The Pokémon bush earns immortality
A listener from Worksop presses the Best Thing of 2016 buzzer for Chris’s Pokémon bush experiment. After replaying the item seven times, the caller decides that a man hiding in shrubbery and shouting inaccurate creature names deserves permanent recognition. Once the buzzer has been pressed, the nomination is locked in until the end-of-year decision in January 2017.
Who still remembers orange soda?
The Who Game returns, inviting listeners to identify themselves through references that feel dated or oddly specific. The calls range across Kim and Aggie, paper phone books, Rosie and Jim, MySpace’s Top 8 and the habit of keeping a tissue tucked into a sleeve.
Kenan and Kel’s enthusiasm for orange soda provides one of the most instantly recognisable contributions and the day’s title. Other memories touch on old television formats, music and scandals, with each extended “who” finding another listener who remembers exactly the same thing.
Josh has two black slugs
Listener Josh takes the afternoon off to have his hair and beard trimmed before a date and a gig. During the appointment he is persuaded to add an eyebrow tint. Although he has dark brown hair and a ginger beard, the new eyebrows emerge almost black. His girlfriend has not yet seen them, and he thinks they resemble two slugs attached to his forehead.
Scott and the audience propose emergency remedies including lemon juice, repeated washing and altering the surrounding hair so the eyebrows appear less severe. None is guaranteed to work before the evening. Josh began the afternoon hoping to look unusually polished; he ends it considering increasingly drastic ways to make one very visible improvement disappear.
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