I am growing increasingly desperate to find the track that the Bloodhound Gang sampled for the bass lick from 'The Bad Touch' single (a.k.a. the Discovery Channel song).

Please!? Can anyone help me?!

Don't know if this is any use (from Wikipedia):

"The Bad Touch" is the first single by The Bloodhound Gang off their 1999 album Hooray for Boobies. It was released in 1999 internationally and, a year later, in the U.S. and UK. The song was also remixed by God Lives Underwater & Eiffel 65. The music is based on the Pet Shop Boys song "In the Night" (the B-side of the "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" single from the album Please), and was supposedly written in 1986 by then 14-year-old Jimmy Pop, despite the presence of a reference to a television series which premiered in 1993.

The song's catchy chorus features the couplet, "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals/ so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." The Discovery Channel is a cable TV channel which frequently shows nature documentaries, often featuring footage of animals mating. The picture sleeve for the single shows two zebras copulating.

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The bass sounds very New Orderish to me and the backing has elements of Gary Numan (and dare I say, such a soundscape was used on Girls Aloud's Sound Of The Underground).

Although the Bloodhound Gang use samples very often, I think this particular bassline was written by them. I might be wrong though. And yes, it does sound like a Peter Hook bassline.

Well, thanks for the advice.

I'd already checked the Pet Shop Boys song (via Wiki) and you can tell it's the template for the Bloodhound Gang, but it doesn't have the bass line I'm looking for.

I'm coming round to the view that they did indeed write the lick themselves.

Evil Jarred Hasselhoff certianly plays it himself when they play live. If it was a sample, DJ Q Ball would most likely be reproducing it.