Spitting Image has delivered a typically waspish response after Deadline revealed this week that it had been served with a lawsuit by the owners of Paddington Bear.

Avalon’s YouTube puppet sketch show roasted “Studio C Anal” (better known as StudioCanal ), with Paddington wiping his derrière with the legal filing and declaring: “Your writ, my s**t.”

It follows the claimants, including StudioCanal and Michael Bond’s estate, filing a High Court complaint against Avalon, citing copyright and design right concerns.

The filing did not reveal the particulars of the claim, but came months after The Rest is Bulls*!t , a sketch from Spitting Image , the BAFTA and Emmy-winning British puppet show.

The Rest is Bulls*!t features an intentionally shonky imitation of Paddington co-ho

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