The wrong member of Take That
Scott discussed bands continuing after members had left and confidently referred to the recent departure from Take That without remembering who it was. His attempts to identify the missing member drifted between Robbie Williams and Jason Orange, creating the unusual spectacle of Radio 1 announcing a line-up change months after everybody else had understood it.
The conversation began with Axwell and Ingrosso choosing to trade under their own names rather than continue as Swedish House Mafia. Scott and Chris also remembered versions of Five and S Club performing with progressively fewer original members.
What is a potato?
Chris had found an online story about a man meeting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. When her mother served baked potatoes, he decided it would be funny to pretend he had never heard of them. He committed so completely to the joke that the family became angry and threw him out.
To test whether the story was plausible, Chris rang a restaurant and asked about its side dishes. When mashed potato was offered, he demanded to know what “potato” meant, whether it came from an animal and what it looked like. The employee patiently explained that it was a vegetable, boiled with water and mixed with butter and milk.
The problem deepened when chips were mentioned. Chris knew McDonald’s fries but claimed not to understand that they were also made from potato. The worker finally told him, “It’s just a potato, darling,” before ending the increasingly impossible conversation.
The Instagram Game
The Voice of Instagram returned to describe photographs from one celebrity account while Scott and Chris tried to identify its owner. Clues included a BAFTA selfie with Aaron Paul and a photobomb involving Ben Haenow and Fleur East.
The format remained a visual version of Who’s That Tweeting?, with the anonymous subject referred to only as “the famous”. Scott was almost as interested in the narrator’s voice as in solving the identity, arguing that it should be used for advertisements and other important announcements.
Real or No Real
The Friday round brought more end-of-week facts and another opportunity for the programme to lose track of which statements had already appeared. The show’s rotating celebrity podcast names, Scott’s uncertain Take That history and Chris’s refusal to recognise Britain’s most familiar vegetable left the facts feeling comparatively dependable.
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