Following on from Benidorm, Teenage Kicks was hilarious I thought! The jokes were well woven into the show and deserved laugh out loud status! The audience laughter was justified and not just an excuse to use canned sound effects. All in all, a VERY FUNNY show! I certainly enjoyed it and I hope this picks up a lot of viewers as Adrian Edmundson has a piece of magic with this show that he has written! ITV is the one to watch again on Friday nights!
Superb! ITV must have a hit on its hand with this show!!
I actually laughed quite a bit at this. Only from Ade himself though, the rest of the cast were awful, especially the daughter. Worst actress i've ever seen. Ade did slip between posh Englishman and 'Eddie' every other scene though which was weird. He plays it Eddie when he's drunk, but then again it's hard not to i suppose.
It wasn't groundbreaking, but why does EVERY comedy have to be groundbreaking to be good?
Lets hope we see more Ade next week, and less of the other lot.
Anyways, as i said i like it, i'll carry on watching. Though i doubt it'll be a 'hit' unless it gets slightly better, but then first episodes never really show you how good a show is going to end up.
I was borderline with it really, I prefer Ade when he's working with Rik but I suppose I need to get off my Bottom once in a while
I was thinking this would be ITV's answer to that Nicholas Lyndhurst/Celia Imrie sitcom on BBC1... After You've Gone? .. alas it was better than that and tons better than the awful Doctors and Nurses which now just seems to fill space on TV Blunders all the time.
Teenage Kicks was better than I expected (and better than the trailers had me believe!), though some of the supposed teenage actors were dodgy. However I thought taking the piss out of the Chinese guy's accent was the sort of "comedy" that died out with Mind Your Language around 30 years ago.
When I first heard of this, I read that Ade was playing a former frontman in a band and would be playing something related to Vyvian Basterd. This really got me going... However, the "ex-frontman" was only brought up once and he was in to way Vyvian-ed.
Nevertheless, I found the show very very watchable. I love Ade's work, especially with Rik, and this show proved he hasn't lost it. His children are a bit My Family, however. His son has essence of Nick and the daughter is just tons of the annoying side of Janey, which made her performance rather irritating.
The role of "David" is very confusing. At first, seeming like a friend of Vernon, I press "i" and it tells me that Ade's character is living with his
three
kids. I only saw two, so this was very very confusing. I've had to do some vague research to reveal he's actually a flatmate.
As for the comedy, there was alot of good jokes and laughs, a handful making me laugh out loud. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the chinese-accent jokes were a bit "Mind Your Language", but it's nice to see the comedy has taken a nostalgic route... even if it's gone the way of Bernard Manning. However, I could not help but see Eddie in Vernon in parts of the episode, and it's very very entertaining to watch Ade perform like that again.
Hopefully, the series will remain at this level or even improve, and that it won't die a horrible death with some of the painful acting from some of the cast.
ITV must have a hit on its hand with this show!! 
