{"id":104469,"date":"2025-08-18T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=104469"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:25:01","slug":"pioneering-creator-and-former-nasa-engineer-mark-rober-is-coming-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/18\/pioneering-creator-and-former-nasa-engineer-mark-rober-is-coming-to-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Creator and Former NASA Engineer Mark Rober Is Coming to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one man can pull off the world&#8217;s largest elephant toothpaste explosion, and teach us whether lava, a laser, or a flaming arrow can blow up a boat (a laser, naturally!). Now he&#8217;s coming to Netflix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former NASA engineer and Youtube star Mark Rober is coming to Netflix! He\u2019ll create and host a new competition series in 2026 and bring some of his most beloved experiments to Netflix later this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MWmrldsSAS\">pic.twitter.com\/MWmrldsSAS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Netflix (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/1957472558221066363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nMark Rober, the former NASA engineer turned social media star, teacher, inventor, and philanthropist, is coming to Netflix with a new Kids and Family competition series in 2026; it&#8217;ll be produced by his company, CrunchLabs, in partnership with Kimmelot, Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s production company. (Rober is a frequent guest on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>) Rober and CrunchLabs Chief Content Officer, Scott Lewers, will executive produce the new show alongside Kimmel and Kimmelot&#8217;s President, Scott Lonker.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2146164356\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to the new show, Rober will bring some of his most beloved, ambitious, and informative experiments to Netflix later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love turning learning into a game, basically hiding the vegetables in the dessert, and now it&#8217;s a full-on competition game show!&#8221; says Rober. &#8220;When you&#8217;re having fun, you&#8217;re learning without even realizing it. And teaming up with Netflix and Jimmy Kimmel to make this happen? This is gonna be epic!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel is just as stoked to create fusion between Rober and Netflix. &#8220;My kids love Mark Rober, and so do their parents. Mark&#8217;s videos are so clever and inventive, it&#8217;s easy to forget that they&#8217;re educational, too. We can&#8217;t wait to introduce one of the best and brightest creators to Netflix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rober&#8217;s passionate following of kids &#8211; and kids at heart &#8211; totals more than 76M across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and more. A 9-year veteran of NASA, Rober&#8217;s work first went viral in 2011 when he made a Halloween costume hacked together from two iPads, which made it look like he had a huge hole in his torso. He&#8217;s gone on to amaze fans with stunts like glitter-bombing porch pirates, creating the world&#8217;s first pool of Jell-O\u2122, and throwing an unhittable baseball. He also founded CrunchLabs, &#8220;a Willy Wonka factory for engineering,&#8221; which spawned a virtual camp and a hands-on STEM subscription box that teaches kids to think like engineers.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1642277784\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rober&#8217;s innovative brand of entertainment will be at home in Netflix&#8217;s lab of Kids and Family programming, which includes recent hits like KPop Demon Hunters and Ms. Rachel. &#8220;Mark Rober&#8217;s unique approach to STEM learning inspires all ages &#8211; his storytelling is infectious. When my son and daughter spot a new Build Box at our doorstep, we know that an amazing adventure awaits! Collaborating with CrunchLabs and Kimmel on a competition series for kids is going to be next level and sure to earn me father of the year,&#8221; says John Derderian, Vice President Series, Animation, Kids and Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one man can pull off the world&#8217;s largest elephant toothpaste explosion, and teach us whether lava, a laser, or a flaming arrow can blow up a boat (a laser, naturally!). Now he&#8217;s coming to Netflix. Former NASA engineer and Youtube star Mark Rober is coming to Netflix! 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