PBS at 2am hits different when it's chaotic teens screaming about algebra.
Season 2 • Episode 28
LatestStandard Deviants TV comprised material from the Standard Deviants home videos, edited into 25-minute episodes that aired on PBS. The series also included three episodes with new material on geography.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts that trained a generation's shrinking attention spans.
Acting
Performers committing 110% to explaining quadratic equations.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Standard Deviants pioneered the 'fast-paced educational video' format later copied by CrashCourse and TikTok explainers. They were proto-YouTube before YouTube existed.
The home video empire behind the TV series reportedly sold over $100 million in educational content, mostly to desperate students cramming for AP exams.
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