The Young Ones Series 1 features the lunatic exploits of four students of Scumbag College. Vyv, the punk (Adrian Edmonson), “socially aware” and “politically conscious” Rick (Rik Mayall), Neil, the hippy (Nigel Planer), and Mike, the well-dressed smoothie (Christopher Ryan). They share a dilapidated house in North London owned by their dodgy landlord Jerzy Balowski (Alexei Sayle). They are the least compatible house-mates it is possible to imagine and, when they are not tearing pieces out of each other, they manage to get involved in the most bizarre of comic escapades.