Recap / Spitting Image S 1 E 4

Provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Nancy Reagan has a crush on Prince Philip, who is pretty put off by her.
• April Fools' Day: The show opens with a card explaining that the episode has had to be shortened due to bias. One sketch plays, followed by the credits. The Queen then pops up and shouts, "April Fool!" and the rest of the episode plays.
• Bilingual Bonus: Mitterand drives a lorry with the name Exocet et Cie ^* "Exocet and Company" on the front while he makes a threatening phone call in French.
• Brotherhood of Funny Hats: Prince Philip tells Prince Charles that he needs to join the Freemasons, while wearing a very extravagant hat covered in fruit and bricks that is apparently part of the uniform.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: Only Lawson’s eyes are visible while he’s in the crocodile pit.
• Censor Suds: Mary Whitehouse takes a bubble bath. In a later scene, the suds are gone, but she’s still sitting in the bath wearing a housecoat, suggesting she may have been wearing it the whole time.
• Double Entendre: A women asks David Owen why SDP men make such considerate lovers and he says it's because they're "so good at coming second."
• The Easy Way or the Hard Way: Thatcher and Tebbit let themselves in to Mitterand’s lorry and proceed to lean on him about the EEC refund. They threaten him with a a pair of concrete legwarmers and smashing his Richard Clayderman records to get him to comply.
• Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Harold Wilson claims that his hot water bottle burst when Jim Callaghan accuses him of wetting his bed.
• National Geographic Nudity: Reagan tells Ed to stop reading National Geographic since it gets him riled up.
• Page Three Stunna: A group of Japanese businessmen sing about not wanting to move to work at the new Nissan plant in Sunderland, but they wonder if the rumours about English women that come from the tabloids and porno mags are true.
• Parody Commercial: Several public figures appear in an advert for The Guardian saying how it doesn't take an interest in anything that they do. The tagline is, "Just some of the reasons why 33 million people never read The Guardian."
• Poor Man's Porn: Thatcher and Mary Whitehouse have a discussion about Video Nasties in the garden at No. 10 while Denis watches a David Attenborough programme where the animals are "going at it like hammer and tongs."
• Previously on…: A voiceover reminds the viewers about Nigel Lawson getting dropped into the crocodile pool beneath No. 10. Apparently, he’s become an Honest John selling off Thatcher’s discarded handbags.
• Produce Pelting: Kinnock and Hattersley get pelted off the stage with various vegetables.
• Thought Bubble Speech: Mary Whitehouse watches a documentary where a tortoise tries to climb on top of the president’s brain. A speech bubble appears saying, "Not tonight, I've got a headache."
• Wildlife Commentary Spoof: David Attenborough tries to shoot a documentary in his usual style only to be hampered by Anthony, a prima donna anteater who won't come to set.
• Visual Pun: Shirley Williams gets ready for her Newsnight appearance by having some guys drag her through a hedge backwards.
• You Are Fat: The Queen appears on Question Time to point out that everyone in the cabinet is fat, which prompts an entire song on the subject.