Scott and the team play the Honesty Game, where listeners call in to ask deeply personal questions that must be answered truthfully, while Santa makes a cheeky phone call to five-year-old Zara about her Christmas behaviour.
This episode centres on two main features. The Honesty Game returns as a regular Tuesday slot at 6:10 p.m., with Scott, Jo, and Laura fielding questions from listeners. Early callers ask about worst Christmas presents (Scott received Hugh Grant’s autobiography because someone thought he and Grant had “a lot in common”; Jo got a dressing gown while his siblings received DVD players), most embarrassing parental moments (Scott’s mum is attending a Status Quo concert in a denim jacket with her new boyfriend; Jo’s mum wore moon boots and a padded coat to his football match when he was twelve), and the meanest way they’ve dumped someone—which Scott awkwardly refuses to fully answer before eventually admitting to being caught with someone else. Later callers ask about recycling Christmas presents (all three admit to re-wrapping champagne and wine sent to them and passing it on to others) and whether cow-tipping is real (Scott reluctantly admits he attempted it in 2004 but ran away before actually tipping the cow).
The episode’s other major feature involves Santa (Chris Evans playing the character) phoning Zara, a five-year-old listener who pinches her sister and has drawn on wallpaper. Zara’s mum has laryngitis, which doesn’t stop Santa from making awkward innuendos about meeting her “in the new year” under the mistletoe. Santa warns Zara she’s on the “bad list” unless she stops pinching her sister, and asks about her Christmas wishes (a Baby Annabel doll and a trampoline). Zara sings a song for Santa before he promises to ring her mum in the new year.
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