Biffovision

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Biffovision is BBC's 'grown up take' on low-budget children's TV from the 1980s. It includes satirical sketches on children's television, fictional music videos, and 'educational' segments. It is written by Paul Rose and Tim Moore. A 30 minute pilot aired on March 26, 2007 on BBC3. Segments shown in this included:

Scranton-K - a short cartoon segment featuring a fully grown naked man who has a boot for a head. It is suggested in the opening song that this physical anomoly is divine retribution for 'real bad stuff' Scranton-K was responsible for in a former life. In the cartoon, Scranton-K and his friends drive around in a van hunting ghosts in a clear parody of Scooby-Doo, a cartoon which was a regular fixture on the British Saturday morning children's shows which Biffovision is intended to resemble.

Kids In The Future - a sketch which involves two children from the audience being shown the far future by a character known as 'Santa Claus' who is in fact a man wearing Victorian clothing who has drawn a beard on his face. In the future, the children see their own deaths, meet 'a robot with a metal chuff' and interact with a futuristic joke-telling machine.

Mr. Safety - a puppet character, Mr. Safety presents the 'Biffo Tips' segment which aims to educate children about the importance of safety. In the pilot, Mr. Safety takes the opportunity to lambast a 'fat idiot' who has moistened her legs whilst 'goofing off in a weir' and is attempting to 'dry them - with flames'. He then sings a song intended to help BW and the children remember his advice but which appears to be concerned instead with a vicious physical assault.

It is not known which if any of the sketches shown in the pilot will reappear should a full series be comissioned by the BBC.

1 Recurring images and motifs
2 Characters
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Recurring images and motifs

The phrase 'Now this happens' is spoken by several characters.
The repeated use of the words 'bosoms' and 'buttocks'.
There are numerous instances of the words 'Vote Conservative' appearing in unexpected places (scrawled on the pages of a children's book, picked out in neon on the side of a building in the future). One wheelchair-bound character also has a banner reading 'Vote Republican'.
Many characters (both real and animated) sport beards held on by string, although both the beards and the string are drawn on in pen.