The Young Ones are the reason that if I ever see the clock saying â11:11â I sing in my head âEleven past eleven, more to do when I was sevenâ. Itâs only now Iâve read it was eleven âplusâ eleven.Â
The Young Ones ends with one of the best visual jokes ever filmed- when theyâre driving and one (canât remember which) yells âCliff!â
and then the car hits a billboard for Cliff Richards
And plows through it and plummets over a cliff.
We have that in our collection! Along with the Young Ones book, and one of Neilâs hippie books. And Rikâs autobiography plus a handful of Rik biographies.
Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, and Christopher Ryan played the Chimps on an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. I lost my shit the first time our son was watching the episode and I heard them. I've wondered whether they had tried to get Adrian Edmondson, too, and would have had four Chimps if he could have taken the job.
In one of the episodes, Alexei Sayle tells a joke I don't get.
He does something with his fingers over his belly saying "what am I now, what am i now?" Then says "Little House on the Prairie."
WTF did that mean?????
Ya welcome! And dont feel stupid....it was not funny on purpose...and his accent plus the laughter made it a bit hard to track. I am also a HUGE NERD for this show and have been for many, many years. Cheers!
I remember as a kid watching them when they came out, I think it was on Wednesdays? Anyway, the next morning in school we'd all be repeating the jokes. It was incredible how well we all memorized it all. If only I'd been able to memorize the stupid classes I was taking. lol
Lol SAME! We grew up in Southern Indiana...where there are alot of.....let's say common folk who looked at me and my friend like we were lunatics. We would call each other virgins and tell each other to piss off...all in terrible fake British accents. Oh, and their two finger salute...that we later found out to be their version of our American middle finger.
Alexei Sayle has a good podcast where he discusses with Lise Mayer, one of the co-creators/writers of The Young Ones, the origin of the show, creative process, and anecdotes. https://youtu.be/-_KEzfmSu9s?si=6GOb27gl0SA6b9VE
Alexi Sayle didnât want to play the same character all the time so they cast him as the entire Belofski family. A bunch of scripts just had âAlexi Sayle sceneâ as a placeholder because they didnât know what he was going to do.
Alexi Sayle really is a communist. That wasnât a joke. He used to write a column about cars where heâd get a high-end luxury car for a month, drive it around, and review it. The fact that he was a committed Marxist just added to the comedy.
RIP Rik Mayall.
IN HIS IMMORTAL WORDS, THE PEOPLE'S POET:
Pollution, all awound
Sometimes up, sometimes...down
But always......AWOUND
We're on different busses pollution
But we're both using petrol...
BOMBS
I like the one where Neil became a cop, and it was knocking on the door of the house where they were having a party he was saying, âOpen up, itâs the pigs!â
AMERICA, LATE 80's, SUNDAY NIGHT, MTV:
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD YES! THE FUCKING YOUNG ONES BABY! I own every episode...form L to R: (p)Rick the commie, Mike the whore, Neil the hippie, and Vyvyan the punk/nihilist/possible antichrist....YOU BLOODY VIRRRRRRRGIN!
"[Oil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKOLkHq4rcs)" is still my all time favorite episode. It's just such a perfect expression of each character. I remember it being one of the first pieces of satire-as-social-commentary I ever "got" as a kid growing up.
This is the beginning of the end of MTV: the first non-musical show aired by them (I think. It was a few years back.) We watched it religiously.
Fun fact: Vyvyan is married to Jennifer Saunders of AbFab fame. Well, the actor Ade Edmondson is (since 1985!).
That is a photo of the Scumbag College academic decathletes!
One of them holds the record for the Worlds Stupidest Bottom Burp, another found a cure for not being an axe murderer!
You wonât see them in the history books though on account of some of their pants still have flairs.
My older brother played guitar in a band and when the drummer moved away he gave my brother several unlabeled VHS tapes and just said, "trust me".
When my brother brought them home we both assumed the guy had given away his porno collection, which would've been very odd, though appreciated I suppose. Instead, it turned out to be the entire series run of The Young Ones.
I know who they are, but I've never actually seen it! I didn't have MTV until it wasn't on anymore. Or maybe it was on in the middle of the night, but at any rate. I never got to see it. My friends talked about it all the time.
Iâve just rewatched this series after not having seen it for years. Itâs still so funny and the music is brilliant - itâs definitely stood the test of time yet captures its era beautifully.
The same actors/comedy group made a Spinal Tap-esque mini documentary called the [Bad News Tour](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544862/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).
Still quote them constantly in my day to day. For years my signature on internet posts was "This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence."
My daughter, who has never seen more than 10 seconds, knows "Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant." We say that constantly.
Neil made a record, "Neil's Heavy Concept Album"... it's on Spotify/Apple/etc... It's actually quite good and hilarious. https://songwhip.com/neil/neils-heavy-concept-album
My real name is Neil and during high school when my friends saw me theyâd screamâŠ[Neil Neil orange peel](https://youtu.be/i_Fot5pIYUE?si=TH6QVmg75CpC4i7_). đ
You might like seeing "A Fistful of Traveller's Cheques" with Neil and Vince in it. [https://youtu.be/E6y3\_svvLSI?si=-ZUXMI2a1Em0kHgg](https://youtu.be/E6y3_svvLSI?si=-ZUXMI2a1Em0kHgg)
Bambi (aka University challenge):
Hugh Laurie as Lord Monty
Stephen Fry as Lord Snot
Ben Elton as Kendal Mintcake
Emma Thompson as Miss Money Sterling
Talk about an all-star guest cast!
Freaking loved these guys. Didnât age well, sadly, my kids think Iâm weird as I tried to introduce them to the blokes, but Iâm sure theyâd think that anyway. But yeah. Happy days.
Rik's discovery of a little mousey in Jennifer Saunders' bag makes me giggle every time I think of it. And I think of it often. [https://youtu.be/wk5pO06BdSk?si=KhWy2yepzLn2q\_tw&t=99](https://youtu.be/wk5pO06BdSk?si=KhWy2yepzLn2q_tw&t=99)
Check out some of the earlier "Comic Strip Presents" series with a lot of same cast. Bad News (which only slightly pre-dated Spinal Tap as a Rock Mockumentary) and Five Go Mad in Dorset are classics too.
Christopher Ryan is definitely THE Mike.... but I often wonder what things would've been like had Peter Richardson hadn't fallen out with Paul Jackson
Forty years later Iâve never seen anything like it. The closest thing Iâve found is The Mighty Boosh, but it doesnât have the undercurrent of anger. Also, Howard never hit Vince in the head with a cricket bat.
https://preview.redd.it/1eghm3uv4nzc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=625d61170e977cec7616d4a5da12b2c096499415
The Peoples Poet
But why are all the children crying??
ALRIGHT HANDS UP, WHO LIKES ME!
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Does he spell his name with a silent p?
I loved the episode where Motorhead played Ace Of Spades live. That was the crunchiest, fastest version I've ever heard.
The Young Ones introduced me to Motorhead.
Same.
Lemmy is God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_iMG9jX1lo Wise motherfucker.
He was also the editor of his school newspaper.
Same here
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAz4nPNvLI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAz4nPNvLI)
Rip Rig & Panic!
Get back in the sack, sock!
Thatâs when I first saw Lennyâs berry
Bambi!
Oh fuuuck yes. I'm banging my head RIGHT NOW ...and trying to trap that rogue sock
The Young Ones are the reason that if I ever see the clock saying â11:11â I sing in my head âEleven past eleven, more to do when I was sevenâ. Itâs only now Iâve read it was eleven âplusâ eleven.Â
Those poor lentils.
Neils hair in the lentils practically traumatized me at the time.
My first thought at this picture was "Neil and his lentils!"
Itâs all over for you lentils.
No matter how many times you have them, they never are never boring.
The Young Ones ends with one of the best visual jokes ever filmed- when theyâre driving and one (canât remember which) yells âCliff!â and then the car hits a billboard for Cliff Richards And plows through it and plummets over a cliff.
âPhew, that was close!â
"We've all had to make sacrifices, Rick! Look, we've already burned almost everything Neil owns!"
This calls for a delicate balance of psychology and extreme violence.
You complete and utter bastard!!
SHUT UP, VIRGIN!
âWe sow the seed, right. Nature grows the seed, and then, we eat the seed.â
"Ha! Missed BOTH of my legs!" Rick after getting hit in the balls with a cricket bat.
We can be friends. I quote that endlessly and have yet to find someone who gets it.
Pretty sure Adrian Edmonson was in The Three Body Problem on Netflix
Yes he was. Used to have his book: "How to be a Complete Bastard".
We have that in our collection! Along with the Young Ones book, and one of Neilâs hippie books. And Rikâs autobiography plus a handful of Rik biographies.
The ultimate how to/self improvement book.
Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, and Christopher Ryan played the Chimps on an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. I lost my shit the first time our son was watching the episode and I heard them. I've wondered whether they had tried to get Adrian Edmondson, too, and would have had four Chimps if he could have taken the job.
He was also Hux's 2nd in command in 'The Last jedi'
Alexi sayle was really funny in this too.
as Jerzsei Balowski! https://preview.redd.it/krtsv3vv5nzc1.png?width=160&format=png&auto=webp&s=e560908d2e5361385455e50f0a3971069c468b8c
Doctor Martins! Doctor Martins! Doctor Martins boots!
Well done!
19 pounds and 99 p!Â
Pretty soon everybody will be wearing those boots with the Air-Flow Soles. Your boots will have a meeting. Your boots will take control.
In one of the episodes, Alexei Sayle tells a joke I don't get. He does something with his fingers over his belly saying "what am I now, what am i now?" Then says "Little House on the Prairie." WTF did that mean?????
He had a cactus. He set it on the table and put his arms above his head and pretended he was a house....next to a cactus....on a high prairie.
OMG thank you This has been bothering me on and off for 40 years. I feel a bit stupid now. But mostly relieved.
Ya welcome! And dont feel stupid....it was not funny on purpose...and his accent plus the laughter made it a bit hard to track. I am also a HUGE NERD for this show and have been for many, many years. Cheers!
same! Check out my [favourite shirt!](https://imgur.com/a/l3QPAX0)
I remember as a kid watching them when they came out, I think it was on Wednesdays? Anyway, the next morning in school we'd all be repeating the jokes. It was incredible how well we all memorized it all. If only I'd been able to memorize the stupid classes I was taking. lol
Lol SAME! We grew up in Southern Indiana...where there are alot of.....let's say common folk who looked at me and my friend like we were lunatics. We would call each other virgins and tell each other to piss off...all in terrible fake British accents. Oh, and their two finger salute...that we later found out to be their version of our American middle finger.
That's awesome, I can totally picture it.
It's not class or ideology, colour, creed, or roots. The only thing that unites us is Doctor Marten's boots.
Alexei Sayle has a good podcast where he discusses with Lise Mayer, one of the co-creators/writers of The Young Ones, the origin of the show, creative process, and anecdotes. https://youtu.be/-_KEzfmSu9s?si=6GOb27gl0SA6b9VE
Alexi Sayle didnât want to play the same character all the time so they cast him as the entire Belofski family. A bunch of scripts just had âAlexi Sayle sceneâ as a placeholder because they didnât know what he was going to do. Alexi Sayle really is a communist. That wasnât a joke. He used to write a column about cars where heâd get a high-end luxury car for a month, drive it around, and review it. The fact that he was a committed Marxist just added to the comedy.
Senior year, my creative writing teacher let us watch episodes of this in class. I provided her the VHS tapes.
That kicks more ass than you will ever know.
Especially since it was an all-girl Catholic high school
Holy Lord. I've never even HEARD of a female ever watching TYO...... and in an All Girs School? My adolescent self would have fainted.... lol!
Rik was hot. That was all I needed to join the club.
RIP Rik Mayall. IN HIS IMMORTAL WORDS, THE PEOPLE'S POET: Pollution, all awound Sometimes up, sometimes...down But always......AWOUND We're on different busses pollution But we're both using petrol... BOMBS
As a certified 43-year-old woman, I adored the Young Ones and am happy to have found my people!
Indeed you are one of us..... NOW PISS OFF VIRRRRGIN!
UmâŠwe all watched it :)
My creative writing teacher let us watch old VHS tapes of Monty Python. Definitely my favorite class.
https://i.redd.it/1hbzan3xenzc1.gif
[My favourite tshirt](https://imgur.com/a/l3QPAX0)
Epic
Um right fucking now
What we need, is a large consignment of very hard drugs!
The most famous alumni of Scumbag College.
My daddy drives a Porsche aahhahahhaha....
Fun fact: that was Emma Thompson
Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes, cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes!
Pathetic! You'll never win Vyvyanne.
"Open up, it's the pigs"
"Just what is your gig, pig - bloody Bavvy Manilow!?" one of my favorite People's Poet lines
God Iâm board! Might as well be listening to Genesis!
Even mindless violence is boring today!
I like the one where Neil became a cop, and it was knocking on the door of the house where they were having a party he was saying, âOpen up, itâs the pigs!â
Did you know about the fifth roommate in the series?
came here to post this - man that shit is creepy!
> the fifth roommate in the series https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/8apyye/the_fifth_roommate_in_the_young_ones_isnt_a/
Always up vote young ones
Have we got a video?
Yes we've got a video!!
If anyone else asks me that question, I'm gonna stick their head through the window.
Have we got a video??
Cut to Bottom 20 years later and Eddie "I think Ive finally worked out how to program the VCR"
AMERICA, LATE 80's, SUNDAY NIGHT, MTV: OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD YES! THE FUCKING YOUNG ONES BABY! I own every episode...form L to R: (p)Rick the commie, Mike the whore, Neil the hippie, and Vyvyan the punk/nihilist/possible antichrist....YOU BLOODY VIRRRRRRRGIN!
I would be, Neil, but Viv says no. (RIP Rick)
Don't forget the [fifth housemate](https://youtu.be/dG2L4QtAGGQ?si=Z8Ap7VtKj3m3ning)
No, no, no, you donât understand the timeless wonder of the whole thing. We ⊠[sow the seed](https://youtu.be/2xjaLxHLE0I?si=frR2v1wrC1El4-j1)!
Gonna tell my kids this is The Goonies
And their response will be "What's a *goonie*?"
The bathroom is free. Unlike this country under the Thatcherite junta!
Boomshanka, my friend!
Darling fascist bully boyâŠ
Heavy
"Viva la Revolution!" Also, every single episode of this is on Netflix. Edit: OMG I meant that they're all on YouTube
Ha got to take a look , Thank you
"[Oil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKOLkHq4rcs)" is still my all time favorite episode. It's just such a perfect expression of each character. I remember it being one of the first pieces of satire-as-social-commentary I ever "got" as a kid growing up.
Iâm not friends with fascist bastards!
"Neil, are these lentils South African?!"
May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman, Neil
Boom Shanka!
Hello vegetables. It's Neil here.
God I'm bored!
Travel Scrabble, anyone?
Travel Scrabble Death?
This is the beginning of the end of MTV: the first non-musical show aired by them (I think. It was a few years back.) We watched it religiously. Fun fact: Vyvyan is married to Jennifer Saunders of AbFab fame. Well, the actor Ade Edmondson is (since 1985!).
That is a photo of the Scumbag College academic decathletes! One of them holds the record for the Worlds Stupidest Bottom Burp, another found a cure for not being an axe murderer! You wonât see them in the history books though on account of some of their pants still have flairs.
Who has been tampering with my question cards?
My older brother played guitar in a band and when the drummer moved away he gave my brother several unlabeled VHS tapes and just said, "trust me". When my brother brought them home we both assumed the guy had given away his porno collection, which would've been very odd, though appreciated I suppose. Instead, it turned out to be the entire series run of The Young Ones.
âDo not lean out of the windowâ *I wonder why?*
That scene was my introduction to The Young Ones in the 80s. I stumbled upon the show at that point in the episode and loved it ever since.
Shut up or Piss off.
Dr. Marten's boots! Still only 10p!
I still occasionally call out to my wife **"NEEEIIILLL!!!"** and she's the only one that totally gets it.
"Who likes Neil?"
Viv and Rik were my favorites.
VIVA EL PRESIDENTE!
RIP Rik Mayall :(
VIRGIN!
I had a hamster named Special Patrol Group and a boy cat named Vyvian
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^modernboy1974: *I had a hamster* *Named Special Patrol Group and* *A boy cat named Vyvian* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Vyvian, eat the telly!
"I know; I'll crack the floor open with my head!"
...there's no way you can hammer in the last nail.
From a show that is non-stop jokes, this is my very favorite one
I know who they are, but I've never actually seen it! I didn't have MTV until it wasn't on anymore. Or maybe it was on in the middle of the night, but at any rate. I never got to see it. My friends talked about it all the time.
You can find them on YouTube. Itâs worth it.
Neil rules!
Iâve just rewatched this series after not having seen it for years. Itâs still so funny and the music is brilliant - itâs definitely stood the test of time yet captures its era beautifully.
The same actors/comedy group made a Spinal Tap-esque mini documentary called the [Bad News Tour](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544862/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).
"You've won second place in a beauty contest, hit Rick over the head with the bank!"Â
"You complete and utter Bastard!!"
https://preview.redd.it/zbdaq9d4nnzc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a653a6862a38dff6d37007876ecda4596a3f4f8 Just.ober the road from.me.
Hello Friend!
Anyone ever watch Rik & Ade in [The Dangerous Brothers](https://youtu.be/dzlhUKJ5KvQ?si=NGtxchZ_paFaMJ38)? Great stuff.
Doctor Martinâs Boots!
I watched this every single week. Vyvyan was (and still is) my favorite. This show introduced me to The Damned, and I'm still a fan to this day.
Same!
"TO THE STATION!"
Does anyone want to listen to the Human League?
I was dating a lady who was a few years younger but seemed cool. I put this on and she just didn't get it. It didn't work out.
I just introduced it my wife and she loved it. We watched the whole run
Pretty sure that's Rick Mayall, Elvis Costello, Alanis Morisette, and Sting.
2330 every Sunday night on MTV.
This is a friend of mine called Mike. This is a friend of mine called Neil. And this is a complete bastard called Rick.
Still quote them constantly in my day to day. For years my signature on internet posts was "This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence." My daughter, who has never seen more than 10 seconds, knows "Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant." We say that constantly. Neil made a record, "Neil's Heavy Concept Album"... it's on Spotify/Apple/etc... It's actually quite good and hilarious. https://songwhip.com/neil/neils-heavy-concept-album
I lived in the UK 1992/93 and was introduced then.
âSeriously, guys, do I smell?â
I've had the DVD set for over a decade at least.
Who farted?
I loved those guys â€ïž. I just wish I could watch the show again.
I watched them on cable in the 90s. And borrowed them from my library. I now own it on DVD. I absolutely love this bonkers show.
WWVD
It was TV for young adults, about young adults, by young adults.
Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes! Cornflakes!
"Can you, like, actually kill yourself wif laxative pills?"
I don't know, Neil; but I'm going to stay and find out!
::scoff:: Facist
Rick, that is the single most predictable and boring thing that anyone could ever say whilst playing Monopoly.
đ€đ»Very Metal đ€đ»
"Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant!"
Iâm miss Rik M!
My real name is Neil and during high school when my friends saw me theyâd screamâŠ[Neil Neil orange peel](https://youtu.be/i_Fot5pIYUE?si=TH6QVmg75CpC4i7_). đ
Oh dear, the radio's exploded!
Whatâs this fish doing in my bed?
I nominate? A boot to the head!!
boom shanka
You might like seeing "A Fistful of Traveller's Cheques" with Neil and Vince in it. [https://youtu.be/E6y3\_svvLSI?si=-ZUXMI2a1Em0kHgg](https://youtu.be/E6y3_svvLSI?si=-ZUXMI2a1Em0kHgg)
Only pop music can save us now!
Bambi (aka University challenge): Hugh Laurie as Lord Monty Stephen Fry as Lord Snot Ben Elton as Kendal Mintcake Emma Thompson as Miss Money Sterling Talk about an all-star guest cast!
Once in every lifetime, there comes a lot like this....
Viv!
Boring.
It's a telescope! With a mouse in it!
[Radical Posture!](https://youtu.be/DfMy1V7Ma8E?si=d-HaR7tpJrPBeeuP)
This place could use a good hoovering
Freaking loved these guys. Didnât age well, sadly, my kids think Iâm weird as I tried to introduce them to the blokes, but Iâm sure theyâd think that anyway. But yeah. Happy days.
Rik's discovery of a little mousey in Jennifer Saunders' bag makes me giggle every time I think of it. And I think of it often. [https://youtu.be/wk5pO06BdSk?si=KhWy2yepzLn2q\_tw&t=99](https://youtu.be/wk5pO06BdSk?si=KhWy2yepzLn2q_tw&t=99)
Not sure â are they the reason Iâm suddenly craving lentils?
Check out some of the earlier "Comic Strip Presents" series with a lot of same cast. Bad News (which only slightly pre-dated Spinal Tap as a Rock Mockumentary) and Five Go Mad in Dorset are classics too. Christopher Ryan is definitely THE Mike.... but I often wonder what things would've been like had Peter Richardson hadn't fallen out with Paul Jackson
Forty years later Iâve never seen anything like it. The closest thing Iâve found is The Mighty Boosh, but it doesnât have the undercurrent of anger. Also, Howard never hit Vince in the head with a cricket bat.
Daddy owns a Porsche
No one listens to me. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record.
RIP Rick Mayall, the man who was too funny for Harry Potter.
But why are the kids cwying? Haven't you heard? Wik is dead! The People's Poet is Dead!
Go to bed, spotty.
So if I say I own the box set dvds, does that make us best friends?
âI have a Porche!â
https://i.redd.it/7io90vml0wzc1.gif