The Inbetweeners

It's a new term at Rudge Park and the boys have signed up for the annual Geography and Sociology field trip to Swanage. Although Neil doesn't study either of the subjects, he is allowed to come along by agreeing to help Mr. Kennedy, an alleged paedophile. When the boys are moved from the back seat of the coach by Mark Donovan, the school bully, Will gets a stroke of luck when he gets to sit next to new girl Lauren. The two get on well and Will falls for her, but Lauren unfortunately has her eyes set on Simon, and Will's constant Yoda impressions that Lauren doesn't understand aren't helping either. The boys arrive in Swanage, and as Will and Simon both attempt to impress Lauren, Neil and Jay set off to find the legendary "Swanage MILF" who allegedly has sex with one Rudge Park pupil every year. Simon realises that he still loves his childhood friend Carli and Will takes the opportunity to invite Lauren on a boat trip. The trip is spoiled when the boys return, without finding the rumoured Swanage MILF. After a number of unfortunate incidents on the boat, such as Simon falling into the harbour and beginning to develop hypothermia and the boys being "attacked" by a fish, Jay sets off an emergency flare and the boys are saved, albeit at the expense of looking like idiots to the rest of the people on the field trip.

It's Valentine's Day and after comparing cards, Will catches up with Charlotte, whom he sent a card and a bouquet of flowers, and she invites him along to an under-18s disco in which she will be supervising. Before that happens though, the boys have to endure work experience. Jay has set himself and Simon up at his dad's plant hire, but that turns out to be nowhere near as fun as Jay promised. Will's request to be placed at a local newspaper is mixed up and he is instead sent to a car garage, with Neil going to the newspaper company. Neil does well at his placement, but Will struggles to fit in with the other mechanics at the garage. Growing desperate in order to impress his workmates, Will tells them of his date with his "horny girlfriend" later that night. Simon, Jay and Neil also decide to tag along when Will unwittingly tells them of his date. Friday arrives and the boys head to the disco. While receiving a hand job from a Valentine's card-sending admirer, Simon is attacked by a young boy in retaliation for barging into him earlier in the episode and for thinking that he insulted him (although it was actually Jay who insulted the boy). The boy gets pulled away, but Simon, Jay and Neil head off to hide in the toilets when the boy appears with his friends from the violent Northwood gang. Will goes to Charlotte for some help, but she refuses to help when a man from the garage turns up, who, despite appearing much older, reveals he is in fact seventeen, and relays all of the things Will had said he and Charlotte had done. Will then decides to ring his mum and the boys leave, saved from the Northwood gang but being considered "saddos" even more than ever.

Jay steals a flyer for a "sexy" party being held by Louise Graham from her bag and the boys decide to go. However, the party clashes with Will's sophisticated birthday dinner and he eventually persuades his friends that his event is more important. The boys all attempt to get a date for Will's dinner, but everyone seems to be going to Louise's party, including Will's love interest, Charlotte. Simon is having to look after a French exchange student named Patrice (played by Vladimir Consigny) and brings him along to Will's house. Will's birthday comes and his present from his mum is an unflattering black vest that she thinks makes him look cool. This rather disappoints Will, as he had been hoping for driving lessons. His mother persuades him into wearing the vest that evening anyway. The night does not get much better as at his dinner party, there is not a female guest in sight. After being branded "paedophiles" by a group of drunken young girls and finding an angry middle-aged stripper on the doorstep, Will agrees that maybe going to Louise's party is better than this. The boys (except Patrice) are denied entry to the party and all but Will decide to climb the fence, with Will opting to crawl underneath it (passing through dog faeces in the process). Having to take his jacket off, he reveals his birthday present and is ridiculed by the party goers for it. Will then receives a shock when he finds Patrice and Charlotte in bed together. The boys receive a brief respite from their bad day when Donovan turns up looking for Charlotte, and the prospect of Patrice getting beaten up by the psychopathic school bully is a happy one as Simon disliked him. Unfortunately, their happiness is short-lived as, when they leave the party, they are again spotted by the same group of drunken young girls who send their older brother chasing after them with a cricket bat.

Will decides the boys need to lose their "saddo" tag and that they should go clubbing in the centre of London to reinvent themselves. Jay and Neil both sound eager, but Simon is reluctant to do so, stating that they would get robbed, stabbed and killed if they drive down to London. He is later persuaded to go after Neil says that he has a car and will happily drive the group down to the capital, as well as Carli telling him that she and her friend Rachel will also be going down to London on the same night. As the boys prepare for the night out, Simon is informed that he will have to drive seeing as Neil's car lacks an engine. Still excited by the prospect of meeting Carli, he agrees to drive down. When the boys arrive in London, however, things begin to go pear-shaped. Simon is attacked by a scary man waiting at a nearby bus stop after Jay decides to shout out "bus wankers" as they drive past. Simon has to swap his new trainers for piss-stained, tattered shoes from a tramp in order to be allowed in. As Neil and Jay walk off to find some girls, Will and Simon prepare for their "dates" with Rachel and Carli, respectively. Both dates don't go very well, with Rachel smitten by another man, Dean (played by Bird and Thomas' close friend Jonny Sweet) and Carli being put off Simon after the foul smell from his shoes. After Neil is thrown out for "masturbating" in the toilets (he was actually inspecting a cut on his penis he received earlier), the boys decide to call it a night.

Will is picked to run the school's Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, having been told by Mr. Gilbert the reason he was chosen is that he is a virgin, and although Jay is reluctant to help, Neil and Simon agree to participate. Will signs himself, Simon and Neil up at a local retirement home in order to fulfil one of their Duke of Edinburgh modules. The boys go to the care home for the first time, and Daisy tells him that she wants the following day off so that she can attend a friend's hen do. Once again, Will volunteers himself and his friends for the shifts (after also persuading Daisy to go on a date with him), but Simon then reveals that he has to spend time with his dad, after his parents go on a trial separation and cannot do the shifts. Jay agrees to help, but only if he receives payment for it. The next day Will finds himself exhausted and falls asleep in the common room at school. Jay and Neil can't resist the opportunity to cause mischief, put hair removal cream down Will's trousers, and his pubic hair falls out in the shower when he gets home. Will panics before his date and quickly stuffs a woman's wig down his underpants at the retirement home. Will tries to keep Daisy from finding out about the wig after their date, but she finds out and tells Will to leave after thinking that he did not have any pubic hair in the first place and that she was too old for him. The next day, Will tries to explain to Daisy, but she is too embarrassed to talk to him. Meanwhile, Jay becomes bored watching over the elderly people and sneaks off to an apparent unoccupied room to masturbate. When he is discovered, the boys are kicked off the programme.

In the final episode of the second series, the boys are facing upcoming exams. Will is overworking himself and relying on energy drinks to keep him going; Simon is ignoring his revision and helping Carli revise for A-Level Geography; Jay is smitten by his new girlfriend Chloe and Neil is preparing for his practical exam in PE by playing Pro Evolution Soccer. During the first revision session Carli tells Simon that she and Tom have split up, which leads them to share numerous kisses at their next revision session and Carli accepts the invitation to join Simon and the rest of the gang at a nearby pub for an end-of-term celebratory drink. Simon hurries to tell Will – only to be shunned by his friend, who is cracking under the pressure of the looming exams. Jay is advised by his dad to make sure he always knows where Chloe is, and he begins texting her on a regular basis. The final exams come and both Simon and Jay are too distracted with their love lives to do any work on the paper. With all of the energy drinks he has taken in, Will begins to develop stomach trouble, and he poos his pants during the final exam. The boys go to the pub without Will, and as they order drinks, Will turns up wearing some tracksuit bottoms from lost property and not caring about the exam and how he likely failed it; he begins drinking three pints of lager to forget his awful day. Both Simon and Jay get dumped by their respective girls, with Carli announcing she has made up with Tom and Chloe says to Jay that he is too sensitive for her, and the boys drive off thinking up new nicknames for Will; now unarguably the biggest "saddo" in school.