Ben Schott

So you say, well, Ben is in the diary room and Alan is in the snooker room and whatever.

And you count all the chickens.

So people who are viewing know where all the different characters are before you go into the next segment.

And that's just a really kind of quick, easy way of understanding how they think about constructing each new sort of section after a break.

Well, I would use the word recap rather than chicken count.

Well, they also use recap, recap, recap.

I mean, they have dozens of them.

But the chicken count is by going sort of character to character.

There's one of like 150 terms I have from reality TV editors, including my favorite, which is, of course, the wine slap.

The wine slap is now the overused trope of people hurling glasses of Pinot Grigio into the faces of their fellow contestants.

Well, it's a very easy way to basically be aggressive without really sort of having to call the police.

I think they show up.

I think probably, you know, sometimes they get borrowed from other groups.

I mean, the language of the stunt world, I mean, you know, you need to describe different types of falls.

You need to describe different types of fights.

You need to describe, you know, different types of camera movements.

And sometimes it's just like pleasing slang.

And sometimes it's just, it's a way of like, you know, we're going off sticks.

means we're taking the camera off the tripod and it's like well off sticks you know someone says it once and people just go oh that's cool and they just get used and used and used the martini shot the martini shot is the last shot of the day because you know we'll have this and then we'll we'll make the shot and then we'll have a martini and people find it amusing and pleasing and it just enters the language so i think probably it's just like all slang something strange happens and people go oh that's useful and fun and it just clicks

Let's use that.