History Series / BlastLab

* AllOrNothing

* CowTools
* DontTryThisAtHome
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics
* EdutainmentShow
* ElaborateUndergroundBase
* ForScience

* MadeOfExplodium

* RivalScienceTeams
* RuleOfCool
* ScienceShow

* StuffBlowingUp
* ThreeWallSet
* TimeMachine / TimeTravel: Mini Miss

!!GameShowTropes in use:

* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: Richard Hammond.
** StudioAudience
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AdamWesting: Hammond's MadScientist character is just an exaggerated version of himself.

By day, Richard "[[FanNickname The Hamster]]" Hammond presents [[Series/TopGear television]] [[Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse programmes]] in which [[StuffBlowingUp things get blown up]] on [[RuleOfCool flimsy pretexts]]. However, he also has a SecretIdentity in which he likes to... um... [[TypeCasting blow things up on flimsy pretexts.]].

Richard Hammond's ''Series/BlastLab'' is a ScienceShow aimed at [[SaturdayMorningKidsShow children]] which attempts to [[EdutainmentShow teach]] various scientific theories by conducting [[DonttryThisAtHome dangerous experiments]] and [[EducationThroughPyrotechnics blowing stuff up]].

-->''"Some of my experiments are a little... unreliable."''

* CoveredInGunge: Every episode somehow involves the toxic tank.

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By day, Richard "[[FanNickname The Hamster]]" Hammond presents [[Series/TopGear television]] [[BrainiacScienceAbuse programmes]] in which [[StuffBlowingUp things get blown up]] on [[RuleOfCool flimsy pretexts]]. However, he also has a SecretIdentity in which he likes to... um... [[TypeCasting blow things up on flimsy pretexts.]].

!!GameShow Tropes in use:

By day, Richard "[[FanNickname The Hamster]]" Hammond presents [[TopGear television]] [[BrainiacScienceAbuse programmes]] in which [[StuffBlowingUp things get blown up]] on [[RuleOfCool flimsy pretexts]]. However, he also has a SecretIdentity in which he likes to... um... [[TypeCasting blow things up on flimsy pretexts.]].

Every week a large haul of science-related prizes are set aside for [[RivalScienceTeams two competing teams]] who have to conduct experiments and answer science questions with help from the StudioAudience. The winning team get to take their prizes home. The losing team [[AllOrNothing don't]]. (You can probably guess [[MadeOfExplodium what happens to ''their'' prizes]].)

He is assisted by his [[NeverMessWithGranny Ninja Nan]], who guards the lab, and a [[SternTeacher science teacher]] from his schooldays whom he has [[TimeTravel brought from the past]] to [[GadgeteerGenius help with his experiments]], but who is currently stuck in the body of a [[OlderThanTheyLook ten-year-old]] after the TimeMachine [[HilarityEnsues malfunctioned]]. Also assisting is [[NonHumanSidekick Oliver]] (or should we say [[VanityLicensePlate OLIV3R]]?), an [[CoolCar Opel Kadett]] who [[PromotionToOpeningTitles started out as a minor character]] on Hammond's other show ''TopGear''. There are also an apparently infinite number of [[NominalImportance nameless]], [[TheVoiceless mute]], [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality expendable]] henchpeople known as [[BumblingSidekick The Lab Rats]].

Speculation whether this show was originally supposed to be an episode of MTV's ''{{Cribs}}'' is best confined to WildMassGuessing.

* RealitySubtext: The opening credits indicate that Hammond lives in a castle and moonlights as a MadScientist. In fact, Hammond [[TruthInTelevision recently moved into a castle in Herefordshire (the very same one from the titles)]]; its cost of '''£2,000,000''' explains why he is moonlighting as a MadScientist on children's TV.

* ShoutOut: Especially to ''TopGear'', ranging from comments in the hovercraft episode (referring to ''Gear'''s amphibious car challenge) to the [[AudibleGleam "ting!"]] of Hammond's [[TwinkleSmile smile]] in the opening credits (which riffs off the ''Top Gear'' tooth-whitening [[RunningGag gags]]).

Richard Hammond's ''BlastLab'' is a ScienceShow aimed at [[SaturdayMorningKidsShow children]] which attempts to [[EdutainmentShow teach]] various scientific theories by conducting [[DonttryThisAtHome dangerous experiments]] and [[EducationThroughPyrotechnics blowing stuff up]].

He is assisted by his [[NeverMessWithGranny Ninja Nan]]: who guards the lab and a [[SternTeacher science teacher]] from his schooldays whom he has [[TimeTravel brought from the past]] to [[GadgeteerGenius help with his experiments]], but who is currently stuck in the body of a [[OlderThanTheyLook ten-year-old]] after the TimeMachine [[HilarityEnsues malfunctioned]]. Also assisting is [[NonHumanSidekick Oliver]] (or should we say [[VanityLicensePlate OLIV3R]]?), an [[CoolCar Opel Kadett]] who [[PromotionToOpeningTitles started out as a minor character]] on Hammond's other show ''TopGear''. There are also an apparently infinite number of [[NominalImportance nameless]], [[TheVoiceless mute]], [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality expendable]] henchpeople known as [[BumblingSidekick The Lab Rats]].

* RealitySubtext: The opening credits indicate that Hammond lives in a castle and moonlights as a MadScientist. In fact, Hammond [[TruthInTelevision recently moved into a castle in Herefordshire]]; its cost of '''£2,000,000''' explains why he is moonlighting as a MadScientist on children's TV.

* ShoutOut: Especially to ''TopGear'', ranging from comments in the hovercraft episode (referring to ''Gear'''s amphibious car challenge) to the [[AudibleGleam "ting!"]] of Hammond's [[TwinkleSmile smile]] in the opening credits (which riffs off the ''Gear'' tooth-whitening [[RunningGag gags]]).

* BadassLabcoat / BadassLongcoat: Hammond's labcoat is made of black leather.

* VanityLicensePlate: [=OLIV3R=], as well as Hamster's Wheel Productions

* SoBadItsGood

He is assisted by his [[NeverMessWithGranny Ninja Nan]]: who guards the lab and a [[SternTeacher science teacher]] from his schooldays whom he has [[TimeTravel brought from the past]] to [[GadgeteerGenius help with his experiments]], but who is currently stuck in the body of a [[OlderThanTheyLook ten-year-old]] after the TimeMachine [[HilarityEnsues malfunctioned]]. Also assisting is [[NonHumanSidekick Oliver]] (or should we say [[VanityLicensePlate OLIV3R]]?), an [[CoolCar Opel Kadett]] who [[PromotionToOpeningTitles started out as a minor character]] on Hammond's other show ''TopGear''. There are also an apparently infinite number of [[NominalImportance nameless]], [[TheVoiceless mute]], [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality expendable]] henchpeople known as [[{{Baldrick}} The Lab Rats]].

* {{Baldrick}}: The Lab Rats.