Nobody's watching this anymore, so the absurdity just sits there in the dark. A turtle with a television in his shell runs a farm where logic stopped applying somewhere around episode three, and the show never bothers explaining why. Olly the ox exists less as a character and more as permission for the joke to keep happening. The real trick is that nothing escalates, it just is, which somehow makes a bald lion and an inflatable octopus feel less like a gimmick and more like the only honest way to run a farm. There's no plot to punch, no lesson waiting to land. Just gentle, dumb, irreplaceable weirdness that treated 1987 like it had infinite time.

Olly, a good-natured ox, runs the Funny Farm alongside his best friend Jack the Turtle, and the farm is home to a strange cast of animals. Jack has a television built in under his shell, the lion is bald, the elephant's trunk works as a garden hose, and one resident is an inflatable octopus. The comedy series adapts a Dutch comic strip by Wil Raymakers and Thijs Wilms and plays farm life for broad laughs. It was originally made as 104 twelve-minute episodes, which were usually aired in pairs to fill 24-minute slots.