On The Great British Baking Show (its US name; it’s called the Great British Bake Off in the UK, but bake-off is trademarked in the US), a contestant confessed he had not a Scooby Doo about how to make a particular recipe. By that he meant he had “not a clue” — an example of rhyming slang. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “To Have Not a Scooby Doo”
Well, the latest guilty pleasure in our household is binge watching the Great British Baking Show.
I was really excited to see one of the contestants who was told that they were going to have to do some kind of fancy Swedish tart or something.
He was just kind of shaking his head saying not a scooby-doo and I realized he was saying I don’t have a clue, not a scooby-doo.
Yeah, rhyming slang, how about that?
Yeah, yeah, not a scooby-doo.
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