This is the beginning of a work-in-progress piece I have been devising on The Young Ones and Thatcherism. I thought I would post it as the clip is great and rather topical. If you can think of any particular bits in the series that have historical relevance for understanding Thatcherite Britain, please comment below.
In one of my history topics that I used to team-teach in, I presented a lecture of Thatcherism and Britain in the 1980s. In this lecture, I showed my students a clip from the episode ‘Cash’ from the UK television comedy show The Young Ones. The scene portrays one of the characters pretending to have a baby in a non-furnished house. In the panic of the impending ‘baby’ (the character, Vyvyan, is actually male), another character, Rik (the typical student-lefty stereotype), yells:
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