The mingiest show to hit our TV screens since 'Shameless' is back.
But as they reach the milestone of a fifth series, what are Alex Murphy's Conor and Chris Walley's Jock up to on the banks of their own lovely Lee?
Series Four of the Cork sitcom 'The Young Offenders' saw Jock spend much of the series behind bars in a Colombian jail cell after getting involved in an ill advised drug smuggling venture that naturally went skewiff.
Without his buddy, Conor palled around Cork instead with Shane Casey's psycho with a soft heart, Billy Murphy - getting into various scrapes.
But without Jock, bar a few Facetimes from his Colombian prison cell, it felt Peter Foott's sitcom had lost its way.
Walley's lanky goofiness was badly missed and while Casey could raise some laughs, the chemistry with Murphy just wasn't quite right.
Episode One of Series Five of 'The Young Offenders' sets out to rectify all that.
With Jock nearing the end of his sentence, he escapes his Colombian prison with just a few days to go, thanks to some rather lax security.
Stowing away on a boat, he manages to contact Conor who comes to get him.
Swimming ashore, Jock is enthusiastically greeted by his brother from another mother and they immediately end up fleeing the authorities, nicking dresses from a washing line as Jock sheds his prison garb.
Winding up at a cottage, the inept duo end up accidentally holding an eccentric couple hostage, Mary McEvoy's Mary and Niall Buggy's Niall as Conor falls out with Jock over his buddy's poor decision making.
Patching things up while therural Gardai become concerned about Niall and Mary's safety, the lads manage to get out of a tight situation and back to the city of Cork where they quickly have delusions of grandeur.
Given Jock's Colombian jail experience, the naive duo decide they are going to build their own Pablo Escobar style criminal empire and recruit Billy Murphy and two protégés to do their shoplifting for them.
Subsequent episodes see Conor having to swallow his pride as the love of his life, Demi Isaac Oviawe's Linda prepares to wed his nemesis, Danny Power's odious Gavin Madigan.
The two boys also try to impress two posh sounding English girls, Niamh Cremin's Charlotte and Holly Sturton's Emma who they meet on a night out in Cork city.
Conor's tetchy mum, Hilary Rose's Mairead introduces him and Jock to his flirty grandmother, Fionnula Flanagan's Bridget with the four of them embarking on an eventful road trip while Dominic MacHale's Garda Sergeant Tony Healy struggles to mind his and Mairead's baby.
In the final episode, Conor and Jock foolishly get involved in Billy Murphy's overambitious and typically cackhanded attempt to carry out an 'Ocean's Eleven' style heist in a popular distillery frequented by Americans.
With Jock back on board and Peter Foott sharing writing duties with Neil Webster, Paul Howard, Alice Snedden and Ross Browne, Series Five of the BBC and RTE sitcom is a definite improvement on its predecessor.
A lot of that is down to Walley's return and his goofy chemistry with Murphy.
Breezily directed by Rosco Five, they and other members of the cast like Casey, Rose, Oviawe and Power deliver some laugh out loud moments as the two lads manage somehow to get out of tight corners of their own making.
As always, some episodes are stronger than others with the wedding, the English girls, Mairead's mother and the botched distillery heist outperforming the other two.
This series' guest appearances by Buggy, McEvoy, Cremin, Sturton and especially Flanagan work well.
However the demotion of Linda and her family of Jennifer Barry's Siobhan, PJ Gallagher's Barry Walsh and Orla Fitzgerald's Orla to peripheral characters is a curious decision that really detracts from the series.
The involvement of the Walshes has always been integral to the success of the show and you feel they definitely deserve more screen time.
As enjoyable as the revival of the show is, you do find yourself wondering how long it can sustain the naive man child antics of Conor and Jock as Walley dnd Murphy age.
As the series wears on, it feels like the show has probably run its course.
With five full series and two Christmas specials under its belt, maybe a one-off episode to tie up loose ends is all it has got.
Conor and Jock, Mairead, Billy Murphy, Sergeant Healy and the Walshes deserve at least that.
One more episode to ride off into the sunset feels about right.
One more series, though, would feel like a dead horse that none of us would want them to flog.
(Series Five of 'The Young Offenders' was broadcast on BBC1 and RTE1 between April 3-May 1, 2026, with all episodes available on the BBC iPlayer and RTE Player on April 3, 2026)
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