Episode 5 and I wouldn't say that this
programme had found its feet yet... This one attempts a unified format (a day
in the life of the Royal Family), rather than a sequence of quick-fire
sketches. It means that it does goes on a bit and keeps on having to return to
the same place, and even at the best of times Spitting Image jokes about
the Royal Family worked better in small doses. The House of Windsor is also
weirdly incomplete at this early stage, with no Anne, Edward or Queen Mother.
Oddly, Prince William's baby puppet looks much like he does today.
It never worked very well when they put a performer in a mask because they needed a puppet to do something with their legs. This week they want to have the Queen crossing her legs in one sequence, and the programme's sense of scale feels magnified and wrong when it happens.
It never worked very well when they put a performer in a mask because they needed a puppet to do something with their legs. This week they want to have the Queen crossing her legs in one sequence, and the programme's sense of scale feels magnified and wrong when it happens.
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