Their story covers a fair majority of those years. It's about discovering doors and keys, and losing the latter in the toilet. Although it would seem a more pressing matter, the question of sustenance doesn't arise for a number of years. A festive, soap bubble-infused extravaganza introduces a happy, such as it is, ending. It is heightened immeasurably by Chris Larner's very clever song about, improbably as it may seem, the joys of being dead.
Clowning is about getting an audience to suspend belief.
Here, with bindings that are severed so they can walk around and gags that have slits in them so they can talk, realism is the last thing on the mind of Foley, McColl and company. Just go forth, suspend, believe and laugh.