Talk:Watch Mr. Wizard

Copyright violation

On 15 January 2007 IP editor from 69.163.243.110 added material from "A Golden Age in Children's Television". Please do not add copyrighted material. I removed the material. If appropriate, and if it adds to the article, such material may be linked to via ==External links==. In this case I did not chose to make that link. --Bejnar 21:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Wizard's World

doesnt mr wizards world deserve its own page? it was an entirely seperate show, produced more than a decade after 'watch mr wizard' ended - 70.19.146.102 03:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Probably not, because the two were so closely related. But if you can produce a full article with encyclopedic style, without junk filler, please go ahead. Since this is a short article anyway, I would suggest that they be kept together. --Bejnar 14:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I just added a maintainence tag to address this, maybe we can get this coversation going again.... CapsLock NumLock ... CapsTalk NumTalk 21:58, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Seems not. I will remove the tag. Op47 (talk) 16:56, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Parodies

On 13 June Sumnjim deleted from the "Parodies" section the line:

• "Mr. Egghead" a.k.a Joey Gladestone from Full House

saying "I'd like a source to back up that claim. Just because a character is a silly person doing science experiments does not mean that they are trying to parody Mr. Wizard."

I agree with Sumnjim's statement, but not its application in this instance, because there is more than just a silly person, namely the experimenter holds themselves out as being a scientist with a descriptive name like Mr. Wizard. I think that the appropriate request is not in a history note coupled with deletion, but a request in the article for a source using the fact template. I would suggest that the source not be original research, but reflect a published text that discusses "Mr. Egghead" as a paraody on "Mr. Wizard". --Bejnar 14:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• Personally, I believe that to be Original Research and since it is policy to not have in wiki, I deleted it, and I want a source before it's re-added. --sumnjim ^{talk with me·changes} 14:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• Per Sumnjim, all parody info, none of which is sourced, has been moved here. --Bejnar 21:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Parodies include:
• "Mr. Whizzer", a parody that has occurred in an episode of Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers.
• "Mr. Science" a recurring Bob & Ray sketch, in which Bob, as Mr. Science, would demonstrate a Mr. Wizard-like experiment to an annoyingly over-enthusiastic neighborhood boy, Jimmy Schwab (played by Ray), who would invariably touch the wrong thing at the end, setting off a laboratory explosion.
• "Ask Dr. Stupid" in some episodes of Ren and Stimpy.
• "Ask Mr. Lizard" in some episodes of Dinosaurs, performing dangerous experiments that would invariably kill his young assistant, Timmy. His catchphrase was a jovial, "We're going to need another Timmy!"
• Police scientist Ted Olson in Police Squad!, who was constantly being interrupted in the middle of some dubious or dangerous experiment involving a child.
• "Ask Dr. Science!" from Duck's Breath Mystery Theater.
• "Mr. Egghead" a.k.a Joey Gladestone from Full House
• A different "Mr. Science"? I recall parody skits on a prime time network TV program, shown sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. A teenage (or young adult) boy and girl would visit an adult "Mr. Science", who would distract the boy and then start making out with the girl. I seem to recall one where the boy enters a glass walled "rain forest" booth, the door is closed and the boy is showered with simulated rain. Maybe someone else will recall the skits and be able to provide the name of the program that they were shown on, the actors, a more exact time frame and references. My best recall is that the adult was "Mr. Science" but it could have been a variation on that name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Sled (talk • contribs) 14:41, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

• If we are going to go that far, (which technically I agree with you removing all WP:OR, and without sources it must be, I completely removed the "Parodies" section as the remaining text left Watch Mr Wizard has been parodied many times is also WP:OR without sources, and without sources, it does not need to be there. I tried to get some sources from this yesterday...I found some info on "Mr Whizzer" from Chip and Dale, but I could never get a background on the character, only that Billy West was the voice actor, and his page does not mention any specifics on the character, and since I haven't seen the show in....well a long time, I have no idea exactly what his character does. I am very familiar with Mr. Egghead from Full House as that show is still very vivid in my mind, and I whole-heartedly disagree that he is a parody of Mr. Wizard. I am leaning that all other "parodies" that were listed were not parodies either. If any sources at all come about to disprove me, then we can re-expand the article to relist them. I am definitely not against that. --sumnjim ^{talk with me·changes} 15:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I removed the Queensu link at the bottom of the page. It is a broken link.

The "Mr. Wizard, get us out of here" does not refer to this Mr. Wizard, but the Wizard the magic lizard and turtle cartoon series in the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show". So I have removed this line. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.181.111 (talk) 05:13, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Opinion as fact

In this edit, I cut the following phrase from the lede because it inappropriately states as a fact an idea that represents one person's opinion: The program turned "a generation of youth" in the 1950s and early 1960s onto "the promise and perils of science".

At least an earlier version here attempts to make the distinction: She credits the program with turning "a generation of youth" in the 1950s and early 1960s onto "the promise and perils of science". However, I'm not even sure the opinion is warranted in the lede considering there's no context for us to understand who the quoted person is or why she's an expert, and the lede isn't typically where you'd find effusive praise. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:58, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

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