Friday Extra Show: Bingo took over the archive
Extra podcast edition
The return of Innuendo Bingo had gone well enough for Friday’s entire podcast to become a celebration.
Scott and Chris promised listeners a bumper selection of classic editions from the archive, alongside the kind of production questions the Extra Show had become known for answering.
One listener wanted to know why the quality of telephone calls on Radio 1 could vary so dramatically.
Chris explained that the team were always looking for ways to make calls sound better, but different phones, locations and connections could produce completely different results.
Another listener asked the question which naturally followed Innuendo Bingo’s return.
Were there clips which were too rude even for the game?
Yes.
Scott said the archive contained material involving mispronunciations and accidental phrases which daytime Radio 1 simply could not sensibly use.
The team were still reluctant to waste them and joked about finding a later-night home.
Stacey Dooley got soaked
The first archive selection returned to Stacey Dooley facing Chris.
The clips included doctors discussing swallowing, people talking about knobs and balls and the kind of ordinary factual television language which became impossible once two people sat with mouths full of water waiting to laugh.
Stacey committed fully.
By the end, both players and the studio were soaked.
Scott loved that the feature could turn calm factual television into something completely ridiculous without editing the original words.
Gerard Butler did not even need the clips
Another classic featured Gerard Butler.
Gerard laughed before the first proper innuendo had even played, simply because Scott said something he found funny.
That made the rest of the game almost impossible.
The clips moved through MasterChef, panel shows, property television and sport.
The familiar phrases about pies, entrances, bushes and good number twos became lethal once everybody knew what the game wanted them to hear.
The archive proved the comeback mattered
The Friday show also replayed another classic edition in which the contestants became progressively more drenched as the clips escalated.
One old football line involved needing a “good number two”.
A weather forecast mentioned conditions “touching gale”.
A nature documentary returned to an overgrown bush.
The game was not sophisticated.
That was part of its appeal.
Davina McCall had successfully relaunched Innuendo Bingo on Wednesday.
Friday’s archive reminded listeners why Radio 1 had bothered bringing it back.
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