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Some Assembly Required

Season 2 2008
TV-G

  • 2008-08-07T04:00:00Z on Discovery
  • 45m
  • 12h (12 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Comedy
People are fascinated with how things work. From incredibly high-tech items like plasma TV's to remarkably mundane objects that we use every day - toilets, Kleenex, toothpaste - every object has a story and an incredible process behind it. Some Assembly Required will take our host on a worldwide journey to participate in the process of making and manufacturing the items that makeup our everyday life. Along the way we will learn the little known facts about what it takes to design and mass-produce products and get insights into how these things work. And through our host and his interactions with people behind the building process, we'll see the often dramatic, funny, ingenious solutions people come up with to make products bigger, better, cheaper, or quicker.

12 episodes

Season Premiere

2008-08-07T04:00:00Z

2x01 Crash Test Dummies; Kettle Chips

Season Premiere

2x01 Crash Test Dummies; Kettle Chips

  • 2008-08-07T04:00:00Z1h

Join Brian as he learns the painstaking process in which crash-test dummies are assembled. Next, Brian travels to a company that make old-fashioned kettle chips.

2x02 Fire Engines; Refined Sugar

  • 2008-08-07T04:00:00Z1h

Brian travels to Dublin Ohio, home of Sutphen fire engines to learn how to build one. Then, Brian travels to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to see how pure, white, refined sugar is made.

2008-08-14T04:00:00Z

2x03 Skeletool; Beautyrest

2x03 Skeletool; Beautyrest

  • 2008-08-14T04:00:00Z1h

Join Brian at the Leatherman factory, where they make their cool new tool-the Skeletool. Then, Brian heads to Simmons in Charlotte, North Carolina to uncover the science of how they make the Simmons Beautyrest.

2008-08-14T04:00:00Z

2x04 Compound Bow; Drums

2x04 Compound Bow; Drums

  • 2008-08-14T04:00:00Z1h

Brian travels to Eugene, Oregon to work with the Bow-Tech craftsman to create a state-of-the-art compound bow. Next, he goes to Monrovia, North Carolina where the legendary Ludwig drums are pounded out for rock stars & wannabes all over the world.

Brian Unger travels to Easton, Pennsylvania to make...washable crayons, the much-loved tool of young artists. Then, he heads to Orrville, Ohio to build the breath-taking pipe organs that Schantz installs in churches nationwide.

2x06 Cast Iron Cookware; Canoes

  • 2008-08-21T04:00:00Z1h

Brian travels to South Pittsburg, Tennessee to the Lodge Cast Iron Cookware to learn how to make cast-iron cookware. Then, on to Old Town, Maine where for the last 100 years the craftsmen of Old Town Canoes have made some of the world's finest watercraft.

2008-09-28T04:00:00Z

2x07 Newspaper; Pool Table

2x07 Newspaper; Pool Table

  • 2008-09-28T04:00:00Z1h

Brian Unger heads to the home of country music, Nashville Tennessee to assemble the city's 100-year old newspaper. Join Brian Unger as he heads to Portland, Tennessee to learn how to build a world-class pool table.

How do you build a semi tractor-trailer capable of pulling up to 80,000 tons and make it fuel efficient? Brian Unger finds out at the Peterbilt factory. Then, he heads to Upper Sandusky, Ohio to make a shotgun that's been around since 1937.

Brian tries his hand at making bread in San Francisco, and then hops over to the East Coast to take a look at a rigid-inflatable boat.

2008-09-04T04:00:00Z

2x10 ATV; Aluminum Foil

2x10 ATV; Aluminum Foil

  • 2008-09-04T04:00:00Z1h

In this episode Brian visits Honda ATV factory to see how an ATV is manufactured Also a look round the Alcoa Aluminum plant to observe the making of aluminum foil.

2008-09-11T04:00:00Z

2x11 Tennis Balls; Silly Putty

2x11 Tennis Balls; Silly Putty

  • 2008-09-11T04:00:00Z1h

Brian examines tennis balls in Arizona, and then heads to Maine to look at some kayaks. Also: silly putty.

Season Finale

2008-09-11T04:00:00Z

2x12 Golf Balls; Panty Hose; Tape Measure

Season Finale

2x12 Golf Balls; Panty Hose; Tape Measure

  • 2008-09-11T04:00:00Z1h

Included in this episode Titleist golf balls; panty hose at Holt Hosiery. Also: a segment on the tape measure.

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