Interesteg What makes it different from others?

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to of the 1%

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

bdtaylor-24215 I used to stay up late on Sundays to watch this show along with The Comic Strip Presents and Monty Python on MTV. As an added bonus MTV would also run an episode of the British music show The Tube. Needless to say I rarely made it in to school on Mondays! This show is one of the greatest TV shows I have ever watched! The show is so fast and frenetic, with all the non-sequiters and subliminals! And like all great shows(The Simpsons, The Three Stooges) every time I watch an episode I catch something I didn't the last time. The Young Ones represents a pivotal time in my, and apparently many others, upbringing. Glad I'm not the only one who really liked this twisted, subversive show!

silvermanjet This is the story of 4 university students sharing a home in early 80's London. I can't think of a funnier sitcom, and find the episodes just as funny after seeing them 20 times as I found them the first time. The show is funny on several levels, sophisticated social and political commentary, character interactions, theater of the absurd, cringe inducing puns (I'm sure I missed some because of differences between American and British English.), and slapstick. The main characters are a violent punk named Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson), anarchist, Cliff Richard fan and legend in his own mind, Rick (Rik Mayall), sleazy "cool person" Mike(Christopher Ryan), and a put upon hippie, Neil(Nigel Planer). The characters often break the fourth wall, and the flow of the plot is frequently interrupted by simply absurd scenes like talking spoiled food in the refrigerator. The bitter rivalry and hatred between Vyvyan and Rick is the source of much of the show's humor. All but one episode included a live band. The bands included Dexys Midnight Runners. The one dull spot in the show was Alexei Sayle playing the student's foreign landlord and his family. His appearances seemed forced to me, like there was a contractual obligation to have him once in each episode. That being said, I think no matter what kind of comedy you like, you will get a good laugh out of The Young Ones.

bambybyte "The Young Ones" was a British cult comedy that broke out from 82 to 84, and was a sort of cathodic counterpart of the raging and inventive intensity of punk in music. Their creators (Lise Mayer, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton) came from the extraordinary experience (an alternative comedy den wherein punks, students, stand-up Marxist comediennes and comedians and absolutely unclassified entities of London cabaret used to gather and socialize). They intended to cross the slapstick (that form of physical comedy that experiments with the possibilities of a poetics of violence, cruelty and catastrophe in scene; a form that tends to be minorized in comparison to other kinds of comedy due its association with unproductive, asocial excess) with punk. The result was this surreal, abrasive-convulsive, incredible series, regarded by many as an update of "La Bóheme" in Thatcher's years, starred by revulsive and caustic characters, especially designed by their authors to deliberately displease: four students living together in a house that's constantly falling apart (in every episode, scenarios are literally dismantled with utmost pleasure by their own characters, that smugly come and go through the fourth wall as it was a silk curtain). We got Rick, a camp and hypocritical anarchist poet, fascinated with the Baader-Meinhof and Cliff Richard in equal parts, whose embodiment of anxiety -some says that he reflected someway the fear of inauthenticity that haunted part of the '80 British left- appeals and amplify John Lydon's axiomatic mantra: "anger is an energy". We got Vyvyan, a sadistic, gory punk devoted to unravel all the applied varieties of the verb "destroy", that's pure unpredictable physicality in action. We got Neil, a melancholic, bittersweet acid-rocker hippie, spiritual reject from the generation of love waking from the dream of flowers to enter in '70/'80 Britain nightmare. We got Mike, a dandyesque '80 Casanova obsessed with -love-challenges (and subsequently, blessed with - love- failures) and enigmatic non-sequiturs. And of course, we got the Balowski landlord family, all of them, starred by the amazing, always strange Alexei Sayle (demarcating the disruptive moment of the series when the sitcom narrative and aesthetic would leave place to the emergence of a sudden and brief stand-up universe).Neither of their twelve episodes has some deal of structure of any kind, every known trope was subverted and then, re-subverted again, the narrative could change at every moment, swerving from slapstick to claymation, to unusual stand-up and music live numbers of amazing bands playing in the set such as The Damned, Motörhead, Madness, Rip Rig & Panic or Dexys Midnight Runners. Summarizing, this series is ardently recommended by someone who, at the first time of watching the first episode, felt the very same feverish struck of agitation and anxious fascination that he felt while listening Buzzcocks' "Love Bites" or Damned's "Damned Damned Damned". Beauty would be convulsive or won't be. Long live punk, long live slapstick!

Lamol-Sthui Wat more can I say other than, this is the best comedy of all time? Quite much actually so lets start.First of all, this series is one first-rate comedy on its own. I cannot compare it with anything else! Second, all the characters have great personalities. There must be at least one character everybody likes as a favourite.The combination of violence and dialogs makes it absolutely hilarious.One of my favourite scenes:Rick's conscience: RICK... RICK.... this is the voice of your conscience speaking... you just killed a hippy!!!Rick: No, I wasn't me, it was Vyvian, and Mike.Rick's conscience: No it was you you spotty little bastard....**** Rik falls asleep and has a wet dream ****Rick's conscience: Stop having wet dreams you perverd!!Vyvyian: RIK!! TELL YOUR CONSCIENCE TO SHUT UP!! I AM TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP OVER HERE!!The bands are great to. Motorhead featuring once. Madness featuring during a riot, and when ending their song ing in the fight.My only problem is the many britsh characters mentioned during the show. As a non-Brit I don't know most of them, with exception to Margeret Thatcher naturally!Give it a shot, if you don't like the humour in the conversations right away, you might still enjoy the ridiculous characters.