Name: Popular Mechanics for Kids
Genre: Documentary, Family
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Tyler Kyte, Charles Edwin Powell, Jay Baruchel, Vanessa Lengies

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Elisha Cuthbert

Tyler Kyte

Charles Edwin Powell

Jay Baruchel

Vanessa Lengies

Popular Mechanics for Kids is an educational Canadian television series based on Popular Mechanics magazine. It was notable for starting the careers of both Elisha Cuthbert and Jay Baruchel. The show's purpose was to teach viewers how things work. It was awarded the Parents Choice Award in 2003, and was nominated for the Gemini Awards.

The show was filmed primarily in Montreal, Quebec, and is currently distributed on VHS / DVD by Koch Vision.

Popular Mechanics for Kids

Jay and Elisha explore dark tunnels and stinky sewers to check out where the stuff we flush down the toilet really ends up!

Underground

Jay and Elisha find subs you paddle, subs going to Jupiter, and even the world's largest 15-story submarine.

Submarines

Demonstrations of Saloon Brawls are shown, Information on fake Blood and gun fights are told. Learning about how Boat Chases work.

Special Effects

Take a walk on the wild side with Elisha and Jay, who go to work behind-the-scenes at some of the world's coolest zoos.

Zoos

Our adventurous co-hosts check out the coolest cars around from monster trucks and solar cars to cars that drive by themselves.

Cool Cars

Adventure-seekers Elisha and Jay brave ear-popping heights.

Coasters

Build your own skateboard ramp and shoot hoops with NBA Rookie of the year!

Sports

Jay and Elisha plug their noses and put on grubby clothes for a trip into the smelly world of garbage.

Garbage

A very special boy, David McPhee, gets to go on a "really big boat!"

Boats

Join Elisha and Jay as they go on a building (and demolishing!) adventure when they must face any fear of heights.

Buildings

Jay and Elisha discover a few odd and incredible things including jet fighter planes and parachutes.

Aircraft Carriers

Get charged up with Jay and Elisha as they explore the shocking world of electricity!

Electricity

Our young hosts learn the important food facts by visiting Baskin Robbins and a potato chip factory.

Food Production

Our young hosts explore the fascinating world of fire-fighting, both on the ground and above it. It's going to be one hot show!

Emergency

Elisha and Jay explore Monterey Bay aquarium to learn about the care and feeding of whales, sea lions and other denizens of the deep.

Aquariums

Get transported to a world of toys as our young hosts tour companies including Lego and Nintendo.

Toys and Games

Jay and Elisha blast off for outer space and get a rare space program experience.

Spaceships

Jay and Elisha explore the hightech world of robots.

Robots

All the grossest, scariest and most exciting moments of past shows as our co-hosts travel the continent to learn how things work.

Our Greatest Hits

Jay and Elisha observe how millions change hands in the Stock Exchange and how coins are made!

Money

Buckle up as Elisha and Jay fly like eagles, checking out hot air balloons and jet engines.

Air Transportation

Boogie into the world of music as Jay and Elisha learn how to 'scratch' like a professional DJ.

Music Production

Bike plane, body-flying, wing-walking, and boomerangs.

Fly At Your Own Risk

Elisha literally flies in a vertical wind tunnel.

Elisha puts on her parka and heads way up North on a lone journey into the fascinating world of the Inuit people.

North Pole

Tyler and Elisha want nothing but the truth as they help detectives survey a crime scene.

Whodunnit!?

Elisha and Tyler discover our wonderfully disgusting world when they visit a recycling plant that turns rotten leftovers into animal food.

Gross Out

Tyler goes solo and embarks on a wild adventure in the ocean.

Ocean Adventures

Tyler joins the L.A.P.D to learn how to handle a car safely in a high-speed chase and learns how to fire a gun in a reflex-test.

Police Force

Tyler and Elisha set out to conquer the elements.

Sports: Riding, Gliding and Sliding

Enter the wonderful world of make-believe as Tyler and Elisha explain the secrets of moviemaking.

Elisha hovers above the Kilauea volcano, Tyler gets blown away by a tornado and Charlie shows us how to make a fake hurricane.

Earth Power

Check out the world of animal training as Elisha and Tyler meet a biologist.

Talk To the Animals

Elisha learns how to make neon lights and Tyler is wired up in a sleep lab to learn how active our brains are during sleep.

After Dark

The co-hosts race against time to make some daring rescues including a person who is buried in an avalanche!

Emergency Rescues!

Elisha goes to circus school and discovers just how much effort it takes to walk a tightrope.

Under the Big Top

Elisha operates one of the world's largest optic infrared telescopes and experiences negative gravity and weightlessness.

Zero Gravity

Our thrill-seeking co-hosts take us on a journey inside swamplands, one of nature's most eerie universes.

Swamps and Gators

Teens learn about science and technology.

Mega Trucks

Elisha learns to set up and design a fireworks show and Tyler helps blast rocks at a quarry and learns what these materials are used to make

Boom!

In an episode that goes by faster than a speeding bullet, Tyler rides in a RamJet and races against Olympic champion Donovan Bailey.

The Fastest...

A collection of Tyler and Elisha's best and most exciting adventures from Season 2 of Popular Mechanics for Kids.

Our Greatest Hits II

Tyler and Elisha discover what makes bugs both gross and fascinating.

Creepy Crawlers

Tyler and Elisha explore the world of monumental machines.

Monster Trucks

The crew searches for answers to kid's most frequently asked questions and goes on adventures that have been suggested by young viewers.

How Do They Do That?

Tyler holds his breath for a class at the underwater acting school, while Vanessa gets the lowdown on high-tech protection at a school for bodyguards. Then, she goes over to a school in Nevada where she learns the awesome power of the mammoth land vehicle called a Hummer.

Cool Schools

They are Awesome Amusements! The team travel to Universal Studios: Islands of Adventure, in Florida to discover what makes this giant theme park so great. Elisha buckles up for a ride in the gut-wrenching Incredible Hulk Coaster while Tyler gets drenched in Poseidon's Fury when he walks through a forty foot tunnel containing thousands of gallons of water and enters the underworld where a battle of Poseidon and Zeus began. Then, he heads to the Triceratops Encounter and learns how advances technology makes the dinosaur come alive.

Ticket To Ride

Tyler takes a dive with the dolphins off the Florida coast and then heads back to dry land where he helps the doctors at Sea World nurse a sick turtle and manatee back to health. Vanessa has a whale of a time with the humpbacks off the coast of Newfoundland and finds out what blubber tells us about the largest animal on the planet.

Sea Creatures

Vanessa searches through New York City's garbage dump looking for something very special that she accidentally threw away. Tyler also gets his hands dirty when he takes a romp with rhinoceros to find out if he has to do to become a zookeeper. Vanessa holds her nose to discover how fish get from the ocean floor to our dinner tables when she visits a very stinky fish-gutting factory.

Dirty Work

Vanessa goes to see and find out information about the largest species of octopus in the world while Elisha watches as a frozen frog gets a new lease on life. Tyler worms his way into a special farm for the creepy crawlers and finds out why they really are a fisherman's best friend.

Slither And Slime

Tyler takes a breakdancing lesson , learning how to produce those amazing moves. Vanessa get some real-life training in fixing broken bones when she hangs out with an orthopedic surgeon, she had a chance to break a bone on a real human skeleton and watch the delicate operation of re-setting it. Tyler also gets medical this week when he joins the team of doctors tuning up super athletes for a triathlon race.

Body Mechanics

Tyler hunts down the ghosts haunting the USS Homet ship and he was also able to visit a real house of bug horrors to discover how the poisonous venom from a tarantula can help medical science. Vanessa gets all made up as a zombie creature and tries to scare the kids at the Thrillvania theme park in Texas.

Spook Out

Vanessa finds out if she's got the right stuff to be a motorcycle daredevil, when she helps a daredevil pass through a gap where an explosion will occur. Tyler also tests his driving skills when he takes the very fast and brand new Slide Machine for a spin!

Super Bikes

Elisha gets behind the wheel of an airborne blimp as Tyler battles gravity as he masters the art of para-gliding and­ then catches up with the Elite pilot team at the Edwards Air Force base where he gets to check out the fastest and highest flying spy plane in the world.

Freaky Flying

It is another clip show, featuring the best of the best with a return of some of our most awesome adventures of the season.

Greatest Hits #3

Elisha strikes gold more than a mile under the earth. Tyler finds out how the slimy, gooey stuff on cave walls may be a valuable tool for medical science and then unlocks the mysteries of the ocean when he gets to be an aquanaut for a day, diving with the scientists who work in the world's only underwater laboratory.

Down Below

Vanessa gets to find out how Hollywood creates those magical winter snow scenes for the movies. Elisha gets the rink ready for a big hockey game by making the ice, painting the lines and even driving the Zamboni machine. But then she receives goalie equipment where she will try to stop a 100-mile shot by an NHL player while Tyler goes deep inside NASA's ice tunnel and discovers how the experts make airplanes safe for flight during those wicked winter storms.

Vanessa checks out the newest sports craze as he shimmies up and down a sand dune on a gigantic flat board called a sand board. She also keeps her headway down when she joins a snake hunting expedition and captures a few of the slithering critters in a giant bag.

Fun In The Desert

Elisha gets a family of crash test dummies ready for a dangerous crash test. Tyler also gets in the action at an armoured car factory and helps build one of the safest vehicles around.

Life Savers

Tyler dives down to the ocean floor, with the team searching for an ancient ship that has been buried for more than 100 years. He learns how to sword-fight and then goes sword-to-sword with a team of real life swashbuckling pros while Elisha makes her very own pirate treasure when she turns ordinary rock into pieces of gold.

Pirates And Gold

The team is sent to Southern California to hang out with the Navy Seals, where Tyler gets to climb into the combat training tank and swim with the Seals as they trade scuba gear underwater and learn how to rig explosives in the water. He also gets behind the wheel of a special Seal boat and helps the Navy parachute team get ready for a show full of very unique tricks.

Navy Seals

Tyler hangs out with the deadly Komodo Dragons and finds out what makes them one of the most feared animals on the planet. Later he meets up with a tiger in a facility that helps neglected wild animals get back on track. Vanessa journeys far up North and finds out what happens to the wild polar bears when they get too close to people.

Killer Creatures

It's Sci-Fi time, and Vanessa joins the creative team of ""Spawn"" and discovers what it's like to put together the coolest comic book on the planet. Tyler learns all about the universe when he visits NASA's Deep Space Network and sees how their huge towers send signals to the flying saucers floating around the universe.

Real Life Science Fiction

Yet another of our best adventures on Popular Mechanics for Kids.

Greatest Hits #4

Elisha finds out if she can stomach the brand new gravity-defying vomit comet while Vanessa gets a lesson in virtual reality in the NASA laboratory where the space stations are actually built. She was able to train as an astronaut using actual equipment but in a virtual-reality world where she tries to fix a damaged part of the ship.

Space Station

Tyler gets to go behind Niagara Falls to see how the massive falls keeps electricity flowing. He then keeps his wet suit on and joins a real emergency oil spill clean team. Elisha has a hair­ raising adventure when she takes a run down the rocky rapids in an Ultramodern and indestructible raft.

Water

It's the first ever Behind The Scenes of Popular Mechanics for Kids, where you will get a front-row centre seat this week when Tyler discovers what it takes to stage a meca-rock concert and then gets into the ring with a WWF fighter to learn about the very dangerous business of professional fighting. Elisha learns a few secrets herself when she goes under the big top and behind the scenes at the world-famous Cirque du Soleil.

Live At PMK

Tyler starts us off when he takes to the skies in a powered parachute plane and then he gets ready for his next adventure on a mountain in Virginia. To play Street Luge, Tyler must wear protective body gear and lay down on a luge board just two inches from the pavement. The speed of the descent depends on the steepness of the hill.   Vanessa receives a kite skiing lesson in Oregon, which is similar to water skiing, but the kite stands in for a boat, a kite skier can reach speeds of up to 20 mph using only the power of the wind and a 20 foot kite.   Charlie builds an extreme ride by attaching cables between two trees and using a pulley to get your body from one spot to the next.

X-Treeme Rides

Vanessa travels to Oregon to create a real landslide, and she learns that scientists uses a unique outdoor laboratory to find out more about the patterns of landslides and how to prevent them from destroying the environment. Vanessa down to the coast of Los Angeles where she trains with the Collapse Rescue Team (a group of scientists who save people from such emergencies as collapsed buildings, stalled elevators and vehicle accidents).   Tyler gets a chance to see how real life disasters are dealt with when he goes out into the field with a crew of fire researchers and helps them set a room ablaze! By setting these kinds of controlled fires, scientists are able to learn and devise the most powerful fire-fighting technique.

Fighting Disaster

Vanessa catches up with Dean Gunnerson, one of the most famous escape artists in the world while Tyler visits a cockpit of an underwater helicopter and finds out what it's like to be trapped inside something that is slowly sinking to the bottom of a deep pool. He arrives later in Delaware and tries out a life chute designed to rescue people from high rise fires while Charlie shares a few tips on the art of escape.

Escape

Popular Mechanics for Kids goes behind-the-scenes at the world renowned Strathcona Mounted Troop (the only non-British Cavalry Unit in history to mount the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace).   Tyler participates in the Musical Ride and finds out how the twenty horses are taught to obey the riders instructions, and after, he prepares to enter the world of jousting where he will learn about the history of the sport. He will sport a ten-foot lance, and fit inside a full suit of armour and rides a horse.   Vanessa heads west to Alberta's cowboy country where she learns all about the rigors of the range. Wearing authentic cowboy gear, she saddles up with a real cowboy for some calf-roping, cattle herding and lasso tying while Charlie shows us the art and science of throwing a lariot.

Horseplay

Tyler goes underwaterat the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California where he uses a remote-control operated vehicle called a ROV and explores the largest submarine canyon on the continent's West Coast. With deep sea depths reaching more than 10,000 feet, Tyler assists scientists in the search for never-before-seen life forms at the bottom of the ocean floor. Tyler receives a diving suit that weighs a full ton, and after securing his oxygen supply, he accompanies underwater welders. He'll find out how this unique skill is used to repair pipelines, drilling rigs, ships, barges and even nuclear power plants and how some amazing tools can produce enough heat to melt steel even in the icy cold temperatures of the ocean.   After all of Tyler's adventures, he goes to Jules's Underwater Sea Lodge, which is a hotel underwater! Built in a lagoon some 30 feet underwater, the Lodge has only four rooms each with its own supply of air sent down from the surface using an umbilical cord

In Deep Water

Tyler joins the Skyhawks, which is Canada's elite parachute team and he gets ready to jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet above the ground. Strapped to the back of one of the Skyhawk jumpers, he will be able to see exactly how these tandem jumps are orchestrated and the special skill it takes to execute such a daring adventure. These parachutists are trained to land these dangerous jumps to get medical personnel into remote areas where help is needed such as avalanches, floods, plane crashes an war zones.   Vanessa takes to the skies of California to fly her own fighter plane in a high-speed airborne dog fight! She proves just how daring she can be when she loops, turns and rolls her own plane and then attempts to 'shoot down' an enemy aircraft with high-tech laser beams. Vanessa gets to operate an eight-wheeled army surveillance truck called the Coyote. Able to spy on targets up to thirteen miles away, the Coyote is a state-of-the-art surveillance vehicle used in both military and non-

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