An upset Neil bursts into the house, interrupting a story Rick is telling an uninterested Vyvyan and Mike, and describes an encounter in which a complete stranger called him smelly.
Still wearing their dirty clothes, they rush to catch a train as Motörhead perform their song "Ace of Spades" in the living room.
He pull the communication cord to chase down his head, The four were thown out of the train after impatently Rick said ASLEF was an anagram for "total and complete bastard."
They arrive two weeks later, bedraggled and filthy, and Vyvyan tries and fails to smuggle in a pig, Even Neil's message to inform the studio about the delay was all just a complain he made.
Scumbag is pitted against the incredibly wealthy Footlights College team from Oxbridge, to whom Bambi shows blatant favouritism by accepting wrong answers and bribes.
They are suddenly squashed by a giant éclair, which belongs to a medical doctor who has been observing the events of the episode as a bacterial culture under his microscope.
[1] As with all episodes of The Young Ones, the main four characters were student housemates Mike (Christopher Ryan); Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson); Rick (Rik Mayall); and Neil (Nigel Planer).