July 14, 1998 – 1999
The Sifl and Olly Show is a comedy TV series that incorporates sock puppets, animation, and musical performances. Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco created and performed the series. The first episode aired on MTV in 1998. The show was cancelled in 1999. The characters, along with new material, currently appear on Liam Lynch's podcast entitled Lynchland.
Storyline
The two main characters are a black sock puppet named Sifl and a white sock puppet named Olly. Sifl is the calmer leader of the show, while Olly is more excitable and often breaks into crazed furies. Their assistant, Chester, is a mumbling, often nonsensical character who still claims to be great at everything.
The show was always very simple and low-budget. Most of the show's main characters were puppets, with background images or animations in the background via a chromakey. The two co-hosts often had a microphone in front of them. The show had an unscripted feel with the characters talking to each other in realistic, often meandering styles. Sifl and Olly would sing both original and classic songs throughout the show with an original song at the end. Though it featured puppets, the series was not intended for children. The humor often featured profanity, sexual references, drug innuendo, crude humor, bodily functions, and violence.
TV Show Intro
Sound Effects Used
- Hollywoodedge, Cats Fighting Loud Sc PE917007/Cats Two Angry YowlsD PE022601 (5th yowl)
- Hollywoodedge, Object Being Squashe PE105201
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - SQUEAKY BALLOON EXPANSION AND BIG POP
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BELL - COWBELL: RINGING
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BONK - SINGLE HEAD BONK
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, WHISTLE - FAST ZIP WHISTLE 02
- Sound Ideas, COW - SINGLE MOO, ANIMAL 01
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - FAST ZIP IN 01
Image Gallery
The Sifl & Olly Show/Image Gallery