Smack the Pony - Girlband spoof

From Series 1 Show 5 of Smack the Pony, broadcast 16 April 1999.

Common consensus states that all their music spoofs were embarrassing and rubbish, but that's just received opinion at its most tiresome. In fact, they were all great - especially this one, primarily a piss-take of B*Witched, which I'd argue is easily up to Not the Nine O'Clock News standard.

The song is the work of the superb Jonathan Whitehead and is performed here by Sally Phillips, Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen and Sarah Alexander.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• smack
• pony
• b*witched
• girlband
• jonathan
• whitehead
• sally
• phillips
• sarah
• alexander
• doon
• mackichan
• fiona
• allen

[KoroOutbreak]

a lot of British comedy musical spoofs are extremely subtle and I think that is perhaps why they are not well received as well as they should. this is pretty brilliant and could work with any shitty girl pop band. the only thing missing is a montage of them shopping.

[Weezalou]

lmao 'thinkin is for wankers'

[SpecialDewi]

Thinking is for wankers, we're born, we dance, we die - says everything about the girlbands of that time LOL I love this track, I used to play it back in the day before I did my exams haha

[lemonbade]

Still trying to work out why this is a spoof. Is it funny?

[Gavin48]

Doon is too funny she should be on TV more

[geofflorimer]

Lilly Allen made a living out of this.

[nieson0727]

Guess I will settle into the apparent minority of people who loved (still do) the music video spoofs. They were pretty good at hitting the jugular with each genre of music, and a quick browse does show that some of their videos have been mistaken for "real" ones (and some slated accordingly), which adds to the amusement.

[ste1bro]

Sorry, but got to agree with common consensus here - their spoof songs were appalling, as evidenced by this one. Not even in the same league as NOT's songs, which were a masterclass in observational humour.

[twothings]

Just been playing a bunch of B*Witched songs on youtube to my husband and I snuck this one in to see if he'd notice... he did shake his head and say it sounded pretty terrible but didn't realise it was the STP ladies ;)

[Drblooter99]

@mover86

Ha ha -- that's because you get dizzy and confused and can't remember your problems. I'll try it when I visit the bank.

[mover86]

Freaky thing: does anyone else see Sally Phillips with a red wing on in the frame at 2:20 - 2:21 in the video of Rollercoaster by B*Wtiched (which THIS Smack The Pony video parodies)??? youtube.com/watch?v=-UcRM6M792­Q

[mover86]

@brightonking69 Yeah I wanna know too :'(