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==Legacy== The end of the series was not the last appearance of ''The Young Ones''. For the British charity television appeal Comic Relief, the four recorded a song and video for Cliff Richard's "Living Doll", accompanied by Richard and Shadows guitarist [[Hank B. Marvin]]. Alexei Sayle was not involved, as he felt collaborating with Richard was against the [[alternative comedy|alternative]] ethos of the show, but had already achieved chart success in 1984 with "[['Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?]]". In 1984, Planer released an album of music and skits in character as Neil, entitled ''Neil's Heavy Concept Album''. Musical direction was by [[Canterbury scene]] keyboardist [[Dave Stewart (musician, born 1950)|Dave Stewart]]. It featured Stewart's alums [[Barbara Gaskin]], [[Jakko Jakszyk]], [[Pip Pyle]], [[Gavin Harrison]], [[Jimmy Hastings]] and Rick Biddulph. "Hole in My Shoe", a single taken from the LP, reached number 2. [[Soulwax]] used "Hello Vegetables" to kick off their Radio Soulwax mix "Introversy."<ref>{{cite web|title=Neil's Heavy Concept Album|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/neils-heavy-concept-album-mw0000847135|publisher=All Music|access-date=23 September 2017}}</ref> The program became a cult hit in the United States after [[MTV]] began broadcasting edited versions of the episodes during the summer of 1985. [[Conan O'Brien]] cited the show as one of his influences during a Q&A at the [[Oxford Union]]. At the 1986 Comic Relief stage shows, The Young Ones performed "Living Doll" live (following a short skit which involved Rick doing a comic song about showing his underwear and bodily parts, before being ejected from the group by Mike, and Vyvyan supposedly having backstage sex with [[Kate Bush]] with Neil as his [[contraceptive]]). The skit climaxed with Neil claiming Cliff Richard could not perform with them as he was "doing time" (the [[Time (musical)|musical Time]] was premiering the following week) and [[John Craven]] had been booked as a replacement, only for Cliff to then appear. However he was only available to appear on the second night of the run, with [[Bob Geldof]] replacing him on the other two nights.<ref name="Comic Relief 1986">{{cite web|url=http://sotcaa.org/pressarchive/comicrelief.html|title=Comic Relief 1986 |publisher=Comic Relief |access-date=11 June 2014}}</ref> On one occasion, Edmondson, Mayall and Planer as their "Young Ones" characters did a parody of the song "[[My Generation]]" by [[The Who]]. Mayall, Planer, and Edmondson reunited in 1986 for the Elton-written ''[[Filthy Rich & Catflap]]''. The series had many of the same characteristics as ''The Young Ones'' as did Mayall and Edmondson's next sitcom ''[[Bottom (TV series)|Bottom]]''. Ryan, for his part, was regularly recruited to play roles on associated series (such as ''[[Happy Families (1985 TV series)|Happy Families]]'', ''Bottom'' and ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]''). Mayall, Edmondson and Planer have also appeared in episodes of ''[[Blackadder]]''. Both series were repeated consecutively over twelve weeks in early 1985, but went unrepeated for four years, when the second series was shown on BBC2. In the mid-1990s all twelve episodes of ''The Young Ones'' were shown on BBC2 in a 30-minute revised format, missing scenes and dialogue. The series was also shown on digital channel UK Gold throughout the 1990s. A mix of both the edited and unedited versions was shown in the 2000s (decade) on [[Dave (TV channel)|UKTV G2]] and [[Paramount Comedy 1]]. DVD releases were initially very basic: Only the US "Every Stoopid Episode" edition featured excerpts from existing documentaries, and no extra footage was included. Musical references proved difficult to clear so "[[The Sounds of Silence]]" (one line) and "[[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]" were excised from the US editions. A new DVD release of all episodes ("Extra Stoopid Edition") was launched in November 2007, containing new documentaries and two commentary tracks. This edition restores the line from "The Sounds of Silence" and "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The music video "Living Doll" featuring Cliff Richard has not been included on any edition, and neither is the live performance done for comic relief in 1986.<ref name="Comic Relief 1986"/>
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