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Lookalike: Owen Smith MP & Penfold from Dangermouse

Tom Winnifrith
Tuesday 26 July 2016

Now i know where I have seen Owen Smith MP before he announced that he wanted to be leader of the Labour party. He used to star as Penfold the assistant of Dangermouse as you can see below.

According to Wikipedia, Owen Smith is a timid, bespectacled hamster, and Danger Mouse's reluctant assistant. He is a coward (codenamed "The Jigsaw," as he goes to pieces when a problem occurs), becoming terrified at any sign of danger. He appears in every episode accompanying Danger Mouse, and he is often captured or getting himself into other dangerous situations before needing to be rescued by Danger Mouse. His main catchphrase is "Crumbs, DM!" and others include "Oh, heck!", "Oh, fiddle!" and "Oh, carrots!", all said when things go wrong. Other catchprases inclue "Jeremy Corbyn is not a Patriot" and "I never said that even though I did" 


Nevertheless, he appears to have some moral fibre, and is willing to resist Evil when things begin to go wrong—at least temporarily. He is a self-proclaimed expert in the martial art referred to in the cartoon as "kung moggy", though his skills do not do him much good in practice. He almost always makes ridiculous responses, whether by misunderstanding or mistaking as a joke, to which DM tells him to "shush". He has an obsession with jam sandwiches, to the point that he'll make copious quantities of jam when nervous.

Meanwhile Penfold wants to be leader of the Labour party but there is nothing interesting to say about him at all.

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