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Recap / Spitting Image 1987 Election Special

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  • Bourgeois Bohemian: The Queen goes out canvassing for the Socialist Workers' Party because she knows that this will annoy Thatcher.
  • Glass-Shattering Sound: Thatcher's voice in one sketch. Then she got voice coaching... and ended up sounding like Hitler.
  • Parody Commercial:
    • ''The Neverending Tory advert has a rap based on Pepsi's "lipsmacking, thirst-quenching" ad campaign.
    • One sketch parodies the ads for the government's YTS scheme by showing a recruitment ad to trying to get an unemployed Quincy Punk interested in training as a rent boy.
  • Politicians Kiss Babies: When Cecil Parkinson is offered a baby to kiss, he immediately starts denying that it's his.
  • Something Else Also Rises: One shot scene in the rent boy YTS scheme advert features some reversed footage of cooling tower being destroyed so that it appears to be rising.
  • Special Edition Title: Rather than the usual title sequence, this episode shows a wobbly pink Palace of Westminster being held up by strings which is then splattered onto the ground.
  • Spitty Speaker: Roy Hattersley's usual saliva gets sprayed onto passers-by through a megaphone.
  • Totally Radical: Sir Alastair Burnet asks some of the younger royals about their taste in "pop and roll" when he finds them "twisting away like we did last summer."
  • Truth Serums: Sir Robin Day jags two off the studio guests with truth serum in order to relieve the boredom of hosting the election night coverage.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Labour's new image includes plenty of mentions of Glenys' looks.

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