BOMB:

 

SHOWN: 30TH NOVEMBER 1982

BBC 2 Tuesday 9 PM 35 minutes

WRITERS: Rik Mayall, Lise Meyer & Ben Elton

DIRECTOR: Paul Jackson

 

 

Mike and Rick are fighting over bathroom time, Neil is consoling the tea kettle, and Vyvyan just wants breakfast. No wonder the lads don't notice the atom bomb in the kitchen. When they do notice, they decide the best thing to do is watch TV. But they don't have a TV license....and the TV detector man has shown up!
"A potentially explosive situation erupts when a bomb falls on the house .... But worse ! The TV licence man calls." The lads find an atomic bomb and try to auction it to the highest seller. This involves Neil painting himself white to deflect a nuclear blast, the Dicky and Dino show, and Dexys' Midnight Runners singing "Jackie Wilson said" in the toilet. Footage of a plane dropping the bomb precedes the credits. 

 

 

RIK MAYALL ---------- Rick

ADRIAN EDMONDSON ---------- Vyvyan Bastard

NIGEL PLANER ---------- Neil

CHRISTOPHER RYAN ----------- Mike

ALEXEI SAYLE

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS ---------- themselves

MARK ARDEN ---------- Father on Cornflake box

JEAN CAMPBELL-DALLAS

PAOLA DIONISOTTI

CLAIR HILL

CERI JACKSON

PETER LAXTON ---------- Boy on cornflakes box

TONY SYMPSON

ROGER SLOMAN ---------- Right Bleeding bastard

 

QUOTES:

Rick: Vyvyan! Have you been using my roll on deodourant? There's a revolting hair on it, and it's not one of mine!

Vyvyan: How do you know?

Rick: Because I know what mine looks like, Vyvyan! I can see them now! (raises arm and points to armpit)

 

Neil: "It's like the kettle killed itself rather than be used by me..."

 

Mike: "If people weren't sick, we wouldn't need penicillin"

 

Mike: "A social conscience is like a garden fence, you try to eat it, it'll get stuck in your throat."

 

Rick: "No, YOU put my address down. Rick, 15 Credibility Street" (at the Social Security office)

 

Rick: "Tomorrow everyone in England will be free, and there will be no more social prejudice or hatred. GET UP NEIL, I HATE YOU !!!!!!!"

 

 

TRIVIA:

The Radio Times description says: "Mark and Samantha decide to have a tea party, and the vicar tries out his new chain-saw with sidesplitting results." Also included was a photo with the caption: "A study in collective lunacy. Can The Young Ones bring the house down, will it fall down of its own accord or ... Armageddon out of here!"

Complete Script to Bomb-

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