The
music video for the song, created by
Hammer & Tongs, is an elaborate homage to the famous opening sequence of the French educational series
Once Upon a Time... Man. It shows a timeline depicting the entire process of
human evolution condensed into three and a half minutes. The beginning of the music video is set "350 billion years ago" and starts with a single-celled
eukaryote in the ocean transforming into a
jellyfish, an aquatic
worm-like creature, a
pipefish, a
pufferfish, and then a
barracuda-like fish. It manages to eat a smaller fish before leaping up onto dry land. With a
tyrannosaur visible in the background and a
mantis in front, it stays still for a few seconds, becoming a primitive
amphibian-like Tetrapod similar to
Hynerpeton before setting off and eating the insect, while a
volcano erupts in the background. The amphibian transforms into a small
alligator as it enters a forest. It sees a tall tree, which it climbs up. Its body is obscured by the tree as its hands visibly change into those of three different
primates until it arrives at the top as an
ape that vaguely resembles a
chimpanzee. It jumps from the tree into an icy landscape, enduring a
blizzard as it morphs into a larger,
gorilla-like ape. At the end of a large cliff, the ape beats its chest as the camera zooms out to show a vast desert. The ape jumps onto the ground, where it begins running. A large storm blows away much of its hair, turning it into a
hominid reminiscent of a
homo erectus (at this point, the timer at the bottom right slows dramatically). It runs faster and puts on some
trousers and a T-
shirt with the logo "I'm #1 so why try harder?". When fully clothed, it turns into a modern
human with a beard and dons a pair of sunglasses. The man walks through a city environment, eating one bite of a
hamburger (taken from a cardboard cutout of Fatboy Slim himself) and throwing the rest aside. He pulls off his facial hair and morphs into the obese character depicted on the cover of the album. Finally he sits down to rest on a bench as night falls, then smiles and leans back to look up as the constellation of
Orion appears above. ==Track listings==