History NightmareFuel / SpittingImage

** The shark teeth of Caspar Weinberger's puppet.
** The shark teeth of Enoch Powell's puppet.

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets. To make matters worse, as the seasons progressed the puppeteers were able to make them appear more lifelike, with eyes blinking and sometimes letting real humans stick a puppet head on their own body, making it all cross dangerously into the UncannyValley territory.
* UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher in particular. Every season her face became uglier and creepier. There was one short sketch where an absolutely horrifying Thatcher alien appears out of nowhere and pierces a scientist's face, then stares at the camera with a NightmareFace.
%%** The puppet of Creator/KennethWilliams: large nose and gigantic teeth.
%%** The shark teeth of Caspar Weinberger.
%%** The shark teeth of Enoch Powell.
%%** The psychopathic look of Creator/JimmySavile, which has only become HarsherInHindsight.
%%** Jeremy Beadle puppet with uncanny stare and grin.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHkmfWJCAo In some ways,]] [[spoiler:[[RippedFromTheHeadlines the Chernobyl episode]]]]. Though there is a scene missing in this specific compilation. In the original broadcast where [[spoiler:the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse talk about how they wish this "was all over", UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan comes out of the darkness and laughs: "Not long now, guys." This implies that he will soon nuke ''the rest of the world'' into smithereens]]. For some reason the uploader didn't include this part. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fIdvY_0sJU Here's the full episode...]]

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets! They sort of look like [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] [[MushroomSamba after getting high]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs on a kilo of crack]]. To make matters worse, as the seasons progressed the puppeteers were able to make them appear more life like, with eyes blinking and sometimes letting real humans stick a puppet head on their own body, making it all cross dangerously into the UncannyValley territory.
** UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher in particular. Every season her face became uglier and creepier.
*** There was one short sketch where an absolutely horrifying Thatcher alien appears out of nowhere and pierces a scientist's face, then stares at the camera with a NightmareFace!
** The puppet of Creator/KennethWilliams: large nose and gigantic teeth.
** The shark teeth of Caspar Weinberger.
** The shark teeth of Enoch Powell.
** The psychopathic look of Creator/JimmySavile, which has only become HarsherInHindsight.
** Jeremy Beadle puppet with uncanny stare and grin.

[[caption-width-right:348: [- ''Spitting Image'': Because you can't spell "satire" without '''"AIEEEE!!"'''-] ]]

* There was a sketch where UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is in the White House and hears that Thatcher told him: "You can launch those missiles over my dead body." Reagan, CompletelyMissingThePoint, says: "Ah, good ol' Maggie. I can always count on her.", whereupon he pushes the button for world destruction with the words "Goodbye, world!"

* A sketch in the revival has Boris Johnson's Cabinet trying to summon up the spirit of Winston Churchill on Halloween for advice on Covid, but instead he is possessed by Thatcher. The rest of the Cabinet responds by sacrificing Matt Hancock.

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets! They sort of look like [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] [[MushroomSamba after getting high]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs on a kilo crack]]. To make matters worse, as the seasons progressed the puppeteers were able to make them appear more life like, with eyes blinking and sometimes letting real humans stick a puppet head on their own body, making it all cross dangerously into the UncannyValley territory.

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets! They sort of look like [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] [[MushroomSamba after getting high]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs on a rhinoceros-sized dose of super-distilled white china crack cocaine and LSD]]. To make matters worse, as the seasons progressed the puppeteers were able to make them appear more life like, with eyes blinking and sometimes letting real humans stick a puppet head on their own body, making it all cross dangerously into the UncannyValley territory.

* [[https://youtu.be/6Xw8tkDk5uY In the 2020 revival]], Dominic Cummings is one nasty piece of work, depicted as an erratically moving creep with a [[MyBrainIsBig large head]], ThinChinOfSin and SinisterSchnoz who is supposedly a disguised alien from a planet called Epsilon 5. It gets more disturbing when he keeps asking UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson about [[EatsBabies eating a baby]] and his head grotesquely pulsates while he stares at his would be prey, salivating.