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  • Actors: Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Christopher Ryan, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle
  • Directors: Paul Jackson (II), Geoff Posner
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Aug 2003
  • Run Time: 210 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00009V90F
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,309 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The second and final series of The Young Ones was screened in 1984 and continued in the anarchic, surreal, scatological, slapstick yet subtly satirical vein of the first series. When hippie Neil's blazer and furcoat-clad parents step horrified into the filthy student digs he shares with prissy sociology student Rick (Rik Mayall), the psychotic punk Vyvyan (Ade Edmondson) and wide-boy Mike (Christopher Ryan) a parody of The Good Life promptly ensues, signalling just what a giant leap this show represented from mainstream sitcom of the time.

Nigel Planer's put-upon Neil is as fine a creation as the putting-upon Vyvyan. Guest appearances from Alexei Sayle, Stephen Fry, co-writer Ben Elton and Jennifer Saunders among others confirmed The Young Ones' status as an academy for future establishment comedians. But Mayall's creation is still the show's greatest legacy: Rick is self-righteous to the point of fascism in his right-on-ness, a mass of studenty pretentiousness, pathetic inadequacy and egotism ("Hands up who likes me!"). Anything went in The Young Ones--talking hamsters and toilets, bizarre digressions into period sketches, subliminal images, guest appearances by bands from Dexy's Midnight Runners to Motorhead--yet through Rick in particular, the show implicitly mocked shopworn Goodies-style notions of "zaniness" ("You have to watch me, I'm a bit nutty!").

This series includes "Bambi", the University Challenge episode; "Cash", in which Vyvyan announces his pregnancy; and the final show, a parody of Cliff Richard's The Young Ones itself, in which the quartet exit ingloriously. The Young Ones is among the most youthful and radical of all sitcoms, yet it still manages to contain a timelessly astute critique of youthful radicalism--and bottom-burp jokes aplenty.

On the DVD: The Young Ones, Series 2 comes to DVD with no extra features. Visually, it's well up to the usual BBC standards but the transfer can't disguise the datedness of some of the early 80s special effects. --David Stubbs

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars One star withheld for meanness!, 5 Sep 2003
By P. A. Murphy "Paulie" (London) - See all my reviews
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A review of two halves: skip the next bit if you dislike ranting reviewers. I tend to as well, but the slight afforded anyone buying this DVD needs to be aired:
As the previous reviewer mentioned, not only has the Beeb edited out Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve and their rendition of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (if I recall correctly?) from CASH, but even Neil's classic moment from NASTY, in the bathroom, in the bath, in the dark, with his guitar, strumming "Hello darkness my old friend..." was deemed too expensive for Auntie to pay Paul Simon his royalty. Where does this miserliness end, I wonder? Perhaps next we'll be getting Dr Who DVDs without the title music because it's cheaper not to pay Ron Grainer. Or The Onedin Line without Khatchaturian?
An open letter to the BBC: For God's sake: you sorely underestimate your consumers; they know your products much better than you think, so why don't you just swallow hard, flick the moths from your wallet and pay all the damn people their damn money all the damn time: you'll recoup it tenfold from DVD sales, rather than foisting stillborn releases like this on your public.

Grr!! Thank you.

And now my review:
The Young Ones is great (or graet, even!). You have to leave it a few months between viewings to keep it fresh (especially if you grew up on it like I did), but it still works on several levels: as an 80s period piece, it sums up all that was alternative in Alternative Comedy. Any student of comedy should appreciate that like Python before it, The Young Ones broke a lot of the rules about how to do sitcoms (if it was even one itself) and indeed what was funny most of the time, with its combination of surreal interludes, extreme violence, (now dated) political sideswipes and cheap-looking-but cosy traditional BBC TV production values. It also features an awesome cast of regulars, all of whom went on to greater success and each giving 101% of their energy throughout each pulsating episode, as well as a treasure trove of cameos from famous and soon-to-be-very-famous-indeed comic actors thoughout the series: Robbie Coltrane, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton appear in the first episode of this DVD alone. But for the rest of you, who just enjoy comedy because it makes you laugh, The Young Ones manages to do just that, whether it be through witty observation of commonplace manners and mores, even in surreal situations ("Shut up, Vyvyan, that's my dad you're talking to" ), grotesque exaggeration (the almost apocalyptic proportions that Rick and Vyvyan's fight to establish Rick's virginity takes on) or plain, daft slapstick (ditto).
Buy it because it makes you laugh: keep it because it's a part of British comic mythology. Enjoy it for both!

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars BBC You complete and Utter B45T4RD !!!!, 26 Aug 2003
By Mr. Mj Pereira "MattBlackCat" (London UK) - See all my reviews
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Ah after the long wait for series two.
The arrival is tinged with sadness as the BBC in their infinite wisdom have not chosen to pay for all the original material - so Episode two CASH is missing the Musical sequence as Neil goes to get a job. Shame as this could have been a classic
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF ANARCHY!!!, 18 Aug 2003
How good is the young ones?! After all these years i can still watch and laugh at the antics of Rik, Vyv, Neil, Mike and a string of other wacky characters. This series takes me back to my extreme youth. And i love every single second of it!

My favorite episode has to be sick, it is so funny seeing how the students from hell cope with being ill. Watch out for Neil in this one!!! Second has to be Bambi, one of my favorites also, when i think f young ones this is the one that usually springs to mind. The best bit is when they are all travelling to be on University Challenge (watch out for some familiar faces in this one including Stephen Fry).

All in all a comic masterpiece, recommended to children of the eighties everywhere!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just Brilliant
One of the most vivid memories of my childhood in the 80's was howling laughing at The Young Ones on tv and then going to school the next day and saying all the lines. Read more
Published 1 day ago by M. Clark

3.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgic, But This Is Really For Teenagers
I had difficulty in deciding which season of The Young Ones to review as they are very similar, as such I chose season 2 for the simple fact that it features my favourite episode,... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Scott Fraser

5.0 out of 5 stars Six More Classics Episodes Of THE YOUNG ONES
This second season is just as funny as the first, with guest appearances from some of Britain's finest comedians - Robbie Coltrane, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma... Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2007 by D. W. Bissett

5.0 out of 5 stars "Neil - the bathrooms free (unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta!"
This is the second and final series of the fantastic anarchic BBC comedy written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and his then girlfriend Lisa Mayer. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2007 by Jason

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Can you like actually kill yourself with laxative pills?'
From the witty satire to the foul-mouthed toilet humour and the nail-on-the-head social commentary to the randomness of the period spots thrown everywhere, the Young Ones has it... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2006 by Mr. A. E. Hall

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Madness This Week
The second and final series of The Young Ones is every bit as funny and outrageous as the first. Elton, Mayall and Mayer stick to the same formula here extending it beyond the... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2006 by Chris C

5.0 out of 5 stars Priceless
This is classic comedy. Rick mayall and Ade Edminson together is a winning formula you must agree. This DVD has all six episodes from the second series which i might add is far... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2004 by elberto4

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT AGAIN FROM GEOFF POSNER AND THE STUDENTS FROM HELL
The second installment of the 80's surreal but rather funny comedy is my personal favourite and most reviewers I think would agree except for the BBC's ridiculous decision on not... Read more
Published on 1 Jul 2004 by andygross6

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest comedy
Since I'm Hungarian I couldn't see this frenetic comedy before. But I feel very lucky to find it. It's my best. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2003 by gogoszellem

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