Beccy attempts revenge
After Chappers’ computer-support prank, Beccy considered how she could retaliate.
She admitted that she was poor at practical jokes. Even simple attempts to spray her boyfriend with water usually failed because he recognised what she was doing and ducked before she could act.
The team encouraged her to develop a more convincing telephone prank rather than improvising one without preparation.
What would men buy for Valentine’s Day?
For Oh, What’s Occurring?, Scott’s team went to “Stupid Street”, the programme’s name for vox pops in which members of the public were asked odd or deliberately leading questions.
Seven men were asked what they planned to give their partners for Valentine’s Day.
Answers included flowers, chocolates, wine and other conventional gifts. One man appeared to say he would provide wine and “hex”, prompting the team to debate whether he meant eggs, laxatives, hot eggs or something else entirely.
Scott and Beccy tried to reconstruct the mystery gift and imagined serving a hard-boiled or Scotch egg with wine.
Beccy’s Classifieds: reward hunting
In Beccy’s Classifieds, Beccy normally searched for odd products or bargains. Because she had no money before payday, she instead looked for lost-property notices offering rewards.
The first advertiser had lost a size-seven shoe: black patent at the front and gradually silver towards the back. It had been bought from New Look long enough ago to be considered irreplaceable. The owner said the matching right shoe was “desperate to be reunited with its partner” and stressed that the advert was not a joke.
The team wondered how a shoe could fall from a car and proposed finding a similar black shoe and painting the back silver.
Another person had left a single black leather glove on an H37 bus in Richmond. The owner found the bus 15 minutes later, but the driver said a woman had already taken it.
A red Chicco baby buggy had also disappeared near a taxi rank. The advert said it had been missing since before Christmas but the owner had only just become aware of the loss after spending time in hospital. The team initially misunderstood the wording and worried that a baby might also be missing.
A joke listing appealed for the return of a snowman that had vanished while leaving its scarf and hat behind.
Somebody else reported finding a cordless computer mouse in Fleet Street, prompting questions about who would carry one around and then search a website to recover it.
The funeral clown
The final classified offered the services of what it called Ireland’s premier funeral-clown company.
The prices were €150 for a clown at the funeral home, €150 at the grave and €150 at a home wake. Booking one service reduced each additional service to €50.
The clown could bring squirting flowers, make balloon animals and, if requested, fall into the grave.
Scott rejected the idea of being sent towards a crematorium with a balloon dog on his coffin. The quieter member of the team, however, appeared to want the complete package, including the fall into the grave.
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