
History Origins and creation īill Nye was originally an engineer for the 747 airliner at Boeing, having moved to Seattle in 1977 after he was accepted for the position. Soundtrack of Science: A science-themed song parody.Luna Van Dyke, Private Eye: Private eye Luna Van Dyke focuses on a story.Did You Know That.: An interesting factoid is presented.Richie, Eat Your Crust: Nye and the Family Crust perform an act themed around telling the title boy to "eat your crust".Better Eating Through Kitchen Chemistry: Bill Nye portrays Vivian Cupcake demonstrating scientific recipes.Pet Rock Theater: Animated pet rocks perform an act.Great Moments in Science: Cashman narrates a historical event in science.The Jackie Smazz Show: Pat Cashman performs an act as a talk show-style host named Jackie Smazz.Clever Science Trick: A viewer demonstrates a simple science trick.Check it Out: A viewer affects their environmental issues.Hey! Look at This: An expert gives a closer look into the episode's theme.Try This: A viewer presents a simple demonstration.Nifty Home Experiment: A viewer demonstrates a simple home experiment.Consider the Following: Nye discusses a certain aspect of the episode's theme.Way Cool Scientist: An expert discusses the fact of the episode's theme.The closing credits roll over bloopers from the episode. At the end of each episode, Nye thanks the viewers for watching, before explaining in a clever description of a theme's activity. Each episode features Nye visiting many places relating to the episode's theme, showing interviews of people talking about their work and other contributions. The show has featured many guest appearances.
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Science-related TV and movie parodies configure the facts of the episode's theme, along with parodies of TV commercials. Nye walks onto the set, which is called "Nye Laboratories", filled with scientific visuals including many "of science" contraptions announced dramatically, relevant to the theme of the episode. After the opening credits, announcer Pat Cashman says "Brought to you by.", in which a product name is related to the episode's theme. In later seasons, the theme song was cut short by a static screen. Each half-hour show begins with a cold open, where Nye introduces the episode's theme, which leads into an opening credit sequence, and featuring Nye in a computer animated scientific world, along with his head spinning, radio frequencies, and plastic toy dinosaurs flying. He combines the serious science of everyday things with fast-paced action and humor. Nye portrays a hyper-kinetic tall and slender scientist wearing a blue lab coat and a bow-tie. Studies also found that people that viewed Bill Nye regularly were better able to generate explanations and extensions of scientific ideas than non-viewers. Known for its quirky humor and rapid-fire MTV-style pacing, the show won critical acclaim and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning nineteen. The show aired in syndication from September 10, 1993, to February 5, 1999, over six seasons and 100 episodes beginning in season 2, a concurrent run was added on PBS from October 10, 1994, to September 3, 1999, with the show's first run remaining in syndication. It was produced by KCTS and McKenna/Gottlieb Producers and distributed by Buena Vista Television with substantial financing from the National Science Foundation. For the 2017 documentary, see Bill Nye: Science Guy.īill Nye the Science Guy is an American half-hour live action science education television program created by Bill Nye, James McKenna, and Erren Gottlieb, with Nye starring as a fictionalized version of himself. For the host with the same nickname, see Bill Nye.
