A Dutch florist unknowingly reads out lyrics from Flo Rida’s “Low” on a flower card, plus Barry’s first baby is named Barry, and annoying people at football matches take centre stage.
The show opens with the popular “Flores game,” where the team calls florists and requests increasingly absurd messages for flower cards. This week they’ve phoned Amsterdam florists to deliver hip hop lyrics. One hapless Dutch florist is asked to read back a card order for Flo Rida’s “Low”—complete with the repeated “low, low, low” chorus—which she delivers with bemused professionalism, creating comedy gold from the collision between cheerful flower-shop convention and rap lyrics.
Elsewhere, the show examines annoying things at football matches, prompted by a discussion about Portsmouth’s famous bell-ringing town crier (the tattooed John Westwood), whose constant noise during matches is declared one of the “five most evil things in the world”—alongside the England band, mushrooms, prawns, and Liverpool FC. There’s also comic outrage at the sausage-chopping game featured on Vernon Kay’s new ITV show, where contestants compete by slicing sausages and weighing the pieces across five rounds.
The first “Barryoke baby” segment delivers heartwarming entertainment: a caller announces the birth of his daughter to his girlfriend Rebecca, and despite having pre-planned a Barryoke naming session to pick the name (complete with tandem rides for inspiration), they’ve decided to call her… not Barry, but CB Jane. The couple’s wholehearted commitment to the Barryoke concept shines through regardless. The show also riffs on American Idol’s Randy Jackson and his newly launched eyewear line designed for large-headed men, before taking a call from Julie in Brighton, who discovers she has a child-sized head after struggling to find a motorcycle helmet that fits.
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