The Young Ones
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The Young Ones was an awesome British comedy show in the 1980s about four college university students who never go to class (just like American college students) and have surreal adventures in their house (which American college students don't). The show was actually very good, and was somehow able to pull off madcap absurdism and non-sequitors (unlike certain modern day shows). This can be attributed to it being British and made during a time when everyone was coked up and had really big hair, so basically anything from then is funny.
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Characters
- Rick - Idiot wannabe anarchist who thinks he's the hero of his generation and thinks anarchy and communism are the same thing. So basicly he's the precurser to every modern-day liberal teenager who think listening to Green Day and shopping at Hot Topic are really helping politics. Except there was no Green Day back then, so he listened to some fag named Cliff Richard.
- Vyvyan - In what is probably a message to so-called modern "punks" everywhere, this fictional character is probably the only real punk EVAR. No, not like the posers of today, punk back then was loud, violent, and awesome, and Vyvyan embodied it. He beat everyone's ass, blew shit up, hated everything and didn't even care when he got his fucking head knocked off on a train... he was an all-around true antisocial PUNK! OI!
- Neil - Emo hippy who spends every episode trying to become an hero.
- Mike - The "Kevin Jonas" of the group. Wannabe mack daddy playa. Thinks he's cool, but is a virgin just like the others. He's also the most boring character.
- Mr Balowski (and fucking every other Alexi Sayle character) - A Jewish, Commie fat bastard who appears in every episode and rants for a few minutes. Essentially, a lardier but less moaning Ben Elton.
- Special Patrol Group - Glaswegian Hamster who is just like Vyvvian. In other words, he's a reverse furry. It's basically dividing by zero, only with win involved.
An hero
While Rick and Neil may have attempted to become an hero on several occasions, at least they were fucking original about it, and didn't fall at the first hurdle by not knowing what "down the road, not across the street" means. Various methods include:
- Home-made gallows that plays 'Rock Around the Clock'
- Digging a grave but getting bored
- ODing on laxatives
- Sticking their head in the oven
- Pretending to be thermal insulation
- Self-crucifixion
- Repeatedly smacking himself in the head with a cricket bat
- And many many more
Vyvyan appeared to try to become an hero on several occasions, but was actually being a hardxcore punk when he stuck his head out of a moving train window and survived, and tried to cause a nuclear holocaust by attacking an atom bomb.
I told you I was hardcore
The fangirls ruin it
Unfortunatly, in the age of DVD, it's fallen in the hands of 16 year old girls, who believe that since the entire main cast has a cock, they must all have shitty slash fanfiction written about them. Now, I myself am pretty much immune to any and all horrors of the internet, so basicly horribly-written slash about ugly British guys doesn't bug me. What bugs me is it's ALWAYS Rick and Vyvyan. COME ON! If you're gonna write horrible slash, at least show some variety! ...well, not too much variety. Don't use the fat guy. ew.
Bad News
Bad News was essentially the Young Ones without Mike and in a spoof rock band. Might sound familiar, but they did it a year before anyone had ever heard the words 'Spinal Tap'. They wrecked hotel rooms, they beat up the cameramen, they drank too much, they smoked the ganja, and if that's not doing it for the lulz I dunno what is. The irony is that, although they were a shit band and were intended to be a shit band, they were always much, much better than most of today's bands. Dragonforce? Puddle of Mudvayne? Insane Clown Posse? Who the cunting hell are they?
Live from Castle Donington!
Yeah, they played Monsters of Rock. They basically stuck their cocks in the ears of actual musicians. And they did it for the fucking lulz. Did you see Spinal Tap doing something like that? Didn't cunting think so.
Drinky drinky drink
Bottom
You can't keep lulzy shit down. After the Young Ones (it finished when they drove a bus over a cliff) came Bottom in which Rik and Vyvyan, now called Richard Richard and Edward Elizabeth Hitler, share a flat. At first glance, it's a fangirl's dream, but fortunately for everyone else, that was not to be. You've basically got 3 serieses and over 9000 live shows of them sitting around drinking, kicking the shit out of each other, an endless parade of knob/wanking and trying to get some. It's even better than it sounds.
