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 2The oesophagus

The Waterslide

One way only. Keep your arms inside the bolus.

The tourPoke around

Tour the set

Press the numbers and see what’s what.

The Waterslide: a glossy coral tube slide ringed with muscle bands swoops in S-curves from a ladder platform to a round splash pool with inner tubes, one band squeezing a water bubble along, under a tangerine sunburst.
On the set1The ladder2The bands3The squeeze4The sky5The exit6The drain

Your guide to The Waterslide

The oesophagus is a muscular tube, about 25 centimetres long, from the back of the throat to the stomach. It doesn’t rely on gravity. Rings of muscle squeeze behind the bolus and relax in front of it, in a travelling wave called peristalsis.

That’s how astronauts swallow in orbit, and why you could, in principle, swallow standing on your head. We don’t recommend it. At the bottom, a ring of muscle (a sphincter) opens to let lunch into Acid Lake and closes behind it.

Far-out fact

Swallowed food doesn’t fall to your stomach. Muscles squeeze it down in a wave called peristalsis, and it works upside down too.

Liquids take a second or two. A chewed mouthful takes a few seconds more.

Locals and staff

Nobody lives on a waterslide. The crew rides it once, on the way in.

Passport stamp

Stamping…

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 3

Acid Lake

The stomach. pH about 1.5 to 3.5. Pepsin starts on protein; spores ride right through.

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The crew’s waiting in the toy aisle.

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