Comedy WARS: Men Behaving Badly vs The Young Ones

[beorhthelm]

Men Behaving Badly by a country mile. Young ones felt dated and daft when i first saw it around late 80's, seemed too crude. MBB was/is like life and didnt rely on elaborate stunts to get a laugh, just excellent observation of blokes being blokes.

 

[Box of Frogs]

MBB for me. TYO seemed a bit too slapstick.

 

[brakespear]

Swung back to MBB now after recalling the 'When there's always biscuits in the barrel, where's the fun in biscuits?' line.

 

[Trufflehound]

Or Amazulu

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Or Rip Rig & Panic

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[Hiney]

Or Rip Rig & Panic

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The case strengthens

 

[Captain Sensible]

The young ones was without doubt a groundbreaking comedy moment.

 

[LU7 RED]

Suprised that many votes for MBB over the Young Ones - The Young Ones every time, although I really liked MBB also.

Now 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads' v MBB is a better one.

 

[Mowgli37]

The young ones every time

 

[MissGull]

MBB for me. Love Clunes, Morrisey, Quentin and Ash.

 

[Worthingite]

Another vote for MBB here - tbh I've never found Rik Mayall all that funny. And anything that has every had Alexi Sayle in it for anything longer than 0.000001 of a second can do one.

 

[Puppet Master]

I want to vote Young Ones but the very simple line "I was wondering what colour your bush is" in MBB wins it for me.

"Sorry?"
"I said er... I was just wondering what...car rubbish was"

 

[Captain Sensible]

"Being Scottish and Jewish, 2 racial stereotypes for the price of 1, perhaps the best value in the graveyard, this morning....perhaps not"

and

spy A "Why won't you let me take the lens cap off?"
spy B "Beacuse they're not real binoculars"
spy A "Well why can't we have a real pair on Binocoliers for a change?"
spy B "Because then the aliens would know that we're watching them"
Spy A "But we're not watching them" (points to lens cap)
spy B "yes but they're not to know that are they"


Classic madcap clever fun.

 

[Simster]

It was the little incidentals in The Young Ones that made it funny. Like the two dogs yapping and one says to the other "it's a game isn't it?"
"what is?"
"Chess"




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[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Another vote for the Young Ones.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Men Behaving Badly for me.

 

[Mellotron]

It was the little incidentals in The Young Ones that made it funny. Like the two dogs yapping and one says to the other "it's a game isn't it?"
"what is?"
"Chess"




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That's good.

 

[fat old seagull]

Young Ones by fifty million miles

For me .........MBB by an average pub crawl.

 

[Surf's Up]

The Young Ones for me, groundbreaking at the time although it's impact diminished in the subsequent years due to the over exposure of the main characters who only ever went on to play variations of their Young Ones characters.

 

[atfc village]

Or Amazulu

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Embarrassing contest

Amazula? No i'm a Glaswegian good old SPG

 

[Triggaaar]

Young Ones every time. I can still recite large sections of script as spent my sixth form obsessed with the series.

That's the thing - a lot of us that saw both, saw TYO when we were teenagers, and we're not going to forget it. Seeing MBB once we'd grown up wasn't the same. Those that saw MBB when they were teenagers, didn't see TYO.