THE YOUNG ONES, BOTTOM, and WOMBLES

[mr. henry]

not long ago at a grocery store, i found a vhs copy of an english puppet show for children about characters called the WOMBLES.

this was my first brush with the wombles. anyway, from deep discount dvds, i ordered a DVD package with all episodes of THE YOUNG ONES and show called BOTTOM starring "vivian" as a guy named eddie and "rick" as richie. lots of violence and YOUNG ONES STYLE HUMOR as it was written by the actors who played vivian and rick in THE YOUNG ONES...

anyway, i was watching the episodes of BOTTOM and laughing my own bottom off. so, in one episode the characters camp out in a discustingly littered public park and spot a small live hedgehog. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!   IT'S A WOMBLE!!!!!!! yells eddie...

the funny thing to me was that i still had the wombles vhs sitting next to the "telee."

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[lester1/2jr]

I' loved the young ones I'll have top check out that spinoff or whatever it is.

[mr. henry]

it's definitely worth getting...just as insane as the young ones...they beat the hell out of eachother includeing using chainsaws and then sewing their legs on backwards, drinking household cleansers for a buz, etc. etc.

insane show and better than 99 percent of american crap comedies!!!!!!!!

i recommend this just as much as the dave chappelle first season dvds...

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[IguanaGirl]

If you love The Young Ones and Bottom you must see Guesthouse Paradiso.
Written by and staring rick and eddie, it is like a movie length Bottom episode. You will laugh yourself silly!

[mr. henry]

yeah, i read about that movie on the dvds...i totally want to see it!!!

BOTTOM rocks...the YOUNG ONES is a classic (from when mtv played it over the weekend and me and my junior high friends would tape and memorize quotes from it) but BOTTOM is a real treat to discover later in life...especially since it came bundled with THE YOUNG ONES!!!

RICK MAYALL must be some kind of comic genious..he wrote for the young ones and bottom

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[Yaddo42]

I remember when MTV used to also show "Comic Strip Presents", which was another show written by and starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmundson. It was a collection of self contained stories with different stories and characters pretty much every week. Not as consistently funny as "The Young Ones" but it still had its moments. Like the one spoofing a bunch of mods or beatniks gathering a t acountry home for a wild weekend. The whole time a group of them were pressuring this one girl to have her leg cut off. After resisting the idea all weekend, she finally has it done. Excited that she has done what these guys have wanted she returns to show them. They look disappointed when they find out, they only wanted the leg.

My favorite line from a "Young Ones" episode was during the one where the house was going to demolished, and Rik had tied himself to a cross mounted on on of the upper floors. Neal sees him, and mistaken believes Rik is trying to commit suicide: "Rik! Rik! Don't do it, man! I've tried it a thousand times, you can never get the last nail in!

[mr. henry]

Yaddo42 wrote:


> My favorite line from a "Young Ones" episode was during the one
> where the house was going to demolished, and Rik had tied
> himself to a cross mounted on on of the upper floors. Neal sees
> him, and mistaken believes Rik is trying to commit suicide:
> "Rik! Rik! Don't do it, man! I've tried it a thousand times,
> you can never get the last nail in!

that is a classic line. i also remember the COMIC STRIP.

two fav lines from the YOUNG ONES

NEIL: "what do you know about the beans???"

as well as

"hi mike"

MIKE: "i;m not yet but soon will be"

[Rick]

Hi can i just add that there was another spin off from The Young Ones starring the fabulous Ade Edmondson & Rik Mayall, this show was called Filthy Rich & Catflap, this was shown on the BBC in the late 80s & there was only one series (6 episodes) made, the series was written by Ben Elton who is stand up comedian here in the UK & he also co wrote episodes for The Young Ones. Filthy Rich & Catflap was about a young enspiring actor Richie Rich (Rik), & his bodyguard Eddie Catflap(Ade Edmondson) they shared an apartment in London, with hilarious results, Ritchie's manager Ralph Filthy (Nigel Planer, Neil from The Young Ones) was a chain smoking alchoholic who got Ritchie bit parts in has been shows, i thought i would just let you know about this hilarious show, i have all 6 episodes i got them of ebay as this show has been deleted from VHS video & has not been rereleased, you should have it in your collection because if you are a big fan of Rik & Ade as i am you will p**s yourself laughing at every line.

[mr. henry]

the YOUNG ONES DVD does contain the pilot episode of FILTHY RICH AND CATFLAP...it's the one when rich keeps killing milkmen and they hide them all over the place...i wish the set came with more episodes!

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[Yaddo42]

Anyone ever seen Mayall's show "The New Statesman"? I only rented a few episodes before the comic shop/cult video store that had them when out of business, but I liked what I saw. Mayall played Alan B'stard, a truly nasty conservative member of Parliament in 1980s Thatcherite England. I guess my favorite out of the few episodes that I saw was the one where he introduced legislation that changed it so that English "bobbies" would now be armed. Secretly he was also backing a gunrunning operation to provide the pistols for the police, which were cheaply made defective knockoffs that would explode if they were actually fired.