They also organized a convention in Nashville called Socks 2001.Īlso, as the show's only "celebrity guest", skateboarder Tony Hawk made a guest appearance on the show in Season 3, providing his own voice to accompany a puppet made to resemble him. One group even recorded a tribute CD recreating some of their favorite songs called Banging on Some Pots and Pans.
SIFL AND OLLY ALL SEASONS SERIES
Sifl & Olly News - Sifl and Olly would pretend to report on the (generally surreal) news.įans of the show call themselves "sockheads." There is a lively group online trading videos and petitioning MTV to release the entire series on DVD.Sometimes they would announce a famous person that was going to be interviewed, but it would always turn out that the guest couldn't make it. Interview Time - Guests interviewed included Death, an atom, and the G-spot.The answers were always lies and usually involved the singer Björk. Rock Facts - At commercial breaks, the Rock Facts question would be asked and answered when they returned.Calls From the Public - Sifl and Olly would take calls supposedly from the public, but really just random and often bizarre characters who would call with problems or complaints.The network was run by Precious Roy, who would yell unrelated lines, ending with "suckers!" The slogan of Precious Roy was "making lots of suckers out of girls and boys." Precious Roy's Home Shopping Network - a parody of the Home Shopping Network with bizarre products like Civil War Corpses and CAT Scan Glasses.The humor, while always good natured, often featured profanity, sexual references, crude humor, bodily functions, and violence. 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. Most of the show had the main characters hunched over a microphone with weird images projected in the background. The show was always very simple and low-budget. No real living people or animals ever appeared on the show, only puppets.
Their assistant, Chester, was a mumbling, often nonsensical character who still claimed to be great at everything. Sifl was the more calm leader of the show while Olly was more excitable and often broke into crazed furies. The two main characters were a green sock puppet named Sifl and a white sock puppet named Olly. The lost episodes were eventually released on DVD. A third season was recorded and MTV promised to release the episodes on the Internet, but never did. The show gained a cult following, but was cancelled after the second season. Whenever the show was aired again, the music videos would be removed, leaving only the comedy clips. In the first season, clips of Sifl and Olly were mixed with music videos. The show aired late at night, but later on they were moved to the evenings.
In 1996, MTV-UK 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. He sent some of the tapes to Crocco as a Christmas present, but also sent copies to MTV and MTV Europe.Īlthough MTV America rejected them, MTV Europe liked them. He videotaped himself acting out the tapes with sock puppets he named Sifl and Olly. In the early 90s, while attending college in London, Lynch found some of their old tapes again. Throughout the years, they would play the tapes for family and friends. The Sifl & Olly Show started when Crocco and Lynch were kids taping funny conversations with tape recorders.
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