Hey You What If?
Hey You What If? is a comedy program on CBBC. We answer the ‘what if’ questions that you never even thought to ask! Each episode asks a question and takes you on an unforgettable journey where the impossible is made possible to find the answer! The program has been available since 2024. A total of 33 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2024.
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Hey You What If?
Empty the oceans and you’d see hidden wonders, but you’d also cause the end of the world.
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Is it really possible to teleport? Spoiler alert: it could end in disaster!
Series 2
We reveal how to create the ultimate in tall buildings by going to the moon and taking inspiration from wedding cakes.
Series 1
It’s the ultimate baking challenge: making a gingerbread house you could actually live in.
Series 2
To throw a ball around the world, you need to start out in space, throw it ten times the speed of a bullet and make sure your ball does not explode when it hits the atmosphere.
Series 1
Why waking up with lizard powers would make you useless on earth but a superhero in space!
Series 2
If everyone in the world ate nothing but cheeseburgers, we would run out of land, and even if we went meat-free, we would have to invent some crazy burgers to get the nutrients we need.
Series 1
What happens if you try to catch a falling star? Spoiler alert - probably best not to try!
Series 2
What would the planet be like if all other humans disappeared, leaving you as the last person on earth?
Imagine removing all the colours one by one? It would change more than just how things look, and after taking out just three colours, we would not be able to see anything at all!
Imagine if we had a thermostat that could turn the world temperature down - could we fix global warming? But be careful, a few degrees too far could cause an ice age.
From cloning to 3D printing, what if we could actually make copies of ourselves?
Bugs might be annoying, but we would soon regret it if we got rid of them - all our favourite foods would disappear, and there would be dung everywhere!
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to walk through walls? From turning into a gas to quantum trickery, we discover why it wouldn't be quite as useful as you'd like.
Could you build a slide to the other side of the world? You would need to start in space, use the slippiest slide ever and make sure you have enough supplies before you go down it!
We try using a gravity-bending black hole and spinning the earth faster to see if we can make it possible to walk on the ceiling..
We look at whether some animals can get gigantic and find out that if you are being chased by a giant snail or a humungous butterfly, then fear not, you must be dreaming.
We imagine a world where it's possible to move things with your mind like films, but find that the laws of physics mean that this superpower wouldn't quite work like you'd expect.
There is a way that Earth could have a second Sun, so we try it out to see what happens.
We try out three potential ways to become invisible and discover some surprising side effects.