They showed us this video in my general chemistry for engineers class the day before Thanksgiving when most students had gone home. I'm glad I stayed. :)
My chemistry teacher showed us this as a joke but acted all serious about it, it was funny because it took some of us a while to realise it was a parody
The first time I saw Look Around You was "Iron", we were shown it in a Chemistry lesson (at A-Level), totally without context, just assuming we were watching some video. Once you yourself had realised it was satire, it was fun to watch other people doubt themselves. Some lasted nearly the whole episode.
It gets even more surreal when you're in the early 2000's and your teacher wheels out an ancient CRT Television and VCR to show the class one of these... experiences.
The meat on this comedy bone for me is the attention to detail in virtually every audio/visual department. A lesser creator would put over-exaggerated film scratch overlays over 25fps video and expect the writing to do the lion’s share of the work, but Serafinowicz & Popper clearly did their homework and found an equally focused crew to help them achieve an authentic look. This along with Documentary Now & Key and Peele hit a satisfying sweet spot for me - an equal balance between strong writing and direction & laser focused production design.
It's incredible how many small and easy to miss jokes they manage to pack this with. Like the "heated to 1200 B.C." joke around 8:50, I only heard that one the second time I viewed this.
look you cant have just anyone operating your Henrys, and Lance is one of the best. Or was. Henry the VII was a bit too clever, too quick, and too mean for Lance.
Acharacle & Achiltibuie Henry was an advanced video compositing system from Quantel. It’s probably referring to that; or possibly in the credits as a joke if they liked the sound of the term.
I have a very weird, specific memory of this show. I was on a high school youth group church retreat and me and the two other high school guys were up late in the hotel flipping through the channels and we hit this specific episode on Adult Swim when they were running it for a short period and we had NO idea what was going on. Like had NO idea if this was real or not. And then we got up and did Jesus stuff like worship music and service projects, but this show haunted us. I don't know where one of those guys ended up. The other, I think, has a wife and two kids now. And here I am, watching this on TH-cam alone at 2:15 in the morning. Funny how life works.
Yes, I had a similar experience where this show would come on, and it is so dry that you can suspend disbelief for a really really long time, and you’re flying.
@@booklover8546 Most of this is made up, intentionally wrong or just plain random, yet delivered as science and fact. What makes this so good is that it doesn't mean anything - it's Absurdism at its most profound. A racist remark about gypsies fits this description, don't you think?
@@sphinxtheeminx thank you for your reply and description. I just wasn’t happy with the comment being made in the show, even though it’s quite an old show now, as I found it quite offensive, racist and I just didn’t really understand it x
@@booklover8546 Rest assured, all thinking folks will have found it racist and offensive. One of comedy's functions is to shock us into taking a side on a range of political and philosophical issues - eg I can take a human being dropped from a great height for comic effect, but not a dog. Why? That's what I am forced to ask myself. The best comedy (IMO) is complex and challenging.
@@sphinxtheeminx yeah I get what you mean, to break it down, it’s basically dark humour and it’s whether the person viewing can handle it or not. I just didn’t understand it and didn’t really like it but thank you for understanding, explaining and replying x
southrules: back in the 70s I inadvertently came across the Monty Python episode about the Blancmange (from the planet Skyron in the Andromeda galaxy) who used a ray gun to turn all Englishmen into Scotsmen in order to “win at Wimbledon”. I was stoned, and it cracked me up 🤪😂
I recently learned Helvetica runs in my family. Dr suggested I get all of my teeth amd bones surgically removed. I won't be able to lift weights or eat hard foods anymore but it's better than coming down with Helvetica
Please don't spread fake news like this. Without teeth, humans would be unable to process foods and would starve. It says so near the start of the video.
You still sometimes see those calcium bins outside primary schools and sports centres, most councils stopped doing collections about twenty years ago, though.
I played this to my year 7 class via TH-cam final day in school. Thick class lapped it up. I even explained that our bones talk to the brain. Months later, I was asked if we were to watch anymore old science videos. I might fire another one up
+Scrotumgrinder O'Coolihan yes I did. It worked a treat. I was rumbled at end of term when a pupil spotted on the DVD "Sophie off Peep Show" and asked, "sir, how come it's a 1970s vid but Sophie off peep show is in it???" Aggghhhh
I'm so back in secondary school whenever I watch this. Roll in the TV! It makes me uncomfortable in a retro way that I never thought possible. Love it.
A perfectly executed homage to all those ITV and BBC educational programmes of the 1970s and 1980s. The opening montage of clips along with use of synth music, and the title narration, is warm and nostalgic.
If you like this synth music style, check out the hauntology electronic music genre. Try listening to groups like The Advisory Circle, Belbury Poly, Pye Corner Audio and Listening Center as well as all the others. Check out the record label Ghost Box. Many of the hauntology groups are inspired in part by this type of style, in other words the style of synth music that was common in educational videos of the late seventies to at least the early eighties. Also, another intresting genre to check out is library music, which is a general type of music that was composed for commercial use. You may hear this type of music in movies and TV shows a lot of times, and some of it is really creative stuff because the composers aren't usually bound by formulaic big commercial interests. A good YT channel amongst others to check out some of this music is Sonne Immage. Hope this is of some interest to someone.
@@jacobforsman3897 It was of interest to me! I came here looking exactly for this purpose, to find the electronic music from these films that inspired this, so thanks.
The intro where theres no one at the park outside of the apartment complex is the funniest. Are you touching particles that were used to make my human slaves? Im pretty sure we can use those again. What do you see? Ghosts.
Oh god. I just watched that for the first time. I think everyone should be made to watch it, especially world leaders. Sort of a "This is what happens if you **** everything up". Absolute helvetica.
I still can't get over how "Petri Dish" is precisely as idiotic of a name as "Besselheim Plate"; the difference only exists for people used to the arbitrary bit of nomenclature. Same with "mifibulates" and "percolates". The Jabberwocky-esque effect got brilliantly pulled off here.
Vestin They aren’t 100% arbitrary; Petri dish comes from the name of the guy who invented it, and “percolate” comes from some roots for “strain through”, but your point still stands. Those are just the tip of the iceberg, too; there’s also a reference to 12000 BC as a temperature at 8:50, the helium experiment refers to “Syndefrit’s [sic] constant of 2.5 quorums per second” when talking about gas flow, et cetera.
@@DaveDexterMusic I think there's another aspect to it entirely. Much like in "Alice in Wonderland", where you get a genuine experience of childhood ignorance by being presented with texts where you don't know half the words (since they're made up); here you get served a genuine experience of being faced with educational material that you're too dumb to understand. Every term seems foreign, you haven't read the previous chapter, and every bit of presumed prior knowledge used as a stepping stone in explaining more recondite concepts is complete news to you. If anything, the video serves a very _realistic experience_ alongside its humor and weirdness :).
Perfectly captures those 70's programmes for schools. You'd have to watch it more than once to get all of the verbal and subtle visual jokes. Brilliant stuff 😁
Americans should understand that this is a perfect equivalent of those 'You see, Jimmy' educational movies that they poke fun at in The Simpsons: 'COME BACK ZINC!' Only it's the 1980s and it's British.
I remember first watching this at school when I was a young boy. I'll be paying my old therapist a visit on Monday after seeing those Helvetica sequences again.
I remember watching this programme at school just before the St Frankenstein's Day holidays. Happy memories, apart from the Helvetica Scenario, obviously.
+Chris Embry Back in my day we called that nightmare fuel. You young people must all have calcium growths where the common sense area of the brain should be.
I remember being shown old educational VHS videos like this during the late 90s in Finland. Probably British ones that had been dubbed. I'm glad I saw them so I can appreciate Look Around You way more.
I like to imagine that this is a science show from the 1970s in an alternate universe where the atomic weight of Calcium actually IS 44 and whatnot, and calcium IS actually made from teeth.
2022 here, was trying to remember this crazy hilarious show tonight (could never forget the "scary picture" from the Slimby clip) and "look around you" popped in my head - I can't even remember why I walked into a room but somehow I remembered the name of this show
Well, the fact that EVERY other fact they mention is either explicitly false or completely fabricated, from Geographical information, the names of common items, the properties of compounds, how EVERY LITTLE THING has been purposefully chosen to be completely untrue, it was the Faceless man clawing at the glass that tipped you off?
Watching this on the day BBC brought back educational programmes for coronavirus lockdown kids and I'd take this every time. Who'd have thought we'd actually find something even worse than Helvetica to deal with... 😱
Brilliant writing and perfect spoof - the BBC education progs had exactly this style and tone - really clever and the beginning of an excellent series.
If you came into this at just the wrong point, you could be easily caught out. I know to avoid Helvetica though, now. I use Calibri as it's much safer. It has 2 queen atoms so if Imhotep marries one, one will remain.
They wouldn't even dare to show Arial footage of the Helvetica Scenario today. Those were different times. New Roman.
They'll show it in the futura?
It was recorded on a papyrus.
There was an outbreak of Helvetica near my old town of Garamond in 1987. Terrifying
we could do sans a comic
@@SleepyHeather wait what?
This only makes complete sense if you’re viewing this using a large tv on wheels
Set to 3.
Hha, yea. I was there.
I can't believe they showed actual footage of the Helvetica Scenario. Those were different times.
I thought that scenario had been redacted. Are these different times?
I believe it's outlawed in Germany.
@Denny Hanley Please become educated in science.
In 2015 I had a critical workplace safety incident involving the Helvetica Scenario. It was quite dangerous. And scary.
I think this must be a restored version. Due to Mary Whitehouse they'd not have been able to broadcast such scenes back then
I really like how it starts mostly serious and slides slowly into total insanity.
If I were a science teacher... I'd show this to my class every April Fool's day.
They showed us this video in my general chemistry for engineers class the day before Thanksgiving when most students had gone home. I'm glad I stayed. :)
I show them from time to time during the middle of any class I'm giving that's getting a bit dull.
My chemistry teacher showed us this as a joke but acted all serious about it, it was funny because it took some of us a while to realise it was a parody
Our teacher used it as a "teaching aid" without context
The first time I saw Look Around You was "Iron", we were shown it in a Chemistry lesson (at A-Level), totally without context, just assuming we were watching some video.
Once you yourself had realised it was satire, it was fun to watch other people doubt themselves. Some lasted nearly the whole episode.
Excellent videos and very informative, I've been using these to homeschool my children.
Sean 😆
Haw!
Haha!!
I used it to help me get my PHD...
You've been showing calcium to *children*?!
Thank you for making us sit through that entire countdown intro. It was absolutely necessary.
I felt kind of bad for the intelligent calcium at the end
testodude
Scientific progress is more important than the quality of life of allegedly sentient substances.
It was very unethical. I won't be buying their products in future
I know, right! They murdered it. Literally suffocated it to death.
The most underated, brilliantly observed, crafted, comedy programme of the last 20 years. Period!
Mark Persad The most underated, brilliantly observed, crafted, comedy programme of the last 20 years. Period!
wtf?
No, that's the one about womenstruation.
Thanks Mark.
Thark.
My soul wept watching series 2.
Haven't seen this in years and just noticed the 50p is still stuck to the hand at 11:33 haha
As an 80s kid I cannot over-state how they completely nailed the look of those old shows.
Oh and that'd Edgar Wright at 16:46
+Jayfive276 Oh you better believe they were still showing the same videos you saw 20 years later.
+TonkarzOfSolSystem Only now they're online and you need an authenticated .ac.uk email to access the beards
It gets even more surreal when you're in the early 2000's and your teacher wheels out an ancient CRT Television and VCR to show the class one of these... experiences.
And Peter Serafinowicz as the milk-drinking scientist.
As a 70s kid, I can say the same thing
The meat on this comedy bone for me is the attention to detail in virtually every audio/visual department. A lesser creator would put over-exaggerated film scratch overlays over 25fps video and expect the writing to do the lion’s share of the work, but Serafinowicz & Popper clearly did their homework and found an equally focused crew to help them achieve an authentic look.
This along with Documentary Now & Key and Peele hit a satisfying sweet spot for me - an equal balance between strong writing and direction & laser focused production design.
It's rare to find a TH-cam comment this well written
A bit like darkplace
Insecurity @Throw Communists Out Of Helicopters
KK Akuoku I couldn’t have put it better myself 👍🏻🙂
I was thinking the same, but less eloquently :)
i fr thought this was real until the disappearing calcium pyramid and now i feel so stupid 💀
Narrator: "...and was pivotal in the development of impsimal barraty larm"
Me: mind blown
LMAO "be aware of the cost"... 9p
Calcium is insoluble.
Nah the cost of distilled water because it had to be distilled
A S A N I N T E L L I G E N T C A L C I U M S A M P L E I A M G R E A T L Y D I S T U R B E D B Y T H I S V I D E O
“They’re there in their room”...write that in your copy book now
I think I've left my copy book at home and I'm going to have to use a dirty one from the lost copy book basket.
Actually don't worry, I found my copy book with my name sewn into it in the lost copy book basket. I must have left it here.
heated to 12,000 BC
That's, like, older than me mum!
Same temperature as the kingdom of zeal. Interesting!
It's incredible how many small and easy to miss jokes they manage to pack this with. Like the "heated to 1200 B.C." joke around 8:50, I only heard that one the second time I viewed this.
In the credits: Henry Operator, Lance Gaunt.
look you cant have just anyone operating your Henrys, and Lance is one of the best.
Or was. Henry the VII was a bit too clever, too quick, and too mean for Lance.
“They’re there in their room”
Acharacle & Achiltibuie Henry was an advanced video compositing system from Quantel. It’s probably referring to that; or possibly in the credits as a joke if they liked the sound of the term.
500 miles away.....in New York
If I was a science teacher I would leave this for a substitute to play
Edgar Wright interviewing the "intelligent calcium" is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen.
Agreed
I have a very weird, specific memory of this show. I was on a high school youth group church retreat and me and the two other high school guys were up late in the hotel flipping through the channels and we hit this specific episode on Adult Swim when they were running it for a short period and we had NO idea what was going on. Like had NO idea if this was real or not. And then we got up and did Jesus stuff like worship music and service projects, but this show haunted us. I don't know where one of those guys ended up. The other, I think, has a wife and two kids now. And here I am, watching this on TH-cam alone at 2:15 in the morning.
Funny how life works.
I'm here with you Matt
You could have been something. This is not what your mother and I had in mind for your future...
Serves you right for worshiping music.
I am of the opinion that weird, specific memories are a very human thing, so thanks for sharing.
Yes, I had a similar experience where this show would come on, and it is so dry that you can suspend disbelief for a really really long time, and you’re flying.
12:38, The N2O is such a good subtle joke, it breaks like 10 rules at once.
'Never give a gypsy calcium' has been my watchword for years, thanks to this educational series.
What does it mean? I didn’t understand that bit
@@booklover8546 Most of this is made up, intentionally wrong or just plain random, yet delivered as science and fact. What makes this so good is that it doesn't mean anything - it's Absurdism at its most profound. A racist remark about gypsies fits this description, don't you think?
@@sphinxtheeminx thank you for your reply and description. I just wasn’t happy with the comment being made in the show, even though it’s quite an old show now, as I found it quite offensive, racist and I just didn’t really understand it x
@@booklover8546 Rest assured, all thinking folks will have found it racist and offensive. One of comedy's functions is to shock us into taking a side on a range of political and philosophical issues - eg I can take a human being dropped from a great height for comic effect, but not a dog. Why? That's what I am forced to ask myself. The best comedy (IMO) is complex and challenging.
@@sphinxtheeminx yeah I get what you mean, to break it down, it’s basically dark humour and it’s whether the person viewing can handle it or not. I just didn’t understand it and didn’t really like it but thank you for understanding, explaining and replying x
There has never been and will never be a better show to watch stoned. Fact
southrules: back in the 70s I inadvertently came across the Monty Python episode about the Blancmange (from the planet Skyron in the Andromeda galaxy) who used a ray gun to turn all Englishmen into Scotsmen in order to “win at Wimbledon”. I was stoned, and it cracked me up 🤪😂
Brass eye
southrules Try “Wonder Showzen”
the day today was another great from this time.
I recently learned Helvetica runs in my family. Dr suggested I get all of my teeth amd bones surgically removed. I won't be able to lift weights or eat hard foods anymore but it's better than coming down with Helvetica
Plus if they take all of the veins from your body and put them end to end you will die.
Cousine Boneless Chicken
Look into the Cinco food tube. A great solution for eating for those without teeth!
Thoughts and prayers my brother quick recovery 🙏
Please don't spread fake news like this. Without teeth, humans would be unable to process foods and would starve. It says so near the start of the video.
Chemistry test tomorrow. This really helped :)
Thomason's Oil Segnomen.
Write that down.
"Calcium valency 1" - slap bang in group 2 looooool
The gentlest, most English dry humour ever
You still sometimes see those calcium bins outside primary schools and sports centres, most councils stopped doing collections about twenty years ago, though.
Where do you put all your bones now?
@@benjorino A lot of hipsters these days want to test their bone hurting juice before selling at the local sunday market so make a few bob that way.
They say the the amount of calcium mined from Fred west's house was worth its weight in gold....
I watched the whole first minute without fast forwarding, as it brought me back 40 years and I savoured every second
I think I'll convert this to mp3 and use it as a meditation tool. It's so zen.
The only problem is the Helvetica siren
And you'd starve.
If you like the music specifically, check out Boards of Canada, they make music inspired by this kinda stuff
Be careful, the mp3 needle might jump and keep repeating the "humans cannot eat and will die" part over and over while you're meditating.
@@ruthenium6648 Great Recommendation. Geogaddi has always reminded me of intense moments on this show lol
I love the 50p still stuck to his hand!
I love the head feint of showing cows, then transitioning to a calcium refinery.
I played this to my year 7 class via TH-cam final day in school. Thick class lapped it up. I even explained that our bones talk to the brain. Months later, I was asked if we were to watch anymore old science videos. I might fire another one up
Teddy Kissinger you sick man
+Scrotumgrinder O'Coolihan yes I did. It worked a treat. I was rumbled at end of term when a pupil spotted on the DVD "Sophie off Peep Show" and asked, "sir, how come it's a 1970s vid but Sophie off peep show is in it???" Aggghhhh
+Teddy Kissinger Oh good, it's not just me that does this.
I show my classes The Onion and NewsThump, and forget to tell them it's all fake.
Thick class 😂
OK yeah I believe you 😴
...and was pivotal in the development of "Imsamul barati larn" ZAP!
Yeah WTF was THAT, I was in stitches.
I love the non sequitur of panning over the field of cows to the farm equipment then cutting to Holdwick Park Refinery at 7:18.
"And would starve.."
rip
*rapidly zooms into tombstone*
I laughed every damn time
Goddamn British comedy XD
@@STRING3R they could show that zoom 10 times and I'd find it funnier each time
I'm so back in secondary school whenever I watch this. Roll in the TV! It makes me uncomfortable in a retro way that I never thought possible. Love it.
I miss those bloody daft imperious ticking clocks before the programme started.
We used to do a countdown from 10 to 1 when I was at school! ;)
A perfectly executed homage to all those ITV and BBC educational programmes of the 1970s and 1980s. The opening montage of clips along with use of synth music, and the title narration, is warm and nostalgic.
I once witnessed the Helvetica scenario. I still shudder to this day.
That's the joke
Indeed, the Helvetica scenario is no joke.
I too once thought the Helvetica scenario was a joke.. Not anymore.
Whatever you do, use san-serif instead.
That's nothing compared to the Tahoma Scenario. Also I don't think there has ever been a witness to the Verdana effect who has lived to tell about it.
This time the image appears over 500 miles away hands down best line
one of the most aesthetically pleasing tv shows i have ever watched. the synthy background music is lovely too. ❤️
Hear hear. It's so flawless and so pleasing.
luka tedbury wdx
If you like this synth music style, check out the hauntology electronic music genre. Try listening to groups like The Advisory Circle, Belbury Poly, Pye Corner Audio and Listening Center as well as all the others. Check out the record label Ghost Box. Many of the hauntology groups are inspired in part by this type of style, in other words the style of synth music that was common in educational videos of the late seventies to at least the early eighties. Also, another intresting genre to check out is library music, which is a general type of music that was composed for commercial use. You may hear this type of music in movies and TV shows a lot of times, and some of it is really creative stuff because the composers aren't usually bound by formulaic big commercial interests. A good YT channel amongst others to check out some of this music is Sonne Immage. Hope this is of some interest to someone.
@@jacobforsman3897 It was of interest to me! I came here looking exactly for this purpose, to find the electronic music from these films that inspired this, so thanks.
@@joemaurone7923 You're welcome, glad to hear it.
Love the nod to Douglas Adams!
from the voice over to the "modern" analog synth soundtrack, this series absolutely nails the Open University thing. Brilliant.
And ITV Schools/ BBC for Schools, Colleges
The intro where theres no one at the park outside of the apartment complex is the funniest.
Are you touching particles that were used to make my human slaves?
Im pretty sure we can use those again.
What do you see? Ghosts.
Did you just see that slave touch my stuff?
The BBC thought that showing the Helvetica Scenario was too scary so they broadcast Threads instead.
Oh god. I just watched that for the first time. I think everyone should be made to watch it, especially world leaders. Sort of a "This is what happens if you **** everything up". Absolute helvetica.
I still can't get over how "Petri Dish" is precisely as idiotic of a name as "Besselheim Plate"; the difference only exists for people used to the arbitrary bit of nomenclature. Same with "mifibulates" and "percolates".
The Jabberwocky-esque effect got brilliantly pulled off here.
Vestin They aren’t 100% arbitrary; Petri dish comes from the name of the guy who invented it, and “percolate” comes from some roots for “strain through”, but your point still stands. Those are just the tip of the iceberg, too; there’s also a reference to 12000 BC as a temperature at 8:50, the helium experiment refers to “Syndefrit’s [sic] constant of 2.5 quorums per second” when talking about gas flow, et cetera.
A little, I mean all words are made up but the effect here is more for surrealism than to point out the arbitrary nature of etymology.
@@DaveDexterMusic I think there's another aspect to it entirely. Much like in "Alice in Wonderland", where you get a genuine experience of childhood ignorance by being presented with texts where you don't know half the words (since they're made up); here you get served a genuine experience of being faced with educational material that you're too dumb to understand. Every term seems foreign, you haven't read the previous chapter, and every bit of presumed prior knowledge used as a stepping stone in explaining more recondite concepts is complete news to you. If anything, the video serves a very _realistic experience_ alongside its humor and weirdness :).
It reminds me of the retro/turbo encabulator video
'in bridges, windows, and was pivotal in the development of insomulvarietylime'
Perfectly captures those 70's programmes for schools. You'd have to watch it more than once to get all of the verbal and subtle visual jokes. Brilliant stuff 😁
I FAILED MY COLLEGE CHEMISTRY EXAM FROM THIS VIDEO! SOMEONE HAS GOT TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE!!!
I take responsibility.
I can almost smell the musty TV room and hear the squeeky wheels of the TV trolley
The best programme for those around 50 years old today.
Period. ic table
OMG the boring countdown clock with guitar music. FLASHBACK!
Man 7:17 is my absolute zen, very Boards of Canada
this is very informative. it takes a lot of teeth to produce 12 oz of industrial calcium.
So THAT'S what the Tooth Fairy's up to!
INCREDIBLE in every way. Still the most refined form of satire on the planet.
Refined at Holdwick, for sure.
Americans should understand that this is a perfect equivalent of those 'You see, Jimmy' educational movies that they poke fun at in The Simpsons: 'COME BACK ZINC!'
Only it's the 1980s and it's British.
it's actually a parody from the 2000s.
@@robokill387 pretty sure they know that, hence saying it is a parody of a British show from the 80's...
I'd say 70's...
Pure genius. A labour of love, right down to the colour and narration and music...and everything!
I remember first watching this at school when I was a young boy. I'll be paying my old therapist a visit on Monday after seeing those Helvetica sequences again.
I remember watching this programme at school just before the St Frankenstein's Day holidays. Happy memories, apart from the Helvetica Scenario, obviously.
Wait, is this how Siri works? Does she have a core of intelligent calcium?
Mind blown.
Thank you, Calcium.
Thalcium.
Finally a great explanation of CIM for school kids to be able to understand!
I watched this show when I was a kid and never realised 😂
TRIGGER WARNING!
The Helvetica Scenario will haunt you in your dreams.
+Chris Embry
Back in my day we called that nightmare fuel. You young people must all have calcium growths where the common sense area of the brain should be.
after watching, I don't see why it would be a 'trigger'.toughen up
+sybillium4 Good work on getting the joke
Chris Embry it actually looked like it came straight from Creepypasta.
R/wooosh
They're there in their room...and thank heavens for it
Paul McCaffrey : I noticed the yellow sign, too 🧐. Also, I’m going to buy me a Dymo labeler and label everything. It’ll drive my wife crazy
Indeed, thank heavens.
Theavens.
5:01 -- 9p Cracked me up : )
Hilarious beyond belief !
Write that down in your copybook.
This is great. It's going to help my chem study for uni so much
My uncle was subjected to Helvetica... it was a closed casket.
Sorry to hear.
The calcium will appear five thousand miles away. That had me.
That was my favourite part. 2.5 = 8 inches, 5 = 11.5 inches, 7 = 500 miles. :D
I remember being shown old educational VHS videos like this during the late 90s in Finland. Probably British ones that had been dubbed. I'm glad I saw them so I can appreciate Look Around You way more.
At 21:16, Jamie Scott is credited as 'powermac', and Lance Gaunt is a 'Henry operator'.
I like to imagine that this is a science show from the 1970s in an alternate universe where the atomic weight of Calcium actually IS 44 and whatnot, and calcium IS actually made from teeth.
And where the Helvetica Scenario, frighteningly enough, CAN happen
@@spacechase9705I mean anything's possible in a world where calcium has 3 protons and 4 electrons
Great name lol
i saw this as a kid, the helvetica scenario scene freaked me out so bad lmao
Yesss. I finally remembered the name of this show.
2022 here, was trying to remember this crazy hilarious show tonight (could never forget the "scary picture" from the Slimby clip) and "look around you" popped in my head - I can't even remember why I walked into a room but somehow I remembered the name of this show
oh how I love British comedy haha thanks!
doshdoshington sent me here
me too
Glad I’m in good company lmfao
It took me a few minutes to realize this was fake. When they starting talking about the Helvetica Scenario, I knew they were making it all up.
Well, the fact that EVERY other fact they mention is either explicitly false or completely fabricated, from Geographical information, the names of common items, the properties of compounds, how EVERY LITTLE THING has been purposefully chosen to be completely untrue, it was the Faceless man clawing at the glass that tipped you off?
@@guypierson5754 Hey now, you do realize that some of us are products of the American education system.
@@Poopookachew1 Then learn something. You’ve only got yourself to blame
@@tesseract5569 The sound of when something flies right over the head of a TH-cam commentator.
American School system at work it took me almost to the end to realize if it was real or not
This has a very surreal, minimalist, modernist style that is oddly attractive.
Watching this on the day BBC brought back educational programmes for coronavirus lockdown kids and I'd take this every time. Who'd have thought we'd actually find something even worse than Helvetica to deal with... 😱
That footage of the Helvetica scenario genuinely disturbed me.
Thankyou for uploading this. I didn't have my copy book the first time I saw this.
10:13 I thought Imsomal Barati-Laan was outlawed by the Geneva Convention
milchig. milchig.
Write that down.
now
i love how that one was actually true. people who made this are brilliant
מִלכִג
Thank mr skeltal (thank) for this calcium!
MassHysteria414 Thank you mr skeltal.
Theltal.
Brilliant writing and perfect spoof - the BBC education progs had exactly this style and tone - really clever and the beginning of an excellent series.
Love the non-linear settings of the 'flow selector' - 2.5, 5, 7, 12, 15. Also, why is there no Q in the alphabet gauge thing?!
Most i-Ca that is English speaking is raised worshipping a god called Qunch and hold firm beliefs surrounding the use of the most sacred of letters.
Cameron Drew Because calcium is insoluble. Pay attention!
@@DreamingCatStudio Well my dad is a Chemistry expert in intelligent chemical theology so...
@@camerondrew9402 Oops meant to reply to Simon Nicholson. 🤓
It's to do with Hessletine's Law.
The deadpan humor is fantastic
I'm tempted to show this to my Chem class just to see how many people believe it 😂
Doooo itttt
yeah,we used to watch a lot of these shows at school
Love coming back to these
That Was My Favorite TV Show In 2011 When It Aired On Adult Swim
Heated to 12000 BC
I'm always disturbed when they suffocate the intelligent calcium.
*Neutralise ☺
A bottle of Mont Glebe Distilled Water for only 9p... those were the days!
7:07 every graphic designer needs to hear this
If you came into this at just the wrong point, you could be easily caught out. I know to avoid Helvetica though, now. I use Calibri as it's much safer. It has 2 queen atoms so if Imhotep marries one, one will remain.
Yes... Make a note of this in your note book.
Shame such comedic brilliance is no longer being made.
You've obviously never heard of The Stanley Parable.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter I had not
Why would you do that to me? Not sure where I am now.