The Young Ones (TV Series)

Boring (1982)

Adrian Edmondson: Vyvyan

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Quotes 

• Rick : Well, Vyvyan, you never told us your mother was a bartender.

  Vyvyan : Well, she was a shoplifter when I knew her.

  Neil : She doesn't look strong enough.

  Vyvyan : Eh?

  Neil : To lift shops.

• [Vyvyan is introducing the guys to his mother...] 

  Vyvyan : That's a friend of mine named Neil, that's a friend of mine named Mike... and that's a complete bastard I know named Rick.

  Rick : [laughing]  He's just joking Mrs. Vyvyan, we're actually terrific friends.

  Mrs Vyvyan : Ooh-err. He is a bastard, isn't he?

• Rick : Hey, wouldn't it be amazing if all this money was real?

  Vyvyan : That is the single most predictable and BORING thing that anyone could ever say whilst playing Monopoly.

• [explaining cereal contest rules] 

  Vyvyan : You have to write in 10 words what Cornflakes mean to you. So I wrote: Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes. Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes.

  Rick : PATHETIC. You'll never win, you know.

  Vyvyan : Why not?

  Rick : That's only 9 words.

  Vyvyan : Oh, yeah.

  [writing] 

  Vyvyan : Cornflakes.

• [Door knocking] 

  Mike : There's someone at the door, Rick.

  Rick : Someone at the door, Vyvyan.

  Vyvyan : Someone at the door, Neil.

  Neil : Someone at the door, Mike.

  Mike : I know!

  [Door knocking louder] 

  Mike : There's someone at the door, Rick!

  Rick : There's someone at the door, Vyvyan!

  Vyvyan : There's someone at the door, Mike!

  Neil : There's someone at the door, Neil!

  [Everyone looks at Neil, confused] 

• [Vyvyan and Rick are playing Monopoly] 

  Vyvyan : [reading Community Chest card]  You have won 2nd place in a beauty contest...

  [Rick laughs] 

  Vyvyan : ...smash Rick over the head with the bank.

  [Vyvyan does so] 

• Rick : Guys! Guys! Look at us! Squabbling, bickering, like children! What's happening to us? We never used to be like this!

  Vyvyan : Yes we did.

  Mike : Yeah, he's right, Rick. We've always been like this.