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
Boring (The Young Ones) hum it, I'll smash your face in!" Actress and writer Pauline Melville appears as Vyvyan's mother. A devil, played by David Rappaport. The premise is that if anyone utters his name three times, he shall appear to claim a soul. He doesn't get called to Earth very often because 'Ftumch' is such an unusual name: 'No-one ever says Ftumch. Why couldn't I be called William?' Ftumch is accidentally summoned to Earth by Rik reading a gibberish typo aloud from The Guardian twice, and Neil asking "What's a Ftumch?" Boring (The Young Ones) Boring is the third episode of "The Young