Look Around You - on Adult Swim.

[Meredith]

I was watching Adult swim and there was their weird science show from britain on and it had some very interesting facts, did you know we don't know what birds are?

It was called Look Around You and it took about 17 bottlesworth of whiskey to get through watching it as it was horrible.

 

[Trekker4747]

I was watching Adult swim and there was their weird science show from britain on and it had some very interesting facts, did you know we don't know what birds are?

Ummm. What?

 

[LutherSloan]

I thought it was funny, especially the 'Water' one where the test guy keeps reaching into a beaker of water that was boiling, and his hand gets redder and redder as the experiment goes on.

 

[Canadave]

Look Around You is absolutely brilliant. The first series is such a brilliantly deadpan parody of 1980s science videos, it's hard not to enjoy them. The second series has it's moments, as well, but overall I prefer the first.

 

[Meredith]

I thought it was funny, especially the 'Water' one where the test guy keeps reaching into a beaker of water that was boiling, and his hand gets redder and redder as the experiment goes on.

I love when they use "one-pence" worth of Nitrogen cause there is a meter on the gas bottle, LOL.


Also the idea that symbol for water is "H-twenty"

 

[Gepard]

I was watching Adult swim and there was their weird science show from britain on and it had some very interesting facts, did you know we don't know what birds are?

Ummm. What?

I'm not sure what the show said, but we really have no idea where birds fit in the evolutionary tree--we know they and dinosaurs share a common ancestry, but beyond that it's murky. Archeopteryx is, IIRC, still the earliest bird fossil we have and it basically appears out of nowhere in the fossil record. It split off from theropods or theropod-like creatures at some point, but...

 

[WillsBabe]

Look Around You is a class act. I think you might have to be brought up on Tomorrow's World and its ilk to really appreciate its subtleties. I was particularly taken with the origins of germs. (They're from Germany, in case you're wondering.)

 

[Hermiod]

I would just like to point out to anyone who has something against this show that it was written by and stars Darth Maul. Address your complaints to him.

 

[ITL]

Look Around You was great. Check out their unique periodic table on the website...

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Te for tedium.

 

[zakkrusz]

I gave up on AS recently when they went and pissed me off by sending Moribito-Guardian of the Spirit to the recycle bin again. It was the only thing that kept me comming back and the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, so I haven't watched it since and wouldn't know. I'm tired of dealing with their s***.

 

[Leroy]

I guess they forgot the name of their channel is CARTOON Network.

 

[backstept]

I guess they forgot the name of their channel is CARTOON Network.

Adult Swim is like a network within the network . . . and they've shown non-cartoon shows and movies plenty of times on Cartoon Network


my favorite 'science' show from across the pond is Brainiac . . . haven't seen it in ages, but I like the parts where they had people performing everyday tasks while getting shocked, or where gorgeous women blew stuff up . . . and caravans
oh yeah, hosted by Richard Hammond

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Look Around You was great. Check out their unique periodic table on the website...

Hi - Hello, Rb - Rhubarb, Cd - Custard.

 

[cultcross]

I was watching Adult swim and there was their weird science show from britain on and it had some very interesting facts, did you know we don't know what birds are?

Ummm. What?

I'm not sure what the show said, but we really have no idea where birds fit in the evolutionary tree--we know they and dinosaurs share a common ancestry, but beyond that it's murky. Archeopteryx is, IIRC, still the earliest bird fossil we have and it basically appears out of nowhere in the fossil record. It split off from theropods or theropod-like creatures at some point, but...

That's far too much like real science for Look Around You. The show is a very British pisstake of those science videos you used to be made to watch in school where bearded men in 70s clothes would tell you about how some aspect of science would, by the early 1990s, have revolutionised technology.

 

[Derishton]

I love Look Around You, but love We Are History even more.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Look around you is a classic that seems to have slipped under the radar when it was on the TV....

One of my faves is Sulphur

 

[JoeZhang]

Ummm. What?

I'm not sure what the show said, but we really have no idea where birds fit in the evolutionary tree--we know they and dinosaurs share a common ancestry, but beyond that it's murky. Archeopteryx is, IIRC, still the earliest bird fossil we have and it basically appears out of nowhere in the fossil record. It split off from theropods or theropod-like creatures at some point, but...

That's far too much like real science for Look Around You. The show is a very British pisstake of those science videos you used to be made to watch in school where bearded men in 70s clothes would tell you about how some aspect of science would, by the early 1990s, have revolutionised technology.

I think you have to be british and of a certain age to know how dead-on "look around you" is.

 

[Canadave]

I'm not sure what the show said, but we really have no idea where birds fit in the evolutionary tree--we know they and dinosaurs share a common ancestry, but beyond that it's murky. Archeopteryx is, IIRC, still the earliest bird fossil we have and it basically appears out of nowhere in the fossil record. It split off from theropods or theropod-like creatures at some point, but...

That's far too much like real science for Look Around You. The show is a very British pisstake of those science videos you used to be made to watch in school where bearded men in 70s clothes would tell you about how some aspect of science would, by the early 1990s, have revolutionised technology.

I think you have to be british and of a certain age to know how dead-on "look around you" is.

I don't think so. I'm a 21 year-old Canadian, and Look Around You strongly reminds me of some of the terrible old videos we used to watch in school.

 

[TemporalFlux]

"Look Around You" was allegedly a favorite of Tim & Eric and was an inspiration for their show, so that's why it's on Adult Swim.

As it is, "Look Around You" was funny at times, but I could really see the similarity to Tim & Eric's drek.