Oil

The second episode of The Young Ones, Oil, saw the boys decamp to their new house. Its surreal tone was set by the opening scene when the statue outside the front door complains bitterly, 'More bloody students', and is told by the sunflower stood next to him to, '...shut up and put some clothes on.'

Soon after they get in through the front door, Mike tells Neil that the big pile of letters on the mat must be bills.  'Who's Bill?', Neil asks to camera.  Absolutely blinding!

It is Vyvyan who strikes oil in the cellar, and after instructing Neil and Rik that there will be a house meeting in the broom cupboard at nine in the morning, they all go off to sleep on it.  Unfortunately for Rik and Neil, this is a plot by Mike and Vyvyan to seize control of the oil and force Neil and Rik to dig it...

The music is provided by Alexei Sayle (?!) with the band Radical Posture with a song about Dr. Marten's boots!  There is also a small cameo from Buddy Holly - yes, Buddy Holly.  Apparently he had been stuck, upside down and wrapped in his parachute in the house for the past 20 years.  And of course there were the two chaps holidaying in the cellar...