Flood (The Young Ones) Quotes

Flood (The Young Ones) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Flood ended in 1970.

Flood (The Young Ones) Quotes

• (Neil) "Hey, wouldn't it be terrible if we ended up having to eat each other? Like those sailors did in that film, um -- "We Ended Up Having To Eat Each Other.""

• (DJ) "And exactly how long have you been in the music biz?"
• (Girl on Radio) "Since lunchtime. I was working in a well known laundrette in the King's Road this morning."

• (Vyvyan) "The person who drinks it will become an axe-wielding homicidal maniac, it's a cure really -- for not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac."

• (Neil) "It was getting really hot. Then I thought oh no, I should have put out that sociology file that was burning on Rick's bed."
• (Vyvyan) "Yeah, I did that. Trying to make Rick think I was hiding in his bedroom."
• (Neil) "What? You set fire to Rick's bedroom? I think that's a really selfish thing to do Vyvyan. I was hiding in there; you could have given me away."

• (Vyvyan) "It's a potion I've invented where, when the patient drinks it, he turns in an axe-wielding homicidal maniac. It's basically a cure; for not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac. The potential market's enormous."

• (Vyvyan) "I've made a potion that turns you into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac."
• (Vyvyan) "It's a cure, really. For not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac."

• (Jerzy Balowski) "Well, we're halfway through the show and it's time for a half time report. I think the show has been going particularly well. I particularly like how the young lad, Rick, has been going off the joke into the dead laugh area. Going into the international sphere, they're going to have to face some stiff competition especially from the Swedes with their comedy series "Ooh, Where's My Volvo?" and also, of course, from the French with their comedy series, "Mr. Poo Poo Goes to the Lavatory". Anyway, the half time's over now and it's back to the action."

• (Rick) "That's just typical of you Vyvyan. The house is under fifty feet of water and what do you do? Build a submarine."
• (Rick) "There's um -- no room for me in there, is there?"
• (Vyvyan) "No."

• (Rick) "Nothing but war in here. War. War. Bloody war. Why can't they have stories about love and peace?"
• (Vyvyan) "Because it's sissy, you girlie."

• (Rick) "All I'm saying is that this comic is reactionary militarist pamphlet, all they ever do is fight all the time."
• (Vyvyan) "And what's so wrong with that? I suppose you think we should all go around touching each others bottoms. "Dan Dare touches The Mekons bottom". Exciting new story: "Batman gooses The Jokers crack"."

• (Rick) "Meringue -- Boomerang -- Long, blue, boomerang --"
• (Vyvyan) "Oh, shut up."
• (Rick) "I'm trying to free form."
• (Vyvyan) "I'm trying to read."
• (Rick) "OH, REALLY. I learned how to do that years ago. And what is it your reading Vyvian? A bit of Petrarchian verse, is it? A little bit of French drama?"
• (Vyvyan) "It's called "SS Death Camp Criminal Battalion go to Monte Casino for the Massacre"."
• (Rick) "That's MY bloody comic."
• (Vyvyan) "Give it back."
• (Rick) "No, Vyvyan. It's mine."
• (Rick) "Anyway, there's no point in reading comics, they're stupid. They treat the kids as if they we're -- well, you know, kids. Nothing but war in them. War, war bloody war. Why can't they have stories about love and peace?"
• (Vyvyan) "Because it's sissy, you girly."
• (Rick) "I'm not being girly, Vyvyian. Longing for a peaceful world is not being girly."
• (Vyvyan) "It is; It's being soppy and very very girly."
• (Rick) "I AM NOT BEING G; Look, this entire discussion is completely sexist anyway and I don't intend to continue it."
• (Rick) "but"
• (Rick) "for your information, it is not soppy of me to long for a world where a man will love his brother."
• (Vyvyan) "Poof."
• (Rick) "You're dilibratelly trying to provoke me aren't you?"
• (Vyvyan) "Yeah."
• (Rick) "For one man to love another, Vyvyan, is not poofy. It's actually very beautiful. It's only when they start touching each others bottoms that it gets poofy."

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