OOglies
OOglies is a stop-motion animated children’s television series produced by BBC Scotland for CBBC. The show involves short humorous sketches with household items, virtually all of which have googly eyes stuck on, hence the show’s title.
The show first aired on 10 August 2009 on both CBBC and BBC HD. The commission was for two series of 13 shows, each 15 minutes long. The shows were produced in a block over five months in Glasgow. Voices are provided by Tim Dann, Peter Dickson and Shelley Longworth. The series was created (in this case, “set free”) and written by Nick Hopkin, Tim Dann and Austin Low.
Recurring gags
Each show begins with the announcement:
“Attention all humans. The following stunts you are about to witness have been performed by trained OOglies. Under no circumstances should children or silly adults attempt to do any of the actions you see in the programme.”
There are groups of characters who appear with similar gags multiple times, and sometimes the characters meet each other.
The Playful Grapes and Melonhead – Usually at the start of series 1. A group of three or four green grapes try out an activity (such as sliding or skipping) until a clumsy watermelon tries to join them, usually ending up squashing the grapes.
Mr and Miss Strawberry A “male and female” strawberry meet across a gap in the counter and the male one tries to get across, but ends up being squashed. At the end of the first series, the male strawberry finally gets across via a catapult
The Cherry-aiders – Four cherries make up an air ambulance team and go to help another OOglie who is hurt by wrapping them up in bandages, normally causing more problems for the injured OOglie. On one occasion, they put out a candle OOglie. On another, they carried a runner bean OOglie across the finish line.
Lonely Sprout – A brussel sprout tries to join in with or save other OOglies but ends up failing as no one seems to like him. On one occasion (the end of series 1) he was placed into a bag of fellow sprouts who were equally as idiotic as him making him exuberantly happy.
Stunt Tomato – A tomato in a cape and mask tries to do impressive tricks for three cherry tomatoes, however ends up sqaushing himself at the end.
Slippery Nana – A Banana skin tries to do something but keeps slipping over, usually breaking objects around it. in the end he comes across a female banana skin.
Racy Bacon and Mr Bun – A slice of Bacon is running away from a Bread Roll and hides somewhere disguising itself as something else (e.g. the centre of a flower or a fish stick). It escapes from the bread roll, but something bad always happens to it (such as being sprayed with water or ketchup). In the end, when Racy Bacon encounters more bread rolls, he hides in Mr Bun to escape them and they both end up being eaten, so they don’t appear in series 2, even though they had one more sketch in the following episode.
Zombie Vegetables – An OOglie food is tossed into a bin where a rotting Parsnip and Turnip live. Although menacing, the “zombies” show their friendship to newcomers through flatulence, which often backfires on them when their “visitors” try and copy them.
Staple Dogs – A stapler torments her three dogs (staple removers) by getting them to jump off their shelf, such as giving them a bowl of staples then throwing some off the shelf.
Baby Blocks – Three baby blocks (a cube, a sphere and a 3 equilateral pyramid) go off to investigate something which ends up scaring them, causing them to cry and run back to the safety of their toybox. When they encountered the marshmallows in the second series, they saw the funny side of them and mimiced their baa-ing.
The Fruit Bunch and Devious Blender – An orange sees something interesting and tells a banana, an apple and a pear about it. They go over to investigate, but find out that it is in fact the blender in disguise and turns them into smoothie.
Computer Mouse A computer mouse moves around by shooting a laser beam in front and following it. It comes across an object it cannot get through so uses the laser to make a doorway, though ends up being squished or otherwise.
Zip Face and Pencil – a cheeky pencil escapes from a pencil case, who constantly tries to recapture it. The pencil, however, uses a sketchbook to draw pictures that come to life and bring comical harm to the case.
The Scramblers – a trio of motor biking eggs who attempt daredevil stunts (with a slab of Red Rind Cheese as a ramp). However, one of the eggs has training wheels on his bike, and it is usually him who attempts the stunts last and, somehow, ends up smashing himself and his bike. At the end of series 2, he manages to complete a stunt without smashing himself.
The Cheeky Carrots and Torch – a torch tries to get some sleep in a basement; but whenever his light is off, a band of nocturnal carrots get up to mischief in the darkness, until the torch puts them straight.
Sugar Cube – a small sugar cube goes sledging with husky dog tea bags, until she becomes knocked off her “sledge” (a spoon) and winds up coming into contact with water where she melts, much to her dogs’ displeasure.
Strictly Come Grating – similar to “Strictly Come Dancing”, a male grater dances with various female continents (a carrot, an orange, a potato) until the female dancers are accidentally grated by their partner.
Alarming Clock – a cheeky alarm clock disturbs a sleeping OOglie (such as a balloon) by its noisy ring, which usually backfires on the clock itself.
The Party Box Gang – a group of Christmas Decorations play an needless game of musical chairs in their box. When one decoration is left out, it finds a way to gain itself a chair. The only exception to this was at the end of series 2 when the chairs come out from under them and do the conga around them.
Grumpy Ball and Bouncy Ball – a hard red, grumpy ball is constantly annoyed by his brother, a cheerful, green bouncy ball. Usually, Grumpy finds a way to stop Bouncy’s bounciness.
Boo Potato (usually at start of programme in season 2) – a sprouting potato often lays “traps” for a random OOglie character to come and observe. When it is close enough, potato jumps out with a “BOO!” and scares the OOglie in a comical fashion. However, at the end of series 2, when it tricked a make-up mirror it looked in its mirror and scared itself.
Bonkers Conkers – a pair of conkers make countless attempts to knock the others off its end of rope – resorting to armour and ray guns.
The Inquisitive Mushrooms – a tray of mushrooms (who only communicate by a neanderthal-like “oogah”) come across strange and interesting items for them to explore and demonstrate to one another, such a computer scanner or keyboard.
Frantic Fan – A large revolving fan, who is normally reading a book gets annoyed by various OOglies (whom he tries to blow away) or is used as a “wind machine” for various stunts.
Dopey Doughnut Builders – two doughnuts (one sugar-covered, the other pink) are builders given orders by their Foreman (a giant chocolate doughnut) for various jobs. Unfortunately, they wind up literally making a mess of things, much to their Foreman’s annoyance.
Meatball and the Pasta Olympics – a small meatball tries to overcome her fears when participating in the OOglies’ answer to the Olympics, often smashing herself or some other hapless food product.
Pineapple Children – Two pineapple rings try to wake up their “dad” – a whole pineapple – with various loud devices, which usually backfire on the two rings, leaving the father pineapple to sleep.
Troubled Cactus – A quiet Spanish Cactus tries to avoid fragile OOglies (such as a balloon or dartboard) but always looses her spines when given a nasty shock.
Strip Marker – A high-speed strip marker races around the household, leaving behind its long yellow trail of sticky tape. On one occasion it uses up all it’s tape and gets another roll.
Pepper Shaker – A pepper shaker goes about spraying its contents on various OOglies, but suffers the aftermath from their explosive sneezes.
Rubber’s Got Talent – Throughout series 2, in similar fashion to the ” __ Got Talent” shows, a group of rubber contestants (speaking Russian) try to dazzle the judges (a crayon, some scissors and a calculator respectively) with incredible and wild stunts. It is only when they botch up their stunts do they actually impress the judges. The only exception was a juggler rubber; when it failed to impress the judges, it juggled and changed their scorecards, much to their annoyance.
Strong Man Monkey Nut – a crazed monkey nut attempts at lifting various heavy objects, but only results in crashing his shell and allowing the smaller nuts inside to escape.
Mr Magnetic – a magnet donning sunglasses tries to escape anything metal around him, with little success.
Whistle and Marshmallows – A busy blue whistle herds its flock of marshmallow (in the same style as a sheepdog with sheep), but one pink marshmallow constantly lets the rest of the flock escape its basket.
Throughout series 1, starting off in a frying pan, a string of sausages rockets along and around the house, using everything as a “tunnel” (a hosepipe, a drain) where it usually picks up an OOglie breakfast product (such as an egg, mushroom or bacon slice) where upon they finish up as a breakfast meal on a plate.
French Maid brush – A French Maid Scrubbing Brush often deals with some of the messier OOglies when clearing up after their messes. She eventually comes across a sponge and she falls in love with it.
Mouse-Trap Cheese – a piece of cheese “cries wolf” to be released from its mousetrap. Every time an OOglie helps it, they become trapped in the mousetrap as already planned. Although sometimes, the OOglies get their own back on the mousetrap and cheese.
The Hoover – A hungry hoover suffers strange indigestion when consuming various objects or other OOglies.
Pinky Glove – a stray woollen glove lends a “hand” to various OOglies needing help.
Sock-Hunter – A French shoe “hunts” after a band of socks in order to make a meal out of them.
Pegs – A line of clothes pegs fall, one by one, off their washing line by forces of nature. They appeared in the Second Series, where it turns out they finish up in a washing basket.
Mountain Peas – Three peas climb up a mountain of mashed potato and slide back down, often getting into trouble along the way.
Petrified Pud – A nervous wreck of a jelly is constantly scared witless by a mischievous pair of chocolate fingers. The jelly gets its own back at the end of the second series.
Extreme Soap Bars – two bars of soap (one yellow, the other black) start from the bathroom and skid around in sporty fashion, finishing up from a long jump off the stair banisters. Usually, however, the yellow bar winds up landing in the most awkward of places – a coal bag, a litter tray, a bag of nails, etc.
OOglies Photo Shoots – A flourish camera takes photos of various OOglies characters, but is left exasperated when they mess up their shoots.
Sal the Slice – a menacing pizza slicer, who creeps up on his unsuspecting victim in similar fashion to “Jaws” before slicing them up – whereupon the new slices come to life and attack him. He eventually meets his match in the form of a larger pizza slicer.
Travelling Tape-Measure – A measuring tape tries to see how far it can run around the house (passing Zip Face and Pencil, the Intrepid Loo Roll, and Rubber’s Got Talent in the process. it also passes various other OOglies scenes, though those respective OOglies don’t appear themselves.) but whenever it recoils its tape due to some obstacle, it usually winds in an uncomfortable landing at the end; one exception was at the end of the series where ‘Sal the slice’ cut the tape which recoiled straight afterwards.
Coins Vs Card – A trio of pound coins cause grief for a credit card whenever it tries to join in their games.
The Battery Brothers – a pair of AAA batteries use various objects run on batteries to escape a larger, menacing battery known as 9Volter.
The Duelling Toothbrushes – a normal toothbrush and an electric toothbrush constantly do battle to win the attention of a set of wind-up teeth, but eventually forget about her when they find themselves too deep within their duels.
Clippy the Barber – a barber’s razor gives haircuts to various OOglies, which aren’t very satisfying.
Choccy Castle – a bag of jellybeans make constant attempts to raid the box of vulgar chocolates.
Mobile Phones – A pair of “rapper” mobile phones cause countless sleepless nights with their night-time malarkey on the desk.
The Rock Band – Throughout series 2, a trio of rocks make constant noise and music in the garden, but are always silenced by an annoyed pine cone.
The Intrepid Loo Roll – a strip of tissue makes endless attempts to escape the bathroom, but is usually caught by a human and used for cleaning before being flished down the toilet.
Ice Cube A tiny ice cube, tired of the freezer, escapes to find warmer places to stay – a radiator, a kettle, etc. – but always melts every time.
The Farty Pants – a group of smelly pants play silly games around the household, with a pair of boxers often falling victim to their games.
Action Hero Sock – an Indiana Jones-like sock tries many attempts to cross the Snake-Belt Pit, but often fails.
Hungry Bin – a hungry kitchen bin uses lures and objects to trick hapless OOglies into his waiting mouth. He got indegestion when he tried to eat the Chilli Peppers, and later on, he got hit by various kitchen electricals.
The Chilli Peppers – a band of wild chilli peppers runs rings around an unwitting OOglie food product and causes them to cook, with a lone chilli following and adding garnish. They eventually met their match in the form of some green chilli peppers.
The Makeup Makeover Crew – a group of female makeup assortments give surprise makeovers to various OOglies passing by their dressing up desk.
Remote Control Messer – A sly remote control often appears in front of the various sketches and messes them up – be it by changing the screen colour, the volume, the scenery or fast-forwarding, rewinding, pausing the number of characters present.
Guitar Walnut – a walnut strums a guitar (its base made up of various items, usually pineapple) and whistles the OOglies theme as the credits are shown at the end of each show – only to be squashed, smashed, interrupted, etc.
Another common sketch involves household objects freaking out when they “react” – such as a telephone ringing, a toilet flushing, a TV changing channels.
OOt-takes – exclusive to the CBBC website, this mini-series showcases a number of “bloopers” and “behind the scenes” footage when “filming” the OOglies and their various sketches.
References
“Leading team of animators come together to create OOglies, a new comedy for CBBC made by BBC Scotland”, BBC Press Office, BBC, 2009-03-26. Retrieved on 2009-08-20.
External links
Official website
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