Nasty (The Young Ones)
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2016) |
| "Nasty" | |
|---|---|
| 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 appearances | |
| |
"Nasty" is 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 BBC2 on 29 May 1984.[1]
Plot
The episode begins with a man playing
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 - but suffers a sustained electric shock in the process - and the group is shown a commercial for a women's pain reliever set in Hell
.
After the video stops working once again, the package delivered earlier has opened. This turns out to be a vampire, who claims he is really just a driving instructor from
virgins, it leads to them all unconvincingly denying their sexual purity. But when the vampire returns downstairs, he is hit by sunlight streaming through the window (as he still has his wristwatch set to South African time) - and he is placed inside a dual-purpose sofa-coffin. The scene flash-forwards back to the graveyard, where Mike realises it is half-past nine. The vampire then comes out from the coffin and reveals himself to be Harry the Bastard, an employee from Rumbelows
from whom they rented the video machine. Harry announces that their deadline for returning the machine has just elapsed and they now owe him £500 in late fees. As the closing line of the episode, the entire gang at the grave site turn to the camera and say, "Well, what a complete bastard!" The closing credits play over Death and the man from the chess match (who is now a ghost) arguing at a golf hole.
Characters
As with all episodes of The Young Ones, the main four characters were student housemates Mike (
Hale & Pace appear as a pair of gravediggers that the lads tell their story to. Arnold Brown appears as the man in the opening scene playing chess against Death. Dawn French and Helen Atkinson-Wood
appear in the pain reliever commercial set in Hell.
References
- Chrissie Macdonald. "Episode 3 - Nasty". That's Anarchy! The Story of a Revolution in the World of TV Comedy. Temple House Pty Ltd. Australia. 2002. Pages 86 to 89. See also "Nasty" at pages 45, 50, 52 and 56. See also pages 93, 184 and 270.
- "S2E3: Nasty" in "The Young Ones Music Guide: Series Two". Dirty Feed. 15 November 2020.
- Robert Ham. "1. The Damned—“Nasty” (from S02E03)" in "Ranking The Young Ones' Musical Performances". Paste. 9 February 2016.
- Peter Dear and Peter Davalle. "Today's television and radio programmes". The Times. 29 May 1984. p 31.
- ^ ""The Young Ones" Nasty (1984)". IMDb. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
Original Air Date: 29 May 1984 (Season 2, Episode 9)
External links
- "Nasty" at IMDb
