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* UncreditedRole: Creator/ChrisAndrews as the ghost body in "Cash".
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* CreatorBacklash: Alexei Sayle initially wasn't too fond of "Bambi", probably the best-known episode, allegedly because it gave too much focus to the "lighter", college-educated side of the alternative comedy circuit.
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* CreatorBacklash: CreatorBacklash:
** Alexei Sayle initially wasn't too fond of "Bambi", probably the best-known episode, allegedly because it gave too much focus to the "lighter", college-educated side of the alternative comedy circuit.
** Alexei Sayle initially wasn't too fond of "Bambi", probably the best-known episode, allegedly because it gave too much focus to the "lighter", college-educated side of the alternative comedy circuit.
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* CreatorCouple: Creator/RikMayall co-wrote the series with his then-girlfriend Lise Mayer.
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* CreatorCouple: CreatorCouple:
** Creator/RikMayall co-wrote the series with his then-girlfriend LiseMayer.Mayer.
** Neil's parents from "Sick" were played by Creator/BrianOulton and Peggy Thorpe-Bates, who were married in RealLife.
** Creator/RikMayall co-wrote the series with his then-girlfriend Lise
** Neil's parents from "Sick" were played by Creator/BrianOulton and Peggy Thorpe-Bates, who were married in RealLife.
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** Alexei Sayle appeared as Alexei Balowski in second episode of first season.
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** Alexei Sayle appeared as Alexei Balowski in the second episode of the first season.series.
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* TalkingToHimself: Rik had an argument with his conscience in one episode, and an exchange with SPG in another.
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* CreatorCameo: Co-writer and creator Creator/BenElton appears as the male presenter of the terrible BBC TV young adult programme ''Nozin' Aroun'''.
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* TheCastShowoff: Alexei Sayle was given an opportunity in each episode to show off his stand-up comedy skills (hence each episode credited him with 'Additional Material').
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* TheCastShowoff: TheCastShowoff:
** Nigel Planer got to show off his guitar playing on occasion.
** Alexei Sayle was given an opportunity in each episode to show off his stand-up comedy skills (hence each episode credited him with 'Additional Material').
** Nigel Planer got to show off his guitar playing on occasion.
** Alexei Sayle was given an opportunity in each episode to show off his stand-up comedy skills (hence each episode credited him with 'Additional Material').
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** Peter Richardson, who was a part of Series/TheComicStripPresents group alongside Edmondson, Mayall, Planer and Sayle, was also considered for Mike's role. However, as he did not get along with director Paul Jackson, he was quickly replaced by Christopher Ryan, the only one of the main five actors, who was not a stand-up comedian.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Keith Allen was considered for Mike. He made a cameo as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence) in "Interesting".
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* HostilityOnTheSet: The episode "Bambi" had this, because Alexei Sayle ''loathed'' guest stars Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/HughLaurie, Creator/StephenFry, and Griff Rhys Jones. Not because they had done anything to him personally, mind you - they got on with the rest of the cast famously - but because Sayle perceived them to be exactly the [[UpperClassTwit upper class twits]] they were lampooning.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: HostilityOnTheSet:
** The episode "Bambi" had this, because Alexei Sayle ''loathed'' guest stars Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/HughLaurie, Creator/StephenFry, and Griff Rhys Jones. Not because they had done anything to him personally, mind you - they got on with the rest of the cast famously - but because Sayle perceived them to be exactly the [[UpperClassTwit upper class twits]] they werelampooning.lampooning.
** According to Lise Mayer, the most disruptive musical act was Rip Rig + Panic from "Interesting". Sayle recalled:
-->They were awful, they were so badly behaved, they were all "this drink's real - let's pinch it" and I was like "no, no, no, they're props we need them for continuity...They were terrifying, they were really scary.
** The episode "Bambi" had this, because Alexei Sayle ''loathed'' guest stars Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/HughLaurie, Creator/StephenFry, and Griff Rhys Jones. Not because they had done anything to him personally, mind you - they got on with the rest of the cast famously - but because Sayle perceived them to be exactly the [[UpperClassTwit upper class twits]] they were
** According to Lise Mayer, the most disruptive musical act was Rip Rig + Panic from "Interesting". Sayle recalled:
-->They were awful, they were so badly behaved, they were all "this drink's real - let's pinch it" and I was like "no, no, no, they're props we need them for continuity...They were terrifying, they were really scary.
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* StillbornFranchise: Lise Mayer revealed on Alexei Sayle's podcast that she wanted to a SequelSeries called ''The Middle-Aged Ones'', following the main characters in later life.
-->I always had the idea of doing ''The Middle-Aged Ones''. I'd had this idea that Neil would have cut his hair and be wearing a suit. Vyvyan would be on his third marriage and work in a hospital and still drink too much. The usual disappointment of most people’s lives – what they think they are going to do when they are 18, 19 or 20, and what they end up doing.
-->I always had the idea of doing ''The Middle-Aged Ones''. I'd had this idea that Neil would have cut his hair and be wearing a suit. Vyvyan would be on his third marriage and work in a hospital and still drink too much. The usual disappointment of most people’s lives – what they think they are going to do when they are 18, 19 or 20, and what they end up doing.
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** A pilot for a ForeignRemake, aimed at American audiences and titled ''Oh, No! Not THEM!'', was produced by Fox in 1990. According to Website/{{IMDB}} credits, Nigel Planer reprises his role as Neil, while Creator/JackieEarleHaley plays a character named Adrian [[note]]probably the series' equivalent of Vyvyan since his name seems to be a {{Tuckerization}} of Creator/AdrianEdmondson[[/note]], and HardcorePunk group Music/{{GBH}} does a musical performance. The pilot was left un-aired, remains unseen by the general public, and it never went to series. Nigel reportedly hated the direction the pilot was going in, and was glad when the show wasn't picked up and he was released from contract.
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** A pilot for a ForeignRemake, aimed at American audiences and titled ''Oh, No! Not THEM!'', was produced by Fox in 1990. According to Website/{{IMDB}} credits, Nigel Planer reprises his role as Neil, while Creator/JackieEarleHaley plays a character named Adrian [[note]]probably [[note]](probably the series' equivalent of Vyvyan Vyvyan, since his name seems to be a {{Tuckerization}} of Creator/AdrianEdmondson[[/note]], Creator/AdrianEdmondson)[[/note]], and HardcorePunk group Music/{{GBH}} does a musical performance. The pilot was left un-aired, remains unseen by the general public, and it never went to series. Nigel reportedly hated the direction the pilot was going in, and was glad when the show wasn't picked up and he was released from contract.
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** A pilot for a ForeignRemake, aimed at American audiences and titled ''Oh, No! Not THEM!'', was produced by Fox in 1990. According to Website/{{IMDB } credits, Nigel Planer reprises his role as Neil, while Creator/JackieEarleHaley plays a character named Adrian [[note]]probably the series' equivalent of Vyvyan since his name seems to be a {{Tuckerization}} of Creator/AdrianEdmondson[[/note]], and HardcorePunk group Music/{{GBH}} does a musical performance. The pilot was left un-aired, remains unseen by the general public, and it never went to series. Nigel reportedly hated the direction the pilot was going in, and was glad when the show wasn't picked up and he was released from contract.
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** A pilot for a ForeignRemake, aimed at American audiences and titled ''Oh, No! Not THEM!'', was produced by Fox in 1990. According to Website/{{IMDB } Website/{{IMDB}} credits, Nigel Planer reprises his role as Neil, while Creator/JackieEarleHaley plays a character named Adrian [[note]]probably the series' equivalent of Vyvyan since his name seems to be a {{Tuckerization}} of Creator/AdrianEdmondson[[/note]], and HardcorePunk group Music/{{GBH}} does a musical performance. The pilot was left un-aired, remains unseen by the general public, and it never went to series. Nigel reportedly hated the direction the pilot was going in, and was glad when the show wasn't picked up and he was released from contract.
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** A pilot for a ForeignRemake, aimed at American audiences and titled ''Oh, No! Not THEM!'', was produced by Fox in 1990. According to Website/{{IMDB}} credits, Nigel Planer reprises his role as Neil, while Creator/JackieEarleHaley is Adrian (the series' equivalent of Vyvyan), and HardcorePunk group Music/{{GBH}} does a musical performance. The pilot was left un-aired, remains unseen by the general public, and it never went to series. Nigel reportedly hated the direction the pilot was going in, and was glad when the show wasn't picked up and he was released from contract.
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** A pilot for a ForeignRemake, aimed at American audiences and titled ''Oh, No! Not THEM!'', was produced by Fox in 1990. According to Website/{{IMDB}} Website/{{IMDB } credits, Nigel Planer reprises his role as Neil, while Creator/JackieEarleHaley is plays a character named Adrian (the [[note]]probably the series' equivalent of Vyvyan), Vyvyan since his name seems to be a {{Tuckerization}} of Creator/AdrianEdmondson[[/note]], and HardcorePunk group Music/{{GBH}} does a musical performance. The pilot was left un-aired, remains unseen by the general public, and it never went to series. Nigel reportedly hated the direction the pilot was going in, and was glad when the show wasn't picked up and he was released from contract.
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** Creator/AdrianEdmondson doesn't seem to think much of the series in recent retrospectives, regarding it as "dated", "tedious" and "not that funny". Ironically, he considers ''Series/TheGoodLife'' to be a show that has aged better.
