The Inbetweeners - 1 ª Season

Because his mother can no longer afford his private school education ever since his father left them, Will Mackenzie has just started his first ever stint in public school at Grove High School. Purely out of luck, Will falls into a crowd with Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland, who are by no means the popular kids but are also not the outright socially shunned. They in part allow Will into their group because they are attracted to his pretty mother, Polly Mackenzie. Simon's goal in life is to get his life long friend, Carly D'Amato, to be his girlfriend, despite she already having a boyfriend. Jay is always boasting about his sexual conquests, which his friends know is a pack of lies. And beyond his friends kidding him about his father's homosexual orientation (regardless of if it's true), Neil seems to be one or two steps behind everyone else in terms of comprehension. Their first bonding experience is skipping school together, which Will has never done. Initially not knowing what to do away from school, they end focusing on how to get a hold of some alcohol while being underage, and how Simon can best get Carly as his girl.

Simon believes that getting his driver's license and having his father buy him a car - a promised sports edition of whatever the car model - will place him on an even playing field with Bobby Walsh, Carly's boyfriend of two months, in the competition for Carly's affections. As such, he, Will and Jay decide to head out to Sunshine Mountain Amusement Park in his new car to butt in on Carly's two month anniversary date with Bobby, for Will to have his Sunshine Mountain dream of riding in the front car of the Triscareatops roller coaster, and to hang out with Neil for the day, he who has a job at the park. Things don't start off well for Simon when he sees that the sports edition car his father bought for him is not exactly the chick magnet he assumed. Things just get worse as they have some issues with other motorists en route to the park, and have some car troubles once they arrive at the park which gives Simon some extra baggage for the day. Will and Simon end up having competing priorities, Simon's which ends up being affected by some misdirected water.

Jay believes he and his friends can raise their social status by getting drunk on a school night at the bowling alley, where they never card anyone. After that plan fails miserably, they move onto the next spur of the moment scheme to raise their social status: go clubbing downtown, as Carly is having a girls' night out doing so. Carly and her friends are able to get into the club since they know the bouncer, and she invites the guys along. In addition to Simon being able to be close to Carly without her boyfriend Bobby being there, Will believes he received signals from Sloane, one of Carly's pretty friends, that she wants to spend time with him at the club. Although Carly, her friends and the guys are able to get into the club despite being underage, the guys find that club life is a foreign concept to them, as is much of downtown nightlife.

Will falls in love at first sight with fellow student, the generally unattainable Charlotte Allen, that attraction strengthened by her seemingly liking him. Their first meeting coincides with Will's want to join a school club to raise his social standing. That want changes slightly to joining a club that Charlotte too would want to join. After Will takes a chance by friending Charlotte on Facebook so that he can view her private profile - she who in turn accepts his friend request - he comes to the conclusion that he needs to start a cooking club, one of the few things listed as an interest under her profile. But incidents on Facebook end up being a source of problems for Will, especially with regard to Charlotte and her jealous ex-boyfriend, the psychotic and violent Donovan. Meanwhile, Simon, who initially scoffed at the idea of joining a club, changes his tune when Carly shows interest in Will's cooking club. And Jay, who has never had a wet dream, decides to forgo all other avenues of sexual pleasure until he achieves a nocturnal emission.

Will is still reeling by being defriended by his now unrequited love, Charlotte Allen. To spend time with Charlotte, Will believes the only way is to "purchase" her at the upcoming senior class slave auction, where the popular senior class members auction themselves off as slaves to younger classmen as a fund-raiser. The one problem is getting enough money to ensure that he can't be outbid. The only one of his friends that has any substantial money whatsoever is Simon, who has $100 given to him by his father which Mr. Cooper expects to get back in his regular $10 per hole golf match against his son. What Mr. Cooper doesn't realize is that Simon has always purposefully lost to him as he is a sore loser, and Simon would rather keep the peace with his father. Regardless, Simon gives Will the money, which means that Simon needs to break the golf peace with his father this year, or else. Jay pleads to go to the golf club with them so that he can use its jacuzzi for a very specific carnal purpose. Jay's time in the jacuzzi ends up being a little different than he expected.