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| rdfs:label | - The Young Ones
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| rdfs:comment | - "The Young Ones" was the fourth episode of Series 1. It was first broadcast on 2nd September 2008. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon afterwards, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel.
- The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first broadcast in 1982, on BBC2. Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon afterwards, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel. The show was influenced by the sitcom The Monkees which also featured four characters and a landlord along with a musical segment, jump cuts and free-flowing loose narratives. The show was voted #31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004
- A demented British comedy about four impoverished nutcases sharing a squalid college house. Episodes were rambling and unstructured, frequently wandering off to unrelated comedy skits or musical numbers. Surreal and/or incomprehensible jokes were aplenty, frequently making light of the acrimonious political climate of 1980s Britain, and violent slapstick abounded. The action would often and suddenly shift into animation, claymation or some form of puppetry. Bands often appeared on the show to perform, usually completely at random (as a financial device, as the inclusion of music performances got the show classified as variety instead of light entertainment, thereby earning a higher budget). Numerous episodes ended with everybody dying.
- You can use the box below to create new pages for this mini-wiki. preload=The Young Ones/preload editintro=The Young Ones/editintro width=25 The Young Ones was an anarchic British sitcom which ran for two series in 1982 and 1984. Although set in North London many of the external scenes at least were filmed in Bristol.
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| abstract | - You can use the box below to create new pages for this mini-wiki. preload=The Young Ones/preload editintro=The Young Ones/editintro width=25 The Young Ones was an anarchic British sitcom which ran for two series in 1982 and 1984. Although set in North London many of the external scenes at least were filmed in Bristol. It revolves around the lives of four students sharing a house at the fictional "Scumbag College": violent punk rocker/metal head Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson); friendless anarchist Rick (Rik Mayall); long-suffering hippie Neil (Nigel Planer); and the undersized cool person Mike (Christopher Ryan). Alexei Sayle also starred in the first series as members of the Balowski family, mostly as the students' Russian landlord, Jerzei, and as various other characters in the second series. It was noted for combining a traditional sitcom style, where four differing personalities interact with one another in accordance with the post-punk rock ethos of the time - slapstick violence, non sequitur plot-turns - and surrealism. The series was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Lise Mayer, with additional contributions by Alexei Sayle (mostly his own performances). It was directed by Geoff Posner and produced by Paul Jackson for the BBC between 1982 and 1984. The show developed a cult following throughout the English-speaking world.
- "The Young Ones" was the fourth episode of Series 1. It was first broadcast on 2nd September 2008. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon afterwards, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel.
- The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first broadcast in 1982, on BBC2. Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon afterwards, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel. The main characters were four undergraduate students sharing a house: violent punk metal Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson), pompous would-be anarchist Rick (Rik Mayall), long-suffering hippie Neil (Nigel Planer), and the mysterious and diminutive Mike (Christopher Ryan). It also featured Alexei Sayle, who played the quartet's landlord, Jerzei Balowski, and other members of the Balowski family. The show combined traditional sitcom style with violent slapstick, non sequitur plot-turns and surrealism. These older styles were mixed with the working and lower-middle class attitudes of the growing 1980s alternative comedy boom, in which all the principal performers except Ryan had been involved. Although the series was set in North London, many external scenes were filmed in Bristol. All four characters attended the fictional Scumbag College. As one of the characters (Neil) sometimes wore a University of London T-shirt, it seems likely that Scumbag is one of the University of London's constituent colleges. Although they were never seen attending the institution and were rarely seen studying. The show was influenced by the sitcom The Monkees which also featured four characters and a landlord along with a musical segment, jump cuts and free-flowing loose narratives. The show was voted #31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004
- A demented British comedy about four impoverished nutcases sharing a squalid college house. Episodes were rambling and unstructured, frequently wandering off to unrelated comedy skits or musical numbers. Surreal and/or incomprehensible jokes were aplenty, frequently making light of the acrimonious political climate of 1980s Britain, and violent slapstick abounded. The action would often and suddenly shift into animation, claymation or some form of puppetry. Bands often appeared on the show to perform, usually completely at random (as a financial device, as the inclusion of music performances got the show classified as variety instead of light entertainment, thereby earning a higher budget). Numerous episodes ended with everybody dying. So basically, it's La Bohème set in The Eighties. Or The Big Bang Theory with idiot bastards instead of nerds.
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