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Spitting Image

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Spitting Image	label	Spitting Image
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Spitting Image	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show which ran on ITV from 1984–96, with a revival airing on BritBox as of 2020. The series could possibly be one of the most influential programmes in British television history, as by virtue of using puppets, they could get away with things that other shows could not.For the entirety of the original run, the United Kingdom was ruled by the Conservative Party, so the government (and especially Margaret Thatcher) was the show's favourite target. However, it did not spare the opposition parties, the royal family, other countries' leaders, or celebrity figures outside of politics. Probably the most acerbically targeted country was South Africa during The Apartheid Era.The series was nominated for ten BAFTA Awards, winning only one, for editing, in 1989.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The show ended its original run after 18 seasons, due mostly to the fact that they couldn't afford the new puppets they would need for a change of government; that, and the relatively bland composition of the John Major government, which lacked the epic grandeur of the Thatcher years and — with the notable exception of Major himself — almost defied satire. However, a revival premiered in late 2020 on the streaming service BritBox, with prime minister Boris Johnson, then-U.S. president Donald Trump, the 2020 American election cycle, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and prominent billionaires and celebrities like Kanye West, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos all providing ample opportunities for satire and parody. A 20th season premiered in late 2021. The showrunners have put all episodes of the reboot, and are currently attempting to upload the original show, onto YouTube for free here.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The show has had several spiritual successors such as the traditional animation 2DTV, CGI series Headcases and part-CGI, part-puppet Newzoids but none have ever matched its popularity. The concept was brought overseas and foreign remakes have been made in France, Germany, the USA,note two times, in fact; a series of specials produced for NBC by the actual Spitting Image production staff, and the unrelated DC Follies Portugal, India, Italy, Serbia, Norway, Russia, the Netherlands and Israel among others, with varying degrees of popularity — some bombed, others have outlasted the British original.The show's team is also responsible for the famous video for "Land of Confusion" by Genesis, which features puppets of noted personalities (and the three members of the band) similar to those featured on the show.A character page is currently under construction.
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Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to GenesisBand: Not a Feature - ITEM
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to God: Not a Feature - ITEM
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to Madonna: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to MultiNationalShows: Not a Feature - ITEM
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to PrivateEye: Not a Feature - ITEM
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to RodStewart: Not a Feature - ITEM
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to Synchronicity: Not a Feature - ITEM
Spitting Image	processingComment	Dropped link to TheMoodyBlues: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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Spitting Image / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Spitting Image / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Most, if not all, of the puppets are real people. The sole major exception seems to be Lee, the apathetic friend of Greta Thunberg.
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Spitting Image / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Spitting Image / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Dominic Cummings who's from Durham, England and not Epsilon V, drinks through his index finger, eats through his ears, and is deathly allergic to cilantro. Also for some peculiar reason his head inflates and deflates when he's using his Mind Control powers.
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Spitting Image / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Spitting Image / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Subverted, oh, so much subverted! Despite most characters being based on celebrities, some puppets were just general stand-ins whenever the shows' creators needed youngsters, children, women, secretaries, blacks, Asians, Hispanics,... Some viewers often wondered who they were supposed to be, though.
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Spitting Image / int_174b85df	type	Virgin Sacrifice
Spitting Image / int_174b85df	comment	Virgin Sacrifice: When Boris Johnson gets possessed by Margaret Thatcher, his Cabinet members read in a spell book that the only way to stop it is with a blood sacrifice, which has to be a virgin. They, of course, pick Matt Hancock.
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Spitting Image / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Spitting Image / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Naturally, since all the puppets were meant to be caricatures, but sometimes the makers added extra gags without any basis in reality. For instance, Rod Stewart had a penis for a nose, Barry Norman had a huge fictional wart, certain puppets were depicted as dwarfs ten times smaller than the other characters, Mikhail Gorbachev's birth mark was shaped into the Communist hammer and sickle,...
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Spitting Image / int_1b5c9c48	type	The Blank
Spitting Image / int_1b5c9c48	comment	The Blank: Faceless bureaucrats? Literally.
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Spitting Image / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Spitting Image / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: In one sketch, Priti Patel (Boris Johnson's Home State) is portrayed as one towards her fellow Cabinet members, satirising her very nasty reputation for bullying. Throughout the sketch, she physically and verbally assaults all of her coworkers, and Boris Johnson dismisses it as "harmless banter".
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Spitting Image / int_1d91d9bb	type	Deadly Gaze
Spitting Image / int_1d91d9bb	comment	Deadly Gaze: One sketch portrays Priti Patel as being able to curdle milk just by staring at it.
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Spitting Image / int_1e52d870	type	Dance Sensation
Spitting Image / int_1e52d870	comment	Dance Sensation: One sketch has Xi Jinping trying to start one on TikTok, which is called "The Jinping Shuffle". Of course, since this is Xi Jinping, this "dance" is just a ploy to get peoples' personal information on the internet. Some of the dance's moves include zooming in on each of your retinas, typing the PIN for your bank account, and yelling out your name, address, and age.
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Spitting Image / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Spitting Image / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The show mostly centered around events that were topical in the 1980s and 1990s, but some sketches put the celebrities in a historical context. Also, sometimes celebrities who had already passed away years before the show debuted were featured on the show, like The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Queen Victoria,...
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Spitting Image / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Spitting Image / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Lots of funny stuff is happening in the background of many scenes. Characters beating each other up or appearing in a weird context.
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Spitting Image / int_277686f2	type	Reused Character Design
Spitting Image / int_277686f2	comment	Reused Character Design: Some of the older puppets, usually celebrities who weren't much in the news anymore, were re-used if they resembled some of the newer or more media-prominent celebrities. An example is Ringo Starr who was later sprayed in a browner skin color, re-clothed and thus became Yasser Arafat. Probably one of the maddest was Mike Rutherford's puppet from the "Land of Confusion" music video, which was reused on the show as Jesus.
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Spitting Image / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Spitting Image / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The successor to Not the Nine O'Clock News. The spiritual successors to Spitting Image itself were the traditionally animated TwoDTV, the live action Dead Ringers and the CGI Headcases (the latter was the only one which was actually advertised as a successor to Spitting Image, but it was probably the least successful).
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Spitting Image / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Spitting Image / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: You can hear President Mitterrand call Margaret a cow at one point. Plus the other puppet in the Ian Paisley Night Thoughts sketch is actually doing proper sign language. In the Derek Jameson sketch about German television, Chris Barrie is speaking real German.
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Spitting Image / int_298b1a12	type	Knocking on Heathens' Door
Spitting Image / int_298b1a12	comment	Knocking on Heathens' Door: A couple of Mormons chap on Cliff Richard's door and instantly regret it.
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Spitting Image / int_29d4ec8a	type	British Teeth
Spitting Image / int_29d4ec8a	comment	British Teeth: Certain British celebrities had their teeth exaggerated enormously: Kenneth Williams, Cilla Black, Enoch Powell, David Mellor, Richard Branson, Mark Thatcher, Freddie Mercury,...
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Spitting Image / int_2a321a1f	type	A Date with Rosie Palms
Spitting Image / int_2a321a1f	comment	A Date with Rosie Palms: One sketch had a Public Service Announcement warning viewers about the dangers of Oliver Reed having a bonk.
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Spitting Image / int_2acd8fe4	type	Yet Another Baby Panda
Spitting Image / int_2acd8fe4	comment	Yet Another Baby Panda: On one occasion, Sir Alastair Burnet begs John Craven for a happy story to finish off the "grown-up" news.
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Spitting Image / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Spitting Image / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Fauna Lo-cal Spread anyone? Reptiles Bland Blend Coffee, tastes more like Donald Sinden than ever before!
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Spitting Image / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
Spitting Image / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: After his resignation in Real Life, Dominic Cummings is summoned back to the show by Michael Gove chanting "Barnard Castle!" three times in front of a mirror.note Cummings having violated COVID-19 regulations by visiting this village away from his hometown.
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Spitting Image / int_2c5bfae3	type	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting
Spitting Image / int_2c5bfae3	comment	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: The show spared no one, including the United Kingdom itself!
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Spitting Image / int_2ccdd477	type	Monstrous Germs
Spitting Image / int_2ccdd477	comment	Monstrous Germs: COVID-19 is a blue coronavirus with a mouth and eyes on sticks, which later gets enlarged to people-size after Trump invites it into his cabinet.
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Spitting Image / int_2ec6e90f	type	Yet Another Christmas Carol
Spitting Image / int_2ec6e90f	comment	Yet Another Christmas Carol: Rishi Sunak goes through one in the Series 2 Christmas special.
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Spitting Image / int_2ef89a18	type	Fat Comic Relief
Spitting Image / int_2ef89a18	comment	Fat Comic Relief: The obesity of Nigel Lawson, Luciano Pavarotti, Bernard Manning, Cyril Smith, Cilla Black,... was played up for laughs.
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Spitting Image / int_2f2a4fbe	type	Charity Motivation Song
Spitting Image / int_2f2a4fbe	comment	Charity Motivation Song: Parodied by the Christmas special's "Celebrities stop Climate Change" song.
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Spitting Image / int_2f30658a	type	Eyes Always Shut
Spitting Image / int_2f30658a	comment	Eyes Always Shut: Nelson Mandela, Clint Eastwood, Cilla Black, Walter Matthau, Prince Philip, David Bailey, Charles Bronson, Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II, Ian Paisley, John Hurt, Dustin Hoffman, Jimmy Greaves, Geoffrey Howe, Lester Piggot,...
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Spitting Image / int_3213b689	type	This Is a Song
Spitting Image / int_3213b689	comment	This Is a Song: "The Chicken Song" is about an annoying song that you hear on holiday and which seems to follow you everywhere:
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Spitting Image / int_326a740c	type	Scatterbrained Senior
Spitting Image / int_326a740c	comment	Scatterbrained Senior: Joe Biden is a senile, gaffe-prone crone just like Reagan in the original.
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Spitting Image / int_347cfbb1	type	Sermonette
Spitting Image / int_347cfbb1	comment	Sermonette: One sketch was a direct parody of Thames Television's regular sermonette, Night Thoughts, with this version being hosted by Ian Paisley.
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Spitting Image / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Spitting Image / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Thatcher's seen pulling the wings off a bowl's worth of butterflies when Hurd interrupts her to tell her there's been a bomb in Oxford Street.
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Spitting Image / int_39297f53	type	Bigger Is Better
Spitting Image / int_39297f53	comment	Bigger Is Better: Subverted with Arnold Schwarzenegger whose willie is tiny.
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Spitting Image / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Spitting Image / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Obviously, of course, since all the voices are impressions of real-life celebrities. Though some received a different treatment. Pope John Paul II also sounded more like the real pope in earlier seasons. However, in a master stroke of Rule of Funny he was given a hip American accent to fit with his rock 'n' roll image on the show. Most of the non-English speaking celebrities were given stereotypical accents matching their country of origin rather than their real life voices.
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Spitting Image / int_40582f4b	type	Guttural Growler
Spitting Image / int_40582f4b	comment	Guttural Growler: Bruce Springsteen.
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Spitting Image / int_4394b4be	type	Messy Hair
Spitting Image / int_4394b4be	comment	Messy Hair: Ken Dodd, Bob Dylan...
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Spitting Image / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Spitting Image / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Prince Harry trying to adjust to life as a commoner in Los Angeles.
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Spitting Image / int_455fb728	type	Gag Lips
Spitting Image / int_455fb728	comment	Gag Lips: Boris Johnson, Kim Kardashian...
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Spitting Image / int_4560b6bb	type	Gag Nose
Spitting Image / int_4560b6bb	comment	Gag Nose: Michael Gove's nose resembles a Gag Penis, while his cheeks are a ballsack.
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Spitting Image / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
Spitting Image / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: Despite being born and raised in New York City, one sketch shows Ivanka Trump as going to a fancy restaurant there and getting thrown out, because of the disdain most New Yorkers have for her father.
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Spitting Image / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Spitting Image / int_470bff94	comment	Dominic Cummings wanting to eat Boris Johnson's infant son.
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Spitting Image / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Spitting Image / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: James Corden, Prince Andrew, and Matt Hancock.
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Spitting Image / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Spitting Image / int_48081842	comment	John Cole getting hit in the head with a golf club or a stick. In one episode's ending he finally manages to dodge it.
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Spitting Image / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Spitting Image / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: The Soviets try to pretend Premier Chernenko is still alive and prop up his corpse at the negotiating table with Ronald Reagan. Reagan finds him 'a tough negotiator' and calls for Henry Kissinger, who also fails at the negotiations, before Reagan finally resorts to Bonzo the chimpanzee.
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Spitting Image / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
Spitting Image / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: Sir Robin Day jags Kenneth Baker and Norman Fowler with some truth serum in an effort to relieve the boredom of hosting an election night programme.
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Spitting Image / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Spitting Image / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Princess Diana: The celebrity of the Royal Family, but slow-witted and invoked hungry for publicity. Thought at one point her life was a soap opera in the most literal sense.
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Spitting Image / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Spitting Image / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season pales compared to later seasons. The pilot episode had a laugh track (which was abandoned quickly from the next episode on). Certain puppets sound different because the voice actors didn't always comically exaggerate the voices of the lampooned celebrities in the first season. Many episodes in the first season follow plot lines that are continued like a chronological series, while later seasons were always stand alone episodes. And certain puppets went through consideral makeovers throughout the seasons. For example: Queen Elizabeth's hair was made grey as her real life counterpart got older too. In the same way the black Michael Jackson was sprayed white over the seasons. Margaret Thatcher's puppet also became more grotesque each season. The revival mostly stays true to the post-Growing the Beard run, at least in style, but keeps some plot lines running through the season (such as the billionaire’s race to Mars).
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Spitting Image / int_4f7c3890	type	Shoddy Knockoff Product
Spitting Image / int_4f7c3890	comment	Shoddy Knockoff Product: One sketch parodies China's tendency to produce these, and centers around Kanye West complaining to Xi Jinping about how the Chinese are making bootleg Yeezys (which, as it turns out, cost just as much to make as genuine ones) and selling them at a lower price. Xi Jinping then reveals that he's made a bootleg version of Kanye West himself, named "Comye East", who then goes to the VMAs in Kanye's place.
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Spitting Image / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Spitting Image / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: Mikhail Gorbachev has a friend who runs a large communist country and has a nuclear reactor spewing radiation all over most of Europe.
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Spitting Image / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
Spitting Image / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms: Heseltine and Thatcher's discussion of Belgrano.
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Spitting Image / int_525478f9	type	Consulting Mister Puppet
Spitting Image / int_525478f9	comment	Consulting Mister Puppet: Jared Kushner, Trump’s advisor and son-in-law, is portrayed as a static, mute mannequin.
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Spitting Image / int_53f44cdf	type	Washy Watchy
Spitting Image / int_53f44cdf	comment	Washy Watchy: In a U.S. election special, an aide informs Ronald Reagan that he's not watching TV but the washing machine. Reagan turns a dial on it and continues watching.
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Spitting Image / int_54a20968	type	Immune to Mind Control
Spitting Image / int_54a20968	comment	Immune to Mind Control: Dominic Cummings cannot thought control Boris Johnson because there's no thoughts to control.
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Spitting Image / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
Spitting Image / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Leonid Breznhev, Khomeini, Norman Lamont,...
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Spitting Image / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Spitting Image / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: The "What about the vegetables? They'll have the same" joke.
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Spitting Image / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Spitting Image / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: The majority of the puppets are all based and named on real life celebrities.
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Spitting Image / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
Spitting Image / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Politicians David Owen and David Steel, whose parties merged into one. They were often depicted as gay lovers, Played for Laughs.
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Spitting Image / int_60c53080	type	Parody Assistance
Spitting Image / int_60c53080	comment	Parody Assistance: Sting contributed vocals to Spitting Image's parody of "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, entitled "Every Bomb You Make".
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Spitting Image / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
Spitting Image / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: Ahead of Ronald Reagan's state visit to Ireland, Sir Robin Day tracks down the president's closest Irish relative - a potato.
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Spitting Image / int_626b202b	type	The Necrocracy
Spitting Image / int_626b202b	comment	The Necrocracy: Priti Patel, Secretary of State in Boris Johnson's government, is depicted as a vampire.
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Spitting Image / int_660cf7ab	type	GagBoobs
Spitting Image / int_660cf7ab	comment	Gag Boobs: Claire Rayner. Madonna: in one sketch nobody notices her until she shows them.
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Spitting Image / int_67e84a8e	type	Wild Mass Guessing
Spitting Image / int_67e84a8e	comment	Wild Mass Guessing: The content of Criminal Libel.
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Spitting Image / int_6a60948a	type	Expressive Ears
Spitting Image / int_6a60948a	comment	Expressive Ears: Leonard Nimoy's ears were able to wiggle.
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Spitting Image / int_6cce8078	type	Recognition Failure
Spitting Image / int_6cce8078	comment	Recognition Failure: Some celebrities lampooned on the show weren't always A-class famous people. Some were only famous in the United Kingdom and even those could be people you wonder about why the makers would bother to make a puppet out of them, because they would predictably only be famous for a short while and therefore quite obscure if you re-watch the episodes a few decades later, like The Bros (who were a generally popular boy band back in the late 80s but are now solely remembered for "When Will I Be Famous?") and Andrew Strong (lead singer in The Commitments). In a different meaning of this trope some of the more famous celebrities weren't always recognizably good caricatures. The only reason the audience might recognize those would be because the others referred to them by name. Examples of particularly badly manufactured puppets were Barry Norman (who had a huge fictional wart on his face that even the real Norman complained about), Tom Cruise, Sigourney Weaver...
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Spitting Image / int_6d5ab39e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
Spitting Image / int_6d5ab39e	comment	Fractured Fairy Tale: The recurring "Mike Pence's Fairy Tales for White Folk" segment; retellings of classic fairy tales with a strongly conservative bent. For example, a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood where Little Red stops the wolf from attacking her by pulling a gun on him, which is sponsored by the NRA.
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Spitting Image / int_70e642a9	type	Luvvies
Spitting Image / int_70e642a9	comment	Luvvies: Sir Richard Attenborough.
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Spitting Image / int_72cc2b00	type	The Dividual
Spitting Image / int_72cc2b00	comment	The Dividual: Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino in the movie awards special. Their first scene even features them unsure of who is who.
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Spitting Image / int_7307bc3e	type	Dominance Through Furniture
Spitting Image / int_7307bc3e	comment	Dominance Through Furniture: Played for Laughs in its "Never Met a Nice South African" skit. P.W. Botha, then-president of South Africa, was entertaining a British diplomat, and claimed he employed several "kaffirs"note This is the South African equivalent of the N-word in his mansion. When the diplomat remarks that he hadn't seen a single black since he got in, Botha bellows:
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Spitting Image / int_75588c15	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Spitting Image / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: The US's much less biting DC Follies.
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Spitting Image / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Spitting Image / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The Queen finds herself having to compete with Maggie and Ronnie during the National Anthem closedown on her birthday.
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Spitting Image / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Spitting Image / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Priti Patel has the unique ability to express "unpopular conservative opinions only [she] can get away with" because she's a woman of color.
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Spitting Image / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Spitting Image / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: This was the nature of this series, with all the sketches directly inspired by (inter)national events that happened that week.
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Spitting Image / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Spitting Image / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Since puppets are central to the show: it features a lot of slapping and punching around.
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Spitting Image / int_7a87fa80	type	Animal-Themed Superbeing
Spitting Image / int_7a87fa80	comment	Animal-Themed Superbeing: Foxman, Keir Starmer's superhero alter ego.
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Spitting Image / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Spitting Image / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Every Bomb You Make".
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Spitting Image / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Spitting Image / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Boris Yeltsin.
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Spitting Image / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
Spitting Image / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: Rubber News.
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Spitting Image / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Spitting Image / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. Donald Sinden. For example, a sketch features Sinden going into a restaurant and asking, in his plummiest tones, if they serve a ham salad. "Yes sir", replies the waiter. "We serve salad to anyone".
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Spitting Image / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Spitting Image / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Some puppets were featured with a permanent smile on their face, like Michael Jackson, Jimmy Tarbuck, Bruce Forsythe, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Esther Rantzen, Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Pope John Paul II.,...
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Spitting Image / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Spitting Image / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Michael Caine, Elton John, Robin Day, weather forecaster Ian Mccaskell, reporter John Cole, Douglas Hurd, Geoffrey Howe, Trevor Macdonald, Woody Allen, Ben Elton,...
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Spitting Image / int_86c2ee3c	type	Dodgy Toupee
Spitting Image / int_86c2ee3c	comment	Dodgy Toupee: The toupees of Bruce Forsyth and illusionist Paul Daniels were mocked mercilessly on the show.
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Spitting Image / int_89da4ac4	type	Chrome Dome Psi
Spitting Image / int_89da4ac4	comment	Chrome Dome Psi: Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's bald-headed adviser, is portrayed as an alien with mind-control powers.
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Spitting Image / int_8b5db38b	type	They Killed Kenny Again
Spitting Image / int_8b5db38b	comment	They Killed Kenny Again: James Corden is frequently killed off.
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Spitting Image / int_8dd7edf	type	The Voiceless
Spitting Image / int_8dd7edf	comment	The Voice Less: Harpo Marx.
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Spitting Image / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
Spitting Image / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed: Where to start? Several references to 1980s and 1990s society in general, yet also to everything that was in the media that week. From news reports over TV commercials. If you wanted to understand every reference you really had to read, listen and watch to every report. And most of it references British culture in particular. This also explains why the show was so difficult to export to other countries. The stuff dated rapidly and a lot of it was incomprehensible to foreign viewers. When broadcasted on Dutch TV the translators even added some extra subtitles on top of the screen to give some explanations about certain politicians or TV stars that only the English would immediately recognize.
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Spitting Image / int_8e5c0199	type	Egomaniac Hunter
Spitting Image / int_8e5c0199	comment	Egomaniac Hunter: Prince William says in one sketch that the reason he wants to preserve Britain's countryside and natural beauty is so he and his kids could have a place to shoot grouse.
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Spitting Image / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
Spitting Image / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: The French will always wear a beret, a striped shirt, have a cigarette between their lips, and onions hanging around their neck. Most foreigners on the show speak with thick accents.
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Spitting Image / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Spitting Image / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: After Series 4, the show would feature Once per Episode claymation sketch.
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Spitting Image / int_92d6af50	type	Truck Driver's Gear Change
Spitting Image / int_92d6af50	comment	Truck Driver's Gear Change: Parodied to death in "The Chicken Song."
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Spitting Image / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Spitting Image / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: Boris Johnson has a tendency to use fake-Latin phrases, likely as an attempt to invoke Smart People Know Latin to cover up the fact that he isn't actually all that intelligent.
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Spitting Image / int_9970d26b	type	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
Spitting Image / int_9970d26b	comment	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Tom Cruise regularly confuses the plots of his movies, and sometimes ones that are not his, with real life causing him to agree to do things like driving delivery trucks.
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Spitting Image / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Spitting Image / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Meetings of the shadow cabinet usually have a bit of "The Red Flag" being played on a tuba in the background.
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Spitting Image / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
Spitting Image / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: If you replace the words 'cop' with 'politician', you have the show's general portrayal of the Conservatives and Labour. To be exact, they portray the conservatives as evil money-hungry people with Victorian values (and the period-appropriate Lack of Empathy), but point out that Labour was too incompetent to be worth voting for, so no-one did.
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Spitting Image / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Spitting Image / int_a60e3252	comment	Pope John Paul II also sounded more like the real pope in earlier seasons. However, in a master stroke of Rule of Funny he was given a hip American accent to fit with his rock 'n' roll image on the show.
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Spitting Image / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Spitting Image / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Prince William in the early series.
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Spitting Image / int_a7de3c30	type	Anti-Christmas Song
Spitting Image / int_a7de3c30	comment	Anti-Christmas Song: The singles "Santa Claus Is on the Dole" (1986) and "The Christmas Singles" (1990).
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Spitting Image / int_a7e2f332	type	Female Monster Surprise
Spitting Image / int_a7e2f332	comment	Female Monster Surprise: In one sketch, when Boris Johnson meets with a human-sized coronavirus face-to-face, he is surprised to hear a feminine voice coming out of its mouth. This causes him to fall in love with the virus and have sex with it.
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Spitting Image / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Spitting Image / int_a8559a9f	comment	Nick Newman and Ian Hislop speculated that the show's depiction of Thatcher might have ended up making her Real Life counterpart appear stronger and "more Iron Ladyish".
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Spitting Image / int_aa52b7d	type	Sour Prudes
Spitting Image / int_aa52b7d	comment	Sour Prudes: Mary Whitehouse, Cliff Richard and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, were often depicted as such. John Mortimer is another censor-crazed prude.
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Spitting Image / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Spitting Image / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Leonard Nimoy's attempt at ruining the 1987 movie awards by rigging the ballots actually ends up making it better for everyone involved.
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Spitting Image / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Spitting Image / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Donald Trump is portrayed as being obsessed with hamburgers. Boris Johnson seems to be quite fond of sausages.
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Spitting Image / int_aef07b11	type	Pig Man
Spitting Image / int_aef07b11	comment	Pig Man: Journalists on this show were literally depicted as being pigs.
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Spitting Image / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Spitting Image / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Several characters had a Verbal Tic, sometimes derived from the real-life counterparts, other times invented or popularized by the show itself. And why not? - Barry Norman. Do they mean us? - Derek Jameson, in reference to a TV show he presented. Err Yesssssss.... - Jeremy Paxman. Interesting. - Steve Davis. Yah... - Princess Diana Let's talk rutt (...) Woof! Woof! (...) Sausages, sausages! - The dog in the Let's Talk Rutt segments. [...] said the young succesful journalist, British Conservative MP [...] - Jeffrey Archer. Those turkeys - Ronald Reagan. I'm 90, you know? - The Queen Mum.
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Spitting Image / int_b2e10cc9	type	Growing the Beard
Spitting Image / int_b2e10cc9	comment	The revival mostly stays true to the post-Growing the Beard run, at least in style, but keeps some plot lines running through the season (such as the billionaire’s race to Mars).
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Spitting Image / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Spitting Image / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Journalists are portrayed as pigs, vultures and wolverines.
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Spitting Image / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Spitting Image / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Ronald Reagan, Frank Bruno, Laurel and Hardy,...
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Spitting Image / int_b5959fa1	type	Hereditary Hairstyle
Spitting Image / int_b5959fa1	comment	Hereditary Hairstyle: Nine months after an affair with a human-sized coronavirus, Boris Johnson goes into the maternity ward of a hospital and sees a coronavirus with his iconic messy blond hair. He, of course, denies that it's his.
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Spitting Image / int_b83aeca9	type	Lantern Jaw of Justice
Spitting Image / int_b83aeca9	comment	Lantern Jaw of Justice: The puppets of Benito Mussolini, Quentin Tarantino, John Cleese, Prince Philip, Bruce Forsyth, Brian Mulroney and Sarah Ferguson were all depicted with large chins.
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Spitting Image / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Spitting Image / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: As mentioned, many puppets were fazed out of limelight when their real counterparts were no longer the hot topic, though would still make the odd return if the gag served well enough. Thatcher and Reagan in particular lost main character status when their tenure in power ended, though still made a few reappearances here and there.
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Spitting Image / int_b95d100b	type	Pointy Ears
Spitting Image / int_b95d100b	comment	Pointy Ears: Leonard Nimoy's puppet, in reference to his Star Trek character Spock.
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Spitting Image / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
Spitting Image / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a song in which he complains his willie is tiny.
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Spitting Image / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
Spitting Image / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	Thatcher's Cabinet at the Restaurant: Mrs Thatcher's cabinet eat at a restaurant; she orders a raw steak, and when asked "What about the vegetables?" replies "They'll have the same as I'm having." (This line entered her legend, and people later thought she had really said it.) According to Private Eye, one Cabinet minister not only thought he was there when she said it, but totally screwed up the punchline ("And the waitress asked 'what will the vegetables have?'")
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Spitting Image / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Spitting Image / int_bec0417c	comment	Prince Philip: Prone to public gaffes. Perpetually in uniform and loves hunting. It appears that he and the Queen are quite Happily Married - he helps her to fake her own death and Troops the Colour for her in exchange for kebabs for breakfast.
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Spitting Image / int_bf828517	type	I Am Not Spock
Spitting Image / int_bf828517	comment	I Am Not Spock: In-Universe. One sketch has Leonard Nimoy at an audition, complaining about how he is not Spock and that he can play other roles. He then proceeds to directly quote Star Trek in his audition. This is averted in the 1987 where he only refers to himself as Spock. This is used for a joke at the end where Nimoy does not recognize he won an award because they don't call him Spock.
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Spitting Image / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Spitting Image / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Whenever a celebrity died or disappeared from the public eye, he/she was usually removed from appearing in the show.
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Spitting Image / int_c340ed70	type	And You Thought It Was Real
Spitting Image / int_c340ed70	comment	And You Thought It Was Real: One season’s mini-arc in the original series called “Some of Our Puppets are Missing” involved the puppets of David Steel, Leonard Nimoy, and an anteater escaping into the real world and getting into various misadventures. The last part revealed that the three were actually in the studio the whole time and their adventures were all part of the show.
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Spitting Image / int_c368c3ea	type	Spoonerism
Spitting Image / int_c368c3ea	comment	Spoonerism: The puppets were by Fluck and Law, the gag wrote itself.
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Spitting Image / int_c3c245f2	type	Squee
Spitting Image / int_c3c245f2	comment	Squee: Diana's reaction to meeting Simon Le Bon.
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Spitting Image / int_c4784d89	type	Network Sign Off
Spitting Image / int_c4784d89	comment	Network Sign Off: One episode shows a Soviet television network closing down by having one of the techies hold up black card in front of the camera and making a whistling sound to simulate the high-pitched noise of an old CRT television being switched off.
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Spitting Image / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Spitting Image / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: One sketch, parodying American cop drama, has a guy arrested for not cleaning his shoes, taking leaflets from a bank with no intention of opening an account and breaking the spines of books he borrows.
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Spitting Image / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Spitting Image / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: A surprising amount of sketches depict Maggie with her shirt off.
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Spitting Image / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Spitting Image / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Joe Biden is portrayed as this due to his infamous gaffes.
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Spitting Image / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Spitting Image / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Most of the puppets fall into this category!
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Spitting Image / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Spitting Image / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Mike Pence.
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Spitting Image / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Spitting Image / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Cliff Richard.
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Spitting Image / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
Spitting Image / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Mark Zuckerberg finds shooting boar in Hawaii is too boring, (seeing as they're literally kept so he can shoot them), so he decides to hunt ... Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Spitting Image / int_d3354565	type	Medal of Dishonor
Spitting Image / int_d3354565	comment	Medal of Dishonor: Being portrayed in Spitting Image wasn't always something to be proud of, especially if your puppet was ugly. Some celebrities really hated their portrayals, like the Royal Family. Though, as time went others started to see their appearance in the show as a badge of honor, because at least it meant that you really were important enough to be spoofed. Chris Evans and Jeffrey Archer actually liked the attention and tried to make the puppeteers and actors imitate their voices more clearly. Evans even wanted to play the part himself! Some people even became more famous as a result of being portrayed in the show, like Minister of Public Health Edwina Currie.
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Spitting Image / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Spitting Image / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Frequently, but most notably Thatcher taking advice from an elderly Hitler and the entire Conservative cabinet singing Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
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Spitting Image / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Spitting Image / int_d5a1770a	comment	British Stuffiness: In the "British Revolution" arc, the "people power" revolutions that brought down communism in Eastern Europe finally reach Britain — but are carried out in a far more... refined manner.
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Spitting Image / int_d5bcb124	type	Technologically Blind Elders
Spitting Image / int_d5bcb124	comment	Technologically Blind Elders: The reboot has a series of sketches about David Attenborough trying and failing to use Instagram.
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Spitting Image / int_d66b73ca	type	Sketch Comedy
Spitting Image / int_d66b73ca	comment	Sketch Comedy
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Spitting Image / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Spitting Image / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Mr. Wobble Hides his Helmet".
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Spitting Image / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Spitting Image / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: One sketch features Len Murray winning on The Price Is Right due to the correct answer being "keeping your mouth shut".
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Spitting Image / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Spitting Image / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "What a Wonderful World" becomes "We've Ruined the World." The show did this a lot, though, from a cheerful Paul McCartney-esque folk song about murdering estate agents (complete with violent, bloody non-slapstick visuals), the Four Horsemen singing about how "every silver lining has a cloud, and it won't be alright on the night" and General Pinochet singing a Chas-&-Dave style number about the joys of nuclear war. Probably freaked out a few kids.
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Spitting Image / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
Spitting Image / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: In one episode of The Original Series, the Cabinet members all bring board games to enjoy their last day in charge, particularly, Trivial Pursuit, although there's also Scrabble, Monopoly, and Game of Life on the table. This is meant to show that these politicians are knowledgeable in the silliest things and are rather childlike, not taking their jobs seriously at all.
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Spitting Image / int_e2016174	type	Sphere Eyes
Spitting Image / int_e2016174	comment	Sphere Eyes: Jimmy Savile had googly eyes.
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Spitting Image / int_e201cc	type	The Bore
Spitting Image / int_e201cc	comment	The Bore: The Running Gag about Keir Starmer is that he's just so... damn... dull.
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Spitting Image / int_e36da329	type	Care-Bear Stare
Spitting Image / int_e36da329	comment	Care-Bear Stare: Rishi Sunak's perfume, which is described as "liquid kindness", ends up causing Priti Patel to melt.
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Spitting Image / int_e38d605	type	Big Guy, Little Guy
Spitting Image / int_e38d605	comment	Big Guy, Little Guy: Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.
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Spitting Image / int_e3bdea5c	type	Artistic License â€“ Politics
Spitting Image / int_e3bdea5c	comment	Artistic License – Politics: The reboot has a musical number where the leaders of Spain, France and Greece desparately beg Dominic Raab to not allow British tourists to visit following the lifting of COVID travel restrictions... only they went with Greece's President, Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Her job is purely ceremonial, and the real leader of Greece is the Prime Minister.
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Spitting Image / int_e572b14b	type	No Budget
Spitting Image / int_e572b14b	comment	No Budget: Invoked. The USSR broadcaster shown in the Chernobyl episode. The introduction to the news flash that interrupts Potato World consists of one of the generic Soviet puppets holding a title card in front of the camera while singing "Crazy Hi-Tech Quantel!" to the tune of the News At Ten theme. For closedown, he holds up a black card with a white dot in the middle and whistles.
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Spitting Image / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Spitting Image / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Arguably, as the years progressed the show became less about political satire per se, and more about the antics of absurdist caricatures of politicians, which had evolved in rather extreme ways. Thatcher, for instance, increasingly became a run-of-the-mill tyrant, whose extreme brand of supervillian evil stopped being much of a commentary on British conservatism. Many other politicians similarly evolved into various stock characters that eclipsed their original politicized roots, for example Norman Tebbit as a skinhead, Cecil Parkinson as the Cabinet's resident Casanova, John Major as a dullard, and Kenneth Baker, originally depicted as an oozing sycophant, who literally became a slug in later episodes.
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Spitting Image / int_e62bc4bb	type	Take Me to Your Leader
Spitting Image / int_e62bc4bb	comment	Take Me to Your Leader: Said verbatim by the alien that has the bad luck to land next to The Two Davids.
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Spitting Image / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Spitting Image / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: Parodied with the "The White & White Minstrel Show". Black people with whitefaces singing about Apartheid South Africa where "blackfaces don't belong with blacks".
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Spitting Image / int_eca7a21d	type	Song Parody
Spitting Image / int_eca7a21d	comment	Song Parody: Several, just like the original run. One of them being "Olden" by Harry Stiles wooing Angela Merkel, and another Elon Musk singing "Con man!" to the tune of David Bowie's Star man.
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Spitting Image / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Spitting Image / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Series 2 features a song where Kamala Harris, Prince Charles, and James Corden fantasize about their superiors (Joe Biden, Queen Elizabeth, and Stephen Colbert respectively) dying of a heart attack so that they could take over their positions.
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Spitting Image / int_ef56c5be	type	Exotic Entree
Spitting Image / int_ef56c5be	comment	Exotic Entree: One sketch has Xi Jinping, who is portrayed throughout the show as a totalitarian Villain with Good Publicity, serving dinner to other world leaders, and one of the dishes on the menu is pangolin meat.
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Spitting Image / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Spitting Image / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: HAROLD ANGRYPERSON AND BRIAN BLESSED TOO. HOW PREDICTABLE!! Ian Paisley in the Night Thoughts sketch.
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Spitting Image / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Spitting Image / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Any sketch with Jonathan Miller.
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Spitting Image / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Spitting Image / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The introduction of TV cameras into the House of Commons results in a slew of these.
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Spitting Image / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Spitting Image / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Melania Trump is portrayed this way. One sketch portrays her as a vampire, except instead of draining blood from her victims, she drains money.
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Spitting Image / int_f6c2f4c6	type	Overly-Long Tongue
Spitting Image / int_f6c2f4c6	comment	Overly-Long Tongue: Prince, Alistair Burnett whenever he's near the royals...
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Spitting Image / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Spitting Image / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: After a few seasons some celebrities started to take pride in their puppets. Because: if you weren't spoofed on the show, you really were a nobody. Author and politician Jeffrey Archer liked his puppet so much that the makers eventually avoided using him for a few episodes. He even wanted to buy his own puppet when they were auctioned off, but he didn't get it. TV presenter Chris Evans even wanted to be included as a puppet, and when it finally happened he even sent letters asking if he could voice the puppet himself, to which the makers naturally declined. Politician Norman Tebbit reportedly enjoyed his portrayal as a leather-clad bovver boy. Although according to John Lloyd, the show's producer, Mrs Tebbit once told him "Norman's always wanted a leather jacket, and now he feels he can't have one." Michael Heseltine also seemed to love his manic portrayal enough to make multiple bids for the puppet. Reportedly the creators said: “Get Cruise missiles out of Britain and it’s yours...for free.” Nick Newman and Ian Hislop speculated that the show's depiction of Thatcher might have ended up making her Real Life counterpart appear stronger and "more Iron Ladyish". Minister of Health Edwina Currie, who was depicted being something of an evil vampire, actually got more notable as a politician and rose in stature. She even liked her puppet. Mick Jagger was a big fan of the show, and they made fun of him a lot.
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Spitting Image / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
Spitting Image / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: In the occasional sketch, Thatcher has one for Michael Heseltine.
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Spitting Image / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Spitting Image / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Dominic Cummings wanting to eat Boris Johnson's infant son. Prince Andrew getting smacked in the back of the head with a wooden board whenever he appears, as a continuance of John Cole getting hit in the head in the original. James Cordon dying, getting killed, getting hurt, in general nobody likes James Corden. Olivia Colman showing up. She's in everything you see. The Rock promoting anything he's slapped his name on. David Attenborough being bad with technology. A lion.
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Spitting Image / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Spitting Image / int_fabef10f	comment	Olivia Colman showing up. She's in everything you see.
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Spitting Image / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Spitting Image / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Given Thatcher had been exaggerated into such a comedically over-the-top tyrant by this point in the show, it adapts her fall from grace as this trope, with most of her abused ministry finally ditching her or using her dwindling popularity to blackmail her.
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Spitting Image / int_fb9e0265	type	Team Dad
Spitting Image / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: One sketch portrays Keir Starmer as one to his shadow cabinet, and exaggeratedly so. Apparently, his shadow cabinet is so loyal to and dependent upon him that they all act like his children, complete with appropriately youthful clothing and high-pitched voices.
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Spitting Image / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Spitting Image / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Future Elon Musk tells his past self to go to Mars and bring a bicycle pump. Musk understands the first, but not the second. Until he gets there and tries to blow up his house with no atmosphere.
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Spitting Image	hasFeature	Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Card-Carrying Villain / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Cardboard Box Home / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Celebrity Break-Up Song / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Cessation of Existence / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Charity Motivation Song / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Christmas Songs / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Content Warnings / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Continuity Announcement / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Creator Killer / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Creepy Changing Painting / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Cross-Dressing Voices / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Cue Card / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Dance Sensation / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Dirty Foreigner / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Dominance Through Furniture / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Dreaming of a White Christmas / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Dung Fu / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Eagleland Osmosis / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Ear Worm / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Elvis Lives / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Equal-Opportunity Offender / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Expressive Ears / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Finger-Snap Lighter / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Follow the Bouncing Ball / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Frivolous Lawsuit / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Gesundheit / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Glass-Shattering Sound / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Good Angel, Bad Angel / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Grotesque Gallery / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Hollywood Board Games / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	I Am Not Spock / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	I Know Madden Kombat / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Indubitably Uninteresting Individual / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Just Following Orders / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Knocking on Heathens' Door / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Knuckle Tattoos / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Lantern Jaw of Justice / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	List-of-Experiences Speech / int_524499fe
Margaret Thatcher In Fiction	seeAlso	Spitting Image
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Mumbling Brando / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Muppet / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Musical Pastiche / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	N-Word Privileges / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Nazi Grandpa / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Offscreen Reality Warp / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	One-Episode Wonder / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Political Programmes / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	"Psycho" Shower Murder Parody / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Recognition Failure / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Reference Overdosed / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Religion Rant Song / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Retraux / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Right-Hand Cat / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Satire / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Schmuck Bait / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Self-Deprecation / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Sermonette / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Shoe Phone / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Short-Lived Leadership / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Something That Begins with / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Song Parody / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Spitty Speaker / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Stock Unsolved Mysteries / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Sunday is Boring / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Take Me to Your Leader / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Ahnold / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Blank / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Cat Came Back / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Fashionista / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Hyena / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	The Monolith / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	"The Villain Sucks" Song / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	This Is a Song / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	This Is No Time to Panic / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Thoroughly Mistaken Identity / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	To the Tune of... / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Unintentional Uncanny Valley / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Washy Watchy / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Windmill Political / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Word-Salad Humor / int_524499fe
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Wrap-Up Song / int_524499fe
Newzoids	seeAlso	Spitting Image
Headcases	seeAlso	Spitting Image
Spitting Image	hasFeature	Genre Popularizer / int_524499fe

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