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In Real Life, a product's design may be rejected because it's not cost-effective to make, because it infringes on someone else's patents, because the expected market for it has diminished, or many other dull-but-practical reasons. In fiction, that's not good enough: for a product to be abandoned, something must go disastrously wrong at a meeting of investors or shareholders, or even at a press conference announcing the product's debut. This always results in the product being cancelled, even if the catastrophe has nothing to do with its quality or lack thereof. May also apply to demonstrations intended to win a prize or a single sale, rather than to be produced en masse. In the former case, the contestant's entry will be disqualified for a disastrous failure, even if said failure was in no way its creator's fault. A Sub-Trope of Gone Horribly Wrong. Compare Sabotage to Discredit, where this is deliberately arranged to ensure that the product is rejected, Confidence Sabotage, where this is deliberately arranged as a psychological attack on the designer, and Flawed Prototype, where the product simply doesn't work as planned. If a competitor flagrantly stages one of these with an otherwise-safe product to make their own gadget look better in contrast, see Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket. See also Testing Range Mishap and Education Through Pyrotechnics. Not to be confused with the term "demonstration" as a synonym for "protest". |
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Some of the ghosts from the second Sapphire and Steel story were civilian workers on a 1938 submarine prototype who died of asphyxiation after the vessel they were running through sea trials got stuck on the sea floor in mid-demonstration. | |
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The Jetsons: In the 1962 episode "Uniblab", Mr. Spacely is trying to persuade the other members of the board of directors at Spacley Sprockets that the robotic employee in the episode's title is the way forward for the company. However, George, who has lost his job to Uniblab and is in the office to clear out his desk, conspires with Henry Orbit to spike the robot's oil. The "drunk" Uniblab spends the entire demonstration suffering from Alcohol Hics, gives the baseball scores when Spacely asks for the latest stock market figures, sprays the board with hot coffee, and plays a recording of George calling Spacely "a stupe" and "king of the crabs" on a continuous loop. The unimpressed board tell Spacely to fire Uniblab. The 1985 episode "Hi-Tech Wreck" sees Spacely aspiring to win over the Megabucks Group, a consortium of wealthy investors, by interesting them in his "Executive Perks" programme of in-office luxuries, including massages, food and drink, and dancing girls. However, RUDI lacks the computing power to handle the routine at anything other than the lowest setting, so when Megabucks Group head Mr. Bigbyte cranks it to the highest setting, the system overloads and he is beaten hollow by the various luxury machines, scuppering the deal. |
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In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Bright Eyes escapes and rampages through the biotech company's facility, until she's shot right in front of its board of directors. The serum that made her intelligent is immediately shelved, even though her escape was a result of handlers' errors and her own Mama Bear nature, not the serum. | |
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In RoboCop (1987), the demonstration of a glitching ED-209 results in one of the company's lesser executives becoming Ludicrous Gibs. (Maybe using live ammo in a demonstration was a bad idea here.) The ED design is sent back to the drawing board in favor of RoboCop. | |
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Averted in RoboCop (2014). At first it looks like it'll be played straight — Murphy suffers a Heroic BSoD while downloading the police database, including CCTV footage of the car-bombing that maimed him. Ordered to get him on his feet immediately for RoboCop's first press conference, Dr. Norton tampers with Murphy's neurochemistry to completely repress his emotions. Murphy stomps past his family and ignores the Mayor's outstretched hand, scanning them and everyone else in the crowd for potential threats. Fortunately, he sees one — a man wanted for murder — and leaps into the crowd and tasers him. The event is then spun as an example of RoboCop's amazing abilities in comparison to regular law enforcement, who failed to notice a wanted man in their midst. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has Charlie's demonstration of "Kitten Mittens", lauding them for their ability to keep your cat quiet. He demonstrates this by the "before" of a cat lightly trotting along a table while he reacts as if he's having knives shoved in his ear, and the "after" of his cat clumsily stumbling along and making audible thumping noises before it trips. Unfazed, he merely plays loud "crashing and banging" sound effects for the first clip, and cricket chirps for the second. | |
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An episode of The Simpsons has Doctor Nick showing off his new product, the Juice-Loosener, on Troy McClure's show. He shoves about a dozen oranges in the thing and turns it on, it makes a sound like a set of forks in a garbage disposal, and then a drop of orange juice oozes from the nozzle. Troy, inveterate shill that he is, still lauds the thing for being whisper-quiet. The folks of Springfield still buy the product en masse, and because of a sick worker packaging them, they end up getting an epidemic. | |
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In Scanners, the famous exploding head scene takes place at what was supposed to be ConSec's official debut of its scanner program before representatives of other intelligence agencies. | |
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Meet the Robinsons: Bowler Hat Guy tries to pass Lewis' invention as his own to a corporate board. As he doesn't know the first thing about how to operate it, the meeting is a complete debacle. Lewis has several prototypes that fail impressively when he tries to demonstrate them. He manages to cope well until this happens with his final model at a science fair (really a case of Sabotage to Discredit by the Bowler Hat Guy), at which point he snaps and tries to give up on inventing entirely. |
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In The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko), Dr. Octavius has problems during his new invention's demonstration, which sets him on the path to becoming supervillain Doctor Octopus. The movie Spider-Man 2 carried over this element of his origin story. | |
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Arrested Development has a commercial for "the Cornballer", a fried cornball-maker that happens to become incredibly hot to the touch due to the boiling oil inside. The Cornballer was banned after an infomercial where George Bluth Sr., its creator, burned his hand on it during an infomercial with a live audience, and then attacked Richard Simmons after being insulted for his carelessness. Despite this, the infomercial ran anyway in Mexico (where the Cornballer remains legal), simply dubbing the audio as George and Simmons praising the product and the audience applauding rather than gasping in horror. | |
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In RoboCop 2, the RoboCop Mk. 2 prototypes end up committing suicide within seconds of being unveiled. The first one also shot several technicians, which is why they didn't give the second one a gun. Also, RoboCop Mk. 2 goes on a withdrawal-fueled rampage in front of a large press corps when OCP holds an event to promote its new police-cyborg. | |
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A common event in Dilbert. For example, when Dilbert demonstrates his team's 3-D holographic interface for the new VP, the Dark Angel of Product Demos shows up inside the monitor (alongside Wally who's pretending to be the interface), tells the VP the product is a fake, and shows her some dirty photos the male engineers have been storing on the server. | |
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Subverted in the New Jedi Order series. Lando Calrissian founds a company to build high-quality battle droids to act as Elite Mooks against the Yuuzhan Vong invaders. They end the demonstration, and the prototype promptly opens fire on the crowd... revealing the Yuuzhan Vong infiltrators spying on the event. The droid did exactly what it was supposed to. And it goes further back on the rails when Lando reveals that, of course, with the head of state and a half-dozen influential generals in the next hovercar over, the droid isn't carrying heavy ordnance and has a power regulator on its blasters (meaning it can't shoot much more than a laser pointer). When this reduced arsenal understandably fails to stop the infiltrators, YVH 1-1A demonstrates a further feature, its flexible heuristic combat routines. Translation: it bear-hugs them to death. | |
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Young Frankenstein: Freddy introduces his monster in a song-and-dance routine, which goes fine until a stage light bursts into flame, which scares the monster into going on a rampage. | |
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One optional mission in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty begins with a public demonstration of the Dominion's new super-high-tech Humongous Mecha, the Odin, which unbeknownst to the crowd has been hijacked by Raynor's Raiders. Emperor Mengsk's prerecorded speeches about how his scientists and engineers have created "the ultimate response to the zerg threat" play periodically as a counterpoint to the Odin stomping over parked cars and blowing apart military bases. | |
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Invoked in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "A Human Work" with the Jet Alone demonstration. Gendo is worried the competing mecha will be a problem for NERV, so he has the demonstration sabotaged (possibly by Ritsuko). Having a combat vehicle go out of control and nearly suffer a nuclear meltdown in a populated city was enough to get it scrapped. As an added bonus for NERV, Shinji and Eva 01 are instrumental in preventing the meltdown. | |
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In Incredibles 2, the hovertrain's maiden voyage gets torpedoed by the Screenslaver who turns it into a Runaway Train. | |
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Invoked in Iron Man 2 when the villain deliberately waits until the new military drones are being displayed at a massive product-premiere event before usurping control of them and siccing them on Iron Man. Tony also plays footage at the Senate hearing of this trope afflicting North Korea's, Iran's, and Hammer's attempts to build power armor. | |
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In a blackout sketch on The Benny Hill Show, Hill plays a TV pitchman selling a new cleaning product; he tosses some liquid (juice?) on the wall and a man in a labcoat uses the product to clean up — except the product doesn't clean off the stain, it cleans the wall's decorative paint off while leaving the stain. | |
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The Muppet Show: The Muppet Labs sketches run on this trope. Perhaps the most notable example is in the Gilda Radner episode, where Dr. Honeydew's new super glue is spilled all over the theater, causing problems throughout the remainder of the show. When Don Knotts guest-starred, he appeared in a skit as a scientist unveiling a newly discovered creature. He talks about how the cage the creature is in is escape-proof, only for it to slip through the bars immediately afterwards. As it runs amok in the lab, Knotts assures the audience that the creature is harmless, which is the creature's cue to attack him. Then the creature's mother shows up... |
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In Jurassic Park (1990), John Hammond, who boasted that he "spared no expense" invites a number of experts to see the park before it opens. As the story progresses, the escaped dinosaurs kill and eat a number of the park's staff and even some of the experts brought in to endorse it. Hammond himself gets eaten by a flock of Compys. As the survivors flee the island, it's firebombed by the Costa Rican air force. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series: In "The Last Son of Krypton", the "Lexo-Skel Suit 5000" is stolen by Kaznian mercenaries during its demonstration. However, it turns out that this disaster was planned by Lex Luthor to get the military to buy even more powerful and expensive versions from him since there wasn't anything wrong with the machine itself. Also, the "theft" was a sham; in fact, Luthor had illegally sold the suit to the Kaznians. In "Ghost in the Machine", this is played somewhat straighter, with an anti-missile weapon called the Sky Sentry failing to activate during its unveiling — after Lex has ordered two actual missiles fired at the building it's unveiled at. It's ultimately revealed that Brainiac had sabotaged the machine to lure Lex to him. |
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In Spider-Man 2, Harry Osborn brings in Doctor Otto Octavius and gives him a budget of $50 million to fund his fusion reactor experiment, in the hopes that this will lead to OsCorp becoming a leader in energy production, as well as net a profit of several billion dollars later on. During the reactor's trial run, the energy output proves to be greater than what Octavius calculated, and the research lab is destroyed. The only reason things don't get any worse because Spider-Man shows up and severs the cables that were powering the reactor. In the end, several of the attendees are injured by the mishap, Octavius's wife is killed in a hail of broken glass, OsCorp has to deal with the fact that they just wasted a 50-million-dollar investment, and Octavius has his powered tentacle arms fused to his spine, transforming him into Doctor Octopus. | |
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In the shopping channel task of Series 3 of The Apprentice (UK), the cliché shown below under 'other' really happened — Kristina tried to sell a floor cleaner, but because it wasn't plugged in it only spread the dirt around. And that wasn't the most cringeworthy demonstration in that episode, either. | |
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In Captain America: The First Avenger, Howard Stark shows off a Flying Car prototype, declaring that in a few years, cars won't need wheels. The prototype sputters and falls to the floor; Stark recovers by reminding the audience that he did say "in a few years". | |
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In Deal of the Century, when a UAV is launched at a military aircraft demonstration, it malfunctions and destroys the expo. The design is justifiably scrapped when these technical difficulties are found to have resulted from the drone not being water-resistant. | |
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Modern Times has a gag in which a salesman pitches a mechanical feeding device (to save time on lunch breaks) by testing it on the Tramp, which goes memorably awry. | |
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Damnation Decade: The Omega Ray would have, if it worked, provided limitless energy for pennies, freeing any state that used it from reliance on fossil fuel. A suicide bomber from the Consortium blew himself up during the demonstration of the Omega Ray, causing the device to emit vast quantities of Omega particles, which ended up breaking the world and causing all the horrible things that mess it up further. Even without the bombing, the book implies that Ampersand Vole IV and his Vigorous Petroleum researchers didn't fully understand Omega and something bad (but maybe not as catastrophic) would have happened anyway. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Wondrous Inventions shows such a demonstration on the cover. This book is filled with various devices that are also hazardous in one way or another. | |
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Fallout 4 has the MegaCorp HalluciGen, Inc., a company whose goal was to develop non-lethal products to assist police and military in controlling riots and crowds. Their sheer incompetence in developing anything effective or safe can be hilariously shown in their observation room, where the player can press buttons showing various demonstrations on a group of Gunner mercenaries trapped in the chambers below. None of them will make it out alive, even from the pacification gas. | |
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Happens in the backstory of Big Hero 6 — the Big Bad's daughter was lost during a demonstration of a prototype Portal Network. | |
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Several such mishaps occur in Stargate SG-1. A prototype energy weapon was canned after firing it once shut down the entire primary power system for Stargate Command. Played with on another occasion: they're demonstrating a new kind of body armor that should be resistant to the staff weapon blasts used by the Goa'uld. They demonstrate this by shooting Syler with a staff weapon. The blast knocks him off his feet and sets him on fire, which seems very bad... but it's then pointed out (after he's hurriedly extinguished) that other than slightly winded and a bit singed, Syler is just fine, whereas a staff blast at that range would otherwise have been lethal. | |
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In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Magneto hijacks the Sentinel prototypes at their public debut to provide a high-profile platform for his attack and New Era Speech. | |
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The Palaververse: In Wedding March, when talking about the demonstration of a new Asinial toaster: | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Madison High School's attempt to use new technology backfires terribly — in front of the head of the school board, Mr. Stone. In "The Tape Recorder", Walter Denton buys a reel-to-reel tape recorder for the school. Unfortunately, when playing back the machine to Head-of-the-Board Mr. Stone, the machine garbles its messages. The machine suggesting everyone is insulting or threatening Principal Conklin or Mr. Stone. Also, that Mr. Conklin jumps into Miss Brooks' lap! In "Movies at School", Miss Brooks tries to use film as an educational aid. Unfortunately, a disgruntled worker at the film company has switched the films around within their canisters. Miss Brooks, leaving a film of the poem "Lady of the Lake" with her class, instead leaves a poem of "Sirens of the Screen, Past and Present". Mrs. Davis intends to show her Ladies Aid Club "Shearing Sheep at Big Billabong, Australia. The ladies club sees a film with showgirls in their dressing room. When Mr. Stone investigates, Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, and Mr. Conklin intend to show the probity of the school by playing a film about the "Board of Education". Instead, they end up playing a film about gambling in Las Vegas. |
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Hal's defeat of the drone planes in Green Lantern (2011) comes close to this, but Carol's fast-talking prevents her company's loss of its contract. | |
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A famous The New Yorker magazine cartoon by Peter Arno shows the disastrous aftermath of a test plane flight, is actually what popularized the phrase "Back to the (old) drawing board." with its caption. | |
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In Hogan's Heroes, the prisoners invoke this trope when they arrange for a remote-control prototype tank to destroy an officer's car and then explode. In another episode, they sabotage a prototype noiseless aircraft engine so that it makes a hellacious racket. | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, during the golden ticket hunt, a machine is showcased that is supposed to be able to grab at anything with gold inside of it, allowing the owner to find the golden ticket without unwrapping the chocolate bars. Instead, it immediately went for someone's gold filling and was promptly destroyed by the outraged crowd. | |
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The presentation of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword during the E3 2010 was catastrophically botched. Promising a Zelda experience with full motion controls, the demo quickly turned into a mess. The Wiimotes did not seem to be calibrated correctly or were suffering from interference. The input was so bad that if someone were to casually walk into the conference without context, they would quickly assume the game was a broken disaster. The game escaped relatively unscratched from the ordeal but it is theorized this is one of the reasons, along with the legendary awful E3 2008 show, why Nintendo eschewed live presentations during E3 in lieu of the prerecorded Nintendo Directs that continue to this very day. | |
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RoboCop: In RoboCop (1987), the demonstration of a glitching ED-209 results in one of the company's lesser executives becoming Ludicrous Gibs. (Maybe using live ammo in a demonstration was a bad idea here.) The ED design is sent back to the drawing board in favor of RoboCop. In RoboCop 2, the RoboCop Mk. 2 prototypes end up committing suicide within seconds of being unveiled. The first one also shot several technicians, which is why they didn't give the second one a gun. Also, RoboCop Mk. 2 goes on a withdrawal-fueled rampage in front of a large press corps when OCP holds an event to promote its new police-cyborg. Averted in RoboCop (2014). At first it looks like it'll be played straight — Murphy suffers a Heroic BSoD while downloading the police database, including CCTV footage of the car-bombing that maimed him. Ordered to get him on his feet immediately for RoboCop's first press conference, Dr. Norton tampers with Murphy's neurochemistry to completely repress his emotions. Murphy stomps past his family and ignores the Mayor's outstretched hand, scanning them and everyone else in the crowd for potential threats. Fortunately, he sees one — a man wanted for murder — and leaps into the crowd and tasers him. The event is then spun as an example of RoboCop's amazing abilities in comparison to regular law enforcement, who failed to notice a wanted man in their midst. |
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The backstory to Disciples has the angel Bethrezen use the power granted to him by the Allfather to create the world of Nevendaar (the game world). After getting the other gods to populate the world with life (with Bethrezen himself creating humans), he departed to call the Allfather to see his creation. The other angels, jealous at all this, sabotaged Nevendaar, so when the Allfather came to see it, all he saw was war and destruction. Angry at Bethrezen, he cast him down and imprisoned him in the molten core of his own creation. Eventually, Bethrezen became this world's version of Satan. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series (well, technically The New Batman Adventures) episode "Critters", Farmer Brown's demonstration of giant farm animals goes awry when the giant sheep he's presenting breaks out of its cage. The idea behind the giant animals was to create a means to end world hunger, but because of the incident, Farmer Brown was ordered to stop his work, which of course led to him becoming the villain of the episode. | |
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In Cars 2, the Lemons exploit this trope, actively conspiring to discredit green fuels by engineering terrible wrecks during a worldwide racing demonstration by vehicles using the Allinol biofuel. | |
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In Splice, the transgenic organisms Fred and Ginger tear each other apart during a live TV promotion for their creators' gene-splicing technology, thanks to the scientists who should have been monitoring their development being preoccupied with their new pet project and not noticing that Ginger has become a male. As a result, the program that created them is cancelled. | |
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In Jurassic Park (1993), John Hammond, who boasts that he "spared no expense", invites renowned paleontologists Allan Grant and Ellie Settler to endorse the park on behalf of the paleontological field. Mathematician Ian Malcolm is brought in to oversee/calculate the potential shortcomings and risks of the park. Lawyer Donald Genaro is sent by the company to reassure investors that the enterprise is not a waste of money or time. Hammond's grandchildren, Timmy and Lex, are on the island to test the interest of the park's target demographic. As the story progresses, a monetary dispute results in lead programmer Dennis Nedry shutting off the park's security, which leads to Malcolm, Grant, Lex, Timmy, and Genaro getting attacked by an escaped T.rex, which seriously wounds Malcolm and eats Genaro. A Dilophosaurus then has a chance encounter with Nedry and eats him. The Velociraptors also escape their enclosure and kill another programmer and the park's game warden, and would have killed the survivors if it wasn't for the T.rex's timely intervention. Grant then tells Hammond he refuses to endorse the park as they flee in a jeep, though to Hammond's credit, he doesn't mind, as he himself has come to the same conclusion. | |
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Double-dose in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps: After stealing a sample of Sherman Klump's Fountain of Youth, Buddy Love sabotages the rest of it with Miracle-Gro. As a result, Sherman's televised demonstration goes off the rails when the hamster test subject abruptly grows to roughly twenty feet tall and attacks the audience. Buddy later holds a demonstration of the stolen formula before the boof a biotech corporation, only for Sherman to trick Buddy into taking a dose of it. In the ensuing chaos, Buddy is regressed to infancy, flees the room naked, urinates in the Dean's face, tears the top off a female onlooker, and melts into a puddle of slime. Ultimately subverted: once it becomes clear that the formula belongs to Sherman, the board is willing to pay any price he wants for it. |
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One episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids features an alternative-energy car (powered primarily by burping) that Szelinksi feels might revolutionize the industry. However, a traveler from the future warns them that something had gone wrong during its planned production, resulting in a Bad Future, and they have to find a way to stop it. It's ultimately the foul-smelling exhaust that turns investors off. | |
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Many of Flint's demonstrated inventions in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, even the main plot is a case of one Gone Horribly Right. | |
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In Young Einstein, Preston Preston steals Einstein's beer-bubble-maker and, in his ignorance, nearly nukes London in his attempt to demonstrate it. | |
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In Dragons' Den and its various international versions, as the entrepreneurs are often expected to demonstrate their product or service on the program, there have naturally been many over the years. One that stands out involves a pitch on the original British Dragon's Den for a service that involved contacting drivers of London's famous black cabs for directions via phone, at a rate of a pound per minute, or more if using a mobile phone. The pitch was that these drivers are famously knowledgeable of the area and therefore should be the experts at finding anywhere people need. Unfortunately, when the entrepreneur provided a phone to Peter Jones to call to try the service, all he got was a message stating that nobody was available at the time. After waiting a minute or two, the recording suggested that he leave his contact information so that he could receive a text back stating when somebody would actually be available. Naturally, he did not do this and this was followed by him and the other dragons declaring themselves to be out in short order. | |
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Invoked in Dracula (2013) when Dracula's large-scale public demonstration of his wireless electricity device causes a deadly explosion, due to being sabotaged by Jonathan Harker on the Ancient Conspiracy's orders. It's intended to destroy Dracula's public persona and power base as a wealthy, visionary industrialist, but the series was Cut Short at that episode. | |
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The IT Crowd: Moss's prototype bra that he is trying to get investors for production has a bad habit of spontaneous combustion. In the "4th Season" special, Moss has developed his own personal Pepper Spray, and the IT Team decide to market it as a Pepper Spray for women. Cue bad packaging/marketing causing it to be mistaken for perfume at their product unveiling. |
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In Joy (2015), the man hired to demonstrate the mop Joy invented live on a shopping channel obviously doesn't bother to touch the thing before stepping in front of the cameras and trying to sell it. Needless to say, the demonstration goes poorly. | |
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In M3GAN, there are three demonstrations, all of which hit snags: Gemma tries to justify her work on M3GAN to her boss with an impromptu demonstration of her capabilities, only for an improperly installed component to cause her body to glitch, then catch fire. Subverted when Cody breaks in grief down during the presentation to the board, as M3GAN is able to step in and comfort her, making it more effective at showing off her adaptability and ability to bond than it would have been otherwise. At the public unveiling for M3GAN, an elevator opens to reveal two bloody corpses. This is before it's gone online, so it's only shown to hastily assembled seat-fillers, but obviously stymies the launch. |
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Almost every Sumdac Systems prototype in Transformers: Animated, from the pilot episode onwards. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the second half of the Architect Sketch, Eric's presentation model for a high-rise block of flats lists over, partially collapses, then actually explodes and catches fire... but thanks to his Freemason connections, the planning board approves it. (Note: This sketch was done soon after a newly-built state-of-the-art high-rise in London actually did catastrophically fall apart — hence the flashing caption "SATIRE" over this sketch.) | |
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BattleTech has many, most of which are in the Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles — a collection of Flawed Prototypes. The LIB-4T Liberator had a torso design that made it incapable of dealing with its hot engine, leading to the battlemech's torso violently exploding during a live-fire demonstration when the heat caused its ammo to cook off; the design was then canned and the prototype was later used as target practice (ironically by a descendant of the tank that it was using as target practice). The Bright Star jumpship was built to explore systems autonomously with no crew. Come demonstration day, the ship goes along its assigned 10 planned jumps before going off the rails, jumping from system to system for decades or possibly even centuries. | |
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Professor Layton and the Unwound Future begins with Layton and Luke witnessing a public demonstration of a time machine. It explodes, with the prime minister as the test subject in it. All according to plan, it was staged to capture him. It is later revealed that this isn't the first time a time machine has exploded. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: In a brief scene during the "worldwide obsession" segment, a scientist programs a computer to figure out where the last three golden tickets are, but the computer has other ideas. It refuses, saying, "That would be cheating." The scientist tries to bribe the computer with the grand prize, but the computer, being a smartass, rebuffs him, asking, "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?" | |
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In The Great Dictator, the inventions by Adenoid Hynkel's scientists fail on demonstration. Played for Laughs, but not without an element of Mood Dissonance. The man in the bulletproof uniform receives an Instant Death Bullet and dies on the spot. The man with a parachute in his hat falls from a window to his death. We only see the reactions by Hynkel and Herring. |
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In Pacific Rim: Uprising, Liwen Shao, head of Shao Industries, had been lobbying for their drone program to compliment and eventually replace the Jaegers as a means of protecting Earth from the Precursors and their Kaiju. After a rogue Jaeger attacks a summit in Australia, Shao Industries is given the go-ahead to start mass producing and implementing their drones. On their first patrol, they go haywire and start attacking the Jaegers and start opening the Rift again to allow more Kaiju to cross over. When Hermann Gottlieb and his friend Newton "Newt" Geizler try to find out what's going on, it's revealed that Newt, who had kept a piece of Kaiju brain in his apartment, had been taken over by the Precursors and used his mind to create a Jaeger/Kaiju hybrid that would destroy the Jaegers and bring more Kaiju to Earth. | |
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Played with in Mega Man (Archie Comics). Blues' power failure during the test fight convinces the military to simply scale back the nature of the combat robots they want to order from Dr. Light instead of cancelling it outright. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "A Tale of Two Stans", Stanley accidentally broke Stanford's science fair experiment, a Perpetual Motion Machine, which led to his dream college rescinding its offer. | |
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In Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Wayne's less-than-impressive presentation is implied to have lost a major deal, with the investors leaving looking dissatisfied. | |
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