Mother's fury after CBBC cartoon OOglies shows toast soldier staging an ISIS-style beheading of a boiled egg

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A BBC cartoon featuring a toast soldier performing an Islamic State-style beheading of an egg has been criticised by a mother for promoting 'extreme violence'.

The short episode of OOglies on CBBC also shows another soldier smeared in strawberry jam after being ‘shot’, before it throws a grape grenade back towards its enemy.

The clip has been criticised by mother Angela Halliwell, 35, of Tooting, South London, who has complained to Ofcom and said: ‘Kids could think extreme violence like beheading is normal.’

Criticised: The BBC cartoon features a toast soldier performing an Islamic State-style beheading of an egg

Chopped off: The clip, which dates back to 2012, has been criticised by London-based mother Angela Halliwell

Cut: The episode of the Bafta-winning show OOglies, called ‘Toast Soldiers 1’, is still available on the iPlayer

The one-minute clip was first shown in April 2012 but is still available on the iPlayer. A BBC spokesman told The Sun that it has no plans to remove the episode from the CBBC website. 

And she told MailOnline today: 'OOglies is a popular slapstick comedy series that depicts all sorts of food getting into scrapes with each other.

'This clip involving a boiled egg and toast is no different and we would be surprised if our audiences read anything more into it.'

The episode of the Bafta-winning show, called ‘Toast Soldiers 1’, begins with the scene of a milk carton, grapes, butter, a cereal box, a boiled egg and a strawberry jam jar on a breakfast table.

The egg can be seen in an egg cup as one soldier pokes out from behind the cereal box, and the camera then shows three soldiers in discussion behind it.

They then split to stand behind the butter with a spoon, behind the cereal with a knife and behind the jar with a grape. The spoon is then used as a gun to shoot the jar, covering the soldier in jam.

Bang: A spoon is used by one of the toast soldiers in the OOglies episode as a gun to shoot a jam jar

Action shot: The strawberry jam jar is fired at and explodes over the other toast soldier, covering it in jam

Cartoon conflict: A spoon is used as a gun to shoot a jam jar, before the attacked toast soldier throws a grape grenade and it hits the egg before bouncing off and exploding over the cereal

Then the attacked soldier throws a grape grenade and it hits the egg before bouncing off and exploding over the cereal. The knife-wielding soldier then comes out and cuts the top off the egg.

It jumps into the egg as yolk goes everywhere, before the knife flies away and comes back like a boomerang, chopping off the soldier's head.

OOglies is a stop-motion animated series which won the British Academy Children's Award last month for 'Short Form', and it has been running on BBC TV for more than six years.

Commissioned from BBC Scotland's children's department, it involves everyday household objects coming alive with a pair of googly eyes.

When the show was first announced it was claimed that new stop-motion software technology would help animators produce 20 to 25 seconds of footage a day.