it almost pained me to name those two programs in the same sentence. apparently they find the latter funny too..... :eek:

Oh god no. Hyacinth Bucket? That's a fucking unfortunate cultural envoy no?

I love that show.

Really? Seriously?

I never liked it.

Ok, cool. I loved it. Funny as hell. Great escape. You probably hated Faulty Towers as well. Whatever.

Oh no. Fawlty Towers was brilliant!


(you were talking about Keeping up Appearances right?)

NO.

lol. Ok. I see.

yup, Hyacinth is the benchmark by whom we are all judged....

(it is assumed we all find her hysterical ...and benny hill)

Oh, god, no....

Hand me my pearl-white slim-line push-button telephone with automatic last-number redial. It's an exact replica of one in Sandringham House.

My Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles will never do...

I wasn't allowed to watch the Young Ones, but the guy on the left was in Drop Dead Fred, which was one of my absolute favorite childhood movies.

I was addicted to the Young Ones when i was a kid. Me and my bro used to do do impressions, we knew all the main lines of dialogue.

Next day at school that was all we talked about.

Man this is really heavy! We plant the seed, right, then nature grows the seed, and then we eat the seed!

There was a Smpsons episode which baffled me. Bart was watching a British (English) sitcom, and the family were all really violent to eachother. I mean it was like Itchy and Scratchy, but realistic and involving the whole family.

I spent ages trying to work out what they were referencing. I may even have asked on here, because it genuinely puzzled me.

In the end, I decided it was The Young Ones (or one of the Edmondson/ Mayall spinoffs) translated into a family sitcom. Which they were never meant to be. But then I guess the casual violence of The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap and Bottom is shocking in its own way.

Wow, I just had a flashback. I think someone I used to know would talk about The Young Ones a lot, and maybe I watched some videos?

I'll have to google it and see if it's familiar.