History YMMV / TheYoungOnes

* {{Wangst}}: Parodied.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

* FoeYay: ''Ob''viously, Rick and Vyvyan. A bunch of their interactions could easily be written off as {{Belligerent Sexual Tension}}. The way Vyvyan frequently refers to Rick as either "girl" or "girlie" doesn’t help anything at all. There’s a reason why Rick/Vyvyan (Rivyan) is the most popular pairing in The Young Ones Fandom. Just take a look at these moments:

* FoeYay: ''Ob''viously, Rick and Vyvyan. The way Vyvyan frequently refers to Rick as either "girl" or "girlie" doesn’t help anything at all. There’s a reason why Rick/Vyvyan (Rivyan) is the most popular pairing in The Young Ones Fandom. Just take a look at these moments:

* FoeYay: ''Ob''viously, Rick and Vyvyan. The way Vyvyan frequently refers to Rick as either "girl" or "girlie" doesn’t help anything at all.

* FoeYay: ''Ob''viously, Rick and Vyvyan.

** The way Vyvyan frequently refers to Rick as either "girlie" or "girl" doesn’t help at all.

*** Why, there’s a scene where they’re both fighting and Vyvyan squeezes Rick’s nipples before pushing him down and jumping on him.

** Tony Robinson (Baldrick from ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'') as Dr [[Series/NotTheNineOClockNews Not-the-nine-o-clock-news]].

** In "Summer Holiday" God appears and says "You wouldn't expect me to be a woman now, would you?". 15 years later, ''{{Film/Dogma}}'' is released.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!" Depressing after Creator/RikMayall's death.
** From "Nasty", after Rick falls into an open grave:
-->'''Vyvyan:''' Brilliant! Let's fill it in!
-->'''Neil:''' No, we can't just bury Rick alive!
-->'''Vyvyan:''' That's absolutely correct, Neil...We better kill him first!

** Vyvyan's tirade against ''Series/TheGoodLife'' was meant to mirror series writer Ben Elton's own affected disdain for the programme. Several years later, the Elton-penned pilot episode of ''Series/MrBean'' would guest feature Creator/RichardBriers, the star of ''The Good Life''!

* NightmareFuel: Jerzei Balowski as a homicidal axe-wielding maniac.

** [[Series/AbsolutelyFabulous Jennifer Saunders]] as Helen Mucus ("Time") and again in "Interesting" as Sue, and [[Series/TheVicarOfDibley Dawn French]] as the Easter Bunny, the Christian who barges into the house before getting squashed by a giant sandwich and Satan.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A lot of the references and jokes would fly over the heads of younger viewers, such as the concept of a "Video Nasty", TV channels actually shutting off at night (Some channels still do this, but it is usually kids TV channels, and they don't erupt into static anymore), Thatcher jokes, alot of the guest appearances by bands and celebs from the time, seeing as most were either OneHitWonders or only popular during the era the show was set in, and the attitudes and styles of characters, as noted above Neil and his friends are hippies, a movement that was already somewhat winding down by the 80s, Rick being an Anarchist Mod, again something that was winding down, and Mike being a yuppie style flash conman, Vyvyan is somewhat fine due to punk never really dying out.

** Mike isn't anywhere near as popular as Rick, Vyvyan, or Neil, but Alexei Sayle's various roles appear to be most disliked, possibly because of how they [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment come out of nowhere]] and [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent proceed to interrupt]] the episode for several minutes. It's telling that "Bambi" is considered to be the funniest episode and has Sayle's role shorter than usual.[[note]](Somewhat paradoxically, "Nasty", which gives Sayle the ''most'' screentime of any episode in the series, is generally considered in the top three or so episodes; this may be because Sayle's character, the "vampire" actually is important to the plot, instead of just eating up screentime to little effect)[[/note]]

** Norman Lovett (the first Holly in ''Series/RedDwarf'') owned the penny arcade across the road. Chris Barrie appeared as a Napoleonic sailor in an animated painting.

** The "fifth housemate" seen in the backgrounds at certain points was intended to be this, but it doesn't stop it from being creepy nonetheless. Seeing moments of the series and then noticing a sitting person with incredibly long hair doing nothing comes off as if there's something from ''The Ring''.

** In "Boring", Billy Balowksi impersonates a Dalek. Alexi Sayle would later guest star in "[[DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]".

* RelationshipSue: Related to DracoInLeatherPants above. Many, many female [=OCs=] in ''Young Ones'' fanfiction exist solely to be Vyvyan’s perfect bird (when he's not being [[FoeYay shipped with Rick]]).

** Mike isn't anywhere near as popular as Rick, Vyvyan, or Neil, but Alexei Sayle's various roles appear to be most disliked, possibly because of how they [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment come out of nowhere]] and [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent proceed to interrupt]] the episode for several minutes. It's telling that "Bambi" is considered to be the funniest episode and has Sayle's role shorter than usual.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The show just loves these. Doesn't matter what episode you pick, there will be one in there. For example, 'Summer Holiday' has a pair of ants discussing the idea that humans can build bridges, and asking [[MakesSenseInContext how they can get them into the disco.]] Another moment has a garden gnome coming to life, saying that it wasn't a gnome just called, but [[spoiler: a hippie.]] In some ways, this show ''is'' one long B.L.A.M.

* TheScrappy: Mike isn't anywhere near as popular as Rick, Vyvyan, or Neil, but Alexei Sayle's various roles appear to be most disliked, possibly because of how they [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment come out of nowhere]] and [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent proceed to interrupt]] the episode for several minutes. It's telling that "Bambi" is considered to be the funniest episode and has Sayle's role shorter than usual. Rick is probably this in-universe, as well as Neil to some extent.

** In "Summer Holiday" God appears and says "You wouldn't expect me to be a woman now, would you?". 15 years later, {{Film/Dogma}} is released.

-->'''Vyvyan''': ...Let's bury him!
-->'''Neil''': We can't just bury Rick alive!
-->'''Vyvyan''': You're right...Let's kill him first!