Homes Under the Hammer’s song choices become a show obsession
Scott, Beccy and Chris were back on Breakfast after Easter, with Beccy preparing for a holiday challenge: making eggs Benedict. Her plan involved newly acquired egg-poaching equipment and a jar of hollandaise rather than attempting the difficult sauce from scratch. Chris was unconvinced that cooking breakfast on holiday counted as a worthwhile challenge, particularly after Beccy had had weeks to prepare for it.
The early chat also took in Justin Bieber’s chrome-looking car and a date with Selena Gomez that appeared to consist of Subway sandwiches in Griffith Park. Scott and Beccy found the image of two extremely wealthy pop stars using vouchers a little underwhelming, while Chris continued to be treated as someone they could not quite imagine behind the wheel of a car.
The best part of the day came from Beccy’s Show and Tell. A listener had pointed out that Homes Under the Hammer regularly used songs that made a pun on whatever a presenter had just said. Beccy had spent her Easter watching enough episodes to prove it, playing examples where words such as “magic”, “doll’s house”, “mystery” and “complicated” prompted predictably matched music cues.
Once the team had heard the pattern, they could not stop noticing it. Scott enjoyed the idea that a production team might force a property presenter to use a particular phrase simply so that an obscure song could follow, while Beccy was disappointed when one high-ceiling description missed the obvious opportunity for Lionel Richie’s Dancing on the Ceiling.
The programme also revived Innuendo Bingo in its new afternoon slot and continued Chris’s Tap End story about a determined all-you-can-eat pizza challenge. The mixture of property-show editing, competitive eating and increasingly literal music made it a very ordinary weekday made funny by the team’s close attention to pointless detail.
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