Today is Bill Nye ’s birthday — and to remember the juncture , we cut into into the sometimes muggy ( let ’s just say Doc Brown is involve ) , always whacky world of fan fable base on everyone ’s preferred science guy . ( We tried to keep it clean , but you might want to forfend share these account with young readers anyway . ) In the immortal words of Samuel L. Jackson ’s character inJurassic Park , hold on to your butts — it ’s about to get weird .

1. The Thing With the Soda Bottles

In this Bill Nye / Dr. Horrible ’s Sing Along Blogmash - up , Bill — who is Dr. Horrible ’s uncle — somehow manages to stop a rogue tornado , no thanks to Captain Hammer .

2. Bill Nye’s Disastrous Wedding

Bill is all do tomarry the ma’am of his dreams — Jill Hurl , the skill girl — with his well friends by his side . And all is go bad accord to plan … until Jill asks Bill to take her last name , and Harry Potter shows up .

3. Bill Nye Disobeys the Laws of Gravity

In this shortcautionary tale , Bill learns about the riskiness of ignoring sombreness by leaning his chair back too far .

4. Bill Nye And Dance Dance Revolution

tyke are starting to lose pastime in skill , so Bill tries to get them into it again by write songs andforcing one of his set membersto play Dance Dance Revolution .

5. Bill Nye: The Episodes Not Released To Children

Thisthree - chapter epicfeatures Bill screwing up experimentation — and scarring his young hearing member in the physical process . So much so that his assistants are replaced by a narwhal and the audience becomes a ocean of Harry Potter composition board cutouts . Also , Michael Jackson makes an appearing .

6. Bill Nye the Not So Science Guy

Bill is retired , and enjoying it — until he stupefy a inscrutable phone call .

Happy 57th birthday , Bill !

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