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bdtaylor-24215 I used to stay up late on Sundays to watch this show along with The Comic Strip Presents and Monty Python on MTV. As an added bonus MTV would also run an episode of the British music show The Tube. Needless to say I rarely made it in to school on Mondays! This show is one of the greatest TV shows I have ever watched! The show is so fast and frenetic, with all the non-sequiters and subliminals! And like all great shows(The Simpsons, The Three Stooges) every time I watch an episode I catch something I didn't the last time. The Young Ones represents a pivotal time in my, and apparently many others, upbringing. Glad I'm not the only one who really liked this twisted, subversive show!

RaspberryLucozade 'The Young Ones' was one of the first sitcoms to appear as part of the 'alternative comedy boom'. It went out on BBC2 in November 1982 and met with very little reaction, yet when it was repeated a short time later in early 1983, it established itself as one of the most popular shows on television.I loved 'The Young Ones' as a child though at the same time I was terrified of it. It had the feeling of being trapped in a nightmare. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Meyer and was all about four students - psychotic punk Vyvyan, tantrum-throwing Cliff Richard fanatic Rick, glum hippie Neil and smooth-talking wideboy Mike, none of which seemed to do any studying. Each week, we would see incredibly surreal things taking place, such as a giant flood sealing the characters in their house or inanimate objects talking to each other, however the four seemed to take it all in their stride. Alexei Sayle appeared each week in different guises but most of the time was seen as the boys' deranged landlord Mr. Balowski. Musical acts were also commonplace in the show, with top bands such as Madness and Dexys Midnight Runnners making appearances.It was violent, crude and heavily reliant on slapstick, more so than any comedy show had been previously but it struck a chord with millions of viewers. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson seemed to be the main comedians in the show but Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan also made 'The Young Ones' the great show it was. I am not really a fan of Alexei Sayle but some of his scenes here were undeniably hilarious. Further proof that the show had caught on came when the cast did a recording ( in character ) with Cliff Richard of 'Living Doll' for 'Comic Relief' in 1986. A video game version of 'The Young Ones' was released in 1985 for both the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum but due to glitches in the programming ( the game was unsolvable ) it was considered a commercial failure.The most memorable moments from the show for me included Rick mistaking a tampon for a 'telescope with a mouse in it' ( don't ask! ), Vyvyan eating the television set in a bid to hide it from the T.V detector man, Vyvyan expressing his hatred for the sitcom 'The Good Life' ( you would have to see it to find it funny ) but my favourite had Vyvyan leaning out of the window of a moving train, only to be decapitated by a train coming in the other direction. We then see his headless body pull the emergency cord, get out of the train and kick his disembodied head up the track like a football! The show came to a conclusion after only two seasons. In the final episode, 'Summer Holiday', the boys were killed off when the double decker they had stolen went over a cliff and burst into flames. Talk was rife of a Christmas special after the final series ended but the plan never came to fruition.In 1987, Ben Elton and Rik Mayall teamed up once again with Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer to do 'Filthy, Rich & Catflap' in which Rik played an out-of-work actor, however it didn't catch on in the same way 'The Young Ones' did and only ran for six episodes. In 1991, Mayall and Edmondson wrote and starred in the show for which they are best remembered - 'Bottom'.Even though much of it has dated now, 'The Young Ones' is loved by fans as much now as when it first appeared. Special mention must be made of Peter Brewis' superb theme music.

sisnat_london My older brother introduced me to The Young Ones when I was about 10, they used to air very late on Australian TV. At the time I din't take much notice - I was far too interested in boy bands, being 10 and all! Years later, for whatever reason, I hired the videos..that was it I was hooked! I have since purchased the whole series and insist on getting everyone that I meet to watch it. As a result my younger brother is also hooked - we seriously can't get enough! No matter how many times you watch it it just gets funnier and funnier. It's hilarious when you can pull out one-liners from the show when you are out drinking and people actually get it! We spend the whole night saying stuff like "Uh, oh, just a bag of crisps, please, Vyv, but, uh, not meat-flavoured, because I don't abuse my body in the world I live in!"

Robert Redmond This is my favorite show of all time... no questions asked. My mother introduced it to me last year when she bought a video called "The Very Best of The Young Ones" which featured 5 episodes. They were Bomb, Boring, Bambi, Interesting and Summer Holiday. I was so hooked on it! I gave the video away to someone else... not before getting the complete series of season 1 and season 2 on DVD. It's absolute kick@ss and stuff and I can't help but watch it all of the time. I blooming love it.I love Vyvyan the most out of them all, followed by Rik than Neil and of course Mike TheCoolPerson. But they're all hilarious. My favorite episode was probably Bambi... but they're all good.Alexei Sayle would have to have been recognized as the funniest man in the whole entire world during this series.The musical guests are fantastic as well with Madness, Motorhead, and so much more.Hilariously written, wonderfully over the top acting, very original the whole way. Great... great... great... great show! This is proof that the British do comedy 100,000,000,000,000,000 times or better than the United States of America. Sorry Yankees... bow down before the Oxford graduates, Cambridge graduates and gifted high school dropouts!