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[edit] Copyright violation

On 15 January 2007 IP editor from 69.163.243.110 added material from "A Golden Age in Children's Television". Please do not add copyrighted material. I removed the material. If appropriate, and if it adds to the article, such material may be linked to via ==External links==. In this case I did not chose to make that link. --Bejnar 21:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Wizard's World

doesnt mr wizards world deserve its own page? it was an entirely seperate show, produced more than a decade after 'watch mr wizard' ended - 70.19.146.102 03:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Probably not, because the two were so closely related. But if you can produce a full article with encyclopedic style, without junk filler, please go ahead. Since this is a short article anyway, I would suggest that they be kept together. --Bejnar 14:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parodies

On 13 June Sumnjim deleted from the "Parodies" section the line:

  • "Mr. Egghead" a.k.a Joey Gladestone from Full House
saying "I'd like a source to back up that claim. Just because a character is a silly person doing science experiments does not mean that they are trying to parody Mr. Wizard."
I agree with Sumnjim's statement, but not its application in this instance, because there is more than just a silly person, namely the experimenter holds themselves out as being a scientist with a descriptive name like Mr. Wizard. I think that the appropriate request is not in a history note coupled with deletion, but a request in the article for a source using the fact template. I would suggest that the source not be original research, but reflect a published text that discusses "Mr. Egghead" as a paraody on "Mr. Wizard". --Bejnar 14:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Per Sumnjim, all parody info, none of which is sourced, has been moved here. --Bejnar 21:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Parodies include:
  • "Mr. Whizzer", a parody that has occurred in an episode of Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers.
  • "Mr. Science" a recurring Bob & Ray sketch, in which Bob, as Mr. Science, would demonstrate a Mr. Wizard-like experiment to an annoyingly over-enthusiastic neighborhood boy, Jimmy Schwab (played by Ray), who would invariably touch the wrong thing at the end, setting off a laboratory explosion.
  • "Ask Dr. Stupid" in some episodes of Ren and Stimpy.
  • "Ask Mr. Lizard" in some episodes of Dinosaurs, performing dangerous experiments that would invariably kill his young assistant, Timmy. His catchphrase was a jovial, "We're going to need another Timmy!"
  • Police scientist Ted Olson in Police Squad!, who was constantly being interrupted in the middle of some dubious or dangerous experiment involving a child.[citation needed]
  • "Ask Dr. Science!" from Duck's Breath Mystery Theater.
  • "Mr. Egghead" a.k.a Joey Gladestone from Full House
  • If we are going to go that far, (which technically I agree with you removing all WP:OR, and without sources it must be, I completely removed the "Parodies" section as the remaining text left Watch Mr Wizard has been parodied many times is also WP:OR without sources, and without sources, it does not need to be there. I tried to get some sources from this yesterday...I found some info on "Mr Whizzer" from Chip and Dale, but I could never get a background on the character, only that Billy West was the voice actor, and his page does not mention any specifics on the character, and since I haven't seen the show in....well a long time, I have no idea exactly what his character does. I am very familiar with Mr. Egghead from Full House as that show is still very vivid in my mind, and I whole-heartedly disagree that he is a parody of Mr. Wizard. I am leaning that all other "parodies" that were listed were not parodies either. If any sources at all come about to disprove me, then we can re-expand the article to relist them. I am definitely not against that. --sumnjim talk with me·changes 15:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I removed the Queensu link at the bottom of the page. It is a broken link.