Horrible Science(TV Series)

Horrible Science is a spinoff series to Horrible Histories based on the Scholastic book series of the same name and stylistically fashioned after the Horrible Histories children's sketch show. It is the second adaptation of the Horrible Science Books after the 2015 remake. Just like the 2015 remake, the series is produced by Toff Media, a company owned and founded by comedians Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong, and co-owned by Hat Trick Productions. It is moved from Itv to the BBC, just like its predecessor.

Like its main series, the show focuses on the dark, gruesome, but accurate aspects of science.

Theme Song
The theme song is the same as the 2015 series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7QBvrkAUwU

Main

 * Ben Miller
 * Chris Martin
 * Tom Bell
 * Jason Forbes
 * Letty Butler
 * Susie Wokoma
 * Eleanor Lawrence

Recurring

 * Sarah Hadland
 * Dominique Moore
 * Larry Lewin
 * Alice Lowe
 * Jaal Hartley
 * Jessica Ransom
 * Harry Hayes

Puppeteer

 * Ben Miller as Al E. Mann, the host and star of the series. An alien from another planet, he is close friends with Rattus Rattus in the History series. He is based on the alien that is shown in the books
 * Miller also plays talking Brain Professor McTaggart who hosts the segment called The Brain Dump(and gets updated to look more plush-like and less frightening looking)

Special Guests

 * Ben Willbond
 * Mathew Baynton
 * Simon Farnaby
 * Martha Howe-Douglas
 * Jim Howick
 * Larry Rickard
 * Bill Nye The Science Guy
 * Adam Savage
 * Jamie Hyneman
 * Weird Al Yankovich

Angry Animals
These sketches explore the behaviors and habits of animals


 * A hippopotamus fights a crocodile in the waters...and won!
 * How A Chameleon Changes Color(Animated)
 * A man runs away from a dangerous forest animal. A bear?A mountain lion? A swarm of bees? No, he's running away from a moose. Yes, a moose.

Awful Astronomy
These sketches explore the field of astronomy


 * Comes To Mercury! A place where you'll either die from overheating or die from getting to cold(Advertisement)
 * Venus is jealous her sister Earth has life while she only gets volcanoes and a deadly atmosphere
 * An asteroid nearly hit Earth, but missed
 * How Small Is The Earth?(Animated)

Blood, Bones and Body Bits
These sketches explore the human body


 * Children perform the game of Operation on a real person
 * What happens when a bone is broken and healed(animated)

Bulging Brains
These sketches explore the Brain and how it works

Chemical Chaos
These sketches explore the field of Chemistry


 * An evil wizard turns a women from a solid to a liquid to a gas
 * Alchemist Wei Boyang tries to create an immortality potion, but ends up creating gun powder!

Deadly Diseases
These sketches explore how deadly some diseases are


 * A vampire goes to a tuberculosis victim, and instead of sucking his blood, he simply collects the blood that the victim has been coughing
 * A WWI soldier survives the battlefield, but dies from something even worse... The Spanish Flu.
 * A woman suffers from Butterfly Disease, where the slightest touch harms her skin

Dangerous Dinosaurs
These sketches explore the behavior and life of the dinosaurs


 * Horrible Science News: The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Time Periods Report
 * A T Rex brags about being the largest and scarest dinosaur only to be confronted by a Spinosaurus
 * A Triceratops uses his horns to attract a mate
 * A bird is disappointed he is not as macho or dangerous as his ancestors the dinosaurs

Disgusting Digestion
These sketches explore how digestion works in the body

Evil Inventions
The sketches explore the various inventions in science and how they were invented


 * A scientist did not wash his hands and accidentally invents the first artificial sweetener
 * New! Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin(Advertisement)

Early Evolution
These sketches explore the science of Evolution


 * The 12 Step Natural Selection Program: A guide to survival of the fittest
 * Charles Darwin's Expeditions (Animated)
 * The Brain Dump: Natural Selection

Fatal Forces
These sketches explore concepts in physics such as force and motion


 * Issac Newton tests his laws of motions by throwing various things in his house.

Frightening Light
These sketches explore how light works

Genius Genetics
These sketches explore the study of Genetics

Killer Energy
These sketches explore how Energy and thermodynamic work

Mean Mathematics
These sketches explores the knowledge of mathematics


 * Rene Descartes gets frustrated that people are only interested in his philosophy and not his passion project: The Coordinate System
 * A man demonstrates basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) by stealing and destroying his friend's apples
 * Order Of Operations: The Game(Parody Of Operation)

Measly Medicine
The sketches explore how medicine is used and how to not use it


 * A doctor in the 1800s gives a child with a bad cough heroin!
 * The story of how antibiotics is made
 * Edward Jenner takes fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy.

Microscopic Monsters
These sketches explore the behaviors of bacteria, viruses, and parasites

Nasty Nature
These sketches explore what is depicted in nature and those who study it

Painful Poison
These sketches explore the various poisons that can harm your body

Sadistic Psychology
These sketches explore the various theories in psychology


 * Sigmund Freud tells his patient his problems exist because he is attracted to his mom, confusing him
 * John B. Watson makes a baby named Albert scared of a white rat
 * Al uses Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs to see how fulfilled his life is.

Shocking Electricity
These sketches explore Electricity, both artificial and in nature


 * A man gets struck by lightning, twice, in the same area
 * Horrible Science News: Benjamin Franklin performs his kite experiment live
 * AC vs DC(Parody Of Epic Rap Battles Of History)

Stupid Senses
These sketches explore the 5 senses (and more)

Terrible Time
These sketches explore the concept of Time

Ugly Bugs
These sketches explore the behavior of insects and invertebrates

Vicious Veg
The sketches explore the behavior of Plants

Vile Volcanoes
These sketches explore the behavior of Volcanoes

Wasted Weather
These sketches explore the weather and climate

HSTV News
Based on Horrible History Television News or Horrible Histories TV. News, Horrible Science TV News features reports of events related to science.


 * St. Helens Eruption(Vile Volcanoes)- Reporting live of the eruption of St. Helens in Washington State
 * Pig Heart Surgery(Blood, Bones and Body Bits)- Interview with David Bennett, who got a genetically modified pig heart transferred to his body
 * The Water Cycle Report
 * The Nitrogen Cycle Report
 * The Carbon Cycle Report

The Brain Dump
A talking brain Professor McTaggart explains concepts in science

Smart Answers To Stupid Questions(or Smart Solutions To Stupid Problems)
This segment features a non sensical or dumb problem caused by a person, and you the viewer find out the answer to their problems. It is meant to take a jab at word problems due to how "unrealistic" they are.

Scientific Fairytales
Based on Twisted Fairy Tales in the history series, Scientific Fairytales consists of a series of fairytales that are science based.

Lab Show
This segment involves lab experiments that you could try at home. Based on The Art Show segment in the history series.

Are You Smarter Than An Ancient Scientist?
Parodying "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader", a modern person competes with a scientist from the past to see if either knows more about science than the other.

Scientific Dating Game
Parodying "The Dating Game", an animal or creature gets to choose which three are his/her date to be with


 * Magnets(Fatal Forces)- A magnet gets to choose between two magnets who are the same pole, or a magnet with the opposite pole. She chooses the magnet with the opposite pole
 * Praying Mantis(Ugly Insects)- A praying mantis gets to choose which of her three mantises she gets to eat.

Professor Small Explains
Professor Small explains the various microbes and tiny figures that exist in the body

HSTV Sports
HSTV Sports covers sports events and how they relate to science. It is presented by a newsreader introducing the sports events, & sports correspondents in the field.


 * Hockey(Fatal Forces)- Interview with a hockey player and how friction allows them to move throw the ice
 * Steroids(Painful Poison)- Report on the various athletes caught using steroids and how it affects the body

Movie Trailers

 * The Air Conditioner (Evil Inventions) - Meet the real hero of the American West (Western film parody).
 * Hippo(Angry Animals)- An angry animal swims through the water and kills people, as well as chasing them on land! Parody Of Jaws
 * Cars(Evil Inventions)- Carl Benz invents the car in an emotional feature. Parody of Pixar's "Cars".
 * Life Of π(Mean Mathematics)- A teenager gets board stuck in the water with the tiger, so he starts saying π's full number until he is rescued. Parody of Life Of PI.

Scary Stories
Unlike the history series, this "Scary Stories" actually explores scary stories related to nature and science that really are true. In each of the sketches, Reznor Ravenblood (portrayed by Jason Forbes) hosts some scary stories.


 * Bear Attacks(Angry Animals)
 * A woman climbed onto her roof when a bear broke into her cabin. It followed her onto the roof and killed her.
 * A bear broke the necks of two campers, dragged them off, and ate part of them. When police found the bear five days later... it was guarding and protecting their corpses. The disturbing implication that the bear had come to enjoy the taste of human flesh, to the point where it jealously guarded the corpses, makes this one even creepier.
 * Parasites(Microscopic Monsters)
 * The hookworm larvae grows inside the human intestines where they attach to the wall of the intestine and drink the blood of the host, causing a form of anaemia and abdominal pain, slowing killing the person.
 * Toxoplasma gondii would invade the central nervous system, slowly damaging the brain

Animal Classification Song

 * Subject : Angry Animals

Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus sings about how to classify animal species in the animal kingdom

Body Changes
A song about changes in the body through puberty. Parody of "Changes" by David Bowie and based on the Charles Darwin song in the history series
 * Subject :Blood, Bones and Body Bits

Death Song

 * Subject : Blood, Bones and Body Bits

To the tune of The Stupid Deaths Theme Song, Death sings about what happens to a body when it dies.

The Dog Breeds

 * Subject : Angry Animals

Here's the story of a lovely laddie who became a domesticated dog, creating many different breeds. Parody of The Brady Bunch Theme

Dream Meanings

 * Subject: Sadistic Psychology

Sigmund Freud sings about his interpretation of dreams. Parody of "Sweet Dreams" by Beyonce

Drugs: It's Bad
The most dangerous drugs-Tobacco, Alcohol, Opiods, and Cocaine- boast over whose more harmful to people's health. A parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad" and this show's version of The Roman Emperor Song
 * Subject : Painful Poisons

DNA Song
Subject : Genetics

DNA sings about how important he is to the cell and the body. A parody of "DNA" by Kendrick Lamar

Ecosystem Song

 * Subject : Nasty Nature

A deer sings about the function of ecosystems, starting with the sun. A parody of "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles

It's Not True!
In this song, a teacher is being quarantined for teaching false information about science to her students.

Math Thinkers

 * Subject : Mean Mathematics

Indian figures such as Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, and others sing about how they contribute to mathematical theories, including the numeral system.

Periodic Table Song
A song to help remember all the elements of the periodic table from Hydrogen to Lawrencium. This would become the longest song not just in the show, but in the entire Horrible Histories franchise.
 * Subject : Chemical Chaos

Pythagorean Song

 * Subject : Mean Mathematics

Pythagoras sings about his famous mathematical theoreom.

RNA: DNA's special messenger

 * Subject : Genius Genetics

A glam rock parody, a strand of RNA sings about his important function in the cell.

The Trimates

 * Subject : Nasty Nature

Parodying a girl group song, The "Trimates"- Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, and Biruté Galdikas- sing about their discoveries when studying the great apes

The Truth About BF Skinner

 * Subject: Sadistic Psychology

In the song, BF Skinner denounces all the alleged facts about him. Based on the Richard III song

Top Of The Mountain

 * Subject: Nasty Nature

A mountain climber sings about how difficult it to climb the top of a mountain and the different altitudes while climbing. Parody of county music such as the Carpenter's songs "Top Of The World" and "Rainy Days and Mondays"

Under The Sea Levels

 * Subject : Nasty Nature

A song explaining the various layers of the ocean that exist. A parody of "Under The Sea" from the Little Mermaid