Whole-Plot Reference, perhaps?
edited 24th Feb '11 9:53:18 AM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Okay Guy
How about Destructive Edutainment?
edited 24th Feb '11 1:47:54 PM by DrStarky
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian
It depends on how broad the trope is. Is it for all experiment programmes or just the ones which dedicate a lot of airtime to blowing things up?
edited 24th Feb '11 4:04:28 PM by halfmillennium
Okay Guy
I don't know a lot of shows where they do experiments without any destructive tendencies.
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian
So, is something to be done or can we close this?
Experiment Show sounds more accurate.
Another try - anyone want to actually do anything to this or shall we close it?
We pretty much agreed to make a genre page out of it, it just needs a name. I'll make a crowner. (Done and hooked)
edited 2nd Oct '11 9:50:01 PM by Elle
Proposed Description:
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. 10 years later, it's safe to say that this was the Genre Launch of 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. 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).
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Fixed. I could only remember that they celebrated a 10 season milestone a while back, but they do more the one season a year.
edited 3rd Oct '11 8:33:54 AM by Elle
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Except that it debuted in January of 2003, not 2000, that looks good.
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That looks good, aside from the correction Madrugada pointed out.
Grand Poobah of Crimestrikers
I like the name and the description. I think this new page should be launced ASAP, preferably as an index including Mythbusters itself.
"But... nobody told me I needed a signature!"
Looks pretty obvious now. Rename?
Calling the crowner. Move it. Add Mythbusters, and any shows you can think of before it. Beakmans World and Bill Nye The Science Guy come to mind.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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Main example list moved; redirect installed; no discussion to move; and there's a bare-bones description. Examples still need to be cleaned up, many are written in terms of being a copycat of Mythbusters; wicks need to be corrected; and the description needs more work.
edited 5th Oct '11 4:20:18 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Just chiming in here, but it might be too late.
Experiment Show sounds too much like TV Execs testing the waters with the pilot of a new show. Experimentation Show removes any doubt about what the title could be about.
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Yeah, it's a little late. This discussion has been going on since February...
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
And I only saw it a few hours ago.
I've plugged my proposed description in and done a pass through the examples to clean up the Complaining and the Mythbusters clone-itis. I will grab the wicks too since there's only 6 of them. Shima, I'm not sure about Bill Nye, that was more of a regular topical Science Show. Beakmans World, maaaybe...it's somewhere between the two I think.
I deleted Catch it, Keep it from the examples - it was a build competition show but not really an experiment show, I think. Its closer direct ancestor might be Junkyard Wars.
edited 6th Oct '11 1:15:52 PM by Elle
Right, I hollered for a lock on this a day or so ago and it seems to have been denied, so is there something missing that I'm not seeing?
Crown Description:
This TRS thread
more or less agreed that Mythbusters was a Genre Launch show and this page should be made the genre's page. Now we need to name it.
Yeah, the "Legend-busters" Good Eats episodes was one episode — an homage or a parody, depending on which way you look at it. Follow the Leader is when the whole series (or premise of the series, or style of the series) is a copy of the earlier one — the later one might not even exist if the earlier one hadn't become a hit.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.