Forgotten Young Ones Sequel? Filthy Rich and Catflap Review

[@podcastocatflappo]

A good, fair & straightforward review of the series, glad to have seen it. Thanks for introducing your subscribers to the show and I hope a few get on board and watch it! Massive thanks for the mention of Podcasto Catflappo also ;) Tres bona, Looby!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Thank you! I hope more people check you out!

[@TheAuteurist23]

Richie Rich is one of Rik’s funniest roles. He’s basically a vile cartoon character.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Indeed! He and Edmondson did say that the Looney Tunes were a huge influence. Thanks for watching!

[@trevorberridge6079]

No Young Ones/Comic Strip fan has forgotten Filty Rich and Catflap. It's a shame there wasn't a bit more.

[@EnchantedEssays]

True, but I think it's better to finish early than to go on for too long. Thanks for watching!

[@Simon-xc5oy]

The trouble with it was ( and I was there watching it at the time) that it was not as funny as the Young Ones. It was not as funny as the Dangerous Brothers. It was not as good as New Statesman. It was not even as good as Happy Families that Ade did on his own, with each of the rest of the young ones cast including Rik popping up in various episodes. It was utterly panned and destroyed by every critic of all kinds at the time as well. But I watched it simply because it was Rik and Ade. You could see what was happening, that they were trying to find a new show as good as the Young Ones. This was a bit of a misfire. They went away and came back with Bottom which was way funnier and has become an utter classic. And eclipsed Filthy n co...sadly. I do remember being excited and made up that the cool stripey grey red / black / white wallpaper they have in the living room was the same as I had picked for my bedroom. I had that wallpaper! And looking at it now, it was soooo 80s. And I was not into following the trends and fashions of the era at that time....maybe I was cooler than I thought....

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@Simon-xc5oy Thanks for watching! I always love hearing from people who watched these things when they came out

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

Two forgotten British Sitcoms I'd like to see you cover - Comrade Dad - An 80's sitcom starring George Cole set in a Britain that's been invaded by the USSR. Cole's character is loyal to the soviet overlords and tows the party line. A Small Problem - Another 80's sitcom starring the actor who played Mike in The Young Ones. This is set in a quassi- apartheid like Britain that sends people below 5 Ft to go and live in tower blocks. It was supposed to be a critique of Apartheid, but the joke missed a lot of people.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Both of these sound fascinating! Thanks for recommending them! I would never have heard of them otherwise!

[@organfairy]

@@EnchantedEssays I vote for 'a small problem'. It was shown on Danish TV and somehow I feel I was the only one to watch it - nobody in Denmark seems to remember it.

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@organfairy It's certainly the one that sounds most interesting to me! Thanks for watching!

[@mistermatix8241]

"This is the BBC! not a place of entertainment!" Rik, if only you knew how true those words are now, fella

[@EnchantedEssays]

😂 At least they still make Inside No 9. Thanks for watching!

[@HamStrains]

New statesman video soon 🙏 was rewatching that recently and forgot how good the Norman/Norma character is. A trans character back then and aspects of trans existence like HRT being mentioned along with the maybe regretable aspects of some of the ways the character was played for laughs... very interesting.

[@EnchantedEssays]

I'd LOVE to cover New Statesman! I've even got the B'Stard File book! I'm almost certainly going to do it for Rik May next year. There's a lot to discuss [4 series, the different supporting characters in series 1, the specials, the move to EU parliament in series 4 etc.], so it would be a long video! Yeah the Norman/Norma stuff is really fascinating. It's certainly not perfect trans representation, but it's not bad either. It certainly dispels the belief that they didn't exist before 2016! The fact they cut that AND Sarah's lesbian affair after series 1 leads me to think that they were asked to by itv or something

[@fantasytestcards]

At the time, because it starred Rick Mayall and Ade Edmondson, it was an automatic draw for us teenagers going into our 20's, simply because it was so different to the usual, run-of-the-mill sitcoms that were put out by the BBC. In retrospect, of course, the various references to what were the stalwarts of light entertainment, haven't aged too well, especially if you're not of age to remember them, but over all, it was good enough to want to watch again. The episode with, 'The Noles', in and the mediocre, 'Ooh-err, sounds a bit rude', quiz show parody of Blankety Blank, complete with, 'celebrities', (each one of which was a parody of a well-known celeb at the time), were probably the best of the 6 that were made. They kind of left the last episode open-ended, but I think they knew it had served its purpose of keeping them in the limelight between The Young Ones and Bottom.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I agree. Thanks for watching!

[@naoarte808]

This was brilliant. There was supposed to be a second series, but was shelved. Also worth checking out, and it was done around the same time as this is Mr Jolly Lives Next Door. I think that is pretty much Rik and Ades lost masterpiece. Best thing they ever did.

[@EnchantedEssays]

I love Mr Jolly Lives Next Door! I'm going to start making videos on Comic Strip Presents soon! Thanks for watching!

[@robertcox1835]

Thanks for this. Been so long since I 've seen or heard anything about the show I thought I might have imagined it.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Well I'm glad I've stopped you from feeling crazy! 😂 Thanks for watching!

[@spankyrambles]

Good video. Another reason for this show's cancellation was probably down to the number of complaints the BBC received regarding the over the top violence/killing milkmen in the "Dead milkmen" episode. As far as i can tell that episode was never properly aired again because of that. I was lucky growing up as my folks had recorded it off the telly onto vhs. I recommend this show to anyone who needs another Bottom fix.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Oh really? I didn't know that. Thanks for watching!

[@chasetheskies]

Love this show! Thanks for covering it! I have it on DVD! Can quote it almost as much as I can quote bottom!!!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Thank you! Glad you like it! Obv if you didn't you'd have to go to pris

[@terencemiguana]

Great video. Getting reacquainted with the legendary Rik Mayall as the 10 year anniversary since we lost this legend is coming up

[@EnchantedEssays]

Thank you!

[@IainThomson-dc8ge]

I loved filthy rich and catflap I loved how richie never gave up on his dream of becoming famous even though he thought he was famous in the first place

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I suppose he was never going to be satisfied until he was the only thing on TV like he was at the end. Thanks for watching!

[@jonbolton3376]

Not forgotten by me. I was born in 1980, even though i didn't see it when it was on tv, my uncle told knew i was a fan of The Young Ones and Bottom. told md aboit it. In the mid 90s i bought all 6 on VHS. On one occasion lent them to a girl i fancied from across the road.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Sounds like a cool uncle! Thanks for watching!

[@R82TV]

These mini documentaries are fantastic. The show was a big influence on me. Why I’m probably mad 😂

[@EnchantedEssays]

Aw thank you so much! It's driven me mad too!

[@yatz57]

Thank you for this. I wasn't hooked, the first time I watched (a few years ago, on YT), but it might be time to give it a second chance. Re Planer: he's in my personal HoF for his Discworld audiobooks. Such a fantastic job!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Great! Oh I haven't heard those, but I imagine he'd be great. I only recently found out that Planer narrated Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids which terrified me when I was little! Thanks for watching!

[@GrahamDallas]

I need to buy this on DVD, I haven't seen it since it aired originally. I suspected it would be quite terrible by today's standards but you've raised my expectations with this excellent run through.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!

[@TreVader1378]

By far the greatest comedy show ever, watched it when it was first on, and many many times since, my brother and I still quote it to this day.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Awesome! I know when I eventually show this series to my brother, he'll start doing impressions of the characters! What bit do you quote the most?

[@TreVader1378]

@@EnchantedEssays pretty much all of it, like banged up the slammer, if I farted you'd soon know about it, goodbye forever, he was furious, and so on.

[@davidcassels7312]

Thanks so much 😊. I can now get the dvd. Only have old vcr version. 😊

[@EnchantedEssays]

You'll probably be able to flog the VHS online if you want to. There are people who collect them now. Thanks for watching!

[@user-ub1dz8js7s]

I vaguely remember watching this on ITV back in the day. It just didn't hit the mark with me and I gave up with it.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah fair enough. I think I might not have stuck with it if I wasn't planning on reviewing it. Thanks for watching!

[@iaincowell9747]

Honestly I didn't think it was very good. Definitely agree with Rik Mayall that it was underdeveloped

[@EnchantedEssays]

Indeed. Thanks for watching!

[@alanhouston5874]

Was this before or after The New Statesman? I think Mayall nailed the balance of that character over several seasons

[@EnchantedEssays]

It was the same year! Yes, he was marvellous in that! I'll definitely cover it at some point! Thanks for watching!

[@Schiltzenberger]

IMO Alan B'Stard is Rik Mayall's greatest character, he nailed it. He is more famous for Bottom and The Young Ones, but his best work was The New Statesman.

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@Schiltzenberger That was my introduction to Rik Mayall about a year ago. I was like WHO is THAT! He just.. oozed comedy. I've read so many comments about the New Statesman that I'm definitely going to cover it next Rik May

[@dodgydunc7]

Reykjavik, Iceland.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

I’ve tried to watch this series a few times and it’s just never grabbed me and I’m a huge fan of the Young Ones. Think it’s interesting as the missing link between TYO and Bottom. Btw I totally missed it when it was on tv. I was sick with a fever in bed as a kid turned on the telly and caught the last couple of minutes of it and was convinced it just have been a fever dream until it popped up on KZbin years later

[@EnchantedEssays]

Oh that must have been weird! 😂 Thanks for watching!

[@martinidry6300]

A very humourless, literal look at comedy. Excellent comedy at that. The attack on family entertainment and family entertainers hit too close to home. That's the main reason it was canned. The picture of BBC TV centre as a nest of skirt chasing, boozed up, smug, ugly, middle aged gits (like Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris, etc) made the higher ups uncomfortable. I agree with you. It is underrated, and this is a sub-standard video.

[@EnchantedEssays]

I must admit that I'm quite confused by your comment. Reviews are about two things: what I think of the show and who I would think would like it. I gave my honest opinion: I enjoyed the show and I thought it was messy, agreeing with Mayall that it was "rushed" and "went into the studio too early". Just because something is underrated doesn't make it perfect. You can enjoy something and not consider it perfect. My opinion is not incorrect because I don't have exactly the same one as you, nor is yours because it isn't the same as mine. I also made it very clear that, as I am only 26, I am not familiar with much of what they are parodying and stated that I think this is funnier to those who remember what light entertainment was like at the time. I mean, as far as I can tell, that genre and style of light entertainment has been dead almost as long as I have been alive. I know of no evidence to suggest that the series was canned. The continuity announcer said that it would come back for another season, which was news to Nigel Planer and Adrian Edmondson according to an interview at the Slapstick Festival in 2018. All actual evidence I have read and heard indicates that Elton and/or Mayall were the ones to pull the plug on the show. Ben Elton literally said that writing that show was "the most unhappy experience of [his] life"! I highly recommend reading the interviews in this book to learn more: www.wob.com/en-gb/books/roger-wilmut/didn-t-you-kill-my-mother-in-law/9780413173904#GOR001243988

[@brucegrossman3531]

Never noticed they used one of the guard costumes from Blakes 7

[@EnchantedEssays]

Ah really! The BBC have certainly been known to reuse props and costumes! Thanks for watching!

[@brucegrossman3531]

@@EnchantedEssays I'm in process of rewatching it on Britbox (US). So I recognized it right away.

[@Schiltzenberger]

I preferred Filthy, Rich and Catflap over The Young Ones. While the slapstick humour was similar, The Young Ones had more of the gross humour that I don't really find funny, it seems targeted towards teens and uni students. I thought it was hilarious when I was a teenager, but as I got older it just comes across as cringey. I guess I also preferred their characters, Richie Rich was funnier than PRick, Eddie was funnier than Vivian and Filthy was funnier than Neil.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I can certainly see where you're coming from. Thanks for watching!

[@retrorambles517]

It rarely ever gets repeated on TV It's ok not bad but you can see that this was a strong precursor to bottom

[@EnchantedEssays]

Indeed! It's a shame that a lot of the satire is no longer relevant, but the slapstick and stuff still holds up if you like that sort of thing. Thanks for watching!

[@harrydbastard]

I would probably have liked this more if I hadn't watched the Danger Bros first. Still a great show.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I see what you mean. Thanks for watching!

[@PlayCONtent]

Now, I haven't seen this show properly since I was in Year 7 at the height of Rik nd Ade madness (still a fan now) and I liked it but felt somehow disappointed and remember my mother telling me she worked with a guy who preferred this to The Young Ones...I can maybe understand that view now and I'm almost sure I'd like it better if I rewatched now, but at the time I thought 'I wouldn't feel comfortable working with a person like that'

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I see what you mean. Thanks for watching!

[@robertboyle2573]

I hated this when it was first on, then I gave it another chance 25 years later and actually enjoyed it!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Sometimes we can prefer things when we return to them with lower expectations. That's happened to me with lots of things. Thanks for watching!

[@robertboyle2573]

@@EnchantedEssays Totally agree.

[@Dessan01]

Good old FR&C - I would rent the entire series on VHS nearly every other time I went to the video shop when I was a kid 😂 and I eventually acquired the 2 well worn cassettes in the sell-off when Blockbuster moved in next door and put them out of business. I’m a child of the 80s so I understand the gags and references even though some of it was before my time, I was always a fan of older TV. I think if we are totally honest, it’s a fun series but noticeably weaker than both the Young Ones and Bottom; there were obviously plans to make a second series (Filthy makes reference to it in a 4th wall break in the last episode) but I’m kind of glad they didn’t, I don’t think there was mileage in it for another 6 episodes.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I definitely agree with you there. Thanks for watching!

[@theashtubereviews]

Inused to watch the young ones but i never heard of this show. Nice review

[@EnchantedEssays]

Thank you!

[@billyb6001]

It was quite fun to watch. A must for the Rik ade enthusiast

[@EnchantedEssays]

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

[@billyb6001]

@@EnchantedEssays do you know of any good podcasts to help with the references no one gets in these shows?

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@billyb6001 I'm afraid not. I don't listen to podcasts myself. I know there's one for this show though! Podcast Catflappo

[@makara80]

Just think, at some point Ben Elton & co must’ve concluded that the _occasional_ breaking of the fourth wall in The Young Ones would be so much funnier if a show did it with greater frequency… or indeed all the bloody time in fact. 🙂 ‘Catflap is by no means irredeemable of course but the irritating smugness permeating all six episodes, the cast constantly gurning at the camera plus a relative dearth of genuine laughs can make it a tough watch at times. An interesting curio but, for me at least, not a patch on ‘Young Ones sadly.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I see what you mean. Thanks for watching!

[@bmmaaate]

I rewatched it on VHS about a decade ago and only laughed once, and that was at a puerile fart gag. Maybe its been forgotten because it wasn't very funny.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah plenty of people didn't like it. Thanks for watching!

[@johanvanbeek7138]

Better than Bottom but worse than the Young Ones.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Interesting take! Thanks for watching!

[@kenpudsey6435]

I got this on DVD a few months ago..I remember it came out in 1987..and never understood why it only got one series..it was very funny.

[@EnchantedEssays]

From what I've heard, the continuity announcer announced a second series, but that wasn't something the cast had been made aware of. I don't know what the ratings were like, but apparently they got more fan mail for it. I think it was primarily Mayall and Elton finding that they weren't very good at writing together. Thanks for watching!

[@Simon-xc5oy]

@@EnchantedEssays It was not popular at the time. It really wasn't, sadly. What you have to remember is it was not long after the Young Ones. And it was no where near as good compared to that, and that is all it was compared to at the time. The audience did not take to it and there was way less buzz, and endless bad reviews. To us youngsters (not so young now) Rik and Ade were cool and so funny, and so we watched, and were upset it was not as good as the Young Ones. It just failed for many reasons, but not down to the efforts of Rik and Ade. When you watch Bottom, you can see those characters could be Rik and Viv, just in their 30s, and it could be where they had ended up, at the Bottom of the pile, hating their lives and existence and so miserable, and yet still together as no one else could stand being around them long....It felt like an older version of the Young Ones without Neil and Mike, and it evolved steadily over its run with the writing improving...The episode with them stuck on the Big Wheel, or when the flat is broken into....and Eddie tapes one of the robbers to the kitchen ceiling...priceless...

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@Simon-xc5oy Yeah I see what you mean. Thanks for watching!

[@sharkey25uk]

Loved Filthy, Rich and Catflap, just a shame the original DVD release was so butchered due to copyright issues. I'd say the even more forgotten series post Young Ones was Ben Elton's 1985 series "Happy Families" which was written as a vehicle for Jennifer, Dawn and Ade but has a very extensive cast list of Young Ones Alumni (Rik appears as a Priest in 1 episode). The only thing anyone remembers about it these days is that the money the BBC set aside for a second series of Happy Families was used by Paul Jackson to fund the first Series of Red Dwarf

[@EnchantedEssays]

Wonderful! I'm already writing a video on Happy Families! Thanks for watching!

[@Simon-xc5oy]

Ahh Happy Families...I remember that. I was still at school and we all loved it, we were in hysterics laughing at it and Ade Edmondson was just like a God to us, and Rik was like God+. I recently found it on You tube and watched it for the first time since it aired, and I was not that impressed. Its all over the place with the writing and tone. Ade is as funny as ever playing his usual dimwit character, but for a change its a nice one and not a violent nutcase. All the other cast is incredible, its like a who's who of the 80s. Everyone from the Young Ones pops up, then there is Chris Barry, Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders (who I cant stand) and Ben Elton etc...Lenny Henry, Ruby Wax, you name it they pop up in it. The best episode is the one in "France" where Rik Mayall turns up as a pervy priest and Nigel Planner is the bar man etc...Rik just takes over the whole show and makes the episode fly with his comic energy...the worst one is the one where he is trying to get his sister the Nun on board, its the worst example of Saunders and her annoying characters and mannerisms...All the sisters in it are so different and some work better as characters than others. Saunders is puts more effort in with her French sister and the American one than the Nun. And the less said about the old lady version the better...

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@Simon-xc5oy Thanks Simon! It's interesting to read your thoughts on it. You should consider starting a channel yourself! I'm still writing my review of it and I wholeheartedly agree with your thoughts on Ade. I read that he thought his performance was appalling and it broke my heart! I think you'd like this book actually. It's called Didn't You Kill My Mother-In-Law? The Story of Alternative Comedy in Britain from the Comedy Store to Saturday Live

[@steve_en5903]

Enjoyed the video! Sub earned!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Aw thank you!

[@UseYourBrain00]

That's a Good mini documentary.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Aw thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@davehoward22]

I remember this..they shouldve made a bad news series which was far funnier

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah I do love Bad News. I'll definitely cover them soon. Thanks for watching!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Love Filthy Rich and Catflap, better than Bottom for me, (but The Young Ones is the best) Oo-Err sounds a Bit rude episode is as good as anything ever.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah that's great, although I wish I understood what they were satirising better. Thanks for watching!

[@galesito1733]

I recommend "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door" if you haven't seen it.

[@EnchantedEssays]

I have indeed! I'm planning on making videos on the Comic Strip soon! Thanks for watching!

[@andygriffith5160]

NICHOLAS BLOODY PARSONS!!

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@andygriffith5160 Never ever bloody anything ever

[@twentyrothmans7308]

@@EnchantedEssays A colleague and I have that as a catchphrase at work - i.e. NEBAE.

[@Simon-xc5oy]

Heh....that is one funny episode! I mean its utterly typical Rik and Ade and its hysterical and over the top. The scene in the office with the window and builders lift....the bit when they are pretending to be guides and its an excuse to go to the pub, and the section with Nicholas Parsons.....Ade and the Hand Grenades that wont go through the letter box...when I first saw that I had a stitch from laughing...to this day I wonder if a grenade will go through a standard letterbox....only these two could think up something like that....

[@HammerHeart3229]

I quite like Filthy, Rich & Catflap and think it's a tad underrated. Yeah it's not quite as good as The Young Ones or Bottom but it's still a pretty good laugh! Ralph Filthy is just as hilarious as Neil the Hippy as far as Nigel Planer characters go in my opinion! 😂 I need to re-watch this show actually, I haven't seen it in ages!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

[@chrishilton1490]

Loved it.

[@EnchantedEssays]

I'm glad! Thanks for watching!

[@CaretakerWanted]

Nah, this isn’t a crap video ; )

[@EnchantedEssays]

Aw thank you!

[@TedCornish]

Not forgotten just not that good

[@EnchantedEssays]

Probably a bit of both. Thanks for watching!

[@ConkerTS]

Filthy Rich and Catflap is OK, quite funny, but of the three sitcoms that star Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall (this, The Young Ones, and Bottom), I would say that FR & C is the least funny, and Bottom is by far the most hilarious. To me, Bottom is utterly timeless, utter genius. I also believe that Edmondson and Mayall ate British greatest ever double act, and neither one was the 'straight' man, they are both absolute masters of comedy.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah they're both wonderful! Thanks for watching!

[@mickweall]

😁🤣😘✌

[@Wizard-uo4wj]

utter pish ffs

[@EnchantedEssays]

I can see why you think that. It took me a long time to get into it. I think it's definitely the weakest of the Rik and Ade sitcoms. Thanks for watching!