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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/HEYXRB54ORTGCQANLT63QINBDE Miya

    I feel sad for that washing machine.

  • Jake0748

    Me too. 

  • James Gilbreath

    I think the Brave Little Toaster ruined me for this sort of thing.

  • EH

    Finally watched some HS vids today, so this is a kind of kismet that tells me the shark has been jumped. REPEAT: THE SHARK HAS BEEN JUMPED

  • http://www.facebook.com/Kai911 Jun-Kai Teoh

    I don’t know, I still think this is better. http://youtu.be/C4ZxszoeCiU

  • noah django

    Yesterday I got a new, big-ass TV with an input for my computer.  one of my buddies dropped by and he and my roommate were using his computer to watch HS videos while I surfed the internet on my laptop.  I re-loaded BB and this post came up.  “hey guys, here’s one,” jacked into the TV and hit play.

    based on the peals of laughter it provoked among us all, you are 100% correct, Cory.  it was the best.  ever.

  • http://twitter.com/missshenna Lithi
  • http://blog.nella.org Jeff

    Cory, you made Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorow%27s_Law

    (Until the wiki nazis kill it, the bastards.)

      -jeff

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Already in the Speedy Delete pipe.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Duanburge/100000313244887 Mark Duanburge

       Looks like it was you who made Wikipedia.

      • http://blog.nella.org Jeff

        Duh, of course it was. If wikipedia is the source of all knowledge, it would be dumb not to put things in it, wouldn’t it? :)

    • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

      If it doesn’t survive on wiki, add some shipping and put it on tvtropes.

  • AttackHamster

    Credit where credit’s due, originally by PhotonicInduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVMDccHqN4

    • dnebdal

       Who is an all-around fantastic guy. He’s basically the 50s car mechanic “we’ll just weld this on here and bolt another air intake on top and it’ll be better than new”-type, except in the field of high-voltage equipment.

  • Jane Rothstein

    No idea why destroying an appliance worth several hundred dollars that lots of people couldn’t even afford to buy in the first place is funny.  Must be first-world humor.

    • Tim Drage

      No idea why destroying a broken appliance with no resale or practical use value to speak of in a spectacular and amusing way is worthy of petty boring handwringing concern-trolling. Must be EVERY BOINGBOING COMMENT THREAD.

      • s2redux

        Spot on! Just for the [first-world] sport of it, read the comments from when this video first appeared on BB in 2010 and enjoy the deja vu. Won’t someone please think of the zinnias!

        • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

          Now I’m waiting for someone to complain that ‘they’re allowing dubstep on BB now’

      • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

        Jane Rothstein got put ON BLAST
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ql5zSVmEY

    • noah django

       before he threw the brick in, you didn’t notice the smoke billowing out of the back of it?  it’s been a long time since that beast was worth several hundred dollars.  or even a single dollar.  if you wanted to spend several hours stripping out all the wiring and plastic, you could get maybe $20 for the steel from the scrap metal guy.  probably more like $15.

      it’s worth lies not in resale value, but in comedic value.  though a sense of humor *is* a prerequisite.

      • http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael

        That is so INSENSTIIVE! All you have to do is package it up and ship it to  one of those places in India where all the cute and hungry little Indian kids cut apart those ships and they’ll strip this to parts like a pack of grade-school pirhanas. That can survive in salt-water. On a polluted beach. With feet. anyway.

        To find HUMUR in such a waste is RACIST!

        • EH

          I’m racist against old washing machines.

          • Gerald Mander

             Washist.

    • http://ravenlunatick.wordpress.com/ ravenlunatick

       As a person who could not afford this appliance, I can confirm that it’s still funny.

      • Atomicpanda

        It’s almost March, and as someone who hasn’t even been able to scrape together February’s rent yet, I also found the video funny.

        • Donald Petersen

          I liked it in 2010, still like it today.  I have a Reagan-era Kenmore that’s not much longer for this world.  I’d send it out in this fashion, only since it’s a toploader I suspect it won’t be quite so much fun.  But what the hell, maybe I’ll give it a shot.

          When its day comes, I’ll make sure to let y’all know.

          • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

            Before you do that take a look at your water & electricity bills before and after you get a new machine.

          • Donald Petersen

            I look forward to that comparison.  This one would have Eisenhower’s familiarity with Energy Star compliance.  That said, it’s been a reliable, leakproof workhorse that has produced squeaky clean laundry for a generation.

            Though maybe my jeans shouldn’t actually squeak.

  • SumAnon

    This was my first thought

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yEAcFGqid4

  • http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

    Is this Harlem Shake thing a homage to Austin Powers?

    • noah django

       yes.  noted Harlemite Austin Powers.

  • welcomeabored

    We bought a new washer and dryer six months ago.  Our old appliances still worked fine, but they were not ‘high efficiency’.  I felt bad about sending them away for no more reason than they were old.  Now I feel like I put them up for adoption, only to find out they’ve had experiments conducted on them.

    • Donald Petersen

      It all depends on where you sent them.  The Daisy Hill Retired Laundrette Farm?  Or Cap’n Sparky’s Mad Science Prop Shop?

      • welcomeabored

        Lowe’s both delivered and picked up.  They’re sold for scrap, they told us.  But now I suspect they went  to Dr. Horrible’s laboratory for rejected pup…er, appliances.   **stink-eye**

  • http://twitter.com/aravnd326 Aravind Suresh