History Mohs / ScienceInGenreOnly

* ''WebVideo/MicrosoftSamReadsFunnyWindowsErrors'' As soft as ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] Like it, stuff happens. A [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum diahreah]] death star. [[Nosenseofmass Planets as big as stars]], and many other RuleOfCool, and RuleOfFunny

* ''WebVideo/MicrosoftSamReadsFunnyWindowsErrors'' As soft as ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] Like it, stuff happens. A [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum]] death star that shoots diahreah. Planets as big as stars, and many other RuleofCool, and RuleofFunny

* ''WebVideo/MicrosoftSamReadsFunnyWindowsErrors'' As soft as ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] Like it, stuff happens. A [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum]] death star that shoots diahreah. Planets as big as stars, and many other [[Rule of Cool]], and [[Rule of Funny]] improbablites, such as flags having the awesome face. This is however MST3KMantra

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* ''Webcomic/MadScience'': On the Moh scale, this one's so soft you can pierce it with a soggy fur coat! The main character clearly has no grasp of ANY physics and it's implied she's a RealityWarper who can bend magic and science to her furry, furry will.

* ''Webcomic/ForScience'': On the Moh scale, this one's so soft you can pierce it with a soggy fur coat! The main character clearly has no grasp of ANY physics and it's implied she's a RealityWarper who can bend magic and science to her furry, furry will.

* ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' begins with a PatchworkMap island in the middle of a SingleBiomePlanet, inhabited by {{Cyborg}} {{Hobbits}} [[SchizoTech who live like primitive humans]]. They are joined by a [[FiveManBand Six Man Band]] of cyborgs with superpowered {{mask|OfPower}}s and ElementalPowers. Although many of the initial mysteries have been resolved, and the series went through a drastic [[DoingInTheWizard shift from mystical to semi-sci-fi]], there is almost ''no'' explanation of how anything actually works. Creator Greg Farshtey has the MST3KMantra in his sig on the fansite BZPower.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' are even softer than ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''. Not only does stuff happen and things [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum run on nonsensoleum]] but the depicted reality contradicts what we are familiar with in everyday life. Planetary systems and galaxies twirl around one another, and everything has a near-Earth gravity. The protomatter of stars help you launch from place to place and ludicrous speed travel between the loosely defined galaxies are a must.

* DouglasAdams' ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is packed full of all kinds of bizarre nonsense. The fastest mode of travel, for example through the universe is by ''bistro'', as in "place you eat in" or "second most overworked word in food marketing after ''new''[[note]]Or more appropriately, the [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem creative mathematics]] used to calculate bills in such establishments[[/note]], and the second fastest mode is a drive runs on the power of improbability -- but the stories are fully aware of how absurd it is, and the reader ''is'' encouraged to think about it. ItRunsOnNonsensoleum was clearly a favorite, if not ''the'' favorite, trope of creator Creator/DouglasAdams.

* LoisLowry's ''Literature/TheGiver'' never gives any scientific justification whatsoever for... well, anything, really. Not the psychic transmission of memories, not the total control kept over every aspect of the Community, [[spoiler: right down to its climate and color—or, rather, lack thereof]]. The focus is more on human nature.

* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is packed full of all kinds of bizarre nonsense. The fastest mode of travel, for example through the universe is by ''bistro'', as in "place you eat in" or "second most overworked word in food marketing after ''new''[[note]]Or more appropriately, the [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem creative mathematics]] used to calculate bills in such establishments[[/note]], and the second fastest mode is a drive runs on the power of improbability -- but the stories are fully aware of how absurd it is, and the reader ''is'' encouraged to think about it. ItRunsOnNonsensoleum was clearly a favorite, if not ''the'' favorite, trope of creator Creator/DouglasAdams.
* ''Literature/TheGiver'' never gives any scientific justification whatsoever for... well, anything, really. Not the psychic transmission of memories, not the total control kept over every aspect of the Community, [[spoiler: right down to its climate and color—or, rather, lack thereof]]. The focus is more on human nature.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' in its more scientifically themed seasons (more magical seasons usually make a token gesture towards this with giant robots, but aren't close enough to trying to qualify). Even when they get their powers from a government research lab, the morphing is still a mix of phlebotinum and handwaves, the sources of energy are either phlebotinum or not mentioned at all, faster than light travel and humanoid aliens are the rule, [[MadeOfExplodium sparks shoot out of weapons and struck objects entirely at random irregardless of object composition and the kind of weapon in question]], there's never an equal and opposite reaction for most actions, and the square-cube law is in the corner rocking back and forth in the fetal position muttering about giant robots, giant monsters, and the impossibilities of the human shape on the kaiju scale.

* ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' begins with a PatchworkMap island in the middle of a SingleBiomePlanet, inhabited by {{Cyborg}} {{Hobbits}} [[SchizoTech who live like primitive humans]]. They are joined by a [[FiveManBand Six Man Band]] of cyborgs with superpowered {{mask|OfPower}}s and ElementalPowers. Although many of the initial mysteries have been resolved, and the series went through a drastic [[DoingInTheWizard shift from mystical to semi-sci-fi]], there is almost ''no'' explanation of how anything actually works. Also, creator Greg Farshtey has the MST3KMantra in his sig on the fansite BZPower.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', anything and everything can be {{Hand Wave}}d by either SufficientlyAdvanced technology, RuleOfCool, RuleOfScary, the TimeyWimeyBall, or some combination thereof.

* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is packed full of all kinds of bizarre nonsense -- for example, the fastest mode of travel through the universe is by ''bistro'', as in "place you eat in" or "second most overworked word in food marketing after '''new'''[[note]]Or more appropriately, the [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem creative mathematics]] used to calculate bills in such establishments[[/note]], and the second fastest mode is a drive runs on the power of improbability -- but the stories are fully aware of how absurd it is, and the reader ''is'' encouraged to think about it. ItRunsOnNonsensoleum was clearly a favorite, if not ''the'' favorite, trope of creator Creator/DouglasAdams.
* ''Literature/TheGiver'' never gives any scientific justification whatsoever for...well, anything, really. Not the psychic transmission of memories, not the total control kept over every aspect of the Community, [[spoiler: right down to its climate and color—or, rather, lack thereof]]. The focus is more on human nature.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- at least the films -- tends to run on the RuleOfCool. SpaceIsNoisy, {{Space Fighter}}s take each other on in {{Old School Dogfight}}s, ArtificialGravity is so ubiquitous that it doesn't even bear mention, an Earth-sized planet is blown up with such force that the debris rushes outward faster than the speed of light, etc.. (The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse tries to be a little more restrained, and probably belongs in the next harder category.)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is chock full of every single popular science fiction trope, often with [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum intentionally silly]] ReverseThePolarity style answers to justify them. Only "harder" than ''MST3K'' because there's no MST3KMantra in the opening and the occasional legitimate maths and science appears as a GeniusBonus. Just for starters, there's a ship that once made the entire universe move around it, while the ship itself lay still, making the ship work at triple capacity.

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': stuff was owned by famous people or was present at famous events. Stuff somehow gains -- and exaggerates -- a property associated with said person or event. Don't think about it too hard. It also somehow ties into the worlds of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' and ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.

'''Science In Genre Only:''' The work is unambiguously set in the ''literary genre'' of ScienceFiction, but ''scientific'' it is not. AppliedPhlebotinum is the rule of the day, often of the [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Nonsensoleum]] kind, GreenRocks gain NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, and both BellisariosMaxim and the MST3KMantra apply. The vast majority of science comedy is in this genre, as it's easier to write jokes when you don't have to worry about contradicting yourself.

* The original 1978 ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'': They cross interstellar -- or maybe intergalactic, [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale even they're not sure]] -- distances in a matter of days. Spacecraft [[SpaceIsAir move like airplanes]], unless they're big spacecraft, in which case they [[SpaceIsAnOcean move like ocean ships]]. Guns fire [[FrickinLaserBeams "lasers"]] that move more slowly than bullets, with [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Cylons shooting blue and Vipers shooting red]]. A city's stockpile of "Tylium" catches fire, and then blows up the ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom entire planet]]''. The ArtificialGravity that keeps them right-side-up doesn't even merit a mention, as it's questionable whether the writers even knew that people on space ships experience zero gee.

* ''ToBoldlyFlee'' has nineteen Internet reviewers turn a house into a working spaceship capable of traveling from Earth to Jupiter in less than a week to investigate a literal PlotHole. Definitely running on RuleOfCool and RuleOfFunny.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' doesn't even obey real world physics in favour of gaming abstractions, and the characters are capable of instant messaging one another through time via unexplained mechanisms. The comic deals with concepts like the way time works between dimensions and the impossibility of FTL travel, but mostly for whimsy and intentional convolution, and characters frequently complain that magic is not real [[HypocriticalHumor while using it]].

'''Science In Genre Only:''' The work is unambiguously set in the ''literary genre'' of ScienceFiction, but ''scientific'' it is not. AppliedPhlebotinum is the rule of the day, often of the [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Nonsensoleum]] kind, GreenRocks gain NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, and both BellisariosMaxim and the MST3KMantra apply. The vast majority of science comedy is in this genre, as it's easier to write jokes when you don't have to worry about contradiction yourself.

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* ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- at least the films -- tends to run on the RuleOfCool. SpaceIsNoisy, {{Space Fighter}}s take each other on in {{Old School Dogfight}}s, ArtificialGravity is so ubiquitous that it doesn't even bear mention, an Earth-sized planet is blown up with such force that the debris rushes outward faster than the speed of light, etc.. (The StarWarsExpandedUniverse tries to be a little more restrained, and probably belongs in the next harder category.)