Rubber Plane is a recurring sketch in Series 1 of Spitting Image. Taking place on the titular plane, it sees various unlikely puppets engaging in conservation with one another. It's also featured in the original " Chicken Song" sketch.
Sketches[]
Episode 1[]
Seeing Mark Thatcher as the plane’s flight attendant giving out snacks, Len Murray asks his neighbouring passenger if that’s really him, to which the passenger responds yes. Len replies that that confirms why he’s been seeing pictures of him getting on and off planes, but never knew what he did in between.
Linda McCartney laughs at a newspaper article about how pot smoking can affect your memory and calls her husband Paul “Ringo”. Paul asks if he knows her and she responds by hitting him in the face with the newspaper.
Idi Amin talks to Robert Mugabe about how it takes a big man to confess crimes to the state. Mugabe responds that they take two big men.
The same passenger that sat with Len Murray, who is now sitting with David Steel, tells the latter that he came back from a fact-finding mission to France. Steel asks if he was blockaded, and the passenger responds with yes, saying that he “shouldn’t have eaten those snails.”
Episode 2[]
Enoch Powell and Idi Amin talk about sanctions, while Mark Thatcher compares Robert Mugabe's government system to the way his mother's running the country.
Episode 3[]
John Gielgud tells Denis Healey that the Argentinians have claimed responsibility for sinking a Cambridge ship, prompting everyone around them to laugh. Archbishop Robert Runcie tells everyone about the Video Nasty Bill, which has been passed to Mary Whitehouse. The President’s brain is discovered by Prince Andrew and Joan Collins in their plane food. A passenger spots Arthur Scargill outside his window and shoos him away.
List of passengers[]
- Mark Thatcher (flight attendant in the first episode)
- John Gielgud
- Enoch Powell
- Arthur Scargill
- Len Murray
- David Steel
- Paul McCartney
- Linda McCartney
- Idi Amin
- Robert Mugabe
- Ian MacGregor
- Prince Andrew
- Joan Collins
- Denis Healey
- Robert Runcie