• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 6, age appropriate for kids over 8; suggested age 9.

• Is it any good?

  3.0

• Common Sense says

  Teens' wacky experiments are fun for curious tweens.

Why We Rated This for Ages 9 and Up

The good stuff

• Messages:

  There’s little educational quality to the guys’ experiments, but the show might inspire tweens and teens to think critically about the world and devise their own tests -- on a smaller scale, that is.
• Role models:

  The teens appear to fly solo for much of the experimentation phase, which isn’t likely considering the danger involved in much of the equipment they use. Unnamed adult assistants (dubbed "Lab Dudes") do lend a hand when there’s something to construct. The three-person team is multicultural, and all have an equal hand in creating and executing each experiment.

What to watch out for

• Violence:

  Many of the team’s stunts involve some level of danger, like soaring through the sky strapped to helium balloons or firing flame throwers at a camper filled with popcorn kernels. But they take plenty of safety precautions, and no one is ever injured.
• Sex:

  The teens sometimes chat about "finding chicks." In one segment, a sumo wrestler’s buttocks are visible around his traditional garb.
• Language:

  Multiple uses of "Oh, my God!"
• Consumerism:

  Not an issue.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Not an issue.

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