The impact of Mayall and co on British popular culture was immense. The Young Ones took sitcoms from terry and June style middle class, middle aged unfunny cr*p and made it cutting edge.
Having said that, The Young Ones is odd. I rewatched some episodes 10 years ago and felt they'd aged terribly, but saw the series again a year or so ago and loved it ll over again.
And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?"
I based my entire student life on the Young Ones, although I never tried to commit suicide by overdosing on laxatives and I wasn't ever the people's poet and we never made it to University challenge. I did stay up all night once though watching vidoe nasties and The Damned played a gig in our front room (I wish).
Very saddened, he was just a very, very, very funny man. His short appearances recently in Man Down were absolute gold.
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