Better Living Through Science

**"BETTER LIVING THROUGH SCIENCE!"** is the thirty-seventh episode of *Histeria!*.

## Summary

The gang take the Road of Invention to see that what goes up, must come down and witness great moments in medicine.

## Sketches

### Act 1

1. Theme - It's Called Histeria!
2. Babbage Made the Difference (Original song) (2A) / Babbage Made the Differnce (Revised song) (2B)
3. Loud Kiddington Jingle (Simpsons parody)
4. What Goes Up (Isaac Newton) (4A) / Horses Grows On Trees (1687) (4B)

### Act 2

1. (We're Off On) The Road to Invention (song)
2. Pepper Mills Jingle
3. A Little Death Ray of Sunshine (Nikola Tesla) / Pepper's Pep Rally: George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla (1910)
4. Death Ray Scare (1943)

### Act 3

1. Great Moments in Medicine: The First Ambulance (1792) (1A) / Great Moments in Medicine: Cold and Cough Medicine (1881) (1B)
2. Nightingale (1853) (2A) / Great Moments in Medicine: Hospital Albert Schweitzer (1900) (2B)
3. Great Moments in Medicine: Before Antiseptic and After (1865) (Father Time) (3A) / Great Moments in Medicine: Penicillin (1928) (3B)
4. Helium and Pavlov's Dog (1897) (4A) / Einstein Refrigerator (November 11, 1930) (4B)
5. Breaking the Sound Barrier: Chuck Yeager (1947) (5B) / Operation Bolo (January 1, 1963) (5B)

### Act 4

1. Toast Jingle (Home Improvement parody)
2. Ask Me If I Care: Louis Pasteur (1856)
3. Inventions of Science Guys (songs with parody of Bill Nye the Science Guy)
4. Experimental Lights On The Vehicles (1881/1939)

### Act 5

1. Great Moments in Medicine: Before Antiseptic and After (1840s/1860s) (Ignaz Semmelweis version)
2. Breaking the Sound Barrier: Chuck Yeager (1947)
3. Great Moments in Medicine: The First Ambulance (1792)

### Bonus Act

1. And Now Our Bonus Presentation
2. Ivan the Terrible (1547)

### Unknown Act

1. Exploring Louisiana for La Salle (1682)
2. Baguette (1839)
3. Crown Cork (1892)
4. First Motion Picture (1893)
5. X-Rays (1895)
6. William Ramsey discovers Helium (1895)
7. Ask Me If I Care: Marie Curie (1898)
8. Vacuum Zone (1901)
9. Bicycle Repairs (1903)
10. A Brand New Airplane (1903)
11. Einstein Theory (1905)
12. Roosevelt credits Willis Carrier to build Air Conditioning (1906)
13. Loud Rides First Plane (1908)
14. Hyde Park (1908)
15. First Kinemacolor (1909)
16. Ask Me If I Care: Fritz Haber (20th Century)
17. Closed-circuit television (1942)
18. Ask Me If I Care: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Professor Ernest Rutherford (20th Century)

## Voice Cast

1. Cody Ruegger as Loud Kiddington
2. Cree Summer as Aka Pella
3. Candi Milo as Charity Bazaar
4. Nathan Ruegger as Froggo
5. Michael J. Gough as Charles Babbage
6. John Cleese as Isaac Newton
7. Luke Ruegger as Billy the Kid and Big Fat Baby
8. Laraine Newman as Miss Information and Cho-Cho
9. Frank Welker as Father Time
10. Billy West as Tom Edison, Archimedes and Ben Franklin
11. Adrienne Ruegger as Marie Curie
12. Mr. Lawrence as Henry Ford
13. Corey Burton as Thomas Jefferson
14. Debi Derryberry as Pepper Mills
15. Jeff Bennett as Lucky Bob, Louis Pasteur and George Westinghouse
16. Rob Paulsen as Eli Whitney and Charles Lindbergh
17. Tom Kenny as Nikola Tesla
18. Tress MacNeille as Toast and Florence Nightingale
19. Andre Sogliuzzo as William Luden
20. Mark Hamill as The Wright Brothers
21. Robin Atkin Downes as Albert Schweitzer, Ignaz Semmelweiz and Alexander Graham Bell
22. Todd Shoemaker as Pule Houser
23. Roddy McDowall as Alexander Fleming
24. Jess Harnell as Albert Einstein
25. Mark Harmon as Robin Olds
26. Peter Cullen as Igor Sikorsky

## Unknown Act

### Ask Me If I Care: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Professor Ernest Rutherford

Histeria Ask Me If I Care (with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Prof. Ernest Rutherford)
## Trivia

* In the beginning of the second act, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison sing "The Road To Invention" in a spoof of the Hope And Crosby's "Road To..." songs.