Shout Out / Spitting Image S 1 E 12

• Charles tries (and fails) to engage Wills in a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippos.
• The Video Nasty Family sketch's set-up of a family of monsters (and Norman Tebbit) is based on a series of adverts raising awareness for the share sales for the public electricity boards.
  • The mother in is drilling into an orange on the kitchen table. She also says, when the son shoots the father, "How many times have I told you not to blow your daddy away?", which may be a loose reference to "Lawdy Mama" by Cream.
  • A worm leaps out of the father's chest.
• On the Euro phone-in, Thatcher hums "Greensleeves" to herself.
• The Telegraph advert sketch uses a section of The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba as background music.
• An onscreen arrow informs us that the deer's head in Prince Philip's fridge is Bambi's mum.