The Young Ones

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andy400

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10,480 posts

233 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Still funny after all these years, great stuff. Anyone else a fan?

Just watched 'Bambi'. Shirley the best of the lot? Motorhead too....

B19GRR

1,980 posts

258 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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I quite like Sick, Vivian's rant about The Good Life is a classic and of course there's Neil's negative reality inversion!

Cheers,
Rob

Finbarr saunders

206 posts

174 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Comedy gold my friend, comedy gold.thumbup

andy400

Original Poster:

10,480 posts

233 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Now watching 'Nasty'.


"Escuse me, do you dig graves?"

"Yeah, yeah, they're alright, yeah."

hehe

Conian

8,030 posts

203 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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open uuuup. it's the piiiiiiigs

Chimune

3,203 posts

225 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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This might get sad, but of the top of me head:

Neil, Neil. Orange peel !
Crop rotation in the 14th centuray was CONSIDERABLY improved by ....
Guys, guys. Im being hasled by a chick !
Youre not very comfortable Rick. No, im bloody not !
How strange that such a mindless and sadistic maniac such as Vivian, should care for a begonia
Half time report
its my birthday
hi Mike ! Not yet...
Dont look at me. Im irrelevant !
Its snow isnt it ? No Viv - its rissotto !
Do you think ants go to discos?
Are you Neil Armstrong?
I WAS PAUL SQUIRES !
My parents... are dead. The selfish bds ! I was going to spend all summer with them !
Daddy's got a Porsche !

Oh god. I can go on all night. Must stop the madness.

I must say though: 'Do you dig Graves ?' is my fave !!!

Edited by Chimune on Thursday 4th March 23:51

whitechief

4,423 posts

197 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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It's brilliant, I watched it as a young lad, and have recently bought the DVD box set. It still holds its own as great comedy.

Negative Creep

25,018 posts

229 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Special effects and Thatcher references aside, it really hasn't dated that badly


"'ere didn't you kill my brother? Nah, must've been me then"

Chimney sweep "Santa's been stuck down there with me"
Gatecrasher 1 "Do what son? we've known for some considerable time he doesn't exist"
Gatecrasher 2 "What? I though that........"
Gatecrasher 1 "yeah I'll explain later"

"If I had a penny for every time i had to answer the door...I'd have £3.57"

"Vegetable rights and peace!"

Neil "fascist pigs!"
Rick "bds!"
Viv "yeah I really want to join the Police!"



Or the scene where Neil becomes so boring Rick starts to cry...........I feel like that quite often

The Hypno-Toad

12,364 posts

207 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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"Vivian,Vivian,Vivian!!! Why is it when anything ever explodes in this house its always blame Vivian!"

"Quick, quick get the picture back before Elephant Head comes on and sings"

"Viv, can you like, kill yourself with an overdose of laxative pills?"
"I don't know Neil but I'm going to hang around to find out,"

"Achtung!"

"Rik call an ambulance, I've just nailed my legs to the table,"

"Codpiece face,"
"What did you say?"
"I said.... Codpiece face!"

Dr Phibes

775 posts

199 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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As important a moment in TV comedy history as Python, it really was a major turning point alongside the early comic strip progs.

Watch the "sick" episode with my 11 yr old daughter and 7 yr old son both loved it.

andy400

Original Poster:

10,480 posts

233 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Dr Phibes said:
As important a moment in TV comedy history as Python, it really was a major turning point alongside the early comic strip progs.

Watch the "sick" episode with my 11 yr old daughter and 7 yr old son both loved it.
Comic Strip, good call. Must check if they are on Amazon / youtube. Would love to see 'Eat the Rich' again especially.

zac510

5,546 posts

208 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Great thread!

The writing a letter to the bank manager scene was the best to me. All 4 characters working together (in a sense).

And then stupid slapstick stuff like Vyvyan's bowling when playing cricket.

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funkyrobot

18,789 posts

230 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Alexi Sale (sp?) as a nutter criminal - 'I'm not really known for my patience' or something simlar.

Rick - 'well you obviously aren't Dr Kildaire then are you!'.

Whallop!!!

Great stuff!

Dr Phibes

775 posts

199 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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andy400 said:
Dr Phibes said:
As important a moment in TV comedy history as Python, it really was a major turning point alongside the early comic strip progs.

Watch the "sick" episode with my 11 yr old daughter and 7 yr old son both loved it.
Comic Strip, good call. Must check if they are on Amazon / youtube. Would love to see 'Eat the Rich' again especially.
You can buy a box set of all the comic strip TV progs well worth it, Does not include Eat the Rich as that was a movie like Supergrass.

Bored, Bored, Bored, Bored, Bored, - hits Rik on the head with a cricket bat - "Even mindless violence seems boring today"

May the seed of you loin grow fruitful in the belly of your Woooman.

Bebee

4,685 posts

227 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Neil......your bedrooms on fire!

williamp

19,293 posts

275 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Woah, that's a heavy bread-head conspiracy, man....

JonRB

74,915 posts

274 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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andy400 said:
"Escuse me, do you dig graves?"

"Yeah, yeah, they're alright, yeah."
rofl I love that quote - always have. hehe

JonRB

74,915 posts

274 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Also.. final question. Who has been tampering with my question cards?

Conian

8,030 posts

203 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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JonRB said:
Also.. final question. Who has been tampering with my question cards?
Me! It was me!

Chimune

3,203 posts

225 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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He's dead. How do you spell it ?
Amazulu! Is that right? I'm a Glasweegan.
More sugar? It'll rot your teeth you know. Yeh i was a bit worried about that, so i had all mine kicked out before i came round. These are Neils !
Whose getting married?
My parents are comming for tea !
V:I'm off to stuff loads and loads of paper down the toilet. N:I always wondered who did that.
M:Rick, we got chucked off because you said that ASLEF was an annagram of 'complete and utter bd'. N:Which it isnt. Even.
The pollution poem !
Rick ! Could you keep your concience down. I'm trying to get some sleep !

Another personal fave:
Neil, the bathroom's free ! Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta.


The funny thing is me and my sis still quote these lines to eachother on an embarrasingly regular basis. I often slip Young Ones phrases into conversation to see if anyone picks up on them. I heard recently that an old mate calls his baby son Toxteth O'Grady due to volume of snot he generates.

I clearly remember watching the 1st episode on telly and it was completely unlike anything else i'd ever seen. Up untill a few years back my only access to them was a VHS copy from the telly.

When, I got the DVD box set a few years back, i was ammazed to see how different the 1st two or three episodes were to the others. They are much more of a comedy stage play with lots of dialogue direct to the audience. Watching the others try and keep still in the background, is class. As they refined it, you can see how they replaced the long monologues with puppets and quips directly to camera (right kids?).

I'm sure that on a making of doc a few years back, the producers said that they only put music in so they could be classed as an entertainment show and get more money !

I'll stop waffling on now ... getmecoat