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The Google Game becomes revealing again
The opening phrase for the Google Game is “Is it cheating if…”, immediately sending Scott and Chris into celebrity lists, dreams and fancy dress. They agree that dreaming about somebody famous is harmless, until the famous person is sufficiently accessible to become a real possibility.
Chris once responded to his girlfriend admiring Ryan Gosling by choosing Pixie Lott, a name much closer to Radio 1. The actual search suggestions include kissing another per [...]
Chris invites the wrong waitress
Chris assumes both First Dates waitresses are appearing and publicly asks Laura Tott why she is not coming. Only CiCi Coleman has actually been booked, leaving Laura to reply that she is still waiting for her invitation.
CiCi explains that the restaurant team have become a family and remembers the contestant who tried to move Laura into his date's chair while the actual date visited the toilet. She also discusses the Wolf of Worthing and his extraordinary joke ab [...]
The Bromley parade eventually arrives
Scott switches on Bromley's Christmas lights after spending a very long time filling on stage while the parade slowly travels along the high street. He thanks the Snow Queen for her performance and Mayor Ian for an extensive conversation, although Ian refuses to let him try on the mayoral chain.
With Chris away, Scott turns the whole programme loose for a large Whooo Game. Red-eye photographs, ringing once for a call back, inflatable neon furniture, free toy [...]
LL Cool J enters the 1950s
Scott replays what may be the worst answer ever given on The Chase. Asked who had a 1950s number one with “Stranger in Paradise”, contestant David responds “LL Cool J” before the correct answer, Tony Bennett, arrives.
The pressure of the studio explains an answer from the first name that entered his head, but Scott cannot stop imagining LL Cool J launching his career decades early. It also confirms the programme's old rule that the most extraordinary multiple-choice op [...]
Bish Bash Bosh returns to the studio
Chris meets producer and DJ Majestic before an evening watching football with Sir Dossa and Chango the Beast. The unplanned combination works so well that, after Chris leaves, Majestic and Sir Dossa go directly to a studio and rerecord “Bish Bash Bosh”.
Chris hears the new production and says the original now sounds like the slow, unremixed version of an old song. He promises to find a way of playing their all-night collaboration, astonished that his universi [...]
Scott becomes an Only Connect answer
Scott is delighted to appear as an answer on Only Connect, a programme he normally watches only to feel intellectually inadequate. A sequence of Radio 1 handovers begins with Newsbeat and Danny Howard and requires contestants to identify what follows.
The players do not reach Chappers at 13:00, but Scott considers the mention a major personal achievement. The far more difficult questions elsewhere in the quiz preserve his belief that its contestants are opera [...]
Chris is refused at the dump
Chris's latest attempt at adulting takes him to the local dump, now hidden online beneath a much grander waste-management title. He carefully sorts a car full of cardboard only to be told there is “absolutely no chance” of leaving any more that day.
The rejected load has to return home with him. Scott enjoys the reversal: a place created to receive unwanted possessions has refused Chris entry because his rubbish is the wrong kind.
Rinder enters the Blackpool bubble
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Two very different ceremonies
Scott and Chris compare their previous evenings. Scott attended the Student Radio Awards and delivered his speech with a selection of Donald Trump hand gestures, while Chris switched on the Christmas lights at Watford's intu shopping centre alongside players including Troy Deeney.
Chris's mother regards the hometown light switch as one of his greatest achievements. Fireworks appear above the shopping centre's glass roof and a huge crowd watches, even if Chris accept [...]
Chris survives the black chair
Chris returns from filming Celebrity Mastermind and describes it as one of the most terrifying experiences of his life. In the green room he mistakenly calls a contestant's brother Steve, having decided that a leather jacket made him look like the first winner of The Apprentice.
The silent walk to the chair is even worse. Chris stands at the wrong moment, begins moving before he should and cannot reveal whether his eventual performance was triumphant or disastrous. [...]
Scott faces the whole country
With Chris travelling to Manchester, Scott plays the Whooo Game against a full bank of listeners. Red-eye photographs, sewing swimming badges onto trunks, Ask Jeeves, “Calm down, dear”, the Sugar Puffs monster and Fort Boyard all receive suitably powerful calls from the past.
The game continues at such speed that nobody actually runs out of ideas; the clock defeats them instead. Bamboleo Wednesday then supplies the required school-orchestra gap for listeners dancing [...]