I’ve decided to choose Spitting Image for my research topic. I was really drawn to the show because of the work they did on Margaret Thatcher and the Royal Family and the puppets. I’m really impressed with how varied the show’s sketchs, (including some animation) and comedy are with the puppets because I considered the puppets to be a restriction on them. However, the puppets really allow for more variety because the puppets are more malleable for different characters than actors sometimes.
Spitting Image was from 1984 to 1996 and usually showed on Sundays at 10 pm. Many of the featured people were politicians and journalists and although many were annoyed with the puppet portrayals of themselves, most considered having a puppet as a mark that they had made it big. As it progresses, SPitting Image added athletes and celebrities to their puppet collections as well as animated sketchs.
This is as obviously satirical as anything we have mentioned this semester. It is also unforgiving. I look forward to where you are going to go with your discussion of this stuff.