Nye says he got his last royalty check for $585,000 from Disney’s Buena Vista Television for Bill Nye the Science Guy in the spring of 2008, when Disney informed him that due to an accounting error resulting in overpayment, Nye actually owed BTV $496,111, and that future royalty payments would cease until Nye paid back this deficit. This made Nye suspicious of Disney’s figuring, and he once again changed out of his lab coat to become Bill Nye the Math Guy (the Science Guy’s much less exciting sibling) and eventually came to the above numbers, which come to a total of $37,402,260. Buena Vista TV, for its part, had this to say publicly about Nye’s action:
