16-12-2023, 10:28 AM
Not The Nine was fairly trend setting and very ruthless when it wanted to be. Editing video (and unrelated audio) to tell a different story for comedic purposes probably wasn't a new thing by then.
Though these days the show is probably better remembered for Gerald the Gorilla and squashing a (stuffed) hedgehog under the wheels of a lorry. They had to apologise for that (but turned the apology into a quest to find out who goes around stuffing hedgehogs as if that was the greater offence), though it didn't stop them using a hedgehog sandwich (as seen in the sketch) on an LP cover...
Though these days the show is probably better remembered for Gerald the Gorilla and squashing a (stuffed) hedgehog under the wheels of a lorry. They had to apologise for that (but turned the apology into a quest to find out who goes around stuffing hedgehogs as if that was the greater offence), though it didn't stop them using a hedgehog sandwich (as seen in the sketch) on an LP cover...