Look Around You - Little Mouse

[@clydeg4274]

Tempo = quite fast. This is the line that has stayed with me for years

[@gustavgnoettgen]

There was a humorous German news segment in the 1950s to 1960s. They had an episode about a tobogganing event where the narrator said "Speed: significant, maybe more."

[@khajrane]

Thanks, mouse. Thouse.

[@spacekitt.n]

Shut up overrated youtube comment SHUOYOMMENT

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

@@spacekitt.n you're just sad because someone made a good joke

[@jkk45]

Great banter Ganter

[@patchso]

Have a like for the Ram Disk.

[@Hiroshi-cc8hv]

Ram Disk Risk

[@IsaacWassom]

It's amazing how far songwriting technology has come since then.

[@palaeomerus]

I wrote a similar song for the lesser inverse ukulele and rough-grade NorthWestern hamster's pipe. it was also in the key of "S" except the bridge which was in lowercase "s-" to give a slight sense of tension to the 6th course milkafarr transition.

[@crescentfreshbret]

palaeomerus It’s a shame Harry Partch is no longer alive. I’ll bet it would’ve been a perfect piece for his orchestra.

[@Dafoodmaster]

milkich

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

oh thats cool, i wrote a variation of this song on my siberian widdle, but it got lost due to jameson's radiation

[@MrNinjaFish]

Thanks Jack. Thack.

[@jkk45]

Little Mouse really brings me back to the mid 1970s where my Dad would always drive me to school, and we'd hear this played on the radio at least 335 times a day. Whenever it came on my Dad used to always switch the radio off. Apparently he'd rather listen to turgid so called "music' from the likes of Thomson Twins and Eminem.

[@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos]

Had it been me, that's when I would have gotten out my old Grozart records and blasted out his music.

[@icu22day]

So you had access to a time machine during your youth too?

[@jkk45]

@@icu22day Yep. Rumour has it that Back to the Future stole my idea.

[@patrickdoring7149]

Putting the mouse in the envelope always gets me.

[@mememaster147]

Breaking the tab off the tape as well. He'll have to put some sticky tape over the hole if he wants to use it again.

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

The birth of Danger Mouse right there

[@randidno]

The Harrington 1200 light years ahead of Chat GPT, write that down.

[@randidno]

Chat GPT's response (Verse 1) In a world of castles high and tales untold, Lived a little mouse, so brave and bold. In feudal times, where knights would fight, Our tiny hero sought his own delight. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Verse 2) With armor made of petals and a sword of straw, He dreamed of triumphs and the battles he saw. Through towering fields and meadows wide, He'd scurry with purpose, with courage as his guide. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Bridge) The noble lords would scoff and sneer, At the little mouse they held so dear. But he had a spirit they could never tame, A hero's soul, a flicker of fame. (Verse 3) In the shadows he'd hide, plotting his moves, A tiny knight with everything to prove. Through treacherous halls and dim-lit rooms, He'd navigate dangers, dispelling gloom. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Verse 4) With cunning and wit, he'd outsmart them all, Toppling tyrants with his minuscule call. He'd rally the oppressed, bring hope anew, A champion for the weak, the just, the few. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Outro) Though time may pass and tales may fade, The legend lives on, in songs we've made. So, let us honor this little mouse's quest, A hero in fur, forever blessed.

[@Ibhenriksen]

I'm American but because I saw so much Monty Python growing up I understand British humour and those ITV specials they parody here. Thanks mouse Thouse.

[@Festivejelly]

*yawn* So many "Im American but I understand British comedy". As a Brit myself I can say theres nothing special about British comedy. Theres a ton of really shit comedians and sketch shows that just aren't funny. Just like in American comedy.

[@VonBlade]

@@Festivejelly Maybe, but the key difference between British and American comedy is that the British style also has some stuff that _is_ funny.

[@MrTimsvids]

OMG, I remember these in the 70's, we used to go into the assembly room and the teacher used to set up a massive telly on a huge stand, and vividly remember having to write down stuff, thants for the memory, incidentally the guy who invented psilence, think his name was Len, was the uncle of a girl I had a crush on.......

[@purefoldnz3070]

surely this must have been a contender for Music 2000.

[@kurtownsj00]

My best friend (deceased) and I would always laugh like hell at this one, drunk or not. Good times.

[@SynchroScore]

Bless you, Mouse. Blouse.

[@timhall3575]

Look Around You and Jack Morgan invent AI with this classic.

[@thespacecowboy420]

This has a lot more relevance today at the dawn of machine learning than it did 10 years ago.

[@hallamhal]

I make it Andante myself, rather than quite fast, and a few chords are borrowed from the Q minor scale, but otherwise the Harrington 1200 did a very good job!

[@MrPlannery]

Nice touch to break the record seal on the cassette at the end.

[@GreatWightSpark]

I wish mainstream music went in this direction

[@wideboi5179]

I shouldn't laugh at animal cruelty but throwing the mouse in the envelope was a lmao moment.

[@robinsigmund1133]

I don't think it was even a real mouse.

[@NxDoyle]

There was no animal cruelty.

[@Popebug]

Even if it was a fake mouse, the whole punchline is that an animal was put in a probability deadly situation within the fiction of the sketch. So it is indeed an animal cruelty joke, and it is funny

[@MrPlannery]

I also love how the envelope address was written using dymo tape

[@PaulShendtown]

Actually a really good chorus there.

[@TheMattastic]

I like how they say it's in the key of S but then you listen to it and it's actually in the key of U.

[@Umbrey_Dunctum]

The minor inversion may give that impression to the untutored ear, my friend. Try listening after shooting up💉💉💉

[@AnthonyFlack]

S and U are both cyclic inversions of A half minor, what jazz musicians call the "trouser keys". When the song demodulates in the chorus, the lonely tone becomes the subdeviant, which shifts the weight onto the other leg. It's classic Gilbert and Sullivan.

[@FalcoTheImpaler]

I asked ChatGPT to write a song about Little Mouse and it's eerily similar: Sure, here's a quick little song about a little mouse: Verse 1: Little mouse, scurrying around, Tiny paws barely making a sound, Nose twitching, whiskers long, Searching for cheese, all day long. Chorus: Little mouse, little mouse, So quick and so nimble, Running through the house, Never ever stumble. Verse 2: In the fields or in the house, Little mouse is always on the prowl, Through the walls and under the floors, Looking for crumbs and hidden stores. Chorus: Little mouse, little mouse, So quick and so nimble, Running through the house, Never ever stumble. Bridge: Though he may be small in size, This little mouse is quite wise, He knows just where to look, For every last tasty nook. Chorus: Little mouse, little mouse, So quick and so nimble, Running through the house, Never ever stumble. Outro: Little mouse, with your tiny feet, You make our hearts skip a beat, As you scurry here and there, We can't help but stop and stare.

[@wisteela]

I imagined that to the tune of Little Mouse.

[@hedgehog3180]

This is actually how ChatGPT works.

[@cool3865]

it actually is, nice future looking for a show that came out in 2005 or so

[@MrCheeze]

Also Suno/Udio for the actual music now!

[@jesusgluez]

this song still gets stuck in my head

[@daffyphack]

I'm trying to tune my guitar to the key of S, but it is taking FOREVER

[@politesociety]

I usually just start at Z, but then drop it down a forte

[@dojomojomofo]

It goes a bit quicker on a 2-pi string

[@runlarryrun77]

Synthesiser Patel is the only human who can tune a guitar to the key of S.

[@TripleAlfafa]

@@runlarryrun77 That is a meme, tuning for S became a lot simpler when Nakajima String Corporation started to make specific sets for them in 1989.

[@jhonbus]

These days a Harrington 1200 in reasonable condition will set you back at least £9999.99½.

[@TBTabby]

This song came back to me as I was playing Moss.

[@lydiamacintyre3729]

love this song, I need to rewatch this show, also the song computer is an EMS Putney VCS3

[@spacekitt.n]

ＡＮ ＥＸＰＥＲＩＭＥＮＴ ＷＡＳ ＣＡＲＲＩＥＤ ＯＵＴ

[@Sashazur]

A CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE

[@ChrisK-n9u]

little mouse is the best :)

[@Lazyguy22]

Surely inspired by Jethro Tull's _One Brown Mouse_: Smile your little smile Take some tea, we'll be a while Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder Twitch your whiskers, feel That you're really real Another teatime, another day older Puff warm breath on your tiny hands You wish you were a man Who every day can turn another page Behind your glass you sit and look At my ever-open book One brown mouse, sitting in a cage! Do you wonder if I really care for you? Am I just the company you keep? Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill? Who hides his head, pretending to sleep? Smile your little smile Take some tea, we'll be a while Brush away that black cloud from your shoulders Twitch your whiskers, feel That you're really real Another teatime, another day older Smile your little smile Take some tea, we'll be a while And every day we'll turn another page Behind your glass we'll sit and look At our ever-open book One brown mouse, sitting in a cage One brown mouse, sitting in a cage One brown mouse, sitting in a cage

[@anononomous]

Pretty sure Jethro Tull were inspired by Jack Morgan.

[@joshuakohlmann9731]

I think One Brown Mouse may itself have been inspired by Robert Burns.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Alternate universe Mike Oldfield

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

@hi there Okay

[@miguelturk3562]

Why do I know that name

[@LuDux]

His son now plays drums for Black Midi

[@trainwreck3697]

Harrington 1200's go for thousands on ebay these days.

[@NidgeOSullivan]

I've yet to see one in real life.

[@TripleAlfafa]

Ones with original Gilbert and Sullivan samples go for several tens of thousands, since a lot of these samples had defective preservatives, meaning they degraded within ten years of manufacture.

[@capnheehee8103]

I could never seem to save up that last half of a penny to be able to afford one. The first 999 pounds were easy, it was always that dratted 1/2 p.

[@jkk45]

I do hope they come with burglar alarms

[@trainwreck3697]

@@TripleAlfafa Yes nothing sounds worse than a wobbly agar. Thankfully by the 1990's digital voltage controlled agar guaranteed a nice stable tuning.

[@pschroeter1]

Is the Lennon & McCartney DNA option still available.

[@patrickdoring7149]

Featuring the EMS VCS3 (The Putney) as “The Harrington 1200.”

[@spankeyfish]

2:49 remembered to snap the recording control tab off the tape :D

[@Fordnan]

Easily got round using the clever device of a small piece of selotape :)

[@irish66]

I was disappointed he didn't say "copybook"

[@sjuas690]

How was that not a big hit?

[@davelordy]

Too ahead of its time.

[@stocktonjoans]

is this out on vinyl yet?

[@drstevie]

Brilliant :)

[@NotHereLookAway]

actually wild prediction

[@mariyam9861]

"And who knows, he may have a hit on his hands." Puts cassette in Manila Tosses in mouse Licks envelope and closesnit Mouse sqeaks in pain Fingers crossed

[@havable]

Part of the press kit

[@mrrandomperson3106]

With the address printed on plastic Dymo labels

[@MrPlannery]

​@@mrrandomperson3106I went out and got an old one of these after watching look around you. Not one of the new boring print versions. All my jars in the kitchen have dymo labels now.

[@stephenmartin6995]

I'm eagerly awaiting the Harrington 1201!

[@reginaldveljimson3533]

When Jack Morgan sings in the mouse voice at 2:37 or so, what does he say exactly? I love the key of "S".

[@MrPlannery]

He squeaks "it's enough for me and you", I think.

[@tschak909]

yay, VCS3 cameo! :)

[@TheLambLive]

and a Roland TR-66 Rhythm Arranger. Nice little setup.

[@Welv1987]

ah, finding a title, the most complex and random task in the process of making a song

[@johntungyep]

... it’s enough for me and yoooou!

[@diskgrinder]

A small nit pick: there’s a louse option on the Harrington 1200

[@BOABModels]

My doorbell rang about 10 seconds after the doorbell sound in the video and a had to double check it was real.

[@Not_Me_30]

Where can I get little mouse’s autograph? 😂

[@mcsleeves2434]

I love the key of S.

[@bobdown8043]

Song was inspired by Syd Barrett.

[@NidgeOSullivan]

All of Pink Floyd's music is actually played on a Harrington 1200

[@bobdown8043]

@@NidgeOSullivan That's a pretty cool fact. I didn't even know a Harrington was an actual thing.

[@stefanalexanderlungu1503]

@@bobdown8043 good job

[@Lavinia_Garcia]

Jusy recently discovered Look around you and I can't get enough: obviously already started annoying my partner with Macadeyyynuuu on loop...

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

2:55: and that's how Danger Mouse ended up in a postbox ... write that down

[@mikeh.5017]

This is how the world works now

[@Jezebellmusic]

Harrington 1200 was gong long before Ai was making music

[@J0hnTh3T4lking]

Little mouse: I remember the nite scratching at my door very small and white I shook you by the paw 'cause I like you my friend I respect you my friend I'll encourage you my friend through and throoooooooooooooouuuuugh Hey! now! little mouse I hope we understand one another Hey! now! little mouse show me what to do (little mouse!) hey! now! little mouse somethings wrong with caring about you hey! now! little mouse show me what to do show them what to do it's enough for me and yooooooooouuu

[@joshuakohlmann9731]

Isn't it "something's moving there in the bathroom"?

[@J0hnTh3T4lking]

@@joshuakohlmann9731 yes, thanks!

[@jjb2004mk2]

They predicted Chat GPT

[@a.gordon.1385]

I'm here in 2025 realising that AI can literally do this now. And perform the song as well! It hasn't cracked the key of S yet but you never know.

[@jc441-i3q]

I want that owl at 1:07

[@wisteela]

I just had to check that, and now I want it too.

[@registeredmineralboy]

I thought that was a bit of Garry Gum, but you're right!

[@NicolasMelis]

Cool video !!

[@DoodleWill]

This sounds like a song you'd hear in Total Distortion.

[@jkk45]

1:25 acid techno

[@MassiveSkywhale]

Funnily enough this is also what is running ChatGPT. The DNA samples have just grown much larger now.

[@efficace]

£1000!!! Write it down.

[@NidgeOSullivan]

Easy to remember, it's the same temperature that water boils at.

[@8bitnitwit]

£1000

[@somosgenel]

Now there is AI that can write songs

[@LostwaveObsession]

IF you can afford it, it beats ai.

[@whophd]

With Generative AI this crap is now literally true

[@quinnybennett9339]

Quite fast

[@NidgeOSullivan]

Good job he didn't say fairly fast as it would have ruined the song.

[@snag1508]

I believe Behringer plan to clone the Harrington 1200.

[@catherineburlton6101]

S

[@youtubecommenter4938]

little mouse

[@wyldconsultants7647]

DNA at work

[@neurosismancer]

It's good, but it's no Reggae Man

[@jblasutavario9549]

I wish Gilbert and Sullivan were still with us today 😔

[@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos]

Well, they aren't still with us today, but would you settle for Gilbert O'Sullivan? He's still around.

[@jblasutavario9549]

@@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos Absolutely! 🇮🇪 ❤️ 🎶

[@colinr0380]

The original A.I. created music

[@christownsend7552]

The key of S

[@LemonTree9280]

They never ever have this at karaoke night

[@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos]

That's because nobody has ever made a karaoke video of it....until now. Behold, for the first time on the internet anywhere, it's the karaoke version of Jack Morgan's Little Mouse...in the key of S: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5PLnGh9d5qErdU

[@LemonTree9280]

@@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos I'm speechless

[@Renzsu]

Behringer remake coming soon

[@anthrax2525]

Write that down.

[@BadPrenup]

Look Around You predicting AI

[@AckzaTV]

Harrington lol

[@peterfirside295]

I can't imagine how much is £1000

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Kula Shaker were better than I remember.

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Ah yes AI existed 10 years ago.

[@HawkerBlue]

When was this made?

[@technope]

Original run 10 October 2002 - 7 March 2005

[@Djarra]

Felix Anteater It's from the first series 2002.

[@maxbrandt6]

But it looks like it was filmed in 1977!

[@Djarra]

Max Brandt That is the point, it's a spoof on the old educational videos that used to be made.

[@maxbrandt6]

Djarra Oh, yes! I know that and that's why I love this show!

[@tschak909]

CR78, too :)

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Envelope Shaper

[@damionyates1]

"comprises of" ? Gah!

[@no_no_just_no]

Weirdly like an AI prompt.....

[@adeofbass]

Totally predicts AI

[@psammiad]

I think they accidentally used a sample from Gilbert O'Sullivan.

[@METALUNICORNLTD]

Drugs were cheaper in the early 2000s.

[@29memyselfandi]

Still a better tune than anything Harry Styles or Westlife will ever do.

[@karentravers4316]

13 people don't respect little mouse

[@enj0ilife_42]

i can’t help but hunk of the plot of Ratatouille 🤔 lmao did Disney rip this idea off of Look Around You??

[@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025]

Back when science was worth a SH1T.

[@bethanyhorak-hallett2195]

I am a professional musician in my late twenties and can tell you for definite that S is not a musical key

[@Gravy65]

Then how did he make that song in the key of S? You're so silly.

[@gonufc]

Oh dear, how embarrassing to not know that. How did you ever get your Music Permit?

[@cmac1100]

Ok "professional". I bet you've never even noticed the Boîte Diabolique on the end of the piano. Smh...

[@NidgeOSullivan]

@@gonufc I doubt he has a permit, or is even a musician. I know the key of S and I don't know a Portuguese viola from an extended trombone.

[@stefanalexanderlungu1503]

good job

[@couldrey47]

Write that down.

[@morbidmech2340]

S