Thorpe Park (The Inbetweeners) ride, who are seen driving away slowly whilst making insulting gestures, leaving Simon no choice but to phone his irritated father for help. Thorpe Park (The Inbetweeners) Thorpe Park is the third episode of the first series of "The Inbetweeners". It first aired on 8 May 2008 on E4 and had 305,000 viewers. Simon is about to take his driving test, but does not feel confident that he will pass; even so, Will, Jay and Neil are over-optimistically discussing the possibilities of one of their group owning a full driving licence. Before Simon takes his test, the others have already
Simon and Laura cast as the middle-aged Simon rather than the ambitious young BBC producer David Prentice, the role he'd previously played both on stage and film. David was played instead by Richard Briers, with Moira Lister as Laura. Melville, who appeared in person to introduce the play, made various changes to his original script, including a self-reflexive rewrite for Simon's initial objections to working on TV: "Television? You call that a wonderful job? Three weeks' rehearsal, not enough money to cover your bus fares out to Lime Grove, technical breakdown in your one big scene, and no repeat performance? No, thank you."