Summer Holiday (The Young Ones) and Neil coming top out of the four. Mike then hatches a plan to rob a bank, using water pistols and Vyvyan's Ford Anglia as a getaway vehicle. They mess up their own robbery, but unwittingly take the proceeds from a separate ongoing one, and escape to Vyvyan's car, which he had parked in front of a lamppost. Vyvyan promptly crashes it into the lamppost. Inconsolable at crashing his car, he also reveals that his hamster SPG had died, as he was sleeping on the car's radiator when the car crashed. With the police sirens in the distance, Rick finally
The Young Ones (TV series) Life" where Neil is killed by Rick and covered with garden fertiliser only for several of him to emerge from the ground later on. As established in "Neil's Heavy Concept Album", Neil comes from Twickenham (his name punning on Eel Pie Island). His middle names ("Wheedon Watkins") are revealed in "Neil's Book of the Dead". He is a fan of Hawkwind, Marillion, and Steve Hillage. More information about his musical tastes was revealed when the character 'guest v-jayed' on the still young MTV network in ca. 1985, playing several videos (e.g. T. Rex, "Get It On"), including his own hit