History Series / TheSiflAndOllyShow

* ThePowerOfRock

* VillainSong: [[https://youtu.be/oXtxb3FPt2o "Cindy's the Hostess"]] is supposed to be a happy and innocent song, but [[JerkJock Stealth]] turns it into one of these.

-->'''Olly''': "So... How do you feel?"
-->'''Orgasm''': "Man, how do you ''think'' I feel?"
-->'''Olly''': "...Probably pretty damn good."

* BodyHorror
* ButtMonkey: Olly.
* CatchPhrase:

-->'''Sifl''': "You know the problems I've been having with X."
-->'''Olly''': "Sifl, you got some serious-ass X problems!"

-->'''Olly''': Baby, everything I'm about to do to you, I learned at Ride/SeaWorld.
-->'''Sex Girl''': '''''What!?'''''

-->'''Sifl''': Oh, dude, you ''know'' the problems I've had being stuck in a police cruiser.
-->'''Olly''': [[BluntYes Yeah!]] [{{Beat}}]

* StupidStatementDanceMix: The Grim Reaper does this willingly at the end of the Precious Roy segment for "Luxury Coffins", repeating the phrase "and rots" in time with the background music.

* {{Corpsing}}: A lot of the show is improvised, so there are often parts where the actors chuckle at themselves and each other. Rather than cut this out, Liam Lynch just moves the puppets to make it look like they themselves are the ones laughing. A particularly notable instance of this is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDQTRx6ATg Baby for Gravy]]", they keep flubbing the tongue-twisting lines, and end up bringing the song to a halt because they can't stop laughing.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Well... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut_6tektlhg at least in theory anyway]].

Regular segments included "Precious Roy's Home Shopping Network," where Olly would briefly lose what sanity he had left to sell very dangerous or impossible products to people; "Calls From the Public," which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]] (and always includes a call from their landlord who threatens to evict them for some very weird reasons, like [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys collecting monkeys]] and building a waterpark); "A Word with Chester" (later "Letters to Chester") where Olly would spend a little time talking to Chester, since he wanted to give him a spot on the show; and finally "It's Almost the End of the Show!" where the duo would sing a song, many of which were recycled into the "Kickin' It Old School" segments of Season 2.

* ParodyNames: Deuce Loosely's name is a play on [[{{Music/KISS}} Ace Frehley]] (and possibly also a reference the KISS song "Deuce") -- This made more sense in the character's first appearance, where he crashed the show by posing as a rejected KISS member.

* ParodyNames: Deuce Loosely's name is a play on [[{{Music/KISS}} Ace Frehley]] (and possibly also the KISS song "Deuce") -- This made more sense in the character's first appearance, where he crashed the show by posing as a rejected KISS member.

* ParodyNames: Deuce Loosely's name is a play on [[{{Music/KISS}} Ace Frehley]] -- This made more sense in the character's first appearance, where he crashed the show by posing as a rejected KISS member.

* BerserkButton: An odd running joke where the answer to the rock trivia question is (falsely) "Bjork," leading Olly to lose his head over the impugning of Björk's reputation. Evidently he's a fan.

* GrotesqueGallery: The fact that they're almost all sock puppets ''doesn't change this in the slightest''.

Starting in September 2012, the show has been revived as a "review" show on Website/YouTube. The first "season" was on Machinima's account, but now the second has started on the Series/{{Nerdist}} channel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nheett0K5R0 Watch the initial trailer here.]] Olly seems to be the leader this time around (since he's the gamer of the two), but time will tell how long that lasts.

-->'''S&O''': "So... How do you feel?"

-->'''S&O''': "...Probably pretty damn good."

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In one "A Word with Chester" Olly walks out, leaving Sifl to have an awkward exchange with Chester. The joke being that Sifl and Chester never normally interact, because Matt Crocco plays both of them.

* {{Corpsing}}: A lot of the show is improvised, so there are often parts where the actors chuckle at themselves and each other. While trying to sing "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDQTRx6ATg Baby for Gravy]]" they keep flubbing the tongue-twisting lines, and end up laughing their rear ends off.

** Olly has contemplated eating Sifl at times.

* OverlyLongGag: Sifl and Olly actually drive a caller so insane he dies because they sing a [[InformedAbility reportedly super ear-wormy]] ''7 minute'' theme song of a video game called "Omega". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDogkdgCl1A It makes ''Family Guy'' look like masters of brevity]]. But then again, that's kind of the point. It was the only song in the game and you couldn't turn it off.

* SanitySlippage: Olly always loses his cool while describing the Precious Roy products, described by his psychiatrist as "manic-compulsive salesmanship". He apparently started taking perscription medicine for it, but forgot to when they were describing "Red Head Redemption."

* SanitySlippage: Olly always loses his cool while describing the Precious Roy products, often for no apparent reason. He also lost it when describing "Red Head Redemption."

* StraightMan: Usually Sifl.

* CloneDegeneration: The first couple of clones which come out of Sifl's cloning machine are fine, but it quickly begins pumping out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0fFWban-Y very substandard models]].

* BearsAreBadNews: Apparently singing the Sifl and Olly theme song will summon bears and entice them to attack you. They used this trick when the IRS called.

* Corpsing: While trying to sing "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDQTRx6ATg Baby for Gravy]]" they keep flubbing the tongue-twisting lines, and end up laughing their rear ends off.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Well... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut_6tektlhg at least in theory anyway]].
* [[BearsAreBadNews Everything's Worse With Bears]]: Apparently singing the Sifl and Olly theme song will summon bears and entice them to attack you. They used this trick when the IRS called.

''The Sifl and Olly Show'' was a comedy show on Creator/{{MTV}} with sock puppets, animation, and music. Created and performed by musicians Music/LiamLynch and Music/MattCrocco, friends since childhood. The first episode aired in 1997, and the show was canceled in 1999.

''The Sifl And Olly Show'' was a comedy show on Creator/{{MTV}} with sock puppets, animation, and music. Created and performed by musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, friends since childhood. The first episode aired in 1997, and the show was canceled in 1999.

Regular segments included ''"Precious Roy's Home Shopping Network",'' where Olly would briefly lose what sanity he had left to sell very dangerous or impossible products to people; "''Calls From the Public''", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]] (and always includes a call from their landlord who threatens to evict them for some very weird reasons, like [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys collecting monkeys]] and building a waterpark); "''A Word with Chester''" (later ''"Letters To Chester"'') where Olly would spend a little time talking to Chester, since he wanted to give him a spot on the show; and finally "''It's Almost the End of the Show!''" where the duo would sing a song, many of which were recycled into the "''Kickin' It Old School''" segments of season 2.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Many of Sifl and Olly's guests. One notable occasion was when they interviewed an orgasm and his sidekick the G-spot.
-->'''S&O:''' "So...How do you feel?"
-->'''Orgasm:''' "Man, how do you ''think'' I feel?"
-->'''S&O:''' "...probably pretty damn good."
* BerserkButton: An odd running joke where the answer to the rock trivia question is (falsely) "Bjork", leading Olly to lose his head over the impugning of Bjork's reputation. Evidently he's a fan.
* BitingTheHandHumor: When it became apparent that {{MTV}} didn't give a damn about the show.

* CatchPhrase:
** "That's so Crescent Fresh," discussed and introduced with a song

* CloneDegeneration: The first couple of clones which come out of Sifl's cloning machine are fine, but it quickly begins pumping out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0fFWban-Y very substandard models.]]

* Corpsing: While trying to sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDQTRx6ATg "Baby for Gravy"]] they keep flubbing the tongue-twisting lines, and end up laughing their rear ends off.

* FollowTheBouncingBall: Parodied in their performance of "Omega" (see OverlyLongGag): Over the course of the seven minute song, the bouncing ball disappears and returns wearing earmuffs to muffle the sound of the music, disappears again and returns [[SuicideAsComedy hanging from a noose]], and finally appears again with a halo and angel wings.
* TheGrimReaper: Shows up in person once or twice. [[DontFearTheReaper Pretty nice guy.]] Little bit eccentric.

* HonestJohnsDealership: The "Precious Roy" ads, which are always ridiculous, either because they're obviously fake (chicken-flavored air conditioning - a fan with a chicken wing on the front), or because they rationally ''should not'' exist, but do. (A bottomless swimming pool.)

* ImAHumanitarian:

** When reviewing the game [[RedDeadRedemption Red Head Redemption]], Olly's character kills and skins a man who called his character a Tomato Goblin, which gives him +1 Skin and +1 Meat (this is a mechanic in the actual game, albeit with animals, not people). Sifl balks at this until Olly reassures him that human meat TastesLikeChicken, "a real big chicken", and that he loves to take it home and fry it up.

* KavorkaMan: Somehow, off-screen, Olly hooks up with beautiful, interesting women...uh, sock-women...who dump him after he makes their lives utterly ''miserable''.
* LethalChef: Aesop Jones - though ''he's'' always the only one who ends up dying.
* LittleKnownFacts:
** Deuce Loosely, a panda-obsessed RecurringCharacter is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASLuRyZjp7k full]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5iJPoIynm0 of]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p40TlMvVaAk these.]] He's drunk on panda mystery.
** See also the "Rock Facts" bumpers, which the on-screen text would promptly debunk. No, the Great Pyramids of Egypt were ''not'' built in anticipation of DavidBowie.

--> '''Sifl''': "You know the problems I've been having with X."
--> '''Olly''': "Sifl, you got some serious-ass X problems!"

* NoodleIncident: Why Chester looses it when he sees bubbles is never explained, only that it involved a kid who blew bubbles on the school bus he used to ride.
* OverlyLongGag: Sifl and Olly actually drive a caller so insane he dies because they sing a [[InformedAbility reportedly super ear-wormy]] ''7 minute'' theme song of a video game called "Omega". [[http://youtu.be/sDogkdgCl1A It makes ''FamilyGuy'' look like masters of brevity]]. But then again, that's kind of the point. It was the only song in the game and you couldn't turn it off.
* ParodyNames: Deuce Loosely's name is a play on [[{{Music/KISS}} Ace Frehley]] - This made more sense in the character's first appearance, where he crashed the show by posing as a rejected Kiss member.

--> '''Olly''': Baby, everything I'm about to do to you, I learned at Seaworld.
--> '''Sex Girl''': '''''What!?'''''
* RedOniBlueOni: Sifl is Blue, Olly is...VERY Red.
* RunningGag: The Precious Roy segments are filled with the same jokes, including the "Sold" counter running down instead of up, and Precious Roy's shouted non-sequiturs, followed by his catchphrase, "Suckers!"
* SanitySlippage: Olly always loses his cool while describing the Precious Roy products, often for no apparent reason. He also lost it when describing ''Red Head Redemption".

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Peto and Flek.''
* SmokingIsCool: Quoted by Stealth, who has facial piercings and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and is constantly billowing smoke. He likes to talk about death and destruction. He's also there to kick Olly's ass.
* StonerFlick: A surreal sock puppet show airing late on MTV. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who the intended audience was. It's still hilarious to sober people. That, and Chester is clearly high, as he has trouble telling what's real. When he walked on a set for ''Star Worlds'' (a rip-off of StarWars), he actually thought he was in space and that BYOB Kenobi was going to kill him.

* StrictlyFormula: Each episode featured the same set of segments, all announced beforehand, including "Calls from the Public" and "Precious Roy." Precious Roy segments would also follow the same formula: Sifl and Olly would introduce the product, during which time Sifl would admit to having a specific problem. Sifl would agree that Sifl has "serious-ass _____ problems" that the product would solve. They'd take some calls and Sifl would lose his temper, then they'd hear from Precious Roy, who would spout a non-sequitur and finish with his catchphrase, "Suckers!"

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* BreakawayPopHit: If you haven't heard of the show, you've probably heard of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viaTT859Yk0 this.]]

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show aired two seasons. The third, un-aired season is available on DVD. Then it came back as a 5 minute long parody video game review show on Machinima and then Nerdist.

* SleeperHit: The song "The United States of Whatever," which first appeared on the show in 1999, suddenly became a big radio hit as a novelty song in 2002 when singer Liam Lynch released it as a single.

* ThrowItIn: Liam Lynch as Olly has a tendency to crack up, usually in reaction to Chester.