Bunk Off

"Bunk Off"
The Inbetweeners episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 2
Directed by Gordon Anderson
Written by Damon Beesley & Iain Morris
Produced by Christopher Young
Production code 1:2 (2)
Original air date 1 May 2008
Running time 22 minutes[1]
Guest appearance(s)

Martin Trenaman as Alan Cooper
Robin Weaver as Pamela Cooper

"Bunk Off" is the second episode of the first series of The Inbetweeners. It first aired on 1 May 2008 on E4, along with the first episode. When first broadcast, viewing figures slumped down to 321,000.[2] This episode follows the boys as they bunk off school for a day.

Plot

After a month in state education, Will McKenzie has made three friends in the form of Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright, and Neil Sutherland, all of whom are as unpopular as himself. During a game of frisbee within the local park, played at the insistence of Will in an attempt to attract girls despite the others preferring football, Will inadvertently throws the frisbee at a young disabled woman's face whilst attempting to pass it to Carli and her friends as they walk by. When rushing over to apologise, the woman's friend angrily admonishes Will in Polish language. Will then tries to reclaim the frisbee, but the disabled woman refuses to let go of it; nearby, school bully Mark Donovan and his friends assume Will and Simon are trying to steal the frisbee from the disabled woman and so chase them both out of the park.

The following morning, all four boys arrange to play truant from school. Will goes to Simon's house, where Simon phones the school office and poorly impersonates his mother to inform them that he and Will will not be attending due to them both suffering from food poisoning. However, the call is put through to Mr. Gilbert, their aggressive Head of Sixth Form, who immediately recognises Simon's voice and demands Simon get into school. Regardless, Simon hangs up and believes the alibi may have worked, and he and Will meet up with Jay and Neil, where Will manages to buy alcohol from a local off-licence whilst pretending to look like an adult using a suit stolen from Simon's father.

The boys head back to Neil's house and begin drinking, but Neil's father Kevin returns home with a friend earlier than expected and is furious at what he sees. When reprimanding the boys for their behaviour, a drunken Will begins to loudly insult him about his alleged closeted homosexuality, leaving everyone shocked. Kevin eventually throws Will, Jay and Simon out of the house, but keeps Neil grounded. Simon, still drunk, then becomes desperate to admit to his childhood friend Carli D'Amato that he loves her. Following advice from Jay and Will, he sprays "I love Carly D'Amato" on her driveway in yellow paint, only to be embarrassed when Carli and her friends turn up. Though initially shocked, once Carli sees Simon's friends laughing at him for his gesture, she invites him to visit later that evening, when her parents will be out. Simon has Will accompanying him to babysit her seven year-old brother, Chris. Simon and Carli have a conversation in her kitchen, with Carli trying to insist that she already has a boyfriend, though Simon merely drunkenly requests she finger herself in front of him, before vomiting in her kitchen and all over Chris, left scared by Will who had been drunkenly describing acts of terrorism to him after they witnessed footage of it on television. With all the damage done, both boys immediately leave.

The duo head back to Will's house, where they are reprimanded over their behaviour by Simon's parents, Will's mother, and Neil's father. Simon tries to blame it on Neil's father, claiming he had touched them inappropriately, which is instantly dismissed but leads to a brief dispute between the parents themselves over whether or not Kevin truly is gay. Will then attempts to justify their actions by claiming to be alcoholics in need of their family's love and support, which causes the adults to break out into uncontrollable laughter.

The following day, the boys reunite at school, with Simon and Will informing Jay and Neil of the events they were not present to witness, which the two draw amusement from. The four are confronted by Mr. Gilbert, who is indifferent towards Neil and Jay's truancy due to no legal requirements in place for sixth form, but he is angered by Simon's fraudulent attempts to impersonate his mother over the phone, for which he is aware Will was complicit, and so both of them are forced to see the school headmaster over the matter.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "The Inbetweeners : The Camping Trip". Channel4.com. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
  2. ↑ "Top 10 Programmes - BARB". barb.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
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