# Young Ones Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648 "2003-04-01T05:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/1 "2003-04-01T05:47:15Z")
On my only trip abroad I kept expecting to come across four guys in Essex who would be absolute trouble. I wish a domestic network would play those old shows featuring Vivian, Neil, Mike, and Prick (the P is silent). Notables that I can think of: [ul] [li]Rick: _in response to discovering that the lentils are from South Africa_ Neil! Neil! What does it take to make a meal, Neil–from TOTALITARIAN VEGETABLES?![/li][li]Neil: Just once I’d like to have dinner without having to scrape it off the floor.[/li][li]Neil: Help! Help! I’m being hassled by a killer sock.[/li][li]Neil: _after being questioned by a middle aged woman in front of the house_ Oh great. Now I’m being hassled in the street by a chick.[/li][li]Perhaps my favorite scene is one where, IIRC, the heat got cut off and Vivian is burning everything in the place. Neil can’t figure out what’s going on and thinks that stuff is just dissapearing, so he starts trying to nail the plates to the table. Of course, being ceramic, they all break. Mike discovers what Neil is doing and proceeds to try to figure out how to nail the plates to the table. Then the action moves to the other characters and one has to pay attention to Mike in the background as he ponders the dilemma. Finally he gets it and proceeds to hammer these huge barn spikes into these plates without breaking the plates. But the spikes are so long that they go through the table and into his thighs. Just then, Vivian cuts the legs out from under Mike, but he doesn’t fall because he’s now nailed to the table. Outstanding bit of physical humor, IMO. Outstanding.[/li]Motorhead doing Ace of Spades!! Yee-ha!![/ul] ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/2 "2003-04-01T05:56:46Z")
What about when yer man is hanging his head out the window of the speeding train and it gets taken clean off by a lamp post or some such? The Head’s lying there in the grass and mutters " Bloody useless bastard"🙂 That kills me! ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/3 "2003-04-01T06:21:04Z")
I’ve still got the low-grade EP speed VHS copies I made of the show when it aired on MTV in the late 80’s. Haven’t bought the DVD boxset yet. It’s damn expensive relative to the amount of content. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/4 "2003-04-01T06:41:28Z")
The DVDs are well worth it, IMHO. It’s a great show. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/5 "2003-04-01T07:25:36Z")
“Thats it…Im going to kill myself!!” Rick starts gobbling pills by the handful. “Hey Vyv…Is it possible to kill yourself with laxitive pills?” “I dunno Neil but I am sticking around to find out!” Ricks reaction to the explosive farting, surprised and blowing pills out of his mouth absolutely killed me. Also Vyv’s ‘upgrading’ of the Community Chest cards in Monopoly “You have won second place in a beauty contest. Smash Rick over the head with the bank.” “Congratulations its your birthday. You may set fire to Rick’s bed.” “Get out of Jail free. You may keep this card, sell it, or stick it up Rick’s bottom.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/6 "2003-04-01T07:27:27Z")
“Sleep causes cancer, Rick, everyone knows that” “Neal, your bed’s on fire” “Dry tea again” “Why won’t it go off Mike?” “Is it true, Bambi? Did you do a Disney nasty?” “This calls for a special blend of psychology and extreme violence” “Hands up. Who likes me?” and of course: “CLIFF!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/7 "2003-04-01T07:55:06Z")
Parachute-dependant Buddy Holly to Mike: “I just love your English beetles. After twenty years of the suckers, I ain’t got much choice, mind.” (It doesn’t really work as well in print.) ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/8 "2003-04-01T08:10:18Z")
“Oh no! It’s the People’s Poet!” ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/9 "2003-04-01T10:45:09Z")
Darling fascist bully-boy, Give me some more money… You bastard… May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman. Neil. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/10 "2003-04-01T12:16:02Z")
VYVYAN: NO!! No! We’re not watching the bloody Good Life!! Bloody bloody bloody!! I hate it!! It’s so bloody nice! Felicity ‘Treacle’ Kendall and Richard ‘Sugar-Flavored-Snot’ Briars!! What do they do now?! Chocolate bloody Button ads, that’s what!! They’re just a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a lovable, middle-class eccentric - and I - HATE - THEM!! MIKE: That was a highly articulate outburst, Vyvyan. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/11 "2003-04-01T12:36:21Z")
The first ever episode I saw of “Young Ones” was, at the insistence of a friend, the week before I was to appear on “University Challenge.” Of course, it was the episode in which they go on the show, and wreak havoc against the team from Footlights, Cambridge. Absolutely hilarious, complete with non sequitur _deus ex eclair_ from above! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/12 "2003-04-01T12:58:28Z")
Vyv thinking the Hoover “looked a bit tenative”. Special Patrol Group (the hamster). “Open up, it’s the pigs.” Revolutionary biscuits: you’ve got your Garibaldi, your Bourbon and your Peak Frean’s Trotsky Assortment. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/13 "2003-04-01T14:14:53Z")
“It’s a video nastY” “It’s a CARPET, FARTY!” * * * “It’s a package from the Transvaar.” “It says ‘fra-gee-lay’”(fragile) “Maybe that’s Transvaarian for ‘Very hard drugs’” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/14 "2003-04-01T14:34:57Z")
“What’s that little white dot?” “It’s a little white dot. It means ‘go to bed…there’s no more telly.’” “Vyvyan, are you going to bed?” “No, I’m going to stay up and watch the dot some more.” “I wish we had a video, so I could watch it in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/15 "2003-04-01T14:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyomara \* > \*\*Darling fascist bully-boy, > > Give me some more money… You bastard… May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman. > > Neil. \*\* Boom Shanka! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/16 "2003-04-01T14:58:03Z")
“Its a telescope! A telescope with a mouse in it!” I used to have a crush on Rick.:o ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/17 "2003-04-01T15:55:51Z")
“People’s Poet. Don’t die! We’ll kill ourselves if you do, but first we’ll take off all our clothes!” I particularly liked the scene with the party the boys throw. The Pigs show up at the door and Neil hides a joint in his mouth. When he gets back into the room, he flies off the set and onto the moon where the aliens speaking alien language call him a stupid hippy. Priceless. The Damned singing Nasty. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/18 "2003-04-01T16:13:08Z")
“My last name is Mucus” Uttered by Vyvyan’s real life wife Jennifer Saunders. Ahh The Young Ones. One of the few shows that actually caused beer to come up through my nose. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/19 "2003-04-01T16:51:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > \*\*The first ever episode I saw of “Young Ones” was, at the insistence of a friend, the week before I was to appear on “University Challenge.” Of course, it was the episode in which they go on the show, and wreak havoc against the team from Footlights, Cambridge. Absolutely hilarious, complete with non sequitur _deus ex eclair_ from above! \*\* Being from the States, a Briton once had to explain to us why it was funny when Vyv stomped through the floor and kicked that guy in the head. We didn’t know that the two teams really weren’t stacked on top of each other. Hey! Just what was (is?) a “Special Patrol Group”? I know there’s an old Exploited song called “Fuck the SPG”, but that sums up all I know. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648/20 "2003-04-01T17:53:40Z")
In one episode ( I have no idea which one ), the camera cut to something on a shelf. It turned and said, “Don’t look at me, I’m irrelevant.” I used that for my senior quote when I graduated…should cause much discussion when I finally snap… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-ones-appreciation-thread/165648.md?page=2)