Big!
Big! is a TV series in which an episode consists of a team of engineers manufacturing the world's biggest items (usually a household item that's normally hand carried, scaled up to proportions that make the items unusable without JCBs and Cherrypickers) for the sake of setting world records.
| Big! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality Television |
| Written by | Larry Law |
| Directed by | Alan LaGarde |
| Presented by | Frank Payne |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Original Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Discovery Channel |
| Original release | June 1 – December 2, 2004 |
The devices have to function to qualify.
The series originally aired on Discovery Channel in 2004. It is currently airing on The Science Channel weekday mornings.
Cast
- Frank Payne
- Eric Scarlett
- Reverend Gadget
- Lisa Legohn
- Wink Eller
- Christoff Koon
Episodes
- 101: Blender
- 102: Popcorn
- 103: Electric Guitar
- 104: Motorcycle (01) - To be continued...
- 105: Motorcycle (02)
- 106: Giant Claw (game)
- 107: BBQ
- 108: Clippers
- 109: Wood Cuckoo Clock - The team did not achieve an official Guinness World Records. Stuart Claxton, the Guinness World Records representative said that it didn't qualify because the team used styrofoam to create portions of the clock; a material which would not be found in a "genuine" Cuckoo Clock.
- 110: Toaster - The team did not achieve an official Guinness World Records. The team had to disable one side of the toaster to stop breaking the switch on the generator, the bread was only toasted near the center, and the toaster didn't properly "pop" the toast up.
- 111: Espresso Machine
- 112: Treadmill - Stuart Claxton, of Guinness World Records, certified the team's creation as the World's Largest Treadmill.
- 113: Vacuum Cleaner - Stuart Claxton of Guinness World Records certified the team's creation as the World's Largest Vacuum Cleaner.
gollark: I kind of prefer g, but I guess if it's a giveway I wouldn't mind h too.
gollark: "we like to look at things as if it all for us, as if something is so grand about us, in truth we can only be grand if we so choose, and can properly attain it. but if we can, then what ever IT is was never for us. and thus only a blip in time, our memory and all of action erased as if it was never there, what is so special about us? nothing really." sounds pretty nihilist.
gollark: No, seems like rebranded nihilism.
gollark: ...
gollark: That sounds like nihilism.
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