Scott continues his investigation into mystery phone numbers found written on pub toilet doors, calling up confused strangers to ask what services they’re advertising — with predictably awkward results. He also attempts to fool his gullible mum for a second time.
After discovering his own number has been written on a toilet door somewhere, Scott has been fielding strange calls. Rather than wait passively, he decides to turn the tables: Chappers has collected several phone numbers from the back of toilet doors in local pubs, and Scott now rings them up to find out exactly what these mystery advertisers are offering.
The calls are hilariously unproductive. The first contact involves a bewildered man who Scott assumes is advertising jobs, but who denies ever putting his number anywhere and seems genuinely confused by the inquiry. Scott persists, reasoning that if the man’s number is on a toilet door, perhaps he’s been a victim of the same prank. Another call reaches someone who definitely isn’t named Randy, despite a scrawled note next to the number suggesting “Randy something action” — the person has no idea why their number is there either, and admits they can’t offer windsurfing weekends or mountaineering trips (Scott’s optimistic guesses at what “Randy action” might entail).
The feature perfectly captures the prank’s absurdity: neither caller is particularly cooperative, the handwriting on the doors is illegible enough to spawn wild speculation, and Scott’s attempts to extract meaningful information are met with confusion and dead ends. It’s a nice inversion of the original prank — instead of Scott being the victim of random calls, he becomes the perpetrator chasing down leads.
Separately, Scott makes his second attempt to fool his notoriously gullible mother, though the transcript doesn’t capture those details clearly.
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