History WebVideo / PBSIdeaChannel

--> Fiscal crisis, water shortage, income disparity, climate change, school shootings, social unrest, high unemployment, [[TakeThat more]] Film/{{Transformers}} [[TakeThat movies]]

* {{Corpsing}}: Mike does a truly impressive job reading an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p10knivMRg AI-written script]] with a straight face, but noticeably struggles not to laugh at the sentence "This, the subject of [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]]."

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: For the debate over how to pronounce ".GIF" ("jiff" or "giff"?), Idea Channel prefers to use "ʒɑɪf".

** FallacyFallacy

** NonSequiturFallacy

** StrawmanFallacy

* MilestoneCelebration: PlayedWith in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWKD6OXGnA 100th-ish Episode Special]]"

'''[[ColourCodedForYourConvenience Blue Shirt Mike]]''': [[FlipFlopOfGod Or... not.]]

** Later {{Discussed}} if it can be {{Invoked|Trope}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQjBC0_2eA Can You Make a Movie So Bad It's Good On Purpose?]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: InUniverse Discussed]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZyzvLxEpUin their examination]] of Film/EndersGame.

On June 30, 2017, Rugnetta [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ1jUpetuDA announced that he was ending Idea Channel]]. The final Idea Channel aired on August 28 and the final Comment Response on September 4. Since the channel's retirement, a channel, the open-sourced [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxVG9JnDocRPTiBMc_G04_w/featured Idea Project]], has taken up the mantle left in its absence.

* DeathOfTheAuthor: [[{{In-universe}} Discussed]] in regards to Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVm65tlhqw8 Does It Matter What Evangelion's Creator Says?]]".

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed: Mike admits that when he found himself writing the line "Why am I taking this so seriously?" for the original version of "The Experience of Being Trolled", he had "a moment of crushing doubt" and then "crushing self-awareness". ..."[f]ollowed by [[{{In-universe}} crushing [his] own head]] in [his] own hands".

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: [[{{In-universe}} Discussed]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZyzvLxEpUin their examination]] of Film/EndersGame.

Started in February 2012, The Idea Channel is a series of weekly videos supported by Creator/{{PBS}} and hosted on Website/YouTube by Mike Rugnetta. It examines the weird, wacky and fascinating connections between pop culture, technology and art. Basically, its philosophy is bite-sized form, facilitated by millions of references, gifs, funny pictures and an ''extreme'' motor mouth.

On June 30, 2017, Rugnetta [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ1jUpetuDA announced that he was ending Idea Channel]], intending to air the final Idea Channel on August 28 and the final Comment Response on September 4.

** Later {{Discussed}} if it can {{Invoke|dTrope}} it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQjBC0_2eA Can You Make a Movie So Bad It's Good On Purpose?]]

* SpecialGuest: Daniel Floyd of ''WebVideo/ExtraCredits'' makes an InkSuitActor appearance to talk about a related video on his channel.

-->'''[[OncePerEpisode Every episode beginning]]'''

* ColorCodedCharacters: "The Experience of Being Trolled" has Red Shirted Mike, who talked about the topic of the video as it was originally written and Blue Shirted Mike, added in after the original filming, who realized that he didn't agree with what he wrote.

* InsultBackfire: After the Unboxing Video someone called him a Vsause wannabe. He took it as a compliment.

--> Fiscal crisis, water shortage, income disparity, climate change, school shootings, social unrest, high unemployment, more Film/{{Transformers}} movies

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed: Mike admits that when he found himself writing the line "Why am I taking this so seriously?" for the original version of "The Experience of Being Trolled", he had "a moment of crushing doubt" and then "crushing self-awareness". ..."[f]ollowed by [[{{In-universe}} crushing [his] own head]] [[WallBanger in [his] own hands]]".

** AppealToAuthority: Particulary the Appeal To Irrelevant Authority fallacy.

Every week introduces a new idea, ranging far and wide in topic and scope. For example, take the following video titles; "What Do Santa And Wrestling Have In Common?", "Is [=YouTube=] Making Us Smarter?" and "Is A DOS Attack A Weapon?" Each video used to have a short minute or so section where a selection of comments from the previous video were highlighted for further discussion, but now, those comments are shown in stand-alone [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtHP6qx8VF7cnu582A7K8W8daSYtMR_vC videos.]]

Every week introduces a new idea, ranging far and wide in topic and scope. For example, take the following video titles; "What Do Santa And Wrestling Have In Common?", "Is [=YouTube=] Making Us Smarter?" and "Is A DOS Attack A Weapon?" Each video also has a short minute or so section where a selection of comments are highlighted for further discussion.

* VerySpecialEpisode: The description of "The Experience of Being Trolled", which concerns... [[{{Troll}} yeah]], labels this as such. It helps that partway though writing out the episode, Mike realized he didn't agree with what he wrote, leading to the above ColorCodedCharacters example.
** To clarify, Mike was originally trying to argue that trolling has an upside.

* MyGodWhatHAveIDone: Downplayed: Mike admits that when he found himself writing the line "Why am I taking this so seriously?" for the original version of "The Experience of Being Trolled", he had "a moment of crushing doubt" and then "crushing self-awareness". ..."[f]ollowed by [[{{In-universe}} crushing [his] own head]] [[WallBanger in [his] own hands]]".

Started in February 2012, The Idea Channel is a series of weekly videos supported by Creator/{{PBS}} and hosted on Website/YouTube by Mike Rugetta. It examines the weird, wacky and fascinating connections between pop culture, technology and art. Basically, its philosophy is bite-sized form, facilitated by millions of references, gifs, funny pictures and an ''extreme'' motor mouth.

* AdHominem: Discussed in an episode about logical fallacies.
* AppealToAuthority: The Appeal To Irrelevant Authority fallacy is discussed in an episode about logical fallacies.

* FallacyFallacy: Discuessed in an episode about logical fallacies.
* FalseDichotomy: Discussed in an episode about logical fallacies, referred to as "The Black & White Fallacy".

* MovingTheGoalPosts: Discussed in an episode about logical fallacies.
* NoTrueScotsman: Discussed in an episode about logical fallacies.

* SharpshooterFallacy: Discussed in an episode about logical fallacies, referred to as the "Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy."

* StrawmanFallacy: Discussed in an episode about logical fallacies.