Line #15 NightmareFuel/SpittingImage


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6	* The [[GrotesqueGallery grotesque faces]] of many of these puppets. To put it mildly, they look like what would happen if Franchise/TheMuppets had a ''REALLY'' bad trip. 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. Some noteworthy examples include:
7	** UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's puppet. Every season her face became uglier and creepier. There was even 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.
8	** The puppet of Creator/KennethWilliams, especially that large nose and gigantic teeth.
9	** The shark teeth of both Caspar Weinberger's and Enoch Powell's puppets.
10	** The psychopathic look of Creator/JimmySavile's puppet, which has only become HarsherInHindsight.
11	** Jeremy Beadle's puppet, what with its uncanny stare and grin.
12	* 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.
13	* 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, missing the point, says: "Ah, good ol' Maggie. I can always count on her.", whereupon he pushes the button for world destruction with the words "Goodbye, world!"
14	* In the first season Norman Tebbitt's puppet puts Robin Day's hand in a blender!
15	* Most disturbing aspect: after a while certain real life celebrities eerily started to sound and look like their puppet caricatures.
16	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHkmfWJCAo In some ways,]] [[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 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...]]
17	* [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388576274069217678/ This image]] of Reagan and a truly frightening looking Ayatollah Khomeini.
18	* [[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.
19	* [[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 Cummings keeps asking UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson about [[EatsBabies eating his infant son]] and his head grotesquely pulsates while he stares at his would be prey, salivating.
20	** When Dominic leaves, he "takes back" all the things he put into Johnson's head by sucking them out of his ear through his index finger. Commenters found Johnson's eyes ''[[https://youtu.be/BdntsLCOyL8 bulging out]]'' in the process to be unsettling.
21	* A sketch in the revival has Boris Johnson's Cabinet trying to summon up the spirit of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill on Halloween for advice on Covid, but instead he is possessed by Thatcher. The rest of the Cabinet responds by sacrificing Matt Hancock.

Context NightmareFuel / SpittingImage