Parents need to know that although this series misses a great opportunity to demonstrate some of the practical applications of science, it will still get viewers’ gears turning about the way things work. The teens on the show sometimes use potentially dangerous tools like flame throwers in their experiments, but the environment is always safe, and they take precautions against injury. Content-wise, the show is age-appropriate for its intended tween audience, though parents may want to follow up with some cautionary words against trying similar experiments at home.
Positive 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.
Positive 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.
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.
First of all, all the parents who have reviewed this(no offense) but there is nothing wrong about this show. First of all, they always say before the show that everything that done by the dudes are supervised and always use the right equipment and should never be done by the common person. The guys are very intelligent and look at things in ways that people would never think of. They always use precautionary measures and there are tons of people to help them out, so they're not building the experiments on their own. And plus, its a KIDS show! Its not The Dudesons in America. So parents relax.
OK, let me first just say to a few of the parents that reviewed this that our generation does have its dumb side, but nobody's going to go out and be influenced enough by this show to go pour 300 pounds of pudding off the Empire State Building or whatever. =P It's really up to the producers and writers of this show what they do with they food they bought-- and likely the food used on this show isn't really very appetizing or even sanitary to actually sit down and eat either. It's propable they used old food from some crap warehouse. If you're so concerned about wasted food, go and donate to a homeless shelter and don't get peeved when other people don't choose to do the same. Now, enough of that. You can probably tell Dude What Would Happen is going to be a dangerous show when the intro sequence features guns and lightning bolts (albeit animated) pointed at the characters' heads. o_O Forget about wasted food-- think about some young or mentally ill child seeing this and trying out one of the dumb stunts for themselves? Children are HIGHLY impressionable-- I have heard many stories of children who died doing something they saw on TV. Speaking of mentally ill, I kind of get the feeling that the curly-haired guy has some kind of problem... maybe they all do, but that specific one just stands out. Makes me think these kids are not really in any position to be showing life-threatening stunts on television? Not only that, but it's totally not creative-- 'Mythbusters' is being ripped off quite clearly, but the difference is that the people on Mythbusters are sane, smart, and responsible adults... AND they actually try to answer questions that are of interest rather than answer questions that would at best entertain a group of seven year olds. This is a poor excuse for a TV show and if you ask me, those three kids belong at the psychologist's office rather than on television. :)
Horrible..Everytime I turn past this show these punks are talkinga bout blowing up a bomb or messing around with fire..there are enough bad things in the world..you want to hear about what a bomb will do..watch the news. WHY CANT THERE BE MORE POSITIVE SHOWS..THIS IS HORRIBLE CARTOON NETWORK..WHAT A JOKE..*positive revolution.org
This show can be easily summerised in two simple words: Epic Fail! First off, the cast members are poor actors to the 4th power, and there attemps at being funny are painfully unfunny. The "experiments" they preform, unlike "Mythbusters", are questions people never asked, and probably don't want to know. They also take credit for creating (or aquiring) the inventions provided for the episode. Come on, do you really think the cast are smart enough to creat usless Items like radio a controlled bowling ball with an incredible top speed of 1.5 MPH? But the best part is that they try to make every attempt at getting there experiment to work (which isn't really one of there idea's), but usually fail at least 2 times (25 max) before getting it right. And then they rub it in your face that the experiment was a total win! Yah, flinging ice cold pizza's off a launcher mounted on a moving bike at an upper story house window, and then missing 25 times before hitting target is an epic win guys!!! The home owner will shure like the 25 moldy pizza's lying all of the front lawn! This show is retarded, not to mention the cast is completly gay... Worth watching just to laugh at how awful it is.
Why did they call this Cartoon Network if they keep putting life-action series?
This is stupid. Bores be to death. Their "experiments" are pointless. They have dumb questions. "Dude, what would happen if we blow up a giant whoopee cusion?" (By the way this might be wrong) That is the dumbest question I have ever heard. Actually, I think they ask even dumber questions than that but I haven't seen this show enough times. All of Cartoon network's life-action series are crappy. They need to stick to their cartoons. That's what they're good at.
This is such a bad show, but it has education inside of it, but it also encourages bad ideas. I mean, it's another stupid show and corny jokes. The only good part about it is that it's educational.
Bad Show, Stupid hosts, misses opportunity to teach safety, bad examples
To whom it may concern,
I am writing you to express my displeasure with your new show "Dude what would happen'' After watching one show with my son, I have banned him from watching this show and
have pointed out to him that the show represents stunts that no-one should watch, much less try or even consider.
I am shocked that you would allow very young men "who appear mentally unstable themselves" to work with high dangerous weapons such as flame throwers, hurricane generators and the like. I was stunned when you allowed them to put popcorn in a mailbox and shoot a flame thrower at at, and even more surprised when you put the popcorn in a trailer and put flame throwers on it, and you allowed it to catch fire.
The show does not teach proper behavior, and it encourages those who would attempt such stupid stunts themselves not realizing the danger that could quickly ensue and the dangerous position that could put themselves or others into.
In short, I and my household demand that you pull the show from your line-up. Again, flame throwers, hurricane generators and the like to not belong in the hands of young teenagers especially those who are on the show. Furthermore you no not teach safety and you only mention to your viewers to not try this at home sparingly throughout the episode.
Again, the show does not do anything to teach safety to the viewers, and it depicts stunts done by teenagers which are highly dangerous and in some cases can bring about great bodily harm or even death. This show is irresponsible and should be removed from the air immediately.
D. Cooper II
Charlotte, NC
to put it nicely, the hosts are idiots. why did CN make a show with the purpose of destroying useful materials? in one episode, they use a a ton of popcorn... that gets destroyed. the show itself is completely pointless. the hosts are destructive and none too bright. i wouldn't reccomend this to anybody!
This show is very dumb. It's a cartoon network version of Mythbusters, and it's not very good. If I wanted to see stupidity, I could on my facebook account, not my tv.
I am a tween an i absalutly HATE DUDE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. It is the worst show i have ever seen in my life it is soooo stupid. The guys that do the stuff are super annoying and have bad ideas. DONT MAKE YOUR KIDS WATCH THIS SHOW IT IS THE WORST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN AND IT IS REALLY STUPID.
Dude What Would Happen is one of my favourite cartoon network shows i love the ideas they come up with and how they test things. Yes, they do have some violence in it but who cares? It makes the show more interesting!
This show is AWESOME!!!!! But in the opening theme, there is one part, in cartoon, where a cartoonized human is shaking a bottle of chemicals and it explodes into a small puddle of blood.
For those of you complaining about the stunts that kids could imitate, most are innocent and the show has a warning that some stunts don't want to be tried at home before the show. I like the show and so does my five year old sister.
I actually watched a full episode of this garbage for the first time the other day with my son. I am astounded that this show is on an actual cable network and not relegated to some niche corner of Youtube.
The premise of the show is to apparently give hyperactive, dullard teenagers a TV budget and let them perform any foolish bit of nonsense they can think of, all of which is acted out under the guise of a heavily scripted "reality show" theme.
This show deliberately misses just about every conceivable teachable moment you can think of in something that could easily be a fun and informative science format. Instead of someone explaining the hows and whys behind each "What would happen" scenario, there is no substance other than the wanton destruction and havoc of out of control teenagers with a lot of money to burn and nothing but time on their hands.
This is a bad show that the modern day unsupervised child will only end up emulating at one point or another, much to a parents chagrin and expense. It is banned in my home and I strongly recommend you do the same.
If you want to see partially retarded teenagers destroying things, just go down to the mall.
These kids are really dumb. Like "Dude what would happen if we jumped off a cliff? DUDE!". They don't make sense. This is a bad attempt to appeal to older kids.