"What do we cry when we see the man with the stick?" to which the audience replies, "What's on the end of the stick, Vic?" Vic would ask him if he is going to reveal what he has on the end of his stick; usually the Man With The Stick refuses - but did occasionally reveal it. The Man With The Stick would come out each week to a fanfare, and then proceed to talk casually with Vic about a number of drawings on his paper helmet. The helmet "graffiti" would act as a pictorial guide to what he'd been investigating during that week such as "A lamppost which has been disconnected to provide electricity for the Farnborough Air Show" and pop group "Spandau Ballet laughing at an orphan who has fallen off his bike". If the item on the end of the stick was revealed, this was usually done at the end of the programme. Over the course of the second series, it is revealed that The Man With The Stick has sold his children to Vic, and since they are still under contract, he is unable to get them back. Vic uses them as a means to various ends, such as trading them for a car, signing them up to the territorial army and selling their souls to the devil. This gradually plunges the Man With The Stick into a terrible depression. At the end of the final episode, the Man With The Stick drunkenly storms the stage brandishing a gun and shoots Vic, Graham Lister and finally himself (although all three would later return unharmed on the Big Night Out Tour). The Man With The Stick often mentioned his best friend Terry, who invariably subjected him to some horrible experience or humiliation, much to his blissful unawareness and evident glee. The Man with the Stick reappears in 'Vic and Bob's Big Night Out' where his helmet is now covered in silver foil because he is living 40 years in the future and has time-travelled back to visit the present day. The Ponderers Appearing in series two, Vic and Bob's Swiss counterparts who wear only their underpants, white perms and very large fake chins - complete with the elastic holding them in place. Each week they would be seen on their own parallel Swiss Night Out pondering over a specific decision (for instance, whether or not to inject