Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" animated

[JumpStartGaming]

my science teacher showed me this, and said we'd get 5$ for who ever memorizes it

[TorchedSniper]

My teacher Mr.Powers showed me this during school So i came home and now im watching it again xD

[TheGhostTac0]

Mr. Powers, if you see this.... Hi

[xXkritozXx]

Science teacher says 50 extra credit to memorize this.... your on.

[HarmonizeWithMine]

I guess Lawrencium wasn't discovered when this was written. :D

[TheROFLTRAINDUDE2456]

I can say this entire song in 25 seconds without taking more than 2 breaths. I'm not gloating, I'm just that awesome.

[Fuckuevan]

the guy that is singing it cant even say it cuz hes going too fast!!!!how can i do that!i mean you cant expect a seventh grader to learn that

[Diannaconn]

This song is awsome, but it gives me a headache, I put it on my I-pod

[denAva3j]

I have to learn this song for school in one week wtf!?!?!

[SpindleBmx]

@denAva3j LOL your fucked

[beatyfulmagicsky]

i finally just learnt to say them its so cool IM TELLING EVERONE ABOUT THIS VIDEO SO THAT IT GETS MORE VIEWS

[TheFraternization]

IT'S SO MUCH FUN TO LISTEN TO!!! XD

[deafpizzacrust98]

I know sign language so I tried to fingerspell all of them. Carpal Tunnel.....here I come.

[WoWplayer791]

I used to be a scientist like you then I took a CH2O and SiO2 to thearticulatio genus

[WoWplayer791]

I used to be a scientist like you then I took a CH2O and SiO2 to thearticulatio genus

[RandomVidzWeirdKidz]

I will learn this.

[EliteSwabby]

The last two lines suck...They don't even have elements in them.XD

But serious the last two lines (containing elements) are such a pain to sing right.

[TheROFLTRAINDUDE2456]

@EliteSwabby its easy. theres sulfur californium and fermium berkelium and also mendelevium einsteinium nobelium and argon krypton neon radon xenon zinc and rhodium and chlorine carbon cobalt copper tungsten tin and sodium. whats so hard?

[MrGram1017]

they missed the Uu's!!

[mervertmoon]

@MrGram1017

Nope, they're in the last line...They hadn't been discovered when the song was written.

[server642]

@TimwiTerby That is just like the real video I saw in science class! Good job!

[bunnyboome]

Daniel Radcliffe brought me here.... (:

[jamesgriff97]

when he sings it : There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,

And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,

And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,

And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,

And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,

when i sing it: thers antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium

and bleh bluh b alh balh bu blop bledium... FFFUUUUUUU

[Ac3OfHe4rTZ]

i only know the first god damn line..

[mulberrytoast]

I've just finished learning it. The only tip I can give is if you are learning this, don't even attempt to learn a huge chunk of it at once. Otherwise you just end up going 'there's antimony, arseni-... suigeium, furejegeltium, suiejgeium...FUUU-...' Just try learning four lines at once, and repeating that over and over.

[TimwiTerby]

@mulberrytoast For me learning it all at once worked better. Everyone’s different :)

[mulberrytoast]

@TimwiTerby True :) I'm just saying what worked for me personally. Generally the people who learn it all at once end up rushing it and kind of slurring the names of the elements, so they're not really saying the elements themselves, just words that sound like them. That's all I was trying to warn people against. I just think it's much faster to learn things in chunks - a lot of science backs that up too. Either way though, thank you for uploading it!

[TimwiTerby]

@mulberrytoast If you wanna Skype with me, I can show you and then you can judge how much I “slur” the words — because I don’t think I do :)

[mulberrytoast]

@TimwiTerby Oh God, smiley faces aside ... are we really arguing about the best way to learn a Tom Lehrer song? I feel this is a low point in both our lives.

[TimwiTerby]

@mulberrytoast Hehe, I was just trying to be sociable... I love to meet new people, and I think you sound interesting, so I figured why not have a Skype chat :) It doesn’t have to be about Tom Lehrer :)

[derpvader1]

@TimwiTerby Awkward...

[Simis999]

30 people must have been looking for something else, like Avatar - the last air(and other elements)bender.

[khepTV]

whoa

[AlbinoBlueSquirrel]

i'm so close to being able to sing this. the last part of the last verse is a tongue twister though

[JulieVonJawbreaker]

NCIS brought me here <3 XD

[kathrynsconundrum]

@TimwiTerby, the music is actually courtesy of Gilbert and Sullivan (Major General's Song from Pirates of Penzance). Only the words are Lehrer's :)

[TimwiTerby]

@kathrynsconundrum I know that. In hindsight I agree I should have credited Gilbert and Sullivan for the *tune*. What I meant by “music” is that Tom Lehrer is *performing* it (both the singing and the piano playing).

[zandbtojump]

Chuck Noris alphabet *troll face*

[joshkalsi]

I learnt this when I was 14, I check back every now and again to check I still know it xD

[TheSmarties18]

I've learnt some of this, I'm such a nerd ;)

[trouts4]

Perfect ending

[Lefty7788tinkatolli]

I can sing this now!

[bellastatler11]

tomorrow i have 2 sing this by myself in front of my science class wish me luck :D

[ILUVZPOPCORN1710]

I can do: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen, Florine, Neon, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Silicon, Phosphorus. Haha, I got through ALMOST three periods, Hey, you gotta start somewhere right?

[DontWorryBeHappy06]

That awkward moment when you care more about memorizing scientific songs then passing science class.

[muffyblue]

Am I the only one who wants to bob up down during the beginning...?

[haloman12383]

I sang this in my science class

[Nantchev]

I am not a musician BUT I like how the rythme builds up whilst he says them faster. Which then leads to be sort of collapse of that speed for a few seconds to then repeat.

[dustomatic100]

i like the part where he said words I've never heard before...

[TrueDeath46]

Thumbs up if NCIS brought you here~

[VideoGAMEANDWATCH]

My chemistry teacher said he would give anyone who sang this and danced in frount of the class from memory 8 points on their average.

[TheSwashBuckling]

Great!

NOW DO IT IN LATIN!

* Asian dad*

[3monsters014]

@TheSwashBuckling Priceless laughed really hard

[EddyTheOliveira]

Holy damn this is too fast to keep up, I already lost track at rhenium! LOL

[PSlappy02]

my problem is actually how you pronounce the element, not what element you're singing

[PurplePolkaKitty]

xD LOL my 8th grade science teacher showed the class this!!!

[santiago68168]

this video is actually very fun and educative, its awesome!

[TheSmarties18]

Just downloaded the song on iTunes :)

[TheSmarties18]

Can't stop watching it :D I'll soon know it off by heart XD (just Kidding of course)

[poopthepig]

i konw the song word by word

[TrishCenPinoy]

this is an educational and enjoyable song..... BUT I CAN'T STOP FEELING IRRITATED BECAUSE I CAN'T SING IT!! lol!! :D

[Jefferdaughter]

@TrishCenPinoy -It's cute, but not so educational, as the sequence of the elements in the song is random.

[TimwiTerby]

@Jefferdaughter Random? It is not random at all, it rhymes and fits the melody extremely well. It is very educational in terms of music and songtexting!

[bellastatler11]

in my science class we have to memorize this all

[PSlappy02]

the end is the hardest, because it's so fast (when it says the noble gases)

[Activsoul]

@PSlappy02 It's actually not bad if you think of it this way:

Argon-krypton-neon-radon

xenon-zinc-and-rhodium

chlorine-carbon-cobalt-copper

tungsten-tin-and-sodium

Treat them like one long word and practice them as such. Sort of like as kids we sang L-M-N-O as one letter.

[287sweetiepie]

fast but great way to learn the periodic table of elements



[MountfordProductions]

Thumbs up if you saw daniel radcliffe sing this :)

[earamsey95]

I'm learning this for Chemistry! But I have to know it by Tuesday lol

[PSlappy02]

@earamsey95 good luck

[1bubblymonkey]

If i learn this song for chemistry in 2 weeks i get a prize :)

[hukablorp]

Beautiful! You'll need to update it at the very end, alas, for copernicium, flerovium and livermorium—a trio of elements that Tom Lehrer would not have enjoyed reciting at high speed.

[EpicMaxum5]

combining fast paced singing and piano. and elements. awesome.

[ILUVZPOPCORN1710]

Three words, LIKE A BOOS

[TrentonInoue]

Big Bang Theory! =)

[burgers131]

<3

[BooglyBoot]

we need an element called surprisium

[ZelddaLinkFreak]

Im memorizing this >:D

[BloodWarXXI]

best video ever thanks!



[KingOfKatamari]

There are now 113 elements which have officially been recognized by the IUPAC... Strange to think that we've found another 11 in just over 50 years.

[deathwing7734the1st]

I'd love to see someone post a video of them singing this

[TimwiTerby]

@deathwing7734the1st You don’t think Tom Lehrer is a someone?

[dragon917J]

@deathwing7734the1st Check out the video on the side with Daniel Radcliffe The guy from Harry Potter sings it ^.^

[WhatK8yBethdid]

@deathwing7734the1st unfortunately i have no social life so i did this -_-

[MrAchitturi]

Imma farmer in malaysia!!!!!!

[scourmish2]

@deathwing7734the1st Daniel radcliff can sing this off by heart (js) look it up

[brickmaster2303]

@deathwing7734the1st I would, probably on sunday! Watch it please!

[2kool4idk]

@deathwing7734the1st Daniel Radcliffe

[JoshWhitaker87]

who came here brcause of an episode of ncis?

[lolliepop90]

There's Copernicium, Darnstadtium, Mendelevium, rutherfordium...

[Lefty7788tinkatolli]

He missed out lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium and coperninicium and ununtrium ununquadrium ununpentium ununhexium ununseptium and ununoctium

[veciaugugustus3201]

@Lefty7788tinkatolli The song was written well before those elements were discovered.

[StrykeEvil]

@Lefty7788tinkatolli he made this in like the 1980's

[cowman326]

i have to try to sing this in a vid 4 school i cant do it

[Activsoul]

@cowman326 One line (~4 Elements) per week and you'll get it in less than a semester.

[cowman326]

@Activsoul lol ok but i have 2 weeks left :P i have almost half of it

[15Positron]

This would be hard to learn since he is singing it too fast. 

[Pnoyby1999]

omg this is the song our science teacher told us to sing to get extra credit on our chemistry test

[Daankanon]

1:06 Awesomee :P

[lolobunnys]

I love this song its super funny and whoever made it I think it was really great! and I really like it I think it was a really good job well done

[xo1k4]

Now i get it!! This helps me remember name, atomic weight, sign, and location so much thanks!!

[ThePentexSucksBalls]

Why did you spell Aluminium correctly in the video, but pronounce it incorrectly?

[TimwiTerby]

I am honoured that you thought I was Tom Lehrer. :)

[risla00n]

@TimwiTerby  :D

[MrTobi48]

@TimwiTerby WAit....YOURE Theodore Gray?!?!?!?!?

[xxjazzie98xx]

@TimwiTerby LOL

[Gamma287]

@ThePentexSucksBalls Al-yew-min-e-yum or Al-oo-mih-num?

[bskulldragon100]

@ThePentexSucksBalls

this was before the debate how to pronounce certin elements

but yes alot a people stil pronounce it incorrect

[spore637]

@ThePentexSucksBalls It's not incorrect. In American English, aluminium is written as "aluminum".

[budbuddingdingMUSE]

@ThePentexSucksBalls Dude, I think it's the way Americans pronounce 'aluminium'. It's fucked up I know.... I saw it on Family Guy aswell

[twistlaw]

@ThePentexSucksBalls Because we're Americans?

[bskulldragon100]

@twistlaw there was an agreement that if the british changed the pronounciation of a couple of elements we would to (aluminium bieng one of them)

[snovatf2]

@ThePentexSucksBalls It's the American way of saying it. Personally I think it sounds a bit stupid that way, but it is a lot more fluid for singing either way.

[Yossus]

@ThePentexSucksBalls Americans unfortunately have a habit of pronouncing it Aluminum...

[themusicguy12]

@ThePentexSucksBalls It's "Aluminum" in America. :)

[ChromaAurora]

@themusicguy12 Yes, but it is "Aluminium" by the IUPAC rules, just like we have to use the American spellings of cesium (caesium) and sulfur (sulphur) by official guidelines, so can't you give some leeway to the other side in this case?

It's all about compromise, isn't it? That's why tungsten uses a W for a symbol for instance, because some countries called it wolfram.

[Layorannay]

@ThePentexSucksBalls Aluminium is pronounced (A-loo-min-um) in america, whereas an Eglishman says (Al-you-mini-um)

[CashOnTheNail1955]

@ThePentexSucksBalls I ALWAY'S use American-ism's both in-speech & writing

[Inkyminkyzizwoz]

@ThePentexSucksBalls That's the American pronounciation - unfortunately, it has to be pronounced that way or it doesn't scan!

[haloman12383]

Need to memorize this for extra credit

[yusiefoodo555]

I have to memerize this song for science class for a test class :((

[thalestomazello]

Kool I Watch This Video In My Science Leson =D

[hallelovemaggiealott]

putting this in my chem project. hopefully you dont mind.

[Ezuriah]

Excellent job on this, keep up the good work! :)

[RAWRimmaUNICORN1]

good job i just got this song on my ipod hoping to memorize it by tomorow to impress my friend!

[ElektraAutumn]

Just watched this in Chem today.

[knbknb1]

they discovered even more: uut, uuq and so on :) LOVE THIS SONG

[EvilDrStrangeglove]

This helped me a ton in school. Thumbs up if this is the same for you!

[Trashcansam123]

Naming 102 elements in under 90 seconds not including the other words, thats boss.....

[bogosavljev]

It all makes sense now, so simple to remember all of it =D

[MsCrazy519]

Playlist-Favorites.

I WILL PASS YOU SCIENCE TEST!

[supermanfan2008]

The question remains, Will they blend?

[puppyluvr10100]

i watched this vid in school :)

[AstroGyrl101]

when was this song made? does any one know?

[theepicawesome100]

@AstroGyrl101 i think it was 1959

[cavedog962]

Well ain't that a mouth-full....

[drwhofreakyfreak1000]

thanks! i passed science!

[MrCcasler]

can i go to the next slide please? i kinda got carried away there....

[YoshiBoy1318]

You know, Ununtrium is going to be renamed "YoshiBoy1318-ium"

[MsCrazy519]

@YoshiBoy1318 so the covalent bond would be Stupid YoshiBoy1318-ide?

[Activsoul]

@MsCrazy519 If it were a covalent bond, you would likely use Greek prefixes, so it would likely be "Stupid MonoYoshiBoy1318ide"

[lijah326606noki]

all 23 pppl who dont like this song r just jealous they cant do this!!!!!

[cripple128]

if it weren't for this song i wouldn't be studying chemistry right now

[nickwalco]

like if you tried singing along but ended up talking gibberish x3

[Grapinator]

.... lol francium and calofinum i really think they are running out of names

[angelandspike133]

this ^ is how i memorized the periodic table for my exam xD i was looked at like i was insane when i started humming in the middle of the exam d:

[CrazySailor1637]

23 people didn't go to Harvard and weren't discovered

[Kolyamatic]

@CrazySailor1637

I correct: Haaavaard, discaaavard.

[tuschman168]

I just made it my goal to learn sing this song but it is especially difficult for me since english is not my first language. I figured as soon as i am able to sing this I should also be able to speak english in general accent-free. Far from it now, though.

[AlbinoBlueSquirrel]

i'm gonna see how long it takes me to memorize this... :)

[24nerdfighter]

@AlbinoBlueSquirrel

Took me a week and i'm 12.

Then again, I do have a photographic memory...

I wish you luck.

[Crowswing19]

Wow, the animation is spot on...... Great job!

[lillfinetunnings5]

what about unpententium

[MrTobi48]

@lillfinetunnings5 It's ununpentium, and second, it's a temporary name. Look at my comment at the "Uploader Comments" section.

[xoBriBriMcxo]

There's Antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and rhenium.

Whoooo! I know up to 00:12 :P

[MrCcasler]

how many times did he take a breath?!?!? i lost count at.....2.

[piegurl12]

i am so memorizing this

[KraytdragonPearlz]

@MrBosnianNinja BOOM! roasted.

[fishyflappers]

i lost the lyrics in the comments

[SilenceEmoGirl1123]

Chuck norris destroyed the periodic table because he only recognizes the element of suprise... -.-

[MrCooCoo4crack]

Sheldon Cooper brought me here.

[pizmohbro]

I raped the replay button.

[pizmohbro]

This is insane. Very catchy. :)

[Loui5D]

@Leishmaniasisably its spelt caesium

[10Shivi]

Haha, my Geography sub only got to 15 seconds before getting pissed off today XD

[atome000]

the "Unun" elements aren't mentioned because they are not permanent names, therefore they are not elements amongst the scientific society. the others aren't mentioned because this was written in the mid 1900's

[KonkuroLvr]

<3 him!!!!!



[fishyflappers]

meitnerium, darmstadtium, roentgenium, copernicium, ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, and ununoctium arent mentioned.