Scott discovers the deeply unsettling reality show Sunset Tan, featuring an eight-year-old getting a $1,300 spray tan to look like Lindsay Lohan; later, he confesses to drunkenly promising to play the harp at a friend’s wedding next year despite having no idea how to play.
The episode opens with Scott discussing the LA-based reality show Sunset Tan, which follows staff at an upscale tanning salon where celebrities like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears get tanned. The most jaw-dropping segment involves salesman Nick persuading a mother to give her eight-year-old daughter the “Lindsay Lohan cocktail” — a combination of tanning bed and spray tan treatments costing $1,300. The child is visibly reluctant (“Now I really don’t want to do this”) but is pushed into the booth for her school pictures. Bizarrely, the episode aired on E! with breaking news scrolling across the bottom reporting Davina McCall’s arrest for DUI and cocaine possession — the very person the little girl ends up looking like after her tan.
A caller named Louise from Sunderland rings in asking whether it’s normal that her male housemate regularly urinates in the kitchen sink rather than going upstairs to the toilet. Scott admits that he and comedy partner Dave have done the same thing at a club gig in Penzance, though he claims it was an office sink, not a kitchen one. He’s evasive about whether they touched while doing it.
In a lighter segment, Scott reveals he’s made a terrible mistake: after a few glasses of wine before holiday, he promised a friend getting married next March that he’d play the harp at her wedding — despite having no musical ability whatsoever. The friend has now emailed asking if he’s still on for it. A caller claiming to be Aaron from the Isle of Man, who teaches harp for £10 a lesson despite admitting he can’t read music and only learned by ear in four years, offers to teach Scott. Scott calculates he’d need to get a ferry to the island just for lessons, making the whole situation absurd.
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