The Young Ones (TV Series)

Summer Holiday (1984)

Christopher Ryan: Mike

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Quotes 

• Vyvyan : Do you think ants go to discos?

  Mike : Vyvyan, it is proved that ants are highly intelligent, with a well-ordered society. The last thing they'd go to would be discos.

• Mike : Neil, it's very rare that you interest me but today you have. Why do you keep coming down here with a cake and saying surprise?

  Neil : It's my birthday.

  Mike : Now you knew that anyway and we don't care, so where's the surprise?

  Neil : Well, I baked a cake.

  Mike : A cake. Can a cake dance? Can a cake get you drunk? Will a cake let you put your hand up it's jumper?

• Mike : Rick, Your parents died this morning.

  Rick : My parents are dead? I can't believe it.

  Neil : And you think that's bad?

  Rick : Well yes I do actually what's it to you piss face?

• Mike : Neil, it is very rare you interest me, but today you have. Why do you keep coming in here, carrying a cake, and saying surprise?

  Neil : It's my birthday.

  Mike : Now you knew that anyway, and we don't care, so where's the surprise?

• [last lines] 

  Rick , Vyvyan , Mike , Neil : [their bus has just gone over a cliff and crashed onto the ground below]  Phew! That was close!

  [the bus explodes. The credits roll] 

• Vyvyan : You'd have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch you out, Michael!

  Mike : You'd have to stay up all night.

• Mike : What is ugly, smelly, boring and is standing in front of me called Neil?

  Neil : You all really hate me, don't you?

• Rick : Your tutor asked me to tell you that if you don't show up again next year that he and the dean might have to seriously reconsider your grant.

  Mike : Well, you can tell my tutor that I've still got the photographs of him and the dean. I think I'll ask for one of those Ph.D.s next year.

• Vyvyan : Look, here comes the postman.

  Mike : Vyvyan, why do you keep telling us what's just about to happen next?

  Vyvyan : Because it's a studio set, Michael, and they can't afford any long shots.