Post by StarkIndustriesExEmployee on Dec 9, 2017 13:48:26 GMT
For years and YEARS I’ve been looking for the childrens’ TV show shown in the U.K. called ‘Gross!’ - I remember watching it as a child, about 5 or 6 years old, maybe even younger. It would talk you through the human body but rather than teach the ‘nice’ stuff e.g. bones, it was the ‘gross’ stuff - I remember seeing clips of earwax, snot, pee and poop for example. Being a gross six year old, I think that’s all that stuck in my head 
There was a ‘host’ of the show who was live action but not totally. I can’t explain it very well, but his head was cut and pasted onto a cartoon body. He was bald - for the longest time I believed it was Harry Hill, but whenever I searched for those terms I never got any hits. I’ve even been exploring the Lost Media wiki in an attempt for hits.
This morning I decided to search again out of the blue and found that it was shown on a now-defunct children’s programming block called ‘Discovery Kids’ - there’s a very brief Wikipedia article about it. I also found out that I was wrong and it was not Harry Hill who hosted the show but a man called Jason Bradbury.
With this new information I decided to chuck it all onto google and see what comes out. I found this clip from Vimeo, uploaded by presumably the creators of the show, Optic Verve, but there’s no sound!:
vimeo.com/21691629
Googling ‘Optic Verve Gross!’ brings up some stills from various episodes which are also shown in the clip above,
www.tracyworld.co.uk/film/discovery-channel-gross/
But that’s where my search ends. The clip says that 13 parts were created but I don’t think all 13 parts were featured in that short Vimeo clip. It’d be interesting to see if the episodes could be unearthed somewhere, if the audio for this clip can be found even, or if they’re really lost to the Internet sea... but I appreciate that’s probably just my gross childhood nostalgia talking
I wonder why the clip was uploaded out of the blue by the company, though? Looking around the internet, that clip seems to be the only link to the show I can find. I was watching the show pre-2007 before the Discovery Kids channel went down - there would be no ‘hype’ for the show nowadays. Yet the video was uploaded in 2011, a whole four - or maybe even more - years after the show died out. 🤔
Anyway - this was an interesting little search, likely lost to the internet sea, but not popular enough to have a whole wiki page etc, I don’t think.
There was a ‘host’ of the show who was live action but not totally. I can’t explain it very well, but his head was cut and pasted onto a cartoon body. He was bald - for the longest time I believed it was Harry Hill, but whenever I searched for those terms I never got any hits. I’ve even been exploring the Lost Media wiki in an attempt for hits.
This morning I decided to search again out of the blue and found that it was shown on a now-defunct children’s programming block called ‘Discovery Kids’ - there’s a very brief Wikipedia article about it. I also found out that I was wrong and it was not Harry Hill who hosted the show but a man called Jason Bradbury.
With this new information I decided to chuck it all onto google and see what comes out. I found this clip from Vimeo, uploaded by presumably the creators of the show, Optic Verve, but there’s no sound!:
vimeo.com/21691629
Googling ‘Optic Verve Gross!’ brings up some stills from various episodes which are also shown in the clip above,
www.tracyworld.co.uk/film/discovery-channel-gross/
But that’s where my search ends. The clip says that 13 parts were created but I don’t think all 13 parts were featured in that short Vimeo clip. It’d be interesting to see if the episodes could be unearthed somewhere, if the audio for this clip can be found even, or if they’re really lost to the Internet sea... but I appreciate that’s probably just my gross childhood nostalgia talking
I wonder why the clip was uploaded out of the blue by the company, though? Looking around the internet, that clip seems to be the only link to the show I can find. I was watching the show pre-2007 before the Discovery Kids channel went down - there would be no ‘hype’ for the show nowadays. Yet the video was uploaded in 2011, a whole four - or maybe even more - years after the show died out. 🤔
Anyway - this was an interesting little search, likely lost to the internet sea, but not popular enough to have a whole wiki page etc, I don’t think.
