Scott was finally back in the studio
After several days broadcasting from home, Scott returned to Radio 1 in person.
That immediately restored the normal rhythm between him and Chris, although there was still some suspicion around whether everybody really believed he was safely clear of Covid.
The show did not spend long being serious about it.
Cameron’s mum had turned Facebook into a photo shop
Listener Cameron had gone home and discovered that his mum had framed selfies of him around the house.
The pictures were not carefully chosen family photographs.
Some had simply been taken from his social media, including older university-era selfies which Cameron did not necessarily consider his best work.
One had even been printed and framed by one of his mum’s friends as a present.
Cameron joked that the collection could make him look as though he had died.
He had moved north and did not see his mum as often, so there was something affectionate behind it, but Scott and Chris still loved the oddness of a parent displaying somebody’s old Facebook selfies like formal portraits.
The Muff Liquor Company returned as a golden moment
One of the old clips requested for the final weeks came from Funny Business, where Scott and Chris phoned companies with names likely to make them laugh.
The particular target was the Muff Liquor Company in County Donegal.
Chris tried to hold together a normal business call while asking what the company did and why it was called that.
The answer was perfectly sensible.
It was named after the village of Muff.
That did not help either presenter behave like an adult.
The original call became so memorable that the show later travelled there, with Scott recalling meeting the mayor and even joining the local diving club.
Rasputin got ten more minutes
The programme also restored one of its strangest recurring musical habits by bringing Boney M’s “Rasputin” back for ten minutes.
There was no need for a complicated justification.
A large part of the show’s appeal had always been its willingness to decide that one song, phrase or joke deserved to take over the programme simply because it made them laugh.
Horrid Henry took over the quiz
Producer Henry fronted the quiz as Horrid Henry.
He had to describe celebrities in deliberately savage terms before Scott and Chris guessed them.
Lady Gaga was among the targets.
A second round asked whether unlikely quotations came from Shakespeare or Gemma Collins.
It was an appropriately chaotic final studio show before the team packed up for Newquay.
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