Line #13 Recap/SpittingImageS2E5


1	!!Provides examples of:
2	* BaitAndSwitch: An old MP appears to be admiring a centrefold in [[{{Filth}} Mayfair]] but is actually drooling over "The New Face of Margaret Thatcher" on the cover of The Economist.
3	* TheBore: The man singing "I've Never Met a Nice South African" [[NapInducingSpeak slowly causes the bartender to fall asleep.]] He even shows him some [[BoringVacationSlideshow holiday snaps from his travels.]]
4	* ComedicSociopathy: The shadow cabinet can't help bursting out laughing at the Tories having to deal with the terrible state of the country.
5	* DirtyOldMan: Reagan insists on Don giving him a kiss before they start their meeting, and goes back on his promise not to use any tongue.
6	* DrivenToSuicide On ''One Callaghan and His Dog'', Rusty shoots himself after he realises he used too much paprika on the lamb.
7	* ParlorGames: The Queen starts a game of charades with the rest of the Windsors reluctantly joining in.
8	* ParodyCommercial: Margaret appears in a supermarket advert endorsing Falklands lamb, even though it costs millions per pound.
9	** Other ads in this episode flog Campartinibonizanco and the Observer colour supplment.
10	* SillyPrayer: Reagan starts his morning conflab with Don with a quick prayer to tell God he can't talk right now because he's in a meeting.
11	* SophisticatedAsHell: The show departed from its normally refined blend of absurdism and with "(I've Never Met) A Nice South African". Rather than the normal scalpel, show's creators favour the sledgehammer in order to display their contempt for the Apartheid regime, having their chorus of Boer safari men sing:
12	-->''No, he's never met a nice South African!\
13	And that's not bloody surprising, mun,\
14	Because we're a bunch of talentless murderers,\
15	Who smell like baboons!''
16	** The production team defended this song on the basis that A: [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the harshness was necessary to show moderate South Africans how despised apartheid was by the world]], and B: the song does acknowledge that there are nice South Africans, but they have all [[BeingGoodSucks been put in prison]].
17	* StockingMask: Richard Nixon wears one in his Any Card advert.
18	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: All variations of the chorus for "I've Never Met a Nice South African".
19	* TableclothYank: This week, Paul Daniels does one of these with his own wig after placing a glass of milk on his head.
20	* TakeThat:
21	** Creator/DavidLynch came eighth in a competition run by ''Film `85'' where viewers were asked to write in and explain the plot of ''Film/Dune1984''.
22	** One of the highly unusual things that the singer of "I've Never Met a Nice South African" has done is "had lunch with Creator/RowanAtkinson when he paid and wasn't late."
23	* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Nigel Lawson tries to talk [[ItMakesSenseInContext The Pound]] out of jumping off a high ledge. In the crowd at the bottom, Geoffrey Howe [[TheScrooge waits hopefully with an open purse]].
24	* VocalDissonance: The voice used to read out Sara Yallop's letter on ''Series/PointsOfView'' belongs to a middle-aged man rather than a teenage girl.

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