Product Details

• Actors: Nigel Lambert, Peter Serafinowicz, Edgar Wright, Michael Dillon, Dom Greyer
• Directors: Tim Kirkby
• Writers: Peter Serafinowicz, Robert Popper
• Producers: Peter Serafinowicz, Robert Popper, Karen Beever, Peter Fincham
• Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 20, 2010
• Run Time: 71 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003IJ72WY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,004 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Look Around You: Season One" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Look Around You is a spoof science program that hilariously re-creates both the drab, depressing air of 1970s educational television and a bygone world of tedious school science lessons. Each of the 10-minute episodes--or "Modules"--takes the form of a number of surreal and pointless experiments based on a chosen theme ranging from "Water" and "Sulphur" to "Ghosts" and "Brains."

Look Around You's humor lies not only in an absurd take on education and the impenetrable jargon of science, but also in evoking a sense of nostalgia in the viewer. In this respect the series is helped immeasurably by faultless production and attention to detail. Narrated in austere English, using precise scientific terminology, this is a world of scratched film inserts, dubious periodic tables, cheap, synthesized music, giant hairstyles, bulky, teak-finished technology, and a proliferation of DYMO labels. Each show is even prefaced by a few seconds of the "Television for Schools & Colleges" countdown clock. The tutorial format of the series is not without its problems though--it is essentially a single, plotless joke stretched to eight episodes, and there are no characters to speak of, save glimpses of the deadpan and much-maligned lab-technician (cowriter Peter Serafanowicz). Despite these shortcomings, Look Around You is still a refreshingly different comedy, which is so well put together that you can almost smell the Bunsen burners while you watch. --Paul Philpott

Product Description

Look Around You is the BAFTA-nominated comedy series based on the unforgettable Open University and Television for Schools programs of the1970s. Through a series of gloriously deadpan experiments, we observe a colony of ants build an igloo, receive a telephone call from abrain, discover why ghosts can't whistle, and reveal the largest number in the world. Science has never been so silly.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely Unique Hilarity July 20, 2010

By D. Martz

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Look Around You is one of the most criminally overlooked works of this millennium. How anything this funny could escape international acclaim at near-obnoxious levels is beyond me. This is absurdist comedy at its best, as if Monty Python and Mr. Wizard had a baby, who was maybe dropped on its head. Though the 8 episodes are only 10 minutes long, there are plentiful special features which make this worth your money. Please, please, please buy this. You'll be happier for having seen it, and we'll all be one step closer to season two's DVD release.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious February 16, 2010

By Пётр Александрович

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Too hilarious. If you do not enjoy smiling, then I wouldn't recommend this...otherwise, for the rest of us, this is quite possibly one of the funniest series I've personally ever experienced. Real, quality British humor. Great, just great.
One thing though, your dvd player has to have the proper regional encoding or you'll have some problems watching it.
Arrived in great shape, exactly as described.
Definitely recommend.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the funniest shows I've ever seen July 20, 2010

By Peter T Langford

Format:DVD

What more can I say? This show had me doubled with laughter every minute. From the confusing to the ever-so-slightly dangerously insane, Look Around You presents a very unique genre of comedy in the disguise of a perfectly factual 1970's "Science for Schools" programme. Having been exposed to such boring stuff at school (in the 90's) when these outdated shows often contained lines such as "Perhaps one day we will have electicity in our own homes!" Look Around You provided an utterly brilliant parody. I would recommend this to absolutely anyone. If you buy nothing else this year, buy this. Then next year you can save up for Look Around You 2!!