Sifl and Olly

The Sifl and Olly Show is a puppet show that used sock puppets and animation. Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, friends since childhood, created and performed the series. The show's first episode aired on MTV in 1997 and was cancelled in 1999. Marked by cheap production and bizarre humor, the series only aired two seasons, but became a cult favorite.

Premise

The two main characters were a green sock puppet named Sifl and a white sock puppet named Olly. Sifl was the more calm leader of the show while Olly was more excitable and often broke into crazed furies. Their assistant, Chester, was a mumbling, often nonsensical character who still claimed to be great at everything. No real living people or animals ever appeared on the show, only puppets.

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The show was always very simple and low-budget. Most of the show had the main characters hunched over a microphone with weird images projected in the background. 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, while always good natured, often featured profanity, sexual references, crude humor, bodily functions, and violence.

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