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
Flood (The Young Ones) (Adrian Edmondson); Rick (Rik Mayall) and Neil (Nigel Planer). The episode also features their landlord Jerzei Balowski (Alexei Sayle), a character who was appearing for the second time during the first series, and would appear once more in total. This episode was the only one of the dozen made not to feature a band performing mid-show; the lion-tamer provided the "cabaret" instead. While the boys are playing hide-and-seek, Vyvyan hides in a wardrobe and ends in a Narnia-like world. Mr. Balowski's axe-murdering condition cause by Vyvyan's potion is a reference to Stephen King's novel, "The Shining". The monks at the