Matt Richardson learns what gentle means on this show
Matt Richardson arrived from The Xtra Factor after telling Scott online that he wanted Innuendo Bingo to go easy on him. That request was never likely to survive contact with Chris Stark.
Matt talked about working with Caroline Flack, his stand-up tour and the unexpectedly excellent job of spending weekends around The X Factor. Then the plastic sheeting went down and he took his place opposite Chris.
Clips from programmes including the Hairy Bikers and The Gadget Show ensured that Matt’s attempt to stay dry ended quickly. Even his trousers suffered, despite Scott having given him ample warning that the feature was substantially wetter than it appeared on the radio.
Chinese Food follows Friday
Scott and Chris had found Alison Gold’s “Chinese Food”, a viral song from the people behind Rebecca Black’s “Friday”. Its combination of an extremely literal love of Chinese food and an equally literal video immediately fascinated the show.
It became the kind of internet song Scott knew would be stuck in everybody’s head long after they wished it would leave.
Chris finds the next great kitchen format
Chris had a television idea and, unusually, Scott thought it might actually have something. Cookery formats were everywhere: Come Dine with Me, The Great British Bake Off, Saturday Kitchen and countless others all got viewers into kitchens. Yet none of them concentrated on what happened after the cooking.
Chris wanted to become “the Nigella of washing up”. The programme would celebrate suds, pots, pans and the supposedly overlooked art of doing the dishes. Listeners immediately began contributing questions and format ideas, while somebody claiming to work around TV commissioning encouraged them to make a pilot.
By the end of the afternoon, what had started as a ridiculous pitch was turning into a genuine plan to film Chris washing up at home.
Alan Dedicoat judges the facts
Alan Dedicoat returned for Real or No Real, with the show’s increasingly ceremonial Danny Howard points available for correct answers.
The most important development, however, was that Scott’s imminent Serbian adventure was beginning to loom over everything. The next few programmes would largely become one long attempt to prepare him for a television job nobody quite believed was real.
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