Man, some news just hits you right in the nostalgia center. Netflix has struck a deal to revive The Inbetweeners, that spectacularly crude, painfully accurate British comedy that defined a very specific era of 2000s television. The original cast is coming back to do it, too.

If you never caught it, The Inbetweeners ran from 2008 to 2010 on E4 and followed four socially disastrous teenagers, Will, Simon Jay and Neil, as they stumbled through sixth form with zero cool points between them. Think Freaks and Geeks if it had been set in suburban England and everyone swore constantly. The show was mean, dumb, brilliant, and so painfully observed that watching it almost felt like reliving your own worst teenage memories. According to MSN, the new project is shaping up to be a film rather than a series return. All four main cast members, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, and Blake Harrison, are on board.

Now, if you're a fan, you already know the elephant in the room. The show already had two movies. The first one, The Inbetweeners Movie from 2011, sent the lads to Malia and was a genuine box office phenomenon in the UK. It worked because it took the characters out of their element while keeping them fundamentally the same clueless idiots they'd always been. The second one, 2014's The Inbetweeners 2, sent them to Australia. Look, it had its moments, but the joke was starting to wear thin. The characters were getting too old to still be this hopeless, and you could feel the strain.

So a third movie, arriving more than a decade later, has to answer a pretty big question. What happens to these guys when they're in their late thirties? The whole engine of the show was adolescent awkwardness. The terrible fashion, the desperate attempts to buy alcohol, the complete inability to talk to anyone of the opposite sex. You can't just pick that back up without acknowledging that time has passed.

What gives me hope, though, is that the creators, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, have always been protective of this property. The fact that they're getting the full cast back suggests they have a take that actually justifies the return rather than just a paycheck grab. The Inbetweeners DNA, cringe comedy pushed to absolute extremes and four friends who genuinely love each other underneath all the insults, has aged well. This show still finds new audiences on streaming for a reason. The embarrassment is universal.

What I'm really hoping for is that Netflix doesn't sand off the edges. The original show was vulgar in a way that felt true to how teenage boys actually talk. It was gross and inappropriate and sometimes jaw-droppingly offensive, and that's exactly what made it funny. If this revival comes back softened, turned into something safer for a global streaming audience, it won't be The Inbetweeners. It'll just be a nostalgia product wearing the costume.

The good news is that British comedy has mostly resisted the urge to clean itself up for international markets. Shows like People Just Do Nothing and This Country proved that the specific, unflinching, deeply unglamorous British sensibility still works. I mean, there's no reason The Inbetweeners can't do the same thing with bigger budgets and gray hair.

No word yet on a release window, a title, or whether we'll finally find out what happened to Mr. Gilbert. But the fact that this is happening at all is enough to get me excited. Jess Wingo keeps telling me I need to watch more new stuff instead of rewatching shows from fifteen years ago, and she's probably right. For this one, though? I'm making an exception.