Adults Love Flanimals Characters

Posted on October 6, 2004

The BBC reports that adult are crazy over the Flanimals characters originally meant for a much younger audience. The Flanimals book by comic Ricky Gervais is about thirty five unusual creatures with names like flemping bunthimmler, hemle-sprot, munty flumple, mernimbler, wobboid mump, sprine bloat-trunker and munge fuddler. The BBC reported that Flanimals has already sold out its first print run of 100,000. Currently the book is only available in the UK. Gervais is best known for his work on the BBC series, The Office.

Sources: BBC


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