Science of Stupid

Overview

This show combines cold hard science with some of the craziest, most spectacular and painful user generated clips ever recorded. Richard Hammond introduces all manner of mishaps featuring brave, if misguided individuals from around the world and then explains the science behind their failure and humiliation with the use of bespoke animations and super slo-mo cinematography. Every episode features between 50 and 60 clips of misadventure – ordinary folk making extraordinary mistakes. Each week watch stunts involving weightlifting, shooting guns or jumping over cars, that have gone wrong, paused, re-wound, and re-played and analysed to determine exactly what went wrong and why. Richard explains the physics, chemistry and biology at play, then presents forensic details to explain the stupidity that resulted in failure. He’ll look at everything including weight, volume, momentum, combustion and even how the brain operates. This is misadventure explained. This is the Science of Stupid.

Roughly 86h to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 172 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

Trailer

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Series cast and crew

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  Dallas CampbellSelf - Host
  124 episodes

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  Richard HammondSelf - Host
  48 episodes

Created by

Richard Hammond

Network

National Geographic

Seasons and episodes

• Season 12014 · 14 episodes
• Season 22015 · 34 episodes
• Season 32016 · 34 episodes
• Season 42017 · 14 episodes
• Season 52017 · 20 episodes
• Season 62018 · 20 episodes
• Season 72019 · 20 episodes
• Season 82020 · 16 episodes
• Season 9
• Specials2018 · 20 episodes