I watched some extraordinary television yesterday. It was the kind of TV that makes your eyes widen and your jaw drop to the floor.
Not Sherlock, obviously. Much as I love the uptight detective, I know what I’m getting when I press the play button. I mean Morph, the animated clay character who made his debut back in 1977 and has now been recreated for the Sky Kids channel.
You read that right, Morph. In a homage to the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and The Sugarhill Gang, the legendary American hip-hop group, the diminutive children’s favourite and his cream-coloured pal Chas change (or, er, morph) into a couple of seasoned rap artists in a short entitled Rapper’s Delight.
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My sister and I watched slack-jawed as Chas turned the volume up to 11 before joining Morph in what can only be described as a couple of minutes of sheer animated genius.
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