TV Guide

Every channel on Channel GG. Pick a show, or turn the knob and let fate decide.

  1. CH 17:30Channel GGCartoons, the crew and the toy aisle. Pour a bowl and start here.
  2. CH 28:00Meet the CrewSay hi to the microbes working your night shift. Trading cards, tools and the buffet.
  3. CH 38:30Saturday Morning LessonsFive-second cartoons about what your gut gets up to all day.
  4. CH 410:00The ArcadeGames that teach. Insert no coins.
  5. CH 510:30The Toy AisleGut goodies for grown-ups. Collect the set, feed the crew.
  6. CH 69:00The MapRide the gut from Chomp Station to Downtown and get your passport stamped at every stop.
  7. CH 79:15The Tool KitEnzymes that snip, chip, slice and pop, plus bile, the soap. Grab one and cut something.
  8. CH 89:45The BuffetPrebiotics and fibre: food your tools can’t cut, served to the crew Downtown.
  9. CH 911:30The StationWho runs this channel, questions, fan mail and the fine print.
  10. CH 1011:00The GlossaryGut words from A to Z: a true definition and a silly one, side by side.
  11. CH 117:00The TV GuideWhat’s on, what’s next, and what’s on at 3 a.m. (it’s the fine print).
  12. CH 1210:45A Word from Our SponsorsJingles, slogans and a very calm announcer. Stay through the break.
  13. CH 1311:15The Sticker BookPeel, stick, show off. Then go find the ones you’re missing.
  14. CH 1412:30The Season PassNever miss an episode. Your goodies turn up every month, for less.
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Stop 3The stomach

Acid Lake

Swimming not advised. Spores welcome.

The tourPoke around

Tour the set

Press the numbers and see what’s what.

Acid Lake: a bright lime-yellow bubbling lake with wavy steam lines inside a soft pink cave of folds, a jetty with a lifeguard chair, a lifebuoy and a rowboat on the left, and a round green valve gate on the right.
On the set1The lake2The steam3The lifeguard chair4The rowboat5The valve6The cave walls

Your guide to Acid Lake

The stomach is a stretchy muscular bag that churns food with acid and enzymes into a thick soup called chyme. Its lining makes hydrochloric acid, enough to bring the lake down to about pH 1.5 to 3.5.

The acid unfolds proteins and switches on pepsin, the stomach’s own protease. A thick layer of mucus keeps the lake from digesting its own shoreline. Most microbes don’t enjoy the swim, which is why Sporty (B. coagulans) travels packed in a spore.

Far-out fact

Stomach acid runs at about pH 1.5 to 3.5. It starts protein digestion with pepsin, and spores like Sporty ride straight through it.

Each step on the pH scale is ten times more acidic, so pH 2 is about 100,000 times more acidic than pure water.

Locals and staff

Very few microbes settle here. Sporty passes through in his spore coat and hatches downstream.

ResidentsSporty
At work hereProteaseBromelainPapain
On TVEP 1 Spore WarsEP 4 Snip Snip Hooray

Passport stamp

Stamping…

From the gift shop

Postcards are free. These cost a little more.

Your passport so far

Passport · Channel GG

0 of 9 stamps

  1. Chomp Station
  2. The Waterslide
  3. Acid Lake
  4. Bubble Works
  5. The Tool Shed
  6. Villi Vanilli
  7. The Wall
  8. Downtown
  9. Second Brain FM

Next stop down the gut · Stop 4

Bubble Works

The liver and gallbladder. Bile is made in the liver and stored in the gallbladder. It’s a soap, not an enzyme.

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