"bus turd" is one of the single biggest insults to British culture I have experienced

"In this version Will becomes a school shooter" is funnier than anything in the entire USA Inbetweeners

Jays steady decline into being a sex offender is honestly the funniest part of this show

"I miss Brie" "She might be here, they have a play area" God to admit, that one was proper funny. Shame you had to go through two full episodes of Jay grooming a child to get that one decent joke.

US Producers: Sorry boys, we can't have any swearing in this version of the inbetweeners.....but we can have the main character date a pre-teen.

“Bold of em to put a pedeophile arc in the first season init”

I remember seeing this when it aired, it confirmed one thing to me. The Americas DO NOT get British humour, it’s been done countless times. The inbetweeners, shameless, the office (season 1, as season 2 onwards the office went down a different path) possibly even more, they’ve been executed badly REALLY REALLY badly

When this series was filmed jay’s actor was 23 and Brie’s actor was 16 🤯

they literally made Jay a nonce and I’m still more angry about them changing “bus wankers” to “bus turds”

"She's a blank sexual canvas" is one of the most genuinely creepy things I've ever heard a person say

Their commentary was funnier than the actual show itself

I didn't know George and Alex lived together, and had to rewind because I was so surprised that Alex was so disgusted by the kiss that he teleported into George's shot lol

UK Neil: lacks common sense and is slow to get things USA Neil: primitive spongebob

Conspiracy: George is only doing this series so he can build up his alcohol tolerance for his hot girl summer

I understand the pain as an Aussie growing up with Kath and Kim, the US version... just... why not just appreciate the original?

God, I remember coming across Inbetweeners randomly on TV at like 11:30pm & they were showing the home alone episode. Will kicking the door made me piss myself. Easily the greatest comedy I've ever watched by a landslide. I'd say it's perfect & still funny even after countless rewatches.

this was so painful man

As an American I would like to formally apologize for what ever the hell this show is, and I fully understand if you would like to just wipe the US off the map.

"Oh, he's a nonce!" George Memeulous, 2021

The fact that you made Alex watch this before the British version is torture

45:48 the fact Alex is so physically disgusted he has to go and confront George in person is fantastic

This just shouldn't have existed. The original Inbetweeners is way too rooted in British culture. It was built around our slang, our sex culture, partying culture, drinking, etc. That's what made it funny. Trying to change it all to make sense to American audiences while still keeping the humour is impossible.

To be fair, this inspired me to watch the original Inbetweeners, as I had never heard of it as an American, and I absolutely adore it

"I miss bree" "She might be here, they have a play area" 💀

I won't lie, the discrepancy between Jay especially is mind-blowing. They're both the weird bullshitters, but the UK Jay had this strange childlike edge to his performance, and you could easily tell the intention is that he's a young kid lying his way through things to impress his mates (Especially since they introduce his dad and his dad just berates and humiliates him constantly which genuinely explains everything about his character). The US one gives me some real "40 year old manager hitting on the 18 year old cashier" vibes which makes my skin crawl. Edit: Oh, he's a fucking nonce too. Great...

The highlight of this was James saying ‘that’s not a briefcase that’s a satchel’ in the most serious tone ever

When Neil sayd “you fancied a 8 year old” literally just explained jays future

“Bold of them to put a paedophile arc in the first series” 😂

Neil saying “you fancied an 8 year old” is foreshadowing Jays future partner

Superbad had the same kind of premise, a bunch of nerdy, awkward, but likable guys trying to survive the social scene in high school, and that was a banger movie. This series had the same potential I reckon, just a shame they tried so hard to match the British style of humour with such a wet cast

I just finished watching the whole of the UK Inbetweeners on All4. Fantastic series!

21:26 this isn’t tanning it’s actually the makeup the actor has on (as all actors get makeupped to look their best when filming) they couldn’t be bothered to get his skin tone right 😭

the only joke i appreciated was the one where jay finds someone attractive but then they turn out to be a middle schooler because it's a fairly realistic & inbetweener-esque joke. The problem is, it became unrealistic and weird when Jay decided to carry on pursuing the girl.

Jo Jo Rabbit, Thor Ragnarock and Hunt for the wilderpeople. I am speechless..

In-between (no pun intended) writing and directing a few episodes of Flight of The Concords and Jojo Rabbit... Taika Wakiki worked on this. He made great stuff before and went on to make a masterpiece after. They aren't underselling how baffling it is that his name was a part of this.

Americans: Swearing? NO. Pedos? yes.

Honestly, the alcohol and clubbing scenes make no sense. We are led to believe they are 16, 5 whole years away from drinking age and got let in. I feel like it was much more relatable since they were just 1 year off in the UK version.

"i hope the guy who directed this never got a job again" i have to say i am fucking Impressed that Taika Waititi directed this and then went on to make arguably some of the best films this generation has seen. glad he got his life back on track LMAO

I have a feeling that this is one of those shows which the director (taika) was not allowed any input into the creative choices and was probably controlled more by the producers and writers

It's hard seeing brett gelman play Mr Gilbert in this garbage, cause he did such a great job playing murray in stranger things

Seeing kenji just sitting there on fraser’s lap made my day

The fact that Taika Waihiti went from this to Jojo Rabbit is the most impressive character growth I have ever seen - this is SHIIIITTTTTT.

This is so irrelevant but the fact the George whipped out a bottle of Whitley Neil Gin at 20:13 makes me so unequivocally happy

"anthonty padilla let himself go" lmao Alex was spot on about it feeling like a smosh video

Petition for George to do this with the normal Inbetweeners just to reward to others

I lost it when George and Alex started screaming in pure fear

I love when Alex goes into George’s room LOL

For everyone who watched this monstrosity of a series you deserve a gold star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ thanks george and mates for making this better and bearable

this “watching all” series is just a series of watching the decline in their will to live

The fact that Taika Waititi directed a bunch of this has killed me inside

I’m surprised George didn’t recognise “the comedian from Anchorman” at 36:51 as the actor who played Todd Packer in The Office

This has the acting quality of a Dhar Mann video

as i'm american, i apologize for my country's horrid censorship and existence

Please tell me how tf Taika Waititi went from this to Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit

Deserve a medal for bravery for getting through a whole bastard series of that shite

The fact there's 13 minutes worth of them talking about the fact they made Jay a nonce really shows how truly terrible and outright wrong this show was

To quote the UK version of Will ‘That…. was fucking dreadful’ 😂

They didn't just make Jay's girlfriend a literal child, they made her a SLOW child. Who can't tell their right from their left at that age? And the way she acted, jesus.

The original Inbetweeners genuinely influenced at least one generation of teenagers

I think if Comedy Central did this remake instead of MTV it would’ve been exponentially more successful because of their writing teams and budget potential

Why didnt they make Jays girlfriend just a year younger than Him. Because it fits with realism. In High school if you have a Girlfriend younger than you by a year. Your a Nonce, lines like "She might be here theres a Play area" Would be much more funny and more fitting with a Joke the OG would do

“I don’t know mate seems a bit dodgy to me” my childhood in one sentence

55:27 “jay is actually the fucking sickest character” 56:39 “go jay”

40:12 cheers to the editor that was a nice little detail. the gunshots appeared in the wall cause they live together.

The American version on the inbetweeners is an actual war crime

On behalf of NZ I’d like to apologise for Taika’s lapse in judgement when it came to having anything to do with the abomination

I think I remember that an actor from the british inbetweeners is a substitute teacher at my school, he acted as a drunk scottish guy XD

I'm going to be honest I had to watch this video in parts, and it isn't even the whole series. I don't think I could do what George did, good work soldier.

American Inbetweeners in 3 words “This is tragic”

George: "I hope whoever wrote this never got a job" Taika Waititi in the corner: 😬😬

I like how you can tell how seriously uncomfortable Alex is during Jay's creeper arc due to his constant use of laugther as a coping mechanism

29:04 - to answer your question I would say yes, my high school elected someone as a class clown per class (freshman, sophomore, etc.) as well as other accolades such as 'Most Likely to Succeed', 'Best Dressed', 'Best Hair' to be displayed in the school yearbook. Class clown was more of an endearing term than describing someone as a delinquent though haha

I’m Australian, and even in Australia the Inbetweeners is iconic... they have absolutely slaughtered it (edit): this got so many likes i-

Will or Simon (can't tell whos who in this): "they're 12" Jay: "that's my girl you're talking about" FAMM THE FUCK

“Delete America” is something I agree with completely even though I am American

Could’ve so easily done their own version similar to Superbad or something with US humour instead of trying to recreate ours scene by scene and bumming it

"Not sure what Aristotle has to do with math" Like, this is a minor thing compared to how awful everything in this show is. But... Aristotle does have a decent amount to do with maths.

Taika Waititi clearly had the biggest glow up as a director after this monstrosity

when jay kissed that 12 yr old i actually needed to take a moment to breath

5 minutes ago I had no idea a US version existed. If I could go back in time I would.

i bet Taika erased this from his memory

The bit of you and Alex screaming over the kissing scene with jay is KZfaq rewind material

Alex running to Georges's room, always feels like some meta wall break shit, even though I know they're flatmates

I remember watching this when it first came out. I had made my mind up within the first 5 minutes.

“The show follows 4 teenage boys as they….. do stuff” George memeulous

Can’t wait for season 2, when EDP is cast as Jay

Omg Frasier’s shiba is sooo cute

The problem with the Inbetweeners US was not only that they tried to convey UK "lads" and UK "teen" culture to an American setting but also the problems with the dialogue. They seemed to rush through everything and try to overexaggerate scenes to make it more dramatic. For example, when Will is explaining to Carlys little brother that his parents would die in the UK version, the scene is shot in a way where it is in a setting of casual conversation. It really highlights the idea of Will being so drunk that he is explaining in detail how Carlys parents would die to a young child and not noticing on the effects on the child after. It does all of this whilst talking how normal people would talk, not changing the sound of Wills voice or facial expression. Will speaking like regular Will. In the US version, eerie background music plays as he stares blankly with no facial expression to almost seem like hes trying to scare the kid. Speaking in a different tone to usual and showing a blank stare, which in turn changes the whole bit of it being an ACCIDENT from Will who's too drunk to realise to Will purposely scaring the kid. They also just put little detail into scenes and dont go in depth. Like with when Will goes to buy the alcohol, in the UK version he comes in severely overdressed and being way too overconfident to try and convince the cashier that he is in fact legal when it is apparent hes not shown by his overconfidence. The cashier then says in a stern and firm voice to buy the drinks and get out which clearly intimidates Will and he does so. After buying the drinks he re-puts on that overconfident persona and leaves. In the US, Will firstly wears the same clothes and seems to speak as he normally would throughout the whole season. The cashier instead of being intimidating and firm seems to not care and just lazily says the line, which then Will clearly overreacts his facial expression and then continues with his days. Again same with Mr Gilbert (one of the better US characters I may say) in the UK hes a large, intimidating and quite frankly frightening man but is very witty and sarcastic towards the students. In the US version hes a shorter, much smaller frame and really not that intimidating man who just makes fun of Will. When that wasn't the whole point. Whilst Gilbert made fun of will, he did it usually when Will would comment something or he would do it when the comedic presence was there. The US gilbert just constantly makes fun of will and seems to go out of his way to make fun of him, when the real Gilberts whole aura was that he didnt give a shit about Will or any of the students. There are so many more examples, but I think my point is clear. The US inbetweeners tried to translate British humour and Americanise it which is never good and also firstly didn't know how to transition that comedy and Americanising it properly as well as being lazy and setting up scenes to what the original scene and/or character signified. They failed to add plot and added stupid subplots (such as Jay being very creepy, a Pedophile constantly in the show etc) and over dramatize the entire show. Whilst I think there is no other "good way" to make the inbetweeners as it was very centred around British culture regarding teens, partying, sex etc and no matter what happened it wouldn't of come close to the original, this definitely could of been made bareable to watch. IMO the Inbetweeners is the funniest show I ever watched growing up as a teen, it was so relatable Edit: Also another problem with Jay apart from the fact hes a PEDOPHILE, is that in this he talks big to his mates and then actually goes around acting confident. In the UK he acted confident to his mates and lied, but as soon as he was around a female or an intimidating guy he said he was mates with he was very nervous. He never held the same energy, which was the point of jay. Neal was stupid yes, but he was funny stupid. He was like a bit slow thats all. In this hes braindead. Simon just gets shell-shocked at whenever anything happens and puts up overexaggerated facial expressions. Will just is annoying and unlikeable and just a dud character. He doesnt add anything.

I started watching this like: Why does Jay look like Dan Schneider Then it all made sense

The Us inbetweeners is the physical version of waiting an hour 30 until class ends.

This makes me so sad. I loved the original series so much 😭

Do you know how in England people still say bus wanker, you reckon in America, people are driving around saying bus turds 😂😂😂

That "Imallexx Meet and Greet" joke made me laugh more than the entirety of the show. Unbelievable.

i absolutely love Taika Waititi and finding out he directed this made me want to be sick

Late AF to this video, but I LOVE the British Inbetweeners! Briefcase Wanker! Great content, as usual!

I absolutely cringe at the thought of Americans watching this and believing that it was a word-for-word remake, and so think one of our most well-loved tv shows has a proud nonce in it. And we all just loved it for some reason.

how did they manage to make Jay one of the worst people ive literally ever seen in any show/movie, i HATE him

I love how George’s channel is slowly turning into a film review channel

I had to immediately watch your uk inbetweeners video after this to cure the many diseases this video gave me.

I remember watching this video a year ago...I decided to watch the inbetweeners afterwards SAFE TO SAY I'M A CHANGED PERSON ahahhaha.... It was rly funny though... AND THE INTRO SLAPS