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-->'''Chesterson:''' And maybe...your program is horseshit!

* ''Bullseye!'' (1990) had Roger Moore as a conman [[{{doppelganger}} posing as Bavistock, one of two scientists who've invented a fusion reactor. [[Spoiler:The scene foreshadows the ending where the scientists are revealed to be frauds themselves, and the fusion reactor they've designed blows up when MargaretThatcher turns on the power at the official opening ceremony.]]

-->'''Scientist:''' And maybe...your program is horseshit!

* ''Bullseye!'' (1990) had Roger Moore as a conman [[{{doppelganger}} posing as a scientist]], only to be confronted by an irate colleague.
-->'''Scientist:''' I've got a bone to pick with you! Your formula blew up in my face!
-->'''Moore:''' Err...well maybe you didn't follow the instructions correctly!
-->'''Scientist:''' And maybe ''you'' are an incompetent idiot!

* ''ScaryGoRound'': One of the [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20020604 first plot lines]] of uses this trope.

* ''MiscellaneousError'' features Jack nonchalantly telling his father about his typical school day, which includes blowing up chemistry labs.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'':Professor Daitokouji/Banner blew himself up at least once. His specific class is left hard to determine, as is ''every'' teacher's on that show, but appears to be alchemy (also his side job).

* In ''FutariWaPrettyCure'', explosions seem to be a normal side effect of Honoka's experiments, as demonstrated twice in the first two episodes. And in her ''dreams.'' ''And in the intro.''

* Unintentionally done by the teacher in ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.

If only he'd had a little more ambition,\\

-->(''Stark zaps the fragment with electricity, at which point it '''explodes''' and hurls him across the room.'')

-->'''Scientist:''' I've got a bone to pick with you! Your experiment blew up in my face!

There's no better way to make a lesson stick than by [[StuffBlowingUp adding explosions]]. People in less-than-serious teen series picked up on that years ago.

* ''MythBusters'' pretty much exemplifies this trope. No episode is complete without something exploding ([[strike:for educational purposes]] ForScience, of course!). It was so popular, Discovery decided to distill the explosions into [[FollowTheLeader a new show]]--''Smash Lab.'' Too bad they forgot that the success of ''MythBusters'' is due as much to the people who run it as the experiments themselves.

** The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology also has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetic_Materials_Research_and_Training an explosives division]]. These guys are quite infamous around the town for setting off explosions that would probably cause air raid alarms if they were anywhere else. Shockwaves powerful enough to rattle windows are not unheard of, to the great amusement of the university's students. Fun fact: when the ''{{Mythbusters}}'' need to set off a truly large explosion, this is where they go to do it.

* ''{{Tintin}}''. Happens twice in "Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold". An oil executive is telling Tintin that he's confident his team of scientists will find the answer as to why petrol is exploding without cause, when one of them rings to report failure. Oh and if they want him to continue, they'll have to build a new lab! In the end Professor Calculus finds the answer, but only after destroying a large part of Marlinspike Hall, much to Captain Haddock's outrage.

* TheBully does this for fun in ''FantasticMrFox''; his partner is not amused.

* A [[OhTheHumanity good example]] is demonstrated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti_E2ZKZpC4&feature=player_detailpage#t=1168 HERE,]] at 19 minutes in, in a public demonstration by The Royal Institution.

* A [[OhTheHumanity good example]] is demonstrated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti_E2ZKZpC4&feature=player_detailpage#t=1168 HERE,]] in a public demonstration by The Royal Institution.

* A [[OhTheHumanity good example]] is demonstrated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti_E2ZKZpC4&feature=player_detailpage#t=1168 =here,=]] in a public demonstration by The Royal Institution.

* This is more or less a part of SpiderMan's origin. He attended a seminar on radioactive energy. The machines used produced a beam of radiowaves between two generators. The generators were not seperated from the public, nor were they sealed off to avoid a random spider falling into the beam and biting a certain Peter Parker. In later retellings, an explosion occured.