"Shouldn't have had that 12th coffee, I can't even blink anymore and I can hear my heartbeat in my ears!"

October 6, 2009 4:49 PM

Clips from each six episodes of BBC's Walk on the Wild Side, which involves the overdubbing of voices to natural history footage. 1 2 3 4 5 6
posted by MaryDellamorte (16 comments total)

Upon first glance, I'm thinking "live action version of Creature Comforts". Upon second glance, they aren't trying very hard to sync the voices to the animals. I'll give it two more glances, and if it doesn't get better, fuggedaboudit*.

*spoken by a rather bored-looking otter
posted by wendell at 4:57 PM on October 6, 2009

Previously
posted by lazaruslong at 5:02 PM on October 6, 2009

I shouldn't have had that twelfth cup of coffee.
posted by GuyZero at 5:10 PM on October 6, 2009

Heh, the last vid caused audible laughter on several moments. Good show!
posted by lazaruslong at 5:12 PM on October 6, 2009

this is why people no longer want to pay a licensing fee.
posted by anigbrowl at 5:14 PM on October 6, 2009 [2 favorites]

The Tent Revival bird on the second clip, 'Commodore Monkey' near the end of clip 5 and the last scene with the 'creepy new neighbor' owl made me giggle; otherwise, notsomuch. But the YouTube clip of "Sharon and Ozzy Gophers" in not available in the USofA? BBCFail!
posted by wendell at 5:15 PM on October 6, 2009

Hold up. This is a real show? This is not just some friends playing around with BBC clips and distributing them on YouTube?
posted by odinsdream at 5:41 PM on October 6, 2009

Hold up. This is a real show? This is not just some friends playing around with BBC clips and distributing them on YouTube?

Not paying your license fee is a criminal offence.
posted by cillit bang at 6:01 PM on October 6, 2009

I blame Johnny Morris.
posted by Abiezer at 6:02 PM on October 6, 2009

This is the worst thing I have ever seen.
posted by Sys Rq at 6:47 PM on October 6, 2009 [2 favorites]

I'm David Attenborough and I Hate Nature.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 7:26 PM on October 6, 2009 [1 favorite]

This is so bad it makes Bob Saget look like a frigging comedy genius.
posted by KokuRyu at 9:22 PM on October 6, 2009

This is one of the very few television shows, that if it comes on I had to switch over/off immediately... poor old Johnny Morris must be spinning in his grave.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:46 AM on October 7, 2009

Still not bad enough to resuscitate Dave Coulier's career though. BBC you're gonna have to do betterworse than that!
posted by mannequito at 2:23 AM on October 7, 2009

I fell about when the puffins/Laughing Policeman bit came on, and loved the Sharon and Ozzy gophers. I don't feel it comes up to the standard of Squawkie Talkie though, but that might be nostalgia getting the better of me.
posted by 999 at 12:52 PM on October 7, 2009

This squirrel is hilarious.
posted by redteam at 6:39 PM on October 7, 2009