Demolition (The Young Ones) of the house and reading bad poetry from a sheet of paper in his hand, which he drops and thus begins singing Cliff Richard's song "Living Doll"; Vyvyan begins knocking down the house himself, using extreme methods; Neil has planned to hang himself, but his rope is too long and he can't do it. Neil later plans to hide in the wall cavity and "pretend to be thermal insulation" so that he will be killed when the house is knocked down; and Mike tries to seduce the female council representative. None of their schemes work, as an airplane ultimately crashes
Nasty (The Young Ones) of gravediggers that the lads tell their story to. Arnold Brown appears as the man in the opening scene playing chess against Death. Dawn French and Helen Atkinson-Wood appear in the pain reliever commercial set in Hell. The opening scene of a man playing chess with Death is a reference to Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film, "The Seventh Seal". At the grave site when the vicar says "Ashes to ashes," Rick responds with "Funk to funky, we all know Major Tom's a junkie", referencing lyrics from the David Bowie song 'Ashes to Ashes'. Later in the episode, Rick proclaims to Neil