Lockdown sameness had reached Scott and Chris too
Scott acknowledged that conversations with family and friends were becoming repetitive.
Everybody was spending so much time in the same places that there were fewer new stories to tell.
He and Chris wanted the programme to function as another person in the room — something listeners could hang out with even when absolutely nothing had happened that day.
That made recurring characters such as Granny Tinder particularly useful.
Lynette returned to filter Zofia’s matches
Zofia’s grandmother was back in control of Tinder.
Scott and Chris read out the profiles while Lynette decided whether each man deserved to move any closer to her granddaughter.
Among the candidates were a PE teacher and a magician.
Both professions gave the presenters plenty of material before Lynette even reached the rest of the bios.
The magician in particular raised the obvious question of whether somebody professionally skilled at misdirection was ideal boyfriend material.
Granny Tinder remained much more interested in whether the person sounded decent than in the clever line they had written for an app.
Bamboleo Wednesday reopened Dickie’s Dribble
The week’s Bamboleo brought back an old show memory involving Dickie’s Dribble.
That was increasingly part of the feature’s role.
The Gipsy Kings track did not simply provide a weekly dance.
It had accumulated years of shout-outs, callbacks and characters which could suddenly reappear through one old clip.
Regular listeners knew what was happening immediately.
New listeners had to accept that some Radio 1 traditions made very little sense when explained logically.
Something suspicious was happening in the quiz
Don’t Look It Up became unusually fractious.
Answers and timings produced the sort of argument that made Scott and Chris suspect something was not entirely fair.
The show had always treated the quiz competitively, but the real entertainment often came from accusing each other of cheating rather than the actual score.
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