ThingamaBob

Season

2014

7.9

Bob (Thing-a-ma-Bob) Partington has a philosophy: if you think it, you can build it, whether it's a paper airplane machine, double ice scream scooper, or a gun that fires an entire campsite. Bob's inventions will reveal American History.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pizza Guillotine

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.

S1 • E2

Paper Airplane Catapult

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.

S1 • E3

Tuba Keg

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.

S1 • E4

Chair Pants

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.

S1 • E5

BBQ Gun

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.

S1 • E6

Beer Slider

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. Then, Bob puts the phonograph and tape to good use by helping out a local tee-shirt shop.

S1 • E7

Violin Doorbell

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.

S1 • E8

Expanding Toolbox

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.

S1 • E9

Tent Slinger

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.

S1 • E10

S'mores Machine

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.

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ThingamaBob

Season

2014

7.9

Episode List

Pizza Guillotine

Paper Airplane Catapult

Tuba Keg

Chair Pants

BBQ Gun

Beer Slider

Violin Doorbell

Expanding Toolbox

Tent Slinger

S'mores Machine

Similar Titles

The Re-Inventors

Unchained Reaction

Dean of Invention

Furze World Wonders

Big!

ThingamaBob

Season

2014

7.9

Episode List

Pizza Guillotine

Paper Airplane Catapult

Tuba Keg

Chair Pants

BBQ Gun

Beer Slider

Violin Doorbell

Expanding Toolbox

Tent Slinger

S'mores Machine

Similar Titles

The Re-Inventors

Unchained Reaction

Dean of Invention

Furze World Wonders

Big!