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>pretend there's a controversy over whether some dumb movie CGI stunt could've happened IRL
>design dumb test
>test fails
>rule everything "Plausible" anyway because your test sucked and you know it and you can't rule out the possibility that aliens secretly gave them antigravity tech or something
>halfway through the series decide you're bored of working and hand off the show to a group of annoying college kids consisting of the asian who does everything, the goonbait hot chick, and the useless dumb white guy

It was the genesis of the "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" movement. Before mythbusters all the cable science/history channels were actual serious documentaries and shit.