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 Europe 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. Lynch sent copies to MTV and MTV Europe, and although MTV America rejected them, MTV Europe liked them. Lynch chose the name for the puppets from a fake commercial Crocco had made for one of their recordings, and Sifl & Olly were born. Instead, he made puppets out of his own socks and a large plastic sunflower and recorded a video of himself acting out their tapes with the puppets.
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Lynch had been inspired by a series of British commercials by Aardman Studios and had hoped to do stop-action clay animation, but he did not have the money or the equipment for it. He decided to make something using these tapes as a Christmas present for Crocco. These tapes contained conversations and material intended for his and Crocco's second comedy album (which they never recorded). In 1995, while Lynch was still in Liverpool, he found some broken 4-Track tapes and repaired them. Soon after, Lynch moved to Liverpool, England to attend the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, but the friends continued to make funny recordings and send them to each other. During this period they were also constantly recording funny conversations, interviews, sketches, and songs. Lynch left Kent State and the duo was separated for a few years, but they reunited in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1990s and recorded the comedy album Camp Sunny Side Up on a 4-Track. They remained friends through high school and college, even though they saw little of each other while they attended Kent State University. As children, Crocco and Lynch would create and perform funny songs and sketches to entertain themselves. The origins of The Sifl & Olly Show go back to the 1980s. The characters, along with new material, currently appear on Liam Lynch's podcast entitled Lynchland. Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco created and performed the series.
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The Sifl and Olly Show is a comedy TV series that incorporates sock puppets, animation, and musical performances. Liam Lynch, Matt Crocco, and Michael Taylor Screenshot showing Sifl (left) and Olly (right).
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