Innuendo Bingo was back
For the first time since before the pandemic, Scott could properly introduce a new edition of Innuendo Bingo.
The basic rules had survived.
Chris and a celebrity filled their mouths with water while Scott played broadcasting clips loaded with accidental innuendo.
If they laughed, the water came out.
The physical set-up, however, looked very different.
Chris and guest Joel Corry each put their head into a separate transparent Perspex box.
The boxes were meant to stop them spraying directly into one another’s faces while preserving the part of the game where each contestant became progressively wetter and less able to keep a straight face.
The boxes created an entirely new problem
It became obvious very quickly that containing the water did not make the feature neat.
It simply kept the mess in a smaller space.
Every laugh sent another mouthful of water against the inside of the Perspex before it ran down onto the contestant.
The level of water and condensation inside the boxes became part of the spectacle.
Clips ranged across television and radio, including wildlife, sport and presenters accidentally producing lines which sounded much dirtier once they were isolated from their original context.
The familiar rhythm of Innuendo Bingo returned almost immediately.
Scott could barely move on to the next clip before Chris or Joel had lost control again.
The return mattered because it still felt like the old game
The team had spent days worrying that safety changes would destroy the feature.
Instead, the boxes added another layer of ridiculousness.
Chris was still trying desperately not to laugh.
A celebrity was still getting drenched.
Scott was still playing clips designed to break them at exactly the wrong moment.
The visual of two grown men with their heads sealed into clear boxes full of spray was arguably stranger than the original set-up.
Slow worms returned in The Who Game
Elsewhere, The Who Game continued the show’s habit of recovering things people had forgotten existed.
This time slow worms were among the subjects dragged back into public consciousness.
The quiz also played with international television formats and whether increasingly strange programme ideas were real or invented.
But the afternoon belonged to the boxes.
Innuendo Bingo had survived its enforced break.
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