History Funny / TheYoungOnes

-->'''Vyvyan:''' ''[pointing to the electric cord hanging out of his mouth]'' It's a toaster.\\

* The Christian door knocker (Dawn French) being killed by a sandwich, then Neil and Rick's reaction to the sandwich.

* The payoff of Neil's PottyEmergency: he fills up the water jug with his own piss and then it's then thrown at the Footlights team.

** Then, as Neil goes to answer the door, Billy Balowski has already let himself in. Neil comes back a minute later and says "There's no one there!"

* The TV licence man decides to lie in wait until Vyvyan passes the television. He asks where the bathroom is and is told "Upstairs, just follow your nose."

** Which segues neatly into the musical number, as Mike had apparently told Dexy's Midnight Runners to set up in the lads' lavatory.

** A little later, Neil tries to nail the plates to the tabletop to prevent them from vanishing, but succeeds only in breaking them. Mike later succeeds in driving nails through a couple of plates and into the table ''without'' breaking them ... but also into his own legs ''under'' the table.

* Neil's letter (written by committee) to his bank manager. Vyvyan explains that "dear" sounds too much like "Will you go to bed with me?", and "love" means "Come get it like a bitch funky sex machine!" With further input from Mike and Rick, the letter manages to be both straight to the point and completely roundabout at the same time:

** Just to cap off the joke, they then toss the letter into the fire because they need the fuel, which amusingly is a ''better'' use than actually mailing it.

* Vyvyan lighting a Molotov cocktail (having ripped off the sleeve of his pyjamas and stuffed into a bottle to make it), commenting, "It's funny, but being ill makes me lose my usual tolerant and easy-going approach to communal living!" before lobbing it into Rick's bedroom.
** Made funnier by how he later regrets throwing the Molotov...because it was a waste of almost an entire bottle of vodka.

* Vyvyan's rant against ''Series/TheGoodLife'':

** What makes it funnier? He [[HiddenDepths begins to describe to Mike an episode]] ''[[HypocriticalHumor he actually enjoyed]]'' before complaining that [[EvilCannotComprehendGood "it was gone all so BLOODY nicely!"]], even complaining [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking how the policeman was nice]]. Cue a policeman [[ThereWasADoor bursting through the front door]].

** And the third time when Neil comes in with his increasingly pathetic cake. "It's my birthday..." \\
'''Mike''': "Now you knew that anyway, and we don't care, so what's the surprise?" (Awww from the audience)

* The Monopoly game.

** Someone made an ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdgaUy6b5es here.]]

* The lads finally decide one of them has to get a job to solve their cashflow problem. They consult the "Situations vacant" pages in the newspaper... which are all blank except for a single Armed Forces recruitment advert (misspelling's theirs):

* The boys scrambling for the train in a parody of the opening sequence of ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', especially Vyvyan stuffing [[JabbaTableManners an entire doughnut into his mouth]] and [[FlippingTheBird flicking the Vs]] at the woman behind the counter (who promptly starts {{Corpsing}}), and Rick trying to steal a newspaper, only to run back to pay for it when the camera catches him doing it. The whole sequence doubles as an [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome moment]] due to being soundtracked by Music/{{Motorhead}}'s immortal [[AwesomeMusic "Ace of Spades"]].

* The boys scrambling for the train in a parody of the opening sequence of ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', especially Vyvyan stuffing [[JabbaTableManners an entire doughnut into his mouth]] and [[FlippingTheBird flicking the Vs]] at the woman behind the counter (who promptly starts {{Corpsing}}), and Rick trying to steal a newspaper, only to run back to pay for it when the camera catches him doing it. The whole sequence doubles as an [[MomentOfAwesome awesome moment]] due to being soundtracked by Music/{{Motorhead}}'s immortal [[AwesomeMusic "Ace of Spades"]].

* Mike's new room has Music/BuddyHolly in it, trapped in the ceiling by his parachute. Mike plans to get rich off of the songs Holly written based off his new insect diet, only for Holly's parachute to break, causing Holly to plummet to the floor. Mike, unfazed, grabs his guitar, thinking he can make a few bucks off of it.

-->'''Rick:''' Any of you know "Summer Holiday" by Cliff Richard?\\

* The BBC would like to warn all small children that pushing people inside old fridges is a bloody stupid thing to do.

* The two incompetent spies (also played by Creator/RikMayall and Ade Edmondson) who believe the lads are aliens and are staking them out from over the road.

'''Rick:''' ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE?! '''HA!''' You're about as "alternative" as ''Channel Four!''
* The lads finally decide one of them has to get a job to solve their cashflow problem. They consult the "Situations vacant" pages in the newspaper... which are all blank except for a single Armed Forces recruitment advert (misspellings theirs):

* After Rick claims to have a perforated ear drum, Mike claims to have flat feet, and Vyvyan claims to be pregnant, Neil is nominated to join the Army. He is dressed in one of Mike's suits (which is several sizes too small) and has his hair cut (on one side only - made additionally funny because it's exactly the haircut that Phil Oakey from The Human League sported at the time), then he is literally thrown into the recruitment office... and immediately thrown out again.

-->'''Ghost:''' No need to get aggressive.\\

'''Neil:''' ''[Unflinching]'' You are, Rick. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I can sense it]].

* The Bolowski of the Week (clinically insane Billy Bolowski) knocks at the lads' front door, but no-one can be bothered to answer it:

** Then, as Neil goes to answer the door, Billy Bolowski has already let himself in. Neil comes back a minute later and says "There's no one there!"
* Alexei Sayle's monologue at the end of the scene with Billy Bolowski. "I ain't always been mad, ya know, I was actually driven mad by the indifference of council planners and architects..."

* Sure enough, as Neil predicted, Jerzi Bolowski ends up drinking Vyv's potion and turning into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac, of course. And while pursuing the lads in his homicidal rage, he also manages to end up in Narnia.

'''Rick:''' Right. ''(turns on telly to Jester Bolowski presenting ''Did Ye See?'', a parody version of TV discussion series ''Did You See...?'')''\\

* As he is getting changed for bed in Neil's room, into which he has been forced to move by Mike's conversion of his bedroom, Rick declares that he tossed a coin to see which of them gets the bed, and Neil lost. A confused Neil mutters, "Oh, er, okay, Rick," to which Rick responds by rounding on Neil and snarling, "You just called me a ''bastard'' didn't you?"

* Neil accidentally stabs Vyvyan in the head with a pick. Vyvyan then stands up and says in a [[DissonantSerenity completely calm and polite voice]] "That's okay Neil. It was bound to happen sooner or later."

-->'''Rick''': I wished they'd stop doing that.

'''Mike:''' Yeah, well that's nothing! Neil got so bored he's gone down the garden to kill himself! And it's his go!

'''Mike:''' Well don't look at me, I'm in Paris.\\

-->'''Vyvyan:''' It's alright lads, I always poo before I get up.

* Vyvyan thinks the vacuum cleaner is lacking something, so he modifies it. It's now so powerful that it rips up the floorboards, flies out the window and sucks up one of Neil's hippie friends in the process. Luckily, the bag fills quickly so the damage it does is limited.

'''Rick''': Yes, well I only meant for a minute!\\

* The very start of the episode, where Neil puts some plates out on the table, having taken them out of the cupboard. He goes to get some cutlery, and when he turns round the plates are gone. When he turns back around the entire cupboard is gone!

'''Vicar''': ''[grabs Rick by the lapels of his blazer and head buts him, knocking him into the open grave]'' Shut up!\\

'''Vyvyan:''' I swopped rooms with Neil!\\

'''Rick:''' You listen here young man. You're going ''straight'' up to Neil's room, you're gonna pull the planks off the door, go into your bedroom, and nail yourself in! And... ''(anger gives way to confusion)'' What do you mean you're not going to bed tonight?\\

* "I'd just like to take this opportunity, on national television, to assure you all, comrades, that honest to God, I have NOT sold out! Anyway round about now, I usually have a Pot Noodle!"

'''Mike:''' That's it baby! Treat me rough!\\
'''Announcer:''' No, no, a ''murderer!'' ''[Vyvyan picks up the radio and throws it at Rick]'' That's better. Now will you listen- ''[Rick picks up the radio]'' '''No no you idiot I'm your last hope-''' ''[Rick throws the radio at Vyvyan; he misses, and the radio crashes through the window]''\\

'''Rick:''' Well you can just about bloomin' well put it back this instant, young man!\\

'''Rick:''' No Vyvyan! No! You were wight and I was wrong! I ''am'' a virgin!\\

* Mike comes into Neil's bedroom where the others have gathered holding a fish. He asks "What's this?" to which Vyvyan replies "A fish, Mike!" He leaves, satisfied. He then comes back soon after and finishes the question "What's this fish doing in my bed." Vyvyan replies, "It's not in your bed, Mike." He then leaves and comes back without the fish. "What's this fish doing in my bed?" The others reply, in unison "''WHAT FISH''?"

* Rick's MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, expressed as only Rick can; "Oh Neil, Neil! Owange Peel! If only I could see you again!"

* [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Vyvyan's first entrance]] is priceless - he [[DynamicEntry smashes through the kitchen wall]] carrying a severed leg as the other three are eating dinner. Rick shouts, "Vyvyan, you might have washed your hands!", prompting Vyv to walk over to the kitchen sink, kick it so that it falls of the wall, and wash his hands in the water flowing through where the tap used to be.

* Mike opens the ''TV Times'' and loads of random fruit and other objects just fall out onto his lap. He then looks at the camera, and says, "I never knew there was so much in it!"

'''Neil:''' Look, there's a sign in that little white dot. It means something really heavy. It means, there's no more telly. Time to go to bed. ''(stands up)'' I'm going upstairs now to finish painting my astrological star chart, all right? ''(heads upstairs)''\\

-->'''Vyvyan''': No! No! NO! We're not watching the bloody Good Life! Bloody bloody bloody! I hate it! [[TastesLikeDiabetes It's so bloody nice!]] Felicity "Treacle" Kendal and Richard "Sugar-Flavored-Snot" Briers! What do they do now? Chocolate bloody Button ads, that's what! They're nothing but a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a loveable, [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion middle-class]] eccentric - and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I - HATE - THEM!]]\\

* The boys scrambling for the train in a parody of the opening sequence of ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', especially Vyvyan stuffing [[JabbaTableManners an entire doughnut into his mouth]] and [[FlippingTheBird flicking the Vs]] at the woman behind the counter (who promptly starts {{Corpsing}}), and Rick trying to steal a newspaper, only to run back to pay for it when the camera catches him doing it. The whole sequence doubles as an [[MomentOfAwesome awesome moment]] due to being soundtracked by Motörhead's immortal [[AwesomeMusic "Ace of Spades"]].

* The two incompetent spies (also played by Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson) who believe the lads are aliens and are staking them out from over the road.

* Miss Money-Sterling (Emma Thompson) answers a question asking about a chemical formula:

* Rick's DoubleTake at seeing Helen (Jennifer Saunders) in his bed.

-->'''Vyvyan''': No! No! NO! We're not watching the bloody Good Life! Bloody bloody bloody! I hate it! [[TastesLikeDiabetes It's so bloody nice!]] Felicity "Treacle" Kendal and Richard "Sugar-Flavored-Snot" Briers! What do they do now? Chocolate bloody Button ads, that's what! They're just a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a loveable, [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion middle-class]] eccentric - and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I - HATE - THEM!]]\\
'''Mike''': That was a highly articulate outburst, Vyvyan. I only hope they're not watching.