Adam Ruins Everything

2015 • truTV
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Volume 3 episodes (17)

1 Adam Ruins Having a Baby
7/11/17
Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women - and men.
2 Adam Ruins Weight Loss
7/18/17
Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.
3 Adam Ruins the Hospital
7/25/17
Adam Conover explains that inflated hospital costs have created a system that's unaffordable and unfair. Plus, the reckless prescription of antibiotics is making them worthless, and you might not need a mammogram.
4 Adam Ruins Dating
8/1/17
Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the major flaws in dating sites. Plus, infamous alpha males - and the wolves that inspired them - don't really exist, and personality tests are a total failure.
5 Adam Ruins Art
8/8/17
Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of artistic merit. He then exposes the masters as copycats and reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.
6 Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
8/15/17
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
7 Adam Ruins College
8/22/17
Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are so low, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality, and why the privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.
8 Emily Ruins Adam
8/29/17
Emily takes over to "ruin" Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure intelligence and points to information Adam has gotten wrong in the past. Plus, she explains the "backfire effect."
9 Adam Ruins His Vacation
9/19/17
Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America, where he reveals that Mount Rushmore was built on stolen Native American land, Vegas slot machines are purposely designed to be addicting, and a whole lot more!
10 Adam Ruins the Suburbs
9/26/17
Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs is slowly killing you. Plus, the racist history of suburban planning led to today's institutionalized segregation in schools.
11 Adam Ruins the Economy
10/3/17
Adam explains why lobbying makes filing your taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers we focus on don't provide the whole story. Plus, American manufacturing can't come back because it was a fluke to begin with.
12 Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
10/10/17
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
13 Adam Ruins Spa Day
10/17/17
Pricey "detoxifying" treatments cleanse you of cash (and may do more harm than good), while MSG's scary reputation is undeserved. Plus, the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think!
14 Adam Ruins Halloween
10/24/17
Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the "panic" over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was the clickbait of the 1930s. And, mediums and s?ances have a long history - of being fake.
15 Adam Ruins Science
10/31/17
Testing mice means wasted resources because what works on them often fails on humans. Scarce funding stops scientists from seeking cures, and there's no money in reproducing results, even though it's essential in proving findings.
16 Adam Ruins the Future
11/7/17
Adam explains that unregulated food expiration dates lead to waste and that your 401(k) won't be enough to support your retirement. Plus, Adam's girlfriend Melinda proves that even with research, the future is unpredictable.
101 Vol. 3 Sneak Peek
7/3/17
Check out a sneak peek of Adam Ruins Everything, Vol. 3.

About this show

A half hour investigative comedy in which comedian host Adam Conover delivers an onslaught of mind blowing facts that shatter your illusions about the world to hilarious effect.

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4.7
950 reviews
Joe Selke
May 22, 2018
Dihydrogen Monoxide is a tasteless, odorless chemical that is commonly used in many industrial processes. This chemical is deadly if inhaled, it accelerates corrosion of many known metals, it is fire retardant, has inflicted billions of dollars in damage to infrastructure worldwide, and under certain conditions it can cause severe burns. High concentrations of this chemical have been found in the plumbing of over 90% of US households. Sounds pretty bad right? Dihydrogen Monoxide is water... Every statement above is 100% verifiable fact, though it seems pretty misleading for me to describe water in that manner. That is the level of honesty I've come to expect from this show when it started as a series of shorts on YouTube.
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Matthew Young (WraithTDK)
April 4, 2017
Smug, ignorant hipster douchebag "ruins" things by pointing out how things are "bad" and "don't make sense," which in virtually every case just comes down to him being too dumb and/or too unwilling to take an objective look at it. This guy's the reason I stopped watching College Humor several years ago.
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its sav and katlin gacha girls forever!! 2024
April 24, 2024
why does adam keep ruining stuff.and why the heck is he ruining me.i hate him so freaking badly.he can stop ruining everything that i love and get arrested for being ugly and ruining my whole freaking life.
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