Now, where was I?
Interesting tidbit- Hugh Laurie (of "House" fame) is featured in the episode Bambi.
Young Ones on Wikipedia!
The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first broadcast in 1982, on BBC2. Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon afterwards, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel.
The main characters were four undergraduate students sharing a house: violent punk rocker Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson), pompous would-be anarchist Rick (Rik Mayall), long-suffering hippie Neil (Nigel Planer), and the mysterious and diminutive Mike (Christopher Ryan). It also featured Alexei Sayle, who played the quartet's landlord, Jerzei Balowski, and other members of the Balowski family.
The show combined traditional sitcom style with violent slapstick, non sequitur plot-turns and surrealism. These older styles were mixed with the working and lower-middle class attitudes of the growing 1980s alternative comedy boom, in which all the principal performers except Ryan had been involved.
Although the series was set in North London, many external scenes were filmed in Bristol. All four characters attended the fictional Scumbag College, although they were never seen attending the institution and were rarely seen studying.
The show was voted #31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.

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Memorable Quotes
Neil: Oh, upstairs. Just follow your nose.
(Bomb)
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Rick: I notice you haven't written the call down in the book, Mike. That's very interesting, isn't it? I mean, we've got this book here to write down all the calls we make in. I suppose you forgot, did you? Well, I wonder how many other times you conveniently forgot?
Mike: Rick, what are you talking about? This is a pay phone.
(Bomb)
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Fisher: Next Tuesday, right, I'm going to blow up a panda in Croydon.
Rick: Yeah, right on. Bloody zoos, who needs them?
(Interesting)
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Neil: It was getting really hot. Then I thought oh no, I should have put out that sociology file that was burning on Rick's bed.
Vyvyan: Yeah, I did that. Trying to make Rick think I was hiding in his bedroom.
Neil: What? You set fire to Rick's bedroom? I think that's a really selfish thing to do Vyvyan. I was hiding in there - you could have given me away!
(Flood)
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Neil: Come on guys, I don't think we should let this experience bring us down. After all, what's so wrong with dirty clothes anyway?
Rick: Yeah! you know, what they say - dirty pants, clean botty.
Mike: Dirty duvet, dirty mind.
Vyvyan: Yeah - my knickers are so old, it's only the stubborn understains that are holding them together.
(Bambi)
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Vyvyan: Could I borrow a cup of sugar please?
Neighbour: Another one? How many's that you've had? You'll rot your teeth you know.
Vyvyan: Yeah, I was a bit worried about that, so I had all mine kicked out before I came round. These are Neil's.
(Cash)
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Woman: Do you dig graves?
Neil: Yeah, yeah, they're all right, yeah.
(Nasty)
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Vyvyan: Now, where was I?
Mike: You were over there by the front door.
Vyvyan: No, before that Michael! Oh God - I gotta stop sniffing this Ajax.
(Nasty)
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Vyvyan: No, I just don't understand - how? Was she unconscious?
Rick: What Vyvyan - do I detect a little spark of jealousy?
Vyvyan: Ha! I'm not jealous! I find the idea of spending a night with you completely revolting!
(Time)
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Vyvyan: I must be hallucinating. What's a good thing for a hangover?
Mike: Drinking heavily the night before.
(Time)
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Mike: What's two foot long with a big round head?
Helen: Don't know.
Mike: No, nor do I, but I keep finding it in my cornflakes...
(Time)
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Neil: Oh yeah, that's a good idea isn't it? Yeah - let's all bring Neil down. That'll relieve the boredom.
Vyvyan: Will it? OK - er, shut up Neil you ugly poo-faced git!
(Summer Holiday)
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Mike: Neil, it is very rare you interest me, but today you have. Why do you keep coming in here, carrying a cake, and saying surprise?
Neil: It's my birthday.
Mike: Now you knew that anyway, and we don't care, so where's the surprise?
(Summer Holiday)
Great Young Ones stuff on Amazon

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Even more Amazon

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Hilarity and Music?
Demolition- Nine Below Zero
Oil- Radical Posture (with Alexei Sayle)
Boring- Madness
Bomb- Dexy's Midnight Runners
Interesting- Rig Rig and Panic
Flood- none
Bambi- Motörhead
Cash- Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve
Nasty- The Damned
Time- Amazulu
Sick- Madness
Summer Holiday- John Otway
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vlvt wrote...
Woohoo, the Damned , series 2 episode 2 wrote 'Nasty' especially for that show
great to see it on your page.
Your my first add to my Damned lens roll, thank you:)
LucyVet wrote...
I'm originally from the UK, and remember when it was on over there. Great lens!
The_Homeopath wrote...
Wow, this brings back some memories! I think I used to watch it on Comedy Central.
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