Yes, and it didn't get happier when Ade Edmondson showed up in The Last Jedi. I mean, good for him to catch a paycheck once in a while, but...The Last Jedi? And he joined the Empire. :(
The Young Ones aired in the US in the early 80's on late night PBS. As a kid I would pretend to go to bed by closing my door and tossing a blanket at the base of the door to block any light. Plug my earphone into my 13' black and white TV, turned the UHF knob to the local PBS station and enjoyed great British comedies. The Young Ones, Monty Python, Dave Allen, Benny Hill. My friends thought I was cutting edge for knowing about this show and Madness before it hit MTV.
in nyc it aired on mtv. in the 90's it came back to comedy central around the same time 'ab fab' aired. i saw ade and other' young ones' guest on that show. i saw rik on bravo a few times. i didn't know he died till two months after. what seemed like a miraculous recovery from his quad injury in '98, i thought he would live much longer. here in the usa i found out he passed by googling, but in the UK he had been far more famous.
I never understood the need for "bedtime.' I didn't have it when I was growing up. We fell asleep when we were tired. Once I became a father, I didn't have to enforce it with my kids either. They, too, would sleep once they got tired. In general, they were really well-behaved kids who never really needed any "discipline" or "punishment." Today they are both well-adjusted, functioning young adults who go to sleep when they get tired. Parents really need to stop forcing their children into being the perfect little members of the family who obey their parents and make their parents look good. (Anyway..."The Young Ones" was great. In fact, it was "Very Mental"! )
I love the American sense of humour but they just cannot replicate our humour for some reason. Saying that look at the Japanese attempt. Takeshi's castle was apparently their attempt at the British slapstick style.
@@tariqxl Yep! British humor is very unique I have to say. I do like the way you guys spell stuff like the word "humor" differently than we do too! lol!
Anyone who hung around with students in the late 1970s and early 1980s KNEW those characters. When that show first aired, the shock of recognition was amazing. They absolutely nailed student life in all its squalor and self importance.
the best version of ' Ace of Spades ' by Motorhead on the Bambi episode...that feed-back from the electric guitar right at the last bar of the song...perfection!
I'm 62 now, and caught the show like most in the US, when it first aired on MTV (late at night). Love at first view. Plus, they had the absolute hippest bands on, how could you miss? It seemed way too short, but it did go out on a high note. RIP Rik, you _bastard._
This show shaped my youth. I had to sneak downstairs late at night to watch it after my parents thought I had gone to bed. I watched a lot of Brit coms with my dad back then, Benny Hill, Are You Being Served, but he would never have approved of the Young Ones, that was my little secret. Still holds up 100% Great comedy, great music, great era. 👍
RIP Rik Mayall. At high school in England in 1982 'The Young Ones' HAD to be watched so scenes could be reenacted in the playground the next day, and all the best lines would be quoted ad infinitum. 'Living Doll' by The Young Ones & Cliff Richard was the first ever Comic Relief single. Thanks for doing this, my Minty friend x
Its funny, I made friends with someone who was entirely outside my friend group back in highschool in the early 90s because I heard them quoting lines from the second episode and chimed in randomly.
I never seen young ones in 1982 because my bedtime was an hour before it started, I could hear my parents watching it and laughing though, GITS, at school the next day my friend would tell me all about it and he could even do all the voices. Some years later I watched the rerun and have owned everything rik mayall did since, he's surely missed.
I was the only one of my friends that watched the Young Ones in America. Could not wait every week to see it. Laughed so hard. I love that I grew up in the 80's. Best time ever.
Yeah, calling the show “a huge hit” in the US is nonsense. I think very few people, except us few lucky ones, even knew it existed let alone watched in the mid 80s. I think more people discovered it as time went on, but even now I don’t think many in the US are aware of it.
Its hard to overstate how different this was to anything else on tv, and how it felt like something for my generation (I was 14 at the time). I think it opened the door for some classic shows like Blackadder and Spitting Image which followed.
RIP the People's Poet...one of the few things good about MTV was that (a long time ago) it introduced me to the The Young Ones. The musical guests and cameos were always awesome.
Ha ha yeah I remember when MTV was good and played mostly music videos and even had Headbangers Ball on Saturday night. Never knew they tried to make an American version of The Young Ones. Sounds bad as without the chemistry of the original cast just wouldn't work.
No... When he's complaining because the lads are giving him flack about his birthday & the cameraman graffities his face & it goes to white-screen when they try to fix it & Elephant-Head saunters out singing 'Stop In The Name Of Love'! THAT'S the funniest moment on TV!
That was cash, it was Vyv who was pregnant, Neil joins the police. "open up it's the pigs." Rick in Cash is so awesome.. "no we won't come quietly, we are going to come very noisily!.." "...here's a large sum of money, go away quickly" and Alexi as Mussolini is classic. "Eh! Are you mussolini!?" lol what a great show.
There was actually a whole album of Neil's, called Neil's Heavy Concept Album, which is available for streaming, I believe. It's pronounced 'play-ner', by the way. There was also a book, written by Ade Edmonson, in character as Vyvyan, called How to Be a Complete Bastard. Also of note, is the b-side to Living Doll, called All the Little Flowers are Happy, which is worth a listen.
Unless my foggy memory fails me... there's one scene where one of them is looking for something & she very nonchalantly hands it to them! But I don't recall her in any other episodes. (Now I have an excuse to binge watch the series again!)
This was my generation, generation x, the last great and free generation. We had great music, great movies, there were no cell phones to enslave us. man,I miss those days. As one brit pop album put it, modern life is rubbish. And that was even back when it wasn't really rubbish yet!
Me too. It was so huge, and deservedly so. Even had the single with CLIFF, and even hole in my shoe by Neil. I still have the book somewhere, bachelor boys. Awesome stuff. I had the VHS of Filthy Rich and Catflap as well, but lost those years ago. That was a good show as well, under-rated and short-lived as it was.
Love The Young Ones! It was a Hilarious show, with bands popping up out of nowhere. MOTÖRHEAD and THE DAMNED, two of my all time favorite bands, performing on the show! Another great video Minty!
Fun fact, The Damned had already split up when they were asked, so they reformed just for the Young Ones. Afterwards, in a kebab shop (IIRC), Sensible told them he wrote a new song and sang it to them, to which the rest of the band started to make fun of him, and he was so pissed off he quit the band again.
SuddenReal That’s funny! Well I’m happy to see that they were able to put up with each other, just long enough to be on the show! Plus, the song they perform, “Nasty”, is a great tune!
younger people cannot even begin to imagine how much the young ones and the comic strip presents changed the face of british comedy, it was an absolute revolution.
This is easily my most favorite television show of all time. I grew up with it when it originally aired on MTV back in the 80's. Thanks for this video! I learned a few new things about the lads today. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to open up the cabinet to my teetering crockery...
OMG!!! I have watched these shows a ridiculous number of times and I have never noticed that other person. So then I went back to my dvds to check it out and there she was, exactly where she's shown here. Well done! I was fairly certain you would not be able to tell me anything I didnt already know about the show, and I stand corrected. Thanks for taking the time to share. I love the Young Ones and this was a fun video.
Adrian Edmonds did a radio interview here a few years ago and he said that it never ceases to amaze him how often people bring up the Young ones. He said it was such a tiny part of his career and so short that he barely remembered doing it.
"Oh Neal, your bed's on fire!"....."Thanks, I may have fallen asleep and died.".....Or at least that's a line I remember from 30 years ago.....Thanks for this Minty!
Actually there was talk about making an American version of Red Dwarf as well, one that sounded especially clueless about what made the show funny. Thankfully the idea must have got nixed.
Great video! I watched all the episodes back on MTV and got them all on DVD yet after watching them a thousand times, I never noticed the fifth roommate. Thanks for pointing out that great joke! FUN TRIVIA: On the back of the first vinyl pressing of "Hounds of Love", Kate Bush gave thanks first to people who worked on the album but goes on to give a shout-out to people whose work she really enjoyed including (drum roll) The Young Ones.
Great work! My granddad from Bristol was a huge fan and played the show for me at a young age. Thank you so much, wish he was still here to so I could show him this!
I still have the book "How to be a Complete Bastard" by Adrian Edmondson, I left it on my coffee table and so many people didnt get it and thought it was sick and disgusting. Its dirt cheep on Ebay worth a buy.
The Young Ones is one of my all time favorite television comedies. Thank You so much for this wonderful video! Peace, Love, and Blessings to You Brother Minty from Wild Wonderful West Virginia (US)! 🙏🏼
OMG. I loved this show. I kept the VHS of the shows I recorded off MTV or VH1, I can't remember until around 2001 when they released the DVDs and bought the DVDs. SICK is one of my most favorites. VIVIAN!!!!
Ill never forget watching these episodes as ah kid, My older cousin was English so he turned me on to this crazy show. Absolutely loved it, & still do! Thanx Minty!
YESSS! When I was about 10 years old We lived an hour away from my grandmother's house. Every Sunday we would drive the distance for church and visit my grandmother after. Grandma was the one who introduced me to this show )as well as horror movies and video games. I miss her dearly) needles to say my mother didn't approve, lol
My mum loved this. Yes, it was kinda family viewing in my household. But she was into Monty Python and Spike Milligan as well (spiritual predecessors? Maybe?). I still remember the Vivian Bank advert that was around at the time. When it was on, we always speculated about who the band would be this comming episode. Cracking soundtrack sellection as well.
Great video! I have fairly vague memories of watching this on MTV with my friends as kids. We really had almost no idea what was happening each episode but loved it. This makes me want to rewatch the whole show.
Some interesting dynamics between the characters 1. know one ever puts down Mike, 2. Neil is mostly civil and tolerant with everyone but Rick, 3. No one is civil with or tolerant of Rick, 4. Mike is Vivian’s main admonisher for his destructive actions, the others seem to mostly accept it.
@@lilymarinovic1644 The one time Rik was portrayed sympathetically was when he was most intolerant, kicking the TV to bits out of disgust at the insipid teen show, "Nozin' Around."
I’ve always seen it as the regular nuclear family sitcom. Mike and Neil are the mum and dad and Vyvyan and Rick are the son and daughter. Alexei Sayle is the crazy neighbour so many sitcoms have
Back when this was being shown on TV early 80s - I was working in an hospital in Yorkshire - I was also working with Ade Edmoundsons Mom -who was a member of staff ! She told us that ades Dad - Who was a headmaster st a local school did not like going into work on the Weds after each Tues day nights episode - Because of the heckling he would get from his school kids ! She was good to work with & I left the hospital business years ago !
Favorite line ever: As they are being chased by a vampire, "Quick! We need to drive a stake through his heart!" Nigel: "All I've got is this vegetarian sausage..."
Rik Maeyll was a legend. I used to have a couple of VHS tapes of The Wind in the Willows cartoon films as a kid, and he stole the show with his voice acting as Toad.
I stumbled on this show once long ago. I remember being very disappointed that there were only twelve episodes. Edit: I had no idea this was recorded live. Impressively talented cast.
@@incominghitdadirt9587 Sunday at 11:30,watched it as well, eventually followed by The Comic Strip. Been quoting this show since Junior high and I doubt I'll ever stop.
Oh man, I grew up with this show as a kid. Sure it was watching it on the DVD collection since I wasn't born around the time of it's initial run, but I loved it's dry British humor and me and my dad are always quoting it and we occasionally will watch it. it was a really hilarious show that I still enjoy. RIP Rik Mayal, a really funny actor who also starred in another childhood favourite of mine - Drop Dead Fred. Great video Minty!
I lived for this show every Tuesday on a school night, it changed mine and my friends humour forever, I still use the one liners from time to time in an average day, truly brilliant ✌️
My little sister and I would have our Ben & Jerry's ready to watch this show every week. It was brilliant!!! Where are they now? Love ya. Philadelphia USA
You couldn't have picked a better day to upload this video! OK maybe one other day would have been just as good. My friend who introduced me to The Young Ones, would have had his birthday today. He also introduced me to the band The Damned which he was introduced to through the show. Unfortunately, he passed away after a car accident back in 2007. Only knew him for 5 years. Despite some issues between us, some being personal ones I let effect our friendship, he had a lot of influence on me becoming the person I am today. Thanks for the memories Minty! R.I.P. Kevin Joseph Bassett 9/21/84 - 4/19/07
The Young Ones was great when I was a 13-14 year old kid growing up in the grim early 80's during the Thatcher years and this show epitomised that, especially Rick. Even though it was exaggerated comedy, The Young Ones was a fairly accurate cultural snippet of British working class youths during the Thatcher era more than any other telly show of the time that I can remember. I watched every episode once when it was first screened, and again at some point in the 90's when it was re-aired on some cable /satellite channel like UKTV Gold or something similar, and of all the times I watched it I never remembered seeing the 5th house mate, nor do I remember noticing the 'subliminal' frames. 😆
we're the same age and from the UK, I do remember the "subliminal" frames, we'd speak about them at school. As for the 5th housemate, that's freaky, I bought both series from HMV a couple of months ago and watched them and until tonight I didn't know about her and obviously haven't seen her. I'm going to have to watch it again, that's freaky that in all the times of watching, I haven't seen her once!!
There was so many times in junior school when I was either 8 to 10 years of age in the early 80s that I had to lie to my friends & make out that I'd watched the Young Ones, in truth my parents not only forbidden me from ever watching this programme but I was in bed & asleep for 7pm. I remember when my cool uncles started to record them on VHS tape & let me watch them amongst other cool shit on VHS pirate copies & they also made me promise not to tell my mother & their oldest sister that came with respect back in the good old 70 to 80s, by the way I was born in the mid 70s but what a truly magical time to be able to say that you lived the 80s. I just recently started watching Monkey Magic again & another 80s classic called Scully. Regards, David from Manchester, England, UK.
I use to love this series,........shame it was only 12 episodes. Remember the song they did with cliff Richard " living doll " Neil song the hole in my shoe was a great song. I got the single and 12 inch as well.
Aww, thanks for creating and sharing, makes me smile for so many reasons. 1. I'm from Bristol where they filmed the outside street scenes. 2. The farting neighbour in one of the second series episodes was my lecturer at Bournemouth Uni in 2017. 3. Memories of my childhood :)
One of my favorite shows, ever. I grew up in rural/suburban Arkansas, US, and MTv was my one window into the world at, idk something like 13. And they played The Young Ones. I watched them repeatedly. Great fucking show.
"Stupid, immature, violent" Yep this show shaped my sense of humour when I was a teen back then. "It's a video nasty"...."It's a carpet faarty !" RIP Rik Mayall. Nice tribute Minty.
When I was in Desert Storm, there was a group of Royal Regiment of Fusiliers that worked in the same building as I did. The only tv show that we all knew was The Young Ones because it played on Mtv here in the U.S. I had a 2nd Lt. who absolutely hated us talking about this show so, of course, that is what we talked about especially the episode where Vivian was pregnant. Almost 30 years later, I still have the hackle they gave me and I still remember The Young Ones because of them. Great group of guys!
I never get tired of the young ones and damn if I don't love every episode and still watch them when I'm in need of a damn good laugh thank you minty for bringing this up not to many people remember the Young ones anymore unless you're in your late 30s to early 40s or are some sort of lucky kid cheers to you and yours
This is a well put together Minty, great music in the montages to an excellent show. Also remember a young French & Saunders doing skits on the Young Ones too. Good times.
For those fans, like myself, that love "The Young Ones", you definitely need to get two things. One, the "Extra Stoopid" DVD set, which has both seasons and lots of extras, and the recently released documentary "How The Young Ones Changed Comedy" (2018). And, of course, if you are interested, I put together the full soundtrack to both seasons years ago. It has 46 songs, all in play order as heard in the series. :) BTW, number 5's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was produced by Jules Holland, but performed by Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve.
Works both ways. The British versions of The Upper Hand and Married With Children were painful. Seem to remember a UK Golden Girls as well, although that may have just been a bad dream!
I've met rik and ade a couple of times when i was around 10 years old.. Riks dad, John mayall lived in the same town as us (Droitwhich, near birmingham) My dad was mates with John, so he used to go over to his house quite often. So obviously, dad is going out soemwhere and i want to go too, so he would take me with him. Quite often Rik would come back to see his dad for the weekend. On occasion bringing ade with him.. Two of the times i was there, both Rik and Ade were there in the other room being silly, John would say " The boys (lol boys there weere in there early 20's) are i nthe toehr room, you wanna go see them" so i wander into the kitchen and there were tqwo guys id seen from off the TV just sat there laughing and joking. They said hi and let me join them, Rik offered me some fizzy pop and Ade offered me a cigarette then said " Oh wait, your not old enough.. want a beer instead?" It was also quite common for Rik to go to the local shops and cause havoc in there, being silly and playing up the cashiers :) And finally.. Here is a pic of the house mates.. including the 5th house mate i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/61/c1/d561c1de0fe03eea3b9345e07eb15891.jpg
@@sbaxter4207 Yeah it was awesome meeting them, the second time we met they actually remembered me from the first time around. It sounds like a bold claim meeting them, but in all honesty most people in my town back in the 80's had met/bumped into or seen Rik in town, he was there so often. :)
I watched it on MTV as a kid. No one ever knows what show I’m talking about when I quote Neil “First you sow the seeds, nature grows the seeds, then we eat the seeds.”
I just asked for the same thing haha!!! Red Dwarf is an all time classic that needs greater recognition. I've only just finished watching the whole series (yet again) it's on Netflix!!!
OMG I loved this show! I live in the US and I'm pretty sure it was played on MTV. I believe I watched it in the late 80s or very early 90s. I recorded every ep and I'm sure I still have that VHS somewhere. What a great show!
I absolutely loved this show! Aaaaah memories... I live in Tulsa, Ok USA and now I have a few more shows to look up to boot! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, you bastard! :)
The US is just different. You can show a brit comedy to a pom, kiwi, ozzie, saffa & yank, everybody but the yank will find it funny. Subtle sarcasm & dark humour is lost on them. Just look at the graham norton show, most are lost and don't get wtf is going on. English tv that works for most of the English speaking world has less of a chance of working in the US.
@@rztrzt The comment was regarding the failure. If the US remake something for the US market using US writers then it shouldn't fail, but it does I agree that we all find different things funny.
The world is a sadder place without Rik Mayall in it.
The best Doctor Who that never was (Rik was a very good and overlooked serious actor, too).
I agree with you he would have been a brilliant Doctor as hes great playing eccentric characters.
Rik was far too good for Doctor Who.
Yes, and it didn't get happier when Ade Edmondson showed up in The Last Jedi.
I mean, good for him to catch a paycheck once in a while, but...The Last Jedi? And he joined the Empire. :(
RIP Rik.
The Young Ones aired in the US in the early 80's on late night PBS. As a kid I would pretend to go to bed by closing my door and tossing a blanket at the base of the door to block any light. Plug my earphone into my 13' black and white TV, turned the UHF knob to the local PBS station and enjoyed great British comedies. The Young Ones, Monty Python, Dave Allen, Benny Hill.
My friends thought I was cutting edge for knowing about this show and Madness before it hit MTV.
BRILLIANT!!!
in nyc it aired on mtv. in the 90's it came back to comedy central around the same time 'ab fab' aired. i saw ade and other' young ones' guest on that show. i saw rik on bravo a few times. i didn't know he died till two months after. what seemed like a miraculous recovery from his quad injury in '98, i thought he would live much longer. here in the usa i found out he passed by googling, but in the UK he had been far more famous.
@@lapacesiaconvoi he was a comedy assassin. Absolute champion asshoel 😉
In PA it was on Sunday evenings at 11:00 PM. Great memories, and so funny to look back and see Jennifer Saunders from AbFab.
I never understood the need for "bedtime.' I didn't have it when I was growing up. We fell asleep when we were tired.
Once I became a father, I didn't have to enforce it with my kids either. They, too, would sleep once they got tired. In general, they were really well-behaved kids who never really needed any "discipline" or "punishment."
Today they are both well-adjusted, functioning young adults who go to sleep when they get tired.
Parents really need to stop forcing their children into being the perfect little members of the family who obey their parents and make their parents look good.
(Anyway..."The Young Ones" was great. In fact, it was "Very Mental"! )
I'm American and I love the Young Ones and as for an American version thereof, I have to say forget it; never mess with perfection.
It’s awsome I have both sessions on dvd
I'm American as well, and used to watch it all the time when MTV would rebroadcast the episodes back in the early 80's.
I love the American sense of humour but they just cannot replicate our humour for some reason. Saying that look at the Japanese attempt. Takeshi's castle was apparently their attempt at the British slapstick style.
@@tariqxl Yep! British humor is very unique I have to say. I do like the way you guys spell stuff like the word "humor" differently than we do too! lol!
It was co-written by an American (Lise Mayer) so no need for a re-make, thank god!
Anyone who hung around with students in the late 1970s and early 1980s KNEW those characters. When that show first aired, the shock of recognition was amazing.
They absolutely nailed student life in all its squalor and self importance.
Aussie student early 90s - the types were still definitely there then 😂
the best version of ' Ace of Spades ' by Motorhead on the Bambi episode...that feed-back from the electric guitar right at the last bar of the song...perfection!
Amen!
My favourite episode for sure, it had it all and Ace of Spades was the cherry on top.
I was introduced to the band thanks to the young ones
@@specialed4564 Me too!
Lemmy !!!
I'm 62 now, and caught the show like most in the US, when it first aired on MTV (late at night). Love at first view. Plus, they had the absolute hippest bands on, how could you miss? It seemed way too short, but it did go out on a high note. RIP Rik, you _bastard._
"I'm 16, can join the army, but I can't drink in pubs." Haha, man. This show helped me through my depressed early 20's. I'll always love it.
"I can have SEXUAL INTERCOURSE but I can't drink in pubs,sniffff"
This show shaped my youth. I had to sneak downstairs late at night to watch it after my parents thought I had gone to bed. I watched a lot of Brit coms with my dad back then, Benny Hill, Are You Being Served, but he would never have approved of the Young Ones, that was my little secret. Still holds up 100% Great comedy, great music, great era. 👍
RIP Rik Mayall. At high school in England in 1982 'The Young Ones' HAD to be watched so scenes could be reenacted in the playground the next day, and all the best lines would be quoted ad infinitum. 'Living Doll' by The Young Ones & Cliff Richard was the first ever Comic Relief single. Thanks for doing this, my Minty friend x
Sadly missed Rik Mayall a comedy genius remember him on Going Live with Adrian Edmonson funny till this day
Its funny, I made friends with someone who was entirely outside my friend group back in highschool in the early 90s because I heard them quoting lines from the second episode and chimed in randomly.
I never seen young ones in 1982 because my bedtime was an hour before it started, I could hear my parents watching it and laughing though, GITS, at school the next day my friend would tell me all about it and he could even do all the voices.
Some years later I watched the rerun and have owned everything rik mayall did since, he's surely missed.
It sounds a cool school! I didn't see episodes until '89; luckily, I had a classmate who talked about the programme with me every day.
Anybody else get annoyed at the adverts that keep interrupting these features on YT?
I was the only one of my friends that watched the Young Ones in America. Could not wait every week to see it. Laughed so hard. I love that I grew up in the 80's. Best time ever.
Yeah, calling the show “a huge hit” in the US is nonsense. I think very few people, except us few lucky ones, even knew it existed let alone watched in the mid 80s. I think more people discovered it as time went on, but even now I don’t think many in the US are aware of it.
Its hard to overstate how different this was to anything else on tv, and how it felt like something for my generation (I was 14 at the time). I think it opened the door for some classic shows like Blackadder and Spitting Image which followed.
Blackadder first started in 1993, not the nine o'clock news was before the young ones and in many ways similar except it was much much funnier
@davidgavin7280 1983 I think, so maybe even before The Young Ones?
The closest example I can think of was Red Dwarf. Similar crazy humour too. Both shows were classics
Jeez mate. You look just like a FLY with those sunnies on
@@davidgavin7280 You're a fair bit out with your Blackadder dates there. The fourth and final series aired in 1989. The first series aired in 1983.
The 1980's was so much fun! I am proud I grew up in that era! Rest in Peace Rik.
Don't forget that the P is silent! 😆
@mistie710 "Rest in 'Eace"?
Amen…great times
@@lilymarinovic1644p..rik
@@lilymarinovic1644
OMG have you never watched the show?
The P is silent in Rick.
RIP the People's Poet...one of the few things good about MTV was that (a long time ago) it introduced me to the The Young Ones. The musical guests and cameos were always awesome.
Same
Ha ha yeah I remember when MTV was good and played mostly music videos and even had Headbangers Ball on Saturday night. Never knew they tried to make an American version of The Young Ones. Sounds bad as without the chemistry of the original cast just wouldn't work.
Comedy Central for me. They we're big on Brircoms back in the day. Ab fab, Monty Python...
They only had music to get more money because it could be classed as a variety show which had bigger budget then just comedy
same
Neil's bong trip to outer space is easily the funniest thing I've seen on TV.
No... When he's complaining because the lads are giving him flack about his birthday & the cameraman graffities his face & it goes to white-screen when they try to fix it & Elephant-Head saunters out singing 'Stop In The Name Of Love'! THAT'S the funniest moment on TV!
“Get yer lips round this numba, baby”
His pregnant episode for me...
"have a bang on this one mate."
Warlock was my favorite "friend" character. "Yes I require 10 assistants.. .preferably Sweedish!"
That was cash, it was Vyv who was pregnant, Neil joins the police. "open up it's the pigs." Rick in Cash is so awesome.. "no we won't come quietly, we are going to come very noisily!.." "...here's a large sum of money, go away quickly" and Alexi as Mussolini is classic. "Eh! Are you mussolini!?" lol what a great show.
MY FAVORITE SHOW OF ALL TIME.
I was living in California of all places when MTV started airing the episodes and my friends and family all got hooked.
Young Ones, IT Crowd, and Monty Python's Flying Circus were regular watches for me, and still to this day.
There was actually a whole album of Neil's, called Neil's Heavy Concept Album, which is available for streaming, I believe. It's pronounced 'play-ner', by the way. There was also a book, written by Ade Edmonson, in character as Vyvyan, called How to Be a Complete Bastard. Also of note, is the b-side to Living Doll, called All the Little Flowers are Happy, which is worth a listen.
And they where a band called bad news theres 2 episodes of badnews on tour as part of comic strip
@@paulskinback717 "I'm not playing until Vim says we're metal" 😅
@@richardwatson298 Dear Jimmi who art in heaven, Hendrix be thy name
Omg lentil nightmare, brilliant
WOW THANKS - Best Regards -K
WTF?!? I've watched the young ones so many times and NEVER saw a 5th room mate - MIND BLOWN!!!
Unless my foggy memory fails me... there's one scene where one of them is looking for something & she very nonchalantly hands it to them! But I don't recall her in any other episodes. (Now I have an excuse to binge watch the series again!)
Same. Mind blown.
jamie carnegie me tooo
I'm relieved that I'm not the only one! Never noticed her!
Knew about it but only because a friend mentioned it think he heard it from another CZcams video somewhere
This was my generation, generation x, the last great and free generation. We had great music, great movies, there were no cell phones to enslave us. man,I miss those days. As one brit pop album put it, modern life is rubbish. And that was even back when it wasn't really rubbish yet!
I agree! As a fellow Gen Xer, we really were the last great generation to be a kid.
i’m very very jealous :(
My mum showed me this as she watched it when she was a teenager and I literally cannot get enough.
I love this show!!! I used to watch this when I was a kid!!!
Matt Brown my brother and I use to watch this it was right up our alley, an escape from our mundane life in the country.
Loved watching this show as a kid
same, i went back and watched them all about a month ago and now on the 2nd Bottom live
OMG!!!! YOU MUST BE THE ONLY PERSON WHO WATCHED THIS AS A KID!!!!!!!
Me too. It was so huge, and deservedly so.
Even had the single with CLIFF, and even hole in my shoe by Neil. I still have the book somewhere, bachelor boys.
Awesome stuff. I had the VHS of Filthy Rich and Catflap as well, but lost those years ago. That was a good show as well, under-rated and short-lived as it was.
Love The Young Ones! It was a Hilarious show, with bands popping up out of nowhere. MOTÖRHEAD and THE DAMNED, two of my all time favorite bands, performing on the show!
Another great video Minty!
Fun fact, The Damned had already split up when they were asked, so they reformed just for the Young Ones. Afterwards, in a kebab shop (IIRC), Sensible told them he wrote a new song and sang it to them, to which the rest of the band started to make fun of him, and he was so pissed off he quit the band again.
SuddenReal That’s funny! Well I’m happy to see that they were able to put up with each other, just long enough to be on the show!
Plus, the song they perform, “Nasty”, is a great tune!
younger people cannot even begin to imagine how much the young ones and the comic strip presents changed the face of british comedy, it was an absolute revolution.
Fistful of Travellers Cheques,
Mr.Jolly lives next door,
SUPERGRASS,
Whoops Apocalypse,
STRIĶE
All absolute bloody bleeding classics!!!!!
Don't mention Exploding Tonic Water!!! 😂😅😊
This is easily my most favorite television show of all time. I grew up with it when it originally aired on MTV back in the 80's. Thanks for this video! I learned a few new things about the lads today. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to open up the cabinet to my teetering crockery...
@@Bluebirdfalling Thanks!
OMG!!! I have watched these shows a ridiculous number of times and I have never noticed that other person. So then I went back to my dvds to check it out and there she was, exactly where she's shown here. Well done! I was fairly certain you would not be able to tell me anything I didnt already know about the show, and I stand corrected. Thanks for taking the time to share. I love the Young Ones and this was a fun video.
Adrian Edmonds did a radio interview here a few years ago and he said that it never ceases to amaze him how often people bring up the Young ones. He said it was such a tiny part of his career and so short that he barely remembered doing it.
timefilm - Edmonds?
I tend to think of "Alan B'astard" that was very appropriate for the times & was funny too. Rik was great in that too!
"Oh Neal, your bed's on fire!"....."Thanks, I may have fallen asleep and died.".....Or at least that's a line I remember from 30 years ago.....Thanks for this Minty!
Every Sunday night I watched these guys. Brilliant. I recorded every
episode on VHS. Miss the 80’s.
Where I lived in 1986 the hottest topics of conversation were The Young Ones, Highlander and The Bangles.
Sounds like a great conversation. :)
I just had a great idea! "Benny Hill - The Movie!" ...USA style with all teenage American actors! Goldmine!
THAT'S AN ABOMINATION!!! (when can we have the script.)
Highlander fought the young ones to gangbang the bangles
Seems about proper to me
Another 80s British classic, thanks Minty!!! Any chance you'd cover Red Dwarf??? Love the channel and the nostalgia!!!
Aye, defo Red Dwarf!
Also, Bottom.
"Boys from the Dwarf!!"
Bottom FTW !
Actually there was talk about making an American version of Red Dwarf as well, one that sounded especially clueless about what made the show funny. Thankfully the idea must have got nixed.
Leslie Shafer They did a pilot, you can find some of it online but its fuckin terrible. www.imdb.com/title/tt0103521/?ref_=nv_sr_3
Great video! I watched all the episodes back on MTV and got them all on DVD yet after watching them a thousand times, I never noticed the fifth roommate. Thanks for pointing out that great joke! FUN TRIVIA: On the back of the first vinyl pressing of "Hounds of Love", Kate Bush gave thanks first to people who worked on the album but goes on to give a shout-out to people whose work she really enjoyed including (drum roll) The Young Ones.
Great work! My granddad from Bristol was a huge fan and played the show for me at a young age. Thank you so much, wish he was still here to so I could show him this!
I still have the book "How to be a Complete Bastard" by Adrian Edmondson, I left it on my coffee table and so many people didnt get it and thought it was sick and disgusting. Its dirt cheep on Ebay worth a buy.
Yes I have the same book. I thought I lost it years ago and recently found it again. I also had a game of the same name on C64. Good times!!!
Thanks
I bought a copy at Hilton Park Services on a school trip to London...
Still got it!
😂😂😂😂✊
Wasn't it in the top 100 selling books of 1986?
"There's someone at the door Neil"....still makes me laugh👍👍
"If I had a penny for everytime I had to answer the door...I'd have £5.63.."
Me too
Constantly quoted from these for decades! Thanks for covering these great 80s gems
Gen X are quite unique in the fact that we shock and outrage both older and younger generations equally with our humour. 😅
Good isn't it!?!
Newsflash. They All were boomers. Not Gen x.
The Young Ones is one of my all time favorite television comedies. Thank You so much for this wonderful video! Peace, Love, and Blessings to You Brother Minty from Wild Wonderful West Virginia (US)! 🙏🏼
They ran those 12 episodes on MTV in the US once a week for like TEN YEARS. I have all of them memorized. "Open up, it's the pigs!"
OMG. I loved this show. I kept the VHS of the shows I recorded off MTV or VH1, I can't remember until around 2001 when they released the DVDs and bought the DVDs.
SICK is one of my most favorites. VIVIAN!!!!
Ill never forget watching these episodes as ah kid, My older cousin was English so he turned me on to this crazy show.
Absolutely loved it, & still do!
Thanx Minty!
Watch league of gentlemen. Its fucking mental. Watch from series 1 tho to understand the characters
I used to love sneaking up to watch this when I was a kid. Great music an insane comedy such a brilliant show
YESSS! When I was about 10 years old We lived an hour away from my grandmother's house. Every Sunday we would drive the distance for church and visit my grandmother after. Grandma was the one who introduced me to this show )as well as horror movies and video games. I miss her dearly) needles to say my mother didn't approve, lol
Your Grandmother sounds like she was awesome!
And The Winner Of The Coolest Grandma Of All Time Goes To...
My mum loved this. Yes, it was kinda family viewing in my household. But she was into Monty Python and Spike Milligan as well (spiritual predecessors? Maybe?).
I still remember the Vivian Bank advert that was around at the time.
When it was on, we always speculated about who the band would be this comming episode.
Cracking soundtrack sellection as well.
Great video! I have fairly vague memories of watching this on MTV with my friends as kids. We really had almost no idea what was happening each episode but loved it. This makes me want to rewatch the whole show.
Oi Oi this show is a classic gem they made my half british ass proud
🤘✊🇬🇧🍺
Half British? Must be a yank
Holy shit wasn't expecting this! The Young Ones is my favorite show ever in the history of ever. You make an old man happy.
Some interesting dynamics between the characters 1. know one ever puts down Mike, 2. Neil is mostly civil and tolerant with everyone but Rick, 3. No one is civil with or tolerant of Rick, 4. Mike is Vivian’s main admonisher for his destructive actions, the others seem to mostly accept it.
The only person Mike and Vivian show any respect for, is the other one
Well to be fair Rik is never Civil or tolerant with anyone either!
@@lilymarinovic1644 The one time Rik was portrayed sympathetically was when he was most intolerant, kicking the TV to bits out of disgust at the insipid teen show, "Nozin' Around."
I’ve always seen it as the regular nuclear family sitcom. Mike and Neil are the mum and dad and Vyvyan and Rick are the son and daughter. Alexei Sayle is the crazy neighbour so many sitcoms have
Loved this show 😂 and anytime you get introduced to Motorhead it's a good day 🤘😜🤘
love The Young Ones, great video Minty i really enjoyed it, you know you gotta do Bottom next haha
Great suggestion
Smeg yes
One thing I did know. It was bloody brilliant.
Brilliant Minty!Possibly my favorite TV show of all time.I also bought the "Comic Strip"box set.Keep doing what you do.
Back when this was being shown on TV early 80s - I was working in an hospital in Yorkshire - I was also working with Ade Edmoundsons Mom -who was a member of staff !
She told us that ades Dad - Who was a headmaster st a local school did not like going into work on the Weds after each Tues day nights episode - Because of the heckling he would get from his school kids !
She was good to work with & I left the hospital business years ago !
Favorite line ever: As they are being chased by a vampire, "Quick! We need to drive a stake through his heart!" Nigel: "All I've got is this vegetarian sausage..."
Ha ha, no beans
We all have to loose our virginity now! Backs not Mike!
mine is; rik- vyvyane where’d you get that howitzer? vyvyane-found it.
Rik Maeyll was a legend. I used to have a couple of VHS tapes of The Wind in the Willows cartoon films as a kid, and he stole the show with his voice acting as Toad.
Rik was amazing but I believe that was David Jason?
The Rik Mayall version was from 1995
I stumbled on this show once long ago. I remember being very disappointed that there were only twelve episodes.
Edit: I had no idea this was recorded live. Impressively talented cast.
Holy shit. The girl with cousin It hair is epic.
You might like The Comic Strip Presents - many of cast and writers were in that.
@@JackKlumpassAs well as French and Saunders if I remember correctly.
@@BluebirdfallingWhat what?
One of my all time favorite comedies! got the DVD set & watch it all the time. Wish there had been more episodes...
Oh. Have we got a video?
😂😂😂
YES WE’VE GOT A VIDEO!!!!
@@motojauntx did you get it from Harry the Bastard?
YES! WE'VE GOT! A VIDEO!
wstine79 I hate him. He drinks like a fish. He hasn’t got any talent! Alexei who?
Holy shit! I live in America and I remember this show when I was a kid in the 80s. I used to love this!!
I used to watch it on MTV. I think it came on Sunday night if I remember right. Great show!
Get it bought my friend - trust me it is still as good as when we were kids
@@incominghitdadirt9587 Sunday at 11:30,watched it as well, eventually followed by The Comic Strip. Been quoting this show since Junior high and I doubt I'll ever stop.
They all were great ; but I always loved Rik so much ... ♥️Rest In Peace dear man ♥️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Absolutely one of my best memories of my youth,watching The Young Ones on MTV when it was good. RIP Rik.
Shut up, Neil! I used to watch this on MTV late nite Sundays.
"There's someone at the door Neil" :)
Me as well.
"Socks aren't vegetables, man, they should be wiped out!"
Oh man, I grew up with this show as a kid. Sure it was watching it on the DVD collection since I wasn't born around the time of it's initial run, but I loved it's dry British humor and me and my dad are always quoting it and we occasionally will watch it. it was a really hilarious show that I still enjoy. RIP Rik Mayal, a really funny actor who also starred in another childhood favourite of mine - Drop Dead Fred.
Great video Minty!
I lived for this show every Tuesday on a school night, it changed mine and my friends humour forever, I still use the one liners from time to time in an average day, truly brilliant ✌️
I used to impersonate Rick Vivienne and Niel in class. Kept getting told off for it
My little sister and I would have our Ben & Jerry's ready to watch this show every week. It was brilliant!!! Where are they now? Love ya. Philadelphia USA
You couldn't have picked a better day to upload this video! OK maybe one other day would have been just as good. My friend who introduced me to The Young Ones, would have had his birthday today. He also introduced me to the band The Damned which he was introduced to through the show. Unfortunately, he passed away after a car accident back in 2007. Only knew him for 5 years. Despite some issues between us, some being personal ones I let effect our friendship, he had a lot of influence on me becoming the person I am today. Thanks for the memories Minty! R.I.P. Kevin Joseph Bassett 9/21/84 - 4/19/07
The Young Ones was great when I was a 13-14 year old kid growing up in the grim early 80's during the Thatcher years and this show epitomised that, especially Rick. Even though it was exaggerated comedy, The Young Ones was a fairly accurate cultural snippet of British working class youths during the Thatcher era more than any other telly show of the time that I can remember. I watched every episode once when it was first screened, and again at some point in the 90's when it was re-aired on some cable /satellite channel like UKTV Gold or something similar, and of all the times I watched it I never remembered seeing the 5th house mate, nor do I remember noticing the 'subliminal' frames. 😆
we're the same age and from the UK, I do remember the "subliminal" frames, we'd speak about them at school. As for the 5th housemate, that's freaky, I bought both series from HMV a couple of months ago and watched them and until tonight I didn't know about her and obviously haven't seen her. I'm going to have to watch it again, that's freaky that in all the times of watching, I haven't seen her once!!
I can't imagine growing up with all that fog.
It couldn't have been easy.
I used to laugh at the show so bad it was funny AF👍🏻
No you are wrong you laughed cos it was feckin funny
Nice video, I can't wait to watch some of your other videos. Happy new years.
There was so many times in junior school when I was either 8 to 10 years of age in the early 80s that I had to lie to my friends & make out that I'd watched the Young Ones, in truth my parents not only forbidden me from ever watching this programme but I was in bed & asleep for 7pm. I remember when my cool uncles started to record them on VHS tape & let me watch them amongst other cool shit on VHS pirate copies & they also made me promise not to tell my mother & their oldest sister that came with respect back in the good old 70 to 80s, by the way I was born in the mid 70s but what a truly magical time to be able to say that you lived the 80s. I just recently started watching Monkey Magic again & another 80s classic called Scully. Regards, David from Manchester, England, UK.
I use to love this series,........shame it was only 12 episodes. Remember the song they did with cliff Richard " living doll " Neil song the hole in my shoe was a great song. I got the single and 12 inch as well.
If anyone knows great music, it's you Elvis. =D
the king It was two 12 episode seasons. So 24 in all.
Cover of the Traffic (Steve Winwood ,Dave Mason Chris Wood etc)song from the late 60s
@@AJ17_ it was two series of six episodes
@@AJ17_ it was only 12 episodes.
Aww, thanks for creating and sharing, makes me smile for so many reasons.
1. I'm from Bristol where they filmed the outside street scenes.
2. The farting neighbour in one of the second series episodes was my lecturer at Bournemouth Uni in 2017.
3. Memories of my childhood :)
One of my favorite shows, ever. I grew up in rural/suburban Arkansas, US, and MTv was my one window into the world at, idk something like 13. And they played The Young Ones. I watched them repeatedly. Great fucking show.
"Stupid, immature, violent" Yep this show shaped my sense of humour when I was a teen back then. "It's a video nasty"...."It's a carpet faarty !" RIP Rik Mayall. Nice tribute Minty.
There is no such thing as immature.
Missed both my legs
LOL Mayall's face made it work, he always looked so crazy.
"Oh..have we got a video?!"
"Right, come this way Neil. Sideways on then"
Video Nasty! I forgot that phrase!!
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The young ones was my childhood , love it forever !! Rik was always my favourite I was gutted when he passed . God bless the people's poet !!
Loved this show and this review. Thank you so much.
When I was in Desert Storm, there was a group of Royal Regiment of Fusiliers that worked in the same building as I did. The only tv show that we all knew was The Young Ones because it played on Mtv here in the U.S. I had a 2nd Lt. who absolutely hated us talking about this show so, of course, that is what we talked about especially the episode where Vivian was pregnant. Almost 30 years later, I still have the hackle they gave me and I still remember The Young Ones because of them. Great group of guys!
Great show, great frigging show, the show is brilliant. They should have made more.
Much more!
I never get tired of the young ones and damn if I don't love every episode and still watch them when I'm in need of a damn good laugh thank you minty for bringing this up not to many people remember the Young ones anymore unless you're in your late 30s to early 40s or are some sort of lucky kid cheers to you and yours
Sergio Flores 21 and loved it since I was a kid :)
This is a well put together Minty, great music in the montages to an excellent show.
Also remember a young French & Saunders doing skits on the Young Ones too. Good times.
Yeah, Helen Lederer, Hale and Pace, Paul Merton, Lee Cornes too.
Not only did "Neil" release a single, there was a whole album titled "Neil's Heavy Concept Album". My favourite track was "Lentil Nightmare".
I think Neil also popped up in the movie Labyrinth but they kept calling him Ludo.
Loved the YoungOnes when it was on Mtv in America.
For those fans, like myself, that love "The Young Ones", you definitely need to get two things. One, the "Extra Stoopid" DVD set, which has both seasons and lots of extras, and the recently released documentary "How The Young Ones Changed Comedy" (2018). And, of course, if you are interested, I put together the full soundtrack to both seasons years ago. It has 46 songs, all in play order as heard in the series. :) BTW, number 5's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was produced by Jules Holland, but performed by Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve.
And written by Dylan.
Used to love this show. Was unlike anything I had ever seen and still haven’t seen a show like it today. Thanks for reviewing it.
Another one that I have on DVD, may watch it all to fill in some more time during quarantine.
Love the bunny flash, Minty. Too clever!! 😂
LOVE LOVE LOVE The Young Ones......To Hell With The American Remake!
Apparently there was just a pilot made of an American version of Butterflies, too.
Yeah. They tried the same thing with The Inbetweeners. .... Just horrendous.
Works both ways. The British versions of The Upper Hand and Married With Children were painful. Seem to remember a UK Golden Girls as well, although that may have just been a bad dream!
The British Married With Children Sounds Like One of Freddy's Nightmares
Jeff-El Jefe-B THERE'LL never be another YOUNG ONES. Why... CAUSE WE WON'T BE THE YOUNG ONES VEERRY LOONNG! Get it?!
I've met rik and ade a couple of times when i was around 10 years old.. Riks dad, John mayall lived in the same town as us (Droitwhich, near birmingham)
My dad was mates with John, so he used to go over to his house quite often. So obviously, dad is going out soemwhere and i want to go too, so he would take me with him.
Quite often Rik would come back to see his dad for the weekend. On occasion bringing ade with him.. Two of the times i was there, both Rik and Ade were there in the other room being silly, John would say " The boys (lol boys there weere in there early 20's) are i nthe toehr room, you wanna go see them" so i wander into the kitchen and there were tqwo guys id seen from off the TV just sat there laughing and joking.
They said hi and let me join them, Rik offered me some fizzy pop and Ade offered me a cigarette then said " Oh wait, your not old enough.. want a beer instead?"
It was also quite common for Rik to go to the local shops and cause havoc in there, being silly and playing up the cashiers :)
And finally.. Here is a pic of the house mates.. including the 5th house mate i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/61/c1/d561c1de0fe03eea3b9345e07eb15891.jpg
Awesome stuff. That pic is particularly interesting.
Sounds like you were the great guy's together.
@@sbaxter4207 Yeah it was awesome meeting them, the second time we met they actually remembered me from the first time around. It sounds like a bold claim meeting them, but in all honesty most people in my town back in the 80's had met/bumped into or seen Rik in town, he was there so often. :)
I watched it on MTV as a kid. No one ever knows what show I’m talking about when I quote Neil “First you sow the seeds, nature grows the seeds, then we eat the seeds.”
Me either, where was everyone? Neil, neil orange peel, when will I see you again?
@@imogenveneear1935 almost 40 years on, and my boss, whose name is Neil, is still referred to as “Orange Peel” - well, by me anyway 😆
@@simonmoore2380😂😂😂
Hay minty you should do red dwarf next
Smegging great idea.
Yes
I just asked for the same thing haha!!! Red Dwarf is an all time classic that needs greater recognition. I've only just finished watching the whole series (yet again) it's on Netflix!!!
Brutal!
@@davidkennedy1077 it is back on Netflix?
OMG I loved this show! I live in the US and I'm pretty sure it was played on MTV. I believe I watched it in the late 80s or very early 90s. I recorded every ep and I'm sure I still have that VHS somewhere. What a great show!
One of my favorite shows when i was a kid. Discovered it back in 1985 and now I own it on DVD. Great review, Minty
Love that you made this video, exposes the series to more younger viewers, learned a few things myself too, cheers
You know it was good comedy built to last when even stills from it make you laugh out loud 40 years later.
This show changed my life as a kid!!! I still love it!
I absolutely loved this show! Aaaaah memories... I live in Tulsa, Ok USA and now I have a few more shows to look up to boot! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, you bastard! :)
Watch only fools and horses, phoenix nights, the league of gentlemen, not going out.
I loved the Young Ones when they were first aired in the early ‘80’s and I still love them now. They changed the face of comedy here in the UK.
Now since you pointed out the girl I can't stop seeing her in the show. OH GOD! SHE IN MY ROOM!!
AYE! I miss this CLASSIC' DOPE show as'well & been looking for EVER for it all on a dope looking DVD collection ... 🤘🐺🤘
R.I.P rik Mayall you absolute legend, this show was amazing but bottom was even better.
How often we hear the phrase "failed US remake"
Truth
The US is just different. You can show a brit comedy to a pom, kiwi, ozzie, saffa & yank, everybody but the yank will find it funny. Subtle sarcasm & dark humour is lost on them. Just look at the graham norton show, most are lost and don't get wtf is going on. English tv that works for most of the English speaking world has less of a chance of working in the US.
@@rztrzt The comment was regarding the failure. If the US remake something for the US market using US writers then it shouldn't fail, but it does
I agree that we all find different things funny.
Not every problem has an American solution.
@@rztrzt I'm American and I LOVE Brit humor!!