PBS Origin of Everything

50

Original Release

08/30/2017

US Release

08/30/2017

Cast

# Title Air Date
1 The True Origin of Killer Clowns Tuesday, 05 September 2017
2 How did Makeup, WWII & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare? Tuesday, 12 September 2017
3 Why are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults? Tuesday, 19 September 2017
4 Where Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From? Tuesday, 26 September 2017
5 How Columbus Invented Cannibals Tuesday, 03 October 2017
6 How WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots Tuesday, 10 October 2017
7 Why is there a North and South Korea? Tuesday, 17 October 2017
8 Is Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth? Tuesday, 24 October 2017
9 Why Do We Get Grades in School? Wednesday, 01 November 2017
10 How Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism Wednesday, 08 November 2017
11 Why Do Women Give Birth Lying Down? Tuesday, 14 November 2017
12 Where does the Nuclear Family Come From? Tuesday, 21 November 2017
13 Why Do We Eat Artificial Flavors? Tuesday, 05 December 2017
14 Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science? Tuesday, 12 December 2017
15 Why Does Santa Wear Red? Tuesday, 19 December 2017
16 How Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday? Tuesday, 09 January 2018
17 Why Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms? Tuesday, 16 January 2018
18 Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work? Tuesday, 23 January 2018
19 Why was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls? Tuesday, 30 January 2018
20 Is the Rosa Parks Story True? Tuesday, 06 February 2018
21 Why Does the Heart Symbol Look That Way Tuesday, 13 February 2018
22 Why Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom? Wednesday, 21 February 2018
23 When Did Marriage Become about Love? Tuesday, 27 February 2018
24 Would You Have Joined the American Revolution? Tuesday, 20 March 2018
25 What if Islam Had Conquered Europe? Tuesday, 27 March 2018
26 The Origin of Race in the USA Tuesday, 03 April 2018
27 What If There Were No Taxes? Tuesday, 17 April 2018
28 Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal? Tuesday, 24 April 2018
29 The 2nd Amendment Explained Wednesday, 02 May 2018
30 When Men Wore High Heels Tuesday, 08 May 2018
31 Do Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good? Tuesday, 15 May 2018
32 History of the Word "Gay" Wednesday, 23 May 2018
33 What was Jesus's Real Name? Tuesday, 05 June 2018
34 Why Was It Illegal to be "Ugly"? Tuesday, 12 June 2018
35 Why Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"? Wednesday, 20 June 2018
36 6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control Wednesday, 27 June 2018
37 Why Do Women Shave Their Legs? Tuesday, 03 July 2018
38 Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans? Tuesday, 10 July 2018
39 Why Do All Malls Look the Same? Tuesday, 17 July 2018
40 Six Historically True Facts about Money Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Directors

Andrew Kornhaber

Writers

Danielle Bainbridge

Cast

Producers

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