#21

As a wrestling fan this should be right up your street

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#22

Just gonna up my indie points by referencing Filthy Rich and Catflap and Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

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#23

Why dont we just put him on a bus

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#24

Sad Ken

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#25

The Young Ones has aged poorly though, large parts of it are kind of weak now but there are still plenty of classic moments

#26

Bus surfing absolutely slayed me when I first saw it.

Which is the one with
“How did you get pissed on £1.75?”
“Special at the chemist’s… Old Spice 25p a bottle”

Anyway, 2/5 for the Young Ones for me but 5/5 for Bottom always

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#27

GAS MAN!

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#28

Fucking love Bottom. I love that for all the slapstick and double-entedres at it’s heart it’s two fundamentally unloveable people trapped in purgatory with each other, wading through a nightmare existence of squalor and casual violence. That’s a proper comedy set up that is. It got a bit sad with the endless live tours rehashing old jokes toward the end but all the TV stuff is gold.

The Young Ones was important and all that but hasn’t aged nearly as well.

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#29

Loved The Young Ones last time I watched it, a while ago now. Absolutely never understood Bottom though, just seemed horrible. I always wanted to like it, as I loved Rik Mayall, but, just… no.

Used to work at Music Zone (RIP) and we had an offer where if you spent a tenner you could buy one of a selection of about 10 DVDs on the counter for £3.99, sold an absolute fuck tonne of Bottom Live, it was the only DVD in the offer anyone ever wanted.

#30
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#31

Pernod, ouzo, marmalade and salt!

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#32

I think the Young Ones might have been slightly before my time but was a big fan of Bottom. If you look past the Tom & Jerry slapstick stuff there were some great lines and set pieces in it (the local pub, the newsagents, on the roof etc).

Though I just remembered a great line from the Young Ones:

Do you dig graves?
Yeah they’re alright

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#34

“Gold, Frankenstein and Grr…”

Still one of the best Christmas episodes of anything ever.

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#35

The Young Ones: shite at the time, shite now.
Bottom: had some decent moments. I liked the one when they got stuck on the big wheel at night

#36

I’m at work rn

But both 5s obviously

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#37

I love both and have to give Young ones a 5 for the influence they had on pop culture and paving the way for alternative comedy and weird TV.

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#38

The Young Ones: felt like An Important Programme, but saw it ten years too late and found it annoyingly slapdash.

Bottom: enjoyed it a lot in my early teens. Loved how it played with being very clever and very simple, often at the same time. The gross-out stuff was a bit much, but really liked how two very unlikable people who didn’t like each other ended up spending nearly every waking moment with each other. Have no intention of ever watching it again mind.

#39

a lapsed wrestling fan*

#41

The Young Ones has certainly dated but it was a seminal piece of television for me. I was 14 when the first series came out and it was the first piece of TV that really felt like it was made for me. The excitement when a new episode aired was like having Christmas every week! So it’s a 5 from me.

Following this I loved everything Rik and Ade did (even Filthy Rich and Catflap) so of course I fell in love with Bottom straight away. Another 5.

#42

“It’s…it’s…it’s…another brussel sprout!”

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