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Rocky the frill necked Lizard observes and records the activities of the humans, or ‘two footers’, commentating throughout each Lift off episode. Occasionally the viewer will glimpse him with his camera, and at the end he reports back on what he sees, creatively interpreting the strange behaviour of the ‘two footers’.
In this clip Rocky shows people measuring their food and then themselves, and decides that they do this so they don’t burst. When a lizard complains that it’s not fair that ‘two footers’ get to eat so much, Rocky uses his convoluted logic to prove that that lizards are actually smarter.
Curator’s notes
This is a charming and funny segment of Lift Off. Rocky, the frill necked lizard anthropologist puppet is the David Attenborough of the lizard world, giving his own highly creative interpretations of their behaviour. Rocky is designed to show children that every action, including everyday human behaviour is open to interpretation. The logic of his interpretation of human’s eating habits in this case is not too far off the mark and there is a lot to explore in this topic.
