# "Effing Science" - Horrible show title?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 16, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946 "2010-09-16T08:14:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/21 "2010-09-16T19:59:45Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#):
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> > [@Chronos](#):
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> > My problem isn’t that it’s profanity, but that it seems to imply that science is a bad thing.
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> I think it’s more like “That’s effin’ sweet!” than “Effin’ science is too hard.”
That science is one bad motherf…
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/22 "2010-09-16T20:12:32Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> > [@Mollie\_Magill](#):
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> > I think it’s more like “That’s effin’ sweet!” than “Effin’ science is too hard.”
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> That science is one bad motherf…
[obShaft]Shut your mouth![/obShaft]
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/23 "2010-09-16T20:23:50Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> It’s on the G4 Network. TV for gamers.
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> I just wish they’d stay off my lawn. _sigh_
I just wish TechTV hadn’t been swallowed by that black hole of a network. I miss Pat and Leo on the Screensavers so much!
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### Author:  [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/24 "2010-09-17T23:48:42Z")
Eh, this is just their way of trying to get the target audience (young men) to think science is cool.
I am in favor of anything that makes the average person more interested in science (I think it’s ridiculous how ignorant most people are about science - I recall seeing a poll a while back that showed a fair number of people out there think that the sun orbits the earth).
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### Author:  [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/25 "2010-09-18T18:12:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#):
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> > [@Miller](#):
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> > That science is one bad motherf…
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> [obShaft]Shut your mouth![/obShaft]
But he’s only talkin’ about science… 😃
I’m sure there’s ways of making science appeal to kids without wrapping it up in douchebaggery. Besides, they seem to forget that swearing is the province of the uneducated motherfucker. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/26 "2010-09-18T21:02:47Z")
Effing sounds like a small English town. I’ll leave the writing of the “Effing \_\_\_\_\_\_\_” sketches to someone else.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/27 "2010-09-19T03:26:40Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#):
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> However, I think the show’s title is in poor taste. Why the “effin’”? It certainly wasn’t necessary and is apparently contrary to the show’s principles.
I’ve never seen the show. But I have to question the premises that
1. It’s for children and
2. It’s educational
I googled it and the first thing that came up was “Effing Science: Why 420 Makes You Hungry”. It’s really straining me to believe that this is a show intended for or marketed to kids. Do you consider Mythbusters to be a kids show just because it’s nominally informative? I certainly don’t. How about Manswers?
I’m struggling to even really call it educational. Seems more like edutainment, or just plain old reality show.
They really should have just gone all out and called it “Effing Science, How Does it Work?”
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### Author:  [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/28 "2010-09-21T03:08:43Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> It’s on the G4 Network. TV for gamers.
At least it was, 3-4 re-tools ago. Not that I’m bitter about the loss of a great TV Network or anything…\*
Now its TV that’s plugged in.
That makes absolutely no sense, in this highly mobile society.
\ ***Leo and Pat** , we miss you.
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### Author:  [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effing-science-horrible-show-title/553946/29 "2010-09-21T03:13:22Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> > [@runner pat](#):
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> > It’s on the G4 Network. TV for gamers.
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> > I just wish they’d stay off my lawn. _sigh_
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> I just wish TechTV hadn’t been swallowed by that black hole of a network. I miss Pat and Leo on the Screensavers so much!
How did I miss this?
Yeah well, THIS.
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