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* ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' does this, in early Season 1, right near the time Ryoga enters the scene. The Chem Club students want to get their hands on Akane and decide to make bombs, which they of course accidentally set off in the chemistry lab (and wind up setting off accidentally during the battle when the mines fail to go off during Ranma/Ryoga's fight).
* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Girl Pretty Sammy]]'': This is the opening Washu took in order to study magic. Human in this [[Alternate Continuity]], she nevertheless is the most powerful [[Mad Scientist]] in the world.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'':Professor Daitokouji/Banner blew himself up at least once. His specific class is left hard to determine, as is ''every'' teacher's on that show, but appears to be alchemy (also his side job).
** It is alchemy. When he was absent, Professor Chronos/Crowler took over and blew himself up as well.
* In ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'', explosions seem to be a normal side effect of Honoka's experiments, as demonstrated twice in the first two episodes. And in her ''dreams.'' ''And in the intro.''
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* '[[Archie Comics]]'': A common situation at Riverdale High.
* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''. Happens twice in "[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/Land of Black Gold|Land of Black Gold]]". An oil executive is telling Tintin that he's confident his team of scientists will find the answer as to why petrol is exploding without cause, when one of them rings to report failure. Oh and if they want him to continue, they'll have to build a new lab! In the end Professor Calculus finds the answer, but only after destroying a large part of Marlinspike Hall, much to Captain Haddock's outrage.
* This is more or less a part of [[Spider -Man]]'s origin. He attended a seminar on radioactive energy. The machines used produced a beam of radiowaves between two generators. The generators were not separated from the public, nor were they sealed off to avoid a random spider falling into the beam and biting a certain Peter Parker. In later retellings, an explosion occurred.
 
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* Occurs in several tales on ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'': A [[High School]] is haunted by the ghost of a girl who died in a lab explosion... The school [[Nerd]] defeats an evil water spirit (made of water) with manganite ("Mix water with manganite and kaboom!") and [[And Some Other Stuff|other chemicals]] from the school lab...
* ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'' embraced this trope. "And now, for a really big chemical reaction."..... BOOM. Bill once displayed the chemical formula for nitroglycerin. He then proceeded to drop the formula, and it exploded.
* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' pretty much exemplifies this trope. No episode is complete without something exploding (<s>for educational purposes</s> [[For Science!]], of course!). It was so popular, Discovery decided to distill the explosions into [[Follow the Leader|a new show]]--''Smash Lab.'' Too bad they forgot that the success of ''[[Myth Busters]]'' is due as much to the people who run it as the experiments themselves.
* ''[[Brainiac Science Abuse|Brainiac: Science Abuse]]'': It doesn't matter what they're experimenting with, they're going to blow something up.
* ''[[Dead Gorgeous (TV)|Dead Gorgeous]]'': In the first episode, Hazel causes a (small) explosion in the school lab despite her experiment seeming to involve nothing more dangerous than coloured foam.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'': In an [[All Just a Dream]] episode, Laura dreamed that Steve Urkel built an atomic bomb for his science fair project.
 
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* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'': Played with in ''Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity''. "Are explosions science?" "In your case...no."
* ''[[Bully (Videovideo Gamegame)|Bully]]'': You get a minor bang if you fail chemistry. Notably, if you succeed, you get the ability to make firecrackers. Bear in mind that the key ingredient in these, if memory serves, is black powder, isn't it?
* ''[[Escape From St. Marys (Video Game)Mary's|Escape From St Marys]]'': [[Genre Savvy]] Mrs. Desai knows you're only in the chemistry lab to make bombs.
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' briefly subverts this: in a setting rife with magic, weresquirrels, [[Hyperspace Mallet|Hammerspace]] and people who seem unable to hold onto their gender for 24 hours straight, the science teacher is a completely ordinary person who's exasperated by the disrespect the main characters pay to the laws of physics. It should be noted, however, that the first real plotline in the comic was about a science experiment that had come to life and attacked, although when it came back to life a few plotlines later it was [[Retcon|retconned]] to have been an attack by an interdimensional rival instead.
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'': One of the [http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20020604 first plot lines] of uses this trope.
* ''[[The Wotch (Webcomic)|The Wotch]]'' has quite a messy [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2006-03-20 science class].
* ''[[Miscellaneous Error]]'' features Jack nonchalantly telling his father about his typical school day, which includes blowing up chemistry labs.
 
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* On ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', Past!Utonium randomly mixed chemicals while goofing around in science class and accidentally set the school on fire.
* On ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'', Jake and Spud blow up the Huntsclan Academy lab while trying to brew a potion of dragon slaying.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' the teaching of [[Elemental Powers|fire-benders]] seems to involve lots of flame and explosions. But then.... they're ''[[Justified Trope|fire-benders]]''.
* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': In "Sweet Dream Baby" the Jelly Beans manage to put their cabin into orbit with something they mixed up in a store bought chemistry kit.
 
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