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Post by heccy on Jun 9, 2022 22:18:21 GMT
Any fans of Mike, Vyvyan, Prick & Neil?
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Post by iank on Jun 9, 2022 22:37:50 GMT
Absolutely. Classic.
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Post by GC on Sept 8, 2022 23:34:00 GMT
1984: RIK MAYALL discusses THE YOUNG ONES comedy | Wogan | Classic TV Interview | BBC Archive
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Post by ant-mac on Sept 9, 2022 1:24:52 GMT
Any fans of Mike, Vyvyan, Prick & Neil? I originally had it on video cassette, but now I have it on DVD. I really enjoyed it, but I thought BOTTOM was better overall.
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Post by burunguy5 on Sept 15, 2022 8:58:55 GMT
Yes, one of my favourite tv shows of all time.
The character of Rick perfectly represented the phoney, poseur lefties. The obnoxious students who come from little upper middle class backgrounds, who don't know shit about politics, are actually probably quite conservative in their outlook and spout a lot of meaningless shallow shit like "smash the state, women's lib" just to look cool, or to further their careers by maybe getting a job writing for the guardian.
By the time they are in their 30s they will be owning a company their dad bought for them, and have two houses and be a horrible bully to their staff, but they will still think of themselves as lefties, because they identify as a feminist and contribute the odd article to a soft, upper middle class, London bubble "leftie" magazine. (These people now represent about 90 percent of DW's audience.)
These people have always existed. We called them Hippies in the 60s, punk poets in the 80s and now we call them SJWs and NPCS. The only difference now is that comedy is sadly too spineless to go after them, so they only opposition to these poseurs are right wingers like Nerdrotic and Sargon of Akkad which has allowed the modern day poseurs to be seen as the actual left, which has tragically undermined left wing politics among the general public.
Back in the day however, with the Young Ones we had left wing comedians like Rik Mayall, who also starred in one of the best critique's of right wing politics, The New Statesman, giving us characters like Rick who brilliantly satirised these wankers, showing that they didn't represent the entire left. (And before him, guys like Frank Zappa who similarly eviscerated the hippies, whilst attacking mainstream American politics.)
In this respect the Young Ones was very important and we could do with a comedy like it today.
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Post by GC on Oct 27, 2022 18:38:59 GMT
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Post by Silent Walter on Oct 27, 2022 19:48:48 GMT
Bloody brilliant series and an smashing debut for two of the standouts of alternative comedy. Surreal, violent and not afraid to go after all sides.
Although I think Bottom is the more timeless of the two, this still has a lot to it that's relevant to this day and unlike the former, is short and sweet (The three series of Bottom as well as the first 3 live shows are excellent and Guest House Paradiso is fun but the last 2 live shows felt like the characters had ran their course).
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Post by heccy on Oct 27, 2022 21:14:24 GMT
I do like the Young Ones.
However, I don't know if it's worth replacing my current DVD boxset.
I recently got the blu ray version of the BBC's TV version of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and to be honest, the upscaling looks worse than my old DVD.
The same goes for the Classic Who blu ray boxsets in a lot of ways. Sadly, I was forced to sell most of my old Who DVD collection, so getting the blu rays is not so bad.
But will it be worth getting the Young Ones boxset for the extras, with a crappy HD upgrade?
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Post by GC on Aug 5, 2023 4:56:20 GMT
The Young Ones. Have We Got a Video?
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Post by iank on Aug 5, 2023 21:36:14 GMT
Got the Blu ray last week.
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