A Horny "Bread Week" Judges 'The Great British Baking Show's Buns

I will be the first to say that, though it took Channel 4 three tries before they got there, Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond are the network's answer to Sue & Mel during the BBC years of The Great British Baking Show. Sure, the Barbie opening was a full year dated by the time they got around to it. Maybe they aren't always perfect, but the "Bake It Til You Make It" opening for Bread Week (and all the song titles contained therein) was utterly delightful. I genuinely hope that "Yeast of Burden" or "Purple Grain" gets the full musical treatment in Season 2 of The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.

As for Bread Week, it's the yearly challenge that kind of made Paul Hollywood the character he is in the series; the BBC had made him out to be some kind of carb guru in those early years to build him up to something that could be seen as equal to Mary Berry. (Spoiler: He's not.) When the series moved house, Channel 4, not knowing any better, treated what was a bit tongue-in-cheek as some kind of indisputable fact. Everything about how Paul acts in this episode is a microcosm of his inability to make the show anything other than all about himself, and why he's become the 600lb gorilla in the tent.

However, Bread is one of the three staples of baking prowess, along with Biscuits and Cakes, so let's politely avert our eyes when Prue Leith is unable to stop her co-judge from getting handsy with the buns and see who rises and who fails to proof.