Right, join me now for a thread about The Young Ones, 'Time'.

(The "remount" business in the paperwork sounds far more exciting than I think it actually is. I bet the original studio dates were just put back due to strikes or something.)

It's a close-run thing, but I think this is the funniest shot from the Dallas titles for me.

The audience reaction to this shot is hilarious. There are a few shocked people in the audience who didn't expect to nearly but not quite see a pair of tits.

Actually, my favourite bit about these titles is the triple-punch of Georgian Crescents/Joan Collins/Snuggles. Joke after joke after joke, speeding faster and faster and smashing you into submission.

"Not the film! I'm talking about E.T. Fairfax, the new head of Global Oil - your boss!"

There's still shows doing this kind of exposition that The Young Ones was taking the piss out of in 1984.

"...Six! Billion! Dollars!"

A particularly unpleasant glimpse of Rick's underpants, even by The Young Ones standards.

same energy

"I *am* The Elephant Man!"

That's the third reference to The Elephant Man this series.

(Incidentally, just why *is* Rick's hair partly died green this episode? Maybe that party the previous night really was a good one.)

I think this is a disappointingly small blast for The Young Ones, but if you're going to strap things to your lead actor's head, there's a limited amount you can do.

One of the only two successful Python pisstakes ever committed to videotape.

(The other one being NTNON, although that one has unfortunate connotations these days with the "Only 17% of Python was any good" thing.)

I have nothing to say about this picture, I just really like it.

NEIL: I want to hear about it blow by blow!
RICK: Eh? Oh...

That's a joke which wouldn't be that noticable if it was in, say, Bottom's first series, but feels quite rude for The Young Ones.

Ade taking the chance to take a good look at his girlfriend's tits.

For some reason, Jennifer Saunders is named 'Jenny Saunders' on the PasC, BTW. She's still Jennifer Saunders in the end credits.

"Hey Vyv, you dancing?"
"You asking"
"I'm asking!"
"Well piss off."

I wonder if anyone still owns this stupid prop.

The Captain Blood radio jingle is, of course, a Brewis composition.

The stack of radio jingle carts behind Captain Blood is so realistic it makes me wonder if they just borrowed a rack of them from Radio 1 or something.

I know this probably looks more dangerous than it actually was, but it doesn't stop it looking fucking dangerous.

This is one of the few cutaway gags in The Young Ones I'm not that keen on. Can't help but feel they could have come up with a better line than "That hippy really does pong." It sounds lame even as I write it.

I have to be honest, I wouldn't be averse to Jennifer Saunders strangling me.

AMAZULU ARE BORING SORRY

Though I do give credit for The Young Ones for having a wide variety of musical acts. If I liked all 12 performances, the show probably wouldn't have done its job.

It very much looks like the show extended part of the living room set upwards in order to accommodate this moment. Not sure if the set ever quite looks like this ever again.

I bloody love how Mike, Vyv and Rick are all friendly and happy with each other for once because they've all ganged up on Neil.

I also love Mike when Neil shits himself.

"Don't worry Neil, that won't affect your overall weight."

Ade does something very interesting here. Instead of smashing Nigel over the head with the bulb, he *places* it on his head, and then hits it with the other hand.

Shades of how you're supposed to be funny with custard pies. Place the pie in the face, don't throw it.

The big mystery about this scene, which has been talked about for years: what *exactly* is going on with Jennifer Saunders giggling as the door collapses on her?

It looks like an outtake which was left in the show. As in: the door collapsing was intended, her giggling isn't.

So did they just run out of time to retake the stunt of the door collapsing?

It's all weird. Mike's "Now I'll never know" is just confusing how. What as the line Jennifer Saunders was *supposed* to say before the door collapses?

EARLY PAUL MERTON ALERT

HAVING FUN ARE WE ADE

COR

"Vyvyan there's the 59 pence compensation for disagreeing with you. Yes, I'll get the t-shirt printed first thing in the morning."

This is a quote which gets plenty of use in our household.

"Oh no. It seems that mysteriously, the house has gone through some kind of time warp."

The show at this point could easily cut hanging Neil and Did Ye See?, and leap to the end. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the intention, and then they found they were running short.

Though we'd have lost one of the funniest lines in the episode.

"When you said panic, I didn't think you meant 'hang me'."

A moment just to appreciate one of the funniest renderings of the word "bastard" in comedy history:

"'Ere, tell us Spasbecker, what actually was yer crime?"
"Whistling on a Tuesday, Jester."
"You baaaaaaaastard!"

I am a big fan of the "Oh, who cares?" ending.

Correction time! (His name isn't mentioned on the official paperwork, so I had a five minute conversation here about how to spell his name... and then guessed wrongly.) https://twitter.com/realgonerocks/status/1252641588167282688

So, we leave Time with one final thing: this is seemingly the only thing which was in the originally transmitted episode in 1984, which didn't make it onto the most recent (and otherwise complete) DVD release.

A sad loss, I'm, sure you'll agree.

Just for the record: I think I was unclear with this tweet, as lots of people have picked me up on it. I don't care too much what she *says* as it's collapsing on her.

My main point here is: her *giggling* feels out-of-character to me. https://twitter.com/mumoss/status/1252634002806247426

If that giggling was a deliberate performance choice, then so be it, and maybe I'm just wrong. But it just feels really, really odd to me.