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How It's Made (Comment c'est fait in Quebec) is a documentarytelevision series that premiered on January 6, 2001, on the Discovery Channel in Canada and the Science Channel in the United States. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2.

Format[edit]

The show is a documentary showing how common, everyday items (such as clothing and accessories, food, industrial products, musical instruments, and sporting goods) are manufactured.

How It's Made is recorded without explanatory text to simplify overdubbing in different languages. For example, the show avoids showing a narrator or onscreen host (after Season 1 in the Canadian version), does not often have employees of featured companies speak on camera, and keeps human interaction with the manufacturing process to a bare minimum.

An off-screen narrator explains the process, often with humorous puns. Each episode features three or four products divided by segments, with each product getting a demonstration of approximately five minutes; exceptions are allowed in the allotted time for more complex ones. The scripts are almost identical across regional versions of the show; however, the main difference in the U.S. version is that the units of measurement are given in the United States customary units instead of metric units. At one point in the U.S. run, a subtitled conversion was shown on-screen over the original narration.

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The 'Historical Capsule' segment, which is available until Season 5, introduces historical background information for the last featured product in each episode, showing how and where the product originated, and what people used before it. It presents a series of single-line drawings which got colored for a brief amount of time after completed. The 'Techno flash' segment, where the narrator briefly introduces some novelty from industry or science development, is only available in Season 1 and 2.

In April 2007, all episodes run in the United States (on the Discovery Channel and Science) had the individual season openings replaced with a new opening used for every episode. Similar to most other Discovery Channel shows, the credits now run during the last segment, with the show's website for request or feedback at the end.

The ninth season, which began airing on Science in September 2007, features new opening graphics and segment's background music, and Zac Fine replaces Brooks T. Moore as the narrator. However, from the eleventh season onwards, which premiered in September 2008, the show reinstates Moore as the narrator and uses the title sequence and background music to match with the Canadian version.

In June 2008, the Science Channel added How It's Made: Remix, which consists of previous segments arranged into theme installments like 'Food', 'Sporting Goods', and such. In 2013, the Science Channel added How It's Made: Dream Cars, which focused exclusively on high-performance and exotic cars.^[1] These were later shown on the Velocity (now MotorTrend) channel.

Hosts[edit]

The show has different narrators for different regions.

In the Canadian version, it features Mark Tewksbury (Season 1, 2001) as the host of the show. Lynn Herzeg (Seasons 2–4, 2002–2004), June Wallack (Season 5, 2005) and Lynne Adams (Season 6 onwards, 2006–present) are the narrators.

In the U.S. version, Brooks Moore and Zac Fine (Season 9–10, 2007–2008) are the narrators.

In the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, and in some cases in Southeast Asia, the series is narrated by Tony Hirst.

Episodes[edit]

Theme and music[edit]

The original graphical theme featured flat, colorful shapes, along with a number of different objects flicking in a big hexagon. In the opening sequence, during a 'drop' in the musical theme, the flashing image hexagon is interlaced with letters spelling 'HOW I MAD', which was seemingly a joke, paraphrasing the show name 'HOW IT'S MADE'.

This graphical theme was changed in Season 8. It was replaced with a 3D rendering environment of a factory that features high-pressure tanks with valves and pressure meters, welding heads, and piston presses. This CGI factory is enclosed with futuristic-looking black square panels, with blue light coming through the spaces between the panels. During the opening sequence, the camera proceeds a forklift loaded with coils of metallic wire. The wire unwinds itself into a machine, which folds it into spring. The spring then falls into pliers, which open a valve of a highly pressurized tank. With a breeze of white steam from the valve, the camera follows a tube leading up to a welding pistol, which fires up and welds a press head onto a piston arm. Finally, we see a big hall with belts carrying metal plates, and the piston presses ramming them. The piston closest to the camera, which we just saw getting welded, fires up and presses the inscription 'How It's Made' onto a metallic plate on the belt.

Season 1–8 in the U.S. version have different opening graphics from the Canadian one. It features lighter-load machinery in a blueprint environment. Machinery sounds are heard during the opening, together with the words 'TRIM' that gets trimmed by a cog, 'COMPRESS' getting compressed by a press, 'LIFT' getting lifted by a corkscrew, and 'HEAT APPLIED' that gets burned by multiple plasma-cutter heads. Season 9 and 10 have new opening graphics, which features some products from the previous seasons, such as snack cake and artificial limb. Since Season 11, it features the opening graphical theme like Season 8 in the Canadian version.

The theme music was created by Dazmo Musique, a Montreal-based studio. It was composed by one of the studio's composers, Rudy Toussaint. Toussaint's SoundCloud profile states that this theme is the most famous piece he ever created.^[2] In Season 1, the opening theme music is different, but since Season 2, it closely matches the closing theme. Toussaint also produced three short pieces used to separate different products, and a fourth one, which is used after a commercial break. He also created a fifth piece used during Season 1 and 2 for the 'Techno flash' segments.

Critical reception[edit]

Common Sense Media gave the TV show a rating of 4/5 stars, writing 'Curious kids and adults will learn from the show, and some segments can really broaden your perspective'.^[3] On the show's success despite its formulaic nature, Rita Mullin, the general manager of the Science Channel, said 'I think what is one of the great appeals of the show as a viewer myself is how little has changed over the years'.^[4]The Wall Street Journal deemed it 'TV's quietest hit'.^[5]

Accolades[edit]

Parodies[edit]

The series was spoofed in season 2 episode 8 of Rick and Morty, entitled 'Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate', in a segment where a 'Plumbus' was being made.^[7] The series was later parodied in a Captain Disillusion video describing how hoaxUFO videos are made.^[8] The YouTube series How It's Actually Made, created by YouTuber Huggbees, is also a parody of the series, featuring edited versions of the show's segments while having a comedic narration by Huggbees. ^[9]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'How It's Made: Dream Cars'. Science.
2. ^'rudy-toussaint'. SoundCloud. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
3. ^'How It's Made: TV Review'. Common Sense Media.
4. ^Eveleth, Rose (November 13, 2014). 'How How It's Made Is Made'. The Atlantic.
5. ^Jurgensen, John (December 18, 2014). 'How It's Made: TV's Quietest Hit'. The Wall Street Journal.
6. ^'35th Annual Young Artist Awards'. Young Artist Awards. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
7. ^Blevins, Joe (June 6, 2016). 'Rick And Morty shows how a plumbus is made, in almost too-graphic detail'. news.avclub.com. The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
8. ^CaptainDisillusion (December 31, 2015), UFO Over India DEBUNK, retrieved November 11, 2017
9. ^Huggbees (April 20, 2018), How It's Actually Made, retrieved September 11, 2020

External links[edit]

• 'How It's Made - Watch Full Episode Online'. Science Channel.
• 'How It's Made'. Discovery Science.
• 'How It's Made Facebook'. Facebook page.
• How It's Made at TV.com

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Q: You make money playing poker. How did it start?
A: In a way, I was part of the wave that started in 2003. That’s considered the beginning of the modern poker boom, because someone named Chris Moneymaker, who was an amateur, won the World Series of Poker after starting from an online game that he paid like 86 bucks for. He won millions of dollars, and people saw that and were like, “Wait a second, I have 86 bucks, I could do this…”

I wasn’t directly affected by that, but in 2004 or 2005, I got a free ticket for a charity poker event for my work. It was like a $300 entry fee, but I got in for free.

I thought, “Oh no, I’m completely unprepared to do this.” So I bought a poker book and I read it. Then, over the years, I got progressively more serious.

Q: How did you do at the charity game?
A: Not very well. But it’s funny now that I was so serious. It was completely unnecessary. Some people showed up and they literally didn’t even know how to play.

Q: How did you go from that to a semi-professional player?
A: I continued to play home games, to watch poker on TV. It made me want to learn a bit more. I read a few more books. I tried to change the way I played.

For years I didn’t think there was strategy. It seemed like random chance. But I did some studying, and I would go to a circuit of local home games, and I started playing quite a bit. Then I slowly transitioned to playing at casinos here in L.A.

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Q: Are home games legal?
A: A lot of things about poker are best left to the legal experts. It’s a bit of a grey area.

Q: What’s the difference between pro and semi-pro?
A: Poker players span a continuum of recreational players, who are clearly just doing it for fun, and elite professionals, who make millions a year. In between are semi-pros.

It’s not like you get officially promoted or demoted. I always considered myself a serious recreational player until last year. It was the second year in a row I made more from poker than my day job, and I started thinking of myself as semi-pro. However, I am a notorious stickler, so that is probably an excessively high bar.

Also, this year I am down several thousand dollars because of COVID and am playing nothing but cheapo online games, and if I end up in the red, technically anyone who doesn’t play poker at all has made more money at poker than I have.

Q: What’s your biggest win and biggest loss?
A: Well, every time you don’t come in first, it’s a loss, so it’s hard to categorize.

But last year I got second at the World Series of Poker Ladies’ Event.

Q: Wow! How many people were in that event?
A: About 1000.

Q: And how long did it last?
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Q: Amazing. What was it like?
A: It’s really stressful. The final table was on CBS All-Access. You’re thinking, “This is a chance for me to make a lot of money. But I could also do something really stupid and walk home with $15,000 instead of $150,000. And everyone’s going to see me do it!”

And people are commentating on you while you’re going through it.

Q: Can you hear them?
A: No, BUT I KNOW IT’S HAPPENING! It’s hard not to hear it in your head, like, “I’m not sure why she’s opening this hand…”

I’m used to my shame being my own personal shame.

I told myself, “It doesn’t matter, no one’s watching this,” but for months afterward people would come out of the woodwork to tell me they watched the game.

Q: Can I ask about the money?
A: For poker that’s never a personal question, it’s just part of the story. I made $103,000.

Q: And how much did you put in?
A: It was a $1,000 entry fee.

It was by far the most I’ve ever won. It was my first six-figure cash. The winner got about $167,000.

It felt very surreal. I was thrilled, but it’s also hard not to feel disappointed. For World Series of Poker events, that was likely to be the only final table I ever make.

And you want the win — you want the bracelet. For the rest of my career, people would say “She’s a bracelet winner. There’s bracelet-winner Nancy Matson.”

Q: Do you remember how you lost?
A: No, I really don’t. Anyone who plays serious poker kind of laughs at how it’s presented in a movie. There’s never really the same level of drama.

Q: Do you have nerves of steel?
A: I would say I’m a lot less bothered by things than a lot of people are.

Q: Can you make a living doing this?
A: That’s where people go wrong. I’m not going to say it can’t be done, but even the really good players will have incredibly brutal downswings.

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Some people have some ability at poker, but you really have to have the personality for it. You do nothing but lose. Lose lose lose all the time. It’s just not for everyone.

Q: Do you have any “tells”?
A: I hope not, I don’t know. I think if you play for a while you tend to work them out of your game.

Physical tells are really overstated and not really that much of a part of poker. Like, “Oh, you’re pulling at your earlobe?” That doesn’t really happen.

There was an era where people were obsessively trying not to give out tells. Everyone wore sunglasses and maybe a scarf to cover their neck so you couldn’t see the little vein throb. I’m not saying nobody does it, but it’s much less common now.

Q: What do you like most about it?
A: You get a chance to outwit people. It’s a weird chance to be really aggressive in a situation that’s completely socially acceptable.

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The most fun thing for me — I’m a bit older — is when some 24-year-old puts in a massive bet and I get him to fold. I find it so fun!

For me it’s like a puzzle. Like, “Wait a second I know what you have!” When I figure something out it’s fun.

A lot of people are in it for the rush of trying to win, but for me it’s super-satisfying to learn and see myself improve. If you’re just looking to win, you’ll always be disappointed.

Q: How long do you think you’ll continue playing?
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Whenever anyone quits poker, I never think, “What a bad decision.” You have to invest a lot of time to get anywhere near decent at it.

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