Caught this today and after the let down of Lunch Monkeys, I really wasn't expecting too much. However, I ended up enjoying it and a few of the jokes actually made me laugh out loud (such a rare thing on BBC Three).
The Ginger Bloke is Ginger Bloke from MTV, so I already knew he was going to be funny and the rest of the cast were believable and amusing. It's a shame the college has been ethnically cleansed of all brown people, but you can't have everything.
My biggest problem with this show, was the way everyone in the college all suddenly shut up and stared at the main characters at every given opportunity. The inhaler, standing in the flat queue, the argument in the student bar, as if on cue (well deliberately on cue) every person in the University suddenly stopped whatever they were doing to hang on the every word and to witness the hilarious antics of American Pie's answer to Laurel and Hardy.
No offence, but you could walk into any university in the land tomorrow and scream at the top of your lungs 'I like wearing women's clothes and shagging goats!' and no one will even look at you. Whisper 'I've got hash' and the situation changes entirely.
That leads me to next biggest criticism - authenticity. The writer didn't seem to imbue any kind of first hand, autobiographical insight into proceedings. All I could see were lots of characters and scenarios borrowed heavily from numerous American teen comedy films. Probably why it made me laugh.
Finally, what the f**k was up with the milk? - It was like less then half a pint and yet it made a bowl of cereal and 4 gallons of punch. Where is their university? Hogwarts?
As has been mentioned before, in terms of BBC 3 shitcoms, this is Citizen Cane compared to the usual wank piles we're forced to watch.
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