Scott plays the Dave Game, phoning random businesses to see if someone called Dave works there, and then runs a chaotic rescue mission where he impersonates a panicked German grandmother to help a listener escape a bad date.
The show opens with Scott noticing that everyone he’s spoken to today has been called Dave. He decides to revisit the Dave Game, where he phones random businesses from the Yellow Pages to guess whether a Dave works there. His first attempt is a fruit shop in Glasgow (he guesses “Dave” — correct). The second is a Pizza Hut in Newcastle (again “Dave” — also correct). Scott is on a roll with the game’s absurd logic.
The main feature is “Get Me Out of Here,” where listeners in difficult situations text in for the team’s help. A listener named Danny Howard is on a bad date and needs rescuing. Scott coaches her through an elaborate escape plan: she’ll call her grandmother in a panic, claiming an emergency. When she makes the call, Scott takes over the phone and launches into an increasingly elaborate performance as “Helga,” an elderly German woman supposedly stuck halfway up the stairs back home. The bit spirals wonderfully — Scott’s accent wavers between German, Welsh, and something vaguely Japanese, and he keeps ad-libbing excuses about needing “soft food” mid-sentence. The date’s victim politely agrees to let her go.
Afterwards, Scott and the team dissect the sketch. Scott admits he wasn’t confident his German accent was convincing enough, so he added extra layers to “test his acting power,” which only made the whole thing more absurd. It’s vintage Scott Mills Show chaos — a simple prank that gets increasingly unhinged the longer it runs.
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