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==History== <video type="youtube" id="MjV3XDFsjP4" width="200" height="200" desc="Episode 1 - Maths" frame="true" position="right"/> {{quote|Look around you...LOOK around YOU...JUST look around you...}} Children who grew up in the late 70s and early 80s probably will remember going to school and being forced to watch boring and out of focus filmstrips and drab, washed out educational videos as VCRs slowly made their way into classrooms. A large amount of this “educational fare” brought to students was very cheaply made and '''so''' terribly produced they became legendary and achieved small cult status. Two British fellows took their love for those old school films and in 2002 made a series of videos for BBC2 earning them high praise, and, much later on, a bunch of money when the series became a hit on American television’s Adult Swim. Much later on, in 2005, a second series was made, but it pretty much sucked compared to the original episodes. ==Description== <video type="youtube" id="bCWA7uevo_Q" width="200" height="200" desc="Episode 2 - Water" frame="true" position="right"/> <video type="youtube" id="57eh-Ty65u4" width="200" height="200" desc="Episode 3 - Germs" frame="true" position="right"/> {{quote|Stop fighting...now. Stop writing...now.|You have had enough time to solve your problem.}} Each episode has the following [[meme|parallels:]] *The very obvious PSA style opening at the beginning of every show *The dull monotone of the narrator *The scientists use a pencil to point out the effects of many of the experiments, often to [[lulz|tragic and humorous results]] *The “lazy guitar” music often used while cut scenes showing real life applications of the current subject *Labels on beakers, bottles, jars, and other containers - for example, a jar of “Michelle” is right next to a beaker full of “Maths” can be seen on the Look Around You chemical shelf *A disinterested, or even hostile student *The narrator often refers to a text book and a copy book that should accompany the Look Around You series of videos. Viewers will be asked to turn to outlandish page numbers or to take some time to figure out a incredibly silly and complex problem. The DVD of the Look Around You series actually comes with both a copy book and a text book. {{quote|Write that down in your copybook...Now.}} ==Quotes== Some very fine examples of the perverted science that Look Around You discusses: <center> {{frame|{{morphquote|mqtest3|background-color:#ffffff; width: 700px; height: 210px;|font-weight: bold; |But 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.|The Narrator|If you look carefully, you'll notice that the water has changed colour from invisible to brown.|The Narrator|Thanks ants. Thants.|The Narrator|Bless you, ants. Blants.|The Narrator|One way in which ghosts are different from man is that they can't whistle. Try as they might, the most they can muster is a rather feeble hiss. Perhaps it's because their lips are transparent and their tongues are see-through?|The Narrator|We will be using a household object famous for its iron content. Can you guess what it is? Yes, that's right. Champagne.|The Narrator|In an average year we get through roughly forty tonnes of sulphur. This translates into approximately two and a half million individual matches. Since the company was formed we've produced 156,280,000 matches, and if we continue at the current rate of production, by the year 3500 we will have manufactured 900,000 billion billion billion billion billion billion matches.|Peter Jackmond, match maker|Here's a state of the art, song-writing computer, the 'Harrington 1200.' You've probably never seen one yourself because it costs almost a thousand pounds.|The Price tag reads £999.99½p|We have a DC current, provided by the battery, and an AC current, provided by the mains. We are using AC/DC because it is heavy metal.|The Albumen is OUT NOW!|The brain is basically a wrinkled bag of skin, filled with warm water, veins and thought muscles. Think of it as a kind of modified heart, only with a mind or brain.|On 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.|Man enters restroom toilet and locks door.|Viewers may be pleased to know that Clive Pounds, who died during production of this program, has since come back to life.|Look Around You season 2 - Food.| }} |color=#ffffff}} </center> ==Video== The second module videos can be found here: <center> {{fv|vids|background-color: #E0EEEE;|font-weight: bold;| <youtube>blm4xPO_iIA</youtube><br><center>'''A very edited version of season 2 episode 1'''</center><br> |<youtube>a5ppAM5aPXA</youtube><br><center>'''Look Around You - Health. Also edited.'''</center><br> |<youtube>cBcrTucxiRc</youtube><br><center>'''Look Around You - Computer Games.'''</center><br> |<youtube>WVagUIaVATk</youtube><br><center>'''Look Around You - Stay slim.'''</center><br> |<youtube>DRkFZA4CoTY</youtube><br><center>'''Look Around You - Synthesiser Patel.'''</center><br> }} </center> ==Quiz Series== You may wish to take the Look Around You quiz that accompanies many of online videos. Here is a list and link to take each available quiz: *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz.shtml Maths Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_water.shtml Water Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_germs.shtml Germ Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_ghosts.shtml Ghosts Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_sulphur.shtml Sulphur Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_music.shtml Music Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_iron.shtml Iron Quiz] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/quiz_brain.shtml Brain Quiz] ==Extra== The folks at the Look Around You website have made you a copy of their Periodic Table of the Elements, suitable for framing or using as a desktop wallpaper: <center>[[Image:Look Around You - 1.jpg|700px|thumb|center|FRANCE???]]<br> '''The various sciences involving revolutionary Digital Disc Technology'''<br> <gallery> Image:Look Around You - 2.jpg| Image:Look Around You - 3.jpg| Image:Look Around You - 4.gif| </gallery> </center> ==See Also== *[[Television]] ==External Links== *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/ The Look Around You home page.] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/wallpaper.shtml Series 1 desktop wallpapers.] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/wallpaper/ Series 2 desktop wallpapers.] *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358323/ Look Around You at IMDB.] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/2000/ Your Vision of the Year 2000.] Includes the i-Trak, a portable 8-trac music listening system. *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/series1/media/Little_Mouse_edit.mp3 Mp3 file of the smash hit "Little Mouse"] by Look Around You's Jack Morgan. 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