Chris wanted an Icelandic welcome
The World Cup had made Iceland’s famous thunder clap familiar again.
Chris loved the slow rhythm building into a huge synchronized shout and decided it should become part of Radio 1.
He wanted Scott introduced with the same ceremony.
The pair tried adapting it for the show and began imagining what would happen if they attempted to make ordinary people in the street join in.
Scott could see the appeal of a dramatic entrance.
He was less convinced that random pedestrians would understand why a Radio 1 presenter was trying to make them clap above their heads in unison.
Helen’s friend copied the horse
The “sneaky mates” discussion continued.
Helen had always wanted a particular kind of horse.
Eventually she managed to buy a baby horse which matched what she had dreamed about.
Around a month later, her best friend bought one too.
Not simply another horse.
Helen said it was strikingly similar in breed, size and appearance.
The horse was only the latest example.
Her friend had previously copied hairstyles and piercings.
Helen could cope with fashion overlap.
Buying a near-identical baby horse felt like a much larger commitment to copying somebody.
The strangest part was that the friend later sold the horse because she did not have enough time for it.
Helen was left wondering why somebody would imitate an animal purchase which required years of care.
Laura listened to her own friend criticise her
Laura’s story was nastier.
She suspected that a female friend had been discussing private details of her relationship with Laura’s boyfriend.
While Laura was at the boyfriend’s house, the friend called him on FaceTime.
Laura stayed out of view.
Her boyfriend answered.
The friend did not know Laura could hear.
During the call, she criticised Laura, describing her as clingy and desperate and suggesting the relationship was unbalanced.
Laura listened to the whole thing.
Only afterwards did the friend discover that the person she had been discussing was present.
Scott and Chris treated it as the clearest possible answer to “who’s the snake?”
The friend had been given enough rope to expose herself without Laura needing to accuse her first.
Chessington offered Love Island experts
The show had been mocking the long tradition of animals being used to predict football results.
Then Chessington World of Adventures got in touch with a proposal.
Their animals could predict *Love Island* instead.
Penguins appeared promising because they were popularly associated with choosing partners for life.
Then the keeper complicated the romantic image.
Some of their penguins were less loyal than the stereotype suggested.
The programme started referring to them as “promiscuous penguins”.
A keeper named Caroline Sprat could use fish to encourage choices, while skunks and other animals were also discussed as possible reality-TV forecasters.
Scott loved the absurd escalation.
World Cups had octopuses and other animal predictors.
Radio 1 could apparently have a penguin relationship panel.
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