The great Citizen Mom shares this. Originally posted on her blog here. (I only hope she forgives me for not making it look as good as she did.)

It took a good five years after its  debut on BBC2 for "The Young Ones" to make it all the way across the pond, to where a kid in Philly could finally watch. And even then, it was work — these were the days before the city had cable, necessitating a VCR deal with the kid who sat next to me in homeroom and got MTV at his house in Lafayette Hill.

But dammit, I’d been reading about the British comedy series for years in the import Smash Hits magazines I bought on South Street, and it was time to see what all the fuss was about.
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Don’t you think that video made as many radio stars as it did kill them? A-Ha’s Take On Me as a prime example? Would Madonna have been so huge if she hadn’t so visually proved that she wasn’t anything like a virgin? And yes Michael Jackson was already huge with his release of Off The Wall but it sure feels that it was his videos that catapulted him into that rarefied air that has benefited him so well. How many effing times did they, and still do, run the making of Thriller, fercryinowtlowd?!

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