Bambi (The Young Ones) question from Bambi reveals Rick's actions of swapping the question cards. The affronted audience heckle the group, and begin to hurl items at them. They are suddenly squashed by a gigantic éclair dropped by a medical doctor (Robbie Coltrane), who has been observing the events of the episode as a culture under his microscope. The Doctor later feeds the éclair to his elephant subject, Jumbo, who is supposedly a horribly disfigured man (a reference to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man). As with all episodes of "The Young Ones", the main four characters were student flatmates Mike (Christopher Ryan); Vyvyan (Adrian
The Young Ones (TV series) "Das Kapital", seemingly having fallen asleep while trying to read it. He greatly dislikes Margaret Thatcher, as is noted by his threatening to blow up England with an atomic bomb in the episode "Bomb" if she "doesn't do something to help the kids, by this afternoon", and from negative references to Thatcher and the Conservative Party mentioned in "The Young Ones" book "Bachelor Boys". However, Rick sometimes displays a markedly conservative mindset, contrary to the image he has adopted, as again in "Bomb" while talking to an old man at the DHSS office (which he has mistaken for a post