Look Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium

DocShadow660 · 831.1K views · 2014-12-18 · 21:52

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Overview

The pilot of the British comedy series Look Around You, a deadpan parody of 1970s and 80s school science programmes, in which the scientists examine calcium.

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HN commenters recommend it as a surreal, perfectly observed parody of old educational films, and quote it in jokes.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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Satire & parody Stand-up & sketch comedy

What people said

cal85 · 2023-07 · Strong recommendation
Look Around You [0] is little known even in the UK, but I think a lot of HN readers might love it. It's a surreal but perfectly observed parody of the 80s/90s educational videos we used to watch in school science classes. [0] Episode 1: Calcium [VIDEO]
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nkurz · 2016-02 · Strong recommendation
Likely because they first encountered it on PBS, some Americans are unaware Connections was a BBC production: [LINK] Even less known these days (by Americans, at least) is that Connections was but one of many extraordinary educational science series that the BBC produced in the 1970's. Original footage of one of the best of these was recently rediscovered and finally made available on the web: Look Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium [VIDEO] Watching it again today, it's hard to understate the positive impact this series had on British science education, and the obvious "leg up" it gave for Britain's technological prowess.
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wcarss · 2021-04 · Recommendation
I really wondered if this would be related to the mockumentary "Look Around You"[1]'s somewhat famous "Thanks ants... Thants"[2] line. If you're reading my comment and you haven't run across these, you might find them pretty amusing. But... it is (reasonably) not related to those things at all. 1 - [VIDEO] 2 - [LINK]
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