When the show was over, Bill thanks the viewers for watching before explaining in a clever description of a topic's activity. This is usually the last segment of each episode. "Not that bad" is a catchphrase that Nye would often say in these episodes, substituting a scientific roundup of the episode for the lyrics to a popular song. Most episodes contain a mock song parody and music video in the "Soundtrack of Science" by "Not That Bad Records". The segments featured Luna Van Dyke focusing on a story that is related to the episode's topic. "Luna Van Dyke, Private Eye" was one of the recurring segments on the show. There are several individual segments featured in each episode, such as "Way Cool Scientist", which featured an expert discussing on the episode's topic, "Consider the Following", where Nye discussed a certain aspect of the episode's topic, "Nifty Home Experiment", where the audience is shown how to do a simple home experiment relating to the episode's topic, "Try This", where the audience is shown how to try a simple demonstration relating to the episode's topic, "Hey, Look at This", where the expert gives a closer look by relating to the episode's topic, "Check it Out", where the audience is shown how to affect their environmental issues by relating to the episode's topic, and "Did you know that.", where an interesting factoid related to the episode's topic was presented. Science-related film, TV, and commercial parodies configure the facts of the episode's topic. After the opening credits, Pat Cashman would say "Brought to you by.", in which a product name was related to the episode's topic, followed by Nye walking onto the set, called "Nye Laboratories", which is filled with scientific visuals including many "of science" contraptions announced dramatically, relevant to the topic of each episode. In later seasons, the theme song was cut short by a static screen. Each episode began with a cold open, where Nye introduced the episode's topic, which leads into an opening credit sequence, and shows Nye in an animated scientifically world, such as Nye's disembodied head spinning, radio frequencies, and plastic toy dinosaurs flying. He mixes the serious science of everyday things with fast-paced action and humor. Bill's TV persona is a tall and slender scientist wearing a blue lab coat and a bow-tie. Before this show, Bill Nye had previously worked alongside Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future: The Animated Series, where Nye played Doc Brown's assistant and demonstrated several experiments.īill Nye the Science Guy has been likened to the next generation version of Mr. The show ran about the same time as and covered similar topics to Beakman's World, in fact sharing one crew member, editor/writer/director Michael Gross.
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