(I hope that drawing attention to them doesn’t lead to a cease-and-desist from MTV, which would be very un-chill.) The athropos videos are the ones you want-at some point, video game content company Machinima (I assume after buying the rights) started producing Sifl and Olly video game review videos, and those videos have a different (newer) look and are bad and not cool. Thank you, athropos! And another user, Vegetarianrage, also uploaded a bunch of episodes. There is no DVD set of the show, which is offensive and sad, but some enterprising and godly YouTube user, athropos, has uploaded 41 of them (I believe that may be the full set). I watch YouTube clips of it more than is healthy. It’s that kind of humor-deceptively simple, usually eliciting giggles more than guffaws, but extremely likeable. And about one year ago, I rediscovered it in YouTube clips and, man, it has aged well.Įach 20-minute-episode opens with the very catchy theme song: “Sifl / and / Ol-ly / Sifl / and Olly / show!” (Now repeat 4x.) Midway through the song, they yell “rock!” and show a rock on the screen.Īnother recurring song, equally delightful, is when they take calls from the public the song goes: “Calls calls calls / calls from the public / calls calls calls, calls” and then a phone hits the operator in the head with a satisfying coconut thwack. I was 10 years old in 1997 and we didn’t have “cable” anyway (just the basic channels: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, UPN, WB), so it’s hazy to me how or why I even remember the show, but I recall being a big fan. Yes, a sock puppet show, but what a sock puppet show it was! As charming as it was low-budget. If you have no idea what Sifl and Olly was, the briefest and most succinct description would be: a sock-puppet show. I guess it was originally a TV thing, but now it’s definitely an internet thing. Mine has to be The Sifl and Olly Show, which was on MTV from 1997 to 1999-the days when MTV was “music television” and was funky and, often, weird (in the best sense). content aggregator/curator, before those were dirty words), this week asked people for their favorite under-the-radar internet things. The good folks at, site of Jason Kottke (basically the O.G.
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