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3British animated satire series that ran from 2001 to 2004. Often considered the SpiritualSuccessor of ''Series/SpittingImage'' and had many parallels with ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'' due to sharing many voice actors.
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5About 60% of the material was about celebrities while the rest was about politics, a notable shift away from the latter relative to ''Spitting Image''.
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7Major recurring characters/settings (heralded by theme tunes) included:
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9'''Tony Blair and the Cabinet''': Blair as a power-mad control freak with a NapoleonComplex, while Gordon Brown is TheStarscream. Other ministers commonly appearing included John Prescott (a vehicle for [[FatComicRelief fat jokes]]), Robin Cook (TheUnintelligible) and David Blunkett (YesMan).
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11'''George Bush in the White House''': Bush oscillates between PsychopathicManchild and innocently TooDumbToLive, while a moustached (and unnamed) General tries to get him under control with the aid of a hand puppet called Professor Leibstrom. These sketches simply recycled a lot of 'stupid president' jokes from 1980s ''Spitting Image'' sketches about Ronald Reagan but left the direct references to politics out, instead dumbing Bush down to the point where he came across a Homer Simpson clone.
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13'''Osama Bin Laden''': The main gag was Bin Laden's constant frustration with the Taliban's complete lack of modern military technology.
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15'''Saddam Hussein''': Prior to the 2003 Iraq War, there were a series of sketches featuring Saddam hiding his weapons of mass destruction from the UN inspectors. This was when even anti-war satirists assumed that he actually had [=WMDs=].
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17'''The Royal Family''': Mostly jokes about Prince Charles trying to take the throne and about Princes William and Harry's youthful mishaps. In one sketch, Harry brings back some Australians after having gone backpacking there and they proceed to take over the palace. In sharp contrast to ''Series/SpittingImage'', the Queen was hardly ever treated in an unsympathetic light -- she was usually portrayed as the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Person]] with occasional DeadpanSnarker tendencies.
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19'''Posh and Becks''': Primarily, a vehicle for TooDumbToLive jokes.
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21%%'''Elton John''':
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23'''The England football team:''' Featuring Beckham again, Wayne Rooney, manager Sven Goran Erikson and so forth.
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25There were also a great number of one-off sketches. In the vein of ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' style humour, a lot of these involved crossing over two news stories or parodying a show ''by'' referencing current political issues.
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27For example, there was a parody of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' called "The Johnsons" (about UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson's family). Another parody was of ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'' called "The Dubya Trap" (about UsefulNotes/GeorgeBush's family).
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30* TheAlcoholic: Former footballer George Best, must to the dismay of his liver.
31* AnimateInanimateObject
32** The planet Earth is depicted as one in the opening credits, appearing with a face and a pair of arms.
33** George Best's liver, who would have left him had George not drank all the petrol.
34* AnimalsHateHim: The opening credits has one of the Queen's corgis pull a rage-filled expression when Prince Charles takes her throne. The dog gets even more angry when Charles is in turn replaced by Tony Blair.
35%% * BlackComedy
36%% * BritishTeeth: Tony Blair.
37%% * ButtMonkey: George W. Bush, David and Victoria Beckham, John Prescott, Prince Charles, Sarah Ferguson, etc. In sharp contrast to ''Series/SpittingImage'' Queen Elizabeth II gets off the best. Hardly any jokes show her in an unsympathetic light.
38* CannotTellFictionFromReality: President Bush, to the point that Governor Schwarzenegger attempts to explain to him that he is not ''Film/TheTerminator'' in RealLife.
39* CuteKitten: One sketch had Saddam attempting to defend against the US by surrounding himself and important military targets with kittens.
40* DuelingWorks: Parodied in a sketch which has soap operas ''Series/CoronationStreet'' and ''Series/EastEnders'' scrambling to one-up the other's storylines, ending with the threat of a nuclear holocaust which is only stopped when they are reminded that ''Series/{{Brookside}}'' already did that (thankfully not in RealLife).
41* EarthShatteringKaboom: The opening titles end with this as missiles from America and Iraq destroy the big fella himself (he has a face), despite his best efforts. It is from the kaboom that the logo appears along with the British Isles, which survives intact on one of the planet chunks.
42%% * FacialProfiling
43* FatComicRelief: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
44%% * GilliganCut
45* GoodAngelBadAngel: Facing Michael Owen on the pitch, Roy Keane tries to resist the devil on his shoulder who is trying to egg him into assaulting Owen, only to give in to temptation when a larger devil appears on his other should and tells him to straight-up murder Owen. Following a savage beating, Owen's two angels tell him not only to not retaliate, but to send Keane flowers as a gift.
46* ImAHumanitarian: A desperately hungry to the point of hallucinating John Prescott attempts to eat Tony Blair, having mistaken him for a steak.
47** Later Prescott admitted to having Bulimia, meaning this joke hasn't aged well.
48*** He also admitted to being not terribly good at it.
49* ManChild: George W. Bush is depicted this way.
50* MoonwalkDance: One gag, referencing Michael's baby bungling incident in 2002, had Jackson teaching his infant to moonwalk from one end of a window to another across the street by tightrope walking over a washing cord.
51* NoIndoorVoice: The women of the Slater family in ''Series/EastEnders''. One sketch has family patriarch Charlie Slater being prescribed earplugs to prevent headaches caused by this trope. Another has them singing Silent Night in [[MyLocal Queen Vic]], with those two words alone causing the pub to explode.
52* NoNameGiven: The General seen at the White House.
53* PaletteSwap: The Star Wars missile defense system sketch has a second General who is distinguished by having a green mirrored uniform in contrast to usual General's blue one as well as a slightly differently shaped moustache.
54* RetGone: Discussed in one sketch where President Bush, who CannotTellFictionFromReality, orders Governor Schwarzenegger to get in his "[[Film/TheTerminator Terminator time machine]]" to take out Bin Laden before he was even born.
55* RushmoreRefacement: The opening credits included George W. Bush as a fifth face on Mount Rushmore. When a missile is launched out of his head, the other Presidents react in horror.
56* ShoutOut
57** Princes Charles dresses as the recently deceased Queen Mother to convince the Queen to abdicate, only to be rumbled by William and Harry, with a corgi acting as ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''.
58** The 2052 sketch has the Queen surviving as a WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}-style head in a jar, whilst Prince Philip rides a [[Series/DoctorWho Davros Dalek chair]], exterminating a corgi to boot.
59* TheStarscream: Prince Charles, who is constantly scheming to take the throne from his mother. Also Gordon Brown, who plots to usurp Prime Minister Tony Blair.
60* TooDumbToLive: The Beckhams.
61* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: One sketch is set in 2052, where Elizabeth II's 100 year reign is commemorated with a zirconium jubilee.

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