Category: Show Diary
A very wet creative lecture
Scott speaks at a radio festival inside the British Library about creativity, then demonstrates the principle by making Chris and Matt Fincham play Innuendo Bingo. Critics, executives and senior BBC figures initially appear uncertain, but gradually warm to the spectacle.
Only three clips are required, including a BBC West Midlands bird discussion that sounds considerably less innocent in the reading room. Chris immediately imagines a Bingo world tour through the O2, R [...]
The red emergency telephone
Scott and Chris cover Friday Breakfast, prompting several people to check that Scott has remembered to wake up. His solution is a red landline marked “emergency”, whose number is known only to a few colleagues and managers.
The phone should succeed when Scott's silent mobile, forgotten alarms or misplaced handset fail. He is already worried that distributing the number will attract PPI calls, but accepts it as a necessary defence against another missed Breakfast appea [...]
Helen Skelton returns to Bingo
Helen Skelton removes her watch and joins Chris for an exceptionally wet Innuendo Bingo. The clips cover Rio's discoloured swimming pool, Val's wetter mixture on The Great British Bake Off, the wording of “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” and an unfortunate choice in The Chase.
Helen recalls taking the highest offer during her own appearance on The Chase, despite the audience wanting caution. She survives the clips with the same competitive approach, while Scott prematur [...]
Chris needs a toilet, not Grand Designs
Scott worries that Chris looks pale after weeks living in a house with neither kitchen nor bathroom. The barbecue remains his main cooking appliance, while his attempt to rent portable toilets has proved unexpectedly expensive.
Chris contacts Kevin McCloud for help, but Scott says the project is several levels below Grand Designs and requires Nick Knowles instead. They distract themselves with a celebration of Beaconsfield services, where a caller has deli [...]
An accidental eyebrow slit
Scott notices that one of Chris's eyebrows looks different. Chris admits that he found a trimmer in a kitchen drawer, attempted to control the growth and accidentally removed a vertical section.
He initially fears that he looks like Dappy, but social media reveals that eyebrow slits have returned as a 2016 trend. Chris decides that the mistake proves he remains fashionable and begins encouraging everybody else to copy him.
Ross Noble soaks the studio
Ross Noble arrives [...]
Innuendo Bingo accompanies a driving test
Sophie passes her driving test at the second attempt after arranging for Radio 1 to be playing in the car. She wanted something familiar to calm her nerves but forgot that the test would coincide with Innuendo Bingo.
A clip from Only Connect begins during the manoeuvre she failed previously. Sophie concentrates on her observations while facing the examiner, who responds with an awkward shuffle rather than laughter. She completes the manoeuvre and credits [...]
Mollie King gets her solo soaking
Mollie King returns for her first solo appearance on Innuendo Bingo. Before the water begins, she explains how she selected actor Tim for the romantic scenes in her video and then had to warn him that the role involved kissing her.
The director's instruction produces a much more forceful kiss than Mollie expected, repeated across numerous takes. She is apprehensive about the wet game, eventually avoiding Chris's gaze when the later clips become too difficult, bu [...]
Max appears on a left buttock
A photograph spreads online of a hairy bottom carrying Max Branning's face, the words “Max Branning” and his phrase “I can't help myself”. Scott reaches Jake Wood, who learned about it when the tattooed man's sister sent him the image.
Jake has never met the owner and was not asked for permission. He describes a mixture of pride and mild disgust, jokes that the surrounding hair improves his own hairline and accepts that the left buttock was probably the correct loca [...]
Graeme Swann faces the clips
Former England cricketer Graeme Swann arrives for Innuendo Bingo while touring theatres with commentator Henry Blofeld. Their contrasting personalities supply stories from cricket, audience participation and life on overseas tours, where an Indian hotel could mean endless computer games while the West Indies offered considerably more freedom.
Chris recalls bidding at a cricket awards auction merely to look involved, only for nobody to outbid him. Graeme understands t [...]
Chris returns from the fires
Chris comes back from a deliberately straightforward holiday in Spain, only for forest fires to approach his accommodation and force him to leave. Scott had watched the increasingly alarming updates on social media and is relieved to have him safely back beside his still largely empty house.
The renovation has supplied Chris with a barbecue but little else. Attempting to clean after his return, he dismantles the Hoover and places its rigid nozzle against the dusty te [...]