The latter type often follows the style of Enid Blyton and other popular children's adventure stories of the 1950s. In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps with Baby Cow, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster. Originally the setting of the British TV programme Crown Court, the name was adopted by the Viz team. It parodies British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with extensive profanity, toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and generally sexual or violent storylines.

His wife, in shock, tends to her husband as he is badly hurt, and he tells her he was wrong to believe in Father Christmas like some small child. On Christmas night, the man goes downstairs to the living room, as he hears a noise and figures Father Christmas must have come. A film based on The Fat Slags was produced in 2004, [25] but was disowned by the magazine's editors who threatened to stop running the strip in response. This may have been boosted by the appearance in the BBC2 documentary series 'Sparks' (episode 4 'The Young Guns') which first aired in March/April 1984 and was repeated on BBC1.For example: " Paul Daniels's Jet-Ski Journey to the Centre of Elvis", and " Arse Farm – Young Pete and Jenny Nostradamus were spending the holidays with their Uncle Jed, who farmed arses deep in the heart of the Sussex countryside.

An occasionally recurring actor in these strips is Arthur 2 Stroke, now acknowledged as the "Guru of Viz" by Chris Donald founder editor. Ensure that your editors have read the proofs of your books before printing a quarter of a million of them.He went on to say that he was pleased that the project did not go ahead as he felt the quality of the previous releases was disappointing. A long-running joke has been small adverts for bizarre sheds ("TV Sheds", "Shed Bikes", "Shed Snakes", etc.

A bizarre series of letters from a J Cursiter of Bristol recounted his hobby of watching passers-by from "a series of cunningly-disguised hides".

Another ad exhorted male readers to join the British Army, because "all the birds are gagging for squaddies" (with the fine print on the reply coupon indicating to the respondent that spending "33 years hiding behind some garden wall in Belfast should just about see [him] right" when it comes to the ladies). Others are based on stereotypes of British culture, mostly via working class characters, such as Biffa Bacon, Cockney Wanker and The Fat Slags. If one of a select band of frequently referenced stars is mentioned during these stories, they will be named humorously.