The week began with an archive edition
Scott and Chris were not on air this week, so the daily podcast went back into the archive.
The first choice was an especially visual Innuendo Bingo involving Greg James and Chris Stark.
For anyone unfamiliar with the feature, the rules were deliberately simple: both players filled their mouths with water while Radio 1 played apparently innocent clips which became much less innocent when taken out of context. The aim was not to laugh. In practice, the studio usually ended up soaked.
This time the game had an extra complication.
Greg and Chris were wearing animal costumes pulled from Radio 1’s collection of dressing-up clothes.
Greg appeared in an orange furry outfit which became a fox for the purposes of the game, while Chris was dressed as a pink pig.
A seven-inch record started the trouble
The clips came from the usual mixture of BBC radio, television and soaps.
Sara Cox provided an early test by talking about getting your hand on a seven-inch — entirely reasonably in the context of a record, much less safely once played to two people trying not to laugh.
An *Emmerdale* scene introduced a complimentary cup of honey bush tea.
Phil Spencer then described opening up somebody’s entrance and giving it the once-over.
Every line was technically innocent.
That was precisely why the feature worked.
Gardening remained particularly dangerous
The programme moved through clips about coconuts being fresh from the nut and a *Gardeners’ Question Time* contribution involving a hand fondling and gently patting a trunk.
*Neighbours* supplied a husband putting his water in somebody else’s shed.
A contribution from *Four Rooms* involved a spiritual ecologist talking about connecting with the universe through feasting and food.
Elaine Paige then announced that she was having “a bit of a tickle up here”.
By that stage, the costumes were almost incidental.
Greg and Chris were simply trying to keep the water in their mouths long enough to hear the next line.
The costumes made an old feature even sillier
Innuendo Bingo always relied on the contrast between respectable broadcasting and the reaction in the Radio 1 studio.
Putting a fox and a pig opposite one another made that contrast even more ridiculous.
The archive episode was also a reminder of how much of the feature depended on seeing the aftermath: soaked clothes, towels, water flying across the desk and the players attempting to reset before the next clip.
For a week in which the normal show was taking a break, it was an easy choice from the old Radio 1 cupboard in more ways than one.
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