Look Around You

Serafinowicz, Peter, and Robert Popper. "Maths." Look Around You. Adult Swim/BBC 2.

Look Around You is a British produced show that originally aired in 2004. It recently ran on Adult Swim in 2009. There are two distinct seasons to the series. The first season parodies 70's high school science program while the second season parodies 90's TV about science of the future. The episode Math however is part of the first season of 11 minute episodes. The show makes fun of how boring science programs are; using a very dry narrator, poor camera work, and uninteresting experiments. The crux of the humor however comes from the breaking of reality. The show presents itself as an old 70's with poor film, yet computer animation is used unexpectedly to defy reality. The show also goes against our normal conceptions of science and language. Its the breaking of our conceptions that can make this show really a hit or miss type of comedy. The only way a person will find it funny is if they have a large enough background with science and those types of programs. The comedy is very dry because of the way the jokes are presented. It's not like there are specific one line jokes, but rather that the program taken as a whole is inherently funny because of the discrepancy between what the program is saying and what actual science states.

Here is the episode "Maths"