Fangirlishness: The Young Ones

[janestarz]

This TV-show was made in the same year as I was born (eek) but I watched it when I was a bit older than zero years old. And I loved it. At the time, I could hardly decide whether it was Neil or Vyvyan that I liked best. Now that I have Kazaa-lite, ofcourse I had to have the duet they sang with Cliff Richard - Living Doll.

Cliff Richard and The Young Ones - Living Doll (a bit of the script)
It goes something like this....

*EXPLOSION*
Neil: "Look out everyone, he's coming through the doors."
Vyv: "BRILLIANT ! He didn't even open them...."
Neil: "He's here !!!!"
Mike: "Quick Rick, do the speech."

Music starts* (Video - the Young Ones walking down a street, Rick pointing at the camera)
Rick: "Hey kids, stop snogging and pay attention to me. 'Cos if you're a wild-eyed loner standing at the gates of Oblivion, hitch a ride with us. 'Cos we're on the last freedom moped out of Nowhere City, and we haven't even told our parents what time we'll be back ! So put on your dancing trousers, and get down to the utter King of Rock and Roll, CLIFF RICHARD !!!"
(jumps in the air)
Cliff(singing): "Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, living doll.
Got to do my best to please her just 'cos she's a livin' doll.
Got a roving eye and that is why she satisfies my soul,
I've got the one and only walking talking livin' doll.
OK guys, ready Vyv?"

Vyv: "Completely ready when you are, Shaky!"
Cliff: "Neil?"
Neil: "Does anybody know where the toilets are?"
Cliff: "Mike?"
Mike: "Hey, does all this money really have to go to charity?"
Rick: "Yes it does, Michael! Hi Cliff, it's me!"
Cliff: "Who are you?"
Rick: "Huh he, great joke, Your Majesty!"

Cliff: (singing) "Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking living doll"
Young Ones: (singing rather badly) "Living doll"
Cliff: "Got to do my best to please her, just 'cos she's a living doll"
Young Ones: "Living doll"
Cliff: "I got a roving eye and that is why she satisfies my soul"
Young Ones: "'Fies my soul!"
Vyv: "Fies my soul ?!"
Rick: "Yes Vyvyan, it's raunchy!"
Mike: "Shut up guys!"
Vyv: "What does this button do?" *loud boom*

Cliff: "Take a look at her hair"
Vyv: *burp*
Cliff: "Well, it's real, and if you don't believe what I say just feel"
Mike: "Do I know this girl?"
Cliff: "Gonna lock her up in a trunk
Vyv: "TRUNK!"
Cliff: "So no big hunk...
Neil: "Ooow"
Cliff: "...can steal her away from me."
Young Ones: "GET DOWN!"
Cliff: "Got myself a crying walking..."
Neil: "Okay" sound of someone dropping
Cliff: "...sleeping walking...
Vyv: "Hey Cliff! I've just invented a great new sound!"
Cliff: "living doll"
Sound of something ripping extensively
Cliff: "Got to do my best to please her ..."
Neil: "Auuuw"
Cliff: "...just cause she's a living doll."
Mike: "Untie the Neil's legs now Vyv"
Cliff: "Settle down chaps"
Cliff: (singing)"Got a roving eye and that is why she satisfies my soul"
All: (singing) "I've got the one and only walking talking living doll!"

Rick: "OK daddy-io! Lay the next funky riff on me!"
Mike: "He means, "What happens now?" Cliff."
Cliff: "The instrumental break." (twangy guitars)

Vyv: "Great, which instruments do you want us to break? Guitar... (sound of guitar played very badly, followed by smashing noises) Piano! (same again) Violin! (blah blah) Didgeridoo!"
Rick: "Vyvian's trousers" (ripping noises)
Vyv: "Rick's head!" *thud*
Neil: "Yeah! Ah, ah, Neil's head!" *thud*
Vyv: "Hey! Cliff's head!"
All: "No! No! NO!" *thud*
Rick: (singing) "Oh take a look at her hair, it's real."
Neil: "If you don't believe what I say ..."
Mike: "... just feel!"
Rick: "Fwooaaarggh!"
Vyv: (loudly) "GONNA LOCK HER UP IN A TRUNK!"
Mike: "So no big hunk ..."
Cliff: "... can steal her away from me." (more twangy guitars)

Rick: "I still think locking girls up in a trunk is politically unsound."
Mike: "It's only a song, Rick."
Neil: "Well, I feel sorry for the elephants."
Mike: "Come on, guys"
Cliff: "Got myself a ..."
Neil: "... crying ..."
Vyv: "... talking ..."
Mike: "... sleeping ..."
Rick: "... walking ..."
Young Ones: "... livin' doll!"

Cliff: "Livin' doll. Got to do my best to please her just cause she's a livin' doll."
Young Ones: "Livin' doll!"
Cliff: "OK guys, harmony now."
Young Ones: (very unharmonious) "Got a rovin' eye and that is why she satisfies my soul"
Cliff: "'Fies my soul."
All: "I've got the one and only walking talking livin' doll!"
Rick: "Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooooooh!"
Cliff: "I've got the one and only walking talking livin' doll!"
(flourish, end of guitar riff)

Cliff: "Erm... can I go now?"
Rick: "Er, yeah, thanks, Cliff, bye!"
(Vyv hits Cliff with a club, Cliff falls to floor)

Rick: "Right kids, if you don't buy this record, you're an utter utter utter utter utter ..."
(Meanwhile Vyv knocks out Mike and Neil, then Rick ('utter ut-*thwack*-ter...').


Mom named one of her cats after Neil the hippie! But I think I love Vyvyan best, he's a real riot.
Vyvyan: "I myself have three pairs of socks, and three pairs of knickers. That means I've only worn them... 269 times each since the last wash."

Vyvyan: "Neil, is it really necessary to nail the plates to the table? What happens when we want to play Monopoly? Go directly to plate? Do not pass plate nailed to the table by a stupid hippie?"
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