A few months back there was a marathon on BBC America of this hilarious show about a group of guys in high school. I watched about 6 episodes on a friends couch while nursing a hangover, and have been trying to find the name of the show ever since. Please tell me it’s available on DVD in the US!
In it a pretty dorky, uptight kid from a well-to-do family gets sent to public school for some reason (perhaps his dad left?). He quickly befriends a couple of social misfits and hilarity ensues. A few things I remember from the show:
A running gag on how hot (“fit” in British parlance) the protag’s mom is.
An episode where one of the gang gets an embarrassingly yellow car, they take it to an amusement park where it gets a door sheared off in the parking lot.
One of the gang has a crush on a very attractive girl who’s been a friend of the family for years. He gets sickly drunk, tells her he loves her, and vomits all over the kid she’s babysitting.
The gang skips school, manages to purchase some booze, and gets drunk.
A very hot/popular/promiscuous girl starts dating the protag, but he is heartbroken when he discovers he’s only being used to make her old BF jealous.
And to correct your terminology :- the school he left was a “public school” (yes, his father left),which was actually private and fee paying, and the school he went to was a public school, which was actually public and free. (Don’t ask me, it’s a British thing :- I’m Irish).
Yes, thank you! That’s definitely it. I’m aware of the paradoxical meaning of “public school” in Britain (Eton is a public school IIRC), but didn’t think of it when I posted.
Elfkin - I actually enjoy an episode of The Young Ones from time to time, but can only stand so much of Vivian’s constant screaming.
Definitely Inbetweeners- if you like that, you may also like Misfits, which is about a group of young offender doing community service who get superpowers- sort of the anti-Heroes. Funny, gritty, and definitely not going to be seen on a US network station any time soon.
By the sounds of it you saw the third series, which whilst funny was inferior to the first and second.
Which means you are in for a treat when you see the first and second.
They said that they were not going to do any more shows but there would be a film, but they now seem to have relented and there will be two one-off specials next year.
No he saw the first 2 series. BBC America ran the first two series (12 episodes) in a row. They did not show the 3rd series, as at the time it had not yet aired in the UK.
Weird. I was convinced the Thorpe Park episode was in the third series. Turns out it was episode three of series one. I watched them all again (in a weekend) in the run up the third series starting, so clearly I got confused somewhere.
In other words, don’t listen to me. I am talking shite.