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==Links to other shows== {{Trivia|section|date=February 2024}} In the episode "[[Bambi (The Young Ones)|Bambi]]", the housemates appeared on ''[[University Challenge]]'', where they played against Footlights College, [[Oxbridge]], a reference to the [[Footlights]] drama club at [[Cambridge University]]. The Footlights College team was played by show writer Ben Elton and three actors who were once members of the real Cambridge Footlights: Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, the last of whom had actually appeared on the quiz show while at Cambridge. The episode title is a reference to the show's presenter, [[Bamber Gascoigne]], impersonated by Griff Rhys Jones.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bambi|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074qw4|publisher=BBC|access-date=23 September 2017}}</ref> In the episode "[[Sick (The Young Ones)|Sick]]", the quartet enter a scenario parodying ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'', after Neil's mother says the sitcom should be more like ''The Good Life'' and Vyvyan has an outburst against it, saying, "It's so bloody nice! [[Felicity Kendal|Felicity 'Treacle' Kendal]] and [[Richard Briers|Richard 'Sugar-Flavoured Snot' Briers]]! What do they do now?! Chocolate-bloody-button ads, that's what! They're nothing but a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a lovable middle-class eccentric. And I! Hate! Them!"<ref name="Observer 3 March 2013">{{cite news | title= Grieve for The Good Life? Not this Young One |url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/03/the-good-life-the-young-ones| last= Logan | first= Brian | date= 3 March 2013| work= [[The Observer]] |publisher= [[Guardian Media Group]]| access-date= 30 April 2018 }}</ref> Mayall and Edmondson elaborated on some of the series' concepts later in their sitcoms ''Filthy Rich & Catflap'' (written by Elton, with additional material by Mayall) and ''Bottom'' (written by Mayall and Edmondson. Christopher Ryan also appeared as Dave Hedgehog). Most of the regular cast (and several of the guests) also appeared in Channel 4 and [[BBC2]]'s ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]'' comedy shows. All four main actors went on to gain reputations as both dramatic and comic actors. In 1988, while playing main character [[Alan B'Stard]] during a brief skit of his political sitcom ''[[The New Statesman (1987 TV series)|The New Statesman]]'' on the BBC's Comic Relief telethon, Mayall switched characters to become Rick again and deliver a brief lustful turn to camera on the subject of "Cecil Parkinson and a whip". In the same year, Planer and Edmondson revived the characters of Neil and Vyvyan, albeit grown up and wearing standard clothes, in an advert for [[Friends Provident]]. Planer played an older Neil on an in-house BBC promotion for the international channel [[BBC Knowledge]] ("I haven't got a TV, I used it for firewood") in 1999 and a commercial for [[Castrol]] a year later. In 1990, [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] puppet series ''[[Spitting Image]]'' made reference to ''The Young Ones'' when four members of the [[Margaret Thatcher]] cabinet reminisced about their younger days, with all four playing one ''Young Ones'' character each: [[Cecil Parkinson]] as Mike, [[Douglas Hurd]] as Vyvyan, [[Michael Heseltine]] as Rick and [[Geoffrey Howe]] as Neil. The 2006 ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "[[SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4)|Chimps Ahoy]]" featured Mayall, Ryan and Planer as guest stars, playing a trio of [[chimpanzee]]s who come to inspect the progress [[Sandy Cheeks]] has made with her inventions.
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