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Aaron

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May 22, 2008, 9:06 PM BST
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Write one then.
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May 22, 2008, 9:25 PM BST
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Quote: Martin Holmes @ May 22 2008, 9:02 PM BST
I caught some more of this last week and it actually raised a couple of chuckles from me (it was the one with the yellow Fiat stuck between the funeral cars). Not as bad as I had initially thought and much more appealing than Skins.
However I still don't find it a realistic portrayal of British school life and still think there is room on TV for a sitcom about proper school life.
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I think it's a very accurate of middle class school life, it's not an easy thing to get right but they've done it.
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May 22, 2008, 9:28 PM BST
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I couldn't think of how to word it (so didn't), but yes, you're spot-on there Seefacts.
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May 22, 2008, 10:03 PM BST Edited by Martin Holmes on May 22 2008, 10:04 PM BST
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Quote: Aaron @ May 22 2008, 9:06 PM BST
Write one then. 
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Have had ideas for a while now of a school sitcom, will maybe get working on it soon now that my exams are over.
I suppose the middle-class school may be where I find it hard to relate though, having gone to a working class comprehensive. But also it could be because The Inbetweeners doesn't actually focus on the school that much anyway, like the hierarchy's within schools, the little cliques and all that type of stuff, it is much more broad and 'sitcomy'...getting felt up by driving instructors, getting stuck in between funeral cars, projectile vomiting over a little girl...none of that I feel is relatable. Not saying that those a necesserily a bad thing, I laughed at the funeral car bit and it works if that's the show they are aiming to make. But that's why I feel that there is still room for a more realistic school life sitcom, I suppose more like Teachers but from the kids perspective (although Teachers did have many surreal moments too), I'm thinking something filmed more in style of The Office or perhaps The Thick of It but set in a school (not a mockumentary though).
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May 22, 2008, 10:08 PM BST
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Quote: Mark @ May 22 2008, 7:29 PM BST
We've got an exclusive interview with a couple of the stars of The Inbetweeners here... they've been reading what everyone's been saying 
http://www.comedy.org.uk/guide/tv/inbetweeners/interview/
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Great interview Mark...nice to know they're reading here and seeing the fact we love The Inbetweeners!
Good start to tonights episode. We actually celotaped one of our guys to a chair and left him there once... this was only last week!
Fuck it, it's Christmas.
"Every joke is a tiny revolution," thought George Orwell. "Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny."
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May 22, 2008, 10:27 PM BST
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That was great.
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May 22, 2008, 10:28 PM BST
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I don't think UK schools have cliques in the same mould as jocks, preps etc.
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May 22, 2008, 10:29 PM BST
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Oh they do. Well not as clear cut as American schools, but I was most certainly a geek at school.
I loved the bit at the end! hahaha
Fuck it, it's Christmas.
"Every joke is a tiny revolution," thought George Orwell. "Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny."
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May 22, 2008, 10:33 PM BST
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Quote: Seefacts @ May 22 2008, 10:28 PM BST
I don't think UK schools have cliques in the same mould as jocks, preps etc.
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Yeah, not to the same degree as it seems they do in America, but there was certainly the geek group, the sporty group, the thick/hard nut group and so on.
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May 22, 2008, 10:34 PM BST Edited by Seefacts on May 22 2008, 10:49 PM BST
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To me UK schools just have the following:
Chavs (20%)
The normal, likeable kids (35%) * contains sporty guys, a few geeks too *
The thick kids (15%) * the sort who all now work in shops *
The scummy kids (10%) * the sort who rumours go round about eating a dog for Xmas dinner etc *
The Manga loving, porno watching, games playing, irritating dolts (10%)
The quiet ones who no fucker ever remembers (10%)
Nice!
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May 22, 2008, 10:43 PM BST
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Okay which one were you?
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May 22, 2008, 10:48 PM BST
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Quote: zooo @ May 22 2008, 10:43 PM BST
Okay which one were you?
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Normal, likeable.
That category breaks down into various mini-sections. I was a bit geeky, but reasonably popular. I wasn't too shit at sports, never got bullied and was friends with lots of other people in said group.
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May 22, 2008, 10:53 PM BST
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*scratches head*
I'm proba- No. Erm. *scratches head some more* Not a clue.
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May 22, 2008, 11:08 PM BST
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"My eyes are burning."
"I'm going to be put on some kind of sex register."
"She wanked me off a couple of times."
It was good episode with some great lines, but not as funny as some of the others.
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May 22, 2008, 11:13 PM BST
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Yeah, slightly less on the laughs, but what they managed to get themselves into made up for that, for me.
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