The animation is set up like a typical pre-school programme, introduced by a soft-spoken narrator who translates what the characters say to the audience.
However, as the show goes on, it gradually turns into a black comedy where the characters attempt to harm each other constantly – for instance, shooting each other in the stomach with guns, kicking each other in the balls, sticking each other's heads in concentrated sulphuric acid, sawing each other in half and blowing each other up with cannons.
The characters were later used in an advertising campaign for Dairylea products on British television, and made a cameo in the eighth episode of Rex the Runt.
In 2006, five additional shorter episodes were made in association with the BBC and were available to watch online at AtomFilms until it was absorbed into Comedy Central.
Like the original short, the episodes are set up like a typical pre-school programme, introduced by a softly spoken narrator who translates what the characters say to the audience.