Editing Rod Hull (section)

==Legacy==
Prior to Hull's death, [[Lee and Herring]] had planned to revive their "not Rod Hull" character for their contemporary series, ''[[This Morning with Richard Not Judy]]'', but although they filmed several sketches – in which the character would die after performing a pointless stunt – the footage was never used.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=231 |date=4 July 2003 |website=RichardHerring.com |title= Warming Up |access-date=29 October 2008}}</ref>  Instead, the final episode of the second and final series of ''This Morning with Richard Not Judy'' concluded with a post-credits sketch featuring Kevin Eldon's Rod Hull character, fading out to a simple dedication reading "This series is dedicated to Rod Hull."

Hull and Emu were also the subject of the song "No One Knew the Real Emu" by [[The Toy Dolls]] (2004).<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Last Album? (2004) |url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Toy-Dolls-Our-Last-Album/master/333244 |website=[[Discogs]] |access-date=11 June 2024}}</ref>

Upon Hull's death, Michael Parkinson reminisced that he had found him to be "a very charming, intelligent, and sensitive man – quite unlike the Emu." He observed that the puppet "was the dark side of Rod's personality, and very funny, provided it was not on top of you."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/298801.stm |date=18 March 1999 |work=BBC News |title=Rod Hull dies in rooftop fall |access-date=29 October 2008}}</ref>

His son [[Toby Hull|Toby]] brought Emu out of retirement for the first time since his father's death during the 2003 pantomime season, appearing in ''[[Cinderella]]'' at the [[Theatre Royal, Windsor]]. Toby Hull and Emu later appeared in their own series on [[CITV]].{{fact|date=May 2024}}

In June 2018, puppeteer [[Phil Fletcher]] bought one of the last remaining Emu puppets for £8,860 at Chippenham Auction Rooms in Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/rod-hulls-emu-smashes-estimate-at-auction-11391198 |title=Rod Hull's Emu smashes estimate at auction |work=Sky News |date=1 June 2018 |access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref>