Well, I'm happy to say I caught another episode of this last night, after not having bothered since the disappointing first one, and it seemed to have found its feet a bit: still think it was losing steam about 10m before the end, but their predictions about the future of British food were superb!
Automated casserole restaurants, an electronic 'pea counter' that might well have ended up in the Innovations Catalogue, a 'vegetable orchestra' and a man who sweated away 56 stones of body fat in 6 weeks by using slimfast gunk and looking at a 'scary picture'...all great stuff. Maybe they can 'remix' the half hour shows to 15m each for the DVD release...
By the way, I also noticed there's repeats of 'Darkplace' very late on Wed & Thurs nights on C4 as well...I know someone mentioned they were missing it last time we did this thread!
cool I'll download this then.
The sport episode was *terrible*.
Agreed. After 20 mins, it does rather run out of steam and the "sports" themed show was indeed gash.
Is there a "Look Around You" torrent going about Serms?
I havent got my uknova details here but I can post it up tonight.
Pump. or pony.
Pump. That's the one. Made me laff all weekend.
so, ahem... (clears throat)...
"that 'sports' themed episode was pump."
I like to add 'utter' in the mix too.
"that 'sports' themed episode was utter pump."
... don't stop there chap!
"that 'sports' themed episode was total and utter pump."
'pump' You do realise this is now going to enter my conversations on every occasion, and raise questions about where it came from...
By the way, the next 'Look Around You' is apparently about computers, so they should be right on home turf there...
Just a thought, but can we adopt 'pumping the pony' as a Brit version of 'jumping the shark' ? "I reckon Nathan Barley was pumping some serious pony last week", kind of thing?
'pump' - You do realise this is now going to enter my conversations on every occasion, and raise questions about where it came from...
It was the word of the weekend for Serm's and I at Dig Everything.
feels good, dunnit ??
howzabout........the pumpification poured from look around you's total and utter gash.
Well, last time this happened was with Rich Hero's 'That's the badger!', which STILL slips out on far too many occasions for comfort...
One thing that annoys me is the titles sequence and idents - everything else has so much attention to detail, but these really look like they've been farmed out to some kids who've done no research and just thought they needed to make it look "cheesy" - maybe I'm too familiar with photoshop/Flash etc, but they've used all the cheap tricks that didn't exist in early 80's graphics I reckon would have been pretty easy to have done well, so I find baffling!
... and the fact that Popper and Serafinowicz got in touch saying how much they liked my remix of "Machadaynu" in no way clouds my judgement...
smart - any chance of a link to the remix?
Last edited by Mr_Hopkinson; 23-02-2005, 09:55 AM.