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{{quote|''"What's the difference? There'll be plenty of chicks for these tigers on the road to the promised land. This is it. It's really happening. Who needs qualifications? Who cares about [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] and unemployment? We can do just exactly whatever we want to do. And you know why? Because we're [[Title Drop|Young Ones]]. Bachelor boys. Crazy, mad, wild-eyed, big-bottomed anarchists."''|'''Rick''', moments before the gang's double-decker bus {{spoiler|[[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|plunges through a billboard and then off a cliff. And then explodes]]}}.}}
A demented [[Britcom|British comedy]] about four impoverished nutcases sharing a squalid college house. Episodes were rambling and unstructured, frequently wandering off to unrelated comedy skits or musical numbers. Surreal and/or incomprehensible jokes were aplenty, frequently making light of the acrimonious political climate of 1980s Britain, and violent slapstick abounded. The action would often and suddenly [[Medium Blending|shift into animation, claymation or some form of puppetry]]. Bands often appeared on the show to perform, usually completely at random (as a financial device, as the inclusion of music performances got the show classified as variety instead of light entertainment, thereby earning a higher budget). Numerous episodes ended with [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|everybody dying]].
So basically, it's ''[[La Boheme|La Bohème]]'' set in [[The Eighties]]. Or ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' with idiot bastards instead of nerds.
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* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Vyvyan has one, whom we also meet in "Boring". The actress, Pauline Melville, is only nine years older than Adrian Edmondson.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In the episode ''University Challenge'' the challengers from "Footlights College, [[Oxbridge]]" are played by Ben Elton, [[Stephen Fry]], [[Hugh Laurie]], and [[Emma Thompson]]. Thompson, Fry and Laurie know each other from their time in the Footlights Club at Cambridge University, and the plotline was inspired by Fry's appearance on the real [[University Challenge]] in his student days. "Bambi", whose bias toward Footlights College drives this part of the plot, is played by Griff Rhys Jones, who was ''also'' in the Footlights Club. (The real life Bamber Gascoigne was a member in the 1950s too.)
* [[Almost
* [[All Just a Dream]]: The end of the episode "Interesting", subverted when it's revealed that the [[All Just a Dream]] scene was the dream.
** The opening scene of "Time" was Neil's dream. For him, [[I Was Having Such a Nice Dream|it was a pretty good dream]], so when he wakes up he just says "oh no" in a miserable tone.
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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Parodied.
* [[Groin Attack]]: "Ha, ha, joke's on you, missed both my legs."
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** A very young [[Stephen Fry]], [[Hugh Laurie]], [[Emma Thompson]] and [[Ben Elton]] as the [[Upperclass Twit]] team in "Bambi".
** [[Monty Python|Terry Jones]] as the drunk vicar in the episode "Nasty".
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* [[Honest John's Dealership]]
* [[Hope Spot]]
* [[Hot
* [[How We Got Here]]: “Nasty” opens with the lads bearing a casket to the local cemetery, and then flashes back to show the events that led up to that point.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Most of the scenes involving Rick.
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Rik and Vyvyan are pretty much always shouting at the top of their voices.
* [[Noodle Implements]]: What Vyvyan needs to dispatch the ''Bomb'' are the drill, the hedge trimmers, and some ordinary household bleach.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk5pO06BdSk "Oh look, it's a telescope! With a MOUSE in it!"]
** The second series featured the lads watching a video with an advert featuring Dawn French and Helen Atkinson Wood:
{{quote| Helen: That strange washed out feeling that you just can't explain<br />
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* [[Weirdness Censor]]: Parodied in "Boring", in which the lads see, overhear, and/or smell hints that one remarkable thing after another is happening all around them, but are too wrapped up in their boredom and bickering to notice. But it's probably [[Justified Trope|justified]] because they are a collective...
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]
* [[With Friends Like These...]]
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