The Young Ones: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray]

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He’s eventually lured into the room with the lions, but by this point the guys are now trapped by a flood that has engulfed the house, which gives them more reason to panic. And it isn’t sponsored or gifted, I’ve got no connection with anybody involved with the show, I’m just a big fan. And we’d push them together into one, then Alexei would have additional material, the stuff that he was doing.

Bonus-packed The Young Ones coming to Blu-ray - British

Then there could be the 150 quid "Utter, Utter Bollocks" edition which comes with a life sized Dave Hedgehog statue. The show kind of spoke to my generation and I'm sure my parents would've hated it if they'd watched it!

There are just a couple of minor anomalies that I mention in my reviews below, relating to a flash frame in Time (which they couldn’t include) and a couple of amorous bears in Nasty (which are in the extras instead), but ultimately all the episodes are uncut, just as they were when originally broadcast. The first, entitled ôCreating the Young Onesö, runs for 15 minutes and is taken out of A History of Alternative Comedy (1999).

The Young Ones: The Complete Collection | Blu-ray Box Set

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. The scenes from Nasty include the electric saw in Rick’s bed, Neil in the bath, the explorers, Rik boarding up Vyv’s door, Neil getting electrocuted, the period pain advert, the vampire, the shagging bears, the backstage cutaway and the hamster SPG. Another superb episode where the guys are preparing for a party, though of course it doesn’t go well. But Mike gets quite a surprise in his room, with Buddy Holly hanging upside down from the ceiling, having parachuted out from the plane that crashed many years earlier – a tasteless gag perhaps, but a brilliant one nonetheless. Things get delightfully meta from this point, as Neil’s parents express their shame and disapproval at his involvement in the TV show, his mother complains about the state of the furniture while smashing a stunt chair, and there’s a very amusing parody of school drama Grange Hill with Ben Elton and Perry Benson.Vyvyan, playing house doctor, self-medicates by downing vodka, attempts to cure Rik by feeding him a Malatov Cocktail and recommends acupuncture using six-inch nails for Neil. 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. Yeah they did mention on the original broadcast that a second series was coming but unfortunately no. They then set about revising and testing each other on the train, only for Vyvyan to stick his head out of a window and be decapitated, in another highly amusing and cleverly filmed scene. So they end up on the streets, listening to John Otway performing Body Talk, before a postman ( Lenny Henry) delivers their exam results.