#128 Look Around You

Ever since The Office took hold state-side BBC America has been getting better about airing Britain's best and most off-beat comedies. Look Around You, surely the strangest of the bunch, is a retro-styled educational program meant to ape the UK's old-school equivalents to low-budget, American science programming like Cable in the Classroom and 3-2-1 Contact.

The twist here is that the science presented is almost always fabulously and hilariously wrong. As far as I've been able to figure Look Around You takes place in is a surreal alternate universe in which germs come from Germany, ghost ectoplasm tastes like pig's milk (pilk) and the contraction for, "thanks, ants." is "thants."

Sharp eyes will notice one of the show's scientists as Peter Serafinowicz of Shaun of the Dead. Sharper and nerdier ears will recognise the actor's voice from elsewhere. Many of Serafinowicz' comedy cronies guess star on the show, including Shaun director Edgar Wright as well as stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Much like Adult Swim's better original shows, Look Around You comes in short, easy to consume 15-minute bursts, the ideal serving size for senseless laughs.