Interesting

The fifth episode of The Young Ones first series, Interesting, was first aired on BBC2 on Tuesday 7 December 1982.  The boys are having a party and as usual, Neil is doing all the work; Rik is just being plain tossy; Mike is being cool and Vyvyan is doing something which portends violence - this time he is outside souping up the vacuum cleaner.

The first guest to arrive, incredibly unfashionably early, is Neil's hippy friend, Neil.  His fate is to be pushed inside the fridge by Rik, with the accompanying on screen caption, 'The BBC would like to warn all small children that pushing people inside old fridges is a bloody stupid thing to do.'

The next guest to arrive, still incredibly early, is Dawn French as a modern day Christian missionary.  Rik tries to bar her entry, but is bowled over as she rushes into the house.  She busily tries to impart her message to the heathens of the house.  Finally we cut away to a scene of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (including Keith Allen as Pestilence).  One of them, eventually tosses away a ham sandwich, which somehow managed to land in the kitchen (as an oversized sandwich) and squash the Christian.

Next and finally, although it's still early, some bona fide guests arrive and we have a typical piece from Rik.  He accuses them of being early, then one of them of being a liar and then when they propose to go off to the pub, he wonders aloud if they really are his friends, 'Piss off to the pub, I just thought you were my friends, that's all.'

Vyvyan does some press ups, to impress the girls.  He actually looks like he's simulating sex in the living room.  Then Rik finds a tampon, in one of the girls' handbags.  Of course, considering he's a man of the world, he hasn't got a clue what he holds in his hand.  Until that is, he drops in his drink and it begins to expand...

The party's going nowhere until the clock magically whizzes round to five to midnight, when all hell breaks loose.  By now, Alexei Sayle, as Tommy Balowski is a Scouse drunk, and everybody's besht mate... hic.  We have music from Rip, Rig and Panic, starring Neneh Cherry on vocals.  Then Vyvan's punk friends arrive and eventually begin to smash the pace up.  It is poor old Neil who attracts much of their violence, at one point though, he wakes up and can remember the party only as a bad dream...