How to Die Clever: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of How to Die Clever Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Size is the Limit
Jun 2, 2025 · 4 min
Could Godzilla and King Kong, who are bigger than any dinosaur, exist in real life and destroy the world? For Professor Moustache, there is no such thing as a dumb question
Don’t Sweat It!
Jun 3, 2025 · 4 min
Why do humans sweat so much and smell so bad, when I smell so good? For Professor Moustache, there is no such thing as a dumb question.
Baby Boomers
Jun 4, 2025 · 4 min
What does “OK boomer” mean? And what’s a boomer anyway? At full gallop on his time pony, Professor Moustache prances into the past to look at how generations are formed and why the
Coronaviruses
Jun 5, 2025 · 4 min
Oh Covid. We were fed up with it at the time and we’ve been confused ever since. Who was to blame again, bats or pangolins? How does a virus travel from animals to humans? Professo
Babyface
Jun 6, 2025 · 4 min
Sometimes when you see a newborn baby, you don’t really know what to say. It doesn’t really look like its parents; it looks more like a crumpled creature. You may think you’re hear
Anger Games
Jun 9, 2025 · 4 min
We tend to look at whether young people with violent behaviour play video games. But what does the research say? Professor Moustache delves into some pretty dodgy psychological exp
Homo Augmentus
Jun 10, 2025 · 4 min
Captain Hook had a hook as a hand. Darth Vader had bionic limbs. Films make it look easy to replace severed limbs. But is it that easy in real life? What is scientifically possible
Furry Insects
Jun 11, 2025 · 4 min
There are researchers who have not only counted the 3 million tiny hairs found on a moth, but who have also studied how often they clean their fur. If it were up to Nathanaël, we’d
Skynet, the Artificial Unintelligence
Jun 12, 2025 · 4 min
If robots in the future developed a conscience, would they want to kill humankind like in “The Terminator”? Let’s imagine for a minute that it was their ultimate goal. Professor Mo
Conscious AI
Jun 13, 2025 · 4 min
Everyone is afraid of the singularity – that stage when machines become conscious and inevitably decide to kill us all. Professor Moustache explains that, in order for that to happ
Cry Baby Cry
Jun 16, 2025 · 4 min
Screaming babies anywhere can be unbearable. Especially on trains. Professor Moustache explains that it’s normal to sometimes want to chuck them out the window when they won’t stop
It’s Not Me, It’s Evolution
Jun 17, 2025 · 4 min
Why did Mother Nature make babies who won’t let their parents get any sleep? Or who refuse to eat mum’s delicious mashed potatoes? In this episode, a baby goes on trial with evolut
Of Machine and Men
Jun 18, 2025 · 4 min
Why did we feel sorry when that man kicked the cute dog robot? But then we feel nothing when we see a broken blender? Researchers have studied this bizarre human weakness; our tend
Plants with Feelings
Jun 19, 2025 · 4 min
While mowing the lawn, do you ever think about whether grass or flowers can get hurt when they’re cut? What about whether plants talk to insects? Can Professor Moustache mow the la
DIY Poop Survival
Jun 20, 2025 · 4 min
Various Inuit legends say that in sub-zero temperatures, it’s possible to carve a tool out of a frozen turd. Without any scatological judgment, brave archeologists decided to test
The Superpower of Spit
Jun 23, 2025 · 4 min
Is it a good idea to use your saliva to clean things? Like a dummy that fell on the floor, or a stain on a table? How about washing Timothée Chalamet’s sandy face in Dune? Scientif
In Your Face, Santa!
Jun 24, 2025 · 4 min
Thankfully there are researchers who ask fundamental questions. Like John Trinkaus, a US professor who wanted to find out whether children really enjoyed having their photo taken w
Twenty Thousand Eyes Under the Sea
Jun 25, 2025 · 4 min
People are afraid of taking airplanes because they fly high and can fall around 11 kilometres. But why aren’t they just as scared on a cruise ship? The boat could also sink 11 kilo
Space and Furious
Jun 26, 2025 · 4 min
If we’re going to live on the Moon, can we bring our good old Fiat 500 with us? Unfortunately, my friends, terrestrial cars are not cut out for lunar weather conditions. We would n
Selfish Humans
Jun 27, 2025 · 4 min
Professor Moustache loves John Trinkaus because he tackled so many everyday mysteries with scientific research. For example, what is the percentage of people who actually respect t
Crimes Without Gravity
Jun 30, 2025 · 4 min
Every country has its laws. But what happens when a crime isn’t committed on Earth? What if an astronaut kills a colleague on the International Space Station? And what about on the
An Atomic Blast in Paris
Jul 1, 2025 · 4 min
What would happen if an atomic bomb were dropped on Paris? Would those outside the ring highway that surrounds the city make it? According to Professor Moustache, they would, but o
Happy as a Tardigrade
Jul 2, 2025 · 4 min
The tardigrade, an eight-legged micro animal that looks like a teddy bear, can be found everywhere. And Professor Moustache loves them. It may be cute and microscopic, but the tard
Mushroom Zombies
Jul 3, 2025 · 4 min
In the TV show “The Last of Us”, people become zombies after a fungus takes over their brains, which was inspired by something that happens in real life. There is a fungus that doe
Monkey Talk
Jul 4, 2025 · 4 min
If only it were possible for our pets to speak to us and tell us how much they love us… Well, it turns out that scientists have already tried to get monkeys to speak to us using wo
Researchers with Ants in Their Pants
Jul 7, 2025 · 4 min
Imagine you’re a tiny ant in a jungle and you find a massive cookie chunk just three metres from your anthill. You rush to grab a piece of the cookie, but how will you find your wa
Tiny-Arms-Osaurus Rex
Jul 8, 2025 · 4 min
Even though it is a predatory killing machine in many ways, the poor T-Rex has also been a laughing stock because of the size of its arms. Scientists have long wondered why they ar
Doggy Supernose
Jul 9, 2025 · 4 min
Professor Moustache finds it a little too easy to make fun of dogs he sees online who would do anything for a biscuit. But if humans were to develop the same sense of smell as dogs
Anatomy of a Football Fall
Jul 10, 2025 · 4 min
If there is one sport that science has studied in detail, it’s football. We thought we knew everything there was to know about football players, but then female players came along!
How Can I Grow My Own Meat?
Jul 11, 2025 · 4 min
It is possible to grow meat in a lab without killing cows, like growing a plant in a pot. Now, Nathanaël dreams of harvesting his steaks along his window sill. But turns out growin