Spitting Image

Spitting Image was a satirical puppet-show that ran on Britain's ITV Network from 1984 to 1996. The program was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central.

Notable Sketches

The Thatcher cabinet are sitting in a restaurant. The waiter asks Margaret Thatcher for her order and she replies "Raw Meat". The waiter then asks "And for the vegetables?" to which Thatcher replies "Oh, they'll have the same".

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Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan are standing at the men's urinal in a single sex toilet and Margaret Thatcher walks in and goes to the toilet next to them standing up. After she leaves Howe turns to Brittan and confides 'I can never go when she's in here'.

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Margaret Thatcher walks into a hairdresser's. She sits down in the chair and says to the hairdresser, "Just cut it in a style that will be universally popular." The man replies, "Yes madam", and decapitates Thatcher with a bit of hairdressing equipment.

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As pressure on Thatcher to resign grew in 1989, in one sketch the House of Commons bursts into a rendition of "Go Now" by The Moody Blues.

Related Topics:
House of Commons - Go Now - The Moody Blues

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