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1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.

In keeping with the war theme of the episode, Hermine is reading a copy of The Sun from the time of the Falklands War. The headline "GOTCHA" was from 4 May 1982, about the sinking of the Argentine warship ARA General Belgrano.

The Russian Roulette scene is a superb parody of The Deer Hunter

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    • Author: RuTGamer
    This is probably the most bizarre Comic Strip episode.It's very much like the insane dreams I have on a regular basis.Constantly changing locations and running from psychos who are trying to kill me.Despite being very strange, this is still one of the better episodes.The communists have invaded Britain and the main characters(Peacock and French) are on the run.After their house is blown up(and French is showered in eggs, meat and butter) they get separated and spend the rest of the episode searching for each other.For some reason Peacock has red marks painted on his face and then later he is given a bowler and it becomes clear that they have made him into a clone of the singer from The Addicts(who is a clone of the guy from A Clockwork Orange)(IMDb's lame spell check won't let me spell the band's name right).I don't know if that had some meaning behind it so to me it's just stupid.I always found it weird that after the first two episodes Danny Peacock didn't play a bigger role in the rest of the series.Anyway, great episode.Watch it.
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    • Author: heart of sky
    This is one of the most important episodes for any self-respecting Young Ones fan to see. It hasn't exactly aged like a fine wine, but it still has much to recommend it.

    Danny Peacock and Dawn French portray the central couple whilst Rik, Ade, Nigel, Peter, Jen & Robbie play a few characters each. Rik Mayall's General Irwin is a classically random character. There's a hilarious Russian Roulette scene with Edmondson, Planer, Saunders and Coltrane. Robbie also portrays a Japanese businessman, which is a sight to behold. When Rik spits in his face, I laughed so hard a bit of wee came out... of my nose.

    Warning! Blind people should not be allowed to handle machine guns and grenades!
  • Episode cast overview:
    Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane - Salesman / Screwball / Mario / Harry Kiri / Markoff
    Adrian Edmondson Adrian Edmondson - Mike / Hatchett / Julio / Bolsen / Man in Cage / Jenkins / Zarkoff
    Dawn French Dawn French - Hermine
    Rik Mayall Rik Mayall - Slug / General Erwin / Hovis
    Daniel Peacock Daniel Peacock - Godfrey
    Nigel Planer Nigel Planer - Tommy / Doc / Ivan / McClowsky / Australian
    Peter Richardson Peter Richardson - Radio DJ / Cocker / Wally / Miguel / Brown / Field Marshall / Drunk / Terrorist
    Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Saunders - Chas / Marilyn / Captain / Drunk
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