The Young Ones (1982)

Directed by

Paul Jackson

Genre

sketch comedy, college life television program, sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 152 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The show follows four very different students who share a house in London. Their lives are full of random, absurd events and surreal humor.

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What happens

The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC2 for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984. The show focused on the lives of four dissimilar students and their landlord's family on different plots that often included anarchic, offbeat, surreal humour. The show often included slapstick gags, visual humour and surreal jokes sometimes acted out by puppets, with each episode also featuring a notable selection of guest stars and musical numbers from various performers. The Young Ones helped bring alternative comedy to British television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. The show became a notable icon of 1980s British popular culture, and it received its own game and a home-media release while becoming the first non-music-related programme to appear on MTV in the United States in 1985. The show was voted number 31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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