Who's your favourite Young Ones character?
 

Rik, Vyvyan, Neil or Mike?

All in their own way. At the time though it was definitely Rik.

Yea, Rik make's me laugh the most.

If they re-did it now, you know that Rik would be a total messaboard type.

rik.

(p)Rik haha

I really love The Young Ones; it's definitely in my top five sitcoms of all time. We've just rewatched the two series and enjoyed them as much as ever. MY top three episodes would be Nasty, Cash and Flood.

I have to say that I like Mike. He's funnier than people realise, and he's a nice calm presence at the centre of everything, which stops things becoming too much. Christopher Ryan is excellent.

I love Alexei Sayle as the Belowski family, too.

The Young Ones features cameos by a lot of people who went on to success.

Some random facts about The Young Ones:

The excellent but largely irrelevent insert sequences were the work of Lise Meyer; Ben Elton apparantly didn't like them and tried to have them excluded.

The Young Ones had musical guests because that allowed them to class the show as 'variety' rather than 'comedy' and thus obtain a larger budget.

Madness are the only band to appear on the show twice. The second appearance was apparantly due to a scheme to make the band stars of their own Monkees-style TV show.

My heart will always go for Vyvyan.

Rik.

Pure brilliance.

Alexie Sayle's bloody brilliant. I should of included him in the poll actually.

Cameo appearances with spoken part in The Young Ones (please add any more):

Terry Jones
Keith Allen
Stephen Fry
Hugh Laurie
Lenny Henry
Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders
Lenny Henry
Suggs
Gareth Hale
Norman Pace
Emma Thonpson
Ben ELton
Chris Barrie
Helen Lederer
Robbie Coltrane
Alan Freeman
Norman Lovett
Griff Rhys Jones
Mel Smith
Tony Robinson
David Rappaport

Daniel Peacock had a role in 'Nasty' i think...

You're quite right. My favourite episode.

I love the visual gag at the start where the boys are carrying the coffin, and you eventually realise that Mike isn't actually holding it at all. Great episode all round though.

I havent noticed that before, I'll watch that epidode tonight i reckon.

Are you a fan of 'The Comic Strip' as well?

Yes indeed. We bought the complete dvd thing last year but got sidetracked about half way through. We keep meaning to go back and finish off, so thanks for the reminder. Peter Richardson is excellent in that series.

Rik of course!
I loved them in Bottom too.

Motorhead

ooooooooooooh!!!!!!! the young ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this friend of mine lent me these vhs tapes of that show last year-- hilarious.

my favorite character is the one who sings the dr. martens boots song.

"boots, do your thing!"

ha ha ha ha-- most fucking absurd song EVER. i love it.

Speak of the devil, my dad just bought 2 dvd's of the young ones.

If anyone cares, the character's full names were Mike Thecoolperson, Neil Pye, Vyvyan Basterd and Rick.