History NightmareFuel / SpittingImage

* [[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 that came from a planet called Epsilon 5. It gets more disturbing when he keeps asking UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson about [[EastBabies eating a baby]] and his head grotesquely pulsates while he stares at his would be prey, salivating.

* This image of Reagan and a truly frightening looking ayatollah Khomeini: [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388576274069217678/]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAPp2OPE18 This Chiclets commercial done by the show]], it's one of the rare times they actually use a variation of expressive faces for the puppets, and in this case it's anger. Right up close to the camera.

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets! They sort of look like [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] [[MushroomSamba after getting high]] [[WhatDoYouMeanWasItMadeOnDrugs 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.

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets! They sort of look like [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] [[MushroomSamba after getting high]] [[WhatDoYouMeanWasntItMadeOnDrugs 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.

* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets! They sort of look like [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] [[MushroomSamba after getting high 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.

* 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 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://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=S1YbG9VqzRc Here's the full episode...]]

** Psychopathic look of Creator/JimmySavile, what he turned out to be in real life doesn't help at all.

* [[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 "it was all over soon" UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan comes out of the darkness and laughs: "Just a little longer guys, just a littler longer", implying he will soon nuke the world into smithereens]]. For some reason the uploader didn't include this part. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1YbG9VqzRc Here's the full episode...]]

* [[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 the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse talk about how they wish "it was all over soon" UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan comes out of the darkness and laughs: "Just a little longer guys, just a littler longer", implying he will soon nuke the world into smithereens. For some reason the uploader didn't include this part.

** The puppet of Kenneth Williams: large nose and gigantic teeth.

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

[[caption-width-right:348: [- You can't spell "satire" without '''"AIEE!!"''-] ]]

* The grotesque faces of many of these puppets! 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHkmfWJCAo In some ways,]] [[spoiler:[[RippedFromTheHeadlines the Chernobyl episode]]]].

** Psychopathic look of Jimmy Savile, what he turned out to be in real life doesn't help at all.

*** There was one short sketch where Thatcher turns out to be an alien. What follows is pure Nightmare Fuel: a absolutely horrifying Thatcher alien appears out of nowhere and pierces a scientist's face, then stares at the camera with a NightmareFace!

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[[caption-width-right:218:The most frightening thing about this grotesque puppet? The real life version was even worse!]]

** MargaretThatcher in particular. Every season her face became uglier and creepier.

* There was a sketch where 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!"

* In some ways, [[spoiler:[[RippedFromTheHeadlines the Chernobyl episode]]]].

* The final sketch of the first season, where the sun sets and various puppets of politicians and dictators pass by, set to a special version of Music/ThePolice's "Every Breath You Take", sung by Sting himself! What makes this scene so disturbing is that the sun sets as if a nuclear war has taken place and everything on Earth is dead. Made especially chilling by the face of the Grim Reaper appearing in close-up near the end of the song.

* The grotesque faces of many of these puppets!

* After a while certain celebrities became hardly distinguishable from their puppet caricatures.

* The final sketch of the first season, where the sun sets and various puppets of politicians and dictators pass by, set to a special version of "Every Breath You Take", sung by Sting himself! What makes this scene so disturbing is that the sun sets as if a nuclear war has taken place and everything on Earth is dead. Made especially chilling by the face of the Grim Reaper appearing in close-up near the end of the song.

* In the first season Norman Tebbitt's puppet puts Robin Day's hand in a blender!

* After a while certain celebrities became hardly distinguishable from their puppet caricatures.

*** There was one short sketch where Thatcher turns out to be an alien. What follows is pure Nightmare Fuel: a absolutely horrifying Thatcher alien appears out of nowhere and pierces a scientist's face, then looking with a NightmareFace into the camera.

* After a while certain celebrities became hardly indistinguishable from their puppet caricatures.