Prescious Roy Home Shopping Network: Genius in a Box

The Sifl & Olly Show is a comedy television series that features sock puppets, animation, and musical performances, created and performed by musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, who have been friends since childhood.
The show premiered on MTV on July 14, 1998, and aired until 1999, spanning three seasons.
The two main characters are Sifl, a black sock puppet who is the calmer leader, and Olly, a white sock puppet who is more excitable and often breaks into crazed furies.
Their assistant, Chester, is a mumbling, often nonsensical character who claims to be great at everything.

The show was known for its low-budget, unscripted feel, with the characters engaging in realistic, conversational dialogue.
It featured a variety of segments, including "Calls from the Public," where Sifl and Olly took calls from bizarre characters like their landlord or a caller offering legless dogs
, "Precious Roy's Home Shopping Netwerk," a parody of home shopping networks selling absurd products
, "Interview Time" with surreal guests like Death or an atom
, and musical performances such as "And Now... ROCK" and "It's Almost the End of the Show".
The show gained a cult following despite being cancelled after its second season.
A third season was recorded, but MTV failed to release it online as promised; the episodes were eventually released on DVD.

Although the original series ended, the characters continue to appear with new material on Liam Lynch's podcast, Lynchland.
The show's origins trace back to the 1980s, when Lynch and Crocco created sketches and songs as children, and they later reunited in Nashville in the 1990s to record comedy material.
Lynch created the puppets from his own socks and a plastic sunflower, inspired by a fake commercial Crocco had made.
The show's popularity grew after MTV Europe began airing clips as "idents" in 1996, leading to MTV America commissioning the half-hour format.
Fans of the show, known as "sockheads," have organized conventions and tribute projects.
The show is often described as surreal, adult-oriented, and featuring crude humor, profanity, and sexual references.