ThingamaBob

2013 • H2
4.5
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TV-PG
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 Pizza Guillotine
1/18/14
A box of seemingly random objects arrive at Bob's shop. Now it's time for him and his team to use these items for three unique inventions. Using a print brayer Bob attempts to build something really cool for a local Brooklyn business.
2 Paper Airplane Catapult
1/18/14
Bob makes an invention for a Coney Island deli inspired by the area's world famous amusement park, and Bob's love of well-sliced pickles. And later Bob builds something to launch the first plane in 40 years off of the USS Intrepid.
3 Tuba Keg
1/25/14
It's a new box with three more random objects: an electrical wall plug, an ice cream cone, and a sousaphone (which everyone mistakes for a tuba). Bob takes the sousaphone to a Bavarian Beer Hall.
4 Chair Pants
1/25/14
When Bob receives a box with three random items somehow related to one another, he and his team have to figure out what to do with each one. A hot dog roller machine reminds Bob of one of his favorite childhood past times.
5 BBQ Gun
1/31/14
A new box of objects means three new inventions. This week it's a jar of BBQ sauce, a cigar, and block and tackle. First, Bob builds a machine to help first-time cigar smokers light their stogies like a pro.
6 Beer Slider
1/31/14
This week Bob is given three items from America's great inventing past: the Morse code telegraph key, the phonograph, and a roll of tape. Telegraph keys were made to deliver messages, but Bob uses his to deliver beer.
7 Violin Doorbell
2/13/14
Bob receives a box with three items: a violin, a compass and a Bunsen Burner. Bob gets inspired by the movie Taxi Driver and decides to make an invention that helps a waiter deal with a crumby situation.
8 Expanding Toolbox
2/13/14
Bob receives a box with an old-fashioned coffee grinder, a fireman's hose, and a rocking chair. Bob builds his first hypoallergenic invention for a volunteer fire chief with a peculiar food allergy.
9 Tent Slinger
2/26/14
Bob turns into a short-order inventor when he hashes out a new invention for a local diner with an air rifle. Then he uses a bag of sugar and a tent to create an automatic campsite.
10 S'mores Machine
2/26/14
In this episode Bob uses a conveyer belt, charcoal and a bike chain to make three unique inventions. Bob stumbles across a neighborhood block party and builds an invention that leaves everyone yelling for s'more.

About this show

America is full of inventors, but none like Bob Partington. Each week Bob will receive three objects, all of them connected to America's innovative past. Bob's task is to use each of the objects in fun, never-before-seen inventions. Whether he makes an invention to help a stranger or a local business or devises something cool for himself, it's up to Bob to use the objects to carry on America's true spirit of invention.

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