I watched Spitting Image from the age of about four, which is probably one of the reasons I turned out the way I did. I re-watched the whole lot again a couple of years back, they're not only still hilarious but an important record of what people actually thought about politicians at the time, rather than the fawning retrospectives history tends to grant them. For me their crowning achievement will always be this:
Des. Res. 2 Bedroom Fridge, £750,000? Middlemen by Appointment? Phew, good job none of that came true, eh? I just hope they still have the balls to savage politicians like they used to - That's probably why the producers are looking to partner with a US network - Try putting anything drawing comparisons between politicians and Nazis on UK broadcast television these days and you'd probably be accused of incitement to murder MPs and locked up for terrorism.