The Young Ones: C or D?

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And/or favorite lines. Vegetable right and peace, everyone.

― Prude, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ultra Fucking Classic.There are so many great lines..."at one stage,she even took her BRA off!"

― Damian, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is this is even a question? ;) So many great moments!! My favourite probably the one that starts of as Neil's Dallas dream when he hears Vivian shout "SHUT UP YOU BASTARDS!!!". He wakes up to see a hung-over Vivian on Sunday morning banging his head against the wall shouting "SHUT UP YOU BASTARDS!!" at the churchbells outside.

Also: "Trevor's tea!"

and the way Rick doesn't actually say 'bra' but 'bwwroaahh". ;)

― Omar, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'The old trick,eh?EAT the telly before I get the chance to nick you!'

― Damian, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the one where they go on University Challenge against Footlights College, Oxbridge ("rah rah rah! we're going to smash the oiks!") and Emma Thompson says "Ive got a Porsche" and Vyvyan is fiddling with the mic and the voice says "Vyvyan, Scumbag" and he says "What?". oh i laughed till i cried. still, i was only 10 :)

― katie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Classick all the way! In what episode did Neneh Cherry appear? Can't remember. My fave episode was the one with the rats. Gotta check if it's out on dee-vee-dee.

― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A'm not a vempire, A'm a draving enstructor!

― ogden, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Oh it's a mousie. Mousie wants a drink. Oh, it's gone all big....Oh, there's a whole box of them in them in here....I think I need to go to the toilet".

"And you fell for it, like the fascist you are".

Neneh Cherry was in Rip, Rig and Panic, featured in one episode. God I'm old.

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"anyway, Mary decided not to go to the party..... for the obvious reasons"

at the time it was a downright classic, if I watched it again now I'd possibly think less so.

― chris, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Neil, your bedroom's on fire!"

― AP, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also for me the introduction to the two-finger salute. Esp. the double 2-fingers Viv does whilst taunting Rick: "Missed me Vuuuhhhrrginnnn!".

― Omar, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Open up it's the piiigs" is the only one I can remember cos that's all I heard at school for the next two months. I wasn't allowed to watch it at the time cos I were too young/innocent, tho everyone else my age was watching it. But classic anyhoo.

― Steve.n., Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Come in Neil, and take that tit off your head."

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Revolutionary biscuits of Italy, rise up out of your box! You have nothing to lose but your wafers, la la la la la."

― Mark C, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dud

― mark s, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Classik. It shaped my pre-teens.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who of the YO crew = still funny? Mayall: no. Edmondson: no. Sayle: no. The short one: never was. The hippie: never was.

Only still-funny line: Emma Thompson (of all otherwise talentgless ppl) in the University Challenge spoof: "I've got a porsche".

Still-useful phrase: "And you fell for it, like the FASCISTS you are."

― mark s, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My fave bit is still the yoof show 'Nosin' Around'. Was Janet Street Porter watching when she was dreaming of Rapido...or what?

Also Dawn French dressed up as the Devil: "she's talking about PERIOD PAINS!"

― suzy, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neil: You all really hate me, don't you?

Rik: Yes, when we can remember your name, um, thingamajig.

― Prude, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, Boomshanka: May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your womaaaaaan.

― Prude, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Suzy, she was watching it when she dreamt up Network 7 ;) (have we done N7 C/D/Changed-the-face-of-broadcasting-as-we-know-it yet?). I was another too young and innocent to watch it first time around (or rather mother wouldn't let me, due to it being ROOD and STOOPID), and it hasn't really stood the test of time has it? vyvian getting his head cut off by the train, and motorhead playing ace of spades are the best bits prolly...

― CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic the first 20 times, but wearing a bit thin now. I was in love with Rick.

FITE: The Young Ones vs The Goodies

― toraneko, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Orbital of all bands talking about how Rising Damp lasts while The Young Ones doesn't. Interesting comparison! Though if we're talking L. Rossiter, Reg Perrin all the way. Great! Super!

Anyway, Young Ones = classic. In America, the episodes were picked up by MTV in the mid-eighties long after the second season was finished and run fairly constantly, largely because of the musical content. This turned out to be a blessing, in that it was one heck of a way to be exposed to a variety of bands otherwise getting no airplay. I mean, learning who the hell Motorhead was -- very genius! The Damned were the key find for me, I went, "The hell?" and went out and bought the just-released Light at the End of the Tunnel collection, and thus began my lurv for punk rock and various related things, oh yes.

I have the episodes on tape and every so often give them a viewing. Obviously stuff of its time and place, but still, so many of the one- liners are just wonderful.

"You guys *never* listen to me! I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record!"

No points for helping give Hale and Pace a break, though. Idiots.

Now the Goodies, they were odd...sort of.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Young Ones = bestest. "You don't have a sister Rik, you're the classic example of an only-child"

― DG, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate and I are sitting here getting pished on sake.

Rik: "I'm going to write my local councilman."

Mike: "You can't, you're an anarchist."

Rik: "All right then, I'll write to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen. Dear Mister Echo..."

Also: (to Rik) '"Is that pronounced with a silent P?"

― suzy, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate and I are sitting here getting pished on sake.

No fair -- share! Once again I dream for teleport devices...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neil, dressed as cop, crashes into a room and destroys a phonograph... he looks down and noticed what's on the turntable... "Oh no, Steve Hillage!"

― Sean, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Abba? Abba? Swedish? I knew them when they were a Lancashire clog- dancing trio! Arthur, Betty, Boris and Angela!

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Who of the YO crew = still funny? Mayall: no. Edmondson: no. Sayle: no. The short one: never was. The hippie: never was."

Possibly fair comment, but the way I feel about Mayall = the way some folks feel about David Bowie, i.e. it doesn't matter how much embarrassing cack he puts his name to, he's still Rik Mayall, and therefore *potentially* the funniest man on Earth. David Bowie *is* the funniest man on Earth, meanwhile.

From that era, the stuff that's really lasted = Comic Strip Presents (especially the first two series). But perhaps that's just the exclusive this-is-our-thing thing (few saw first airing of YO in late '82, but everyone and their mother [though certainly not *my* mother] was a fan by '85; CS passed the schoolyard masses by). Keith Allen's greatest forty-five minutes: "Geno: Full Story and Pics".

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Revive thread . . . ooo . . . ooo . . .

The triple-DVD box set was recently released in the U.S. I bought it.
I lurve it.

"Darling Fascist Bullyboy,
Give me some more money, you bastard.
May the seed of your loins be bountiful in the belly of your woman,
Neil."

― J (Jay), Thursday, 10 October 2002 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

kill thread. 'the young ones' is almost as bad as 'bottom'. who finds this shit funny? oh, everyone upthread apparently. still, DUD.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 11 October 2002 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I just bet, right, that someone really does turn into a homosidal axewielding maniac.

"how did you get here" Mike: "you'll have to ask my mum, she would'nt tell me"

"moan moan boring just because you do a little bit of housework"
"a little bit????"

"sleep gives you cancer man...everyone knows that"

"Look at us....quarreling...biiiiiikering, we never used to be like this!!" "yes we did!"

― Phil James, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i watched some of the first series on DVD recently and gawd it's mostly terrible (the timing is so woeful yet they all seem strangely confident). the second one is far better and still makes me chuckle - you get it wrong i kick your head een

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Rik is so supremely annoying it's classic. Has TV anywhere in any era ever done 'completely obnoxious prat' anywhere near as well?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is what I like to call ridin' around in a double decker bus"

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Has TV anywhere in any era ever done 'completely obnoxious prat' anywhere near as well?

KITTEN TO THREAD, obv...

hands up who likes me?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

So is it true that Ben Elton has finished up on the route of 'he who fucks nuns will eventually join the church'?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The Young Ones was the church all along, Ned.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgive me, Hopkins, for I don't know if I've sinned.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Kitten is so Rikk it's funny

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My forgiveness is no good here.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX = a Purgatory without redemption?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Never a truer word.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The first episode I saw was "Bomb" (send it to Thatcher for the kids!) and it warped my mind in a beautiful way.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Apart from Emma Thompson, the other good bit in the Bambi episode is Motorhead...

― angle of dateh, Friday, 26 August 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

MUSIC!!

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh Neil, Neil, orange peel... "
"Helloooo!"
"Aarrgh!"

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

ugh. seriously one of the worst shows ever.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

You're fired.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

security will see you out.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

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Ive had that book since high school! it is dogeared and well loved :D

"if the world was an orange, it would be like, too small"

― Trayce, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 10:47 (seventeen years ago)

was it called the Dicky and Deano show sketch, with the false laughter at the golf gags which just had me in fucking stitches.

xp i have that book too!

― Ste, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago)

Halfway through reading it, I started to develop a really shameful crush on Neil. OH GOD NO!!!

― Klaus M. Flanger, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

End of an era. The launderette is up for rent, and has stopped trading. I suppose it was inevitable after the gentrification of the Kebab and Calculator.

― aldo, Saturday, 9 August 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

...there really was a Kebab and Calculator?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 August 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

DUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUDDUD

― sunny successor, Saturday, 9 August 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, the Kebab and Calculator was a pub called the Cock of the North. It still is, but was done up about a year ago and is nearly unrecognisable. The only thing which still looks the same now is the RSPA shop.

― aldo, Saturday, 9 August 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

What part of London is this?

― chap, Saturday, 9 August 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

It'll be the part of Bristol where it was filmed...

― aldo, Saturday, 9 August 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago)

SS, I know that kids can make you say crazy thinks. But STFU before I disown you. CLASSIQUE! :-)

― stevienixed, Saturday, 9 August 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

utter crap. loathed it. not even a titter missus.

― piscesx, Saturday, 9 August 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

"God, I'm bored. Might as well be listening to Genesis."

― King Boy Pato, Saturday, 9 August 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

ahahahaha I completely forgot about that line.

― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 9 August 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

i was in the 'kebab'pub last year, i thought it was still quite familiar with it's hat-box shape.

and totally classic

― Ste, Monday, 11 August 2008 08:43 (sixteen years ago)

"Girls and boize come out to playyy
On the busy motorwayyyyyy!!"

― Mark G, Monday, 11 August 2008 08:47 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, obviously the shape of the pub still gives it away if you know what you're looking for, but until about 2 years ago it still looked exactly the same from the outside.

― aldo, Monday, 11 August 2008 10:59 (sixteen years ago)

OH OH OUTSPAN

― DG, Monday, 11 August 2008 11:47 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1089279/Punk-student-University-Challenge-dead-ringer-Vyvyan-The-Young-Ones.html

― The tit man from the hilarious 'Loudon Wainwright III' song (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago)

Happily for University Challenge host Jeremy Paxman, James was more gracious in defeat than Vyvyan, who smashed through the floorboards before letting off a hand grenade when Scumbag College started to fall behind.

― The tit man from the hilarious 'Loudon Wainwright III' song (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

The Moment That Punk Died (TM)

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago)

If he's not doing that on purpose as a 'trib'...

― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago)

NEW BBC SCANDAL!!

viewers complained that he was breaking the law by imitating an RAF officer

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

well he did get 'told off' by the rozzers for wearing that uniform.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, he'd have been quite good on last weeks "CBGB's" musical round.

Either that, or totally blown his cover.

― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

"He was really nice and really friendly and it's all a big persona he puts on."

― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:19 (sixteen years ago)

Is this 1982?

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:20 (sixteen years ago)

You know, I could pick all sorts of holes in the very premise of that crap article but IT'S THE DAILY MAIL and therefore it would be like finding a needle in a giant stack of needles.

― I'm Richard (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:21 (sixteen years ago)

btw thanks for making me give that disgusting shitrag a web hit.

― I'm Richard (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:21 (sixteen years ago)

Welcome to Cameron's Britain.

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:22 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Cornflakes

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 03:47 (fourteen years ago)

Corn[/i]flakes

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 03:47 (fourteen years ago)

Cornflakes
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― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

"Abba? ABBA?!"

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 03:55 (fourteen years ago)

you saay yoo want a revelooshuuuan weeell yer knooow

― if you wanna gamble, take that shit to vegas (Ste), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:15 (fourteen years ago)

"Nature grows the seed..."

― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:32 (fourteen years ago)

"Hnurr, I got some Dungarees, just like yours, they're really graet arent they?"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:57 (fourteen years ago)

"I am not a virgin!"
"Virgin! Virgin!"

― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

ANARCHIST: Yeah. Look, next Tuesday, I'm gonna blow up a Panda in Croydon.
RICK: Yer, right on. Bloody zoos, who needs them?

― Rameses Street (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago)

This.

― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 11:04 (thirteen years ago)

I shouldnt admit this, but N and I alarmingly frequently have this exchange:

BALOWSKI: You know me
MIKE: Oh yeah.
BALOWSKI: Who am I?
MIKE: You're you!
BALOWSKI: That's right. You wanna make something of it?
MIKE: I don't, but if you want a fight, Neil's in the lounge.
BALOWSKI: You threatening me?
MIKE: You looking for teeth in a basket?
BALOWSKI: Yeah.
MIKE: Well, there you are!
BALOWSKI: Cheers, mate. I've been looking for them all night.

― Rameses Street (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago)

(usually triggered if either of us happens to say "well, you know me", obv)

― Rameses Street (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Watched "Boring" with the kids, they enjoyed it.

Almost as 'undated' as Fawlty Towers in it's way..

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:34 (twelve years ago)

Funniest show ever if you're about twelve (that's not a slight). You receive quite an odd and random education in 80s pop while watching it.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:29 (twelve years ago)

Madness, Motorhead and Dexy's fair enough. Amazulu? Rip Rig and Panic?

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:33 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, good points.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago)

Amaglaswegian.

― nickn, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

Hero.

Even now it's still very tempting... pic.twitter.com/5R8XywEYyB
— Adrian Edmondson (@AdrianEdmondson) August 28, 2017

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 August 2017 17:58 (seven years ago)

haha, great.
I also like his retweet, the one before this one, showing the sign outside a pub or something.

― Ste, Monday, 28 August 2017 19:01 (seven years ago)

five years pass...

Happy 40th: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/12/the-young-ones-40-years-lise-mayer-nigel-planer-alexei-sayle-chrisopher-ryan-interview

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 November 2022 16:18 (two years ago)

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