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Pretzels
Since: Jun, 2015
Setora
Since: May, 2016
7th Dec, 2018 10:18:41 AM
Thank you!
I remember watching a science show when I was very little (so around 2006 or so). I'm pretty sure those were reruns and the show was older than that, because before starting the commercial break the main presentator said "And after the break, we'll show the phone number you can call to send us your questions!" (paraphrasing), but the actual number never appeared. It might've also been because I was watching it dubbed into Spanish, though. There were three presentators: a guy in a rat suit who played the lazy fool, the main guy who looked like a typical mad scientist (spiky brown hair and a labcoat) and a redheaded woman with curly hair in a ponytail and, I think, blue overalls. Each episode was dedicated to answering questions about science, supposedly sent by the viewers. I think it was several questions each episode (maybe one before the commercial break and another after?), but I'm not sure. The segments I remember are about how it's especially important you wash your teeth after dinner because the bacteria reproduce best when you're asleep, and one about why birds don't get electrocuted when they sit on cables, with an explanation on how electricity works in general (path of least resistance and such). I remember in the last one there was an illustrative cartoon showing that a bird sitting in a single cable would be fine, but if it had each leg on different ones it would die (with the dead bird being depicted as a cooked and plucked chicken, like you'd find in a dinner table).