Based on the Academy Award-winning short film "Bob's Birthday" created by David Fine and Alison Snowden, this charming, witty animated series focuses on the ordinary lives of a middle class dentist and his foot doctor wife. Together, they tackle such traumas as being burgled, going on a package holiday and deciding whether or not having a child will ruin their lives. They do all this with a gentle restraint and a keen sense of the absurd. Bob and Margaret provides a whole new way to look - and laugh - at life's ordinary occurrences that we all experience.
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Posted: 10/28/2009
Based on the Academy Award-winning short film "Bob's Birthday" created by David Fine and Alison Snowden, this charming, witty animated series focuses on the ordinary lives of a middle class dentist and his foot doctor wife. Together, they tackle such traumas as being burgled, going on a package holiday and deciding whether or not having a child will ruin their lives. They do all this with a gentle restraint and a keen sense of the absurd. Bob and Margaret provides a whole new way to look - and laugh - at life's ordinary occurrences that we all experience.
Paid | Amazon Video on Demand
Posted: 10/28/2009
Bob and Margaret decide they need to get fit. After fruitless attempts at aerobics and working out, they decided on a friendly game of Badminton and rope in another couple, Cathy and her latest boyfriend, Ken. Cathy turns out to be an aggressive player and, amidst acrimonious disputes with Bob about the rules of the game, manages to knock her hapless partner unconscious. Ken is taken to the hospital and Bob and Margaret, reluctantly, accompany him, even though they had never met Ken before this evening. They did, after all, plan to spend the evening together. Presumed "nearest and dearest" they are invited to talk and sing to try and bring Ken out of his coma. Cathy, in a surprising turn of personality, is distraught over Ken's injury. While Bob and Margaret bicker about how long they have to stay at the hospital, Ken awakes to hear some unflattering comments about Cathy and himself. Eventually Ken recovers and is enjoying his new found status as the center of attention in the hospital
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Length: 23:00
Posted: 1/29/2009
Bob and Margaret find themselves at loose ends one evening when, to their dismay, they find that there is absolutely nothing to watch on TV. Discussing, and swiftly dismissing, all forms of cultural activity, they get on to the omnipresent theme: do they or do not they want children. As a result, they decide to stay in with a romantic video, candle-lit pizza and.... After an embarrassing moment at the porno section of the video shop, they decide on a worthy epic. No sooner is the pizza delivered, than they get a call from Henry and Judy, asking them over for dinner. They are not able to say no and reluctantly change the evening plans. Bob, annoyed to have wasted the rental fee on the video, arrives with Margaret to a chaotic household of a screaming baby, overt breast-feeding, much burping and vomiting and smelly nappies. Dinner is served amongst the chaos and frank discussions about Judy's trying birth and baby Morris incessant bouts of colic. Bob and Margaret refuse an invitation to
Paid | Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 23:00
Posted: 1/29/2009
