across the pond. he survived everything from wars to the playstation generation. >> he is mr. punch. the bbc reporter david sillito tells us more. >> reporter: mr. punch is a man with a message. if anyone gets in your way, hit him with a big stick. over hundreds of years and across the world, babies, policemen, crocodiles, punch has wacked them all. >> one question, he's a very, very bad man. >> he's a clown. >> he's a mass murderer. >> he uses a slap stick like this. and he delivers what is known as stylized blows. it's the other side of a coin from a fairy's magic wand. not to mention, of course, they are puppets. it's like wondering whether tom and jerry ought to be reported to the rspca. >> reporter: and, yes, that was a banker being thwacked because punch has always been changing. he exists across the world and arrived in brittan 1662.