A weekend of Catfish and X Factor
With no football to occupy him, Chris had fallen into a marathon of Catfish on MTV. He enjoyed the premise but disliked the tense confrontations, adding it to the list of television that could become too stressful to be relaxing.
Scott had been to X Factor and was increasingly fond of Sam Bailey. She wanted to do Innuendo Bingo, although Scott and Chris wondered whether deliberately choking back laughter and spraying water around was a sensible risk for a singer’s voice. Dermot O’Leary also came under affectionate scrutiny for looking just a little too comfortable with everything happening around him.
Chris eats somebody else’s pizza
The day’s main food idea began with Chris admitting what he had done in a restaurant on Friday. While waiting for his own calzone, he watched a waiter clearing a table where half a pizza had been left. Rather than see it thrown away, Chris asked if he could have a slice from the stranger’s plate.
He ate it — and then developed the principle into a business model. Restaurants, he suggested, could place unfinished but usable food on a table at the back and let other customers buy it cheaply, perhaps for £2 or £3. Bitten sections could be avoided and some dishes could be reheated.
Scott was appalled, and plenty of listeners agreed. Chris remained convinced that the waste was the real problem. When Dan and Phil later joined in, the idea even expanded to whether seeing a photograph of the original diner would make somebody more or less willing to take the food.
Scott must buy Ron’s birthday present
Chris had another problem: his dad Ron’s birthday was on Wednesday, and he had run out of present ideas. The solution was to make it a friendship test for Scott.
Scott, who barely knew Ron and had never really spent time with him, had to choose the present, buy it, wrap it and hand it to Chris. Chris would then give it to his dad as though he had selected it himself and record Ron’s reaction. The gift had to be ready within two days.
Ideas around gadgets and practical presents came and went, but Chris refused to take control back. Scott had been given the responsibility and would have to live with the result.
Dan and Phil play Real or No Real
Dan and Phil joined Real or No Real. The first data sent over the early internet on 29 October 1969 really had crashed after only the letters “LO” of “LOGIN” got through. A Graham Norton and Carol Vorderman special was not real, nor was a claim involving Martin Solveig and Ipswich magistrates, while a Jason Statham story was judged real.
Scott and Dan finished on 30 points with Phil on 20, while the more important deadline remained Wednesday: Scott still had a birthday present to find for a man he did not know.
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