Weebl and Bob
You might remember it as Magical Trevor
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2002·Early web, before YouTube·funny
Two wobbling eggs asking about pie, and the British Flash animator behind a decade of earworms.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Catface
- Spread in
- 2002
- Began as
- A web animation
- Where it started
- web
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
Two egg-shaped characters rock from side to side and talk in flat, deadpan voices, mostly about pie. Jonti Picking, working as Mr Weebl, made them in Flash from 2002, and around them a body of work — Magical Trevor, Catface, Kenya — built on the same principle: a short loop, an insistent tune, and a lyric that will not leave.
Picking is one of the most-heard and least-named British creators of the early web. Badger Badger Badger is his; so is Magical Trevor. The form he refined — a looping animation with an original song written to be maddening — is the direct ancestor of the modern short-video earworm, and predates it by fifteen years.
Weebl and Bob was picked up by MTV for short-form broadcast, an unusual crossing for a Flash cartoon of that period. Picking has kept working through the death of Flash, and the songs have outlived their format: they recirculate every few years on platforms that did not exist when they were made.
Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This began as a web animation, not as a video upload. Originally published on web.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a web animation, not as a video upload. Originally published on web.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.