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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Thursday afternoon.
00:34Let's hope it's a thriller as our challenger looks to sabotage our champion
00:38who took a wrecking ball to the show yesterday to claim his first win.
00:43It's time to express yourself over 15 rounds of letters and numbers.
00:47They are our weapons of choice.
00:50Rachel Riley, hidden amongst that intro, was five song titles
00:55that are considered to be amongst the best music videos.
01:00Ever made, because in this day in 1981, MTV launched
01:03and the first video was Video Killed, the radio star by the Buggles.
01:07Yes, great choice for the first song.
01:10Music videos, they're still huge because, of course,
01:12the YouTube ones get millions of hits.
01:14What's your favourite ever?
01:15I mean, it's fun when you get to go back and see people who are famous now
01:18before they were famous appearing.
01:20So you taught me about Courtney Cox and which song was it?
01:23Dancing in the Dark.
01:23Dancing in the Dark.
01:24Have you seen Elton John, I'm Still Standing?
01:27Two Loafers Eros, one of my first ever favourite albums.
01:31I love that song, but I don't think I know the video.
01:33So it was choreographed by Arlene Phillips, I do believe.
01:36Strictly?
01:37Yeah, the fantastic choreographer.
01:39And Bruno, the judge, Bruno Tolioni from Strictly,
01:42is one of the dancers in it from the 80s.
01:44And there's some good stories about that video, I think,
01:47in Elton's biography as well, his autobiography,
01:49which is quite interesting.
01:50And what's funny, it comes from a circle
01:52because the video that I was going to highlight is
01:55Aha! Take On Me.
01:57Oh, yeah.
01:57Which is where Morton Harkett, the lead singer,
02:00goes into the black and white comic strip, if you like,
02:05and it turns into an animation.
02:08Yeah.
02:08And that's why it all sort of ties together
02:10because that's a young Susie Dent in that video, yeah.
02:13That was her first appearance in television.
02:15Not many people know that.
02:16No, I didn't know that.
02:17Yeah, that was her first break.
02:18And from there, as you know, nothing but success ever since.
02:22Let's head over to Dictionary Corner to the woman
02:24that nobody would take on when it comes to countdown.
02:28It is our Susie.
02:29And alongside her, taking a sledgehammer to the show this week,
02:33Forever in Vogue, it's Helen Lederer.
02:38Right, our new champion is Liam Critcher.
02:40Welcome back, mate.
02:41Thank you for having me back.
02:42It was a crucial countdown conundrum yesterday.
02:45It was indeed the proverbial thriller, which we loved.
02:49Let's see how you get on today against Angelica Bent,
02:53who's a Londoner these days, originally from Sheffield,
02:56but the fact she's a Chelsea tattoo tells us she's very much south now.
03:00How are you?
03:01I'm good, thank you.
03:02Good.
03:02You've got to, look, string this out, right?
03:05Tell me about when you were mugged.
03:08Yeah, funny story.
03:10I was literally walking on my way to work
03:12and a young lady kind of crept up behind me.
03:17Shocking.
03:18This is hard, but I'm sorry to do this, but we have to do the...
03:21Yeah, go ahead.
03:21And I, like, rushed and I kind of grabbed my handbag
03:25thinking, you know, she's going for it,
03:27but she was tugging on my dress
03:29because the back of my dress was caught in my nickers.
03:35You see, I'm on your side, right?
03:38Because you have to say, you don't pull it out.
03:42That's wrong of her.
03:43If you're watching, no, just say.
03:46I'm an ignorant Londoner now,
03:47so being approached is just unheard of.
03:50Well, listen, you'll be flambassying your pants here.
03:52Angelica and Liam, good luck.
03:56Mr Crickshaw, you know what to do.
03:58I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
04:01Thank you, Liam.
04:01Start today with S.
04:04And another one, please.
04:07D.
04:08And a third.
04:10T.
04:11A vowel, please.
04:14I.
04:15And another one.
04:16O.
04:18And a third.
04:20U.
04:22Consonant, please.
04:24S.
04:26Another vowel, please.
04:28O.
04:29And a final consonant, please.
04:32And a final J.
04:34At home and in the studio, let's play Cone Time.
05:01MUSIC
05:06All right, not easy, Liam?
05:08Seven.
05:09Oh, Angelica.
05:10Seven.
05:11Fantastic, Liam.
05:13Studios.
05:14Studios and Angelica.
05:15Same, Studios.
05:16Pass it on over.
05:18Yep.
05:18Guessing there's not much else.
05:19Well, you guessed wrong, dare I say, because, is it judoists?
05:27Eight.
05:28Judoists?
05:28Yes.
05:29People who do judo a lot.
05:32Wow, a judoist.
05:33Judoist.
05:34There you go.
05:35Sensational.
05:36Seven points each.
05:38Angelica, your first time picking consonants and vowels.
05:41Hi, Rachel.
05:42Hi, Angelica.
05:42Can I get a consonant, please?
05:43You can indeed.
05:45L.
05:46And another.
05:48C.
05:50And one more.
05:52V.
05:53And a vowel.
05:55E.
05:56Another.
05:57U.
05:58Another.
06:00I.
06:01Consonant.
06:03M.
06:05Consonant.
06:07L.
06:09And a final vowel, please.
06:12And a final E.
06:15And 30 seconds.
06:17Two year.
06:46We'll be getting started off.
06:46You.
06:46Theæ’£ out your feet.
06:48Angelica? Just a four, sadly.
06:50And Liam? Also a four.
06:52I like the fact you said sadly.
06:55It seemed like someone had passed away.
06:57Sadly, I've just got a four.
06:59What is it, Angelica? Mice.
07:01And Liam? Vice. Both as sad as each other, as far as I'm concerned.
07:04And I have absolutely nothing more than that.
07:07Dictionary Corner, save us from fours.
07:10We have a seven. Yes.
07:11But I'm not entirely sure, me...
07:15Micell. Micell, which could be a cooking sauce? Not?
07:19No. I think...
07:21I don't know if you've heard of micellar water.
07:24It's a sort of cleanser for make-up, et cetera.
07:26It's made up of micell.
07:28So micell in chemistry is an aggregate of molecules in a solution.
07:32Used in detergents and that kind of thing.
07:34Absolutely baffled as to why you think I would know that word.
07:37Why was it me of everyone in the studio you went,
07:40Carl, you might know this word?
07:42Because I didn't want to assume.
07:44And also, do you have a bit of powder sometimes?
07:47What do you take it off with at the end of the day?
07:49It's my own business.
07:51OK.
07:52Maybe I'll leave it on.
07:53Eleven points each.
07:54Let's get our first numbers of the day. Liam?
07:56Could I get an inverted T, please?
07:58You can, indeed.
07:59One from the top, five little.
08:01Let's start the day off numbers-wise.
08:03We're three, four, ten, eight, nine.
08:09And the large on 75.
08:11And the target, 155.
08:14155, numbers up.
08:16On our bonus.
08:17Christopher Foxx on today.
08:36Here we go.
08:37MUSIC
08:46That's time. Liam. 155.
08:48And Angelica. 156.
08:51What? Oh, you teased us there. One away.
08:53All right, Liam, for ten points.
08:55So, ten minus eight for two. Yep.
08:58Multiply by the 75. 150.
09:01And then nine minus four for five and add it on.
09:04Lovely. 155. Well done. Well done.
09:07First time has been any daylight today.
09:10We're back after this Tea Time teaser.
09:12Wake, lack. Wake, lack.
09:14A simple stroll in Dundee, perhaps.
09:17A simple stroll in Dundee, perhaps.
09:35A simple stroll in Dundee, perhaps.
09:38A cakewalk. A cakewalk.
09:41Which is kind of, Susie, a cakewalk. It's easy, right?
09:45That's a cakewalk.
09:47Can you jot that down in pencil or maybe even a heavy pencil
09:51for an origins of words at some stage?
09:54Yeah, it's all about competitions, dancing competitions.
09:55Oh, well, definitely write it down then.
09:57We'd love to hear that because no-one in this studio
09:59has ever been any good at dancing competitions.
10:02All right, ten points in it. Let's get back to it.
10:05Angelica Letters.
10:07Can I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:11R.
10:12And another.
10:14B.
10:15And a third.
10:17L.
10:18And another.
10:19G.
10:21R.
10:23A.
10:24Another.
10:26U.
10:27And another.
10:29E.
10:32A consonant.
10:34F.
10:35And a final consonant, please.
10:38A final S.
10:39Thanks, Rich.
10:40T squeeze out.
10:41Another.
10:58H.
10:59One.
10:59One.
10:59Two.
11:03Two.
11:08Four.
11:11That's time. Angelica, Ben.
11:13Six. Liam Critcher.
11:15Risky, seven. Angelica, the six.
11:17Seagull. And Liam.
11:19Garbles. Garbles.
11:21Yes, absolutely. Garbles, really good.
11:23Seagull, you need two Ls, unfortunately.
11:25Sorry, Angelica. Helen.
11:27Refusal. Ah, very good.
11:29Yes. Garbles and refusal.
11:31Let's get back to it. Liam.
11:33Could I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
11:34Thank you, Liam. N.
11:37And another.
11:39M. And a third.
11:42S.
11:43A vowel, please.
11:45A. And another.
11:48U.
11:49And a third, please.
11:52A.
11:53Consonant, please.
11:55R.
11:58Another consonant, please.
12:00N.
12:01And a final vowel, please.
12:03And a final B.
12:05Half a minute.
12:06I...
12:07...
12:19I...
12:33I...
12:34I...
12:36I...
12:37Liam? Seven. Seven from you and Angelica? Seven. Seven, two.
12:42All right, Liam? Manners. Yeah, Angelica?
12:46Serving. Both for seven. Anything else?
12:48No, both excellent and they were exactly our two.
12:51Really good, really good indeed.
12:54Numbers for the second time today, Angelica?
12:57Can I get two large, please? You can indeed. Two from the top row.
13:01Four not coming up for you.
13:03And for the second time today, your numbers are nine.
13:05One, nine, five. And the big two? One hundred and twenty-five.
13:11And the target? Eight hundred and thirteen.
13:14Eight, one, three. Numbers up.
13:16A-k-n-o.
13:19A-k-n-o.
13:21A-k-n-o.
13:478-1-3.
13:48Angelica?
13:498-1-1.
13:50Two away.
13:51Liam?
13:528-1-3.
13:54Numbers mainly the difference today. Off you go.
13:56So, 100 minus 9.
13:5891.
14:00Times by the other 9.
14:01Is 819.
14:03And then take away the 5 and the 1.
14:05Well done. 8-1-3.
14:06Nice.
14:07APPLAUSE
14:10Numbers the difference so far, Angelica.
14:13Two more rounds to make amends. Don't fear them.
14:15That's my advice. Do not fear the numbers.
14:17You've got to be brave with them.
14:19Let's have a chat with Helen Ledder.
14:20We've been yarning more this week, haven't we?
14:22It's been fun.
14:23Lovely.
14:24See, I'll automatically want to go back and say,
14:27right, what was Rick Mayall like?
14:28What was Ed Edmondson like that?
14:29But let's talk about that.
14:30Because you're a handy cook,
14:31because you've popped up on loads of cooking shows.
14:33Well, I'm not a handy cook, but it's just how you do different things.
14:37Like, you start out in comedy, and then there were...
14:40And when I went to drama school, they didn't have a module in reality TV,
14:44because it didn't exist.
14:45And then, suddenly, I was asked to be on the cooking shows.
14:50Yeah.
14:51Um...
14:51On MasterChef?
14:52On MasterChef.
14:53And then there was a thing, and I don't know about people here,
14:57but on the one I went on, um, I thought I would win.
15:01I was arrogant enough to...
15:03You know, I'm an innocent person.
15:04And when I didn't win, I got so upset that I had to ask my cousins
15:08and my family to write in to complain.
15:11That's how seriously I took it.
15:14And then it got worse, because then I was asked back,
15:17a bit like the playoffs, all those people who'd lost in previous rounds.
15:20So that was...
15:21So the letters worked?
15:22Exactly.
15:23Exactly.
15:24But then I thought, what if they knew?
15:26And then, because I was in pantomime, I couldn't...
15:28I didn't want to go through, so I just wanted to get the fee for one
15:32and then lose.
15:34Um...
15:34And I actually...
15:36I probably broke all sorts of contractual rules,
15:39but I actually poisoned one of the...
15:42You know, with Tabasco and salt.
15:43So to actively lose is actually very challenging,
15:47and it's not a natural thing to want to lose.
15:50I didn't have that problem when I was in MasterChef, let me tell you.
15:54I did not have to try to lose.
15:56I lost all of my own...
15:57Did you?
15:58Without actively losing?
16:00Just a disaster.
16:01You're lucky you didn't like salt and Tabasco sauce.
16:03You might have lost out in the pan, though.
16:05No, I know.
16:05Well, it's...one has to juggle.
16:07Yeah.
16:07Have you been on Come Down With Me?
16:10I did the Come Down With Me.
16:11We did the first celebrity ones,
16:13where we were given cash just to experiment
16:15to see how we would function,
16:17because they didn't know if it would work.
16:18Everything I've done was...
16:19And so myself and another lovely journalist called David Quantic,
16:23what we did is we used our cash for towels.
16:27Well, I used it for towels,
16:28because I thought people would be in my bathroom,
16:30and I suddenly got very anxious about the state of the towels.
16:32So I bought those very posh ones with a linen trim
16:35and didn't use it on the food.
16:37That's the terrible plan.
16:39So I still got those towels, Colin.
16:40Right, thank you so much, Els.
16:43APPLAUSE
16:44And let's get straight back to the game.
16:46Liam.
16:46Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
16:48Thank you, Liam.
16:49D.
16:51And another one.
16:53S.
16:54And a third.
16:55R.
16:58A vowel, please.
16:59O.
17:01And another.
17:02I.
17:04And a third.
17:06E.
17:08Consonant, please.
17:10T.
17:12And another.
17:14N.
17:15And a final vowel, please.
17:19Looks promising.
17:20A final I.
17:21Thanks, Rich.
17:22There we go.
17:25Bye-bye.
17:26Have a great day.
17:37See ya soon.
17:44Bye-bye.
17:45Bye-bye.
17:45Bye-bye.
17:46Bye-bye.
17:47Bye-bye.
17:48Bye-bye.
17:50Bye-bye.
17:52Bye-bye.
17:53Liam. A seven. Angelica. Think a nine. She thinks a nine, which would change
17:58everything. Liam. Steroid. The word think just has us all in tenterhooks.
18:04Angelica. Retinoids. Retinoids. Oh, in the dictionary, well done. Brilliant.
18:11Were there any other maxes? Not that we've found, but retinoids, brilliant,
18:16group of compounds that act in the body like vitamin A. Look at that. Brilliant.
18:21Great work. And you're on the roll, Angelica. Let's get more letters.
18:25I'll start with a vowel, please. Thank you, Angelica. E. And another. A. And a third.
18:34E. Consonant. T. And another. S. And another. G. And a vowel. I. Consonant. L. And a
18:50final consonant, please. And a final P. And here we go again.
18:54E. Consonant. L. And a vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:09A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:09A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:09A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:09A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:10A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:13A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
19:19A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
19:26Angelica?
19:26Six. Six and Liam? I think seven.
19:29I think seven. So more Jeopardy here, Angelica?
19:32Pastel. Pastel. And you think?
19:35Pilates. Ah, Pilates.
19:37Ah, I'm very sad whenever this comes up.
19:40Yes, capital P, unfortunately.
19:42It's an eponym, so it's named after the German fitness expert,
19:47Joseph, I think he was. Yes, Pilates.
19:49So it's capital P, I'm afraid.
19:50Six more points for Angelica. What a comeback.
19:53Three points in it now. Helen?
19:55Well, there's eight.
19:57Epilates, the thing where you remove unwanted hirsuteness.
20:01Yes. Nice. Yes.
20:04All right. Look at this.
20:06Back to the numbers then.
20:09Liam, it's been saved for you so far today. Third time.
20:12Oh, stick with the inverted T, please.
20:14Thank you, Liam. Stick with the T with one from the top.
20:18And the little ones this time.
20:20Ten, one, three, six.
20:23And another one.
20:24And the larger one, 100.
20:26And your target, 317.
20:28317.
20:29Number's up.
20:31Number's up.
20:32Number's up.
20:32Number's up.
21:01MUSIC CONTINUES
21:06MUSIC CONTINUES
21:33This is a bit of a newer term for something we use daily.
21:37This is a bit of a newer term for something we use daily.
21:59MUSIC CONTINUES
22:01That's the interweb, the interweb.
22:04Three points in it.
22:05Six rounds to go.
22:07What an afternoon it's been.
22:08Angelica, letters.
22:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:11Thank you, Angelica.
22:13M.
22:13And another.
22:15P.
22:16And another.
22:18S.
22:19And a four.
22:21Vowel.
22:22Vowel.
22:24O.
22:25And another.
22:26A.
22:27And another.
22:29O.
22:30Consonant.
22:32T.
22:33And a final vowel, please.
22:35And a final E.
22:37And let's play.
23:07MUSIC CONTINUES
23:09Angelica.
23:10Seven.
23:11And Liam.
23:12Just the five.
23:13The five is?
23:14Goats.
23:14And to take the lead, Angelica.
23:17Postage.
23:18On the money.
23:19Very good indeed.
23:20Fantastic.
23:21Great seven.
23:22Helen.
23:23Eight.
23:24Post game?
23:26Post game.
23:27Post game discussions, that kind of thing.
23:29Is it American in the dictionary?
23:30It absolutely is.
23:31You're completely right.
23:32North American English.
23:33But I've definitely heard it over here.
23:34Could you imagine the post game on this countdown?
23:37Absolutely crazy, wouldn't it?
23:39Angelica's in the lead for the first time today on 59 points.
23:42Liam, off you go.
23:43I'll start with the consonant, please.
23:44Thank you, Liam.
23:46K.
23:46And another.
23:49G.
23:50And a third.
23:51D.
23:53And a vowel, please.
23:55A.
23:57And another.
23:58E.
24:00And a third, please.
24:02A.
24:04Consonant.
24:05T.
24:06And another.
24:08L.
24:09And a final consonant, please.
24:12Final W.
24:14Kind time.
24:16A.
24:46Six.
24:48Angelica?
24:48Yeah, just a six.
24:49What have we got, Liam?
24:51Walked.
24:52Yes, and Angelica?
24:53Same, walked.
24:55We can walk, we can talk, maybe we can even gawk, I'm not sure,
24:59but what can we do better?
25:01Gawked?
25:02That's exactly what we were doing.
25:03I stopped at six.
25:05Yeah, again, another round where we can't do better
25:07than champion and challenger,
25:08and we are heading towards our third crucial countdown conundrum
25:11in a row.
25:12Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
25:14Four points in it at the moment before.
25:16Four rounds to go.
25:18And Susie loved the nightmare origins of words yesterday.
25:22What are we doing today?
25:23Well, this one is a little bit cuter, I think,
25:26and it is all to do with the origin of something
25:30that was on the menu the other day when I went out for lunch,
25:34and I thought, oh, I wonder where that comes from,
25:35and it was toad in the hole.
25:36Yeah.
25:38And it joins many other slightly quizzically named menu items
25:43in our dictionary.
25:44So the first record that we have, or one of the first,
25:47is from a provincial glossary.
25:50So this was a collection of regional English of 1787,
25:53and the brilliant nexicographer Francis Gross,
25:56who, as I often say, he worked alongside Samuel Johnson,
26:01although I'm not sure they ever met,
26:02but while Samuel Johnson was collecting all the classics
26:05and words from the greats like Shakespeare and Milton,
26:08Francis Gross was visiting the ordinary people.
26:11He was going to the taverns, he was talking to the highwaymen,
26:13he was talking to criminals,
26:15and trying to collect their language,
26:16which hadn't really been documented.
26:18Anyway, in his provincial glossary,
26:20he includes an entry for pudding pie doll,
26:24which was the Norfolk version of, as he defines it,
26:28the dish called toad in the hole, meat boiled in a crust.
26:34So, clearly, not just did it go by various names,
26:36but it had a slightly different recipe then as well.
26:39Today it's quintessentially British, isn't it?
26:41It's sausages baked in batter.
26:44And, as I say, it keeps company with things like spotted dick,
26:47devils on horseback, and some of the curiously named things.
26:51Several theories have been put forward to explain its name.
26:54One is that the toad represents a sort of hearty meal
26:58to fill a hole in your stomach, to fill the empty stomach.
27:02Most linguists, I think, prefer the more obvious version,
27:05which is that the dish, if you squinted it sideways,
27:08it might look a little bit like a toad peering out from its hole.
27:11Very good, there you go.
27:12Nice one, Stella, a bit of a mystery.
27:13It is. Thank you.
27:15APPLAUSE
27:17Just don't ask Helen to cook it.
27:19That's what I say.
27:20Right, Angelica, four rounds to go.
27:23Good luck to you, good luck to Liam Challenger picking these letters.
27:27Consonant, please.
27:28Thank you, Angelica.
27:30Q.
27:31Bowel.
27:33E.
27:34And another.
27:36U.
27:37Consonant.
27:38T.
27:39And another.
27:42C.
27:42And another.
27:44N.
27:46Bowel.
27:48I.
27:49Consonant.
27:51R.
27:52And final consonant, please.
27:54A final...
27:56H.
27:57Here we go.
27:58T.
27:59T.
27:591.
28:04T.
28:04T.
28:05T.
28:24MUSIC PLAYS
28:29Angelica? Six. Liam? Six as well. Six as well, OK.
28:33Angelica? Quince. Oh, quince with a bit of cheese.
28:37And Liam? Enrich. Enrich your cheese with a bit of quince.
28:41Very nice. Very nice. Was there anything more than a six there?
28:45We have a seven. A lovely word called chunter.
28:49Chunter. Excellent. To talk or kind of grumble monotonously,
28:53to chunter on. Absolutely the only seven that we spotted.
28:58Let's get our last letters round. Liam? I'll start with the consonant, please.
29:01Thank you, Liam. G. And another. D. And a vowel, please. E.
29:12And another. I. Consonant, please. N. And another. D.
29:22And a vowel, please. O. And a consonant. S. And another vowel, please.
29:35Lastly, A. Last letters.
29:38?
29:39?
30:09Huge round this.
30:10Liam.
30:11Nine, I think.
30:12My goodness me, Angelica.
30:14A risky seven.
30:16The seven?
30:18Deading.
30:19Deading. D-E-A-D-I-N-G.
30:23Build this up, Liam. Let's have it.
30:26Diagnosed.
30:27Diagnosed.
30:27Very good, indeed.
30:29I thought you were.
30:30APPLAUSE
30:32What a spark. Two nines. You've traded maximums.
30:35What a fantastic show. 85.71.
30:38Now, are we going to get a crucial? Who knows the way this has been going?
30:41Two rounds left to go.
30:43Angelica, numbers has been a rollercoaster for you, but you're picking them.
30:47Your strategy is everything here.
30:49Six more, please.
30:50Six more. I like it.
30:52You're gambling. You want this teapot.
30:54You're not going to go home with nothing. Let's see.
30:56We need a challenge. They are two, three, nine, four, six and eight.
31:04And the final target of the day, 646.
31:07Six, four, six, with six small last numbers.
31:40I will have to do's. Did it pay off, Angelica? What did you get?
31:44No, nothing.
31:45Nothing. There you go, Liam.
31:46I also lost it.
31:48You had to. Can we just say, well done for picking six small.
31:51Well done. Well done.
31:53That's what you're here to do. Well done.
31:55Er, 6-4-6, Rachel Riley.
31:58Yes, it was there.
32:00If you say six plus three is nine.
32:03Nine times nine is 81.
32:0581 times eight is 648.
32:09And you take away the two for 6-4-6.
32:10Brilliant.
32:13A lot of us were playing around with that 88 to 64
32:16and trying to go from there, and it was just dead end after dead end.
32:21Here we are.
32:21Not a crucial countdown conundrum today,
32:24but at one stage, it looked like a landslide
32:27and then Angelica got Liam's knickers all in a twist
32:30and you had to pull out the maximum
32:32to get out of the crucial countdown conundrum.
32:35Well done, both of you.
32:36Brilliant game.
32:37Let's round it off with today's countdown conundrum.
32:57Liam.
32:59It's what you've made us today.
33:01Yes.
33:01Well done.
33:04It's been that type of show.
33:06Liam gets his second win on 95.
33:09Angelica, another day, another doughnut,
33:11you'll be taking home a teapot.
33:14I know, I know.
33:15So near yet so far.
33:16How many people go home, though, defeated and say, like,
33:18I got a maximum.
33:20It wasn't an easy one either.
33:22And, you know, a couple of numbers rounds.
33:24We go back to the first two numbers rounds.
33:26You didn't score a single point.
33:27Yeah.
33:27Goodness me.
33:28I knew they'd be my doozy.
33:30I just want to say before you go,
33:32she has all sorts of honours degrees
33:34and all those things we would have talked about,
33:36not just the knickers story.
33:37But it was too good not to.
33:39Angelica, safe home.
33:41Thank you for being here.
33:42Thanks very much.
33:42Liam, you beat a really good champion to get in that chair.
33:45You beat a really good challenger to stay there.
33:47So I'm excited about what happens with you.
33:50We'll see you tomorrow.
33:51See you tomorrow.
33:51And Helen and Susie, see you tomorrow.
33:53Yes.
33:54All done for the day.
33:55And what was the music video
33:56we need to catch Susie in again?
33:57She's been in that many dodgy videos from the 80s.
34:00It's hard to pinpoint just one.
34:03Aha, take on me.
34:04Rio, Duran, Duran.
34:05OK.
34:06Whole different career.
34:06Another Google.
34:07Whole different career.
34:08Right, we're done.
34:09Back tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:11You can count on us.
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34:37Thanks, David.