Nasty (The Young Ones)
| "Nasty" | |
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| The Young Ones episode | |
| Episode no. |
Series 2 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Paul Jackson |
| Written by | Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer |
| Produced by | Paul Jackson |
| Featured music | Peter Brewis |
| Original air date | 29 May 1984 |
| Running time | 34:56 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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"Nasty" was the ninth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first aired on BBC Two on 29 May 1984.
The show begins with a man playing chess against Death. After losing to the man, Death declares "Bollocks to this!" and attacks the man with his scythe. The horror movie-themed opening credits are followed by Mike, Rick, Vyvyan and Neil carrying a coffin through a local cemetery (except Mike, who has his hand up but is not touching the coffin). The coffin is brought to a freshly-dug grave where a passing woman asks a spade-holding Neil if he digs graves, to which Neil replies, "Yeah, they're all right." After encountering a drunken vicar and two gravediggers, the show then takes a flashback to events leading up to the burial. It's bath night, and while Neil jumps into the muddy bathwater used in the three others' previous baths (inadvertently finding his long-lost bicycle in the process), Rick locks himself in his room & gets on his bed for a sneaky read of Cosmopolitan - only to get nearly cut in half by Vyvyan's cleverly placed circular saw. Mike and Vyvyan spend the time trying to set up the new video machine they have secured in order to watch a video nasty. A scene-stealing postman then arrives to deliver a human-shaped package from the Transvaal. After falling out of the bathroom window and having his bedroom boarded up, Neil arrives downstairs wearing a dress he found in Rick's room (with Rick's name tagged in the back). Neil briefly gets the video machine to work (by plugging it in and the trio didn't know how to get work properly), and the group is shown a commercial for a women's pain reliever set in Hell.
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