I would almost 'pay' for a full set of The Young Ones
(also Not The Nine O'Clock News)
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 4:06,
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as indeed would I
by about the second or third repeat of the Young Ones we did, indeed have a video, though the tapes are probably thoroughly shagged by now.
NtNoN only screened once here, though I did have the LPs.. had to make do recently with the few sketches available on youtube.
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 4:19,
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NtNoN only screened once here, though I did have the LPs.. had to make do recently with the few sketches available on youtube.
My recollection is that NtNoN aged fairly badly.
I remember seeing Mel Smith talking about the last season they made, being in the editing suite and hearing mad laughter from the next room.
He went next-door to see what they were working on, and it was the first season of The Young Ones. He said he knew then that the stuff they were doing had become old-fashioned and tame by comparison.
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 4:24,
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He went next-door to see what they were working on, and it was the first season of The Young Ones. He said he knew then that the stuff they were doing had become old-fashioned and tame by comparison.
IN OTHER NEWS
I drove a suped-up Eclipse today, never driven a car like that before. It sounded like a fucking jet taking off.
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 4:28,
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Still
If I could get hold of them, it'd be nice.
I was at an impressionable age.
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 4:36,
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I was at an impressionable age.
I watched about 3 seconds
A masterpiece. But the OCD in me wants the whole lot!
(Not that I have an Oxford Classical Dictionary, no no! I don't need all of the dictionaries)
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 4:51,
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(Not that I have an Oxford Classical Dictionary, no no! I don't need all of the dictionaries)
looking now at the list of writers I start to understand the diversity of the sketches
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