10 Facts About Creature Comforts

1.

Creature Comforts is a British adult stop-motion comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name.

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2.

The initial result of their collaboration was three thirty-seconds Creature Comforts advertisements, made in the same style as the original film.

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3.

In fact, Creature Comforts was voted by media professionals as one of the top television advertisements of the last fifty years.

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4.

Many popular awards won by the Creature Comforts advertisements included being voted fourth in the all time 100 Greatest TV Ads by readers of The Sunday Times and viewers of Channel 4 in April 2000.

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5.

Finally, in a YouGov survey during 2006, Creature Comforts topped the list of the United Kingdom's alltime favourite animated or puppet characters used in adverts.

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6.

Creature Comforts advertisements have now attained a place in popular culture, and are probably better remembered than the original film that spawned them.

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7.

Creature Comforts advertisements were produced in the period 1990 to 1992 and in some ways they were indicative of the shape of things to come in British television advertising.

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8.

The Creature Comforts advertisements are cited as an early example of this phenomenon.

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9.

Format of the Creature Comforts advertisements was so successful that it was replicated in other campaigns in the following decades.

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10.

In 2003, a series of Creature Comforts films directed by Richard Goleszowski was made for the British television network ITV by Aardman Animations.

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