on in the episode, he meets the three other main characters: Simon, Jay and Neil. After hearing about a student gathering organised for later that evening at a local pub, Will decides to join them. Trying to impress the trio, the underage Will attempts to illegally buy alcohol, but fails to convince the bartender that he is old enough. When he vents his frustration and reveals that all the patrons are in fact underage, they are all thrown out, for which Will's new classmates take a big disliking to him. This also ignites the rivalry between him and school psychopath Mark Donovan.

This episode follows the boys' day as theybunk offschool. The episode starts with Will and Simon meeting up and lying to Mr. Gilbert that they're both ill withfood poisoning. After this they meet up with Jay and Neil, and Will dresses up in Neil's dad's clothes to look older. After this, they head back to Neil's house and all get very drunk. To their surprise, Neil's dad comes home earlier than expected but Will, who is incredibly drunk, mocks Neil's dad over his alleged homosexuality, and resulting in Will calling Kevin a bumder, aportmanteauof bumboy and bender. Kevin gets angry at this remark so the boys make a quick escape, leaving Neil behind to take his punishment. Simon then, albeit drunkenly, realises he loves Carli D'Amato and is eager to tell her. They go round to Carli's house and he sprays "I love Carly D'Amato" (sic) on her driveway with spray paint, only to be embarrassed when Carli and her friends show up. However, Carli is somewhat impressed (after noticing Jay sniggering at Simon) and invites Simon over to her house. Simon, wondering how he got away with the spray painting, is told by Jay that Carli was obviously impressed that he was drunk and suggests Simon be drunk when he goes to Carli's house that evening. Simon takes Jay's advice and turns up drunk with Will, only to end up throwing up in Carli's kitchen and again on her little brother, Chris, after Will inadvertently convinces Chris that his parents have been killed. Simon and Will leave, only to go home and discover their parents (including Neil's dad Kevin) at Will's house, demanding an explanation for why they skived school, the day having ended being a total disaster. The episode ends the next day at school, with Simon and Will being taken to the headteacher's office as Mr. Gilbert says to them that impersonating their parents over the telephone is fraud and Neil and Jay get away unpunished.

Simon is about to take his driving test, but doesn't feel confident that he will pass first time, whereas Will, Jay and Neil are over-optimistically discussing the possibilities of one of the group owning a car. Before Simon even sits his test, they have already decided to go to Thorpe Park– where Neil works as a mascot. During Simon's driving test he is examined by a female examiner who tries to put him at ease with the use of sexual connotations; Simon is submissive to her advances and passes his driving test. His dad buys him an old yellow Fiat Cinque cento Hawaii as a present, (to his dislike and embarrassment) exacerbated by taunts from his friends. Simon then goes to collect Will and Jay to take them to Thorpe Park. After the journey – which includes "stalking" a car full of girls and interfering in a funeral procession– the boys finally arrive at Thorpe Park; although things do not go to plan there either. Jay detaches the front passenger door when he impatiently opens it whilst Simon is still reversing, and Will finally gets to the front of the queue for Nemesis Inferno, only to find there is only space for him and not his friends. He insults whoever has pushed in, denouncing them as "arseholes", before sitting down next to them to see they are from the "Happy Foundation", a charity for people with Down syndrome. After the ride they return to the car which is covered with food, and has had the windows and doors smashed in by the Happy Foundation.

The boys end up at a dull Friday night house party and amazingly, Will ends up pulling Charlotte "Big Jugs" Hinchcliffe. They get into some heavy petting, but the experience is short-lived as Charlotte's psychopathic ex-boyfriend Mark Donovan shows up. The next day, Will lies to Charlotte about how many girls he has had sex with, and she suggests they meet up again for more than just a kiss. Will goes to the rest of the boys and tells them about this, but Simon tells Will that Charlotte is obviously just using him to get back at Mark – leading to Will storming off. On Friday, Will and Charlotte engage in "intercourse", with the latter being let down by the experience. After Neil wins an unwanted date with Susie at the school's charity Blind Date, Will is then dumped in front of the school when Charlotte takes part in the event in an effort to find a boy "who knows what he's doing". In a sub-plot, Jay gets teased by the rest of the boys for having a friend outside of the group and even a special goodbye of two thumbs up, leading up to him finding his friend's car and jumping up and down on the bonnet, screaming that he's not his friend, whilst Neil and Simon watch in shock.

Jay invites the rest of the group to visit the Caravan Club which his own family are members of. Will, Simon and Neil arrive and their experience does not get off to a good start – as the boys are eating dinner in the Cartwrights' caravan, Jay's dad goes to the toilet in a loud and unpleasant manner. Later, the boys head off to the main building at the complex for a party. Will is offered sex by a punk girl; but loses his chance when he decides to take his shoes off and slide across the hall floor like a child instead. After some flirty text exchanges, Simon tries his luck with a girl who Jay has claimed to have sex with; but when he leads her outside and takes his pants off, she is shocked and reveals she doesn't want to have sex, before running inside to tell her parents. Meanwhile, Will's shoes have been stolen by a group of eight-year-olds, and he takes to getting one of them into a headlock to retrieve them. The boys then head off – albeit without Neil, who cannot be found – before Simon can get in trouble for his earlier encounter with the girl. The following morning, the boys find Neil and he explains that he slept in Simon's car, which explains where he had disappeared to the previous night. However, it is only revealed on the Dual-carriageway on the journey home that Neil reveals that he spent the night with the punk girl, who rejected Will earlier, and had been performing fore play on each other in Simon's car – which should explain why the seats are so wet.

It's the end of Will's first term and he has been elected as chairman for the Christmas party committee – mostly due to the fact that he was the only one to apply. He also manages to force Simon, Jay and Neil into helping him. At the party, Simon attempts to impress Carli, but when he goes to declare his love to her – with all eyes at the party on him – he chickens out. Luckily, everyone is distracted from Simon making a fool of himself, when a drunk Neil attempts to kiss his Biology teacher Miss Timms. Donovan then appears and threatens Will after seeing him talking to – and kissing – Charlotte, but everyone at the party tells Donovan to leave Will alone, saying that "Briefcase" has organised a good party. Donovan sees Charlotte giving him a dirty look and goes after her, and Will attempts to make a thank you speech – only to be ignored by everyone as the party continues. The party ends and the boys reflect on their past term lying down on a trampoline in the school gym. Jay then appears and tells the boys he has just received a blow job in the DJ booth. He then admits the truth that it was only a hand job"outside of the trousers" and after a bit of gentle teasing, he dives on the rest of the boys and the boys end the term playfighting on the trampoline.

It's a new term at Rudge Park and the boys have signed up for the annual Geography and Sociology field trip to Swanage. Although Neil doesn't study either of the subjects, he is allowed to come along by agreeing to help Mr. Kennedy, an alleged paedophile. When the boys are moved from the back seat of the coach by Mark Donovan, the school bully, Will gets a stroke of luck when he gets to sit next to new girl Lauren. The two get on well and Will falls for her, but Lauren unfortunately has her eyes set on Simon, and Will's constant Yoda impressions that Lauren doesn't understand aren't helping either. The boys arrive in Swanage, and as Will and Simon both attempt to impress Lauren, Neil and Jay set off to find the legendary "Swanage MILF" who allegedly has sex with one Rudge Park pupil every year. Simon realises that he still loves his childhood friend Carli and Will takes the opportunity to invite Lauren on a boat trip. The trip is spoiled when the boys return, without finding the rumoured Swanage MILF. After a number of unfortunate incidents on the boat, such as Simon falling into the harbour and beginning to develop hypothermia and the boys being "attacked" by a fish, Jay sets off an emergency flare and the boys are saved, albeit at the expense of looking like idiots to the rest of the people on the field trip.

It's Valentine's Day and after comparing cards, Will catches up with Charlotte, whom he sent a card and a bouquet of flowers, and she invites him along to an under-18s disco in which she will be supervising. Before that happens though, the boys have to endure work experience. Jay has set himself and Simon up at his dad's plant hire, but that turns out to be nowhere near as fun as Jay promised. Will's request to be placed at a local newspaper is mixed up and he is instead sent to a car garage, with Neil going to the newspaper company. Neil does well at his placement, but Will struggles to fit in with the other mechanics at the garage. Growing desperate in order to impress his workmates, Will tells them of his date with his "horny girlfriend" later that night. Simon, Jay and Neil also decide to tag along when Will unwittingly tells them of his date. Friday arrives and the boys head to the disco. While receiving a hand job from a Valentine's card-sending admirer, Simon is attacked by a young boy in retaliation for barging into him earlier in the episode and for thinking that he insulted him (although it was actually Jay who insulted the boy). The boy gets pulled away, but Simon, Jay and Neil head off to hide in the toilets when the boy appears with his friends from the violent Northwood gang. Will goes to Charlotte for some help, but she refuses to help when a man from the garage turns up, who, despite appearing much older, reveals he is in fact seventeen, and relays all of the things Will had said he and Charlotte had done. Will then decides to ring his mum and the boys leave, saved from the Northwood gang but being considered "saddos" even more than ever.

Jay steals a flyer for a "sexy" party being held by Louise Graham from her bag and the boys decide to go. However, the party clashes with Will's sophisticated birthday dinner and he eventually persuades his friends that his event is more important. The boys all attempt to get a date for Will's dinner, but everyone seems to be going to Louise's party, including Will's love interest, Charlotte. Simon is having to look after a French exchange student named Patrice (played by Vladimir Consigny) and brings him along to Will's house. Will's birthday comes and his present from his mum is an unflattering black vest that she thinks makes him look cool. This rather disappoints Will, as he had been hoping for driving lessons. His mother persuades him into wearing the vest that evening anyway. The night does not get much better as at his dinner party, there is not a female guest in sight. After being branded "paedophiles" by a group of drunken young girls and finding an angry middle-aged stripper on the doorstep, Will agrees that maybe going to Louise's party is better than this. The boys (except Patrice) are denied entry to the party and all but Will decide to climb the fence, with Will opting to crawl underneath it (passing through dog faeces in the process). Having to take his jacket off, he reveals his birthday present and is ridiculed by the party goers for it. Will then receives a shock when he finds Patrice and Charlotte in bed together. The boys receive a brief respite from their bad day when Donovan turns up looking for Charlotte, and the prospect of Patrice getting beaten up by the psychopathic school bully is a happy one as Simon disliked him. Unfortunately, their happiness is short-lived as, when they leave the party, they are again spotted by the same group of drunken young girls who send their older brother chasing after them with a cricket bat.

Will decides the boys need to lose their "saddo" tag and that they should go clubbing in the centre of London to reinvent themselves. Jay and Neil both sound eager, but Simon is reluctant to do so, stating that they would get robbed, stabbed and killed if they drive down to London. He is later persuaded to go after Neil says that he has a car and will happily drive the group down to the capital, as well as Carli telling him that she and her friend Rachel will also be going down to London on the same night. As the boys prepare for the night out, Simon is informed that he will have to drive seeing as Neil's car lacks an engine. Still excited by the prospect of meeting Carli, he agrees to drive down. When the boys arrive in London, however, things begin to go pear-shaped. Simon is attacked by a scary man waiting at a nearby bus stop after Jay decides to shout out "bus wankers" as they drive past. Simon has to swap his new trainers for piss-stained, tattered shoes from a tramp in order to be allowed in. As Neil and Jay walk off to find some girls, Will and Simon prepare for their "dates" with Rachel and Carli, respectively. Both dates don't go very well, with Rachel smitten by another man, Dean (played by Bird and Thomas' close friend Jonny Sweet) and Carli being put off Simon after the foul smell from his shoes. After Neil is thrown out for "masturbating" in the toilets (he was actually inspecting a cut on his penis he received earlier), the boys decide to call it a night.

Will is picked to run the school's Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, having been told by Mr. Gilbert the reason he was chosen is that he is a virgin, and although Jay is reluctant to help, Neil and Simon agree to participate. Will signs himself, Simon and Neil up at a local retirement home in order to fulfil one of their Duke of Edinburgh modules. The boys go to the care home for the first time, and Daisy tells him that she wants the following day off so that she can attend a friend's hen do. Once again, Will volunteers himself and his friends for the shifts (after also persuading Daisy to go on a date with him), but Simon then reveals that he has to spend time with his dad, after his parents go on a trial separation and cannot do the shifts. Jay agrees to help, but only if he receives payment for it. The next day Will finds himself exhausted and falls asleep in the common room at school. Jay and Neil can't resist the opportunity to cause mischief, put hair removal cream down Will's trousers, and his pubic hair falls out in the shower when he gets home. Will panics before his date and quickly stuffs a woman's wig down his underpants at the retirement home. Will tries to keep Daisy from finding out about the wig after their date, but she finds out and tells Will to leave after thinking that he did not have any pubic hair in the first place and that she was too old for him. The next day, Will tries to explain to Daisy, but she is too embarrassed to talk to him. Meanwhile, Jay becomes bored watching over the elderly people and sneaks off to an apparent unoccupied room to masturbate. When he is discovered, the boys are kicked off the programme.

In the final episode of the second series, the boys are facing upcoming exams. Will is overworking himself and relying on energy drinks to keep him going; Simon is ignoring his revision and helping Carli revise for A-Level Geography; Jay is smitten by his new girlfriend Chloe and Neil is preparing for his practical exam in PE by playing Pro Evolution Soccer. During the first revision session Carli tells Simon that she and Tom have split up, which leads them to share numerous kisses at their next revision session and Carli accepts the invitation to join Simon and the rest of the gang at a nearby pub for an end-of-term celebratory drink. Simon hurries to tell Will – only to be shunned by his friend, who is cracking under the pressure of the looming exams. Jay is advised by his dad to make sure he always knows where Chloe is, and he begins texting her on a regular basis. The final exams come and both Simon and Jay are too distracted with their love lives to do any work on the paper. With all of the energy drinks he has taken in, Will begins to develop stomach trouble, and he poos his pants during the final exam. The boys go to the pub without Will, and as they order drinks, Will turns up wearing some tracksuit bottoms from lost property and not caring about the exam and how he likely failed it; he begins drinking three pints of lager to forget his awful day. Both Simon and Jay get dumped by their respective girls, with Carli announcing she has made up with Tom and Chloe says to Jay that he is too sensitive for her, and the boys drive off thinking up new nicknames for Will; now unarguably the biggest "saddo" in school.

Carli organises a charity fashion show, despite Will disagreeing with "vain" fashion shows, as just a popularity contest, but changes his mind when Charlotte Hinchcliffe arrives to model; requesting him to model with her. He competes with the irritating wheelchair-user Alistair (who had been absent from school the previous year due to kidney failure) for Charlotte's attention and manages to model quite successfully, but is downhearted when Charlotte says she would never go out with him again. Jay's pierced ears become infected and he has to leave the fashion show to go to A&E. Carli, impressed by Simon's modelling, asks him to replace her modelling partner Chris Yates who was revealed to have a "disgustingly" hairy back, wearing just Speedos. Simon, despite being worried that he will get an erection over Carli in the revealing Speedos, agrees when he sees Carli in her revealing outfit. He concentrates hard on not getting an erection, but because of this, he fails to notice his testicle hanging out of the side of his Speedos, and reveals it to the whole school. Will and Alistair briefly stop arguing to inform Simon of this, and Carli thinks Simon did it on purpose to make fun of her and storms off. Meanwhile, Mr. Kennedy attempts to get Neil to undress but is dragged off by Mr. Gilbert. At the end of the episode, Simon and Will discuss the Speedo incident. Neil and Jay join them and Jay claims that he had sex with the nurse at the hospital, even though Simon says she is another student's nan. Neil reveals that he snogged Charlotte to a surprised and heartbroken Will, although mimes what he really did with her to Jay and Simon behind Will's back, and the gang head home instead of going to Mark Donovan's party.

In an attempt to woo an attractive girl from the year below (Tara), Simon agrees to go with her to see a band called Fails a feat a pub. He tries to impress Tara even more by telling her he will bring cannabis along to the concert. The group buy cannabis from a shady man, and all react differently. Neil takes sleeping tablets, Will cannot control his body movements, Jay is dazed and confused, and Tara throws up on Simon. In another one of his ridiculous lies, Jay claims he can get drugs anytime from his dealer. When Simon asks Jay for some cannabis, Jay tells him that his dealer has gone to Afghanistan to get harder drugs, despite having told Simon fifteen minutes ago that he could easily get hold of some. In order to regain his friends' trust after his string of lies in the past, Jay goes to the school psychopath Mark Donovan to buy some weed, but is given tea and accepts it out of fear of him. As a subplot, Will and Simon stop believing Jay's "bullshit claims" after his dad rumbles one of his stories about having sex in a caravan (which does not actually happen, "Jay gets it on with the cushion"). When the boys arrive at the gig, Jay decides to prove to Simon and Will by trying to get drugs at the venue. After a short search, Neil spots a shady man and he and Jay head over to him. After a short argument with the dealer, he sells them cannabis and all except Will who refuses to smoke it, and Neil who took some of his dad's sleeping medicine, smoke them out the back. While inside, Jay starts teasing Will about not taking the drugs until Will eats whats left of them. Simon accidentally injures Tara in a moshpit, and not helped by a mixture of her being "stoned and concussed", leads to her feeling faint, queasy and throwing up over herself and Simon just as she is about to snog him. After she is sick on herself, Simon, their shoes and the floor, the two kiss and intimately touch each other (she touches his legs and penis and he touches her breasts), but Tara still feels sick and has to stop kissing and groping Simon to throw up everywhere again. Eventually Will starts to feel the effects of the drug and becomes frightened and loses control of his hands. When he asks for an ambulance, Jay refuses out of fear of being arrested, Neil starts falling asleep and Simon is too busy eating Tara's face, and stopping her being sick, to care. With no other choice, Will gets up onstage and asks that they either call for an ambulance or his mum. He is then led off the stage by the bouncers as he looked "proper mental". When Will is being taken into the ambulance, Jay runs away in panic thinking the blue light is a police car while Simon kisses Tara, his first girlfriend. Featuring a special guest appearance by rock band Failsafe.

Simon takes his new girlfriend on a double date with Will and Kerry – Tara's friend. However, Will's morals are tested when he is not at all interested in Kerry because of her height, but he is keen to receive oral sex from her, and therefore contemplates whether to stay with her or end their 'relationship'. Elsewhere, Neil is having his 18th birthday party and is allowed to invite ten friends (if he has that many). Later at Neil's party, Simon and Tara go to Neil's bedroom where Tara gives Simon a hand job. Meanwhile Will decides to tell Kerry he does not want to see her anymore after being teased by Jay and Neil. Kerry takes this badly and bursts into tears. She then lies and tells the other guests at the party that Will used her for sex and dumped her, whilst Will argues that he was right for denying oral sex from Kerry. Furthermore, Will is unaware that Kerry's dad died the previous month, and the guests side with Kerry. He also compares Kerry to the Empire State Building, which gets him kicked out of Neil's house and banned from returning. Will is grounded for three weeks, and as a subplot, Neil and Jay are given a months detention for saying "Waterside" to Mr Gilbert, after spotting him at the Waterside Shopping Centre looking fondly at cuddly toys.

Simon is surprised when his new girlfriend Tara is ready to take their relationship to the next level and the couple plan a romantic trip to Warwick in the West Midlands to visit Tara's sister, Sophie, at university, and use her house as a means to have sex somewhere private. Romantic, that is, aside from the fact that the other boys invite themselves along – Will on the pretext that he wants to take a look around the university (which is his last choice, despite Warwick having an excellent reputation), Jay so he can give Simon his 'expert' sex advice and Neil because he has nothing better to do. This creates tension between Simon and Tara during the journey. Neil and Jay get drunk after playing drinking games with Sophie's flatmate's friends, causing Neil to later urinate on Will whilst they are sleeping and giving Jay the confidence to sneak off into the house to try and sleep with Sophie's Dutch flatmate. Simon, on the other hand, after taking Jay's advice to have a 'tactical wank' before having sex, fails to get an erection over a naked Tara and starts getting angry with himself which scares Tara. All the incidents together get them kicked out of the house, leaving the boys to endure the long drive home in their underwear. Tara then dumps Simon by text on the car journey home.

Will's mum goes away for the weekend with an old college friend she recently caught up with on Facebook. While Jay, Neil and Simon are walking down the street they spot a flower display reading "WELCOME TO OUR VILLAGE", Neil and Jay then alter it to say "WE CUM TIT VILLAGE". Mr.Gilbert then assigns Will to find the culprits by threatening to ruin his UCAS application, so the only university that will accept him is the University of Lincoln. It doesn't take Will long to find out who had done it but decides not to grass them up. Will asks Simon if he would like to stay round his house due to "security reasons", Simon declines as he doesn't want to risk missing a father and son golf tournament. Will then asks Neil, which angers Jay as he wants some privacy from his dog so he can masturbate alone. However Jay eventually makes his way into Will's house, but then Will forces them to go out as they mess up his kitchen. Jay and Neil decide to take Will on a "pussy patrol" which is to drive Jay's mum's car around the estate really slowly. Jay runs over a squirrel because he lost to it in a game of chicken. When the group arrive back at Will's house they find that Simon is inside waiting for them. When asked how he came in, he replies saying the back door was open. Jay uses Will's mum's credit card to order two boxes of beer which angers Will as it was for "emergencies only". Will decides to return them but Jay opens a pack of Foster's, preventing him from doing so. Upon opening up his laptop he finds that Jay and Simon have changed his Facebook profile picture to a fat naked man and his status to "Will is fingering his cat", they also changed his password. Will finds out the password but has to agree to let Jay stay over. Neil returns to the kitchen and says that he has blocked the toilet. Jay gets an idea that he'll just tell his parents that his dog has done a poo in the house so then his dog will have to stay outside, thus, will allow him to masturbate in peace. After Will unblocks the toilet, he returns to find Jay, Neil and Simon all drunk and whacking his daffodils with Simon's golf clubs which he is bringing to the golf tournament tomorrow. Will then tells the boys that they are going out, so they won't destroy his house. While they are out, the boys start vandalising other people's gardens, they are then caught by a man and run away laughing, Back at Will's house Jay and Neil go upstairs to masturbate over pairs of Will's mum's knickers while Simon and Will play a game of Pro Evolution Soccer. The next day, Will and Simon are woken up by a loud banging noise. They find out that it was the same angry man who caught them vandalising flowers earlier. The man finds them because he saw Neil through the kitchen window. Will's mum's friend opens the door (she was told to check up on Will earlier), Will kicks the door shut and breaks her nose in the process. Will tries to reason with the man but ends up closing the curtains on him which angers him even more. Will finds out that his mum has returned and now knows that he is going to be in deep deep trouble. In the end, Simon misses his golf tournament, Jay finds out that his dog has been put down because once a dog starts defecating in the house it's already close to the end of its life, and Will's mum gets dumped by her new boyfriend because he doesn't want to deal with a "problem child".

Simon's parents tell him that the whole family are moving to Swansea in a couple of weeks due to Simon's dad's company making many employees redundant. Simon is distraught, as he will have no friends and will never see Carli again. At the same time, Neil worries that he has got a woman pregnant. Will decides to organise one last trip for the gang before they go their separate ways. The four lads pack Simon's Fiat for a camping trip in the countryside. At the woods by a lake, Will draws on all his scout training – the same however, cannot be said for Jay, Neil and Simon, who are not prepared for the great outdoors at all. After burning all of Will's stuff to make a fire, a quick texting game, and playing Monopoly in the dark, the team lock themselves out of the car, which soon rolls into the lake. Neil receives a text saying the woman is not pregnant (the "positive" was on a Chlamydia test), while Simon gets a text from Carli (but will not reveal the contents, beyond saying "brilliant"). After everyone throws up in the tent thanks to Neil eating the sausages and got sick (except Will), the group have no choice but to walk home.

The Inbetweeners are reunited for one night only. Together again for the first time in four years, Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas, aka Will, Jay, Neil and Simon, are all on board for an action-packed, fun-filled celebration of 10 years of The Inbetweeners. The show celebrates the huge cultural phenomenon of our four favourite teenagers, and features a succession of much loved faces from the cast of the massively successful TV series and films. There are star interviews, fun games, and clips of everyone's favourite Inbetweeners moments, as well as the first ever Inbetweeners Awards, plus many more surprises. Grab your briefcases and enjoy the party!