Neil prepares meals of snow passed off as risotto, and Vyvyan goes around the neighbourhood to find winter fuel although the episode is set in September.
After a poor haircut and a quick loan of Mike's suit, Neil goes to join up, but having been told not to mention it, is rejected for being a pacifist.
While the others get lucky when a lorry full of food and expensive furnishings crashes through the front window, Neil takes to his new job – arresting a bunch of his drugged-up hippie friends, where the track Electrick Gypsies by Steve Hillage is playing on the record player until he pulls the plug on it and says – "Oh no, Steve Hillage!"
Mike returns and lights a celebratory cigar, unaware of what has just happened; the flame ignites the gas and causes an explosion which destroys the house.
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).