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* \'\'Series/SpittingImage\'\': The first season hasn\'t aged very well in terms of puppetry and joke delivery. The makers were still trying to find their style and as a result a lot of early episodes are slow and off the mark. The pilot episode had a laugh track, which was abandoned quickly from the second episode on. Many puppets look lifeless and out of synch, because the puppeteers tried to follow what the actors said live, while from the superior second season on it was decided to have the actors act to a pre-recorded soundtrack, which worked much better. From the second season on puppets also used new techniques that made their eyes blink, which made them appear more alive than in the first season. The voices were more accurate imitations of the celebrities, while from the second season on it was decided to make them more comical and exaggarated to fit with they way they were caricatured, which worked a lot better. Someone who would judge \
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* \\\'\\\'Series/SpittingImage\\\'\\\': The first season hasn\\\'t aged very well in terms of puppetry and joke delivery. The makers were still trying to find their style and as a result a lot of early episodes are slow and off the mark. The pilot episode had a laugh track, which was abandoned quickly from the second episode on. Many puppets look lifeless and out of synch, because the puppeteers tried to follow what the actors said live, while from the superior second season on it was decided to have the actors act to a pre-recorded soundtrack, which worked much better. From the second season on puppets also used new techniques that made their eyes blink, which made them appear more alive than in the first season. The voices were more accurate imitations of the celebrities, while from the second season on it was decided to make them more comical and exaggarated to fit with they way they were caricatured, which worked a lot better. Someone who would judge \\\"Spitting Image\\\" from this first season alone would probably wonder how the show ever became such a hit?
It\\\'s a valid point, but it\\\'s not this trope. This is about things that look \\\"clichéd\\\" in retrospect because they invented the clichés, not things that actually weren\\\'t that good when they started. I think that\\\'s GrowingTheBeard.
Also pulled the bit about Elmo from the \\\'\\\'Sesame Street\\\'\\\' entry, which was a bit [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Characters You Don\\\'t Like]].
It\\\'s a valid point, but it\\\'s not this trope. This is about things that look \\\"clichéd\\\" in retrospect because they invented the clichés, not things that actually weren\\\'t that good when they started. I think that\\\'s GrowingTheBeard.
Also pulled the bit about Elmo from the \\\'\\\'Sesame Street\\\'\\\' entry, which was a bit [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Characters You Don\\\'t Like]].
