The Comic Strip, Interlude - Let's take it from the top.

First off, a recent addition to the Wikipedia page for The Comic Strip contends that the map that the original intro is dropping a bomb on is centered around the town of Shaftesbury in North Dorset. So here is the equivalent in Google Maps.

Now. The most recent broadcast episode of The Comic Strip Presents begins with the same cartoon opening has been in use since the Supergrass film:


But now we see the bomb continue and actually hit a building on the idealized Tolkien-like town green.


The cricket players, once static, are now moving around, continuing to play as a little red car appears and drives around the square.


And we cut to a real life shot of a particularly close recreation of the same image we've been watching bombs being dropped on since 1986.


It's like the resolution to a twenty-year old punchline!