![]() ![]() There’s something delightfully Lynchian about the offscreen voice pleading “PAUL? PAUL?” How funny is that shit?!? A rubbery elf named Paul Rogers tried to lecture about the “functions of the family”. (The same tape that had the uncut video for “Smack My Bitch Up” on it, as seen in the Prodigy strip.)Įven one-shot puppets were hysterically funny. My friend George was the one who hepped me to it, with a VHS tape he’d compiled. It felt like transmissions from a parallel universe. It must be said how wonderful and surreal it was to watch this show on TV. Notice how Olly will occasionally sport different “sweaters” (sleeve). Sometimes the callers or the poor quality of the merchandise would cause spokesock Olly to have a breakdown. Making lots of suckers out of girls and boys! His name was Precious Roy. Every S&O fan knows and can sing his slogan: The third bit was the “sponsor” of S&O, a Home Shopping Network clone that sold dangerous products, under the endorsement of an old sock. This was literally the funniest show on MTV. His intro is like the others so hilariously catchy you can’t wait to see it again. His body is some weird orthopedic sock, and he sounds like another Media Play stockperson I knew in the 90s. I’m pretty sure that Matt Crocco voices Chester, and that his eyes are rimmed with the same plastic flowers from a doormat in front of my house in 1987. Whatever it was, it made cohesive visual sense. ![]() It didn’t even matter what the hell these puppets were using to communicate. It was a warning shot that you were about to see something funny enough to knock you out. ![]() The intro alone has me in stitches, no matter how many times I’ve seen it. For stoners, there were three running bits that couldn’t be topped for bong-infused belly laughs. It used dissolves and wipes like a bizarro public-access program. I’d call that video the best thing MTV ever aired. Lynch is operating both puppets, in post-production, lying on his back with a green screen on his gut. Sifl is voiced by Matt Crocco, and Olly is Liam Lynch, who also arranged and performed the music. If you’re unfamiliar with S&O, I’m gonna blast your funny bone to splinters right off the bat. I hate when TV characters break into song, unless it’s Sifl and Olly. Then it’s always great. No other television program has as many fantastic songs as Sifl and Olly. Videotape artifacts are subconsciously comforting. ![]()
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