I Am Not an Animal

I Am Not an Animal

infobox television
show_name = I Am Not An Animal


caption = The cast of "I Am Not an Animal" (featured from left to right are Hugh the monkey, Mark the bird, Philip the horse, Claire the rat, and Winona the pittbull)
format = Comedy
runtime = 30 minutes
starring = Steve Coogan
Amelia Bullmore
Julia Davis
Kevin Eldon
Arthur Mathews
Simon Pegg
John Shrapnel
country = UK
network = BBC2
first_aired = 10 May 2004
last_aired = 14 June 2004
num_episodes = 6
imdb_id = 0348943

"I Am Not an Animal" is an animated comedy series telling the tale of highly intelligent animals rescued from a vivisectionist laboratory and forced to live on their own. The series was made and directed by Peter Baynham. It was produced by Triffic Films and ran on BBC2 in the United Kingdom from May 10 to June 14 2004. It has also aired on the ABC in Australia.

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In the laboratory Vivi-Sec UK, a group of five animals are part of the fourth batch of Project S, an experiment designed to create talking animals.

The animals are given a sophisticated lifestyle in order for them to develop their intellect, living a luxurious life run by computers in something similar to a four-star hotel, unaware they are really part of a laboratory experiment. They have human-like personalities and names, wear specially designed clothes, speak in a pseudo-intellectual fashion, eat gourmet food, drink fine wines, read books and magazines and generally live like humans in luxury. Meanwhile, the other animals outside Project S are tortured with horrific experiments.

The animals in the experiment include:

*Philip Masterson-Bowie the horse (voiced by Steve Coogan)
*Niall the rabbit (voiced by Arthur Mathews)
*Winona Matthews the pit bull (voiced by Amelia Bullmore)
*Hugh Gape the monkey (voiced by Kevin Eldon)
*Claire Franchetti the rat (voiced by Julia Davis)
*Mark Andrews (aka Glen Belt) the sparrow (also voiced by Steve Coogan)
*Kieron the cat (voiced by Simon Pegg)

A group of animal rights activists break into the laboratory to rescue the animals. Kieron is left behind, having his head removed from the rest of his body and being kept alive by machines. As the other animals are boarded into the activists' truck they don't know what's going on, and are joined by Niall, a rabbit from an earlier batch of Project S which can only speak computer advice (a reference to "Planet of the Apes").

When one of the animals asks the activists if they will be stopping for a toilet break, they panic and crash the truck into a tree. The animals escape, and go their separate ways. After running into humans who are shocked, and other animals who can't speak like they do, they deduce they have somehow been transported into an alternate reality where only humans can speak and the other animals are enslaved by them.

Meanwhile, Vivi-Sec UK graft Kieron's head onto the body of a gorilla and send him out to assassinate the other animals. Vivi-Sec UK also alerts the media that dangerous talking animals are on the loose.

The animals take shelter in an elderly lady's house, who calls her psychiatrist to tell him that there are talking animals at her house. Believing the elderly lady to have snapped, he has the medics take her away, leaving the animals to live in her house.

Episodes

Trivia

*The title comes from the famous quote in "The Elephant Man.
*The narrator was John Shrapnel

External links

*bbc.co.uk|id=comedy/guide/articles/i/iamnotananimal_999040510.shtml|title="I Am Not an Animal" Comedy Guide (Currently Unavailable as of Oct 2007)
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1186728,00.html Peter Baynham's rebuttal to criticism that animal testing "isn't a suitable subject for comedy."]
* [http://www.triffic.co.uk "Triffic Films" site]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2127584/ Slate- A Horse Walks Into a Bar... "I Am Not an Animal" is a cheerfully sicko social satire from the BBC.]


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