Toxtithe O’Grady. Not sure about the spelling,
Don’t get uncool and heavy.
Rik: Oh Vyvian… have you thought up a name [pointing at self] for your baby?
Vyv: Shut Up or Piss Off!!!
Rik: [taken aback] Oh, well! If you’re going to be nasty about it …
Vyv: No, no, no… That’s Shut Up if it’s a boy, Piss Off if it’s a girl.
Rik: Neil, where’s my supper???
Neil: We haven’t got any bread.
Rik: Well, why not??!
Neil: Because, Rik, we haven’t got any bread.
“I see things much more clearly now.”
Good news indeed.
G Em
THE YOUNG ONES, DARLING, WE´RE THE YOUNG ONES
G Em
AND YOUNG ONES, SHOULDN´T BE AFRAID
G D G C
TO LIVE, LOVE, THERE'S A SONG TO BE SUNG
G D G
FOR WE MAY NOT BE THE YOUNG ONES VERY LONG
That’s from a Cliff Richard page. I haven’t played it yet, as my guitar is at home. I changed the third verse to match the show.
“I think ‘Special Patrol Group’ is a stupid name for a hamster!”
“Okay, I’ll change it, then! Hello, Cliff Richard!”
“Bastard!”
WAIT!!! Where did you get that howitzer?
Found it!
All right, all right, I am a virgin!
Not for long, matey…
[sub]This is as bad as waiting for December to roll around last year.[/sub]
Has anyone seen The Young Ones (1961) starring Cliff Richard? Would a fan of the television show like it? It looks like just another oldies rock’n’roll teen movie, but according to the review at Amazon, it’s “one of the most beloved British movie musicals of all time”.
Oh, Cliff
Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
You really are a Cliff
When fascists keep trying to push you over it
Are they the lemmings?
Or are you Cliff?
Or are you, Cliff?
It’s not an awful film by any means, but nothing like the television show. Well, maybe if you sat in a really dark room, squinting a bit.
Does it have any extras? Outtakes, interviews, commentary? I don’t need it if it doesn’t have extras; I have all the (uncut!) episodes on VHS.
“Look, it says here, ‘Ensure machine is clean and free from dust’.”
“Yeah, but it doesn’t say ‘Ensure machine is full of washing-up liquid’.”
“Well it doesn’t say, ‘Ensure machine isn’t full of washing-up liquid’!”
“Well, it doesn’t say, 'Ensure you don’t chop up your DVD player with an axe! Put all the bits in a plastic bag and bung ‘em down the lavatory’!”
“Doesn’t it? Well, maybe that’s where I’ve gone wrong!”
Do Americans understand the Young ones?
Are you familiar with the works of Sir Cliff Richard (yes he is a Sir)
or is it like devil woman has never been written?
And it’s Toxteth O’Grady (Toxteth is a uber-pikey area of Liverpool that had been rioting when the show was being recorded)
owlstretchingtime: I’d never heard of Cliff Richard before TYO, and I’ve never seen any of his films or heard any of his music. Still, I think I can say Americans who have seen TYO understand it. I think the humour is more or less universal.
One thing I’ve wondered though, is how many people will “get” the Thatcher references in a few years? I mean, how many 20-somethings know enough about Nixon to laugh at jokes about him? Or Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter? Or even Reagan, for that matter?
One thing I find hilarious now is that Neil said, “Bell-bottoms are coming back!” Heh heh. He was right!
Amazon doesn’t list any extras. I have all of the episodes on VHS as well, but DVDs are much more convenient. I can always sell the tapes on eBay.
If you wear bell bottoms, you’re just uttah, uttah, uttaahhhhh crash
BTW, Johnny, didn’t you lend your TYO tapes to a certain Dane?
What on Earth do you think Sir Cliff is actually like (I shudder to think!)
All Brits would still get the “Thatcher” stuff because Blair is compared to her so often.
And students are still like that in Britain. Worse if anything.
Has anyone made the stiffy joke yet?
I don’t think BBCAmerica is airing The Young Ones episodes anymore, the total & complete bastards.
“Well, alright, but verbatim regurgitation is against my principles.”
“I’m asking you to test me on it, not throw up on it.”
Ok, so everyone is nostalgic. It blurs your memory.
The series was something I used to love on TV - never missed it when it was on. Always thought of it as being so, so funny, in my head.
I re-watched it again recently, and man was I disappointed. It was cheap, docile, slow, awful humour, so contrived and unfunny.
It had, to me, absolutely no lasting appeal.
My memory of its funniness was finally shot. Same as “Bottom” too. :mad:
It will never be in the same classic all-time funny catagory as the likes of Blackadder or Father Ted. But maybe that’s just me. 
“It’s a telescope with a mouse in it!”
omigod I cant wait!