Be had discovered an advanced television cheat
The Big Wheel of Punishments returned with a new case.
Listener Be and her mum Sarah had agreed to watch *Suits* together.
Be no longer lived at home, so the series had become part of their quality time.
Then Be discovered the truth.
Sarah had watched far ahead without her.
Worse:
she had apparently used a different Netflix profile while doing it.
That made the cheating look premeditated.
Scott treated the deception with suitable gravity.
Sarah sounded far too nice for the wheel
Scott brought Sarah onto the programme.
She sounded sweet.
That almost weakened his resolve.
Then he remembered the offence.
The show had established rules.
Promises about shared box sets must mean something.
Sarah was going to face the wheel.
The punishment list was spectacularly uneven
Chris read out the options.
Down a gallon of milk.
Go to bed by 8pm with no screens.
Death.
Perform an apology song.
Dip a foot in the toilet.
Or receive a Chinese burn.
Scott acknowledged that some options were more practical than others.
Sarah mostly hoped to avoid the more disgusting ones.
The wheel began spinning.
It passed death.
It passed the early bedtime.
It passed the apology song.
Then stopped.
The sentence was toilet foot
Sarah had to:
dip her foot in the toilet.
Scott loved the simplicity.
No expensive equipment.
No complicated instructions.
Just one foot.
Into the loo.
Then all would be forgiven.
Sarah accepted the punishment and apologised to Be.
The programme even kept her on the line so the sentence could be carried out after a song.
Television justice had been served.
Superfan Steve met Cheryl again
The archive returned to Superfan Steve with Cheryl.
As always, Steve was actually Chris in another room with the answer sheet.
Cheryl believed she was facing an astonishingly knowledgeable fan.
Questions covered her middle name, first solo number one and details about her pets and career.
Chris buzzed in almost instantly each time.
The longer the game continued, the more improbable Steve’s knowledge became.
Scott thought this edition was even better than he remembered because he could hear how uncomfortable the trick made everybody in the room.
Christmas movie plots exposed huge knowledge gaps
Don’t Look It Up then asked Scott and Chris to identify Christmas films from basic plot summaries.
*Love Actually* should have been obvious from a description involving the Prime Minister dancing.
*Elf* should have been obvious from the orphan crawling into Santa’s bag and ending up at the North Pole.
The presenters still struggled.
For people already playing Christmas music in November, their festive-film knowledge was surprisingly weak.
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