Sliding along a disco hall in only your socks because you're so overwhelmed at the prospect of losing your virginity. Hosting a ridiculously good-looking French exchange student and being too immature to recognise that he has something going for him. Beating a fish to death with your fist. Joining the exclusive Dead Hand Gang.
Yes, it can only be The Inbetweeners. The hit show ran for three series between 2008 and 2010, and with episodes entitled Thorpe Park, Caravan Club, The Trip to Warwick, Will Gets a Girlfriend and Exam Time, it's safe to say it focused on what most lads spend their teenage years worrying about: shit holidays, alleviating boredom, trying to get a girlfriend and occasionally leaving your hometown, only to realise you're woefully out of your depth and would quite like to run back home to mummy pronto.
As well as the series, the show spawned two hilarious spin-off films. I say two, I've only seen the first one, but if memory serves me well it involved the weird-looking one (Jay) putting a ten pound note up his bum and the lanky one (Neil) sleeping with a middle-aged woman from a town in the north.
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It was totally cringeworthy, pretty damn funny and took place somewhere hot in Greece or Spain, serving as a fairly accurate portrayal of most lads' early 20s: successfully moved away from home, still utterly hopeless with women, going on holidays that seem like a good idea because of the abundance of sun and alcohol, realising the combination is a lethal mix and doing some very stupid things as a result.
Yup, The Inbetweeners was a delightful car crash of a tellybox show that most of us could relate to in one way or another, and the good news is that it's set to return. Sort of. In a recent interview with the Sun, Joe Thomas, who played Simon (the one with the really shit haircut all of us have had at some point) suggested the quartet may reunite in the not-too-distant future.
"I think that we are definitely too old now to do anything that is set in a sixth form," said the actor, who'll you'll recognise from Fresh Meat unless you've been living under a rock in a cave for the past decade. "But we could do the originals ten years down the line, married with kids. I mean, we can do that now. I would jump at any chance to work with those guys again - in any context, really.
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"It's not in my hands but I love those guys and I would love to work with them again. We have spoken about it but it's not really in our hands. We don't write the show so it's not down to us."
So, Jay, Simon, Will and Neil may be back in our lives once more, moving on from their days as maladjusted nerdy teenagers to maladjusted, jaded adults whose worries have veered from getting laid, doing exams and avoiding a beating by the bigger boys to getting a mortgage, having kids and, erm, possibly still trying not to get beaten up by bigger boys, if my experience is anything to go by. Watch this space. Hilarity is set to ensue.
By Ronan O'Shea