Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC Two situation comedy set in a university science laboratory starring Chris Addison, who co-wrote the series with Carl Cooper.

[4] Tim Teeman writing in The Times said "Lab Rats is a truly appalling new sit-com [...] Bad puns, redundant characters, lame jokes [...] Not even the best surgeon in the land could save this."

(0/5 stars)[5] However Robert Hanks in The Independent said "remarkable for its combination of very silly jokes and rather well-researched evolutionary theory.

"[6] Robert Collins of The Daily Telegraph gave it his critic's choice, calling it "likeable, madcap comedy [...] a catalytic reaction of Red Dwarf and The IT Crowd, in a solution of Are You Being Served?

"[7] Visitors to the British Comedy Guide website voted Lab Rats as the "Worst New British TV Sitcom" of 2008 in its annual awards, with the website saying that: "The idea behind the show may have been good (to bring back silly studio-based sitcom to the BBC), but the execution was anything but good.