Though it featured puppets, the series was not intended for children. Sifl and Olly would sing both original and classic songs throughout the show with an original song at the end.
The show had an unscripted feel with the characters talking to each other in realistic, often meandering styles. The two co-hosts often had a microphone in front of them. Most of the show's main characters were puppets, with background images or animations in the background via a chromakey. The show was always very simple and low-budget. No real living people or animals ever appeared on the show (except the hamster during Precious Roy's foot long hamster sale), only puppets. Their assistant, Chester, is a mumbling, often nonsensical character who still claims to be great at everything. Sifl is the calmer leader of the show, while Olly is more excitable and often breaks into crazed furies. The two main characters are a green sock puppet named Sifl and a white sock puppet named Olly. On June 14, 2012, Liam Lynch posted a picture on his Twitter account of a set similar to that used on the show, fueling speculation about the show's return.This was followed by another picture posted on July 25 of a graphic for "Precious Roy's Fruit Chunkies."Īs of November 17, 2014, MTV has released two "best of" compilations on Amazon Video. In the first season, clips of Sifl and Olly were mixed with music videos.Whenever the show was aired again, the music videos would be removed, leaving only the comedy clips.The show gained a cult following, but it was cancelled after the second season.A third season was recorded, and MTV promised to release the episodes on the Internet but never did.The lost episodes were eventually released on DVD.ĭespite its cancellation, Sifl and Olly still appear along with some other characters in occasional episodes of Liam Lynch's podcast, Lynchland.Most of these appearances are clips from Season 3. In 1996, MTV Europe began airing Sifl & Olly clips between music videos as "idents."The popularity of the clips led to MTV America offering a half-hour format called The Sifl & Olly Show in July 1998.The show aired late at night, but later on they were moved to the evenings. Lynch sent copies to MTV and MTV Europe, and although MTV America rejected them, MTV Europe liked them. These tapes contained conversations and material intended for his and Crocco's second comedy album (which they never recorded).He decided to make something using these tapes as a Christmas present for Crocco.Lynch had been inspired by a series of British commercials by Aardman Studios and had hoped to do stop-action clay animation, but he did not have the money or the equipment for it.Instead, he made puppets out of his own socks and a large plastic sunflower and recorded a video of himself acting out their tapes with the puppets.Lynch chose the name for the puppets from a fake commercial Crocco had made for one of their recordings, and Sifl & Olly were born. In 1995, while Lynch was still in Liverpool, he found some broken 4-Track tapes and repaired them. Soon after, Lynch moved to Liverpool, England to attend the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, but the friends continued to make funny recordings and send them to each other. During this period they were also constantly recording random funny conversations, interviews, sketches, and songs. Lynch left Kent State and the duo were separated for a few years, but they reunited in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1990s and recorded the comedy album Camp Sunny Side Up on a 4-Track. As children, Crocco and Lynch would create and perform funny songs and sketches to entertain themselves.They remained friends through high school and college, even though they saw little of each other while they attended Kent State University. The origins of The Sifl & Olly Show go back to the 1980s.
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