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** An early episode depicts a scene where public figures give reasons why they dislike the Guardian. Prince Andrew states that "It couldn't give a toss about my sex life." After the sexual abuse allegations against him came out, and the Guardian began covering it as a main news story, this can be seen as a good moment of BlackComedy DramaticIrony.

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** An early episode depicts a scene where public figures give reasons why they dislike the Guardian. Prince Andrew states that "It couldn't give a toss about my sex life." After the sexual abuse allegations against him came out, and the Guardian began covering it as a main news story, this can be seen as a good moment of BlackComedy DramaticIrony.BlackComedy.


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** In a sketch, David Steel sees the Ghost of Liberal Party Present (who looks and sounds exactly like Cyril Smith) warning him that David Owen would destroy the party. Ironically, over 30 years later, it would be the abuse scandal that emerged from ''Smith's'' activities that would lead Steel to resign from the House of Lords.
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** An early episode depicts a scene where public figures give reasons why they dislike the Guardian. Prince Andrew states that “It couldn’t give a toss about my sex life.” After the sexual abuse allegations against him came out, and the Guardian began covering it as a main news story, this can be seen as a good moment of BlackComedy DramaticIrony.
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** Similarly, all the sketches about Prince Andrew being something of a womanizer (including the "Randy Andy" musical number,) became a lot less funny when he was implicated in the dealings of the infamous trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including one victim claiming part of the assault she endured involved his '''actual''' ''Spitting Image'' puppet in the process.
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** In March of 2022, when scandals began piling up on Boris Johnson and his eventual ouster... either through a resignation or removal by outside forces, whether it be his own party or the voters... started to seem inevitable (and indeed, he would eventually resign shortly after in July,) the show's Youtube channel released a "Best Of" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mEvvtuWac&ab_channel=SpittingImage compilation video]] of Rishi Sunak's most memorable moments... and notably, no similar compilations for any others, making it pretty clear they were placing their bet on the idea that Sunak would be Johnson's inevitable successor. While they probably found themselves surprised that it was instead Liz Truss who would win the subsequent race, they would ultimately have the last laugh when her government utterly collapsed and she herself would resign after only seven weeks, and Sunak would in fact become Prime Minister after all.

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* {{Squick}}: Norman Tebbitt puts Robin Day's hand in a blender, before proceeding to drink the resulting mulch straight from it.

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** In "The President's Brain Is Missing" special, Reagen's assistant opens up the former's head and dusts its innards in a rather clumsy almost violent mangling of the puppet's inside, with one of its eyes even bulging out as he does so.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* UncannyValley: Those puppets became far more realistically looking as the seasons went on, with blinking eyes and puppeteers walking around with puppet heads on their own body for scenes that required such actions.

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* UncannyValley: UnintentionalUncannyValley: Those puppets became far more realistically looking as the seasons went on, with blinking eyes and puppeteers walking around with puppet heads on their own body for scenes that required such actions.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment:SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The "Vegetables" sketch, David Coleman mistaking the opening credits of ''Grandstand'' for live footage of the Liverpool-Everton match...
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The "Vegetables" sketch, David Coleman mistaking the opening credits of ''Grandstand'' for live footage of the Liverpool-Everton match...
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* {{Anvilicious}}: "I've Never Met A Nice South African" (and the two sketches surrounding it in the original episode) is about as subtle as a sledgehammer with a boombox installed in the head that constantly screams "APARTHEID IS BAD!". [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Then again, it's about Apartheid]]...

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* {{Anvilicious}}: "I've Never Met A Nice South African" (and the two sketches surrounding it in the original episode) is about as subtle as a sledgehammer with a boombox installed in the head that constantly screams "APARTHEID IS BAD!". [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Then again, it's about Apartheid]]...
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** When Boris Johnson holds a séance that sees him possessed by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher, his cabinet holds a VirginSacrifice of Matt Hancock in order to get rid of her. In June 2021, Hancock resigned after being caught breaching COVID-19 regulations by kissing and embracing an aide who was not his wife.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Almost every single song composed by Philip Pope, but mainly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ1rjRVs_7M Pinstripe Wizard]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccM4wVgZN9o Chicken Song]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA1ePzf99vI Kill An Estate Agent Today]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZIV4tQ63tM Santa Claus Is On The Dole]].

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Almost every single song composed by Philip Pope, but mainly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AgB4sADPmk Atheist Tabernacle Choir]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ1rjRVs_7M Pinstripe Wizard]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccM4wVgZN9o Chicken Song]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA1ePzf99vI Kill An Estate Agent Today]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZIV4tQ63tM Santa Claus Is On The Dole]].
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** In the revival, Prince Charles usurps the throne temporarily and accidentally decapitates a man implied to be [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tom_Moore Captain Tom Moore]] while trying to knight him. Moore would die of Covid-19 a few months later.
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* UglyCute: The briefly-seen puppets for Prince George and Princess Charlotte, who were 7 and 5 respectively when the show was revived.
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** In the revival, Prince Charles usurps the throne temporarily and accidentally decapitates a man implied to be Captain Tom Moore while trying to knight him. Moore would die of Covid-19 a few months later.

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** In the revival, Prince Charles usurps the throne temporarily and accidentally decapitates a man implied to be [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tom_Moore Captain Tom Moore Moore]] while trying to knight him. Moore would die of Covid-19 a few months later.
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** In the revival, Prince Charles usurps the throne temporarily and accidentally decapitates a man implied to be Captain Tom Moore while trying to knight him. Moore would die of Covid-19 a few months later.

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