The random band was because that meant the show would qualify as a 'variety entertainment' show rather than just comedy and get a bigger budget from BBC bosses.
I used to catch The Young Ones on MTV in the '80s. I was 16 or so, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Back then Neil was my favorite. Today I have so much respect for Ade and Rik. RIP Rik.
This show is the birth of alternate comedy in the UK. Before this, you had straight comedy like the two Ronnie's, etc. If you were young in the UK in the 80s, this was THE show to watch.
Not really the birth of alternative comedy but it was almost the first mainstream exposure of the scene as The Comic Strip Presents started a week earlier on Channel 4.
It was THE show to watch for THOUSANDS of men in their 40s! I think that they saw it as a replacement for 'The Goon Show'. I'm 81 now, and still enjoy it!
@budgie98 I'm glad some people that age enjoyed it. My parents were in their 40s and said I couldn't watch it because of the 'violence' and 'bad language' 😅
YES FINALLY A NEW YOUNG ONES viewer!!!!!! You can also post longer versions, since the copyrt is very loose on this show and there are only 12 total episodes.
@@MeganRuth They are tough on 1 season and totally oblivious to the other. Another reactor was able to watch whole episodes of one season with no problem then cut down ones for the next! A bit bizarre.
In the early 80s The Young Ones was THE punk rock sitcom. All punks loved it, a group of us, some in bands would all get together on Sunday nights to watch The Young Ones on Mtv - the first channel to show it.
@@normandavidtidiman9918There's very little difference between Thatcher's lot and Badenoch's lot. It's not particularly dated. Just as crooked and immoral as they were back then.
When i saw Nigel Planer show up in Marcella S2E1 as a terminally ill, aging rocker with slight dementia, i literally shouted "Neil!" out loud. He acted the heck out of that role, too.
In an interview, one of the producers/writers said that every successful sitcom needs to be a family unit. As you watch this, you will see Mike is the father figure, he is quiet, the smartest, and is the leader. Niel is the mother, Neil does all the cooking and the cleaning, he is the last to get anything, and no one appreciates him. Vyvian is the adolescent boy, and pRick is the girl. They are a family unit.
I said this to someone else who was reacting to Monty Python: The main difference between US and UK humour is that US humour is all about punchlines, while the UK tends to focus on the mechanics of it all. It's basically destination v. journey.
My understanding is that the BBC didn't have roo in their schedules for any more 30 minute comedy shows, but they were looking for new 'light entertainment' shows - which could often be a mix of comedy, music and sketches The writers of The Young Ones just randomly threw a band into the house in each episode, and got their funding from the light entertainments budget
I used to have to sneak downstairs after my parents went to sleep to watch it on MTV. I would turn the volume down as low as possible and sit on the floor right next to the TV. ❤️
I'm very glad that you watch this and I hope you watch the other 11 episodes. Season 1 take place in 1982 and came out that year nothing happened to 83 and season 2 came out in 1984 with six more episodes.
This blew comedy wide open in 1982, filmed in Bristol. Ade Edmonson who plays Vivian said recently both series (only 12 were made) took 14 weeks of his life over 40 years ago but this is still what he's best known for. The show did include some of the best upcoming comic talent of the day : Dawn French, Jenifer Saunders (married to Edmondson), Alexi Sayle, Ben Elton (who co-wrote it), Terry Jones from Monty Python cameos too. Edmondson & Mayall had a double act 'The Dangerous Brothers' and later went on to do the all-time classic 'Bottom'. You should also check out The Comic strip Presents.... This started on the (then) new terrestrial channel 4 about the same time and featured people like French, Saunders, Edmonson, Mayall, Nigel planer, Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) etc. Basically, a group of comedians doing themed episodes that poked fun at things. They began with a piss-take of Enid Blyton's Famous Five. One of their best was the fake documentary about the rock band 'Bad News', which predated This Is Spinal Tap. Then there was 'The Miners Strike' which was about Hollywood stars making a movie about the real 1984 strike in the UK. Obviously, they couldn't get real Hollywood names, so it was things like Jenifer Saunders playing Meryl Streep playing a wife in the story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Comic_Strip_Presents..._episodes The Young Ones did a charity single with Cliff Richard...who starred in the original movie The Young Ones....and took the mickey out of him. I think it may be on YT somewhere.
5:50 the advertising slogan for TV Times magazine was "There's such much more than tv times, in TV Times magazine". It was a tv guide for the independent tv companies back then.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 I think there were different ones. I remember the spoken '"I never knew there was so much in it" slogan too. Just done a bit of research and also found more TV Times adverts with a jingle sung to music..."There's so much more than TV Times...in this week's...TV Times" - Can't say I remember that one though - My family always were always more of a Radio Times household back in those days.☺
This show introduced me to Motorhead, Madness and Dexy's Midnight Runners as long-term enjoyed bands. Most of these are one-hit-wonders I'd only synonymize from there respective episodes, for me.
I remember watching this when Channel 4 first broadcast it in 1982. I was 18 back then and loved it, I'm almost 61 now, a lots happened, good and bad, in the last 42 years but I still love The Young Ones!
@@sicr7373 Comic Strip? That was on Channel 4. The BBC saw the potential and decided to hire a select few from it to make their own, 'anarchic', series.
the characters were a collection of individual stand up routines at the same comedy club (Comic Strip, i think) gathered together into an insane, but true to life, TV sitcom. PS: splendid and impressive recognition of Morcambe and Wise
The random band wasn't that random. "The decision to include musical performances in the show was a tactical one to force the BBC to categorise the show as 'light entertainment' rather than 'situation comedy', as at the time the BBC were not funding new sitcoms." - Google
another old show worth reacting to is Sapphire and Steel staring David Mcallum and Johanna Lumley a late 70's early 80's scif/horror kids show. think doctor who but a bit darker
Came out 42 years ago but better late than never right? Gratz on discovering the show that shaped the senses of humour of multiple generations of brits. (That & black adder)
They're like a dysfunctional family. Neil, the hippie, is the mother, Mike, the yuppie, is the father, and Rick and Vyvyan, the anarchist and the punk rocker, are the rowdy kids.
As well as Rik Mayall (Flashheart in Blackadder) playing Rick in this, orange-haired Vyvyan is played by Adrian Edmondson, who was also German flying ace, Baron Von Richthofen who captures Blackadder in one episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. It gets better later on with more of the surreal, often violent humour and great dialogue. The basic premise is they're four students living together in a house. Neil, the morose hippie, Rick the anarchist, Vyvyan the punk metalhead, and Mike the cool person.
This was broadcast on BBC2 on 9th Nov '82. On 2nd November members of the cast were also in the assemble for the 1st "The Comic Strip Presents...." on Channel 4. Comic Strip was also essential viewing at the time, a long running series of standalone episodes that included Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planner, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French and other guest stars. They all tended to be spoofs, like "Five Go Mad in Dorset" (Famous FIve parody), "Fistful of Travellers' Cheques" (Spaghetti Western spoof), "Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown" (1970s UK cop show spoof), "Bad News" (Spoof documentary on an awful Heavy Metal band) and tonnes more. Well worth checking some of those out!
I remember when this first came out, it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. This first series, particularly, seemed to rip up the rule book with total "non endings". I see others have said why there's a band in it, but also to note: * There's a mystery "fifth housemate" in this first series. If you look behind Mike when he's reading the TV Times (which had an advert at the time saying "I never knew there was so much in it") you can see another hippy-type character sitting down at the back of the wall. Appears in all the S1 episodes, but is never noticed or commented on. * There's a big laugh when Alexei Sayle first appears, and I could never really work out why. Apparently it's because the lady on the bus said "What that boy needs is a good hard w***".... but the BBC got them to chop the line out, so it's jarring. I think Mike gets a rough ride out of this first episode, they haven't really got a handle on the character yet.
Hiya Megan, what Rick is wearing,Ben Elton who wrote the series,wore clothes like what Rick is wearing, there was a U.S version called Oh No Its Not Them Again,but it didnt go to air,it was first aired in 1982,this is Choppy
Megan, this is a hard hitting documentary based during the Thatcher years. Everything shown was the absolute truth! Do you not have classist ancient Greek and Guardian reading rats in Canada? Like an aeroplane??
The Young Ones is incredibly intense and surreal at times but stick with it. It’s brilliant. And sparked the careers for a lot of British comedy legends! ♥️
Hi Megan, happy new year, a reaction to 'The Young Ones'! What a great way to start 2025! This show is brilliant, full of slapstick and surrealism, as with Red Dwarf and Rising Damp the first episode isn't one of my favourites but they do get better! Especially in the second series!😄😄😄
It's a skewed set up of sitcoms past - using those old tropes you'd see Neil as the housewife, Mike the dad, Rik and Vyv the squabbling kids. Of course, The Young Ones is more than that and still brilliant.
I just heard from a father, that little children are wonderful, you learn so much from them. Watchin this show..(?) I agree with him. Or was it the age of Monty... or age of university. ? Humanity? Rest in peace Ric Myall and Robbie Coltrane.
This is one of the more British / era-specific of the British comedies. The translation to today is a little bit rougher than most Brit-coms. Not a lot. It's still fairly accessible. But wondering what it's all supposed to be laughing at or commenting on is perfectly natural. I think the two most obvious "things" this show is about are: - How squalid student life in '80s UK was perceived to be. - The different "types" of UK student in the '80s, angry punks, pretentious artist/activists, spacey, mournful hippies, and slick business hustler types.
Young ones was definitely surreal comedy it was supposed to be aimed at young adults and teenagers but young kids became it’s unexpected target audience.
Ibe of my faves. I remember catching iy on Mtv and loving it necause it was si bizarre. Did you recogbixe any of them? All but Christopher Ryan (Mike) have appeared on Blackadder.
Happy New Year 2025 what a great reaction start to the year. The Young Ones along with Comic Strip (TV Show and Clubs where these comedian began) marked the beginning of Alternative Comedy sort ending the likes of Porridge and Rising Damp and next generations comedy like Blackadder, angry and more political, and inspiring the next generation like The League of Gentlemen. enjoy the laughs and music
Happy 2025, and good morning, Megan! This British comedy show is so bizarre 🤣 and weird as well too! I recognise one of the characters here, and I've seen him in one of my favourite British Comedy series of all time (Bottom Stuff), which was a classic show ever! I hope you check out whenever you can & you'll love it! ❤️
The random band was because that meant the show would qualify as a 'variety entertainment' show rather than just comedy and get a bigger budget from BBC bosses.
IIRC Variety required a talent showcase & musical act. Puppets & the Band. Bigger budget.
And of course they made no attempt to incorporate it smoothly, to add to the general chaos.
The Young Ones was the first time I saw The Jesus and Marychain
RIP Rik Mayall, you absolute comedy legend.
I can only speak for myself but that is a name I will NEVER forget. Utter legend and comedy genius. Rest in peace, people's poet. You are missed.
One of the best and most famous episodes, 'University Challenge' had Motorhead randomly playing in their loungeroom. Classic stuff!
to this day i cannot hear Ace of Spades without seeing that scene in my mind
Viv: "TO THE STATION!!!"
Mike: "Music!"
Series 2, Ep 1 - "Bambi"
Stop over analysing it just watch and enjoy the ride.....a very wild ride.😂
'What did I just watch?!'
Yep that sums it up perfectly!
It's 1982 ... 4 students sharing a house together ...
And the bloke sitting down with the long hair(not Neil).
@@MegaBadgeman Yup the illusive fifth housemate.
I used to catch The Young Ones on MTV in the '80s. I was 16 or so, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Back then Neil was my favorite.
Today I have so much respect for Ade and Rik. RIP Rik.
This show is the birth of alternate comedy in the UK. Before this, you had straight comedy like the two Ronnie's, etc. If you were young in the UK in the 80s, this was THE show to watch.
Not really the birth of alternative comedy but it was almost the first mainstream exposure of the scene as The Comic Strip Presents started a week earlier on Channel 4.
@@pmc8451 Also there was Boom Boom Out Go The Lights which showcased a lot of alternative comedy acts.
I'm gonna throw in Not The Nine O'clock News.
It was THE show to watch for THOUSANDS of men in their 40s! I think that they saw it as a replacement for 'The Goon Show'. I'm 81 now, and still enjoy it!
@budgie98 I'm glad some people that age enjoyed it. My parents were in their 40s and said I couldn't watch it because of the 'violence' and 'bad language' 😅
hi mate aussie, here, we watched this religiously , then hit the pub. love your channel.
sounds like an awesome tradition! Thanks! I'm glad :)
The Young Ones were revolutionary when it came out... the adults hated it but the kids, the young ones, loved it.
YES FINALLY A NEW YOUNG ONES viewer!!!!!!
You can also post longer versions, since the copyrt is very loose on this show and there are only 12 total episodes.
Are you sure? It's a BBC show and in my experience they're pretty strict with copyright...
@@MeganRuth
They are tough on 1 season and totally oblivious to the other. Another reactor was able to watch whole episodes of one season with no problem then cut down ones for the next! A bit bizarre.
@@USCFlash Who was this?
@@MeganRuth
Yes I am sure, see my above post to @JoeTHornhill.
😎👍
Apparently, there is someone sitting in the lounge room in every episode. They turned up at a party and never went home.
In the early 80s The Young Ones was THE punk rock sitcom. All punks loved it, a group of us, some in bands would all get together on Sunday nights to watch The Young Ones on Mtv - the first channel to show it.
I left school at 16 in 1982. This insanity kept me sane. It didn’t so much move the goalposts, it removed them completely.
“What did I just watch” was something I said to myself after every episode but I tuned in every week
It was intoxicatingly anarchic
And brilliant
Megan, Rick Mayall also did his own comedy series, playing the part of Alan B'stard, a British politician. Very funny indeed....
Yes, The New Statesman.
Not written by him and incredibly dated.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 It's still enjoyable if you know about 90s UK politics.
@@normandavidtidiman9918There's very little difference between Thatcher's lot and Badenoch's lot. It's not particularly dated. Just as crooked and immoral as they were back then.
The New Statesman was excellent.
0:38 Lord Flashheart begins.....And hippy Neil is in black adder 3 in the scarlet pimpernel episode
When i saw Nigel Planer show up in Marcella S2E1 as a terminally ill, aging rocker with slight dementia, i literally shouted "Neil!" out loud. He acted the heck out of that role, too.
The guy presenting "youth of today was Ben Elton .who wrote the Blackadder episodes ❤ aid is the red Barron in Blackadder goes forth
@@stop-the-greed Lol Baron von Richthofen...
In an interview, one of the producers/writers said that every successful sitcom needs to be a family unit. As you watch this, you will see Mike is the father figure, he is quiet, the smartest, and is the leader. Niel is the mother, Neil does all the cooking and the cleaning, he is the last to get anything, and no one appreciates him. Vyvian is the adolescent boy, and pRick is the girl. They are a family unit.
The bald co-pilot at 10:35 is Andy De La Tour, the brother of Frances De La Tour, who you'll know as Miss Jones from Rising Damp.
ahh yes! And Madame Maxime in Harry Potter :)
He was one of the Disney Star Wars movies too. I can’t remember which one. And he was Chief Inspector Grobbelar in Bottom.
One of my absolute favourite shows of all time. One Halloween in the '80s, four of us went as The Young Ones. I was Vyvyan, of course.
I said this to someone else who was reacting to Monty Python: The main difference between US and UK humour is that US humour is all about punchlines, while the UK tends to focus on the mechanics of it all. It's basically destination v. journey.
Good description.
Having a music guest meant that the show was classified as variety show and those got a bigger budget than comedy shows.
ah interesting! Thanks!
My understanding is that the BBC didn't have roo in their schedules for any more 30 minute comedy shows, but they were looking for new 'light entertainment' shows - which could often be a mix of comedy, music and sketches
The writers of The Young Ones just randomly threw a band into the house in each episode, and got their funding from the light entertainments budget
A lot of the bands featured never made it big but there is a couple (I’ll not spoil it by telling you who they are) were massive!
"What's going on?" A question everyone who has ever watched the Young Ones has asked themselves.
I used to have to sneak downstairs after my parents went to sleep to watch it on MTV. I would turn the volume down as low as possible and sit on the floor right next to the TV. ❤️
for me this is the comedy equivalent of punk
"Expect nothing...and don't be surprised at anything".....yeah you get it.
I'm very glad that you watch this and I hope you watch the other 11 episodes.
Season 1 take place in 1982 and came out that year nothing happened to 83 and season 2 came out in 1984 with six more episodes.
'What we do in the shadows ' with Matt Berrie is fantastic
You really need to watch Bottom after this.
I was just gonna post this. I think Megan will really like that. I love that show, especially the Christmas and Birthday episodes.
Should watch 'Filthy Rich & Catflap' before that. Far funnier,and infinitely more clever.
Bottom 100% brilliant
And the live show of Bottom
Mr. Jolly lives next door, their finest work
This blew comedy wide open in 1982, filmed in Bristol. Ade Edmonson who plays Vivian said recently both series (only 12 were made) took 14 weeks of his life over 40 years ago but this is still what he's best known for. The show did include some of the best upcoming comic talent of the day : Dawn French, Jenifer Saunders (married to Edmondson), Alexi Sayle, Ben Elton (who co-wrote it), Terry Jones from Monty Python cameos too. Edmondson & Mayall had a double act 'The Dangerous Brothers' and later went on to do the all-time classic 'Bottom'. You should also check out The Comic strip Presents.... This started on the (then) new terrestrial channel 4 about the same time and featured people like French, Saunders, Edmonson, Mayall, Nigel planer, Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) etc. Basically, a group of comedians doing themed episodes that poked fun at things. They began with a piss-take of Enid Blyton's Famous Five. One of their best was the fake documentary about the rock band 'Bad News', which predated This Is Spinal Tap. Then there was 'The Miners Strike' which was about Hollywood stars making a movie about the real 1984 strike in the UK. Obviously, they couldn't get real Hollywood names, so it was things like Jenifer Saunders playing Meryl Streep playing a wife in the story.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Comic_Strip_Presents..._episodes
The Young Ones did a charity single with Cliff Richard...who starred in the original movie The Young Ones....and took the mickey out of him. I think it may be on YT somewhere.
You have to watch the University Challenge episode when the random band was Motorhead.This episode is a classic .
Bambi. Series 2 Episode 1
And features a young Dr. House. (Hugh Laurie)
The first episode is always a bit of a culture shock for the uninitiated, once you 'get it' you'll be hooked. Subbed for the ride.
5:50 the advertising slogan for TV Times magazine was "There's such much more than tv times, in TV Times magazine". It was a tv guide for the independent tv companies back then.
I thought it was exactly what Mike just said. "I never knew there was so much in it"
@@normandavidtidiman9918 I think there were different ones. I remember the spoken '"I never knew there was so much in it" slogan too. Just done a bit of research and also found more TV Times adverts with a jingle sung to music..."There's so much more than TV Times...in this week's...TV Times" - Can't say I remember that one though - My family always were always more of a Radio Times household back in those days.☺
A wonderful rollercoaster ride. Reminds me of the late great Spike Milligan, the forerunner to this and likes of Monty Python.
Always good to remind folks of The Goons
@@spongo Eccles was my hero.
This show introduced me to Motorhead, Madness and Dexy's Midnight Runners as long-term enjoyed bands. Most of these are one-hit-wonders I'd only synonymize from there respective episodes, for me.
I remember watching this when Channel 4 first broadcast it in 1982. I was 18 back then and loved it, I'm almost 61 now, a lots happened, good and bad, in the last 42 years but I still love The Young Ones!
BBC2
It was on BBC2.
@@brooza664 Yes, I stand corrected, not sure why I thought it was channel 4.
@@sicr7373 Comic Strip? That was on Channel 4. The BBC saw the potential and decided to hire a select few from it to make their own, 'anarchic', series.
@@sicr7373Probably thinking of The Comic Strip Presents.
the characters were a collection of individual stand up routines at the same comedy club (Comic Strip, i think) gathered together into an insane, but true to life, TV sitcom.
PS: splendid and impressive recognition of Morcambe and Wise
Yes! There’s utter chaos, there’s sheer pandemonium, and then… there’s _The Young Ones._
This series takes me back to such a nostalgic era of life and such fond memories of the people and times.
The random band wasn't that random. "The decision to include musical performances in the show was a tactical one to force the BBC to categorise the show as 'light entertainment' rather than 'situation comedy', as at the time the BBC were not funding new sitcoms." - Google
To be fair they had some great bands on of the period
Yes, but they're random to the viewer. Even more incongruous than The Two Ronnies being interrupted by a singer for a few minutes.
Don't know about "force", it was a workaround to get the show funded.
another old show worth reacting to is Sapphire and Steel staring David Mcallum and Johanna Lumley a late 70's early 80's scif/horror kids show. think doctor who but a bit darker
Came out 42 years ago but better late than never right? Gratz on discovering the show that shaped the senses of humour of multiple generations of brits. (That & black adder)
They're like a dysfunctional family. Neil, the hippie, is the mother, Mike, the yuppie, is the father, and Rick and Vyvyan, the anarchist and the punk rocker, are the rowdy kids.
Very symbolic and yet well put.
Vyvyan is more metal than punk. Certainly looks nothing like a punk apart from the slightly mohawk hair.
ahhh the uphill slog to get to BOTTOM... every step a gem... and lets not forget the hole in neils shoe...
You MUST watch more The Young Ones! 😄👍
I'll second that emotion. (With apologies to Smokey Robinson.)
As well as Rik Mayall (Flashheart in Blackadder) playing Rick in this, orange-haired Vyvyan is played by Adrian Edmondson, who was also German flying ace, Baron Von Richthofen who captures Blackadder in one episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. It gets better later on with more of the surreal, often violent humour and great dialogue. The basic premise is they're four students living together in a house. Neil, the morose hippie, Rick the anarchist, Vyvyan the punk metalhead, and Mike the cool person.
Motorhead played Ace of Spades on one of the episodes.
This was broadcast on BBC2 on 9th Nov '82. On 2nd November members of the cast were also in the assemble for the 1st "The Comic Strip Presents...." on Channel 4. Comic Strip was also essential viewing at the time, a long running series of standalone episodes that included Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planner, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French and other guest stars. They all tended to be spoofs, like "Five Go Mad in Dorset" (Famous FIve parody), "Fistful of Travellers' Cheques" (Spaghetti Western spoof), "Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown" (1970s UK cop show spoof), "Bad News" (Spoof documentary on an awful Heavy Metal band) and tonnes more. Well worth checking some of those out!
the first series is very chaotic, series 2 is more settled in its comedy.
Character personalities are more defined.
That poor house got trashed so bad they had to film season 2 in a different location
What's more bizarre is that stuff like that often happens for real in student houses! :0)
If you keep watching, keep an eye out for the 5th housemate. She is there but you’ve got to be looking
Porridge + The Young Ones. Opposite poles of British comedy, and both well loved gems.
Holy heck! I found your channel just in time for The Young Ones! Must be my lucky day.
The Young Ones are completely zany and absolutely hilarious
The actors playing Mike and the plane's co-pilot became the Driscoll brothers in Only Fools and Horses
i was 15 when this came out those were the days i think we had only 4 tv channels at the time in the uk 1n 1982
I remember when this first came out, it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. This first series, particularly, seemed to rip up the rule book with total "non endings". I see others have said why there's a band in it, but also to note:
* There's a mystery "fifth housemate" in this first series. If you look behind Mike when he's reading the TV Times (which had an advert at the time saying "I never knew there was so much in it") you can see another hippy-type character sitting down at the back of the wall. Appears in all the S1 episodes, but is never noticed or commented on.
* There's a big laugh when Alexei Sayle first appears, and I could never really work out why. Apparently it's because the lady on the bus said "What that boy needs is a good hard w***".... but the BBC got them to chop the line out, so it's jarring.
I think Mike gets a rough ride out of this first episode, they haven't really got a handle on the character yet.
I love All British comedy shows.
The Young Ones.
Always one of my favorites
Hiya Megan, what Rick is wearing,Ben Elton who wrote the series,wore clothes like what Rick is wearing, there was a U.S version called Oh No Its Not Them Again,but it didnt go to air,it was first aired in 1982,this is Choppy
Megan, this is a hard hitting documentary based during the Thatcher years.
Everything shown was the absolute truth!
Do you not have classist ancient Greek and Guardian reading rats in Canada?
Like an aeroplane??
They were right all along. The revolution was televised.
Wow, I really hope we don't have a crash
Mate had Flat look like Young ones Flat it was a Ship hole so we had Young One party's all time
the university challenge episode is the best one, if only for having Motorhead as the musical act
that takes me back to being a spotty student in the 80s, Love it
Have we got a video? (From the episode with The Damned as musical guests)
Enjoyed this show whilst at school, then in 84 I shipped off to Polytechnic :)
they did a song and clip with Cliff Richards "living doll"
it is a Must see:)
The Young Ones is incredibly intense and surreal at times but stick with it. It’s brilliant. And sparked the careers for a lot of British comedy legends! ♥️
Watching this series, you are in for tons of laughs.
Hi Megan, happy new year, a reaction to 'The Young Ones'! What a great way to start 2025! This show is brilliant, full of slapstick and surrealism, as with Red Dwarf and Rising Damp the first episode isn't one of my favourites but they do get better! Especially in the second series!😄😄😄
I think the “Interesting” episode was my favourite.
Especially when Neil got high.
SHE GETS IT!
It's a skewed set up of sitcoms past - using those old tropes you'd see Neil as the housewife, Mike the dad, Rik and Vyv the squabbling kids. Of course, The Young Ones is more than that and still brilliant.
I loved these guys. So funny!
Life has no meaning ,purpose or value,Great comedy reflecting that fact.
The young ones is a favourite of mine... i recommend Bombs
They are all students, Neil the hippy, vivian the punk.
I've got the complete show on dvd
3:33 absurdist surrealism with a punk sensibility
The Young ones,what a crack up✌️😂😅
"Young Ones" isn't met to be serious!!! OBVIOUSLY!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😂😂😂😂😂😂
The final programme was a masterpiece, you have to watch that one
Rick male and aid Edmonton play the same characters in bottom . Alos worth watch the comic strip presents .
Neil's a hippy...
I've seen loads of you on my stream,but I've subbed yo because of T.YO.!
I just heard from a father, that little children are wonderful, you learn so much from them.
Watchin this show..(?) I agree with him.
Or was it the age of Monty... or age of university. ? Humanity?
Rest in peace Ric Myall and Robbie Coltrane.
If it helps, this was the pilot, it settled down a lot after this (it doesn't help).
This is one of the more British / era-specific of the British comedies. The translation to today is a little bit rougher than most Brit-coms. Not a lot. It's still fairly accessible. But wondering what it's all supposed to be laughing at or commenting on is perfectly natural. I think the two most obvious "things" this show is about are:
- How squalid student life in '80s UK was perceived to be.
- The different "types" of UK student in the '80s, angry punks, pretentious artist/activists, spacey, mournful hippies, and slick business hustler types.
If this nags you as reminding you of early Red Dwarf, same director.
Best TV show of all time. Be ready for ANYTHING.
You start quite rationally trying to evaluate what the characters motivations are. Quite quicky: yeah this is just mental.
Neil was a stoned hippie 😂
Young ones was definitely surreal comedy it was supposed to be aimed at young adults and teenagers but young kids became it’s unexpected target audience.
Neil is a hippy, so peaceful
Ibe of my faves. I remember catching iy on Mtv and loving it necause it was si bizarre. Did you recogbixe any of them? All but Christopher Ryan (Mike) have appeared on Blackadder.
Happy New Year 2025 what a great reaction start to the year. The Young Ones along with Comic Strip (TV Show and Clubs where these comedian began) marked the beginning of Alternative Comedy sort ending the likes of Porridge and Rising Damp and next generations comedy like Blackadder, angry and more political, and inspiring the next generation like The League of Gentlemen.
enjoy the laughs and music
Happy 2025, and good morning, Megan! This British comedy show is so bizarre 🤣 and weird as well too! I recognise one of the characters here, and I've seen him in one of my favourite British Comedy series of all time (Bottom Stuff), which was a classic show ever! I hope you check out whenever you can & you'll love it! ❤️
Happy 2025!! Ah yes, Bottom is certainly on my list! 😊
Oh, have we got a video?
Rik in this, same actor as Flasheart in Blackadder.