Arachnogiggles

When I was growing up, I loved the "Hinterland Who's Who" spots that came on during commercial breaks.  It's got a very distinctive flute solo that announced when it was to begin, then the announcer would go into some detail about the habitat of the featured creature.  We'd get some interesting facts and after about a minute of education, back to animated mind-candy.

It was so Canadian.  It was just like a film loop - sometimes the sound wouldn't quite synch, there were lines scratched into the celluloid, and the picture jumped a bit.  I can imagine some grant of $50 being handed to a graduate student in ecology to put these together with the available equipment of the time.

This is a great sendup of the old HWW set.  In the originals, there was no experimentation being done on the creatures, but you'll see why that's important here:

Evolution videos

The only real thing that there is about evolution here is the word "evolution".  These videos have good humourous takes on evolution, though, and amuse me - so I thought I'd pay it forward to you.  Be aware that there are some strong language and religion issues!

I'll start with Lewis Black and his rather calm and collected way of describing how he views fossils and young Earth creationism.

Next let's look at a beer commercial.  Guinness put this together.  It's not the best quality, but I was reminded of this by my kids, who saw it a few years ago and still visit the site for old time's sake.

I just stumbled on this one with Louis CK.  It's got less science than the other two, but is pretty funny in my opinion.