It’s a painful couple of minutes that limps its way to punchlines and sees Nye pretend to ‘drop the bass’.
The nadir appears to come in episode 9 ‘The Sexual Spectrum’, which sees Nye invite Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom on the show for an odd, has-little-to-do-with science skit called ‘My Sex Junk’.
With a note of sadness, one former fan wrote of the presenter’s show on Reddit: “Bill always comes off as frustrated, pretentious, or lost.
Another mused: “Science programming doesn’t have to be ‘hip’ it merely has to be honest, which is exactly what makes it cool.”