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The show was hosted by [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Bill Nye, a scientist,]] comedian and former Boeing engineer who got his start in television on the [[Seattle]] local comedy show ''[[Almost Live]]!'' (where he got the "[[Appropriated Appellation|Science Guy]]" epithet after correcting the host's pronunciation of [[Back to The Future|Gigawatt]]) before starting his [[PBS]] show in 1993. (He also made several appearances on Disney shows prior to this, specifically the new version of the [[Mickey Mouse Club]]. Fitting, as this was produced by Disney.)
The show has a few internal [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]]
Then, in almost every episode, they'd take a well-known song (usually [[Alternative Rock]]), cut the song length in half, then replace the lyrics with [[Educational Song|lyrics related to the show's topic]]. And a guy on [[YouTube]] uploaded [http://www.youtube.com/user/NyeTunes every single one of them]. On three occasions, actual rock artists did the song: Chris Ballew of the Presidents of the United States of America did a parody of his band's hit "Peaches", [[The Posies]] reworked their song "Flavor of the Month" with lyrics about ocean exploration, and the punk band Mudhoney did a cover of the show's theme song.
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As it ran during the same stretch as ''[[Beakman's World]]'', the two shows get [[Dueling Shows|compared often,]] though ''Beakman's World'' tended to leer more on other aspects of knowledge than simply on science.
Oh, and Bill Nye was [https://web.archive.org/web/20110522103346/http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_the_AHA/Humanists_of_the_Year Humanist of the Year] in 2010. Make of that what you will.
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* [[Educational Song]]: The various songs at the end of every episode.
* [[Fun with Flushing]]: In the episode on digestion, every time Bill says "all the way" a toilet flushes off-screen.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOZtGC0zs0 Let's Talk About Stress]'''" (the title of one of the said [[Educational Song|Educational Songs]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]!: Quite a few people have showed up at some point or another to give Bill a celebrity-empowered hand at explaining the concepts in the show. Amongst them are comedian Sinbad, [[Siskel and Ebert]], Bob Ross, [[Full House|Candace Cameron]], and there was even a clip with that great amongst greats, [[Carl Sagan]]!
* [[Large Ham]]: Bill Nye. Probably should be law for all science teachers.
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