The only clips of the Inbetweeners pilot (baggy trousers)

[@ArianaGx]

This feels like some strange alternative reality 😭

[@rollaroyce747]

Ennit

[@abenormal9075]

Even this pilot is better than the American version of Inbetweeners

[@THEGOVERNOR117]

Anything is better than being American

[@CPF_PZ]

@@THEGOVERNOR117 aint that the truth

[@aslee3312]

Absolute Bus Turds 😅

[@Smonkey66]

​@@THEGOVERNOR117 they are an embarrassment to the rest of the world.

[@BethGuilfoyleWAFC]

Seeing James Buckley as Neil is madddd 😂

[@johngilmore697]

You want me to grow a pair of testicles so I'd have four testicles, and somehow that'll help make me braver and better to deal with stress?

[@williamcooper8599]

@@johngilmore697 What’s a fucking peep show reference doing on an inbetweeners vid? Jesus, I need a drink

[@PhatInAHat]

it just seems like the same character as Jay though but with the different name

[@technowelliebobs4779]

Where?

[@nix2939]

Chance would be a fine thing

[@deanmoncaster]

They definitely cast the characters correctly afterwards

[@DiscipleAsscrack]

Except Carli/y

[@JD-lp5rw]

Old Carly was better imo

[@deanmoncaster]

@@JD-lp5rw no.

[@cuck1ngfunt]

@@JD-lp5rw Old Carly seems nicer than real Carly, which doesn’t fit her character.

[@DiscipleAsscrack]

@@deanmoncaster are you on crack? She couldn't act to save her life

[@lozza901]

It’s amazing the show worked out with a pilot like this!

[@frasierfreak92]

This is why they do pilots! Even here you can see there’s a nub of a good idea and the script is good, but the show is all about the chemistry and that’s what they needed to get right

[@rjayyyy9623]

The actress for Carli *was* awful 😂

[@micrafan]

It’s absolutely shite 😓😓😓

[@khandadonb111]

​@@rjayyyy9623 the actual carli was an awful actress too 😂

[@spunkmaster666]

@@rjayyyy9623fit though

[@francolive5718]

Jay before his crazy batwing hairstyle

[@lydiamichaels1976]

BATWING?💀💀it's called mod mate

[@adamthemyth]

Mod haircuts look horrendous on most people. You're better off getting a classic haircut.

[@slyesttrash6778]

@@adamthemyth the fuck is a classic haircut?

[@CertifiedSlamboy]

@@slyesttrash6778 Buzz cut or short back and sides?

[@no-barkthechosenone2436]

Liam Gallagher cut

[@ForeverRivalspro]

Never thought someone could be so bad that it would make me appreciate the actor who plays carly haha

[@paulearl8203]

Yup Carly was dreadful and not hot enough really.

[@cqq22]

Pilot Carly’s name is Laura Aikman, she’s good in The Job Lot, would rather have had her than the Carly we ended up with

[@SteveDavies80]

​@@cqq22 was gonna say this too. I duch rather her, than the one we got. The Job Lot is great too. But then again, I dont think Carly was supposed to be liked.

[@cqq22]

@@SteveDavies80 job lot is very funny - really slept on show I think, whenever I mention it to people they’ve never heard of it

[@SteveDavies80]

@@cqq22 yeah, I love it. Fave character is Graham, by far.

[@PHILD0]

OG Simon had a pretty grating voice. Glad we got Joe Thomas instead haha

[@phantxmn4513]

im glad they recast simen cos OJ Simpson wouldve been too horny in the role for the mole pole joel

[@henriksolgard5749]

Oh man. Wish that they had used "Fit But You Know It" in the series soundtrack. Every song by The Streets fits perfectly in Inbetweeners.

[@andrewlee7228]

the music they used in the series perfectly encapsulates that era

[@gogebu]

@@andrewlee7228if it was like 3 years earlier the streets would have been heavy

[@JD-lp5rw]

Fluorescent adolescence perfectly encapsulates being a teenager in the mid-late 2000s

[@CodingAbroad]

I bet these original actors who didn’t get past the pilot are so frustrated with life knowing how far the long term actors got in their careers

[@ShepherdsBushMush]

Lol James buckly lives a normal life

[@CodingAbroad]

@@ShepherdsBushMush well durr excluding him

[@ShepherdsBushMush]

@@CodingAbroad lol the rest do.... other than Simon Bird who's been in Friday night dinner other than that there all family people who don't do much

[@Dimyan93]

​@@ShepherdsBushMushPolitely disagree, Joe Thomas did Fresh Meat right after Inbetweeners and then White Gold. He's also now on every panel show going (which Simon Bird has not yet, he seems to just be doing Friday Night Dinner)

[@ShepherdsBushMush]

@@Dimyan93 James also did white gold as for the panels I can't name 5

[@erhhsdhh2099]

Wow.. changing the entire cast except for James was definitely the right call. Those other actors/actresses wouldn’t have really fit the characters

[@sashaiscalledsasha]

I think the Carli actress would have been ok (just not as good as the one that was chosen) - she played a similar kind of condescending character in the newer Gavin and Stacey Christmas special and she really made you hate the character 🤣

[@nunziocombattelli6311]

They even sorta changed James since he didn’t play Neil lol

[@joshormerod5382]

This was never going to be the final cast, pilots like this are simply made to sell the concept to networks. Most shows have a completely different cast once in final production

[@fisher5965]

Whoever worked a miracle on this to transform into the masterpiece that is Inbetweeners I applaud them

[@-Tidgy]

Lol I now realise how good the cast for the actual Inbetweeners is.

[@yourface07]

This short clip seems like something from CBBC, no wonder they switched up

[@thefunnyguyaha]

I’d definitely watch CBBC inbetweeners

[@jgmediting7770]

It was edited at a faster pace than the actual show. Really jarring here.

[@mrnewton86]

When Jay was the 'Neil' of the group

[@bigbigarchive]

Well, the actor for Jay originally played Neil

[@caseytaylor1570]

@@bigbigarchivethat’s what he just said mate

[@nickslidel]

@@bigbigarchivehe’s mugged you right off

[@darrenstopper1806]

@@nickslidelnow he’s gonna have t call on a couple of pipe hittin ninjas

[@DavidBaillie1986]

Brilliant ​@@nickslidel

[@cattysplat]

Miss the 2000s it physically hurts.

[@thefunnyguyaha]

Same

[@mydogeatspuke]

Misfits was the final hurrah. Burn the dildo! Save me Barry! Pretend the last season never happened, I know I do. Great decade to be alive through.

[@rockstoneballs]

Same

[@peter9111]

2000-2009 what a time to be a teen

[@heronoverdose]

I feel you but we had our time in the sun!

[@theletterk]

this is like a separate dimension

[@asjparadise4578]

This carli was soo much better looking

[@pineapplesandthegovernment6522]

Amazing how easily a few casting changes and smaller decisions could have ruined a great show. Also kind of makes you wonder just how many others had the potential to be absolute classics but got held back by just one or two bad decisions. Maybe we all got robbed of the greatest series ever, but we'll never have any idea of just what we're missing.

[@ChrisCre8tor]

Now imagine if we never existed! Mind blown!

[@jackdubz4247]

You fools... You've captured their stunt doubles!

[@JoeBlac]

Surely going to be more views now Neil's dad mentioned this on Rob Brydon's podcast.

[@ad4m0015]

James Buckley’s one line as Neil sounds like something Jay would say

[@ThatCoalSoul]

No flies on you fellah!

[@jgmediting7770]

Probably why they switched his role.

[@ad4m0015]

@@jgmediting7770They switched it because of how he was off camera

[@ReeseChown]

Every brilliant album has its demo tape. They took a minute to refine the craft before airing it, I respect it.

[@OllyBockus]

Well, well, several 'Pete Bests'...poor sods..

[@KakarotOwns]

Looks so strange without the originals,

[@d.a.b8756]

They are the originals 😂

[@PeteDunne85]

This is what would have happened if Captain America hadn't put the stones back

[@thewastelandarchitect9000]

Crazy how the pilot of a show can be so bad but then the actual show turns out to be amazing.

[@Lewi_cali]

Jay in the original cast 😮

[@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv]

James as Neil is like Joseph turning up with a bucket of myrrh.

[@TheBrilliantBrick]

Baggy trousers? Like the madness song? That song reminds me a bit of inbetweeners now that I think about it so it’s pretty fitting.

[@phantxmn4513]

yes lad

[@Active_Sun_Particles]

Bang on the 'ead with a plastic cup!

[@PHILD0]

Well yeah, it's about school days.

[@anglodoomer5995]

You can’t mistake my biology!!!!

[@echolot]

this simon looks like that dude from "road trip". he was also in "40 days, 40 nights"

[@Jon14141]

Nice

[@bewd4310]

You can't possibly mean Josh Hartnett? 😆

[@echolot]

@@bewd4310 no, Paulo Costanzo is the name

[@thatschilltssk6274]

You really don’t appreciate the art of acting until you see it done badly.

[@XBLA2012]

Despite the poor quality, that part where this version of simon celebrating only to have Carly and her friends turn around and look at him and he tries to cover it up, is actually quite good and missing from the real Inbetweeners. But, perhaps they were trying to portray to the viewers that Carly actually wanted Simon round hers, no clue really.

[@downspiral]

Why does the camera quality look better than the show's actual episode lol

[@jwpepperchris1]

SUCH a better actress playing Carli

[@jeanmichellelaurent]

Simon sounds so high pitched

[@Secret19977]

So glad this wasn’t the actual show.

[@krqkthrGirl]

What the fuck? As a inbetweeners fan, i never knew this existed. And i think it's lost media too, which makes this even more interesting

[@thefunnyguyaha]

It is indeed lost media, there’s a whole discord server dedicated to finding it

[@krqkthrGirl]

@@thefunnyguyaha oh shit? really? i kinda wanna join the server lmao

[@thefunnyguyaha]

@@krqkthrGirl Alright, here’s the link: discord.gg/5Z53ykDq

[@georgemorgan4217]

This is to the Inbetweeners to what Life Day was to Star Wars!

[@JoyfulSeal-mt7ko]

That end title sequence has Adrian Mole vibes

[@buttonman6262]

Definitely had CBBC vibes.

[@mattjcwig]

James Buckley could play any of those roles and do it well, maybe not Will as well as Neil or Simon but he'd give it a go

[@freddrabble]

Interdimensional cable

[@ChrisLaw84]

R rated Grange Hill

[@AngusJones]

wtf? so this was like the demo episode that got the series approved to be made properly, right??? I recognise that actor who played Carli in this as well.

[@garystill1308]

She played mysti on some popular kids shows

[@GreyHulk2156]

Laura Aikman.

[@ribs99]

She was in the Keith Lemon film and was Smithy's girlfriend in Gavin & Stacey Xmas special.

[@fookoff9220]

She was also had a small part in EastEnders back in the day.

[@Genericyoutuber425]

they should have kept this Carli

[@musicoflloyd]

Laura Aikman

[@religdeb]

I'm surprised this hasn't got more views. I recognise the actrice playing Carly but can't remember from where.

[@Ese96Agoaye]

The Misty Show

[@BbbbbbThats6Bees]

4 o’clock club

[@stabadaisy2]

Waterloo Road and Casualty as well

[@BbbbbbThats6Bees]

@@jayheadley8061 I was joking man😂😂😂

[@lindajones2142]

She also played Keith Lemon's girlfriend

[@aussieknuckles]

Woah

[@drawnbody51]

Inbetweeners endgame

[@thefunnyguyaha]

The inbetweeners: Inbetween Universes

[@shaun.thewanderer4501]

It says lost pilot? Why didn't they release it as extra in DVD pack or are they to embarrassed by it

[@MaxConnolly-nn6vw]

I think Simon is being played by Richard, the loner with his parents from the movie

[@JackCalico]

Good thing they eventually decided to hire some people who could act.

[@destroyerx3110]

Yeah, otherwise, this show wouldn't have been successful.😢

[@jgmediting7770]

It’s more bad editing than bad acting.

[@JackCalico]

@@jgmediting7770 It's bad everything! Luckily the concept was strong enough for channel 4 to give it the green light.

[@erosion271]

Bizarro Inbetweeners

[@NECinho]

This weirdly looks like an english version of the rubbish american inbetweeners. Also it will probably never happen but an inbetweeners with them as adults could be quite interesting.

[@aaronmeade5435]

This is liks some bizarro universe where jay was the niel of the group hahah screw marvel and dcs multiverse i want to see this multiverse

[@peterburke3944]

laura aikman could have easily been recast as carli's sister charlotte hinchcliffes cousin or heck even allison from the first movie

[@fookoff9220]

Funny you say that I used to get them 2 actresses confused. The one who played alisson was in a series called how not to live your life and I have thought at times it was the bird in this vid that was in it.

[@WizzWins]

Is that blonde a young Dawn that use to be in eastenders?

[@jferran7276]

Looks like a CBBC original.

[@jamesmcgee157]

Wish version of inbetweeners

[@DisobeyZOG]

How does this not have more views? Edit: This video had 10k views when I commented.

[@jziffi]

Because this is how many people have watched it. The views can't be higher until more people watch it. Hope this helps.

[@anneominous7172]

@@jziffi Cheeky bastard...

[@jziffi]

@@DisobeyZOG ooh, don't cry Simon

[@DisobeyZOG]

@@jziffi Thanks for conforming you have an IQ with 2 digits.

[@thefunnyguyaha]

@@jziffiIf you actually did that please dont!

[@lukea136]

I'd pay to see the full thing!

[@thefunnyguyaha]

Same!

[@truthhurtz0_0]

Alternative reality lol

[@WalkmanWillWalkAllOverYou]

Release the Unaired Pilot!

[@warrenrandall6936]

Same with The Big Bang Theory ... things improved after the pilot.

[@Thisisaparticularlylonghandle]

How irredeemably bad was the pilot if that series was an improvement lol?

[@Jon14141]

@@ThisisaparticularlylonghandleDamn

[@auto2112]

That must have been a fucking diabolical pilot.

[@bewd4310]

Big bang has moments that are funny but its let down by being purile, predictable and trying too hard.

[@Jimbob7595]

​@@ThisisaparticularlylonghandleI've heard it's fatal to watch more than 30 seconds

[@MegaGraafschap]

At least Carli was actually fit

[@lukealex6428]

Joe Thomas made the Inbetweeners

[@AaronMeade-gj9pl]

No wonder richard felt left out in the movies he was the simon 😂

[@tiotom9217]

Not the same actor, doesn't even look like him.

[@TomMcBride-tv9yh]

I don’t get this video. Why’s James Buckley playing Neil and then everyone else are completely different actors?

[@SSHHABBA]

Dodged a bullet

[@phantxmn4513]

bullets travel too fast for any human reaction time to process and then react based of the given information, you cant dodge bullets dont let the left wing propaganda deceive you

[@TheRealElsaJean]

Black guy in Inbetweeners X

[@jackdubz4247]

You noticed that too.

[@Happin3ess]

Wow. With this cast the series would not of happened.

[@phantxmn4513]

yeah man

[@Steven-ve7mh]

*not have

[@GrandJediMaster7860]

This makes me regret a lot of things :/ The actual show was neat - a product of a better time, although it wasn't really that long ago. Now we have Gen Zs running around everywhere, trying to do the same things. The older Millennials from the actual series did a phenomenal job. Ironically, because I was born in 1990, I'm kind of in the middle of the older Millennials and the younger ones born in the mid 1990s.

[@patrickyorke3028]

Was Matt Green the comedian there?

[@thefunnyguyaha]

Yea

[@joshlowe1874]

I’m so confused, how does everyone know James Buckley played Neil when he’s not in this, and when did this air? I’ve never heard of it??

[@thefunnyguyaha]

This never aired, there’s a few clips of it from a couple of demo reels and a snippet from the fwends reunited doc

[@xx-wp3mq]

"how does everyone know James Buckley played Neil", did you happen to not watch the video or something?

[@willbagnall3416]

simon looks like Daniel Larson

[@thefunnyguyaha]

Daniel Larson if he wasn’t ugly

[@gellerbingsgaming]

Oh god this acting is dreadful!! Thank christ for the inbetweeners we got

[@NightmareproductionsOFFICIAL]

This is fucking awful how did this turn into a good show.

[@thefunnyguyaha]

Sometimes the worst of things can make really great things

[@omarbaba9892]

This looks very bad but it’s sad that the rest of the episode is lost

[@kieran7675]

Everyone is saying this is horrendous but I just don't see it? It is very rough around the edges obviously but its the same jokes basically, The Inbetweeners is obviously better but thats because its a fully finished show, most pilots are a bit rough

[@fifaspoofer317]

What did i just watch? Someone please explain to me

[@pbegley99]

This was meant to be set in the 80s? The cars in the background look a bit later than that (I was around in the 80s).

[@KieranOD94]

Was perhaps intended to be set in the 80s as I believe that's when the creators would have went to school. However they probably thought it was more viable and practical to go with a modern setting.

[@legbot124]

Actually James Buckley who played Neil in the pilot and jay in the series mentioned that it was supposed to be set in the 80s in an interview recently on the useless hotline podcast

[@CJFS00s]

Maybe you’re thinking of “White Gold” I don’t recall anyone saying the pilot was gonna be in the 80s especially as this pilot video uses artists like Girls Aloud and The Streets.

[@roycropper698]

@@KieranOD94bet they’re glad they did. They got lucky being able to film the school scenes in a brand new school

[@jack0609]

I think since it was called Baggy Trousers it would’ve been since Baggy Trousers was a song released in 1980 by Madness

[@bewd4310]

Prefer this Carli! More believable that she was unobtainable. The Carli they chose is plain imho.. more girl next door than phwoar.

[@jaycee1801]

Wow this is insane lol first time ever seeing this love the I betweeners series but the films were meh

[@devanman7920]

That Carly is hotter

[@Jaya365]

I'll tell you what, there was some serious work done to make it good. This was just another 2000s generic teen hollyoaks ripoff and would have sank without a trace.

[@ThatCoalSoul]

* sunk *.

[@neilcarroll4579]

They had a mixed race character and removed him ?

[@grilledcheese9297]

so

[@singalexsong]

Yes.

[@freedomisslavery6840]

And? Is there a law that all shows must contain a mixed character?

[@lalilulelo7881]

Good.

[@Please_allow_me]

Yes because this was at a time when actors were employed based on their actual acting ability as opposed to their skin colour (or other bodily features) so that a box could be ticked. It's hard to imagine I know but he world wasn't always a pathetic mess full of wannabe victims like it is now.

[@airsir9559]

Is the Inbetweeners porn parody?

[@thefunnyguyaha]

It’s a porn parody that James Buckley himself agreed on starring in

[@UncRemixes]

this is so weird to watch 😭

[@Slayyyyyqueeeeen]

Acc wth is this ?

[@thefunnyguyaha]

The only fragments of the unaired inbetweeners pilot, all compiled by somebody else

[@ThatCoalSoul]

You know you can type 'wtf' if you like ...your parents probably won't clip you round the ear for typing wtf in a comments section!

[@dogsbollocksgenius9480]

Wow this looks terrible

[@davemurray3203]

Ive stumbled into some alternate reality and i dont like it

[@ThatCoalSoul]

Hang on ...one of The OG Inbetweeners was not white?! Oh Channel 4 ...hang your heads in shame ...I've always thought one of them SHOULD HAVE been B. A. M. E.!

[@jackdubz4247]

It's the kind of thing I would have expected from the BBC or Channel 5.

[@John-lp5xh]

When having a token black guy was optional, and they decided not to go with it. Now it would be 3 black guys one Asian and one whyte guy to be the butt of everyone's jokes

[@Titan13335]

Oh my god shut up you melt

[@henriksolgard5749]

And one transgender Indian in a wheelchair, who is adopted by African LGBT-parents

[@freedomisslavery6840]

I was thinking the same. It The Inbetweeners was made today there is not a cat in hells chance they would get away with having an almost entirely White cast.

[@joshuataylor3550]

White fragility

[@jgmediting7770]

Brainwashed

[@JayDidntDoIt]

I'm surprised they didn't go down the multicultural route to be honest. I guess the pilot was ahead of its times

[@josemengelez6947]

what's his name? (the black fella who shagged your bird).

[@grilledcheese9297]

What are you on about? Touch grass incel

[@sashaiscalledsasha]

I don't think it was ahead of its time, this is from around 2010/11. They didn't start trying to have every type of person in everything until later on

[@joshuataylor3550]

There is literally one black person, you ok?

[@BigDee_1996]

@@sashaiscalledsasha inbetweeners cane out in 2008, this would have been 2007/08 not 2010/11

[@onehandednedned6673]

The watered down version gone woke

[@VrSword]

Bet I can guess why they call you 'One Handed '

[@hermanthetosser4219]

Glad they done the 4 main characters white as it wouldn't of been popular with mixed main character

[@sashaiscalledsasha]

It probably would have been fine if the writing was the same. I don't think anybody would have thought twice about it in 2011

[@hermanthetosser4219]

@@sashaiscalledsasha would've been as naff as skins

[@jgmediting7770]

What a ridiculous comment.

[@midget1993]

What The Fuck Is This!!!!! It felt so so wrong