Bunk Off

"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

The episode starts with all four of the boys congregating in a local park where they reluctantly participate in a game of Frisbee on the insistence of Will (Who admits their ulterior motive for spending time in the park is to become acquainted with girls). Will attempts to throw his frisbee to Carli and her friends, but ends up hitting a disabled girl in the face, for which he strenuously apologises. Following this, a brief chase ensues in which Mark Donovan (the school's bully and Will's rival) and several of his friends pursue Will and Simon (Jay and Neil had run off moments before). In the next scene Neil's enthusiasm for failing to attend school the following day dwindles following the events (the disabled girl being hit by the Frisbee) as he believes commit both sins would constitute "bad karma". The plan goes ahead despite Neil's remarks (which appears to have merely been an aside). Will and Simon meet up and Simon poorly impersonates his mother to inform the school they are ill and will not attend school that day. Mr Gilbert angrily reveals that he has seen through Simon's impersonation. They meet up with Jay and Neil, and Will manages to buy them all alcohol (wearing a suit belonging to Simon's father) despite being underage.

After this they head back to Neil's house and begin drinking. To their surprise, Neil's dad returns to his home, but Will, who is drunk, bullies Neil's dad about his alleged homosexuality by inventing the term "Bumder" (a "cross between a bummer and a bender")- claiming in his narration to have regretted stating such comments in retrospect.^[3] Neil's dad is understandably furious, and Will, Simon and Jay are thrown out.

Simon then becomes desperate to admit to his childhood friend Carli D'Amato of his romantic admiration towards her. Will Jay and Simon commute to Carli's house and, after some convincing from Will and Jay, he sprays "I love Carly D'Amato" on her driveway in spray paint, only to be embarrassed when Carli and her friends turn up. However, when Carli sees Simon's friends laughing at him for his elaborate gesture, she invites him to her house, with Will accompanying him to babysit her younger brother. Simon drunkenly requests Carli perform sexual acts on herself before throwing up in her kitchen, and eventually over Carli's brother (whom Will had scared by drunkenly describing acts of terrorism to him). Simon and Will are later thrown out. Back at Will's house, he and Simon are confronted by their parents as well as Neil's father, regarding several of the dubious acts they had performed (impersonating Simon's mother, stealing Simon's dad's suit to buy alcohol, spray painting Carli's driveway and drunkenly insulting Neil's father). Simon claims that Neil's father touched them inappropriately, before Will's attempts to justify their actions by claiming to be alcoholics causes the adults to break out in uncontrollable laughter. The episode ends the next day at school with Simon and Will re-uniting with Jay and Neil and informing them of the events they were not present to witness, which the two draw amusement from. The four boys are confronted by Mr. Gilbert , who is indifferent towards Neil and Jay's failure to attend school (Sixth formers do not legally have to attend school) but he is angered by Simon's fraudulent attempts to impersonate his own mother over the phone, for which he is aware Will was complicit. As Will's closing narration that highlights certain events of the episode is displayed, Will and Simon wait outside the headteacher's office, ready for their punishment.

Cast

• Simon Bird as Will McKenzie
• Joe Thomas as Simon Cooper
• James Buckley as Jay Cartwright
• Blake Harrison as Neil Sutherland
• Emily Head as Carli D'Amato
• Greg Davies as Phil Gilbert

References

External links

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• "Bunk Off" at the British Comedy Guide
• "Bunk Off" at the Internet Movie Database