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{{w|Bill Nye}} is well known in the United States for making educational science videos for elementary school children. In these videos, he is shown as enthusiastic about science and learning. Here, he is trying to enjoy a meal and is quite rude about the mother asking about why the ice cracks, the opposite of the way he behaves in the videos.
 
{{w|Bill Nye}} is well known in the United States for making educational science videos for elementary school children. In these videos, he is shown as enthusiastic about science and learning. Here, he is trying to enjoy a meal and is quite rude about the mother asking about why the ice cracks, the opposite of the way he behaves in the videos.
  
Ice pops and cracks when dropped in a glass of water because of thermal expansion, where the (relatively) hot water causes the ice to expand, cracking it.
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Ice pops and cracks when dropped in a glass of water because of thermal expansion, where the (relatively) hot water causes the ice to expand unevenly, cracking it.
  
 
The title-text has another joke. He's wearing a lab coat to a dinner in which he does not want to be recognized or harrassed with questions. However, he wears his recognizable lab coat.
 
The title-text has another joke. He's wearing a lab coat to a dinner in which he does not want to be recognized or harrassed with questions. However, he wears his recognizable lab coat.

Revision as of 00:16, 22 June 2013

Bill Nye
You could at least not wear the lab coat everywhere, dude.
Title text: You could at least not wear the lab coat everywhere, dude.

Explanation

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Bill Nye is well known in the United States for making educational science videos for elementary school children. In these videos, he is shown as enthusiastic about science and learning. Here, he is trying to enjoy a meal and is quite rude about the mother asking about why the ice cracks, the opposite of the way he behaves in the videos.

Ice pops and cracks when dropped in a glass of water because of thermal expansion, where the (relatively) hot water causes the ice to expand unevenly, cracking it.

The title-text has another joke. He's wearing a lab coat to a dinner in which he does not want to be recognized or harrassed with questions. However, he wears his recognizable lab coat.

Transcript

[A restaurant. A mother and two children sit at one table; a man in a white lab coat sits in another.]
THE TRIBULATIONS of BILL NYE
Mother: Hey, kids, see how the ice cracks and pops in your water? I wonder what causes that...
Mother: *AHEM* I said, I wonder what --
Bill Nye: Know what? Maybe I just wanna enjoy my goddamn meal.


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Discussion

Seems to be complete to me. David.windsor (talk) 20:47, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Same for me, it's not incomplete any more unless someone does find new issues.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
isn't "PS" a bit weird in a wiki?173.245.53.192 19:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Fixed. --Dgbrt (talk) 22:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Is the mother Miss Lenhart? 0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101 (talk page) 00:31, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Nope, Randall would have mentioned her.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:01, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Now she is Blondie. Miss Lenhart is a teacher, which is not give here, although she does teach her chilcren --Kynde (talk) 14:12, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Bill Nye isn't a scientist. He's a mechanical engineer, comedian, and educator. Rhmcoff (talk) 23:07, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Even Wikipedia agrees he is not a scientist, I would edit but at work and forgot login may check this more when I get home.162.158.62.231 12:43, 3 July 2017 (UTC)