Sausage Sneakers Beware!!
Granny Tinder and a Fiery Quiz
The Isle of Man had joined everybody else in lockdown
The second 7 January edition opened with news that the Isle of Man was going back into lockdown.
Scott and Chris had previously been fascinated by places where bars, pubs and ordinary social life had continued while much of Britain was restricted.
Now, they joked, the island had rejoined everybody else’s reality.
A Harry Potter studio had become part of the COVID-testing world
A listener who worked around the Warner Bros. Studio Tour explained that part of the site was being used for coronavirus testing for crews and production staff.
Scott immediately pictured a much more theatrical version.
Could the swab be administered while somebody dressed as Dumbledore distracted you?
Could Hogwarts scenery make the experience slightly less unpleasant?
The actual testing centre was more ordinary, but the collision between Harry Potter and pandemic logistics entertained them.
Sister or Kissed Her made its debut
Brother or Lover was given a new version.
Fay introduced Lydia.
The team had to work out whether they were sisters or romantically involved.
The rules were the same as Brother or Lover: each member of the team could ask a question without simply demanding to know the relationship.
Fay and Lydia deliberately answered in ways that could fit either possibility.
Scott was particularly determined to keep his strong record of guessing these relationship games correctly.
The new title — Sister or Kissed Her — was not universally considered elegant, but it stuck.
Pointless had not been the triumph Scott remembered
Scott and Chris had recently appeared on *Pointless*.
They had done well on the programme before and quietly hoped this repeat visit might disappear into the schedules if the result was poor.
It did not.
The episode aired on BBC One.
Scott admitted he had barely promoted it because their performance had been much less impressive than the previous appearance.
The pair joked that one bad visit to *Pointless* effectively cancelled out the glory of the earlier one.
The quiz mixed celebrity merchandise and forgotten years
Don’t Look It Up included celebrity merchandise and a “name that year” round.
As usual, ordinary pop-culture knowledge became much more difficult when Scott and Chris were given only a few seconds and no opportunity to search.
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