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Every week a large haul of science-related prizes are set aside for [[Rival Science Teams|two competing teams]] who have to conduct experiments and answer science questions with help from the [[Studio Audience]]. The winning team get to take their prizes home. The losing team [[All or Nothing|don't]]. (You can probably guess [[Made of Explodium|what happens to ''their'' prizes]].)
Every week a large haul of science-related prizes are set aside for [[Rival Science Teams|two competing teams]] who have to conduct experiments and answer science questions with help from the [[Studio Audience]]. The winning team get to take their prizes home. The losing team [[All or Nothing|don't]]. (You can probably guess [[Made of Explodium|what happens to ''their'' prizes]].)


In the opening credits of ''Blast Lab'', we learn that within the grounds of Hammond's [[Big Fancy House|home]] lies an old water mill that conceals the entrance to his secret [[Elaborate Underground Base|Blast Lab]] where he does [[Mad Scientist Laboratory|weird experiments]], grows strange new lifeforms in a tank of [[Covered in Gunge|toxic waste]] and creates [[Homemade Inventions|bizarre machines]] all in the name of [[For Science|science]]!
In the opening credits of ''Blast Lab'', we learn that within the grounds of Hammond's [[Big Fancy House|home]] lies an old water mill that conceals the entrance to his secret [[Elaborate Underground Base|Blast Lab]] where he does [[Mad Scientist Laboratory|weird experiments]], grows strange new lifeforms in a tank of [[Covered in Gunge|toxic waste]] and creates [[Homemade Inventions|bizarre machines]] all in the name of [[For Science!|science]]!


He is assisted by his [[Never Mess With Granny|Ninja Nan]], who guards the lab, and a [[Stern Teacher|science teacher]] from his schooldays whom he has [[Time Travel|brought from the past]] to [[Gadgeteer Genius|help with his experiments]], but who is currently stuck in the body of a [[Older Than They Look|ten-year-old]] after the [[Time Machine]] [[Hilarity Ensues|malfunctioned]]. Also assisting is [[Non Human Sidekick|Oliver]] (or should we say [[Vanity License Plate|OLIV3R]]?), an [[Cool Car|Opel Kadett]] who [[Promotion to Opening Titles|started out as a minor character]] on Hammond's other show ''[[Top Gear]]''. There are also an apparently infinite number of [[Nominal Importance|nameless]], [[The Voiceless|mute]], [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|expendable]] henchpeople known as [[Bumbling Sidekick|The Lab Rats]].
He is assisted by his [[Never Mess With Granny|Ninja Nan]], who guards the lab, and a [[Stern Teacher|science teacher]] from his schooldays whom he has [[Time Travel|brought from the past]] to [[Gadgeteer Genius|help with his experiments]], but who is currently stuck in the body of a [[Older Than They Look|ten-year-old]] after the [[Time Machine]] [[Hilarity Ensues|malfunctioned]]. Also assisting is [[Non-Human Sidekick|Oliver]] (or should we say [[Vanity License Plate|OLIV3R]]?), an [[Cool Car|Opel Kadett]] who [[Promotion to Opening Titles|started out as a minor character]] on Hammond's other show ''[[Top Gear]]''. There are also an apparently infinite number of [[Nominal Importance|nameless]], [[The Voiceless|mute]], [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|expendable]] henchpeople known as [[Bumbling Sidekick|The Lab Rats]].


Speculation whether this show was originally supposed to be an episode of MTV's ''[[Cribs]]'' is best confined to [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
Speculation whether this show was originally supposed to be an episode of MTV's ''[[Cribs]]'' is best confined to [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
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** [[Game Show Host]]: Richard Hammond.
** [[Game Show Host]]: Richard Hammond.
** [[Studio Audience]]
** [[Studio Audience]]
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=== This show provides examples of: ===
* [[Adam Westing]]: Hammond's [[Mad Scientist]] character is just an exaggerated version of himself.
* [[Adam Westing]]: Hammond's [[Mad Scientist]] character is just an exaggerated version of himself.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: The explanations of the scientific theories.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: The explanations of the scientific theories.
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* [[Edutainment Show]]
* [[Edutainment Show]]
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]
* [[For Science]]
* [[For Science!]]
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Mini Miss.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Mini Miss.
* [[The Hit Flash]]: The opening credits and the Lab Rat sequences.
* [[The Hit Flash]]: The opening credits and the Lab Rat sequences.
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* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: No animals were harmed during filming... [[Credits Gag|except for the Lab Rats]].
* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: No animals were harmed during filming... [[Credits Gag|except for the Lab Rats]].
* [[Nominal Importance]]: The Lab Rats.
* [[Nominal Importance]]: The Lab Rats.
* [[Non Human Sidekick]]: Oliver.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Oliver.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Mini Miss.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Mini Miss.
* [[Plot Relevant Age Up]]: Inverted with Mini Miss.
* [[Plot Relevant Age Up]]: Inverted with Mini Miss.

Revision as of 20:25, 8 January 2014

 "Some of my experiments are a little... unreliable."

By day, Richard "The Hamster" Hammond presents television programmes in which things get blown up on flimsy pretexts. However, he also has a Secret Identity in which he likes to... um... blow things up on flimsy pretexts..

Richard Hammond's Blast Lab is a Science Show aimed at children which attempts to teach various scientific theories by conducting dangerous experiments and blowing stuff up.

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

In the opening credits of Blast Lab, we learn that within the grounds of Hammond's home lies an old water mill that conceals the entrance to his secret Blast Lab where he does weird experiments, grows strange new lifeforms in a tank of toxic waste and creates bizarre machines all in the name of science!

He is assisted by his Ninja Nan, who guards the lab, and a science teacher from his schooldays whom he has brought from the past to help with his experiments, but who is currently stuck in the body of a ten-year-old after the Time Machine malfunctioned. Also assisting is Oliver (or should we say OLIV3R?), an Opel Kadett who started out as a minor character on Hammond's other show Top Gear. There are also an apparently infinite number of nameless, mute, expendable henchpeople known as The Lab Rats.

Speculation whether this show was originally supposed to be an episode of MTV's Cribs is best confined to Wild Mass Guessing.

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