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The Young Ones: Series One

Review by James Anthony


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In the 1980s a bunch of seriously pathetic and warped characters invaded our TV screens and did to comedy on the cretin box what Monty Python had done a generation before.

The antics of Mike (Christopher Ryan), Neil (Nigel Planer), Rick (Rik Mayall) and Vyvyan (Ade Edmonson) turned comedy on its head with a raucus brand of push-the-limits comedy.

Who can forget Vyvyan getting a pickaxe through his head, or the farting on the couch, or Neil's green-stuff-exploding cold that can only be cured by having a plastic garbage bag attached to his skull with six-inch nails?

Laugh, I nearly… Well, we won't go into that.

Anyway, the first series of The Young Ones is available on DVD and it features six just-over-half-hour episodes of the boys in action. Not only do you get the following mini-adventures - Demolition, Oil, Boring, Bomb, Interesting and Flood - but you have a wonderful array of 1980s bands pop-in to do their stuff.

There's Nine Below Zero, Radical Posture, Madness, Neneh Cherry's Rip Rig and Panic, plus the pick of the bunch - Dexy's Midnight Runners with Jackie Wilson Said.

If you want a bit of anarchic humour and some truly pants-wetting stuff, then this series is for you.

Conclusion: Movie 80%, Extras 0%

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