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  1. 08-Jun-2018 #1
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    The Young Ones (TV Series) - 35yrs ago...

    Anyone see the documentaries about it over the past week or so?

    I was pleased to find out about the story behind subliminal images in the episodes... I'd always wondered about those
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    I've been meaning to download that doc. I missed it when it aired.

    I remember first watching The Young Ones on a repeat in the 90s some time, sometime around the cusp of High School, so I was the right kind of age for it as well. The farting curry-mad hamster cracked me up.
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    Shaddup Neil, you hippy.

    I'm runnin' this monkey farm now Frankenstein.....
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    This must be a UK-based show? This may be the first I’ve ever heard of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    This must be a UK-based show? This may be the first I’ve ever heard of it.
    Eh?! Blimey!

    Yeah, it ran for two series (six or seven episodes a piece, IIRC) in the early 1980s on BBC2. It was a very anarchic sitcom that inserted live musical acts to squeeze more money out of the BBC as otherwise they wouldn't have had the budget to get up to all the chaos. It's about a group of students, but it doesn't adhere to normal sitcom rules. Characters wise you've got a trumped-up armchair radical, a new-money wheeler & dealer, a punk (named Vivian - who's in my avatar at the time of writing this), and a dripping wet hippy.

    Definitely check it out. It's a bonkers kind of show.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    This must be a UK-based show? This may be the first I’ve ever heard of it.
    Every kid you went to the school the next day after an episode was full of it!

    Classic classic stuff!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccjfSyO9ncM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAz4nPNvLI
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    Oi, my British boyfriend introduced me to this show! Really great stuff! I don't know what else to say about it, other than it really is a lot of fun... Definitely check it out.
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    A favourite episode of mine...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zPCkgUSchI
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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