Recap / The Inbetweeners S3 E6 "Camping Trip"

It's all I've got, I'm afraid.

With Simon's family set to move to Swansea, Will decides to organise one last trip for the gang before they go their separate ways. So they pack Simon's car and head out to the countryside to go campin. Will draws on his Scout training; the same however, cannot be said for Jay, Neil and Simon who aren't prepared for the great outdoors at all.

This episode contains examples of:

• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Simon drunkenly breaks into Carli's house in order to express his feelings for her. Unfortunately, he breaks into her little brother's room instead.
• Call-Back: When they play Monopoly, Jay wants to be the dog because it reminds him of Benji, the Cartwright family pet who was put down in the previous episode.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It is strongly hinted that when he was younger, Jay was abused by a neighbour. Later, a text from his dad reveals that his parents sent him to see a therapist.
  Jay: Look, if you want to play a game, I've got a proper game, not a shit one. Though thinking about it, you lot might be too pussy to play.
  Neil: It's not that game that you used to play with your weird neighbour in his shed, is it?
  Jay: Well, that never happened.
  Neil: Yeah, you told me about it years ago. Just after he moved away.
  Jay: No, I never. Shut up, you knob.
• Friendship Moment: The boys have one towards the end. Just before the vomiting.
  Neil: Si, I was wondering, when you're gone…
  Simon: Yeah?
  Neil: What do you want us to do with Will? Like, look after him and stuff?
  Will: I'm not a stray cat, Neil.
  Neil: Yeah, but you do shit in a hole in the ground.
  Will: Brilliant.
  Neil: I just worry about you, that's all.
  Will: I think I'll be fine.
  Neil: Good night.
  Will: Thanks, though, Neil.
• Global Ignorance: Simon, Jay and Neil all have to be told where Swansea is. This is especially jarring with Simon and Jay as they are studying A-level geography (although Jay only chose that subject so he could go on the field trip). Still, at least they seem to be aware that it's a place somewhere in Britain, unlike Neil.
  Neil: What is Swansea? Is it an animal?
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The prospect of having to move to Swansea, which is raised in the first scene, sets Simon on edge for the rest of the episode.
• Hidden Depths: Jay, it seems, is pretty good at Monopoly — although Will's convinced he's cheating.
• Horrible Camping Trip: Jay and Neil burn all of Will's possessions and Simon's car ends up rolling into the lake (after which a confused Neil smashes the back window with a rock). Finally, the lads projectile-vomit all over each other inside the tent after eating some badly-undercooked sausages, courtesy of Neil.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Jay's phone-swap-and-send-embarrassing-message game only embarrasses him the most; Neil is too elated he's not going to be a dad to know he might have an STD, Will's mum didn't appear to notice her message (or is Genre Savvy enough to know what was going on) and Carli's response to the one for her from Simon seems positive. Compare those to to Jay's response from his dad revealing that he was sent to see a therapist.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Mr. Gilbert's dismissive attitude towards Neil possibly getting a woman pregnant is callous and unhelpful, he's also not wrong when he remarks that there's not a lot he can do about the situation, and nor is it really his responsibility to clean up the messes that students make in their private lives outside of school, especially seeing as how Neil is now an adult and the woman in question is not a pupil at the school.
• Lethal Chef: Neil, who undercooks the sausages, which makes everyone sick.
• Mistaken for Paedophile: A drunken Simon attempts to express his love for Carli by climbing through her bedroom window at three in the morning. Unfortunately, he ends up in her kid brother's bedroom. This later leads to a very awkward conversation between Simon and his father, who spent several hours googling "chemical castration", about why it is never OK to touch children. When Simon tells him that he was actually trying to break into Carli's bedroom, he's visibly relieved.
• Never My Fault: Played with. Jay initially refuses to accept responsibility for Simon's car going into the lake, even though he was the one who moved it and left the handbrake off, and then just gave up on trying to stop it from rolling into the lake. Later, though, after Simon give him (and the others) a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he apologises.
• Rage Breaking Point: Simon finally snaps when Jay and Neil cause his car to end up in the lake. He cools down when Neil offers him a lager.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Simon delivers an epic one after Jay and Neil let his car roll into the lake. Not even Will is spared.
  Simon: YOU ARSEHOLES! YOU TOTAL PAIR OF FUCKING WANKERS!
  Neil: It's alright, Si. We'll just wait for the morning and rescue it when the tide's out.
  Simon: IT'S A FUCKING LAKE, NEIL! THE TIDE ISN'T GOING OUT! I'VE WASTED MY LIFE HANGING OUT WITH YOU FUCKING MORONS! I CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE TO SWANSEA! I FUCKING HATE YOU! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF!
  Will: Come on, Si. Come out of the water and dry off. I'm sure we'll think of something.
  Simon: YOU NEVER THINK OF ANYTHING! YOU'VE JUST GOT AN ACCENT THAT MAKES US THINK YOU'RE CLEVER, BUT YOU'RE NOT! YOU'RE JUST AS MUCH OF A FUCKING IDIOT AS THESE TWO!
  Will: Bit harsh.
  Simon: YOU WANKERS! YOU TOTAL, TOTAL WANKERS!
• Shout-Out: A couple when Will proposes the camping trip.
  Will: I was thinking more of a camping trip to the countryside. Pubs, long walks, no parents, no girls, just the four of us, the lads, a tent and a load of beers.
  Jay: Sounds like a bent version of Brokeback Mountain.
  Will: Which would be a heterosexual version.
  Jay: Is this a posho's tradition? Did your mates do the same thing for you when you left Hogwarts?
  Will: No, they didn't.
• The Tease: Upon finding out that Simon's going to be moving to Swansea, Carli becomes this to him.
• The Unreveal: The details of Carli's response to Jay's text from Simon's phone are never revealed. That said, considering that they are together at the start of the first movie, it's probably — despite the events of this episode — positive.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Simon, Jay and Neil projectile-vomit all over each other inside the tent as a result of eating undercooked sausages.

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