Roobarb Briers died, followed four days later by animator Godfrey. Roobarb is a green dog, and Custard is a pink cat. This is an inversion of the pudding (dessert) rhubarb crumble (pink) and egg custard (yellow). Roobarb is always involved in some kind of misadventure which he approaches with unbounded enthusiasm. Custard is cynical and sets out to sabotage Roobarb's fun. Which one comes out on top varies from episode to episode. Other characters in the series are the birds, who watch the antics of the other two from the safety of a nearby tree, often making snide remarks, and siding
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel shaking finger leave it perhaps up to the viewer to interpret what result her actions will have. However Kortenhorst-Von Bogendorff Rupprath says it would be wrong to interpret this painting as moralizing only on the girl's behalf. The fact that the boy holds an eel and is cackling suggest another Dutch proverb, ""Hij is zo glad as een aal"" (literally, "he is as glad as an eel"), and means that one (often a child) is uncontrollable. Some scholars have also interpreted the eel being held as a "kat aal" or cat-eel, which were fed to cats as they were not