At the very end:
“Hedgehog”??? :dubious:
I think the context is missing to know for sure, but I imagine it’s a running joke.
It’s an in joke referring to the controversy caused when, in the previous show:
Great sketch.
I loved the songs as well, a particular favourite was Pamela’s love song for everyone’s favourite Islamic revolutionary.
Perhaps this belongs in the “obvious things about a creative work” thread, but it was quite a while before I realized that Mel Smith was also the albino in The Princess Bride.
To be clear, I knew him from TPB first. I was dimly aware of Not the Nine O’Clock News, but had seen Gerald the Gorilla and Monty Python Worshipers.
Couldn’t find the clip but IIRC after a number of complaints about the squashed hedgehog, the following week they pointed out that the hedgehog was stuffed,
“And we would like to point out that we exhibited less cruelty to hedgehogs per se that whoever it is who goes around stuffing them”.
They also invited anyone with info on this to write in to “We want to know who stuffs hedgehogs” c/o the BBC