Funny / Look Around You

• Bumcivilian. The funniest word ever made up.
• "What are birds? We just don't know." A "?" appears over a picture of a bird.
• The solution to a long word problem in which you need to figure out the height of Imhotep? Imhotep is invisible.
• The egg experiment in "Water".
  • For some reason, the scientist uses his bare hands to take the egg out of the boiling water. It's not until the third trial that he finally gets the idea of fishing it out with a spoon, but at this point, his hand is so severely burned that he can't hold onto the spoon properly, and he ends up dropping it into the water too, forcing him to retrieve both it and the egg from the water. Entirely through the hand's motions, you can tell that the scientist is on the verge of giving up.
  • This Pun: "Make sure you look out for the release of the new albumen. It's out now!"
• The following Incredibly Lame Pun from the iron episode - (paraphrased) "The iron pyramid is connected to an alternating current from the mains as well as a direct current from a battery. We're using AC/DC because it's heavy metal."
• An enormous pair of scissors has appeared.
• "Machadaynu!"
• Thanks Tchaikovsky. Thaikovsky.
• "Probably about ..5.05 Mg" (read point-point five point oh five microgallons)
• The "Little Mouse" song.
• The Post Office Tower spent six consecutive weeks at UK No. 1 due to a mix-up.
• The Incredibly Scary Picture from series 2. Great effort is taken to point out before it's first appearance how scary it is, with a stock "those of a nervous disposition look away now" only for the incredibly tame picture (A bear and a skeleton) to appear late. The image continues to appear at random throughout the rest of the episode.
• "Man has been using iron since the stone age."
• The lab exterior in Series 1 looks like a giant ping-pong ball in the middle of a field. Because it is a ping-pong ball photoshopped into footage of a field.
• "Thanks ants. Thants."
• "But remember: Whether you're at home, in school, or just out and about: whatever you do, never give a gypsy calcium."
• "[...] the British mission to destroy Mars." Complete with computer graphic of an orbiter launching a missile at it.
• Bless you, ants.
  
  Blants.
• "Man would be unable to process foods."
  Zooms in on gravestone
  "And would starve."
• "The equipment is now dismantled"
  
  "And then destroyed"
  Shoots equipment with gun
• Birds of Britain:
  • "Over in the pond we can see two worker ducks. They're digging a hole."
  • "This duck is being used as a sort of prostitute."
  • "Baby birds are called bees. This one's stung itself to death by mistake. Silly bee."
  • "What are birds? We just don't know." finally gets an explanation: they only arrived on the planet in 1962.
• The entire "is sulphur attracted to magnets" experiment, where various pointless steps are needed before a magnet is simply brought towards a lump of sulphur (slowly) to see if it's magnetic.

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