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An educational science show that uses demonstration and experiment as its primary means of conveying information. When Mythbusters hit the airwaves in the year 2003 and became extremely popular, a number of Follow the Leader shows began appearing in its wake, leading to a new breed of Edutainment. The crux of these shows is that they ask questions about the world around us, then set out to answer them through a combination of quasi-scientific experiments, building of zany contraptions, Education Through Pyrotechnics and Stuff Blowing Up. The actual "education" vs "explosions" ratio varies by the quality and target audience of the show. The best of these shows are often Carried By The Hosts, whose knowledge and personality drive the show's content as much as the explosions do. Others try to highlight Docu Soap style drama between the hosts and/or builders, for better or worse. The show's hosts will frequently be supplemented by a cast of recurring experts to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. See also: Science Show (though History is also a popular target for these shows) and One I Prepared Earlier. |
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TruTV's Man Vs. Cartoon - which tries Wile E. Coyote's schemes in real life... just to see what would happen if someone one actually tried them, set up as a competition between groups of bickering engineering students. | |
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A non-video example is the What If? blog by Randall Munroe of xkcd fame. Although it fits the basic mold of the trope, there are almost no actual experiments as the questions generally involve hypothetical scenarios that are physically impossible or unfeasible. They have a disturbing tendency to destroy large portions of the planet, actually. | |
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G4's Effin' Science: A spin-off of Attack of the Show!. Take a bunch of experiments Mythbusters already didnote even building an air cannon to shoot frozen chickens through glass, remove the actual myths from the equation, and roll the whole thing up in Rule of Cool. G4 later complimented Effin' Science with another Mythbusters style program, Proving Ground, in June 2011. That show featured stunts from various Video Games, Comic Books and television shows being tested in the real world. After just one episode had aired, its co-host, Jackass star Ryan Dunn, died in a car accident and the show was pulled from G4's schedule immediately |
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Time Warp takes the high-speed camera work that Mythbusters helped popularize and the idea that people were willing to tune in just for that. Each show picked a selection of things to examine and situations to put them through and broke down how they worked with the slow motion - fun things like fluid dynamics and martial artists. Interestingly Time Warp cuts out pretty much everything that all the other Follow The Leader shows did, especially problematic. The hosts are professionals and they simply look to find unique things to capture on high-speed. There is some science involved to explain what they are watching but there aren't any builds or co-host drama. | |
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Like Time Warp above, LoadingReadyRun's show Daily Drop makes extensive use of the high-speed camera. Instead of anything particularly science-related, though, LRR simply used it to subject various items to a Slow-Motion Drop. Crowbars and cinder blocks optional. | |
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Mythbusters, of course. The show started with just Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, two special effects experts, doing urban legends and debunking Hollywood Style tropes (and Tropes Examined by the MythBusters is its own page). Over the years they've added aphorisms, physics thought experiments, historical recreations and product claim testing to their repertoire, as well as adding (and later losing) the Build Team and making friends in nearly every fire department around San Francisco. Build Team member Kari Byron got her own Science channel show, Head Rush, which is essentially a Re-Cut of Mythbusters with interviews and experiments kids can do at home. |
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The first copycat show was Brainiac: Science Abuse, a British show hosted by Richard Hammond. It tries to seriously investigate myths and popular expressions, but due to a lack of scientific rigor and focus on Fanservice, explosions and Rule of Cool, it's much closer to Jackass than MythBusters in execution. Notable for their "testing" of alkali metals in water; they demonstrated Sodium and Potassium accurately, but when their expectations as they moved down the group were not met, they opted to fake the results they wanted with explosives, instead of actually exploring the science of why Rubidium and Ceasium don't go kaboom when dropped in a bathtub. It justly earned them a fair bit of flak - sample quote, "what is the point of a science programme that shows what happens when you add A to B if the sequence shows nothing of the kind?" Several years later and after he left Brianiac, Hammond would return with Blast Lab, a children's show that took the Stuff Blowing Up For Science! parts of Brainiac and Mythbusters and ran with it. |
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Several years later and after he left Brianiac, Hammond would return with Blast Lab, a children's show that took the Stuff Blowing Up For Science! parts of Brainiac and Mythbusters and ran with it. | |
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