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Ooh have we got a Blu-Ray?

 

Quite surprised these are uncut. I rewatched them all recently and thought to myself there's no way these would be reissued without some heavy editing, but here it is.

 

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Do not lean out of the window! Join Vyv, Rick, Neil, and Mike in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the iconic cult sitcom, THE YOUNG ONES. Released on Blu-ray for the very first time - so you can enjoy the squalor as never before. Including 10 new exclusive audio commentaries, featurettes and never-before-seen bonus material. From Scumbag College to the AEC Routemaster, this is the ultimate complete collection of this classic British comedy.

There was Mike, the suave, sensible one; Vyvyan, the psychotic punk-metal mohican; Neil, the lentil loving hippy and Rick, right-on anarchist revolutionary and Cliff Richard fan: four students - desperate for money, excitement, girls or just something to help fill the day - sharing a house. From this simple set up came an amazing speedball of comic caricature, slapstick, infantile humour, animation, musical performances, rants, violence, abuse and surreal jokes - leaving an impression as jaw-dropping as finding one of Vyvyan's steel-capped boots through our television screens. The Young Ones brought the irreverence, anarchy and energy of the new alternative comedy movement to situation comedy - and it would never be the same again.

Bonus Features - 10 NEW COMMENTARIES FROM CAST AND CREW - NEVER SEEN BEFORE DELETED SCENES - REDISCOVERED RUSHES FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR - EXTENSIVE PHOTO GALLERY FEATURING THE ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE AND UNPUBLISHED IMAGES FROM THE PRODUCTION TEAM - RAW STUDIO FOOTAGE - A WORKPRINT EDIT OF 'SICK' - "FUNDAMENTAL FROLICS" FEATURING AN EARLY APPEARANCE FROM RIK - AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH EPISODES OF 'BOOM BOOM... OUT GO THE LIGHTS', INTRODUCED BY THE PRODUCER WHO PUT ALTERNATIVE COMEDY ON THE TELLY - ALSO INCLUDING: 'ALTERNATIVE REBELLION', 'THE MAKING OF THE YOUNG ONES' AND 'THE GUEST STARS OF THE YOUNG ONES' FEATURETTES

 

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To be honest, I would quite like to see a cut version. I would love to show the Young Ones to my son at some point, but there’s no way in hell I would let him see some of the more extreme bits. I’m thinking specifically of the racist policeman skit – it reminds me a bit of the blackface episode of the Goodies, in that it’s obviously intended to challenge racism and the writers are clearly trying to do the right thing, but the end product makes use of such controversial material that it feels really out of place in an anarchic, ridiculous, stupid comedy programme. They shouldn’t cut it out permanently, obviously, but it would be nice to have the option of an edited version so kids can enjoy Vivian’s sock going on the rampage or Rik gluing his face to the window or Neil spraying greb all over the place in the same way they did in the eighties without being exposed to language that people shouldn’t really be using in 2022, right-on comedy sketch or otherwise.

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13 minutes ago, K said:

To be honest, I would quite like to see a cut version. I would love to show the Young Ones to my son at some point, but there’s no way in hell I would let him see some of the more extreme bits. I’m thinking specifically of the racist policeman skit – it reminds me a bit of the blackface episode of the Goodies, in that it’s obviously intended to challenge racism and the writers are clearly trying to do the right thing, but the end product makes use of such controversial material that it feels really out of place in an anarchic, ridiculous, stupid comedy programme. They shouldn’t cut it out permanently, obviously, but it would be nice to have the option of an edited version so kids can enjoy Vivian’s sock going on the rampage or Rik gluing his face to the window or Neil spraying greb all over the place in the same way they did in the eighties without being exposed to language that people shouldn’t really be using in 2022, right-on comedy sketch or otherwise.

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Alright George Lucas let's erase TV history then.

 

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They shouldn’t cut it out permanently, obviously, but it would be nice to have the option of an edited version

 

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Where would you stop with the editing/censoring before it ruined the flow and dialogue? Without posting potentially sensitive/offensive stuff here, there are loads more instances of pejoratives and situations where I raised an eyebrow during a recent rewatch - stuff the actors and writers probably cringe themselves to death over now. But to start making cuts and edits would disrupt the absolute comedy gold around it. Difficult.

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45 minutes ago, Uncle Nasty said:

Where would you stop with the editing/censoring before it ruined the flow and dialogue? Without posting potentially sensitive/offensive stuff here, there are loads more instances of pejoratives and situations where I raised an eyebrow during a recent rewatch - stuff the actors and writers probably cringe themselves to death over now. But to start making cuts and edits would disrupt the absolute comedy gold around it. Difficult.

 

Well, that's why I'd want two versions. One uncut, one with the more problematic material excised. But I mean, this isn't a thought-out proposal I'm making here. I just think some of the series uses language that you would never, ever get in a comedy programme in 2022. There’s nothing wrong with that per se, it’s a product of its time and in terms of the racist policeman skit, it’s done for a reason. I wouldn’t advocate cutting Blazing Saddles for the same reasons, but I wouldn’t show it to my kids either. That’s a bit of a shame, because I really loved the Young Ones when I was a kid. I don’t think it’s worth the risk that they would go off and use some of the unacceptable language in the playground.

 

I guess I just want to enjoy the Young Ones with my children and let them witness the amazing physical comedy and puppetry and mad anarchic ideas without having to worry about stuff that was OK in the mid-eighties but completely unacceptable now. I'd love them to be able to understand references like "What is it NOW, Ralph?" or "Neil, Neil, orange peel". I agree it's really difficult to know where to draw the line. My kids probably wouldn't get anything out of the Good Life parody, but at least that wouldn't get me called in to see the headmaster if they start talking about Felicity Kendal's bottom.

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To be honest, your kids are probably going to be going "why is my dad making me watch this rubbish?"

 

Everything about it, even the sit in the sitcom is of its time which is (fuck me) 40 years ago.  There is so much that you are going to have to translate.

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I wouldn’t advocate cutting Blazing Saddles for the same reasons, but I wouldn’t show it to my kids either.

 

I did, we just prepped them beforehand, and they fucking loved it. I think having that conversation with them is a a good opportunity for education - you can show what things were like then, and how it's changed for the better. That said, i'd rewatch the policeman bit in the Young Ones first just to make sure. Blazing saddles went down an absolute storm anyway.

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2 minutes ago, Don Rosco said:

 

I did, we just prepped them beforehand, and they fucking loved it. I think having that conversation with them is a a good opportunity for education - you can show what things were like then, and how it's changed for the better. That said, i'd rewatch the policeman bit in the Young Ones first just to make sure. Blazing saddles went down an absolute storm anyway.


I dunno how old your kids are, but mine are probably too young for Blazing Saddles. They’re the absolute prime age for the bogies & physical violence of the Young Ones, though. I would definitely have the conversation with them before watching something like that - it’s not on the same league, but I was planning on letting my son watch Ghostbusters this weekend and was going to have a chat about the language in there beforehand. 
 

To be honest, older comedy is always much dodgier than I remember. I’ve just finished watching series 4 of the Simpsons with my son, and some of that has been a bit awkward (ie homophobic / transphobic jokes, Apu, etc). Some of it goes over his head - ie Barney coming out of the sperm bank cubicle and slamming the little pot down on the desk - but it’s sometimes a bit fraught. 

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I haven't seen these for decades, I don't expect them to have aged well at all. I'm not sure if I should just stick with my rose tinted memories of them or ruin it and watch them.

 

Ade Edmondson was interviewed the other day and said that unlike Bottom he didn't feel these had aged well at all, he thought the Good Life had aged better !

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I had some old DVDs of The Young Ones and I think the only cuts were some of the music performances due to rights issues. The Squeeze cover of Subterrainean Homesick Blues was definitely missing.
Do we know if the musical performances are all definitely intact?

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16 minutes ago, Quest said:

'I'd like a forty year old sitcom edited so I can show it to my child' is the sort of thing you'd expect an AI to churn out if you asked it to generate Guardian columns.


Yes, I see now it’s ridiculous to want my kids to watch some pretty silly rude comedy without them also hearing the n-word. What a typically AI thing to say!

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2 hours ago, JamesC said:

I had some old DVDs of The Young Ones and I think the only cuts were some of the music performances due to rights issues. The Squeeze cover of Subterrainean Homesick Blues was definitely missing.
Do we know if the musical performances are all definitely intact?

 

They're saying it's completely uncut. And the suggestion is also that the flash frames that were cut for original broadcast will be in the extras.

 

(the 25th Anniversary edition does have SHB on it)

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23 minutes ago, Peter St John said:

 

They're saying it's completely uncut. And the suggestion is also that the flash frames that were cut for original broadcast will be in the extras.

 

(the 25th Anniversary edition does have SHB on it)

Cool, thank you.

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I dunno how old your kids are, but mine are probably too young for Blazing Saddles. They’re the absolute prime age for the bogies & physical violence of the Young Ones, though. I would definitely have the conversation with them before watching something like that - it’s not on the same league, but I was planning on letting my son watch Ghostbusters this weekend and was going to have a chat about the language in there beforehand.

Ghostbusters (1984), I think a big problematic issue with that film, apart from the language, is that Bill Murray’s character is a creepy sex pest. Surprising amount of drinking and smoking too, but modern standards. Not something I’d want kids to watch, if I had any.

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37 minutes ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Ghostbusters (1984), I think a big problematic issue with that film, apart from the language, is that Bill Murray’s character is a creepy sex pest. Surprising amount of drinking and smoking too, but modern standards. Not something I’d want kids to watch, if I had any.

 

If you held every 80s or 90s film to those standards you would never watch any of them.

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