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The Inbetweeners series 3 episode 5 review

The real skill of The Inbetweeners is making the more unlikeable sides of the boys somehow likeable. Kicking some flowers, eating toast as if it were made of heroin and ordering beer on someone else's credit card would usually be grounds for a well deserved kicking. But here, it's almost charming as Neil and Jay indulge themselves like two spoiled private schoolchildren.

The Inbetweeners: series three, episode five

The episode started out in fine form - but when the golf clubs came out, the show lost its swing.

A near pitch-perfect set-up unfolded in episode five, series three of The Inbetweeners. Will's mum went away with her 'Facebooks' boyfriend for a dirty (in the minds of Jay and Neil, at least) weekend in the Cotswolds, leaving the geeky teen with the house to himself. Much hilarity should have ensued, right?

Not quite. What followed was predictable, contrived and short of the belly-laughs that have been plentiful in this series - in all likelihood the final one before the forthcoming film and the one-off special to tie it all up.

With Jay and Neil's propensity for lobbing daffodils with golf clubs and running over innocent squirrels forming the blueprint for the plot, Will was faced with the tricky decision to either grass on his mates or face the prospect of his UCAS application being 'f***** up' by Mr Gilbert.

Of course, faced with the - not exactly Sophie's Choice - Will and his gang got into even more trouble, making an enemy out of a 'hard' neighbour.

The final scenes were played out at hair-growth's pace and felt inconclusive, but laughs were realised from Will slamming a door closed on his elderly neighbour and Jay's 'Tiger Wuss' quip.

The only other bright points were from the more adult characters - Mr Gilbert, Jay's dad and Will's yummy mummy, who didn't get nearly enough screen time. More of them and a more sympathetic side to the main characters needed in what's left of The Inbetweeners, please.

The Inbetweeners 3.5 review

The first half of series 3's penultimate episode contained some of the best comedy The Inbetweeners has ever delivered, particularly the incident with Jay trying to run over a crafty squirrel.

You'd be a foolhardy parent to leave your house unguarded for the weekend if your son is one of The Inbetweeners. But Will's mum is a flighty type, who regards her son as a sort of teenage David Mitchell, who's more likely to research science projects than have a good time. Unfortunately for her, the same cannot be said for Will's mates Jay, Simon and Neil. So the minute she leaves for a weekend away with an old school friend, the boys are straight round to Will's for a weekend of decadent partying.

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The Inbetweeners 3.4 review

It's often mentioned that The Inbetweeners could theoretically continue past sixth form and into university, and "The Trip To Warwick" was an episode where writers Damon Beesley and Iain Morris gave fans a glimpse of what a uni-based version of this comedy might resemble. The answer: hilarious.

Interview with co-writer Iain Morris

"Both Damon and I try to draw the characters from real life, I identify with Will."

Could it be that one of the gang is going to achieve the improbable, and have sex with a girl? The answer appears to be yes when Tara suggests to Simon that they visit her sister at Warwick University to consummate their weeks-old relationship. What she envisioned probably didn't involve a trip with three of Simon's mates, who are along to offer moral support and advice - apart from Will, who just felt left out and lonely. Naturally, the course of true love (and sex) does not run true and there are the obligatory gags involving male genitalia, bodily secretions and Will acting his most blimpish when confronted by the reality of student life.