Episode
How Do They Do It?: Mardi Gras, Rock Candy, Dentures
Overview
A look at how the amazing, and massive, decorations on Mardi Gras carnival floats are created, how rock candy is twisted together, and a look at how dentures are made.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2017-01-13
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Mardi Gras, Rock Candy, Dentures is Episode 3 in Season 14 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-01-13. The runtime is 22 min.
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