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Did you ever notice the 5th Young Ones roommate?

That was the OTHER thing that freaked me out when I finally noticed it only recently. I thought he/she was only in a couple of scenes, but then I read a blog post about it which showed him/her in a myriad of other scenes that I had completely missed too!

Huh. I never knew. Someone gathered all the scenes containing him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG2L4QtAGGQ

It looks like an in-joke of the production team. To be fair, The Young Ones was already quite surrealistic in its humour (e.g., a talking Glaswegian hamster).

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