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Bus wankers!
- Jay leans out of the car and insults the people at the bus stop by yelling "bus wankers!" — a classic moment. But when they inevitably catch up with the boys 50-odd yards down the road, why do they threaten Simon who was clearly just driving the car? Even if the men were severely short-sighted, they'd've seen that Jay was obviously leaning out of the passenger-side window. It's supposed to be comedy, but comedy is supposed to use logic to get laughs.
- The men were just pissed off and looking to take it out on whoever the easiest target was. They probably assumed all of the boys were in on it, rather than Jay just acting alone. And of course, Jay wouldn't do the decent thing and admit that it was him because he's a Dirty Coward.
The kids from the Happy Foundation
- The ones with Down's Syndrome who trashed Simon's car at the amusement park...
- How did they do it without their caretaker stopping them?
- The logical deduction would be that he sanctioned it, or even took a leading role in the trashing, because he was also offended by Will's insensitivity. Thankfully for them, there was no chance of legal reprisals as it happened, as Will and the others gave into defeat because of his immense embarrassment. If the caretaker had refused, it would not have happened.
- How did they manage to reach the car ahead of the boys when they all left Nemesis at the same time?
- Simon carrying that bulky door would have slowed them down.
- Since they only saw Will (who was the one who insulted them), how did they know he was with Simon?
- How did they even know which car was Simon's? He didn't carry the door with him onto the ride and even if he had, they were already strapped into their seats at the front of the roller coaster and so would not have been able to see it.
- The answer to 3 and 4 may be that, given they had parked near Simon's car in the first place (perhaps arriving around the same time as them), they may have noticed the boys at that time (especially given that Simon reversed and ripped his door off on the sign). That would be one hell of an identifier which sticks out in your mind, and these lads with Down's Syndrome actually seemed relatively smart (they wanted some payback, as shown by them flipping the V-signs to the boys on departure). Returning to the van, they noticed the garish yellow banger again and recalled that the boys were lumbering around with the broken door, so this was an opportunity for revenge too good to pass up.
Underage drinking
- In the first episode, it's made clear that the boys, who are under 18, have a problem with getting served in pubs — Truth in Television for some but by no means all British teenagers. Yet in "Exam Time", Will is able to purchase several pints of lager in a pub despite the fact that he's wearing school uniform (and carrying a bag containing his soiled trousers). How so?
- Maybe the staff in that particular pub turn a blind eye to serving 17 year-olds. It's not uncommon in Britain. Or not even the first time it happened in the series.
- Pity? By this point Will was able to elicit feelings of sympathy from Mr Gilbert of all people.
- Despite the school uniform, Will may have secured a convincing fake ID (since having been refused service in the first episode, and being desperate to find any ways to look even mildly cooler to his peers) which would indicate that he's an 18 year old, just about to graduate, and only making him out to be a year older than he actually is.
Condoms
- Given that Simon proves in "Caravan Club" that he's perfectly capable of putting a condom on, why does he follow Jay's advice in "Trip to Warwick" and try to persuade Tara to put it on for him with her mouth?
- More to the point, since he's only going to Warwick so he can have sex with Tara, why does he even agree to take the others with him?
- On a similar note, how come Jay's advice on using condoms changes from "Caravan Club" (when he provides one for Simon when it looks like the latter's going to get laid) to "Trip to Warwick (when his advice to Simon is that he either doesn't use one or get Tara to put it on for him, recommendations that even he must realise won't go down well with Tara)?
- In "Caravan Club", Jay's logic could be that if Simon loses his virginity to someone who isn't Carli, he will likely stop going on about her all the time. In "Trip to Warwick", on the other hand, Jay's clearly trying to cockblock Simon — either because he doesn't like Tara and so doesn't want her in a relationship with his friend, he doesn't want Simon to lose his virginity before he does, or he's just being a Jerkass.
- Simon couldn't put it on in Trip to Warwick because he couldn't get an erection; presumably he had no such problem in Caravan Club.
- I'm just gonna throw it out there, some sexual partners are very capable of orally applying a condom to your penis prior to other penetrative sex acts, and it's a very sexy (and even hands-free) act at that. Simon may have been counting on that giving him a... second wind in his sails, so to speak. Unfortunately, both him being too short into the refractory period and Tara likely having little or no oral sex experience (and also not being into the idea) put paid to that. As for Jay, if he genuinely intended for this to be a sexy experience for Simon, that means he didn't count on Tara not digging the idea (but more likely, the fact that Simon felt compelled to add "or your bum..." was the straw that broke the camel's back, and it didn't help that Jay suggested that variation; otherwise, she may have gone with it better). As far as his advice being inconsistent goes, that's in character for him. There have been other occasions where his lies and braggadocious advice have had inconsistent red flags called out by his friends. The other answers to the question are compelling, but it could just as easily be Jay making up shit advice as he goes along, although sometimes, even a broken clock is right.
- Also Simon didn't really agree to the guys coming, but neither did he really have a choice thanks to the force of Jay's peer pressure to try and chase girls and Will's keen interest in scoping out the uni. If Tara had refused a little harder, he surely would have told them no you have to sit this one out.
Simon's car getting clamped
- In the episode where they go clubbing, they park in front of a garage door with a warning they may be clamped. Of course, they come back and find the car clamped but the guy who did it is really pissed off at them because since he clamped the car, he missed all his deliveries. If the car was in his way, why the hell did he make it so that the car wouldn't be able to be moved, thus delaying his deliveries even longer? Why didn't he just lift up the back end (since a '94 Fiat Cinquecento only weighs 1620 pounds/735 kilograms) and move it or break into the car, release the parking brake and move it that way? Or better yet, since the car was illegally parked, why not just have it towed?
- In Britain, cars are only towed away after several days have passed. Also, clamping is usually done by the local authority (or a private company that said local authority has outsourced the job to), not individuals. The guy probably turned up to do his deliveries after Simon's car had been clamped.
- It wasn't that he clamped the car, so he missed all his deliveries. Rather, it was that it was parked at an inconvenient place, so he missed all his deliveries. We may have to go with the assumption that he did indeed privately clamp it, rather than the authorities. Will accuses him of private clamping, and he does not refute the claim; it's likely in his boiling anger, the sense of self-righteousness when faced with a false accusation would have made him protest that no he definitely did not fucking do that. Instead, he knows he did it, but chooses to sweep the guilt on being made aware that it's illegal to do so underneath his anger and follow up with more grievances. So maybe he didn't know that to begin with, and presumed that a) it was too heavy to move by himself and b) it would be illegal to break through the window to move it. Plus, even with a shattered window, the boys could still drive away relatively easily, and thus he wouldn't be able to demand money from them for any level of compensation (and again, it being illegal to smash the window, he'd instead have to pay them for the repair). A clamp kinda forces the issue better for him, it was a case of scorched earth.
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
- Schools that do the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme invariably get a teacher to run it. A teacher who's doing it voluntarily in addition to his/her teaching duties. Yet Mr Gilbert gives the job to Will (a student) because he's a virgin. What's the logic there?
- It's just another excuse for him to insult Will. Also, if the other teachers are as jaded as Mr Gilbert, it's likely that none of them want to do it (either that or not even Gilbert would go as far as put 'Paedo' Kennedy in charge of it).
- Mr Gilbert might be trying to preserve what little positive image the school has left by ensuring that the person responsible for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme is devoid of any scandals.
James and drugs
- In the first film, how did James not notice he had poo on his nose? Couldn't he smell it?
- Fridge Brilliance: He snorts coke, therefore his sense of smell may be screwed.
- Alternate explanation: Judging by that wretching sound he made, James could smell crap, but assumed it was part of the buzz and gave it no mind.
Will the virgin
- The Good-Times Montage at the end of the first movie shows that he's in a relationship with Alison for the rest of the holiday, implying that he, like Simon (with Lucy) and Jay (with Jane), loses his virginity to her (earlier on, he had been honest with her about his lack of sexual experience, which would seem to negate the prospect of him completely messing it up like he did with Charlotte). Yet in the second movie, it's stated that he's still a virgin. How so?
- Using the .srt file for the sequel, the only search hit for the word "virgin" (besides the airline company Virgin Atlantic) is a crack at Will's expense, where they say that they should use "the mobile virgin conversion unit" (aka that graffiti-ridden car they use as transport in Australia) on him. And he just brushes it off with a sarcastic "brilliant". There may be other allusions to him being a virgin (using synonymous terminology), but one would have to rewatch for that to confirm, and let's assume it is indeed the only mention of it. Now, that's a joke which doesn't necessarily have any bearing on his actual status as a shagger. It could be like in American Pie, where Oz never actually confirmed or denied that he had lost his virginity (being a consummate gentleman) and let his friends assume that he hadn't, because he respected his partner too much to cheapen their experience in a bragging story. Or, maybe Simon, Jay and/or Neil know full well he had sex with Alison, but still mock him as a (faux-) virgin regardless due to his pomposity, naivete and general social cluelessness, which is all still very much there despite him having lost it. Your initial inference, that even Will couldn't botch having multiple carnal relations with someone as attractive and into him as Alison, is very likely correct.
Me thinks the drug dealer doth protest too much
- In "The Gig and the Girlfriend" Jay is forced to follow through on his promise of securing weed for the lads, so he and Neil go to talk to a Black British drug dealer who they noticed punting chronic to another concertgoer. He proceeds to respond in a very standoffish manner to them, saying that they must be racist because they presume that since he's black, he must automatically be a drug dealer. Why did he think he had a leg to stand on with that nonsensical accusation? They saw him, then approached, from an angle (directly perpendicular in fact) which made it very plain what he was offering to the previous customer. He was not being very discreet and his paranoia at not wanting to get caught by the authorities should have informed him that it was likely that other potential customers would observe him doing it, even if he didn't spot the pair of them out of the corner of his eye. In this context, the colour of his skin is entirely incidental. As it happens, he got away with the audacity of his accusation (because as problematic as the Inbetweeners boys can be in other areas, they definitely don't appear to be racist, Will's remark about Patrice's French nationality aside) because it turned out that Jay and Neil don't have the social graces to properly refute it (although Neil did try to point out that they saw the transaction, but he got cut off by the dealer continuing to accost them). But how was the drug dealer to know that they would let him roll over them like that? He just had no credibility and was undermining the cause of anti-racism with stupid aspersions like that.
