Watching consumate professionals Tim Lovejoy and Louise Redknapp on the flacid neither-one-nor-the-other Sunday morning stodge Something for the Weekend.
Saving grace chef Simon Rimmer is explaining what he will be cooking this morning. He starts with fish soup and moves on to mushroom pie. But as the pre-recorded pie images appear Tim cuts in. He isn't happy.
"I'm not sure about the fish soup, to be honest".
Simon is thrown. This didn't happen in rehearsal, and he knows it looks shoddy to be talking about fish soup over a visual of mushroom pie. He flannels. Louise, sensing that the train is coming off the tracks and the need for extra input, deploys her unique brand of inarticulate repetition posing as insight.
"What gets me is, you know, it's fish......SOUP?"
Tim steps in and clarifies his objection. Fish is wet, and soup is wet. It's just not quite right. We are now back to Simon, having seen every stock mushroom pie image in the BBC library. He looks like he wants to cry. He now has to cook fish soup for these morons. When he does they don't like it - it contains coriander, which they both HATE. They can't really explain why, though.
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