Wrap: Nar Williams from Science of the Movies
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We stump a science guy, getting trivial with Science of the Movies’s Nar Williams.
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Fresh from our victory in Clicker.com’s “best of” 2009 awards in the live TV category (read all about it here), we launched our inaugural show of 2010. And what better way to start a year than by interviewing a guy named “Nar”, specifically Nar Williams, best known as host of the popular Discovery Channel show Science of the Movies.
Our fearless director Brian gives up on our trivia quiz long before our guest.
When Nar’s not filming that, he’s producer, host and co-writer of the online movie/TV/comic book preview show Heads Up!. When he’s not doing that, he’s waxing scientific on his personal blog, writing a column for the online magazine Geekscape and being 50% of the improv comedy team Goober & The Viking. If, somehow, he’s not occupied with any of the above, he’s thinking about Ye Olde Days when he was a callow youth playing Dungeons & Dragons. Nar’s still a fanatic about the game.
Or is he? We tested his knowledge with a classic trivia game we recently made up, “Monsters From the Future… or is That the Past?”. This clumsy title very poorly described the object of the contest, which was to identify whether a particular name was a) a monster from D&D; b) a monster from a movie; c) a Scandinavian death metal band; or our sentimental favorite, d) a bacterial illness.
We feared that Nar would ace the test, showing us up for the Wikipedia-surfing chumps we are. WRONG! He scored a measly 10%, identifying only the word “sepsis”, which as the entire world knows is a bacterial illness. This is clearly a man who, despite his geek credentials and history, doesn’t know his Dracolich from his Vaporighu.
Is that a pack of moon rats in the studio, or is Nar just scared of the next quiz?
Nar did score slightly better on our other quizzes. “Hollyweird Science” taxed his knowledge of erroneous science in movies, and he correctly nailed a semi-majority of the questions. He was also nearly successful in negotiating our “59 Second Gauntlet”, in which we learned that he’d rather fly than be a billionaire (I’ll take that money off your hands, Nar, thank you), and that the biggest jerk in his school was “fucking Greg“. Yeah, we didn’t like that guy much either.
Puzzlement seemed to be in the air this show. Stu tries to figure it all out and fails utterly.
When Nar wasn’t failing our intellectually dubious exams, he was jawboning about his many projects, including the Discovery show, Heads Up! and his upcoming series, Fan Boy Fun House. God, how many hours does this man have in a day? Here at Live! From the Future, we’re lucky if we even make it to the ATM before the convenience store closes.
Don't worry Nar, we'll give you some hints next time!
Speaking of closing, we’ll go now (we have some Twinkies and Old Milwaukee to buy before the store shuts for the night. Wait. Waaaait!). Next week we’ll be back with Stu, Jessie and John Fulton, who was absent this show but will return for the next. According to his publicists, John is categorically “not pulling a Conan and taking a huge backhander from Stu to leave the show and do something more heroic and worthwhile… unless, of course, he is.” Whew, that puts our minds at rest.
Your eyes are getting sleepy. You are drifting into your own subconscious. When I snap my fingers, you will awaken feeling refreshed. Now watch this show.
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