Scott was refreshing his celebrity top five
The show returned to the idea of a personal celebrity top five.
The rules were not especially formal.
Pick the famous people you currently fancy most.
Keep the list for as long as it still feels right.
Then, when somebody new appears, make a transfer.
Scott said Zac Efron had remained a long-term fixture.
A newer high entry was Jamie Demetriou, best known to Scott from *Stath Lets Flats*.
Producer Amy was doing the same process with her own choices, including The Weeknd and one of the very attractive police officers from *Squid Game*.
The whole thing was treated like fantasy football for crushes.
Connor had transferred Jordan North out
Listener Connor had recently made a major change.
He had dropped Jordan North.
The replacement:
Jeremy Vine.
Scott could barely believe the move.
Jordan was a Radio 1 colleague.
Jeremy Vine was not the most obvious like-for-like replacement.
That only made the decision better.
Scott wanted Jordan to know he had been relegated from somebody’s fantasy celebrity squad.
Chris compared the whole thing with being transferred out of a football team after a bad run of form.
Connor remained comfortable with his decision.
Jeremy Vine was in.
Jordan North was out.
The Chase had much better nicknames abroad
Don’t Look It Up went international with The Chase.
Scott and Chris were given translated nicknames for chasers from versions around the world.
The Serbian edition included gloriously dramatic titles such as:
Mr Great.
Princess of Knowledge.
World Champion of Knowledge.
And Promising Boy.
The German version supplied:
Quiz Volcano.
Know-It-All.
And The Library.
Scott thought Britain’s own nicknames suddenly sounded relatively restrained.
Amy casually revealed she spoke German
The German round exposed another thing about producer Amy.
She spoke German fluently enough to help with pronunciation.
The reason was characteristically radio-friendly.
Amy had spent around a year in Germany after following or chasing a man there.
Scott and Chris immediately became more interested in that story than in The Chase.
A quiz about television had accidentally revealed part of Amy’s romantic history.
Bad karaoke made familiar songs almost unrecognisable
The later round used deliberately awful karaoke performances from YouTube.
A couple performing songs together turned huge pop hits into something much harder to identify.
Scott and Chris had to work backwards from melody fragments, wrong notes and uncertain timing.
The feature worked because the songs were technically familiar.
They simply sounded as though every useful identifying feature had been removed.
January had already produced bad woodwind, quiet covers and wrong answers.
Bad karaoke fit perfectly.
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