Category: The Young Ones
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Lee Cornes
There was a time when Lee Cornes was on every great show that I used to watch. From The Young Ones, through Filthy, Rich & Catflap, and onto Bottom, by way The Comic Strip, Saturday Live, Red Dwarf, French & Saunders, Lenny Henry, and so much more. Then he just seemed to drop off my…
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Merry Grange Hill Day
Today marks the anniversary of the first ever episode of Grange Hill. This is how it opened. Hur hur.
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Vyvyan Ate His Bacon Sandwich
I love stumbling across hidden jokes in things that I’ve watched over and over again. Seeing something new, something fresh, in something so familiar is always a thrill. Such a thing happened to me with The Young Ones episode Bambi. Here’s Vyvyan with his mascot, Bacon Sandwich, the pig ferret. But after this scene, we…
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The Boomshanka Method
Here’s a fun writing exercise. Have your characters gather around a fire for warmth and help one another compose a letter to their bank manager. This is still one of my favourite scenes in any sitcom, and it shows all four characters with a clear voice. Even Neil, being the passive one in the setup,…
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Filthy Ward & Bottom Swap
I have no idea why I’m writing this. I just got it into my head the other day that the hospital set in Bottom‘s Apocalypse is the same, or at least rather similar to the hospital set in Filthy, Rich & Catflap‘s first episode. Catflap sits in an odd place in my comedy timeline. You…
