Look Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

DocShadow660

Topic

british parody comedy

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• 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: …

• 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 …