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''Bill Nye Saves the World'' is a 2017 Creator/{{Netflix}} exclusive starring Creator/BillNye, of Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy fame. In this series, Bill tackles controversial science-related topics that plague the world today, as well as ruthlessly debunking pseudo-scientific practices. Clearly targeted at those who grew up with his original ''Science Guy'' series, each episode plays out like a variety TV show, featuring skits, round-table discussions, experiments and on-location reports by a hand-picked team of correspondents. Celebrities occasionally appear on the show as well.

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''Bill Nye Saves the World'' is a 2017 Creator/{{Netflix}} exclusive starring Creator/BillNye, Bill Nye, of Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy fame. In this series, Bill tackles controversial science-related topics that plague the world today, as well as ruthlessly debunking pseudo-scientific practices. Clearly targeted at those who grew up with his original ''Science Guy'' series, each episode plays out like a variety TV show, featuring skits, round-table discussions, experiments and on-location reports by a hand-picked team of correspondents. Celebrities occasionally appear on the show as well.
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* BlandNameProduct: Lots of them on the show ostensibly to avoid accusations of product placement. Usually they’d be rebadged to have “Nye” [[PunnyName appear somewhere in the product name]].

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* BlandNameProduct: Lots of them on the show ostensibly to avoid accusations of product placement. Usually they’d be rebadged to have “Nye” [[PunnyName appear somewhere in the product name]].

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* BlandNameProduct: Lots of them on the show ostensibly to avoid accusations of product placement. Usually they’d theyÂ’d be rebadged to have “Nye” “Nye” [[PunnyName appear somewhere in the product name]].
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* BrokenAesop: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8 The ice cream skit]] aims for teaching that one should accept others for their differences, but ends up coming across as saying that conversion therapy works, that conversion therapy is okay if it's used to make straight people not straight, that everyone who's straight is an uptight HeteronormativeCrusader, that everyone who's not straight is an ExtremeOmnisexual [[AllGaysArePromiscuous sex maniac]], and finally that straight people aren't even really straight to begin with and are just repressing their true omnisexual sex maniac selves (hence why it's okay to sexually harass them until they admit that they actually love it).

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* BrokenAesop: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8 The ice cream skit]] aims for teaching that one should accept others for their differences, but ends up coming across as saying that conversion therapy works, that conversion therapy is okay if it's used to make straight people not straight, that everyone who's straight is an uptight HeteronormativeCrusader, that everyone who's not straight is an ExtremeOmnisexual [[AllGaysArePromiscuous sex maniac]], maniac]] who just has nonstop orgies all day, and finally that straight people [[EveryoneIsBi aren't even really actually straight to begin with and are with]], they're just repressing their true omnisexual sex maniac selves (hence [[ArmoredClosetGay omnisexuals in denial]] (which is of course why it's okay to sexually harass use conversion therapy on them until they and why it works, because there's nothing to convert, you're just getting them to realize and admit that they actually love it).to what they've been all along).
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''Bill Nye Saves the World'' is a 2017 Creator/{{Netflix}} exclusive starring Bill Nye, of Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy fame. In this series, Bill tackles controversial science-related topics that plague the world today, as well as ruthlessly debunking pseudo-scientific practices. Clearly targeted at those who grew up with his original ''Science Guy'' series, each episode plays out like a variety TV show, featuring skits, round-table discussions, experiments and on-location reports by a hand-picked team of correspondents. Celebrities occasionally appear on the show as well.

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''Bill Nye Saves the World'' is a 2017 Creator/{{Netflix}} exclusive starring Bill Nye, Creator/BillNye, of Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy fame. In this series, Bill tackles controversial science-related topics that plague the world today, as well as ruthlessly debunking pseudo-scientific practices. Clearly targeted at those who grew up with his original ''Science Guy'' series, each episode plays out like a variety TV show, featuring skits, round-table discussions, experiments and on-location reports by a hand-picked team of correspondents. Celebrities occasionally appear on the show as well.
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* BrokenAesop: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8 The ice cream skit]] aims for teaching that one should accept others for their differences, but ends up coming across as saying that conversion therapy works on straight people, sexual harassment is fine because they'll end up loving it, and non-straight people are ExtremeOmnisexual sex maniacs.

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* BrokenAesop: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8 The ice cream skit]] aims for teaching that one should accept others for their differences, but ends up coming across as saying that conversion therapy works on works, that conversion therapy is okay if it's used to make straight people, sexual harassment is fine because they'll end up loving it, and non-straight people are not straight, that everyone who's straight is an uptight HeteronormativeCrusader, that everyone who's not straight is an ExtremeOmnisexual [[AllGaysArePromiscuous sex maniacs.maniac]], and finally that straight people aren't even really straight to begin with and are just repressing their true omnisexual sex maniac selves (hence why it's okay to sexually harass them until they admit that they actually love it).
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* ScienceIsGood: The series shows how scientific reasoning and technology can be applied to solve major problems and improve quality of life.
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Despite all the controversy and hate it has spun, Bill himself has confirmed that a second season is in production and will air sometime in the second half of 2017. The first half of season 2 premiered on December 28th, 2017, with 6 episodes. The second half of season 2 was quickly rebranded into Season 3 and premiered in early 2018 with another 6 episodes.

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Despite all the controversy and hate it has spun, Bill himself has confirmed that a second season is in production and will air sometime in the second half of 2017. The first half of season 2 premiered on December 28th, 2017, with 6 episodes. The second half of season 2 was quickly rebranded into Season 3 and premiered in early 2018 with another 6 episodes.

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