The Comic Strip, Part 0 - I embark on a dangerous journey

Back in the Eighties when politics were overly simple and pants were astonishingly complex, many folks with minds similar to my own knew that however hard their weekends rocked (or how poorly it sucked), they could count on one constant to help them wind into the school/work week.

Every Sunday night for years and years and years, we got an episode of The Young Ones, followed by an episode of The Comic Strip Presents to give us one last blast of joy before Monday.

While the Young Ones was wild and anarchic fun, it was always the same anarchic fun. The Comic Strip was a different beast. Each episode was a self-contained film, and if it weren't for the little cartoon bomb going off at the beginning, there would be no clue that they had anything to do with each other.

In the swag from my last trip was a nine-disk DVD boxset of the complete comic strip. This consists 39 episodes (some of these episodes are actually full length films) and extras. MTV only showed ten or twelve of these - so most of this is completely uncharted territory for me. So here's my challenge for myself - watch them all in order and report back here.

When I finish I get a cookie or something.