0 min 55 sec

Taken from the TV program Skippy Adventures in Bushtown – Trouble in Bushtown (1997)

Original title classification G – this clip chosen to be G

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Curator’s clip description

Skippy discovers that Croco is up to mischief in the election for Mayor, accepting money from each of the uninspiring candidates and providing them all with same rent-a-crowd of grannies and babies.

Curator’s notes

John Palmer’s clever, multilayered script and the related character design is evident in this clip. The mayoral candidate, a Winston Churchill look-alike, makes a comic, nonsensical speech with recognisable lines from famous speeches, building up to the finale – a Christmas carol. He is received with rapturous applause from Croco’s rent-a-crowd. John Palmer wrote most of the scripts for this series.

Annemaree O'Brien, curator

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