Chris became an Instagram lurker
A day after dramatically resigning from Instagram, Chris was still technically on the platform.
He had simply stopped participating.
Scott compared it with Chris’s approach to PE at school: watching from the side rather than joining in.
Chris insisted the break was already productive.
The real test would be the weekend, when late-night posting was most likely to return.
Helen could make the perfume real
The Scott and Chris fragrance had begun as a joke about the flood of celebrity perfumes appearing before Christmas.
Now somebody with relevant professional connections had got in touch.
Helen said she could help.
The company she knew worked with fragrance specialists, including the person sometimes described in the industry as a nose: somebody with an unusually trained sense of smell who could identify, combine and assess scents.
Scott was fascinated that “nose” was effectively a job description.
The show had already collected possible fragrance notes from listeners.
New tennis balls had become a favourite.
Other suggestions reflected the programme’s long history of nights out, clubs, travel and recurring jokes.
Helen’s call meant those ideas might actually be handed to somebody capable of turning them into a bottle.
Funny Business continued
Scott and Chris made more calls to real companies with unfortunate or funny-sounding names.
The challenge remained not laughing.
Neither presenter was especially good at that part.
The best calls were still those where the person answering knew perfectly well why strangers found the company name funny and had heard every joke before.
Cartoon bangers unlocked childhood memories
The show also asked listeners for songs from children’s television which still worked as genuine bangers years later.
*Mona the Vampire* was one of the examples.
Scott and Chris were interested in the tracks people could sing immediately despite not hearing them since childhood.
Like Bamboleo and the Who Game, the feature worked by opening an unexpectedly specific memory and watching an entire generation recognise it at once.
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