Spitting Image: The Complete Series 11

This multiple BAFTA-nominated TV comedy series was in many respects quite ground-breaking. And there was never anything quite like it and for all we know there may never be again. Anarchic, tasteless, controversial, risqué and above all funny, Series 11 of Spitting Image once again entertains and shocks with an array of sketches lampooning anyone who happened to be in the news at the time – in this case 1991.

This was a series you either loved or loathed (rather like Marmite), the reasons for this have been outlined above. For example, if your idea of a giggle is a grey John Major, eternally discussing the pros and cons of his favourite food, the humble pie, with his almost as boring wife Norma, then this is for you!

But there are many other goodies in store, such as Labour MP Roy Hattersley who constantly gobs all over the place and showers everybody else in spittle, an Al Capone-like Maggie Thatcher constantly bullying her cabinet, beefcake Arnold ‘The Terminator’ Schwarzenegger lamenting the size of his small willy, the hilarious ‘Toilet Song’ stating that we all have to go to the toilet (except the Queen!), newsreader Trevor McDonald attempts to read the news whilst being eternally upstaged by the diminutive Ronnie Corbett, Gazza forever making a berk of himself, Boris Yeltsin introducing the Russian people to the first loaf of bread whilst an amused Gorbachev (complete with red Hammer and Sickle birthmark) looks on, and many sketches more!

Almost everybody wanted to see THEIR puppet on this program, now matter how grotesque – and usually they were! Let’s put it this way: if you weren’t on this program than you weren’t anyone!
Great fun even though most of the sketches obviously bear very little relevance to what is happening today – especially in the world of politics. It would be interesting to see what Fluck and Law would have done with the likes of Miliband, Cameron, Osbourne and Farage!