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KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

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.

haildevilman Anarchic comedy at it's best.Rik Mayall reportedly based his character on himself, only he deliberately made it the most annoying version possible. He and Adrian Edmondson (Vyvyan) still occasionally tour as a comedy team in England.Neil was my personal favorite character in the show. Don't ask me why. I just dug him. And Christopher Ryan made a great straight man. I get the feeling he's better than anyone outside of England will ever know.Alexei Sayle was the most talented guy on the screen. It looked like his bits were mostly ad-libbed. He seems like Britain's answer to Robin Williams.The music acts were a nice plus too. Seeing as said acts didn't get much American TV time.This is one of Britain's best comedy shows.

michellemurmurs6244 Back in the days when MTV really meant MTV they would show this imported britcom on Sunday evenings. I always looked forward to watching it. This show was so different than any other kind of show I had seen before that it absolutely fascinated me. The characters of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike had me hooked with their loud, obnoxious and rowdy behavior. On one level it's lowbrow, juvenile and shrill. On another it's clever, original and refreshingly unlike anything else. It's partly a situation comedy, partly a musical variety show. I love the arguments between Rick and Vyvyan and Rick and Neil and well.....Rick and anybody! I love Vyvyan's random destruction of the house and random abuse of well.....everybody. If you want a reason to really laugh out loud this is the show that will help you do it.

Robert Redmond This is my favorite show of all time... no questions asked. My mother introduced it to me last year when she bought a video called "The Very Best of The Young Ones" which featured 5 episodes. They were Bomb, Boring, Bambi, Interesting and Summer Holiday. I was so hooked on it! I gave the video away to someone else... not before getting the complete series of season 1 and season 2 on DVD. It's absolute kick@ss and stuff and I can't help but watch it all of the time. I blooming love it.I love Vyvyan the most out of them all, followed by Rik than Neil and of course Mike TheCoolPerson. But they're all hilarious. My favorite episode was probably Bambi... but they're all good.Alexei Sayle would have to have been recognized as the funniest man in the whole entire world during this series.The musical guests are fantastic as well with Madness, Motorhead, and so much more.Hilariously written, wonderfully over the top acting, very original the whole way. Great... great... great... great show! This is proof that the British do comedy 100,000,000,000,000,000 times or better than the United States of America. Sorry Yankees... bow down before the Oxford graduates, Cambridge graduates and gifted high school dropouts!