Wednesday 11 December 2013

Audience Pleasures in The In Betweeners

The In Betweeners is a comedy hosted by E4 about teenagers and the awkward situations they get themselves in and which they have to face. This is aimed at real teenagers because a lot of the stuff they might have experienced in real life and they easily grow a connection with the main characters. Will, who used to go to a private school, often finds himself in situations which his friends don't mind yet are a pain to him because of his character and his morale's.

First of all, what the teenage audience might like is the slapstick humor which the comedy show uses, for example in the field trip how Simon had to get undressed because he got out of the boat and lost his girlfriend because everyone saw him naked.

Another thing that the audience might enjoy is the familiarity and however hard the friends prank and mock each other they still stay as one. A lot of past teenagers might see some references to their earlier life and enjoy reliving it. Some of the audience use this to escape the reality and go back to their early days before adulthood and live relive it again, which tells us that even some of the older generations might be enjoying the In Betweeners. For example they could remember the excitement of getting their first car and then the disappointment because it would be a bucket of bolts that they can't appear out of in front of the girls and their friends.

The crude and rude which the friends often refer to is appealing to the modern youth because not many of them use it and it is a bit unrealistic but at the same time entertaining because it's something new that normal TV comedies don't really go to. For example Wills friends sometimes call him 'suitcase wanker' because of the suitcase which he can't bear to leave and get a normal bag and because of the story of how they got together.






  

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