JPaparella
This show, which I haven't seen broadcast here in the United States for several years now, was very refreshing. Alot of my friends who should have enjoyed this show could not get over the fact that the show stars sock puppets. The puppets are actually very clever. The puppetry is also very good. The humor is irreverent, free wheeling, touches a wide range of topics, and threatens to dissolve into nonsense at any moment. Indeed, one of the creators best tricks is to make you think just such a thing is happening, and then to have the characters respond to it and pull it back from the brink, or burst out in seemingly spontaneous laughter when they fail to do so. If you are Ok with sock puppets, you will like this show. My only criticism is that when I watch my taped episodes, a few are somewhat dated now.
archangeldom
Wow! I thought I would never hear of those wonderful sock puppets ever again! Even if I was only 11 at the time, I still enjoyed the songs, which made up the humor and charm of the show. I still can recall the 'Girl from Zanzibar' song: "Her name was Zanzibar, Z-Z-Z-Zanzibar!", Sifl banging on the pots and pans, and when the two interviewed the planet Mars. Those were great times! Though I can understand why MTV would cancel the show, it still is alive and kicking!Vive Sifl and Olly!
nycovom1
The humour in this show didn't tickle everyone's funny bone, butman, was it funny!!!! How can you NOT like a show where all thecharacters are college dude-voiced sock puppets, anyway? Onething I admired about this show is that it didn't depend so much ongross-out gags for laughs, ala South Park and Beavis AndButthead. The sets and the costumes were joyfully andside-splittingly cheesy. How about the "Calls,calls, calls, callsfrom the public" sock puppet with the giant phone dial behind him,being whacked on the noggin with a phone receiver?!!? Again, noteveryone "got" the humour of this show, but for me anyway, it wasout-and-out truly off-the-wall hilarious. I now give a tip o' the hat toPrecious Roy: "Buy my waffles! You guys are SUCKERS!!!!"
Aizyk
I used to watch this show with my grandmother when it was on. Everything about it was funny. Some of the particular parts that immediately stick out in my mind are the ones where Ollie sings about "the girl in the spooky car" (her name was Zanzibar), and the show where the robot sit-in sings "I Know What Boys Like" by the Waitresses. Precious Roy was of course a highlight because of his personality, but Calls From The Public was full of hilarious moments as well. And Chester was very cute. They really ought to revive this show, or at least show the reruns, on a network where it probably might be more appreciated and reach a wider audience, like Comedy Central.
