The Who-Vent Calendar went back to crowded public transport
Door two on the Who-Vent Calendar already felt as though it belonged to another world.
Scott remembered travelling to the BRITs with Danny Howard on a packed London Underground carriage.
In those days Scott enjoyed using the crush as an opportunity to loudly announce Danny’s presence to complete strangers while filming the embarrassment.
Hearing the clip in December 2020 was strange.
People were pressed together.
Nobody was distancing.
A sweaty packed Tube carriage had become a nostalgia item almost overnight.
Granny Tinder returned with brutal standards
Zofia’s grandmother Lynette was back to judge another batch of profiles.
The first was Pete, a 25-year-old plumber whose bio boasted that working in maintenance meant he was good with his hands and happy to “inspect your pipes”.
His biggest problem was not the innuendo.
It was that he liked *Mrs Brown’s Boys*.
Lynette found the programme crude and not funny.
Pete was gone.
Next came Thomas, a 33-year-old dog walker looking for somebody to “dog with him” — apparently a typo for walking dogs.
Scott thought country air, warm fires and big blankets sounded ideal.
Lynette found the whole thing rather unexciting.
He was gone too.
Even a Christmas elf could not win her over
Callum, 20, worked as a Christmas elf at a garden centre.
Scott loved the job immediately.
Lynette could not imagine taking a grown man seriously if his answer to “what do you do?” was “Christmas elf”.
The team tried to argue that being fun was the whole point.
She remained unmoved.
A semi-professional footballer did not fare much better.
His fast cars, tracksuits and promise to show a partner off “on the grid” sounded to Lynette like exactly the sort of profile a grandmother should distrust.
Finally came Duncan, a children’s entertainer known professionally as Mr Elephant.
Even jelly, pass-the-parcel and balloon animals could not secure a right swipe.
It was one of Granny Tinder’s most ruthless rounds.
Craig from M&S Longbridge had become accidental internet talent
The show had also discovered Craig, an employee at M&S Longbridge.
His straightforward store video explaining how to use Scan & Shop had begun spreading far beyond the people who actually needed help with supermarket technology.
Scott and Chris thought Craig had something.
The delivery was clear.
The enthusiasm was genuine.
The whole thing felt like somebody discovering they could present television while technically just explaining how to scan shopping.
Radio 1 tracked him down and told him he might be the UK’s next great presenter without realising it.
Craig seemed amused by the attention and said the videos had simply been intended to help customers.
Twisted Christmas and celebrity messages hit the quiz
Don’t Look It Up went festive.
One round distorted or transformed Christmas songs.
Another explored personalised celebrity video messages.
The show was beginning to shift fully into December mode, with even the normal quiz format now wearing tinsel.
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