The Inbetweeners

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.

The Inbetweeners: series three, episode six

A weekend camping trip ruined by food poisoning, vomit, rage and an STD seemed like a fitting way to end the series.

The season finale in this terrific - if gleefully obscene - comedy about the growing pains of four decidedly uncool teenage friends finds Simon (Joe Thomas) in turmoil as his father tells him that changes at work mean that the family will have to move to Swansea. After learning that Swansea is in Wales, Simon is unimpressed. Will (Simon Bird) decides a camping trip is the answer.

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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.