The Young Ones complete/uncut coming to Blu-Ray

[Hawklord]

I was 12 when I first watched these and they were the original first broadcast uncut run*. Done me more good than harm without needing to be explained to me. Was at the age of sponge where I understood the underlying message. Same with NT9OCN.  Education came from them as well as the carpet biting hilariousness. The underlying messages also seemed to get through to my year group/peers. 

 

I think every episode is burned into my subconscious. The music parts were a bonus, esp Motorhead  

 

*4o years ago, that can fuck right off! Was in 1st year, probably called year 8 now?

 

 

[Jammy]

17 minutes ago, Hawklord said:

I was 12 when I first watched these and they were the original first broadcast uncut run*. Done me more good than harm without needing to be explained to me. Was at the age of sponge where I understood the underlying message. Same with NT9OCN.  Education came from them as well as the carpet biting hilariousness. The underlying messages also seemed to get through to my year group/peers. 

 

I think every episode is burned into my subconscious. The music parts were a bonus, esp Motorhead  

 

*4o years ago, that can fuck right off! Was in 1st year, probably called year 8 now?

 

 

I think I was 11, but I do remember going in the next day and talking about it with classmates. Motorhead were great, and they even did the classic 80s producer thing of filming the wrong guitarist during half the solo.

[Hawklord]

15 minutes ago, Jammy said:

I think I was 11, but I do remember going in the next day and talking about it with classmates. Motorhead were great, and they even did the classic 80s producer thing of filming the wrong guitarist during half the solo.

I'd "just" turned 12, it was unmissable at school. They should do a compilation album of the musical guests (if they haven't already) 

 

Also made "us" a huge fan of The Comic Strip as a bonus!

 

[ScouserInExile]

I remember getting to see done of these when I was quite young. My mum was doing night school and my dad would occasionally let us stay up to watch them. Bit of an eye opener for a kid who thought Tiswas (sp?) was the height of comedy.

 

Ended up getting them all on VHS for Christmas a few years later. Wore the tapes out.

 

So I'll be interested to see these Blu-rays. I think I have something that'll play Blu-rays. Xbox One?

[JamesC]

3 hours ago, ScouserInExile said:

Xbox One?

Yep, you just need to download the Bluray player app.

[Peter St John]

On 27/10/2022 at 06:36, K said:

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.

 

So, with this box set, it's supposed to be the definitive versions, and I'm not sure if Blu-Ray tech is that much better than the old DVD 'branching' technique to make that sort of editing possible. But I think there is something to this, despite what everybody else has been saying. My first exposure to The Young Ones, Kenny Everett, NTNOCN, and Python was CBBC's Boxpops series, which in retrospect was an "Adam Curtis for 9yr olds" before Pandora's Box was even a glint in his eye:

 

 

 

(Kevin Turvey clips, even!!)

 

 

 

 

 

[choddo]

I think Ade is being a hit hard on himself there. Sure, Young Ones was hit & miss and no one knew why they’d given Alexei a mini standup show within it, and Bottom was way more consistently funny, but they completely destroyed and rebuilt what people thought was possible in TV comedy.

[Hanzo the Razor]

Yeah, you don't get many anarchists going "Oooh, that's a bit much!".

[englishbob]

Excellent - this has made my week. Part of my DNA these - yes they have aged badly - but I know them inside and out when we recorded them to VHS off the TV years ago - all the music, spliced inserts - the lot. I bought a DVD of these a while back but they cut a lot out

 

"You've gotta go to Geneva tonight!! 347 Rue de Cavignee. Ask... for... Alec... Guiness"

 

EDIT: Hang on - where does it say "uncut" ? Other than the first post - couldn't see it mentioned on the Amazon listing

 

I'm exercising caution because the versions they had on the BBC iPlayer were terrible - all edited down to fit 30 minutes, so not just the music was cut - but some of the scenes too

[Peter St John]

 

 

[MK-1601]

Young Ones was slightly before my time - I remember discovering it on VHS at school at the time Bottom was going out. It seemed like it had dated pretty badly even then.

 

I think K's idea of a kid-friendly edit is a good one. Most of the 'outrageous' stuff is tame by today's standards so you'd still have a lot to work with.

 

A Dutch friend told me that Bottom used to go out on Dutch TV in the timeslot of a kids' show.

[dug]

Shout out to the scene in the University Challenge episode, where Rik is revising on the train and Neil is 'helping' him. When I was 13 or 14 I thought this scene was the absolute peak of comedy.

 

Rik's utter rage at Neil's "shut up and tell you the answer?" never fails to make me laugh to this day.

[Ivanho]

On 29/10/2022 at 19:56, choddo said:

I think Ade is being a hit hard on himself there. Sure, Young Ones was hit & miss and no one knew why they’d given Alexei a mini standup show within it, and Bottom was way more consistently funny, but they completely destroyed and rebuilt what people thought was possible in TV comedy.

Alexei had a stand up section for the same reason they had music acts, they put the show to the Beeb as a ‘Variety’ show instead of a comedy or sitcom, so they got a slightly bigger budget.

[Dark Soldier]

I got contacted a while ago by the BBC to see if my most popular YouTube upload could be sourced so they could use it, presumably for this and other Young Ones related stuff. I know they wanted to use it for a Mayall tribute.

 

I'm hoping they bang it on the extras. Deserves to be seen by a wider audience, if you're a Young Ones geek.

[choddo]

59 minutes ago, Dark Soldier said:

I got contacted a while ago by the BBC to see if my most popular YouTube upload could be sourced so they could use it, presumably for this and other Young Ones related stuff. I know they wanted to use it for a Mayall tribute.

 

I'm hoping they bang it on the extras. Deserves to be seen by a wider audience, if you're a Young Ones geek.

Linky!

[dumpster]

The 30 minute versions are on the BBC iPlayer and I think the racist policeman is one of the many pieces they removed for those edits.  I'd have to check to be sure.  The DVDs are all cut to some degree apart from the 25th anniversary edition with the union jack box design. It's weird because the DVD set from HMV came out after the 25th anniversary edition and is still cut. There's a scene with 2 rats shagging on a bed thats never made it to any of the DVDs.  

 

If you really want to show your kids an edited version you can easily rip the DVD and edit it yourself.  I made an edit of Top Secret which chopped out the Anal Intruder and the bit where she measures his cock.  My nieces loved it.

[Dark Soldier]

7 hours ago, choddo said:

Linky!

Realised I forgot to put it in lol

 

 

[disperse and recoagulate]

One for the Christmas list. 

[Peter St John]

4 hours ago, dumpster said:

. It's weird because the DVD set from HMV came out after the 25th anniversary edition and is still cut. There's a scene with 2 rats shagging on a bed thats never made it to any of the DVDs.  

 

 

 

In fairness, I don't think that scene was ever transmitted - though an edit of Nasty with the scene included did make it to a VHS release. Hopefully it'll be included as some of the deleted scenes on this set!

[wev]

Good timing this, I only had a new back patch for a jacket come a few weeks back (I probably posted it elsewhere on the forum already)

 

 

 

 

 

[dumpster]

If anyone is interested, the Ben Elton tour from 2019 (or was it 2020 /2021) was videoed and has been released online.  It was a true return to form for Ben, having toned down his previous stand up show (that was 10 years earlier!).   I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to seeing it again.  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/ben-elton-live/id1636651948

 

[KartoffelKopf]

On 30/10/2022 at 19:39, dug said:

Shout out to the scene in the University Challenge episode, where Rik is revising on the train and Neil is 'helping' him. When I was 13 or 14 I thought this scene was the absolute peak of comedy.

 

Rik's utter rage at Neil's "shut up and tell you the answer?" never fails to make me laugh to this day.

Greatest comedy/sitcom scene of all time of you ask me. Just beautiful. 
 

if things get stressful at work I often start with the ‘loads and loads, and loads and loads’. Most of the 1990s babies in the office haven’t got a fucking clue and think I’m having a breakdown. Which I kind of am.  

[gone fishin]

On 27/10/2022 at 06:40, Plissken said:

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.

My 12 year old son (and all of his mates) LOVE the Young Ones. Yes, there’s a couple of dodgy bits, especially in the first series (the racist policeman, Vyv calling Rik a poof a couple of times). It’s easy to explain the policeman bit, especially as there’s a punchline when he takes off his sunglasses. 

 

But it still holds up really, really well. It’s basically students acting like absolute children with the odd bit of swearing it in. 

 

We’re going to have a 40th anniversary party on the 9th November, when the first episode was shown in 1982, and his mates are going to come round to watch it. Maybe we’ll have a party. But not like Neil’s one.

 

Where’s the bloody lager?

 

 

 

Also, don’t watch the ones they’ve uploaded on iPlayer, they’ve cut them to fit a 30 minute run time (the originals were 40 minutes). 

 

[gone fishin]

So it’s the 40th anniversary like, literally NOW. So I’m watching demolition with my 12 year old son. It’s still great!

[Fierce Poodle]

Am I the only one who likes the Alexei Sayle bits?

 

 

[K]

I think the Alexei Sayle bits are amazing, but it’s honestly hard to tell how funny they are as I saw them so many times as a child, and the performances and jokes are just burned into my mind. Saying whether they’re any good or not is like giving a view on whether the sky is good - it’s just there, it’s not something I can realistically criticise. 
 

That said, they showed the pilot episode on  BBC4 the other night, and I laughed a lot at Sayles’ “I’m not really foreign - I just do it to appear more sophisticated” and “my little thunderbird puppet” lines. 

[Loik V credern]

I don't think you have to even be a kid growing up now to be unfamiliar with the type of humour and style of comedy The Young Ones is to adjust to it. I watched Blazing Saddles the other week for the first time having never seen any of it and thought it was terrible, real yeah I'm going to need to sit opposite a fan watching this and ask questions because I don't believe anyone finds this funny. humour is subjective etc sure

 

I grew up with Bottom rather than The Young Ones, I always considered a lot of those Bottom episodes as classics, like the gasman and the Christmas episode but I've not watched them properly since the 90s. 

 

I love the idea of punk coming through comedy as it did with The Young Ones, I didn't see it be first broadcast but saw bits afterwards when it still held its radical freshness. Vivian losing his head is still amazing to me. 

[wev]

Was watching an episode with my eldest the other day, specifically the episode Bomb, she found it hilarious. I think most younger people are aware that some humour is of it's time and are happy to accept things have moved on and attitudes have (mostly) changed and enjoy things like this for what they are.

[disperse and recoagulate]

I watched series one over the last two evenings. I absolutely love it. Neil is outstanding.

 

Also Rik Mayall has that ‘his face is hilarious’ quality that, off the top of my head, Jim Carey also has.

 

Also purposely never looked up the specifics of the racist copper skit that people mentioned in here, and wasn’t expecting it to be so bad. Yikes. Glad it’s included though, really not a fan of censoring old stuff.

 

But yeah, as someone who absolutely loves Bottom - Young Ones is also brilliant. Completely different too - less slapstick and more brilliant gags.

Neil creating the shopping list “we need everything except urine samples, green globules and super mousse” “everything? okay…lentils…wallpaper…”

 

and the whole thing with Viv and Neil trying to get the lentils out the cupboard without breaking all the crockery had me in stitches.

 

Great show. Actually really enjoying the Alexei Sayle characters/interruptions too.

[wev]

1 hour ago, disperse and recoagulate said:

I watched series one over the last two evenings. I absolutely love it. Neil is outstanding.

 

Also Rik Mayall has that ‘his face is hilarious’ quality that, off the top of my head, Jim Carey also has.

 

Also purposely never looked up the specifics of the racist copper skit that people mentioned in here, and wasn’t expecting it to be so bad. Yikes. Glad it’s included though, really not a fan of censoring old stuff.

 

But yeah, as someone who absolutely loves Bottom - Young Ones is also brilliant. Completely different too - less slapstick and more brilliant gags.

Neil creating the shopping list “we need everything except urine samples, green globules and super mousse” “everything? okay…lentils…wallpaper…”

 

and the whole thing with Viv and Neil trying to get the lentils out the cupboard without breaking all the crockery had me in stitches.

 

Great show. Actually really enjoying the Alexei Sayle characters/interruptions too.

 

That had my eldest nearly wetting herself. Just brilliant