10 Things Only Inbetweeners Fans Understand

10. You're On Team Will's Mum Or Team Neil's Sister

Fact one: in any group of friends, someone always has a hot mum. Fact two: in any group of friends, someone always has a hot sister. These two figures form part of the bedrock of every teenage boy€™s existence, yet while they are part of your daily life as you to and fro from your friends€™ houses, they remain gloriously untouchable, deity-like as they flit from room to room offering toast and trays of biscuits. Yet they also form the basis of many a common room debate: which is hotter? In The Inbetweeners, the battle is between Will€™s mum, the unfeasibly attractive Polly McKenzie, and Neil€™s sister, the equally jaw-dropping Katie Sutherland. While the former has perfected the knack of flirting with her son€™s teenage friends as she performs basic domestic duties in a way so studiously sexy it would make Nigella Lawson blush, she later commits the cardinal sin of marrying her son€™s arch nemesis, sadistic head of sixth form Mr. Gilbert. The latter, meanwhile, exhibits no interest in her brother€™s gormless friends yet exerts the fact by answering the door wearing only a breast-baring dressing gown. The winner? Like life on other planets and The Dyatlov Pass Incident before it, this is one debate that will rage on until the end of time.
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