Last week the National Geographic Channel premiered Rocket City Rednecks (which I declared the best new reality show since Tool Academy) and after new episodes tonight, there is a premiere of a great companion show for the redneck MacGyver’s in Mad Scientists. Much like the show it precedes, Mad Scientists features people building weird, and sometime, useful new toys.
The show follows professional builder John Bowler as he searches the country for eccentric engineers who build new creations in their garage and then challenges them to upgrade their inventions. In tonight’s premiere John heads to California looking for a guy who built his own all terrain vehicle. And not being content with that, John bets the inventor to make his machine stand, and drive, standing up (see picture above).
Stick around for back to back episodes because the second one is even more entertainment when John travels to an abusement park. And no, that is not another one of my misspellings; they actually call it an abusement park. Oh, yeah, and the roller coaster was built by a guy and his friends in his back yard. And naturally John ends up getting the guy to trick out one of his rides, an air compressor fueled roller coaster that John want to put on a monorail track, and do it within forty-eight hours.
Also this season, John looks to make weird contraptions even weirder like a 40-foot-long counterweighted teeter-totter, a drag-racing super-machine converted from a minivan, Gyroplanes built from scratch, and an off-roading wheelchair that shoot pellets like a machine gun.
Mad Scientists airs Wednesdays at 10:00 with back to back episodes on the National Geographic Channel. Check out a preview from tonight’s episode below:
That Rock Crawler looks insane! I read that the military may be interested in the transmission for military or space vehicle use. I am really starting to like this show. It has a real up beat feel. They go around and highlight American ingenuity. There are a lot of “Makers” out there who turn every day items in to wild inventions and pieces of art. I like that they go out there and challenge these inventors to push their limits with the host and create something new. I would like to see this show stick around for a while. I just read that Directv might be losing National Geographic and other FOX channels. I am happy I have DISH Network for my TV provider/employer. Last year they signed a long term agreement with FOX keeping Nat Geo on my screen for years to come.
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