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Vsauce (Web Video)
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Vsauce is a group of three channels hosted by Michael Stevens, Kevin Lieber, and Jake Roper.The channels are: Vsauce, hosted by Michael, which talks about the wonders of science and explains the answers to scientific questions in an entertaining way Vsauce2, hosted by Kevin, which talks about awesome creations and "the best of the Internet" Vsauce3, hosted by Jake, which talks about fictional worlds and powersIn addition to scientific topics, they talk about various geeky and thought-provoking subjects. They collaborate with other YouTubers and celebrities like Adam Savage.Not to be confused with Vinesauce, which is a collective of gaming channels. | |
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Dropped link to MatthewSantoro: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to MyDrunkKitchen: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to TropeMaker: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to billnyethescienceguy: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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TropeMaker | |
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Arc Symbol | |
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Arc Symbol: For all three channels, a brain. | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech: Michael is fond of making these toward the end of many of his videos. | |
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Spectacular Spinning | |
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Spectacular Spinning: This video where Michael discusses the physics of spinning. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: Jake throughout "Could You Live Forever?" He ultimately dies at the end. | |
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"No. Just… No" Reaction | |
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"No. Just… No" Reaction: Jake has one when he starts to go into an "OVER 9000" joke when talking about a Dragon Ball t-shirt on a GAME LÜT episode. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Analyzed in these two videos. | |
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Noir Episode | |
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Noir Episode: "What If Quicksilver Ran Past You?" switches between a regular Vsauce video and a narrative starring two detectives, Jake and Matthew Santoro, as they further investigate Quicksilver. There's also muppets. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: In the Mind Field Halloween special, around 15 minutes from the start, when Michael is addressing the audience in the room full of candles, a doll of Michael on the shelf behind him can be seen turning its head. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Hannah Hart from My Drunk Kitchen appears briefly in this video. Matthew Santoro and The Muppets appear in "What If Quicksilver Ran Past You?", described on one forum as "a nerdy noir Muppet Christmas Carol" due to Gonzo and Rizzo recapping the event of the Quicksilver video as they did in that film. Chris Pratt and paleontologist Jack Horner (separately) speak with Michael throughout "Dinosaur Science". | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: The main theme of all the channels, but especially the first channel. | |
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Muppet Cameo | |
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Muppet Cameo: "What If Quicksilver Ran Past You?" is narrated by Gonzo and Rizzo. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: From "What Color Is a Mirror?": Michael ends "Fixed Points" with a series of "four" puns, the last one punning on his own catchphrase ("Thanks four watching"). | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Michael made a video explaining all about Non-Indicative Names, a.k.a. misnomers. | |
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Occam's Razor | |
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Occam's Razor: Explained in "Did the Past Really Happen?" as the most well-known philosophical razor. | |
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Dragons Up the Yin Yang | |
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Dragons Up the Yin Yang: The taijitu, also known as the yin-yang symbol, is briefly explained at the beginning of "What's the Brightest Thing in the Universe?", and is brought up again at the end of the video. The video ends with a depiction of a black hole consuming a star and creating a quasar, before a border circle appears to form a proper taijitu. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Game LÜT: This series features loot based off of video games such as plushes, board games, and props. Running on Vsauce 3. Also on Vsauce 2, but simply called LÜT. | |
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Ate His Gun | |
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Ate His Gun: Near the end of "BLOW YOUR MIND!", Michael says he's "made of Vsauce", takes a Nerf gun, and shoots himself through the mouth, causing green "blood" to splatter onto the wall. | |
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Poe's Law | |
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Poe's Law: Michael explains Poe's Law in a video asking if the Earth is actually flat. | |
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It Kind of Looks Like a Face | |
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It Kind of Looks Like a Face: Discussed in "Spooky Coincidences?" where Michael calls it by the formal term pareidolia. Examples he list include hearing your name in the sound of running water, hearing English words in a song That's not English, and seeing faces that weren't intended to look like faces. | |
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Cue Card Pause | |
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Cue Card Pause: Happens a lot on Vsauce 1. Michael especially likes making a statement or series of statements, usually about a common assumption. After a pause, he adds, "right?" to cast doubt on whatever he said beforehand. It's never been right. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Trope Codifier: In "Who Took the First Selfie?", hiromix's 1995 photographs are suggested as these for the selfie, as part of the general discussion about what a selfie really is and where the boundary lies. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: Discussed and tested in the first episode of Mind Field. Michael enters and lives inside an isolated room for three days straight, which as he says can lead to permanent brain damage. Some of the things he experiences include thinking time is moving faster than it really is, seeing the white light turn a different color, and not being able to tell the difference between a dream and reality. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The earliest videos of Michael's channel were VERY different compared to the later ones. The videos were more gaming-centric, featured multiple hosts and a sillier tone (similar to Barely Political's videos), as opposed to the more science-centric and serious videos of later. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: In some videos, Michael talks to the same person at the start as he does at the end. For example, in one video, Bill Nye asks him, "Why did the chicken cross the road?". At the end, Bill Nye returns. In many videos, Michael will ask a question, move to new, tangentially-related topics every few minutes, and then return to the original question. Jake's "3 paradoxes" video forms a loop with the end seguing into the start. While explaining the butterfly effect, Jake kills a fly, causing him to spontaneously grow a mustache. A knife also materializes in his pocket. He ends up throwing the knife behind him, killing another Jake in the distance. Jake uses this to segue into the grandfather paradox, the last of the three. He realizes that the entire video is a paradox and tries to do his Signing-Off Catchphrase, but disappears from existence before he can complete the sentence. The camera winds up on the ground, in the exact same state that it was at the start. The beginning of the video replays itself, and you already know where this is going... Heck, Jake even used this for his April Fools' Day 2015 video, titled "∞", which was merely the "3 paradoxes" episode looped repeatedly and perfectly for over two hours. "What's the Brightest Thing in the Universe?" opens with a tangent about the taijitu, or the yin-yang symbol. At the end of the video, the topic of yin-yang is recalled, linking it to the fact that the brightest things in the universe come from the darkest, and that the brightest cities have the darkest skies. | |
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Chromatic Arrangement | |
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Chromatic Arrangement: Vsauce's primary color is green, Vsauce 2's is blue, and Vsauce 3's is purple. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: "BLOW YOUR MIND!" (off of Michael's channel) is just a collection of factoids; it tackles nothing scientific. | |
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Uncanny Valley | |
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Uncanny Valley: Discussed in "Why are things creepy?". Michael explains the concept with the typical graph and shows a couple of examples, like robots with human faces, unsettling dolls or talking sheep-like humanoids. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Michael is fond of asking these in video titles to confuse viewers and entice them to watch the video to get the answer. Examples include: Where is this video? How many things are there? Where do deleted files go? When will we run out of names? | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: "BLOW YOUR MIND!" | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: Michael is very fond of puns. For example, in one of his his videos on cannibalism, he builds up to a joke about "getting the cold shoulder". In "Dord.", he explains a story where understanding the puns made from corn onomatopoeias is important (citing The Pun Also Rises), then ends by saying the oldest recorded pun was literally "corny". | |
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Nerd Glasses | |
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Nerd Glasses: Michael and Kevin. | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
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Michael, Kevin, and Jake say, "And as always, thanks for watching!" at the end of their videos. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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img!: The oldest series on Vsauce1. Founded on August 10, 2010, it was suspended on September 2, 2012...until it returned as a Short on August 30, 2023 more than a decade later. | |
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Mook Chivalry | |
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Mook Chivalry: Discussed briefly in "Is All Fair in Love and War?"; the trope is thought of as a way to ensure fun and entertainment in fiction. Michael suggests that in real life, humans are no different from the mooks when it comes to achieving certain goals. | |
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Constellations as Locations | |
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Constellations as Locations: Vsauce talks about this misperception here, where he describes how constellations appear as cohesive shapes only due to our perception of the sky as a flat plane, whereas in truth this is only an illusion and their component stars are often very far away from one another. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: One of the opening gags of App All Knight, where Michael and Jake converse and end up creating a Hurricane of Puns emphasizing the "app" sound in each word. They are subsequently crushed by a rAPPtor. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
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Interface Spoiler: Of the Five-Second Foreshadowing variety. Sometimes whenever text appears on the screen, the viewer can predict if more text will soon appear to change the meaning by how it's placed. Examples: In "What If You Were Born in Space?": The beginning of "The Zipf Mystery" averts this. "The Zipf Mystery" has Michael signing off as usual... while there is still over half the time left in the video player. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: "Could You Live Forever?" has Jake having bouts of coughing throughout, and near the end it escalates to where there's blood on his handkerchief. He gets so worn and weak by the end that he just collapses and dies after he says the Signing-Off Catchphrase. | |
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Random Events Plot | |
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Random Events Plot: In longer videos, Michael goes from topic to topic with the loosest of segues, using a word from the last subject to head into the next one. He manages to return to the original topic by the end of the video. For example, in The Odd Number Rule, they go: Why are we here?; Is a dog allowed to play basketball?; Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination leading to World War I; the odd number rule; basic calculus; Colorado is not actually rectangular due to surveying errors; Air Bud should not have been allowed to play basketball. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Apparently, Michael started this video completely naked. | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Michael, Kevin, and Jake say, "And as always, thanks for watching!" at the end of their videos. Each channel also has its own opening catchphrase: Michael's is "Hey, Vsauce, Michael here!" Kevin's is "Vsauce, Kevin here!" Jake's is "Vsauce, I'm Jake!" Another one for Michael: "...or is it?" | |
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Ur-Example | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_b20fdfc8 | comment |
Ur-Example: Discussed in "Who Took the First Selfie?", along with Trope Maker and Trope Codifier. Specifically, handprints are given as the Ur-Example, early self-photographs as the Trope Maker and hiromix's 1995 photography as the Trope Codifier, as well as recounting the probable Trope Namer which came in 2002 on an Australian forum. | |
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Retool | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_b2283870 | comment |
Retool: Vsauce2 has undergone this several times. 2018: Mind Blow ended, and the channel's focus shifted to abstract logic and game theory. 2021: Focus shifted to true crime stories. 2023: Return of Mind Blow. Shift in video length from 10–20 minutes to 45+ minutes. | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Michael will often get sidetracked and start talking about something only tangentially related to the subject in the video's title. Michael justifies it in a TED talk: his goal is to discuss and teach any subjects that he can with the questions in the title only being "hooks" to get the viewer's attention. | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_be5247e5 | comment |
Signing Off Catchphrase: Shared by all three channels: "And as always, thanks for watching." It's become so ubiquitous with Michael in particular that he even uses it for his TED Talks. The catchphrase is familiar enough to viewers that Michael can subvert the trope to good effect. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Another one for Michael: "...or is it?" | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Several examples - see the series list above. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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DOT.: The main series on Vsauce 1note and from September 9, 2012 to August 30, 2023 the only series on the channel. Questions are answered with a plethora of extra facts thrown into the mix. They're scientifically themed on Vsauce, but more video game themed on Vsauce 3, where the series is called HeadShot. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: Rarely is Jake able to normally introduce an App All Knight episode without him being killed. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Giving an example of the (former) hapax legomenon "quizzaciously" (which means "in a mocking manner"), Michael parodies himself. | |
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Tinfoil Hat | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_cafc801b | comment |
Tin Foil Hat: In "Is Earth Actually Flat?", Michael briefly dons one while talking about the "Big Globe" conspiracy. He removes the hat when he goes on to explain Poe's Law. | |
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Lame Pun Reaction | |
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Lame Pun Reaction: Usually, Michael has no audience in-video to react to his puns, though in "Jurassic World Science", he thanks Jack Horner for laughing and admits he made an overused joke to Chris Pratt. | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
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GRUB: All about Foreign Queasine and only on Vsauce 2. | |
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No Title | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_ce90c792 | comment |
No Title: One of Micheal's videos. Fittingly, the video explores the concept of "nothing". | |
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Nightmare Face | |
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Nightmare Face: "Why are things creepy?" gives us an unsettling distorted face at the very end of the video. You might not see it instantly because it slowly fades in, and even in the apex it's pretty dim. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: In "Do Chairs Exist?", Michael unfolds a paper crane accompanied by dramatic music (screaming violin, drumbeats) plays and the camera zooming in on him. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Averted; Michael is very good about giving viewers a sense of scale when talking about space and anything with large numbers, really. | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_d73e0f7f | comment |
"Ray of Hope" Ending: In "What If The Sun Disappeared", Michael says that while almost everything would die (including humans) Extremophiles (creatures that live near thermal vents at the bottom of the sea) would be fine, as they don't need the sun in the first place, and could eventually evolve into sapient life, particularly if the Earth got close enough to another star to get pulled into orbit, and said star thawed the planet out. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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Humans Are Special: Essentially the theme of Vsauce2. | |
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Fascinating Eyebrow | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_e4b82f6f | comment |
Fascinating Eyebrow: Michael often raises an eyebrow during his videos, and his avatar shows him doing this as well. | |
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Acronym and Abbreviation Overload | |
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BiDiPi: Build it. Draw it. Play it. The coolest creations from everyday humans. Only on Vsauce 2. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_e8cae797 | comment |
Freudian Trio: Michael Stevens: (Ego) Kevin Lieber: (Superego) Jake Roper: (Id) | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Due to Michael's beard, intelligence, and receding hairline, you'd think he was around 40. Analyzed in "Did People Used To Look Older?" [sic]. Decades ago people didn't take care of their body as much as today, which made them age faster... but there's also a strong psychological component that accounts for most of the effect. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: Michael made a video with MinutePhysics titled "Guns in Space", which explains some facts about space, orbits, and guns. At the end, the video links to the MinutePhysics video "What If the Earth Were Hollow?", which links back to the Vsauce video, which links back to the MinutePhysics video, which links back to the Vsauce video, which links back to... | |
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Space Elevator | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_ee13f24f | comment |
Space Elevator: Discussed in the last few minutes of "How High Can We Build?". | |
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Once per Episode | |
| Vsauce (Web Video) / int_f05444a4 | comment |
Once per Episode: For all three channels, the NES cartridge being squished, revealing a coloured goo that corresponds to whichever channel the video is uploaded to. That ended in 2015, when the animations were replaced by a rounded Vsauce logo over some footage. Every episode of Mind Blow on Vsauce2 ends with a couple of offbeat but interesting inventions or discoveries followed by a surreal animated gif. Michael will often follow an uncontroversial statement with "Or does it?" or "Or is it?" | |
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Uranus Is Showing | |
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Uranus Is Showing: In the short video "Solar System Scale Stickers", Michael advertises to-scale stickers of the planets by sticking them to his face, except for Uranus, which he sticks to his rear end. | |
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