WHO ARE THE YOUNG ONES?

Querida amiga: A menudo te has preguntado quienes somos los jóvenes que intentamos rizar el rizo y qué nos impulsa a autoinmolarnos a diario para tu deleite ante un monitor de 17´´.

Es seguro que a estas alturas ya te habrás dado cuenta de que ni somos jóvenes ni humanos, somos personajes televisivos de una serie británica de los 80 y nuestro objetivo es un lavado cerebral discreto de la ciberjuventud que ha depositado su confianza en nosotros.

En principio se supone que en este blog hay dos minas, dos pibas, una de Canarias y otra de Barceloa... nada más lejos de la realidad... aquí no hay más estrógeno que el de nuestras mamás cuando nos traen la ensaladilla rusa en un tupper... También corre el rumor por el messenger de que hay nada menos que 4 Javis de diferentes regiones del solar patrio... Ya quisieramos que hubiera alguien con un nombre que chanara tanto como "Javi"... ni de coña. Somos cuatro HOOLIGANS ingleses trasnochados que vivimos sepultados en la inmundicia de las moquetas británicas y las camisetas manchadas de Lager... En fin,,, que somos Vyvyan, Rick, Neil and Mike... reinamos en los 80 y ahora estamos de capa caida. ¿Nuestro periodismo de investigación? Un cuento. ¿Nuestras referencias literarias? Inventadas. ¿El título del Blog? Plagiado de un disco que nunca oimos de Doctor Explosión ¿Nuestro Curriculum Vitae? Escrito por un mono encadenado a una Olivetti. ¿Nuestra sabiduría rockera y nuestro Dolce Stilo Novo? Lo copiamos todo de la WIKIPEDIA. Somos basura. Somos los jóvenes.

Neil Pye

Played by Nigel Planer, Neil - a hippie - is a clinically depressed pacifist, insomniac and vegetarian. Studying a Peace Studies degree, Neil winds up doing the housework, shopping and cooking. Neil dislikes technology, and speaks out for "Vegetable Rights and Peace" (Bambi,). Neil tends to drone on, and gets caught out when exposed to expressions and figures of speech, but is also the most knowledgeable of the four. Neil discovers at one point, much to his surprise, that he wears a wig. Occasionally, whenever something scary happens to him, such as seeing lions or being catapulted through the roof to change a lightbulb, he will crap his pants, literally ("Don't worry, that won't have any effect on your weight"). "neil" - usually written entirely in lowercase - is also referred to as Watkins-Weedon-Pye in the Young Ones book.

Rick

Played by Rik Mayall, Rick is a self-described anarchist and "people's poet." studying sociologyCliff Richard. Rick is portrayed as intensely unlikeable, and so self-absorbed that he believes that he is the "most popular member of the flat," in fact the "spokesperson of a generation". In reality, Rick exaggerates or outright lies about his endeavours, and is easily the most despised of the four. His claims of political activism and working class heroism appear to be exposed as a sham in the last episode, when it is suggested he comes from an upper class background. Rick tries desperately to express his wit, talent and humour to no avail, as he lacks all three qualities. He sucks up to Mike, who ignores him and doesn't seem to care about Rick's posessions (in one episode Mike turned Rick's room into a roller disco). He also holds the world record for producing/being "the world's stupidest bottom burp" (Bambi), but it's more likely he produced it, since he tried to kill himself with laxative pills in the same episode (but only ended up emitting a massive fart/crapping his pants). and/or domestic sciences. Rick is a hypocritical, tantrum-throwing attention seeker who loves

Vyvyan Basterd

Played by Adrian Edmondson, "Vyv" was an orange haired punk, medical student, studying to be a doctor. Vyvyan's mother is a barmaid and former shoplifter who before Boring had not seen Vyvyan in 10 years. Vyvyan displays feats of inhuman strength on occasion (moving entire walls with his bare hands, throwing full-sized TV sets out of the window, lifting Neil above his head in a fight with Rick), and eats just about anything (TVs, cornflakes with tomato sauce, dead rats and pigeons, etc.). Vyvyan hates Rick the most out of his flatmates, and victimises Neil although does not dislike him as much. He has some respect for Mike, however, and is often active as Mike's personal enforcer (see Oil) or sidekick. He owns a yellow Ford Anglia with flames painted along the sides, which in the first episode was decorated with an amputated leg. Despite being a homicidial maniac, Vyvyan seems quite sociable and creative; he has often mixed up potions of his own creation, is a whiz at electrics, to the extent of causing havoc or damage (he created a vacuum cleaner that sucks up the carpet and floorboards in Interesting, and attached the doorbell to a bomb in Nasty). Vyvyan's favourite party game is one he made up called "Dissection".

Mike Thecoolperson

Played by Christopher Ryan, Mike was unintentionally the odd one out of the four. Mike was supposedly a cool, unflappable ladies' man who had wrangled grants and a University place without having to study because he had compromising photographs of the Dean. He refers to his major as "the school of life." Mike has a high opinion of his skill with women, although he is eventually forced to admit his virginity to the others (see Nasty). He seems cool merely by comparison with the other three; outside their house he is as much of a loser as any of them. A con artist, he always has some kind of plan to make quick, dirty money, such as renting out Rick's room as a roller-disco in Oil and his own room to a lion-tamer in Flood.

Ryan was selected for the part at the last minute after original actor Peter Richardson fell out with producer Paul Jackson; he was the only one of the cast with no experience as a comedian.