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| - In an attempt to create animals that have the ability to say "I love you", a vivisectionist laboratory instead creates a group of the most pretentious, self obsessed creatures on the earth. Phillip, a horse with literary pretensions; Mark, a sparrow and wannabe pop star; Winona, a dog who is in love with the actor Tim Robbins; Claire, a slutty rat with an addiction to psychic hotlines; Hugh, an incredibly horny monkey, and Kieron, a stuck-up cat, "eat sun blushed tomatoes, and had foot spas, and then sat around talking crap about films we've never even seen and then playing stupid board games like Rummikub" ("Blasphemer!"), until they are freed by an Animal Wrongs Group. After that, they must learn to survive in a world where animals aren't meant to talk, although they don't actually know
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| - In an attempt to create animals that have the ability to say "I love you", a vivisectionist laboratory instead creates a group of the most pretentious, self obsessed creatures on the earth. Phillip, a horse with literary pretensions; Mark, a sparrow and wannabe pop star; Winona, a dog who is in love with the actor Tim Robbins; Claire, a slutty rat with an addiction to psychic hotlines; Hugh, an incredibly horny monkey, and Kieron, a stuck-up cat, "eat sun blushed tomatoes, and had foot spas, and then sat around talking crap about films we've never even seen and then playing stupid board games like Rummikub" ("Blasphemer!"), until they are freed by an Animal Wrongs Group. After that, they must learn to survive in a world where animals aren't meant to talk, although they don't actually know that yet. The animation is made entirely of collages of actual photographs, and the first time you see it, it can seem quite disturbing. Essentially a social satire, with the vacuous and frequently nonsensical conversation shining a light on how strange the world really is, whilst also being truer to real conversation than most TV shows. There was only one series. It was written by Peter Baynham and Sarah Smith. Probably named for the most famous quote from The Elephant Man. This show provides examples of:
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