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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })"Science rules!"One of the best examples of the kids' Science Show genre from the 1990s. The show, produced by a joint venture between Seattle PBS affiliate KCTS-TV and Buena Vista Television, lasted from 1993 to 1998, 5 seasons and 100 episodes. Each episode is centered on an area of scientific study, varying in level of focus from a single concept to an entire discipline. The show's eponymous host, dressed like a cross between a Mad Scientist and a birthday party magician, would teach the subject with a genuine level of excitement and interest most men reserve for the Super Bowl.The show was hosted by Bill Nye, a science guy, comedian and former Boeing engineer who got his start in television on the Seattle local comedy show Almost Live! (where he got the "Science Guy" epithet after correcting the host's pronunciation of Gigawatt) before starting his PBS show in 1993. (He also made several appearances on Disney shows prior to this, specifically the new version of The Mickey Mouse Club. Fitting, as this was produced by Disney.) Although not technically a "scientist" in the sense of being a PhD with a particular specialty, Bill Nye holds patents for things ranging from jet engine components to ballet shoes, explains scientific concepts both accurately and clearly,note though some of it now subject to Science Marches On, of course and each show featured a professor in whatever topic was being discussed that week in the "Way Cool Scientist" segment, which allowed those researchers to explain their topic from the laboratory or the field. With 90's kids now in college and graduate school, it's relatively common to find science majors, Masters students, and PhD students who point to Bill Nye as an inspiration for their interest in becoming scientists themselves.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The show has a few internal Catch Phrases and idioms, most notably the introduction of new experimental equipment via the following formula: "[Somewhat-Generic-Description-of-Device] Of Science!" *fanfare*Then, in almost every episode, they'd take a well-known song (usually Alternative Rock), cut the song length in half, then replace the lyrics with lyrics related to the show's topic. And a guy on YouTube uploaded every single one of them. On three occasions, actual rock artists did the song: Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America did a parody of his band's hit "Peaches", The Posies reworked their song "Flavor of the Month" with lyrics about ocean exploration, and grunge rockers Mudhoney did a cover of the show's theme song.This show ran on PBS in the mid-1990s, and also in syndication (Disney co-produced the show with Seattle's PBS station KCTS). It then retired to Noggin and stayed until Noggin was merged into Nick Jr. However, Bill Nye is still on TV. He has a series of specials called The Eyes of Nye, which are much closer in form to a TV Documentary series (like Nova) than his previous show. Today, he's an outspoken environmental activist. His series on Planet Green, Stuff Happens, is a show about the unintended environmental consequences of the stuff we do and use. He also occasionally guest-stars on the reality show Living With Ed; he's really Ed Begley Jr.'s neighbor, within a few miles, and the two have an ongoing rivalry to "out-green" each other. Bill Nye is also the go-to guy to explain interesting science stories on cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC. His latest endeavor is the Netflix exclusive Bill Nye Saves the World, which is clearly targeted at those who grew up with the old show.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })As it ran during the same stretch as Beakman's World, the two shows get compared often, though Beakman's World tended to leer more on other aspects of knowledge than simply on science, and Bill Nye often explored subjects that had scientific reasoning behind it (such as populations, communication, probability and odds, and music) more than Beakman's World did.Pacific Interactive adapted the series into an adventure game, Bill Nye the Science Guy: Stop the Rock!, in 1996.He also has a series of YouTube videos called Consider the Following that are located on the Planetary Society's channel and continue his mission of spreading science.Oh, and Bill Nye was Humanist of the Year in 2010. Make of that what you will. | |
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Adam Westing: Bob Ross appeared on an episode about the human eye painting a giant eyeball with "happy little rods and cones". | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In the episode about probability, Bill is standing in the middle of a park looking for four-leaf clovers. He determines that there's a 1 in 5000 chance of finding one, and that finding a five-leaf clover is about as likely as getting hit by a wrecking ball in the park. And then he looks down and thinks he's found one, while dodging a wrecking ball, until he stands up. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: See "Sesame Street" Cred entry below; many celebrities put in time to help demonstrate or explain a current episode's central theme, some examples include: Penn & Teller (Light Optics), Samuel L. Jackson (Inventions), Drew Barrymore (Flowers), and Alfonso Ribeiro (Food Web). | |
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Laugh Track | |
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The Momentum episode features a demonstration that Bill Nye starts off by saying "Now here I have... a rocket in my pocket." The rocket is decidedly phallic and pink on top of it. The poor choice of words was even lampshaded by the show's Laugh Track, which moaned derisively when he made the joke. Shown here. (Kids would take it as a play on the Dr. Seuss book Wocket in my pocket.) | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: The Running Gag in the chemical reactions episode was a calm female voice saying "Here is an example of a chemical reaction" before footage of a detonating heap of powder, a feather pillow, all the way up to a multistory building. | |
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Once an Episode: Plenty of them - Consider The Following, Did You Know... (might be multiple times per episode), Way Cool Scientist, Nifty Home Experiment, and of course, the Soundtrack Of Science segment that closed each episode. As well as signing off each episode with a science-related "now if you will excuse me I have an X to Y." A trumpet will sound, sometimes accompanied by an image of two Renaissance angels with said trumpets. | |
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Mad Libs Catchphrase: "It's the/our X of SCIENCE!" *Triumphant trumpets* | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: Apart from the narrator/cameraman's running commentary, there was plenty of Camera Abuse. On one occasion, the camera pulled back enough to show the Foley artist providing the over-the-top whacks and whooshes while Bill hit a diagram with a pointer stick. | |
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Parody Commercial | |
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Parody Commercial: At least Once an Episode. It's one of the things that made the show popular with both the intended and periphery demographic alike. | |
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Theme Tune Cameo: In the "Motion" episode, every time someone mentions inertia, the line "Inertia is a property of matter." from the opening theme repeats. | |
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Butt-Monkey: If someone on the show gets beaned with a soccer ball, hit by a pendulum, or knocked over by an athlete, it's going to be Bill. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Lots and lots of it. Often used for Cutaway Gags. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The "T-minus 7 seconds" in the opening sequence occurs about 7 seconds before the end. | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: Here. Just look at how positively gleeful he is while doing it. "That's a lot of dam power!" "ANAL SPHINCTER" "Birds do it. Bees do it. Practically every animal does it. Let's do some right now!" It's the introduction to the episode on Animal Locomotion. The flower episode has a bee (or a woman in a bee costume) on a gossip show suggestively talking about how she pollinated a snapdragon. That's not the only instance in the flower episode—quite frankly it's hard to talk about flowers without getting suggestive since they're all about sex. The stoners lying on their car in the space episode. Whoooooooa. The Momentum episode features a demonstration that Bill Nye starts off by saying "Now here I have... a rocket in my pocket." The rocket is decidedly phallic and pink on top of it. The poor choice of words was even lampshaded by the show's Laugh Track, which moaned derisively when he made the joke. Shown here. (Kids would take it as a play on the Dr. Seuss book Wocket in my pocket.) In "Invertebrates," Bill refers to vertebrates as "backboners," followed by faint laughter from Butt-head. | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology: The dinosaur episode tries to avert this as possible, but the rap had the glaring mistake of calling Dimetrodon a dinosaur. | |
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"Sesame Street" Cred | |
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"Sesame Street" Cred: Celebrities and performers would appear on the show to help explain scientific concept. For instance, the Flying Karamozov Brothers used juggling to demonstrate gravity. And in the "Inventions" episode, Samuel L. Jackson explained why golf balls are dimpled. | |
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No Animals Were Harmed | |
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No Animals Were Harmed: After Bill falls into a garbage compressor at the end of the "Pollution" episode, the announcer remarks "No actual science guys were harmed in the production of this program". | |
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You Look Familiar | |
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You Look Familiar: invokedCashman, noted above as the narrator, also appeared on-screen whenever a salesman or talk show host was needed. He returns in the same capacity for The Eyes of Nye, looking exactly the same as he did fifteen years ago. | |
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Parody Assistance | |
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Parody Assistance: Chris Ballew, lead singer of the group The Presidents of the United States, showed up to sing "Farm Food", which spoofed the POTUS song "Peaches". | |
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Transplant | |
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Transplant: Bill Nye from Almost Live. Billy Quan (Once again played by Darrel Suto) from the "Mind your Manners Will Billy Quan" sketch also joins in with Almost Live host John Keister still continuing to give him a hard time. | |
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Jump Cut: Used in the pseudoscience episode as "cheap TV trick". | |
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Overcrank: The "Gravity" episode shows a replay of an apple and bowling ball both falling to the ground at the same time… without the sound muted first, so you get to hear Bill Nye and Pat Cashman's voices slowed down to half speed too. | |
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Big Word Shout: SCIENCE! | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: "Uh, Bill?" Voiced by none other than Pat Cashman, announcer of Almost Live!! and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. | |
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Iconic Outfit: The blue lab coat and bow ties. | |
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Repeat Cut: Used many times. Lots of phrases would get repeated by looping footage for comedic effect. Also, possibly to help get the knowledge through to the viewers' heads since the show was aimed at children. | |
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Bleached Underpants: Fans from outside the Seattle area are sometimes surprised when they find out about the mildly risque sketches he sometimes did for Almost Live!. | |
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties | |
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Happens whenever the camera gets damaged or broken on set. Most memorably when a red-kneed tarantula was flicked onto the cameraman, causing him to drop the camera! | |
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Large Ham: Bill Nye. Probably should be law for all science teachers. | |
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Parental Bonus | |
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Parental Bonus: Plenty, whether it's Getting Crap Past the Radar or more subtle humor. One of the song parodies, "Science in Music, Oh Yeah!", was based on the song "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Picture Show. There's a pretty slim chance his demographic would have seen the source material, so it's safe to assume that the cover was just for the parents' sake. Then there's the notorious "Let's Talk About Stress", which is a filk of Salt-N-Peppa's "Let's Talk About Sex". Again, the source material only plays on adult stations, so it's unlikely that the target demographic would've heard the original and thus it can be assumed that the song was just there to entertain any parents watching along. | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase: "Well, that's our show. Thanks for watching. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go (do some activity related to the episode). See ya!" This catchphrase would almost always be said in the same place that the episode started. | |
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Meta Guy | |
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Meta Guy: Part of the show's humor was Pat Cashman's reactions to some of Bill's... unorthodox teaching methods. | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle: DID YOU KNOW THAT this would often be done Once an Episode to reveal two or three interesting, random facts related to the Topic of the Day? NOW YOU KNOW! | |
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Private Detective | |
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Private Detective: Parodied with the recurring character of Luna Van Dyke | |
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Retraux | |
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Retraux: Some of the skits, most notably "Richie, Eat Your Crust" and subsequent skits starring the same family. | |
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Quicksand Sucks | |
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Quicksand Sucks: Deconstructed in the Wetlands episode, where Bill explains what causes quicksand with a model in the lab, and by going out and getting stuck in some mudflats. | |
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Eye Pop | |
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Eye Pop: Bill does one when he sees a skeleton in the "Bones" episode. But because he's a real human, it looks a little off. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: [insert sciencey topic here]-Girl, a recurring character who's there to... well, rant enthusiastically about the topic at hand. | |
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Kitchen Sink Included | |
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Kitchen Sink Included: In the episode "Atoms" Bill enters the lab which is all full of different items which he claims are all made of matter. One of the items is—the kitchen sink! | |
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Fun with Flushing | |
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Fun with Flushing: In the episode on digestion, every time Bill says "all the way" a toilet flushes off-screen. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender: If you're a hippie, an astrologer, a talk show host, a politician, a student, a teacher, or a parent, there's a chance you'll see somebody on The Eyes of Nye portraying your particular group in an unflattering light. | |
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Think of the Children! | |
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Think of the Children!: Bill has said in many panel debates that most (but not all) Generation Y and Millenials have been lost to religious radical movements and science denial, and that the children of these generations are the only hope for humanity's future. This is why he made The Science Guy and The Eyes of Nye. | |
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Parody | |
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Parody: Often trailers for a Police Procedural or a suspense film about the subject at hand. For example, the Buddy Cop show "Rod and Cone" in the eyeball episode—one can't see colors, the other can't see in even a little shadow. (Rod cells are used in dim light but render it in shades of gray; cone cells detect color but need light to work.) | |
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Educational Song | |
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Educational Song: The various songs at the end of every episode. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Parodied with a Spoof Aesop when Bill goes off to demonstrate how much space there is between the Sun and its closest stellar neighbor (the Sun is in a soccer stadium, Alpha Centauri is on a beach a few hundred miles away). Bill goes racing off in a car with the camera running on fast-forward and the announcer remarks, "Don't drive like this at home, kids! You could leave tire marks on the living room carpet!" | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues: Bill Nye is fond of saying that "Science is political, but it is not partisan." This view is reflected in The Eyes of Nye by the interviews with the waffling politician in cutaway gags, who even expresses a political position on ice cream. | |
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DoNotTryThisAtHome | |
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Do Not Try This at Home: Kids were encouraged to try most of the experiments shown on their own, sometimes with recommended adult supervision. For the exceptions, such as lying on a bed of nails, they were sure to say this two or three times. Parodied with a Spoof Aesop when Bill goes off to demonstrate how much space there is between the Sun and its closest stellar neighbor (the Sun is in a soccer stadium, Alpha Centauri is on a beach a few hundred miles away). Bill goes racing off in a car with the camera running on fast-forward and the announcer remarks, "Don't drive like this at home, kids! You could leave tire marks on the living room carpet!" | |
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Smash Cut | |
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Smash Cut: Many skits would get cut off mid-sentence onto the next skit for humorous effect. | |
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Bumbling Dad | |
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Bumbling Dad: "Clumsy Dad" in the Momentum episode | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Courtesy of everyone's favorite "Grrrl". In this case, Pollution Grrrl in the "Pollution Solutions" episode; it's bleeped of course, but quite noticeable since it rarely if ever happens. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: Sound effects relevant to an episode's topic would get added to the intro where appropriate (e.g. Chomping noises over the Stock Footage of the dinosaur eating for the episode "Digestion" where normally it would be silent). | |
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Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress | |
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Inertia Is A Property Of Matter | |
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MundaneMadeAwesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: When the episode is about stuff like swamps or skin, which are not usually considered awesome. The "[Insert Device] of SCIENCE!" also falls into this sometimes. | |
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To the Tune of... | |
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To the Tune of...: Nearly every song featured near the end of an episode. See second part of Parental Bonus above for the most popular example. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: He was Doc Brown's assistant. | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Bagpipes are mentioned twice in a gag describing sources of noise pollution. | |
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The Great Politics Mess-Up | |
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The Great Politics Mess-Up: For some reason, the globe shown briefly in the intro sequence◊ is wildly outdated. It has not only the U.S.S.R., but also French West Africa. With the inclusion of an independent Sudan, the borders shown date to the period between 1956 and 1958, when Bill Nye himself was a toddler. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Bill has several. Notably, "Take a look at this!" before showing off models and experiments, "For crying out loud!" during his more ranty moments, and "Isn't that wild?" after dispensing some interesting information. "Not that bad!" "Take a look at this! It's our [overly long-named scientific contraption] OF SCIENCE! [fanfare]" "Please consider the following," and "Thank you for considering the following." At the end of every episode, "Well that's our show, thanks for watching! If you'll excuse me, I have to go [insert something scientific here]. See ya!" | |
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AntiNihilist | |
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Anti-Nihilist: Bill Nye is a humanist who believes that death is a complete Cessation of Existence, but while we're here, "We can...dare I say it... change the WORLD!" | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: On an episode of The Big Bang Theory, Bill plays himself meeting the actor who plays that show's Mister Wizard Expy Prof. Proton, Arthur Jefferies. | |
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Excited Kids' Show Host | |
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Excited Kids' Show Host: Bill is aimed at the key over-six demographic. He's always really excited about the topic and good at rendering complex concepts into language that children can understand. | |
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Once per Episode | |
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At the end of every episode, "Well that's our show, thanks for watching! If you'll excuse me, I have to go [insert something scientific here]. See ya!" | |
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RunningGag | |
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Running Gag: Multiple examples. If Bill Nye mentions anything involving water ANYTHING, a stage hand with a bucket full of water flings the water at him, it's so bad that Bill is aware of it and tries to substitute the chemical formula each time, until he slips up at the end and gets drenched with at least ten buckets of water. Did you know that this is the compass that Compass Man uses?" | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: The "Patterns" episode was sponsored by "The Incorporated Corporation of Repetition, Incorporated". | |
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