Teenage friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper (The Inbetweeners), Jay Cartwright, and Neil Sutherland (The Inbetweeners) have finished their GCE Advanced Level and are about to leave Rudge Park Comprehensive, much to the relief of Mr. Gilbert, their Sardonicism head of sixth form. Within their final week of school, Jay's grandfather dies; Simon is dumped by his girlfriend Carli D'Amato; Neil has a job as a fishmonger in a supermarket and Will's estranged father tells him that he has married his much younger mistress (who was responsible for Will's parents' divorce and is only four years older than Will). The boys decide to go on holiday together and Neil books them a holiday to Malia, Crete.