The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Rik Mayall , Adrian Edmondson , Nigel Planer , Christopher Ryan , Alexei Sayle , Mark Arden , Stephen Frost , Ben Elton , Paul Bradley , Jim Barclay , Robbie Coltrane , Ruth Burnett , Gareth Hale , Dawn French , Norman Pace , Pauline Melville , Andy de la Tour , Peter Laxton
After realizing they haven't done the wash in almost three years, the boys take a trip to the launderette and then Neil remembers that they have been chosen to be on "University Challenge".
The boys are broke so they force Neil to get a job as a policeman to raise money for Vyvyan, who is pregnant.
Mike and Vyvan plan to watch video nasties but have trouble working the video player; Neil has a bath; a vampire terrorizes the guys.
After having a dream that he, Rick, Vyvan, Mike, and Mr. Balowski were in the American television program Dallas (1978), Neil awakens to find that Rick has been sleeping with an axe murderess.
Vyvyan, Rick, Mike, and Neil suffer with colds, then with being taken hostage by violent criminal Brian Damage Balowski. On top of that, Neil's parents are coming to tea.
It's the end of the term at College, and Vyvan, Rick, Mike and Neil are having a lazy summer holiday. But they end up getting evicted by Mr. Bolowski and decide to rob a bank, before making a getaway on a bus.