History YMMV / TheYoungOnes

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The show was considered anarchic and subversive in the early 1980s. In comparison with their successor ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' many of the violent scenes (Vyvyan destroying something or hitting Rick over the head) can seem rather tame today.

* MisaimedFandom: According to Ed Bye, the series was popular with the police, a fact which upset Creator/RikMayall greatly.

** Creator/TonyRobinson as Dr [[Series/NotTheNineOClockNews Not-the-nine-o-clock-news]].

** Creator/NormanLovett (the first Holly in ''Series/RedDwarf'') owned the penny arcade across the road. Creator/ChrisBarrie appeared as a Napoleonic sailor in an animated painting.

** Mike isn't anywhere near as popular as Rick, Vyvyan, or Neil, which you can argue is mainly due to being the more mundane of the lads (Rick being an arrogant egotist, Vyvyan being insane, and Neil being whiney but endearing). But Alexei Sayle's various roles appear to be most disliked, possibly because of how they [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment come out of nowhere and 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]]

** The episode "Nasty" ends with the gang discovering [[RegularShowS02Ep01ElloGovnor a monster that was pursuing them was really a video store clerk asking them to return the video they rented]].

** In "Bambi", it is revealed that the title character, who is the same Bambi from the [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} Disney movie]], had starred in a fictitious adult-themed sequel. In 2022, it was revealed that several Disney-adapted materials, including ''Bambi'', would be made into adult-themed movies (though adapted from their source rather than their Disney versions).

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series features several bands performing who have since split up or lost members, like Music/DexysMidnightRunners or Music/{{The Damned|Band}}. And then there is an episode, "Nasty", where the characters rent a Video Nasty. Most viewers nowadays have probably no clue what a "video nasty" is supposed to be. They also have jokes parodying the over-the-top PIF about reckless driving, made by a now-defunct government board and the T.V Times' old advertising slogan, a hamster named after the Special Patrol Group, which was disbanded in 1987, and outdated tech, from their analogue T.V to the VCR to Creator/TheBBC going off air after 10 o'clock, to Rick's record player and Vyvyan's Ford Anglia. (Although if anyone [[HistoryRepeats in the modern day]] would be enough of a self-satisfied hipster to own a vinyl record player, it would be Rick.)

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Bambi", it is revealed that the title character, who is the same Bambi from the [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} Disney movie]], had starred in a fictitious adult-themed sequel. In 2022, it was revealed that several Disney-adapted materials, including ''Bambi'', would be made into adult-themed movies (though adapted from their source rather than their Disney versions).

** The ''Series/GrangeHill'' student from "Sick" is played by Creator/PerryBenson, who would later be best known for playing Henry Livingstone in ''Series/YouRangMLord''.