Creature Comforts (Seasons 1–2)

Creature Comforts (2003) is a stop-motion animated series from Aardman Animations you can watch online on iFILM. The format is simple and strange: real interviews recorded with ordinary British people are matched to clay-animated animals chosen to fit whoever is speaking — their species, their posture, their whole manner.

The show grew from Nick Park's 1989 short of the same name, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1990 — Park being the creator of Wallace & Gromit. Each episode picks a topic, from Christmas shopping to veterinary visits, and lets a rotating cast of creatures weigh in with total sincerity. The humour is in how closely the animals mirror the human speaker, not in anything scripted. Stream Creature Comforts online on iFILM.