Ah, of course, the cockpit mounted WOW override switch!!
Now, whereabouts in the cockpit did they leave that.....
Surely, on thinking about it though, if he HAD operated the override switch, the gear would have bypassed the safety circuit that actually stops the U/C from retracting on the ground, and there would have been a few F-18 shaped channels ground into the runway?
Edited after reading Baffy Boy's link to the Blue Angels