History Series / BrainiacScienceAbuse

%% ** Most Brainiacs. And Caravans. And mannequins.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There is a segment called "How hard is your thing?".
%% * DoubleEntendre: Much of the voiceover whenever the ridiculously hot Professor Myang-Li is on screen.

%% * FollowTheLeader
* LovelyAssistant: Professor Myang Li, who determines "Does this fruit float?" You do doubt her academic credentials given her {{Stripperiffic}} outfit.

%% * RuleOfFunny

%% * EdutainmentShow:

* WeNeedADistraction: '''Vic Reeves when he tried to distract a brainiac to steal beer cans -''' "Look! The sun!"

%% * StuffBlowingUp: Especially caravans.

%% * {{Fanservice}}: People get half-naked a lot. Prof. Myang-Li. No subtlety at all in her segments.

-->-- '''Richard Hammond''', ''Brainiac: Science Abuse''

* Alkali metals (more specfically, Lithium through Caesium) in a bath tub - this experiment gained infamy in the example that it was quite rapidly disproven and revealed to have been faked! Keep an eye out for the ridiculously-visible ''detonator wire'' during the supposedly-explosive reaction of Caesium.[[note]]Chemically speaking, Caesium ''is'' reactive enough to make containers explode dramatically, but pouring a small amount of it into a bathtub won't do very much. The Caesium releases just as much energy as in a smaller container, but because the bathtub holds a volume of water on several orders of magnitude larger than the capacity of the ampule of Caesium, the shockwaves released by the chemical reaction, which would make a glass beaker explode, begin bouncing off the bathtub, causing the water to churn for a few seconds and then stop rather gently. In addition, the amount of Hydrogen gas (of which its expansion is critical in creating a fiery explosion when it gets ignited by the reaction) actually ''goes down'' per gram of metal, the further you go down through the alkali metals - simply put, you'd need a lot more Caesium to make the explosion seem that bright; in reality, there'd be very little flames if any in a volume of water that large. In order to make the reaction seem more dramatic, the production crew simply attached some explosives to the side of the tub not visible from the camera, and then set it off when the metal was supposedly released.[[/note]]

''Brainiac: Science Abuse'' is a British TV series, originally presented by Richard Hammond and then by Vic Reeves, assisted by Jon Tickle (a former ''Series/BigBrother'' housemate) and an army of nameless "Brainiacs", used as human guinea-pigs. The series ran from 2003 to 2008.

It took the part of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' where stuff went boom and ran with it. There is generally no attempt made at producing scalable, repeatable experiments to actually determine a result -- it's more along the lines of "Wahey, if you do ''this'' you can make it go bang! This works because there's a sudden release of energy."

** Also the many nameless Brainiacs, whose states as perpetual guinea pigs earns them nothing but disrespect.

* Alkali metals (more specfically, Magnesium through Caesium) in a bath tub - this experiment gained infamy in the example that it was quite rapidly disproven and revealed to have been faked! Keep an eye out for the ridiculously-visible ''detonator wire'' during the supposedly-explosive reaction of Caesium.[[note]]Chemically speaking, Caesium ''is'' reactive enough to make containers explode dramatically, but pouring a small amount of it into a bathtub won't do very much. The Caesium releases just as much energy as in a smaller container, but because the bathtub holds a volume of water on several orders of magnitude larger than the capacity of the ampule of Caesium, the shockwaves released by the chemical reaction, which would make a glass beaker explode, begin bouncing off the bathtub, causing the water to churn for a few seconds and then stop rather gently. In addition, the amount of Hydrogen gas (of which its expansion is critical in creating a fiery explosion when it gets ignited by the reaction) actually ''goes down'' per gram of metal, the further you go down the alkali metals period - simply put, you'd need a lot more caesium to make the explosion seem that bright; in reality, there'd be very little flames if any in a volume of water that large. In order to make the reaction seem more dramatic, the production crew simply attached some explosives to the side of the tub not visible from the camera, and then set it off when the metal was supposedly released.[[/note]]

* ButtMonkey: Most Brainiacs. And Caravans. And mannequins.
** Dr. Bunhead, who is described as "science's biggest loser" and suffers in some manner at the end of his regular segments ("Pub Science," "Service Station Science" and "On the Pull").

* DoubleEntendre: Much of the voiceover whenever the ridiculously hot Professor Myang-Li is on screen.
* EdutainmentShow:
* {{Fanservice}}: People get half-naked a lot. Prof. Myang-Li. No subtlety at all in her segments.
* FollowTheLeader

* RuleOfFunny

* StuffBlowingUp: Especially caravans.

** Dr. Bunhead, who is described as "science's biggest loser" and is always thrown out of the pub in each "Pub Science" segment.

* ButtMonkey -- Most Brainiacs. And Caravans. And mannequins.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything -- There is a segment called "How hard is your thing?".
* DoubleEntendre -- Much of the voiceover whenever the ridiculously hot Professor Myang-Li is on screen.
* EdutainmentShow
* {{Fanservice}} -- People get half-naked a lot. Prof. Myang-Li. No subtlety at all in her segments.

* LovelyAssistant -- Professor Myang Li, who determines "Does this fruit float?" You do doubt her academic credentials given her {{Stripperiffic}} outfit.

* {{Spinoff}} -- ''Brainiac: History Abuse''. The same concept, but with different hosts and historical stuff replacing science.
* StuffBlowingUp -- Especially caravans.
* WeNeedADistraction -- '''Vic Reeves when he tried to distract a brainiac to steal beer cans -''' "Look! The sun!"

* WeNeedADistraction -- "Look! The ''sun!''"

* HeyItsThatVoice -- Some may recognise the announcer of Stars In Their Caravans as the Colosseum Announcer from ''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}''.
** It's Peter Dickson. People may remember him from almost anything British.

* Stuff {{NASA}} never tried. Hilarious "experiments" with rockets.

* XMeetsY -- The show is basically ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' meets ''Series/TheManShow''.

->"Is looking at a woman's breasts for thirty minutes the equivalent of a thirty-minute workout?"
-->--'''Richard Hammond''', ''Brainiac Science Abuse''

''Brainiac: Science Abuse'' is a British TV series, originally presented by Richard Hammond and now by Vic Reeves, assisted by Jon Tickle (a former ''Series/BigBrother'' housemate) and an army of nameless "Brainiacs", used as human guinea-pigs. The series ran from 2003 to 2008.

It took the part of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' where stuff went boom and ran with it. There is generally no attempt made at producing scaleable, repeatable experiments to actually determine a result -- it's more along the lines of "Wahey, if you do ''this'' you can make it go bang! This works because there's a sudden release of energy."

* Do you weigh 1/4 lb more after eating a quarterpounder?

* Things but vveerryy ssslllooooowww: a segment in which the Brainiacs do random stuff, but in slow-motion.

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!!This TV series provides examples of:

!!''BrainiacScienceAbuse'' contains examples of:

* ButtMonkey - Most Brainiacs. And Caravans. And mannequins.
* CatchPhrase -
** "Do not try this at home...no really, ''don't.''"
** Later changed to "Do not try this at home... or anywhere else, for that matter!"
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything - There is a segment called "How hard is your thing?".
* DoubleEntendre - Much of the voiceover whenever the ridiculously hot Professor Myang-Li is on screen.

* {{Fanservice}} - People get half-naked a lot. Prof. Myang-Li. No subtlety at all in her segments.
* HeyItsThatVoice - Some may recognise the announcer of Stars In Their Caravans as the Colosseum Announcer from ''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}''.
* LovelyAssistant: Professor Myang Li, who determines "Does this fruit float?" You do doubt her academic credentials given her {{Stripperiffic}} outfit.

* RunningGag -

* {{Spinoff}} - ''Brainiac - History Abuse''. The same concept, but with different hosts and historical stuff replacing science.
* StuffBlowingUp
* WeNeedADistraction - "Look! The ''sun!''"
* XMeetsY - The show is basically ''{{Mythbusters}}'' meets ''TheManShow''.