Pib and Pog (1995)

Directed by

Peter Peake

Genre

comedy, animation, family

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

6 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short film and series of shorts that parody a gentle preschool program. The characters are introduced by a calm narrator but then constantly try to injure each other in violent and absurd ways. After the show, the actors drop their cheerful roles and appear tired and bitter.

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What happens

Pib and Pog is the name of both a short film and a series of shorts created by Aardman Animations. The animation is set up like a typical pre-school programme, introduced by a soft-spoken, Mary Poppins-style narrator. However, as the show goes on, it gradually turns into a black comedy where the characters attempt to harm each other constantly – for instance, shooting each other in the stomach with guns, kicking each other in the testicles, sticking each other's heads in concentrated sulphuric acid, sawing each other in half and blowing each other up with cannons. After the show has finished, the "actors" (the same characters with a more worn-out expression) break character and reveal themselves to be much older and grumpier than the characters they portray. The characters were later used in an advertising campaign for Dairylea products on British television, and made a cameo in the eighth episode of Rex the Runt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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