Due to this, the chorus seemed to begin "Elcome to the House of Fun", so lead singer Suggs was forced to overdub the word "Welcome".

[6] However, the boy is misunderstood by the chemist, as he asks for the condoms using slang euphemisms, such as "box of balloons with a featherlight touch" and "party hats with the coloured tips".

[6] The confused chemist behind the counter eventually informs the boy that the establishment is not a joke shop, and directs him towards the "House of Fun".

You could buy a packet of fags, a pint of beer and a three-piece suit for half a crown and still have enough left to go and see Rudolf Valentino at the Gaumont!

[3] The video begins with Suggs dressed as a boy entering the chemist's shop with Lee Thompson and Chas Smash behind him, playing the saxophone and trumpet respectively.

On entering the shop, Suggs acts out the lyrics of the song, as a 16-year-old boy awkwardly attempting to purchase condoms, without much success.

Suddenly, on the first chorus, three of the band members enter the shop, dressed in gowns and wearing sunglasses and silly headgear (much like Monty Python-esque Pepperpots), and perform a simple, rhythmic yet comedic tongue-in-cheek stepping-dance routine, supposedly acting as dancing pepperpots hired with the Pleasure Beach attraction "Fun House".

Due to this, the music video, along with others such as "It Must Be Love" and "Cardiac Arrest", helped set the stage in the US for Madness' future song "Our House", which was their biggest stateside hit by far, peaking at number 7 in July 1983.

However, the version on the Complete Madness compilation as well as subsequent releases of the song removed this ending with the track fading to a conclusion instead.

In a review of the 1992 single reissue, Simon Williams of NME commented that "House of Fun" "still sounds as terrifyingly plinky plonky as Liberace and his grand piano falling down a million flight of stairs as it did [in 1982]".