Editing That's Life! (section)

=== Humorous items on ''That's Life!'' ===
Rude vegetables sent in by viewers were notably memorable, cropping up in ''[[The Times]]'' more than 20 years after ''That's Life!'' ended.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/article/the-times-view-on-misshapen-fruit-and-vegetables-variety-is-the-spice-of-life-sx8tkkzxn | title=The Times view on misshapen fruit and vegetables: Variety is the Spice of Life }}</ref> Also popular were the talented pets discovered by the show, which included dogs that played football, a cat who played ping-pong, dogs who caught soda water from a syphon and many others including a horse that could count. Besides the pets there were "talented tots", such as toddlers who could play the piano, snooker and golf.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Talented passers-by were also featured each week in the vox pops at the start of the show, including Annie Mizen, who was discovered in a street market in her eighties and became a star.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Esther Rantzen was arrested for obstruction when vox popping in the [[North End Road, Fulham|North End Road]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/denis-tuohy-when-it-all-goes-wrong-on-tv-how-the-presenter-copes-or-fails-to-cope-is-what-the-viewer-finds-so-hilarious-36442334.html | title=Denis Tuohy: When it all goes wrong on TV... How the presenter copes, or fails to cope, is what the viewer finds so hilarious | newspaper=Belfasttelegraph }}</ref> The resulting film took pride of place in her edition of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in which the arresting officer P.C. A. Herbert was a surprise guest.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

During its 21-year run ''That's Life!'' was broadcast three times on 1 April, and each time created a prank film to fool the viewers. The first directed by Nick Handel appeared to show a dog that could drive.{{cn|date=November 2024}} The second was an animal in [[London Zoo]] called a [[Lirpa loof|Lirpa Loof]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/lirpa_loof |title=The Lirpa Loof (April Fool, 1984) |publisher=Hoaxes.org |date= |access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref> starring [[David Bellamy]], which persuaded charabanc-loads of visitors to search the zoo for the non-existent animal with purple droppings. The third was a face cream made from rhinoceros spit that eradicated wrinkles from the face but transferred them to a backside.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}