My new favourite show is Look Around You, a BBC-produced educational series that covers such topics as Calcium ["Whatever you do, never give a gypsy calcium."], Water ["What is water? It's a difficult question because water is impossible to describe. One might ask the same about birds. What are birds? We just don't know."], and The Brain ["The opposite of the brain is probably the bum. It's nowhere near as intelligent as the brain. It doesn't have to be, as it only needs to make very basic calculations."].
In the opening sequence, a jar containing a sample of the subject element is selected from a shelf of jars with such labels as "Poison," "Wafers," "Michelle,"and "Darkness." We are introduced to sciency terms like mafipulation, sulphagne and bumcivilian. Experiments are conducted using quantities like 4,000,000,000 billigrams (4g) and ..5.05 Mg (that's microgallons). All this is done with the perfect tone of school educational films from a few decades back. It is presented as part of a complete study module, and viewers are told to "write that down in your copybook." Episodes end with a preview of the next segment, promising a scientific look as such subjects as Reggae and Italians.
I definitely recommend watching these videos stoned. You can find them on YouTube.
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Thanks for the tip. It is the sort of humor I can giggle deliciously at for maybe two eps worth, then gotta put it away for a while, before my anglo-phobia/philia starts up my own private civil war. Just took some, less humorous ax whacks at the old educational system meself of late. Geek Science, why the hell not?
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