My sister subscribes, she mainly uses it to watch vintage Doctor Who as far as I can tell.
A few years ago I binged all the Spitting Image shows, at the time they were all free on YT.
My assessment: in retrospect they were always 90% shite with the odd funny sketch, or the odd recurring joke that actually worked. Towards the end the shite was 90% in-jokes and self referencing (infinite callbacks to 'and the vegetables'). They deliberately made the theme music increasingly unbearable with distortion and obnoxious music concrete techniques, as if they were daring viewers to switch off and daring executives to cancel them.
I think FeralCatMan is right. Hislop, Grant & Naylor were funny to me at the time, and they still have their funny moments, but satirical jokes and cultural references are prone to ageing badly, the majority are forgotten. E.g. how many TWTWTW sketches do you know?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 17:11,
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I know my place.
Which is a pretty impressive feat for that knackered old sketch since it was first broadcast long before my birth and I’m unaware of TW3 ever being repeated in toto in my lifetime.
EDIT. That wasn’t from TW3 anyway, so none in fact.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 17:38,
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Grant and Naylor eh?
That somewhat explains why it's similar to Red Dwarf, in that it seemed exceptionally funny at the time, but now isn't even remotely amusing.
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Yup. Same principle, the gags that emerge from the situation still land but a lot of the cultural references to the mid 20th century need contextual subtitles or something.
Red Dwarf was a good concept and 'Son Of Cliché' is still an objectively funny name.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 20:04,
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