Science of Stupid (2014): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2014, Science of Stupid is a documentary, reality and comedy series.

What it’s about. This show combines cold hard science with some of the craziest, most spectacular and painful user generated clips ever recorded. Richard Hammond introduces all manner of mishaps featuring brave, if misguided individuals from around the world and then explains the science behind their failure and humiliation with the use of bespoke animations and super slo-mo cinematography. Every episode features between 50 and 60 clips of misadventure – ordinary folk making extraordinary mistakes. Each week watch stunts involving weightlifting, shooting guns or jumping over cars, that have gone wrong, paused, re-wound, and re-played and analysed to determine exactly what went wrong and why. Richard explains the physics, chemistry and biology at play, then presents forensic details to explain the stupidity that resulted in failure. He’ll look at everything including weight, volume, momentum, combustion and even how the brain operates. This is misadventure explained. This is the Science of Stupid.

Who’s in it. Science of Stupid stars Richard Hammond as Self - Host and Dallas Campbell as Self - Host.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.2/10, Science of Stupid has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on Disney Plus, fuboTV and YouTube TV and rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and Fandango At Home. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Science of Stupid page.

If you liked it. Fans of Science of Stupid tend to enjoy Cosmos, Planet Earth, Planet Earth II and Vikings.