The Young Ones Season 2 Complete DVDRip skorpion

The Young Ones Season 2 Complete DVDRip skorpion

The second and final series of The Young Ones was screened in 1984 and continued in the anarchic, surreal, scatological, slapstick yet subtly satirical vein of the first series. When hippie Neil's blazer and furcoat-clad parents step horrified into the filthy student digs he shares with prissy sociology student Rick (Rik Mayall), the psychotic punk Vyvyan (Ade Edmondson) and wide-boy Mike (Christopher Ryan) a parody of The Good Life promptly ensues, signalling just what a giant leap this show represented from mainstream sitcom of the time.

Nigel Planer's put-upon Neil is as fine a creation as the putting-upon Vyvyan. Guest appearances from Alexei Sayle, Stephen Fry, co-writer Ben Elton and Jennifer Saunders among others confirmed The Young Ones' status as an academy for future establishment comedians. But Mayall's creation is still the show's greatest legacy: Rick is self-righteous to the point of fascism in his right-on-ness, a mass of studenty pretentiousness, pathetic inadequacy and egotism ("Hands up who likes me!"). Anything went in The Young Ones--talking hamsters and toilets, bizarre digressions into period sketches, subliminal images, guest appearances by bands from Dexy's Midnight Runners to Motorhead--yet through Rick in particular, the show implicitly mocked shopworn Goodies-style notions of "zaniness" ("You have to watch me, I'm a bit nutty!").

Episodes:

Bambi

After realizing they haven't done the wash in almost three years, the boys take a trip to the launderette and then Neil remembers that they have been chosen to be on "University Challenge".

Cash

The boys are broke so they force Neil to get a job as a policeman to raise money for Vyvyan, who is pregnant.

Nasty

Mike and Vyvan plan to watch video nasties but have trouble working the video player; Neil has a bath; a vampire terrorizes the guys.

Time

After having a dream that he, Rick, Vyvan, Mike, and Mr. Balowski were in the American television program Dallas (1978), Neil awakens to find that Rick has been sleeping with an axe murderess.

Sick

Vyvyan, Rick, Mike, and Neil suffer with colds, then with being taken hostage by violent criminal Brian Damage Balowski. On top of that, Neil's parents are coming to tea.

Summer Holiday

It's the end of the term at College, and Vyvan, Rick, Mike and Neil are having a lazy summer holiday. But they end up getting evicted by Mr. Bolowski and decide to rob a bank, before making a getaway on a bus.