Orson deliver a brutally honest singing telegram to confess a five-year-old hit-and-run involving a cat, while ten-year-old Lloyd continues his campaign of bewildering phone calls to unsuspecting businesses — this time targeting one of the world’s most exclusive hotels.
The show opens with a singing telegram segment where listener Phillipa from Shrewsbury asks Orson to help her confess something she’s been hiding for five years: she accidentally ran over her friend Marsha’s cat while driving to visit her, and has been lying about it ever since. Rather than face the guilt alone, Phillipa enlists the band to break the news through song. When Orson calls Marsha, they perform a deliberately crude musical confession (complete with the unforgettable lyric “His head went pop and his body went flat”). Remarkably, Marsha takes it well — she admits she’d suspected it was Phillipa all along but never brought it up. The call ends with everyone in good spirits, and Scott praising Orson for managing to craft something funny under pressure.
The second half features another instalment of Lloyd’s random phone call feature, where the ten-year-old rings businesses with increasingly absurd questions. This time he targets a prestigious five-star hotel, politely asking about room sizes, TVs, room service burgers, and whether girls are allowed to visit his room — before launching into a tangent about Little Chef restaurants and baked beans making him fart. The hotel receptionist handles it with admirable patience, repeatedly explaining that he’ll need an adult to make the actual booking.
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