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Spitting Image

Spitting Image was a British satirical puppet comedy show that ran from 1984 to 1996. The series was notorious for featuring caricatured puppets of numerous celebrities and politicians who were famous during the 1980s and 1990s.

The Spitting Image credits mention the show was "based on an original lunch with Martin Lambie-Nairn". Lambie-Nairn was a graphic illustrator who originally proposed the idea of a satire show that featured puppets to BBC producer John Lloyd.

Peter Fluck and Roger Law were fairly famous artists that had worked alongside Lambie-Nairn before, but they specialised in clay caricatures intended for political magazines. They helped develop the series.

1 Muppet Mentions
2 References
3 Connections
4 External links

Muppet MentionsEdit

In Season 20 Spitting Image parodied Sesame Street as "Tory Downing Street". John Major played as Kermit the Frog, Douglas Hurd as Big Herd and Kenneth Clarke as Money Monster.

On episode 9 from series 3 (1986) Douglas Hurd addresses Margaret Thatcher as "Miss Piggy"

ReferencesEdit

In Episode 110: Secrets of the Muppets of The Jim Henson Hour, Jim Henson gives a tour of the Muppet Workshop in New York. One of the walls has a Queen Elizabeth II Spitting Image toy.
In 1991, Comic Relief made a music video for the CBBC (Children's BBC) called "Helping Hand" with well known UK TV puppet personalities including Spitting Image puppets. Also featured were the Muppets Bean Bunny, Travelling Matt, Red Fraggle and Sprocket. (YouTube)