# Who here remembers the TV show "3-2-1 Contact"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761 "2011-05-13T04:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/21 "2011-05-13T12:35:15Z")
Loved the show and also the magazine. I also can still remember the close up microscope pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/22 "2011-05-13T12:36:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I do remember 3-2-1 Contact but it wasn’t my favorite show. It wasn’t even my favorite science show. Newton’s Apple was my favorite science show. I still remember when Newton’s Apple had a scientist use the skeleton from the show and reconstruct what the person looked like when they were alive. I also remember them inducing hypothermia on a dude to show how it affects the human body. They had him get in super, super cold water. Another great show. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/23 "2011-05-13T12:50:36Z")
I remember it, and I remember loving it. I also remember its prdecessor in time slot, “ZOOM.” My wife and I just finished watching South Park Season 14 on DVD, and one of the episodes (“Insheepshon”) mentions it, and she had never heard of it. (She’s 5 years younger than me.) THAT makes me feel old. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/24 "2011-05-13T12:50:52Z")
Another sucker for 3-2-1 Contact! I’d accuse it for my interest in science. I loved their theme song, and still sing it obnoxiously every once in a while to annoy my wife and kids. 😛 I couldn’t stand the Bloodhound Gang, though. I’d suffer through it, but even at the time found it boring compared to the rest of the show. I used to watch every science show I could, actually. Square One, Mr. Wizard, Mr. Goodbody, Beakman’s World, Bill Nye the Science Guy… so yeh, up into my adult life I’d watch this stuff (although, I was a parent by the time Beakman and Nye were on the air). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/25 "2011-05-13T12:54:26Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I used to watch every science show I could, actually. Square One, Mr. Wizard, Mr. Goodbody, Beakman’s World, Bill Nye the Science Guy… so yeh, up into my adult life I’d watch this stuff (although, I was a parent by the time Beakman and Nye were on the air). Every chance I get, I like to point out that Don Herbert(Mr. Wizard) lived right by us and my Mom and I used to sometimes see him at the grocery store and so forth. Very nice guy; never minded if people came up to him to talk science. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/26 "2011-05-13T12:54:49Z")
YES! I loved that show, but hardly any one remembers it when I bring it up. Most of them confuse it with The Electric Company (which was, IMHO, much better in its 70-80’s incarnation than the current one.) The theme song still gives me shivers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/27 "2011-05-13T13:01:00Z")
As soon as I read the thread title the theme song slammed into my head where I suspect it will remain for at least all day today. I think the people who don’t remember it may have been playing outside… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/28 "2011-05-13T13:01:45Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > I think the people who don’t remember it may have been playing outside… Losers. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/29 "2011-05-13T13:17:34Z")
I remember the show, but it seems like they repeated episodes so often that I got tired of it pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/30 "2011-05-13T14:04:32Z")
Did the actor who portrayed Slim Goodbody ever do his character in recent times? Would he now be called Fat Oldbody? And what special superpowers did he have? It seems like missing skin for most of his body and missing muscles for half would result in an existence of unending, indescribable agony. Maybe his power is ignoring pain or missing pain receptors? But then he couldn’t feel much pleasure either. And it must be a bummer to have missing genitals. Maybe he dated Dr Holly Goodhead? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/31 "2011-05-13T14:18:16Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > Did the actor who portrayed Slim Goodbody ever do his character in recent times? Would he now be called Fat Oldbody? He never stopped! Still working, touring schools, making shorts and books and CD’s. He did find some time in the last 20 years to visit a hair salon, though. [Still looking pretty good](http://www.slimgoodbody.com/about/), actually. I think he’s a man who practices what he preaches. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/32 "2011-05-13T14:24:10Z")
Count me in as another who loved the show, loved the focus on science, and still remembers the theme song. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/33 "2011-05-13T14:53:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Every chance I get, I like to point out that Don Herbert(Mr. Wizard) lived right by us and my Mom and I used to sometimes see him at the grocery store and so forth. Very nice guy; never minded if people came up to him to talk science. 🙂 Awesome! I would’ve told him how much he inspired science in my life, and because of his show, I knew what burning hair smells like at the tender age of 11 as I tried to replicate one of his experiments and burnt my eyebrows clean off. (Trying to create a mini hot air balloon… I failed. And almost set my parent’s house on fire. Don’t tell them.) ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/34 "2011-05-13T14:53:35Z")
I wish this show was available on DVD ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/35 "2011-05-13T15:12:44Z")
I remember it…but barely. I definitely know the show existed…and I vaguely remember the theme song. So I will count myself in the “knows it” group. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/36 "2011-05-13T15:23:16Z")
One of my favorite shows as a kid. My favorite segment was the liquid nitrogen. Freezing a rubber ball and then shattering it on the floor - awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/37 "2011-05-13T15:39:36Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I remember it…but barely. > > I definitely know the show existed…and I vaguely remember the theme song. > > So I will count myself in the “knows it” group. Same here. It was a catchy tune. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/38 "2011-05-13T15:41:32Z")
Aside from the opening theme song, my only memory of the show now is a particular cartoon showing what it would be like to travel into the far, far future. I believe YouTube has it these days, somewhere. There’s a boy and his dog sitting on a hillside, watching as the days and nights whip by, then seasons, then years, then ages and ages. For a while, the only reason I was watching 3-2-1 Contact was for the chance to see this cartoon again. Not that I disliked the show, but I was otherwise a little old for it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/39 "2011-05-13T15:48:14Z")
I remember the show. I had a crush on one of the boys, big time. I don’t remember if it was the kid who was my age or the kid who was older (his older brother?) I was more of a _Square One_ fan, tho…which is weird because I love science more than math. But _Square One_ was so f’n clever! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761/40 "2011-05-13T15:51:35Z")
I got the magazine, also called “3-2-1 Contact.” And Ranger Rick. 😃 I’m pretty sure I watched the show sometimes, but we weren’t allowed much tv. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-remembers-the-tv-show-3-2-1-contact/581761.md?page=3)