The Inbetweeners: Caravan Club Review

Believe it or not it's actually been around three years since an episode of The Inbetweeners was last covered by me and well since I didn't want to do either of the movies. I thought that now was the absolutely right time to get back into this show as this show really is one of the funniest shows out there and does deserve alot more love and attention from people and so then me as I review the episode that sees the boys go caravanning with the episode in question being called simply just "Caravan Club" enjoy.

The plot of this is when they become fed up of his lies Will , Neil and Simon decide to take up Jay on his offer and go to a camp site that he says is full of girls. Now then in of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty just as simple and as fun as a plot like this one really should be as this is a show that really doesn't demand deep and thought provoking plots as all it needs is a simple setup and that let the characters just be their awkward selfs and that is something that does work really well for this episode as we get to see the characters just be there typical awkward selfs whilst still trying to get girls to like them with the only issue about this episodes plot being the fact that it doesn't really tie up the loose end of them catching Jay out in one of his lies as the episode does instead kind of leave it open ended which is true to the show as the show would do something like this and given that this episode was apart of the shows first series it's not that big of an issue but at the same time tho if your going to set up the possibility of the boys catching him out in an obvious lie then you should at least have a pay off for it even if it's a small one but that's a very minor issue with the episodes plot as the plot of this episode was on the whole really good and was more then up to the already high standerd of plots from the rest of this show with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Simon Bird as Will McKenzie , James Buckley as Jay Cartwright and Blake Harrison as Neil Sutherland. Also starring in this episode is Joe Thomas as Simon Cooper , Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Mark Donovan , Greg Davies as Phil Gilbert , Racheal Joseph as The Petrol Station Attendant , Clemency Hallinan as Becky , Victoria Willing as Mrs. Cartwright , David Schaal as Terry Cartwright and Suzi Battersby as The Punk Girl.

Now then in of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which is pretty typical for this how as all of this episodes main actors do indeed turn in some really good an funny performances in this episode which is something that does make sense as this episode would have most likely have been one of the last series 1 episodes to be filmed and therefor of course the acting from all of the main series actors would have been good as they would have had several other weeks to get to know there characters and turn in good performances from all of the previous episodes as well with even the episodes guest actors also turning in some really good performances with even both Victoria Willing and David Schaal going on to become series regulars as there characters from this episode with the pair of them even appearing in the The Inbetweeners Movies as well with being really hard to say just who the best actors in this episode as while David Schaal does a good job of making his character utterly unlikable James Buckley also gets the chance to shine as well as now his lies are catching up to him and he has to just try and make it look like that was telling the truth about Caravan Club all along with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes scripts is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them more naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

As was just mentioned this episode does see the debut of Jay's dad Terry played brilliantly by David Schaal. With his character constantly talking to and making fun of not only his son but also his wife as well which does make him a really unlikable character as he's the kind of person will just say whatever's on his mind regardless of how other people feel about it which does make his scenes with the boys some of the most utterly entertaining scenes to watch in the episode as you never really know just what it is that he's going to say or do next but whatever it is you can sure that's entertaining to watch as his character is just that unpredictable and while this character would not fly today just due to the fact that he does throw alot of possibly abusive comments Jay's way even comparing him to a woman at several points in the episode these comments whilst they do hurt Jay they are his way of having a joke with someone and just trying to have a laugh with them yes there not that funny things to say to anyone but they do also feel oddly right for this character as you just couldn't picture this character being politically correct as that would just sap out all of the humor from the character and make feel like a one dimensional character where as here he does somewhat feel alot more three dimensional as a character as while yes he does say alot of hurtful things to Jay he also says that he doesn't mean any harm by them and that there just his way of having a joke with people and that's really it and that's something that would be lost if a character like Terry was to be created today as he would have to be politically correct just to make people on either Bluesky or X happy.

Heck it could even be argued that Jay is the way that he is because of how his dad treats him and with Terry being one of the many people to actively call him put on his lies does make that fact even funnier. What doesn't really work tho is the fact that Jay yells at him in this episode which is something that doesn't work as it would have made more sense if that moment was saved for either a later episode of show or either of the movies as then you could have a proper build up to it and make that moment all the more impactful where as here it's just comes across as something that could be easily brushed off when given that the more realistic approach that the makers of this show had for there stories it would have been something that was brought back up and not something that was just forgotten about where as if you did it in either of the movies then firstly it could have been super funny to see Jay try to stand up to him only to get embarrassed by him again and secondly it would have been a great way to conclude that character as while the second film does indeed have Jay fight back against his uncle that moment wasn't earned as we the audience hadn't had the time to get to know his Uncle where as we have had the time to get to know his dad and while the idea of all of the male of his family being just like his dad is funny Jay trying to punch his uncle only for it to turn into slap doesn't have the same impact as him trying to hit his Dad as we the audience know that whatever Jay had done to his dad it would have been completely justified due to the events of this series and the things that the character has said to Jay as well.

One of the best things that this episode was actually have the boys actually call out Jay for all of his lies and go the place where he says that he frequently scores with multiple women. As the character of Jay up until this point in time had been someone who would tell these kind of lies and yet would still get away with it think Stifler from the American Pie movies but British and yet here due to the fact that this show is based more on things that did happen to the creators and only writers of this show it is more believable that these characters would call him out on as they just like Jay want to become popular with girls and therefor going to the place where they've been told by none other then Jay himself is crawling with women would make them want to go there with Will even describing the situation as a win win as ether they do get with girls or they prove that Jay is a lier so either way they would win in that situation but what doesn't work is the fact that the episode for the most part does drop that aspect of it's story with none of the characters mentioning the fact that he does tell these kinds of lies alot of the time until the very end where Will and Jay get into an argument about it at the side of the road and that's really when something that was key to getting the main plot of the episode should have been given more prominence in the actual episode as you very easily could have had one of the boys mention a few times to Jay that they know that he's lieing to them only to have him think up something that he knows that they would like as that could have been a funny idea and true to his character and with Jay being the main character of the episode it is something that would have made sense given the context of the episode.

The best thing about this episode is seeing how Will , Simon and later Neil all act when they are around girls. With that being where the characters get to be there awkward themselves as Will is unsure of what to do when someone who wants to be alone with him is just straight up about it and Simon is a little bit to sure of himself and Neil is just Neil who is happy just going with the flow with it being that kind of attitude that does technically prove Jay right as there was a girl there who wanted to get with one of the boys with it being true to who they are as characters seeing how two of them just crash and burn with Will deciding to go skidding across the floor of the main common room for the caravan park and Simon being a bit to keen for his own good which does result in not only the girl in question telling her parents about what's just happened but also Simon telling the girl what Jay had said to him earlier on in the episode and just straight up telling Jay off about it near the episodes end with Neil being the only one to pull a girl which is also the same girl that tried to pull Will but at the same time Jay was also lieing threw his teeth as there was only two girls interested in two of the lads and not the whole park with the whole idea of two of the boys trying to pull a girl being more then highlight of the episode as we the audience know that at somepoint there going to mess it up as it's only a matter of time given just who these characters and yet it's still fun to see them have these interactions with the girls in question as they do seem like the type of girls that the boys would like and eventually date as well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these episodes to have and to the episodes credit it really does have more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while yes granted the fact that the episodes plot isn't as fully fleshed out as it perhaps could have been this isn't a negative for this episode as the plot doesn't need to be that fleshed out in order to be good as it just needed to be simple enough for us the audience to get an idea of what's going on but then also be fun enough for it to work in a comedy setting which it was with the only real downside of this being the fact the fact that none of the characters that this episode introduces aren't that fully fleshed out as characters which is fine for the girls as they were only meant to be in this one episode and nothing more then that and it is something that does work for Terry as he's quite literally just an older version of Jay but it's something that works for Mrs. Cartwright as she not only just gets a few lines of dialog early on in the episode but due to the movie straight up showing us that she has a daughter it now makes her look like a bad parent as in this episode the daughter isn't seen nor is she mentioned and given by the size of the caravan that there staying in it doesn't look like that they had enough room for her when having her there would not only give the mother something more to do other then look disgusted at Terry whenever he leaves the bathroom but it also would have some extra dimension to her as a character as we could then get to see how she treats her daughter when compared to how she treats Jay where as here it looks like that she favors Jay over her own daughter but I really will it that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode much like all of the other episodes in this show and the movies as well for that matter having alot of painfully moments in it from Will skidding on the floor of the disco to him then loosing his shoes and being bullied by a bunch of eight year old kids to any of the reactions from any of the series main four actors when there sat around the table inside the caravan waiting to have there dinner there's just alot of really funny gags in this episode and all of them work because nine times out of ten there all situations that us the audience have been in thus making them more relatable with the best moment in this whole episode being at the start of the episode where we see Will at school tied to a chair with bucket on his head put done to him by the school bully Mark Donovan all for apparently no reason with none of the characters able to remove the bucket because of the fact that Donovan has told them not to do with even Mr. Gilbert himself getting in on the act when he convinces will that he tripped and fell into the bucket whilst Will was just trying to tell the truth and when he does go along with the lie all Gilbert can say is that Will is clumsy with the best being all of Donovan's reactions to when someone does try to take the bucket of Will's head all of which are painfully funny to watch with all of this episodes jokes being really funny as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is just so funny and is a good example of why this show not only worked back in 2008 but still works almost twenty years later as all of the characters are relatable characters and the stories are just as relatable as well but most importantly the jokes are actually funny with this episode episode having alot of the best jokes that this show would become really known for as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , the official The Inbetweeners fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official The Inbetweeners fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with really alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official The Inbetweeners fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.