Sick (The Young Ones) to stop Rick complaining. Neil's sneezing fit prompts Vyvyan to send Mike out to get a cure (prompting a joke about The Cure). Vyvyan takes drastic emergency action, involving the use of Rick's laundry bag, and some extreme acupuncture, using six-inch nails. Vyvyan also tries to get Neil to sneeze outside by pushing him through the bedroom window. Neil's snot splatters all over a man's face who is standing in the street. The man's reaction throwing a brick toward the four's house, ends up smashing through the window of a neighbouring house, thus beginning a cycle of violence which results
The Young Ones (TV series) his urban environment in the series. The series' theme song featured the cast singing Cliff Richard and The Shadows' UK No. 1 song "The Young Ones" (1961), the title song from the film of the same name. Throughout the series there are many references to Richard, as Mayall's character is a fan. The theme over the end credits was written by Peter Brewis, who also created the incidental music on many episodes. In 1984, after the second series, Planer (in character as Neil) reached No. 2 in the UK charts with a version of Traffic's "Hole in My Shoe". The