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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Only Fools and Horses]]
| image = Only fools Video Nasty.jpg
| image_size = 250
| caption =
| series_no = 5
| episode = 5
| writer = [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]]
| director = [[Ray Butt]]
| producer = Ray Butt
| airdate = {{Start date|1986|09|28|df=yes}}
| length = 29:00 (DVD/iTunes)
| prev = [[Tea for Three]]
| next = [[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Only Fools and Horses)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]
| episode_list = List of Only Fools and Horses episodes
}}
"'''Video Nasty'''" is the fifth episode of series 5 of the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]], ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', first broadcast on 28 September 1986. In the episode, [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] receives a grant to make a local film, but [[Del Boy|Del]] sees it as an opportunity to make money.

==Synopsis==
At ''The Nag's Head'', as [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]] and [[Boycie]] talk about Marlene's inability to have children, [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] enters to tell everyone that he and Mickey Pearce have been given £10,000 by their evening art class teacher to make a local community film. [[Del Boy]] and [[Uncle Albert|Albert]] also enter and tell everyone that they have been borrowing hay bales from a private zoo run by Abdul's cousin's girlfriend's brother's friend, as well as having been to see Monkey Harris' sister's husband's first wife's stepfather, who works for an animal food company. Rodney tells everyone that he is writing the story of the film, and Mickey is directing.

The next day at the flat, Rodney suffers from [[writer's block]] when trying to come up with a plot, until Del returns from the market with a broken, derelict typewriter. After showing him how hard he has to hit the keys, Del tells Rodney to begin typing. But Rodney says that he cannot think of an idea for a story. Del mentions that he has an idea for a story called "''There's a Rhino Loose in the City''", which is about a rhinoceros who escapes from a zoo and comes out at night to kill people in [[London]], while hiding in the day, and a private detective is called in to try to solve the crime, while trying to seduce a female zookeeper. Rodney refuses to use Del's tacky story in his film.

At a Chinese takeaway, Del tells Rodney that Mickey Pearce is practicing using the camera by videoing weddings for hire. Boycie and Marlene enter, and Marlene tells the Trotters that they are holding a party at the Nag's Head the following Friday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her and Boycie's marriage, and the Trotters promise to be there. This inspires Rodney to write that in his film.

A few days later, back at the flat, Del shows Rodney a list of extras (who have to pay Del £10 to take part) to use in his film, as well as a list of businesses to advertise. Just then, Mickey Pearce enters with the video equipment and his girlfriend Amanda, as Del and Albert exit. Rodney is disgusted to see that Mickey is filming a [[Pornographic film|porn movie]] involving Amanda wearing a nurse's uniform and stripping for Boycie, and Rodney accidentally gets caught on tape.

On Friday, at the Nag's Head, after Mickey finishes filming Boycie and Marlene's anniversary, all the gang head into the back room to watch the British premiere of "''Night Nurse''" "based on the novel by Enid Blyton". Rodney quickly realises that is what Mickey and his girlfriend have been filming in the flat, and quietly escapes once the video starts. Del angrily screams out Rodney's name the moment he sees him in the film.

Back at Nelson Mandela House, Rodney tells Del that he did not know what Mickey was going to do. Del mentions that the people backing up Boycie in his dirty movies are the Driscoll Brothers. As Del heads to the bathroom to flush the ''Night Nurse'' videotape down the toilet, Mickey Pearce and his friends show up to party, and Rodney lets them in, just for Del to chase them out. Rodney then gets a telephone call from his art teacher, who is not overly impressed with Rodney's idea, but is willing to try to film it anyway. Rodney then says Del knows where there is a rhino going cheap, revealing that Rodney's idea is ''There's a Rhino Loose in the City'' after all.

==Episode cast==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[David Jason]]
| [[Del Boy|Derek Trotter]]
|-
| [[Nicholas Lyndhurst]]
| [[Rodney Trotter]]
|-
| [[Buster Merryfield]]
| [[Uncle Albert|Albert Trotter]]
|-
| [[Roger Lloyd-Pack]]
| [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]]
|-
| [[Kenneth MacDonald (English actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]]
| [[Mike Fisher (Only Fools and Horses)|Mike Fisher]]
|-
| [[John Challis]]
| [[Boycie]]
|-
| [[Sue Holderness]]
| Marlene
|-
| [[Patrick Murray (actor)|Patrick Murray]]
| Mickey Pearce
|-
| Dawn Perllman
| Amanda
|-
| [[Rex Robinson (actor)|Rex Robinson]]
| Vicar
|-
| Chua Kah Joo
| Takeaway owner
|}

==Episode concept==
*The idea for the script was based on a true story about a youth club that was given a grant from the local council to do filming, but all the equipment and money disappeared shortly afterwards.<ref>[http://www.ofah.net/immediacy-302 Did You Know?] ofah.net</ref>

==Music==
* '''[[Pet Shop Boys]]''': "[[West End Girls]]"
* '''[[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]''': "[[Red Sky (song)|Red Sky]]"
* '''[[Roxy Music]]''': "[[Avalon (Roxy Music song)|Avalon]]"

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{BBC episode|id=p00bgm0s}}
*{{IMDb episode|0666589}}

{{Only Fools and Horses episodes}}

[[Category:1986 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Adult video in fiction]]
[[Category:Only Fools and Horses (series 5) episodes]]

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