Boring (The Young Ones) Three Bears also reject the lentils and opt to "go to McDonald's" instead. As they drift off to sleep for another night, a spaceship lands on their roof, with Neil still obliviously sitting on his windowsill. As with all episodes of "The Young Ones", the main four characters are student flatmates Mike (Christopher Ryan), Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson), Rick (Rik Mayall), and Neil (Nigel Planer). Alexei Sayle stars as Billy Balowski, an eccentric taxi driver and brother of the students' landlord Jerzei. Mark Arden and Stephen Frost play a pair of rather stupid policemen who deliver a series of gags separately
Oil (The Young Ones) appeared as Alexei Balowski, a protest singer and nephew of the students' landlord Jerzei. When the episode was originally aired, an extended scene was shown at the basement oil well involving Vyvyan criticising Rick for not working hard enough, and then head butting the ground to speed up the digging (which then leads to Neil accidentally putting the pick axe through Vyvyan's head). In VHS and DVD releases, this scene has been edited to just show the pickaxe event and aftermath. The scene began with an obscure Roy 'C' song from 1973 called "I'm Bustin' My Rocks (Working On The