Creature Comforts is originally a 1989 animated short film made in Britain about how animals feel about living in a zoo, and later became a series of commercials for Heat Electric. In 2003 a television series in the same style was released.

Began as an Oscar-winning short by Nick Park (Creature Comforts (1989)), and later became a popular series of TV commercials for UK Heat Electric that ran throughout the early-'90s. Frank the tortoise is the only original character to remain in the new TV series.

All the dialogue is taken from unscripted, unrehearsed interview footage with anonymous members of the public. All characters and situations were therefore created to fit the voices, unlike other animation in which it is usually the other way round.

The man who voiced Norman the maggot, in the episode "Working Animals", was actually describing his job in a mortuary.

The entire first series took 18 months to make, with an average of four seconds of film produced a day.

The family of sea anemones, the Rudges, are voiced by the same family who voiced the polar bears in the original Creature Comforts short, only now with older voices.

Off camera, with her microphone in view, an interviewer asks creatures at the zoo to talk about how they like their accommodations, what's good and what's bad, and what they miss about their old land. The animals interviewed include a family of polar bears - the youngest of whom likes it there, a large Brazilian cat (who misses the space and the heat of the Amazon), an ape who's a bit bored, a lemur, a turtle who reads for escape, and a chicken who compares her life favorably to the lives of her sisters in the circus. They talk about what they eat, their cramped and smelly quarters, and the technology of zoo life. They're thoughtful, philosophical, and reasoned. Written by