Skins/Trivia

"T Love (Will Young): Don't you think you should be leaving? Freddie: Right now?"
 * Actor Allusion: In Season 2 Episode 2, recites Hugh Grant's filmography since 1992 during sex so he'll last longer. Upon finishing, he says that he never can make it to About a Boy, the 2002 film starring Nicholas Hoult.
 * And there's even one with the guest stars.


 * For those who don't get it, "Leave Right Now" is probably Will Young's most successful song.
 * The Danza: Josie Long playing Chris' career counselor Josie.
 * Humorously averted with the Fitches. Katherine Prescott plays Emily while Megan Prescott plays Katie.
 * Dawson Casting: Averted with the main cast. Played (justifiably) straight in series 6 with.
 * The American version found out the hard way why so many teen dramas employ this trope -- Moral Guardians accused the show of being child pornography for putting its 17-year-old actors in risque situations.
 * Directed by Cast Member: Harry Enfield directed two episodes of Series 2. Daniel Kaluuya, aka "Posh Kenneth", also wrote Jal's Series 2 episode and Thomas's Series 3 episode.
 * Dueling Shows: The Inbetweeners.
 * Especially with Series 3 Episode 2 of The Inbetweeners. Skins has taken years to try and give drug culture a positive image, The Inbetweeners successfully ruins that image in 25 minutes.
 * Misfits has also been a contender, with some critics and fans calling it "Skins meets Heroes".
 * Enforced Method Acting: When JJ blows fire in his Series 3 episode, when he's in the shed with Freddie, Effy and Cook. While Ollie Barbieri was learning the trick, Luke, Kaya and Jack were put under the impression that the fire would be added in with special effects, so their shock when it happened was completely genuine.
 * Fake Nationality: The Polish student from the pilot episode. It's obvious from even from her pretty much "niezrozumiale" (incomprehensible) "Ostatnio! Prawdziwa chłop przybywa." that Polish is not the first language of the actress. Judging from her actual skill (Or So I Heard) in Italian, it's not her second either.