Recap / Spitting Image S 3 E 11985 Regurgitated

Provides examples of:

• Charity Motivation Song: Parodied in "We're Scared of Bob", where all the celebrities sing about how they've been intimidated into participating.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Prince William and Prince Harry bash out the show's theme tune on the piano.
• New Year Has Come: Reagan starts the new year by deciding to keep a diary.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The song The Queen sings to herself sounds almost but not quite like "Merry Christmas Everyone" by Shakin' Stevens.
• Parody Commercial:
  • The sketch with Grace Jones is a parody of an advert she did for Citroën.
  • The British Aristocracy Really Screws It Up is a parody of a public information film which had the Tagline "Heroin Really Screws You Up".
• Shout-Out:
  • Philip tries to teach Edward how to play the Escape from Colditz board game. Meanwhile, Charles can be seen reading The Joy of Sex.
  • When Princess Michael arrives for a visit, The Queen sternly warns everyone not to mention the war.
  • Maxwell Headroom.
  • Reagan talks about meeting "Prince Chas and Princess Dave" at the White House
  • The famous Audi 100 advert that had the Schmidts, the Mullers and the Reinhardts trying to reach their holiday homes was parodied with the Hitlers going on holiday in their new Panzer. "Vorchsprung durch Technik" becomes "Deutschland uber alles, as we Germans still like to imply."
  • Reagan confuses Star Wars weapons technology with the film it's named after.
  • Barry Norman mentions Back to the Future and Santa Claus: The Movie.
  • Colonel Gaddafi speaks into a mic from Libyan Weekend Television. London Weekend Television was one of the franchises in the ITV network at the time.
  • Mad Mac 3
  • Alec Guinness does a reading of a poem based on "The Owl and The Pussycat" by Edward Lear.
• The Unintelligible: Derek Hatton complains that his wife doesn't understand him. The barman that he's talking to says that he shouldn't single out his wife for that..