Yay! Can’t seem to get enough of finding snippets of the old shows I used to watch on channel 9 (PBS in NorCal)…

Newton’s Apple was this kind of low-key one where they’d answer science related questions sent in by viewers at home. Didn’t quite have the memorable visuals and humor of shows like Square One, except maybe that bespectacled host guy who seems to have a face worth recalling… and maybe the spaceships and cows and CPR in that episode preview were pretty hilarious too. I don’t really remember very much. However, the part I always liked and retained about it was the catchy theme song and the accompanying animation.

It turns out that the Newton’s Apple theme is taken from Kraftwerk, a band I didn’t start hearing till much later in life. Dang, physics nerds are hipsters at heart. If you don’t believe that, get a load of these über kühl 70’s German kids bobbing their heads to Ruckzuck:

Das brett ist krass. Voll der Hammer!

[German slang courtesy of BBC]