Tear Jerker / Spitting Image

• The Louis Armstrong puppet weeping as he sings "We've Ruined the World".
• When it became clear that Thatcher was about to be ousted as the Conservative Party's leader (and, by extension, Prime Minister) if she didn't resign, this for the large part played for all the comedic brutality it can offer. However the final sketch in the episode that aired just before her resignation had Thatcher wandering an empty House of Commons at night. As conversations from the past are heard, she sits in a chair and sobs quietly. Given the puppet Thatcher made so much of the show's humour, this truly signifies that her tenure is coming to an end.
• "When You're 65", which describes how rough things can get for the elderly.
• Neil Kinnock singing Everything's Coming Up Roses
• One of the few times anything on the show isn't played for laughs is the final song of Series 1, "Every Bomb You Drop". A parody of the already melancholy and eerie-sounding "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, the lyrics are changed to a Reason You Suck Speech directed at world leaders.
  • It's especially effective as, at the time, they didn't know if there were going to be any more series of Spitting Image after the first, so they decided to go out on a serious note, much like Blackadder Goes Forth, and all the cast and crew are listed alphabetically in the credits, with no mention of roles, similar to the last episode of The Young Ones.
  • The only humour in the scene comes from Alastair Burnet's newsreader speech at the beginning, and even then the humour is very dark.
  Alastair Burnet: "And now the main points again; death, injury, agreements, strikes, war, Soviets, Americans, two-nil and stupid bastards. Goodnight."