Funny / Creature Comforts

Series

UK Series

• The jaguar from the original short, both in how he's animated and the way he says "I need space!" Apparently, this was a friend of Nick Park's from Brazil who was visiting England and hated it.
• One of the ravens in the Birds episode apparently thinks birds fly the way Peter Pan does: By having a happy thought! Being happy most of the time. And this is coming from a bird associated with darkness and grimness.
  • They also talk in an incongruously light, camp manner.
• The episode on sleep is bookended by a very sleepy tortoise voiced by a little boy who keeps yawning, blinking rapidly and even falling asleep mid-sentence while saying how much he is tired but hates sleep.
• The Vet episode is comedy gold:
  • One bit that stands out is the coughing horse on the table, saying that he's taken a lot of pills in his life - "About 23'000." That's a funnily specific number.
  • A big cat on a stool in the middle of a wrecked waiting room, talking into a microphone on a very long boom held by someone who is clearly shaking in fear off-camera.
  • Fluffy the hamster shares one story about how he had his head slammed in a door, requiring stitches. In the middle of describing it, he mentions that it happened on his birthday, so casually that it almost feels like an afterthought. Poor guy.
• From "Pet Hates."
  • The interviewer has difficulty with the old bats.
    Interviewer: What do you think about speed cameras?
    <bats shrug>
    Bat #2: Eating?
    Interviewer: Speed cameras.
    Bat #1: Sorry.
    Interviewer: Um, speed cameras.
    Bat #1: Nope. Don't get it.
    Interviewer: Do you know what speed cameras are?
    Bat #1: …Cucumbers?^note "Cucumbers" sounds a bit like "Speed Cameras" in a British accent
  • When the seagulls are talking, a bit of seagull droppings falls on the camera lens.
    Seagull #2: What's that?
    Seagull #1: Somebody's flushed a toilet upstairs.
• A Shar Pei voiced by an older South Asian gentlemen is often accompanied by a smaller silent Shar Pei implied to be his son who mostly shows his thoughts through nods, eyerolls and facepalms.
• The Geordie mouse riffing on calling everyone in Newcastle 'man' and that singing Rule Britannia turns you violent.

US Series

• The bulldog couple have an Odd couple thing that is so funny.
  "What am I afraid of? Anyone who knows more about me then they should. And I married her, so I live in constant fear." (He says the last part with a smile and his wife right next to him.)
• Another moment from the US series, the gerbil (or possibly hamster, it's hard to tell) talks about a fear he had as a child that it both hilarious and slightly horrifying.
  "As a child I was afraid that my parents were going to murder me. And once I had lived long enough and they didn't I guess I had a pretty much a trend going towards not being murdered. So I got over that pretty quick."
• In the US series, one of the elderly lions' answer to the question "Have you ever killed a man?" The pauses as he thinks about his answer are priceless.
  "Killed a man...in anger?...You mean deliberately...with intent? An assassination?...Deliberately?...(raises a finger) Never, never without a reason that was not normal."