Animal Rescue Squad

The Animal Rescue Squad (or A.R.S. – pronounced as "ar*e") are a fictional animal welfare organisation from the Welsh sketch comedy series "Barry Welsh is Coming". Their sketches are a lampoon of "Animal Hospital" and other animal welfare shows. The series is set in and around Cardiff, and features the short-tempered Dave Daley (Kim Wall), Dave Sinclair (John Sparkes), Dave Webster (Gordon Kennedy) at A.R.S. Control (his mother's home), and a cameraman named Pete Barkie (Pete Baikie) who is always bullied by Dave Daley when Daley is in a fit of rage. The A.R.S. tend to rescue mostly insects such as spiders and wasps rather than larger animals, although dogs appeared in later sketches. The sketches are narrated by Morwenna Banks.