I suppose you could call Blue Jam etc. creepy and unpleasant too but that impressed me in other ways.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
PS I was well under 25 and an unemployed socialist drunkard so I can see no sociological basis for my dislike.
― estela, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
When I was 10 I didn't really understand that they were students, or at least I didn't understand anything about student life. I don't really know what I thought they were doing in that house.
As a burlesque parody of 80s students I think Rik was pretty good.
And then the was.. Mike.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
i suppose i was obssessed with the Young Ones as a kid, and Blackadder also. Vyv was my favourite character in the Young Ones - didnt find Mike funny at all as with Sayle's skits tho. perhaps its so embedded deep in my humour psyche that i refuse to consider the possibility its crap...i mean i could watch it now and not laugh or smile at all because i know it so well, but that dont make it a dud in my book.
i also loved Bottom up until the middle of the third series where it went beyond formulaic, beyond self-parody and into...nothing. by that point i'd realised Mayall and Edmondson together were one trick ponies and didnt care, but from then on, it just stopped being remotely funny.
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David (David), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sadly Eddie Murphy - i blame the ladyboys
― james (james), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Young Ones still holds up mostly, I think. A lot of people say it's dated, which is true in certain points (the references to Thatcher, etc) but there are loads of moments that are just plain silliness which continue to be enjoyable today - as Chaki said. Vyv going to Narnia, the whole thing in "Bambi" where the entire cast are amoebas or something which get eaten by an elephant, Rik writing to the lead singer of Echo & The Bunnymen because he thinks MPs are facists... and there are character-based lines which are just fantastic (Neil: "Open uuup, it's the piigs"). I love the exchanges between Rik, Vyv and Neil. But it's true those Alexei Sayle bits are pretty awful, except certain times when he's sticking to the script ("Oh no, some bastard broke your chair!" - the delivery of that is hilarious to me, for some reason).
Blackadder IV, though, is terrible drivel. They were repeating themselves by that point. The whole thing is just really lame.
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
-- Martin Skidmore"
Surely a keeper for the DVD boxed-set cover blurb?
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 30 January 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― ath (ath), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
*disclaimer: 2 times outta 3 South Park is more irritating than funny to me
― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
(just accept it.)
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