Chris’s Christmas Eve goes wrong before the kebab tradition saves it
On Christmas Eve Eve, the show looked back at some of its favourite moments from 2011. Beccy’s discovery of old local television footage revived Stupid Street, the team’s knowingly silly attempt to ask passers-by questions from the archive, including whether men were more fashionable than women in “plumbers” and whether people knew what snogging was.
The bigger festive centrepiece was the final 24 Years at the Tap End instalment of the year. Scott introduced it as a Christmas special and Chris returned to Christmas Eve four years earlier, when he and his friends had planned a big night out in matching jumpers and comedy antlers.
The plan was a let-down almost immediately. Their chosen pub, Misty Moons, had no tree, no Christmas atmosphere and nothing much to distinguish it from an ordinary night. Chris tried to create a midnight moment by asking for Christmas music, but the barman could not find the right station and played dance music instead while Chris shouted “It’s Christmas” with little support.
Things became more chaotic after the pub. The group headed to Butler’s garage, one friend was taken away by police after trouble with a doorman, and Chris was left trying to find a suitably festive ending to what had been an increasingly disappointing night out.
That ending arrived in the form of Regal Kebabs. Chris remembered walking there with his friends for a doner and chips, deciding that the annual Christmas Eve kebab was what the night, and Christmas, was really about. The programme then continued its best-bits mood with a montage of Chris’s increasingly unlikely schemes, from romance and motivational speaking to his attempts at becoming rich, making the sentimental kebab conclusion entirely in keeping with the show’s idea of festive cheer.
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