document_title: Fresh Off the Boat

question_text: who plays the dad in fresh off the boat

question_tokens: who plays the dad in fresh off the boat

text: Fresh Off the Boat

text: Premise[edit]

text: The story follows the course of Eddie Huang's Taiwanese family as they make their way from Chinatown of Washington, DC to Orlando, Florida, to open a cowboy-themed steak restaurant in 1995[14] (with the first season being set between 1995 and 1997).[15][16] His mother struggles with the culture clash between her upbringing and a Florida community that does not have a large Asian population,[17] his father embraces the "American Dream", and Eddie struggles with assimilating into school.

text: Cast and characters[edit]

text: Main cast[edit]

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Hudson Yang is Edwyn "Eddie" Huang,[18] the show's protagonist and a die-hard hip-hop and rap fan, as well as a great fan of basketball. The oldest of three brothers, he eschews Taiwanese culture and is more rebellious than his younger siblings, which makes him a frequent target of Jessica's complaints. Because Eddie represents the writer of the book on which the show is based, all of the season-one episodes were told from his perspective, and the real-life Eddie Huang voices the narrator. A creative change for season two expands the focus to the entire Huang family.
Randall Park as Louis Huang,[4][5] is the father of Eddie, Emery, and Evan, and husband of Jessica. He is nice and naive, and embraces all things American. He owns a Western steakhouse restaurant in Orlando named Cattleman's Ranch.
Constance Wu as Jessica (née Chu) Huang,[19] is the wife of Louis and mother[20] of Eddie, Emery, and Evan. She is a no-nonsense, pragmatic woman who believes in tough love. She wants her children to be successful and also keep in touch with their Taiwanese heritage.
Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang,[21] is the middle child of the Huang family. He is a romantic and lovable kid who is fairly intelligent. He is also depicted as charismatic and mature for his age. He graduated elementary school at the end of the second season.
Ian Chen as Evan Huang,[21] is the youngest child, who is a star student and obeys the rules. He is Jessica's favorite child. He was allowed to skip fifth grade between seasons 3 and 4, and is starting middle school in the fourth season.
Lucille Soong as Grandma Jenny Huang (regular season 2–present, recurring season 1), is Louis' mother and grandmother of Eddie, Evan, and Emery. Although she clearly understands English, she speaks only in Mandarin (subtitled in English). However, she spoke English in Marvin's dream in the season-three episode "Where Are the Giggles?". In the season-four episode, "It's a Plastic Pumpkin, Louis Huang", the family discovers she has secretly been taking ESL lessons, and she speaks English for the first time (excluding that dream sequence). In the season-four episode, "The Day After Thanksgiving", Jenny finishes her ESL class and speaks English around her ESL professor. She recites lines from the 1989 Tim Burton movie, Batman for her class.
Chelsey Crisp as Honey Ellis (regular season 2–present, recurring season 1),[22] is the Huangs' next door neighbor, Marvin's third wife, and Jessica's new best friend.
Ray Wise as Marvin Ellis (regular season 3–present, recurring seasons 1–2) is Honey's much-older husband and Nicole's father. He is a successful dentist who married Honey after his previous wife caught him cheating with Honey on the kitchen floor.

text: Recurring cast[edit]

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Cattleman's Steakhouse staff:

Paul Scheer as Mitch
Jillian Armenante as Nancy
Amanda Lund as Vanessa
Noel Gugliemi as Hector Martinez
Michael Bolton as himself, briefly co-owner of Cattleman's (seasons 3–4)
Matt Oberg as Matthew Chestnut (season 4)

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Eddie's school friends:

Luna Blaise as Nicole Ellis, Eddie's first crush, who is Marvin's daughter and Honey's stepdaughter; in season four, she reveals to Eddie that she is gay.
Isabella Alexander as Alison, also Eddie's girlfriend. They break up in episode 2 of season 4.
Prophet Bolden as Walter, one of Eddie's friends
Trevor Larcom as Trent Masterson, one of Eddie's friends
Evan Hannemann as Dave Selby, one of Eddie's friends
Dash Williams as Brian Stone, one of Eddie's friends
Connor Rosen as Doug Pew, one of Eddie's friends
Brady Tutton as Brock Blanca
Albert Tsai as Phillip Goldstein[23][24]
Arden Belle as Shelly, one of Nicole's friends
Liliana Mumy as Layla, one of Nicole's friends
Monique Green as Sandy, one of Nicole's friends
Marlowe Peyton as Reba, Eddie's classmate, who has an unrequited crush on him

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Others:

Rachel Cannon as Deidre Sanderson
Stacey Scowley as Carol-Joan
Colleen Ryan as Amanda
Kimberly Crandall as Lisa
Arden Myrin as Ashley Alexander
David Goldman as Principal Charlie Hunter
Maria Bamford as Principal Thomas
Susan Park as Connie Chen, Jessica's sister
C.S. Lee as Steve Chen, Jessica's brother-in-law
Ken Jeong as Gene Huang, Louis' younger brother
Eddie Huang as adult Eddie Huang (voice only), the narrator of the show for season one only

text: Development and production[edit]

text: Eddie Huang's 2013 Fresh Off the Boat caught the attention of TV networks upon release, with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television signing in late that year. Huang, the show's creator and one of the producers of the series,[5] led a Twitter campaign[25][26] to change the original show name, Far East Orlando, when it was in development.[6]

text: On May 13, 2014, ABC ordered the first season of the show during the May 2014 upfront[7][27] to air in 2015 as a mid-season replacement.[7][28]

text: The real-life Eddie Huang narrates the first season only. Eleven episodes into the first season, Huang expressed frustration over ABC's approach, saying it presents an "ambiguous, cornstarch story about Asian-Americans" that perpetuates "an artificial representation of Asian American lives". The sitcom was adapted to suit a broader American audience.[29] He also Tweeted in April 2015, "I understand this is a comedy but the great comics speak from pain: Pryor, Rock, Louis...This show had that opportunity but it fails."[30] Despite his concern for authenticity, he finds the show a "milestone" for Asian-Americans as they are at the forefront of this television series.[31] Huang further explained in an interview on National Public Radio, "The studio and network are not on a mission to not represent us. They just don't know how to."[32]

text: Huang described the exchange between his team and ABC as brief. In an article in Vulture Huang expressed concern over the studio's decision that Nahnatchka Khan, an Iranian-American writer, would represent his memoir for the TV scripts, believing that she would present the story as less than realistic and authentic. "I would be excited, but you attached a Persian writer, and I'm kinda worried it's going to be The Shahs of Cul-de-Sac Holando."[33]

text: In 2015, Constance Wu was interviewed by Jenny Zhang for The Lenny Interview. In this interview, she spoke about her initial fear of criticizing some of the shows details. Now in its second season, Wu speaks openly about her request for the staff to make the show more specific, stating, "If you change the food to a 1,000-year-old black egg with tofu and scallions, it will be a little more specific, and specificity is just better for character, and it's more interesting than, say, tofu and rice."[34]

text: Season two changes[edit]

text: Fresh Off the Boat made many changes for the second season, including:

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Eddie Huang reduced his involvement with the series, including no longer being the narrator, due to creative differences with ABC, as well as time constraints with other projects. He is still credited as a producer, and the show's credits continue to note that the series is based on his memoir.
With Huang's departure, ABC decided not to recast the narrator role, dropping it from the series altogether.
The writing from season two onward is focused on the entire Huang family instead of centering on Eddie. In particular, more Louis- and Jessica-centered episodes were shot.
Lucille Soong and Chelsey Crisp were both promoted from recurring cast to main cast.

text: Episodes[edit]

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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
13
February 4, 2015 (2015-02-04)
April 21, 2015 (2015-04-21)

2
24
September 22, 2015 (2015-09-22)
May 24, 2016 (2016-05-24)

3
23
October 11, 2016 (2016-10-11)
May 16, 2017 (2017-05-16)

4
19[35]
October 3, 2017 (2017-10-03)
March 20, 2018 (2018-03-20)[35]

text: Home media[edit]

text: On September 29, 2015, the first season of Fresh Off the Boat was released on DVD. The DVD had two discs with all 13 season-one episodes and special features such as a gag reel, as well a "Fresh Facts Trivia Track".

text: Broadcast[edit]

text: Fresh Off the Boat premiered on FOX8 in Australia starting May 10, 2015;[36] It was also picked up by Network Ten, and started airing on 7 March 2016 on its sister channel, Eleven until October 2017.

text: In the UK, the first season originally premiered on Amazon Video on February 4, 2015. The second season premiered on September 22, 2015. On November 1, 2017 Fresh Off the Boat received its television premiere on Channel 5's sister channel 5Star starting with the pilot episode.

text: It debuted on March 12, 2015 in South Africa on Fox Crime.[37]

text: In South Asia, Fresh Off The Boat, airs 12 hours after the U.S. broadcast on Star World Premiere HD.[38]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Seasonal ratings[edit]

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Season
Timeslot (ET)
No. of
episodes
Premiered
Ended
TV season
Rank
Viewers
(in millions)

Date
Premiere viewers
(in millions)
Date
Finale viewers
(in millions)

1
Wednesday 8:30 pm
(Episode 1)
Wednesday 9:30 pm
(Episode 2)
Tuesday 8:00 pm
(Episodes 3-13)
13
February 4, 2015
7.94[39]
April 21, 2015
5.08[40]
2014–15
78
6.99[41]

2
Tuesday 8:30 pm
(2015)
Tuesday 8:00 pm
(2016)
24
September 22, 2015
6.05[42]
May 24, 2016
4.88[43]
2015–16
86
5.48[44]

3
Tuesday 9:00 pm
23
October 11, 2016
5.03[45]
May 16, 2017
3.55[46]
2016–17
95
4.66[47]

4
Tuesday 8:30 pm

October 3, 2017
4.51[48]

2017–18

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: Fresh Off the Boat has received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a 91% certified fresh approval rating, with the critical consensus "Once the cliched gags of Fresh off the Boat are superseded by a grounded truthfulness, the series evolves into a humorously charming family sitcom."[49] It also has earned a 75 out of 100 score on Metacritic, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.[50] Particularly, Constance Wu's performance has been acclaimed, earning nominations for both the TCA Awards and the EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy, as well as an "Individual Achievement in Comedy" nomination at the Critics' Choice Television Awards.

text: Reviews cited the show's potential to increase the visibility and accuracy of Asian Americans in arts and entertainment.[7][51][52] For writer and poet Jenny Zhang (who interviewed Constance Wu for Lenny Letter), Fresh Off the Boat was a welcome change from the representation of Asian Americans on the TV series she had seen as a child at age 11, where the few people who looked like her were either the subjects of crude jokes or had only minor cameos.[34]

text: "It means that there are real conversations being had about Asian American identity in addition to acknowledging the lack of inclusivity Asian Americans have had in the nation's cultural and entertainment dialogue."[53] Ester Suh, writing for the Huffington Post, felt that many characterizations in the show misrepresented the Asian-American experience, but acknowledged that "our experience as Americans, like everyone else’s, is varied, and to say that a single show can exemplify all our experiences, would be a disfavor. I see Fresh as a sound board for future shows with Asian American casts, helping make television a more diverse and inclusive cultural platform."[53]

text: The Harvard Political Review additionally commented that "Fresh Off the Boat captures the essence of why diversity in media matters—we, like young Eddie, all want to see ourselves as worthy of being protagonists, whether in stories or in real life. However, lost in translation are the stories of parents and grandparents, who also have claim to labels like the Asian-American experience."[54]

text: Television critic Emily Nussbaum, in her review for The New Yorker, compares the memoir and television version of Huang's relationship with his father and with black culture, "Without a cruel bully for a father, Eddie's taste for hip-hop feels more superficial—in the book, it's an abused kid's catharsis and an identification with black history."[55]

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result

2015
Critics' Choice Television Awards
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Constance Wu
Nominated

TCA Awards
Individual Achievement in Comedy
Nominated

EWwy Awards
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Nominated

Gold Derby TV Awards
Best Comedy Actress
Nominated

Unforgettable Gala – Asian American Awards
Actor of the Year
Randall Park
Won

Female Breakout Star of the Year
Constance Wu
Won

2016
Critics' Choice Television Awards
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Randall Park
Nominated

Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Constance Wu
Nominated

NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Mini-series)
Hudson Yang
Nominated

Women's Image Network Awards
Best Comedy Series
Fresh Off the Boat
Nominated

Young Artist Awards
Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast In A TV Series
Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, Ian Chen
Won

Best Performance in a TV Series – Supporting Young Actor
Ian Chen
Nominated

Best Performance In A TV Series - Recurring Young Actress (14-21)
Luna Blaise
Won

Best Performance In A TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress (11-13)
Laura Krystine
Nominated

Young Entertainer Awards
Best Young Ensemble Cast - TV Series
Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, Ian Chen
Won

Best Recurring Young Actor 13 and Under - Television Series
Trevor Larcom
Nominated

Best Recurring Young Actress 13 to 15 - Television Series
Luna Blaise
Nominated

Best Recurring Young Actress 12 and Under- Television Series
Isabella Alexander
Won

Best Guest Starring Young Actor 11 and Under - TV Series
Cole Sand
Nominated

Teen Choice Awards
Choice TV: Scene Stealer
Hudson Yang
Nominated

TCA Awards
Individual Achievement in Comedy
Constance Wu
Nominated

Gold Derby TV Awards
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Nominated

Poppy Awards
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Nominated

Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Randall Park
Nominated

Critics' Choice Television Awards
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Constance Wu
Nominated

2017
NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Mini-series)
Hudson Yang
Nominated

Young Artist Awards
Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actor
Ian Chen
Nominated

Forrest Wheeler
Nominated

Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Teen Actor
Hudson Yang
Won

Best Performance in a TV Series - Recurring Teen Actor
Trevor Larcom
Won

Young Entertainer Awards
Best Leading Young Actor 14 and Under - Television Series
Ian Chen
Pending

MTV Movie & TV Awards
Best American Story
Fresh Off the Boat
Nominated

Critics' Choice Television Awards
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Randall Park
Nominated

Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Constance Wu
Nominated


document_title: Way Down in the Hole

question_text: who sings the theme song on the wire

question_tokens: who sings the theme song on the wire

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text: Way Down in the Hole

text:
"Way Down in the Hole"

Song by Tom Waits

from the album Franks Wild Years

Length
3:30

Songwriter(s)
Tom Waits

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text: "Way Down in the Hole" is a song written by the singer-songwriter Tom Waits. It was included on his 1987 album Franks Wild Years, which was later made into a stage production.

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text: The song was used as the theme for HBO's The Wire.[1] A different recording was used each season. Versions, in series order, were recorded by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Tom Waits, The Neville Brothers, DoMaJe, and Steve Earle. Season four's version, performed by the Baltimore teenagers Ivan Ashford, Markel Steele, Cameron Brown, Tariq Al-Sabir and Avery Bargasse, was arranged and recorded specifically for the show.[2] An extended version of the Blind Boys of Alabama recording was played over a montage in the series finale.


document_title: Lemon battery

question_text: how much electricity does a lemon battery produce

text: Lemon battery

text: Use in school projects[edit]

text: There are numerous sets of instructions for making lemon batteries and for obtaining components such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), electrical meters (multimeters), and zinc-coated (galvanized) nails and screws.[5][6] Commercial "potato clock" science kits include electrodes and a low-voltage digital clock. After one cell is assembled, a multimeter can be used to measure the voltage or the electric current from the voltaic cell; a typical voltage is 0.9 V with lemons. Currents are more variable, but range up to about 1 mA (the larger the electrode surfaces, the bigger the current). For a more visible effect, lemon cells can be connected in series to power an LED (see illustration) or other devices. The series connection increases the voltage available to devices. Swartling and Morgan have published a list of low-voltage devices along with the corresponding number of lemon cells that were needed to power them; they included LEDs, piezeoelectric buzzers, and small digital clocks. With the zinc/copper electrodes, at least two lemon cells were needed for any of these devices.[7] Substituting a magnesium electrode for the zinc electrode makes a cell with a larger voltage (1.5−1.6 V), and a single magnesium/copper cell will power some devices.[7] Note that incandescent light bulbs from flashlights are not used because the lemon battery is not designed to produce enough electric current to light them. By multiplying the average current of a lemon (0.001A/ 1mA) by the average (lowest) voltage (potential difference) of a lemon (0.7V) we can conclude that it would take more than 6 million lemons to give us the power of an average 4320W car battery.

text: Variations[edit]

text: Many fruits and liquids can be used for the acidic electrolyte. Fruit is convenient, because it provides both the electrolyte and a simple way to support the electrodes. The acid involved in citrus fruits (lemons, oranges, grapefruits, etc.) is citric acid. The acidity, which is measured by the pH, varies substantially.

text: Potatoes have phosphoric acid and work well; they are the basis for commercial "potato clock" kits.[8][9] Potato batteries with LED lighting have been proposed for use in poor countries or by off-grid populations. International research begun in 2010 showed that boiling potatoes for eight minutes improves their electrical output, as does placing slices of potatoes between multiple copper and zinc plates. Boiled and chopped plantain pith (stem) is also suitable, according to Sri Lankan researchers.[10]

text: Instead of fruit, liquids in various containers can be used. Household vinegar (acetic acid) works well.[11] Sauerkraut (lactic acid) was featured in one episode of the US television program Head Rush (an offshoot of the MythBusters program). The sauerkraut had been canned, and became the electrolyte while the can itself was one of the electrodes.[12]

text: Zinc and copper electrodes are reasonably safe and easy to obtain. Other metals such as lead, iron, magnesium, etc., can be studied as well; they yield different voltages than the zinc/copper pair. In particular, magnesium/copper cells can generate voltages as large as 1.6 V in lemon cells. This voltage is larger than obtainable using zinc/copper cells. It is comparable to that of standard household batteries (1.5 V), which is useful in powering devices with a single cell instead of using cells in series.[7]

text: Learning outcomes[edit]

text: For the youngest pupils, about ages 5–9, the educational goal is utilitarian:[13] batteries are devices that can power other devices, so long as they are connected by a conductive material. Batteries are components in electrical circuits; hooking a single wire between a battery and a light bulb will not power the bulb.

text: For children in the age range 10−13, batteries are used to illustrate the connection between chemistry and electricity as well as to deepen the circuit concept for electricity. The fact that different chemical elements such as copper and zinc are used can be placed in the larger context that the elements do not disappear or break down when they undergo chemical reactions.

text: For older pupils and for college students, batteries serve to illustrate the principles of oxidation-reduction reactions.[13][14] Students can discover that two identical electrodes yield no voltage, and that different pairs of metals (beyond copper and zinc) yield different voltages. The voltages and currents from series and parallel combinations of the batteries can be examined.[15]

text: The current that is output by the battery through a meter will depend on the size of the electrodes, how far the electrodes are inserted into the fruit, and how close to each other the electrodes are placed; the voltage is fairly independent of these details of the electrodes.[16]

text: Chemical[edit]

text: Most textbooks present the following model for the chemical reactions of a lemon battery.[1][3][17] When the cell is providing an electric current through an external circuit, the metallic zinc at the surface of the zinc electrode is dissolving into the solution. Zinc atoms dissolve into the liquid electrolyte as electrically charged ions (Zn2+), leaving 2 negatively charged electrons (e−) behind in the metal:

text: This reaction is called oxidation. While zinc is entering the electrolyte, two positively charged hydrogen ions (H+) from the electrolyte combine with two electrons at the copper electrode's surface and form an uncharged hydrogen molecule (H2):

text: This reaction is called reduction. The electrons used from the copper to form the molecules of hydrogen are transferred by an external wire connected to the zinc. The hydrogen molecules formed on the surface of the copper by the reduction reaction ultimately bubble away as hydrogen gas.

text: Experiment results[edit]

text: This model of the chemical reactions makes several predictions that were examined in experiments published by Jerry Goodisman in 2001. Goodisman notes that numerous recent authors propose chemical reactions for the lemon battery that involve dissolution of the copper electrode into the electrolyte. Goodisman excludes this reaction as being inconsistent with the experiments, and notes that the correct chemistry, which involves the evolution of hydrogen at the copper electrode but also can use silver instead of copper, has been known for many years.[4] Most of the detailed predictions of the model apply to the battery's voltage that is measured directly by a meter; nothing else is connected to the battery. When the electrolyte was modified by adding zinc sulfate (ZnSO4), the voltage from the cell was reduced as predicted using the Nernst equation for the model. The Nernst equation essentially says how much the voltage drops as more zinc sulfate is added. The addition of copper sulfate (CuSO4) did not affect the voltage. This result is consistent with the fact that copper atoms from the electrode are not involved in the chemical reaction model for the cell.

text: When the battery is hooked up to an external circuit and a significant electric current is flowing, the zinc electrode loses mass, as predicted by the zinc oxidation reaction above. Similarly, hydrogen gas evolves as bubbles from the copper electrode. Finally, the voltage from the cell depended upon the acidity of the electrolyte, as measured by its pH; decreasing acidity (and increasing pH) causes the voltage to fall. This effect is also predicted by the Nernst equation; the particular acid that was used (citric, hydrochloric, sulfuric, etc.) doesn't affect the voltage except through the pH value.

text: The Nernst equation prediction failed for strongly acid electrolytes (pH < 3.4), when the zinc electrode dissolves into the electrolyte even when the battery is not providing any current to a circuit. The two oxidation-reduction reactions listed above only occur when electrical charge can be transported through the external circuit. The additional, open-circuit reaction can be observed by the formation of bubbles at the zinc electrode under open-circuit. This effect ultimately limited the voltage of the cells to 1.0 V near room temperature at the highest levels of acidity.

text: Energy source[edit]

text: The energy comes from the chemical change in the zinc when it dissolves into the acid. The energy does not come from the lemon or potato. The zinc is oxidized inside the lemon, exchanging some of its electrons with the acid in order to reach a lower energy state, and the energy released provides the power.[4]

text: In current practice, zinc is produced by electrowinning of zinc sulfate or pyrometallurgical reduction of zinc with carbon, which requires an energy input. The energy produced in the lemon battery comes from reversing this reaction, recovering some of the energy input during the zinc production.

text: Smee cell[edit]

text: From 1840 to the late 19th century, large, voltaic cells using a zinc electrode and a sulfuric acid electrolyte were widely used in the printing industry. While copper electrodes like those in lemon batteries were sometimes used, in 1840 Alfred Smee invented a refined version of this cell that used silver with a rough platinum coating instead of a copper electrode.[18][19] Hydrogen gas clinging to the surface of a silver or copper electrode reduces the electric current that can be drawn from a cell; the phenomenon is called "polarization".[17][20] The roughened, "platinized" surface speeds up the bubbling of the hydrogen gas, and increases the current from the cell. Unlike the zinc electrode, the copper or platinized silver electrodes are not consumed by using the battery, and the details of this electrode do not affect the cell's voltage. The Smee cell was convenient for electrotyping, which produced copper plates for letterpress printing of newspapers and books, and also statues and other metallic objects.[19][21][22][23][24]

text: The Smee cell used amalgamated zinc instead of pure zinc; the surface of amalgamated zinc has been treated with mercury.[23] Apparently amalgamated zinc was less prone to degradation by an acidic solution than is pure zinc.[25] Amalgamated zinc and plain zinc electrodes give essentially the same voltage when the zinc is pure.[26] With the imperfectly refined zinc in 19th century laboratories they typically gave different voltages.[25]

text: In popular culture[edit]

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In the video game Portal 2, antagonist GLaDOS was embedded into a potato-battery-run computer for a significant part of the game.[27]
In The Big Bang Theory Season 6 episode "The Proton Resurgence", Leonard and Sheldon's childhood hero Professor Proton (Bob Newhart) attempts to show the group a potato battery, which amazes Penny.
In the Bones Season 6 episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard", Angela and the other "squints" build a massive potato battery array in an attempt to power a cell phone. Illustrating the pathetically low output of such a system, it is successful for only a handful of seconds while using dozens of potatoes.
In the episode "Lemons" of the television program Red Dwarf (tenth series (Series X)), the crew travel 4,000 miles from Britain to India in 23 AD in order to get lemons to build a lemon battery to power up their time machine's returner remote.[28]
In the sixth episode of the final season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the main villain Pearl Forrester tried taking over the world using potato batteries, only for her plans to be ruined by Professor Bobo.
In NCIS Season 7 episode 8, "Power Down", Abby Sciuto uses lemons as a power source for her stereo when she runs out of batteries during a blackout.
In Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's The Long Earth (series) the devices used to step from one universe to another appear to be powered by potato batteries.[29]

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