Alison cannot stop laughing
Alison Hammond and Aljaž Škorjanec arrived directly from Strictly Come Dancing training. They were preparing a tango, which required Alison to maintain a serious expression despite laughter being one of her defining characteristics.
She had asked to play Innuendo Bingo when Scott showed her a video during the first group rehearsals. Two months later, the Live Lounge had been transformed with curtains, lights, a mirror ball and plastic sheeting for her own Strictly Come Bingo.
The game is lost before it begins
Alison started laughing before the opening clip and struggled to hold enough water for the rules to work. Her laugh made Chris and Aljaž lose control in turn, creating a cycle in which the sound of one contestant sent water from another.
She knocked over supplies, apologised repeatedly and continued laughing through clips from television, radio and earlier Bingos. Chris nearly choked when water went down the wrong way. By the end, Alison had soaked her partner, herself and much of the surrounding set, exactly as Scott had predicted.
Eight seconds reach number one
An iTunes error in Canada had released eight seconds of white noise under the title of Taylor Swift’s “Track 3”. Fans downloaded it so enthusiastically before 1989 arrived that the silence reached number one.
Scott wondered whether Alison’s laugh could achieve the same result if uploaded as an unavailable new track. A comparison with a laughing donkey from YouTube did nothing to reduce his enthusiasm for the idea.
Scott and Chris enter Fuse’s session
The pair had finally joined Fuse ODG in the Live Lounge. Their musical contribution was limited and Scott’s traffic and dance training disrupted the plan, but the official listing nevertheless placed Fuse ODG, Scott and Chris together on a Radio 1 session.
The performance of “T.I.N.A.” felt surreal because the Live Lounge usually carried a degree of seriousness that neither visitor possessed. Fuse welcomed them, the video went online, and their impulsive tweet from two days earlier became a genuine broadcast credit.
The show then examined words and phrases people had spent years getting wrong, from “no holds barred” and espresso to Chupa Chups and “common or garden”. Greg James continued the subject in Real or No Real, confirming that the Twitter bird was officially called Larry and explaining the historical knocker-uppers who tapped bedroom windows before alarm clocks.
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