The Inbetweeners

Farewell, then, to The Inbetweeners, who signed off their third - and rumoured to be final - series in the typically lewd and crude gross-out fashion that blew the rest of the comedy competition out of the water.

If this was their farewell, they've left us with a perfectly formed memory, a magnificent fart in the face of good taste.

Though nothing will top the testicle episode for this year's funniest TV moment, last night's finale was not far behind, with Simon's potential exile to Swansea threatening to tear the dysfunctional gang asunder and prompting that comedy classic standby, the camping trip.

It was a non-stop stream of smut about sexual deviancy in all its many and glorious forms, teachers coming in for a particularly hard time.

'The only reason anyone teaches... is that there's a more relaxed view on police checks these days,' sneered the gangly head. Bye gaylords, you'll be missed.

TV review: The Inbetweeners

Ah, they grow up so fast don't they? One minute they're just cheeky little tykes, sneaking up under the radar to win an unexpected Bafta. The next they're, well, cheeky little tykes who with three successful series about being unsuccessful with girls are now too late-20s-ish to get away with it any more (apart from the inevitable spin-off movie).

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This series won't have won over any new fans, but it has provided some of the best episodes of the series history. It remains to be seen whether or not there will be another after the movie adaptation but the writers can rest assured that, with The Inbetweeners, they've created a minor classic.

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The Inbetweeners is one of those shows that will last the test of time: that I'm sure of. I can't see myself growing tired of these watercooler moments over the 18 classic episodes.

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Knowing there's a movie and wrap-up TV special to come, the "last ever episode" of E4's The Inbetweeners wasn't the emotional send-off we might otherwise have expected.

In which Will organises one last adventure - a camping trip in the great outdoors, before the winds of destiny blow the gang hither and yon; and before we too wave affectionate farewell to this brilliantly horrible, and horribly authentic, series. The cult crossover done good - even if it did feel a bit laboured during this final run, galloping towards those big "gross-out" set pieces. Slavering junkies, be of good cheer: the movie should be out in 2011.

Alas, it's already time to bid farewell to dopey Neil, foul-mouthed Jay, luckless Si and über-nerd Will. With the actors playing them now in their mid-20s, this is likely to be the sixth formers' last outing, apart from a promised film, in which they'll face that modern rite of passage, a lads holiday in Magaluf. Judging by tonight's camping trip, it'll be a smutty, gross, thoroughly entertaining affair. Simon's family are moving to Swansea for his dad's job, so Will organises a goodbye camping trip, somehow failing to predict that his mates will pour petrol on plans for wholesome fun around a campfire. Literally.

Barring an impending film, this is it from The Inbetweeners. And it's a surprising finale. When Will organises a camping trip as a send-off for Simon, whose dad's job means the family moving to Swansea, the tension between the four unlikely friends runs high. But the laughs come thick and fast in the first half and there's a nicely played development in Simon's relationship with Carli. Roll on the big-screen outing, where the four go on a lads' holiday.

Make the most of tonight's episode because this is likely to be the last you'll see of the nation's favourite sixth formers until their movie comes out.

Simon kicks off at the news his family are moving to Swansea. Will proposes a camping trip to cheer him up, so think of everything that could possibly go wrong involving four lads, a campfire, a tent and Si's yellow Fiat and you'll be grinning before the show even starts.

At least out in the middle of nowhere their humiliation this week isn't a public one. And there's also the unexpected revelation that one of the foursome has actually lost his virginity.

Perhaps reality does dictate that with the cast now in their 20s, it's time to close the school gates once and for all. But if Jay, Will, Simon and Neil got a flat together for a fourth series (and a fifth and sixth), they'd take a lot of very happy viewers with them.