- published: 17 Sep 2013
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Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989.
The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family were the most prominent targets.
Martin Lambie-Nairn proposed a satirical television show featuring puppets to Peter Fluck and Roger Law, two illustrators and sculptors who worked mostly for print. The puppets, caricaturing public figures, were designed by Fluck and Law. They were assisted by caricaturists including David Stoten, Pablo Bach, Steve Bendelack and Tim Watts. Musical parodies were by Philip Pope (former member of Who Dares Wins and The Hee Bee Gee Bees) and later Steve Brown (who appeared as bandleader Glen Ponder in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge.
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I watched it flare up from the end
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Nocturnal glances were surrounded
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Our lights got sucked in and our bodies keep on lifting off the sheets
Our hands get tied to our minds and we keep on talking in our sleep
Caspian power moves within me
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My circulation thermohaline
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Our fingers swell up and our bodies keep lifting off the sheets
Our eyelids collapse and our limbs and hinges crashed into the sea
We all see to have big plans. We all seem to have...
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Our lights got sucked in and our bodies keep lifting off the sheets
Our eyelids collapse and our limbs and hinges rust into the sea
We all seem to have big plans x2