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Rube Goldberg Device

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Rube Goldberg Device	comment	One small thing happens, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, and so on until after all of that, something (usually quite trivial, like turning on a shower) happens. The joke is that it would have been easier to just turn on the shower than set it all up. Essentially it's a Zany Scheme performed by a machine with a bit of Complexity Addiction thrown in. The name is taken from the drawings of American cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883â€“1970), which had a ridiculously complicated sequence of events to do something as trivial as giving someone a back scrub. Obviously, this is different from a traditional invention in that it gives a complicated solution to a simple problem, not the other way around. This device is also known as a Heath Robinson contraption in Britain (after cartoonist William Heath Robinson whose ideas came before Goldberg), or a Pythagoras switch (ãƒ”ã‚¿ã‚´ãƒ©ã‚¹ã‚¤ãƒƒãƒ�) in Japan, among other terms used around the world. As with the Unspoken Plan Guarantee, the efficacy of a planned contraption is generally inversely proportional to the amount of its workings known to the audience. You often find one of these in a Gadgeteer's House. Necro Non Sequitur is often an example of this. Compare Disaster Dominoes, and Butterfly of Doom. The Chessmaster is often responsible for these, either for fun or as part of the plot. Gambit Roulette is the using the same principle when compared to plans of some kind. If the contraption is lethal, then it's safe to say that Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts. A commonly-related concept is commonly invoked by players in games featuring a Level Editor (such as Line Rider, Happy Wheels and Geometry Dash), which are referred to as "auto" or "don't move" levels. Closely resembling a Rube Goldberg Machine, they follow the main character being transported through bizarre (and possibly dangerous) means through a purpose-built course, as opposed to a chain of distinct but still connected events. Such courses are almost always hilariously convoluted paths that lead to the finish line, with no player input required. Awesome, but Impractical and Mundane Made Awesome are in full play here since many things they do are easily done by hand but they look damn cool! You can read more under Rube-Goldberg Machine on The Other Wiki.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Finn and Princess Bubblegum use one to wake up Earl Lemongrab and display a note to him which reads, "You really smell like dog buns." The James clones build a rather large one in "James II" as a trap for the Banana Guards. It topples under its own weight.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_12c1bf34	comment	Two of Disney's The Three Little Pigs shorts have Practical Pig build elaborate machines to punish The Big Bad Wolf. "Three Little Wolves" has a "wolf pacifier" that hits the Wolf with every item imaginable before tar and feathering him and launching him out of a cannon. In "The Practical Pig", it's a Lie Detector that upon detecting a lie restrains and either spanks the liar or washes his mouth out with soap... or both. At one point, it whacks them in the head while washing their butt. The lie detector bites Practical Pig in the ass at the end of the short — when the machine catches his brothers in a lie and starts spanking them, he tells them "This hurts me more than it hurts you". Cue the machine reaching for him as well.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_13610820	comment	One of the pages of I Spy: School Days has an elaborate Rube Goldberg puzzle to pop a balloon, which the photographer had built from scratch. The best part? It actually works.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_148f217e	comment	Nancy Drew's friend Bess has to build one in Legend of the Crystal Skull (Mystery #17). This is justified because the beyond-improbable setup keeps its victim enthralled long enough to catch him off-guard.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Kaede tells Shuichi that she loves these kinds of contraptions. Which is why when she attempted the first murder, she used one: she made a course to roll a shot put ball down by using a vent and arranging books on top of a bookshelf, followed by using a flash camera to lure the victim into the right spot for the shot put ball to drop on his head. Tsumugi also notices it and name-drops the Rube Goldberg connection. She's lying; she knows damn well that the device failed because she killed the victim by clobbering him on the head when his back was turned.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_18916544	comment	Fillmore! has a criminal use one of these as a full-size version of the Start the Symphony game (a parody of the aforementioned Mouse Trap game).
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_19328272	comment	Scorpion: In "Dominoes", the Scorpion team sets up an elaborate Rube Goldberg — initially triggered by falling dominoes — to dump artificial snow inside the garage to help Ralph celebrate Christmas.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_193f1efe	comment	On July 4, 2010, Google commemorated both Independence Day and Rube Goldberg's birthday by displaying a special logo on its homepage, in which a Goldberg-style contraption hoisted a U.S. flag and shot off a skyrocket. Watch it in action on YouTube.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_19d0dcbb	comment	The bizarre door puzzles in Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst and most of the other MCF are very much like this, to the point that Wikipedia makes the direct comparison between the two. The biggest difference is the player has to trigger each step: i.e., solving a puzzle placing NESW in correct order on a dial will open up a puzzle that requires the sides to be balanced, which lights a flame that opens another puzzle that requires sliding around blocks to make a picture, which opens another.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_19d740d8	comment	In The Great Mouse Detective, a Rube Goldberg Death Trap designed for one purpose has its operation deliberately interrupted at the climactic point, resulting in a new Goldberg/Robinson sequence which does the exact opposite using the same parts. Two for the price of one.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_1c5e0f05	comment	The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps: In the episode "Moving Target", Ronalsd, while possessed by one of the ghosts of Sherman's previous lives, constructs a device out of a slide, a tricycle, a bear trap, a piranha in a bowl, meat on a string, and other assorted things. Its aim is to kill Sherman, but the elephant character falls into it, and is then mad at Ronald for putting him through it.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_20ccbe32	comment	Mouse Trap (1963): Players assemble an absurd collection of parts that ultimately aim to drop a cage on a mouse. The preposterousness of this device is a huge part of the game's charm.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_21b21f35	comment	Todd from BoJack Horseman attempts to make one to catch the zombie clown dentists (Makes Just as Much Sense in Context), but this being Todd, it fails miserably.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2223d84d	comment	In the Bunk'd episode "Inn Trouble", while in quarantine, Ava and Destiny created one of these, however, while in the bathroom finding one more object to use, Gwen comes in to tell them they are free unintentionally triggering it. While Gwen was entertained watching it, Ava and Destiny were aghast at not being able to watch their work come to fruition.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_22cf7df9	comment	The automatic gate opener at Mikey's house in The Goonies is one of these.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Rosebud", Homer is in a dungeon at the plant, manually turning a massive gear around while a masked man whips him. Pan up past a complicated series of gears, and we find Lenny and Carl in the cafeteria... wondering what makes the dessert sampler rotate. In "The Cartridge Family", an out-of-control soccer riot leads Homer to build a Goldberg-like device involving a flashlight, a magnifying glass, an alarm clock, and a fish, for the apparent purpose of alerting them when someone tries to open their front door. Since he and Marge were watching the door to see if the device would work, it's kind of pointless. Then someone steals the fish.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_272985e9	comment	Inspector Gadget 2: The opening credits take place in a gigantic machine which creates the letters of the title.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_27b0262b	comment	The MythBusters occasionally built these for special challenges. The earliest was likely in their Christmas special. Then there was the myth about buttered toast always landing butter-side-down...
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2ad4ca99	comment	The music video for X-Press 2 and David Byrne's "Lazy"note specifically the original 2002 version, not the Grown Backwards re-recording features a man who stays on the couch all day, doing things like combing hair, getting food, and doing chores via many of these (ironically, it's implied that he built all of it himself). Eventually, the machine designed to give him his breakfast short-circuits after spilling coffee on itself, forcing the man to settle for a dirty, half-eaten Snickers bar that he finds on the floor.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: Spencer builds one so that he won't forget to feed his fish. It works until Carly tells him that he has to remember to reset the machine every day, thus rendering the device pointless.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Several Looney Tunes shorts make use of this trope, usually accompanied by a version of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" music. In "Tweetie Pie", Sylvester builds an elaborate device to lure Tweety out of his cage so a bowling ball will fall on him. Everything works perfectly, until the bowling ball somehow falls on Sylvester instead. All Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons. All of them. Of course, they (nearly) all backfire. Acme Products must have outsourced all their manufacturing to the lowest bidder. In a cartoon with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, Ralph has one wired to his alarm clock which grooms him and makes him breakfast.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2e2efbf9	comment	The opening sequence to the original movie had such a device to prepare Doc's coffee and open a can of dog food for Einstein, Doc Brown's dog.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2e6e838	comment	In Yogi Bear, as originally seen on Season 2 of Huckleberry Hound, in the 1959 episode "Lullaby-Bye Bear", the final scene uses a Rube Goldeberg, at Yogi's hands, to wake him up. It's to keep him from hibernating as he wishes.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_2f73c3e4	comment	In a cartoon with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, Ralph has one wired to his alarm clock which grooms him and makes him breakfast.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_316ce2ea	comment	If any character in The Beano or The Dandy invents a machine, it will invariably be made out of bits of 2x4 sloppily nailed together, knotted together bits of string, old bicycle wheels and anything else that was lying around in the shed. A Wellington boot on a stick is often part of the design, regardless of the machine's intended function.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_34db97ab	comment	Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge is about a gang of rats who build elaborate death traps to exact gruesome revenge on their cat oppressors.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_36bf8f18	comment	A Close Shave: Applies to when Wallace gets ready to wash someone's windows. Wallace goes through a Thunderbirds-esque sequence of going down slides and having machines put his helmet on and sitting him on his bike, and then has Gromit just walking through a door next to the bike and climbing into the sidecar. Wallace then uses a mechanical foot to start his bike for him, which involves moving his OWN foot out of the way.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_3a12538a	comment	Now You See Me 2: Lula sets one up in Atlas' apartment that, once triggered, ends with her apparent decapitation. This is an Establishing Character Moment that sets her up as a prop magician with a wicked sense of humour.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_3a1a3db8	comment	In The Last Leprechaun, Finn uses one to wake him up and make breakfast.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_3a534a2	comment	An episode of the Hulu original series Deadbeat, "Ghost in the Machine", features the ghost of Rube Goldberg himself trying to set up one of these on a metaphysical level. Once set into motion, it triggered a series of events that resulted in Goldberg's long-lost descendants finally meeting each other.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_3ac755dd	comment	The various inventions that Maurice constructs in Beauty and the Beast. They actually do what he wants them to do, but some of them (e.g., the wood-chopping contraption) are rather overly convoluted. The log chopper borders on Not an Example, since from a technical standpoint it does work like a traditional invention: chopping wood into logs by hand is a very labor-intensive and time-consuming job. And since the movie is apparently set in an unspecified time when sawmills don't exist, any machine capable of speeding the process up considerably is a technological improvement.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_3e5afb68	comment	The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: There's a sequelce that involves a mechanical hand cranking the van for them. He probably had to modify the van to use a hand-crank instead of an ignition key to begin with.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_3e5f3f53	comment	Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers has one of these featured in "Cooking with Bowser and Mario 2!", all just to get a Yoshi egg from a pack of Yoshis sitting at a table for use in an omelet (here called "Yoshi Omelette").
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: One short, "Wakko's Gizmo", centers entirely around perhaps the most complex example of this kind of device. Its purpose: to set off a Whoopee Cushion. Another short includes a Rube Goldberg machine which is powered by a man in a shed named Rube Goldberg.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: One skit has Oscar the Grouch creating such a device for opening his trash can lid. An animated short also displays the alphabet using one of these. Kermit the Frog demonstrated one in the early days, but none of the components of the machine worked.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_4737c653	comment	Elementary's title sequence follows one whose end result is to drop a cage on a figurine. It's probably meant as a metaphor for how Sherlock Holmes ties together seemingly meaningless scraps of information to catch criminals. Also, it's modeled on the device from The Great Mouse Detective.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_498b77e9	comment	In Skin Horse, the Dane sets up a remarkable death trap out of office cafeteria supplies, and then rigs it to turn on with the fall of a chain of dominoes, because when you're a genocidal evil genius, you have to take pleasure in the little things.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_4d30cecb	comment	All Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons. All of them. Of course, they (nearly) all backfire. Acme Products must have outsourced all their manufacturing to the lowest bidder.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_4da4f10d	comment	Work It Out Wombats!: The theme song demonstrates the characters creating a Rube Goldberg machine to unveil the show's logo.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_4dd3bd93	comment	At the very end of Waiting..., it turns out that the seemingly random items adorning a wall of the restaurant comprise one of these. (The director merely wanted it to look like it might work, going for the "random crap" look the restaurant was based on; it was the set designers who went out of their way to make sure the thing actually worked.)
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_4df757b9	comment	Joseph Herscher: turning the page of a newspaper LIKE A BOSS.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_4f430a54	comment	In Mickey One, the Artist creates an elaborate machine called Yes that seems to be made mostly from bicycle parts. It plays a piano and cymbals, displays the word "Yes" in different languages, rotates toy cars and cubes of tin foil on conveyor belts to make it look like the cars are being crushed, spins fireworks around, and eventually sets itself on fire. Then the fire department puts it out, to the dismay of both the Artist and his audience.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: Sunspot and Sean design and build one in "Sean Has a Cold" in order to entertain Sean while he's sick.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_50d3a336	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) opens with one of these made by Doctor Robotnik to prepare a kind of coffee made from the endless mushrooms that surround him, to little success. The machine is made from Bamboo Technology and contains various visual gags within, most notably a miniature Sonic that gets crushed by a large rock with Eggman's logo on it.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_5144055f	comment	Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge had LeChuck capturing Guybrush and putting him in one of these, whose ultimate goal was to lower him into a pit of acid. There's no actual reason for it, as opposed to just dropping him into the pit, other than to give Guybrush a chance to escape.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_5320ab5e	comment	In the Columbo episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case", the murderer uses a Rube Goldberg Device to create a loud bang - not to cover the sound of the fatal gunshot, but to make it sound like there were two gunshots instead of one. When Colombo demonstrates an incorrect replica of the device, the murderer corrects it at the last second, incriminating himself and leading to his arrest.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon", the title character has been maintaining a contraption built from odds and ends such as dolls' heads, bicycle spokes, baseball cards, paper clips and broken instruments for eleven years. He regularly rummages through trash cans and dumps to find things that he desperately needs for it. Both his niece Cynthia and his landlady Mrs. Milligan are concerned by his behavior and ask the psychiatrist Dr. Jeremy Sinclair to look in on him. Edgar explains to Dr. Sinclair that a strange voice told him that the contraption was necessary in order to keep the world from going puff. Sinclair initially does not believe Edgar, thinking that he is suffering from a psychosis, but eventually realizes that it is all true when Tatoa, a tiny island in the South Pacific, is destroyed exactly as Edgar said it would be. After Edgar is relieved of his duty, it falls to Sinclair to keep the world in balance.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_600454b2	comment	Always Visible: D.O.O.R. is a supercomputer into which scientists downloaded a lot of information just so that it could simulate a virtual personality inside itself. There is no benefit from this.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_60f02ddb	comment	In American Dad!, Roger is planning a steak dinner for Francine and Stan, and wants to get an expensive bottle of wine, which isn't made anymore. They show a montage of one, then the power goes out. Roger's intent is to wait for Greg and Terry (who have the last bottle) to notice and steal the bottle. Francine is annoyed and simply takes it from the two. Roger's plan wasn't finished; Francine grabs a cord and gets cannonballed out. Roger wanted both of the steaks.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_612daf90	comment	Pat and Mat seem to have a variant of Complexity Addiction, as they never just transport things normally — they build the most complex Rube Goldberg device they can instead, and it always fails. Hilariously. Then again, to put a jack under a car, these two dig a hole in the road, so...
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_626731f6	comment	This is basically what R.O.B. the Robotic Operating Buddy is. To move a column in Gyromite, you have to get it to pick up a gyro, place it in the spinner, and then lower the spinning gyro onto a lever to push a button on the second controller. This could be much more quickly and easily accomplished by simply pressing the button yourself.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: In "The Book of Mammoths," Travis builds a Rube Goldberg machine to bait mammoths, who he thinks are still alive. It didn't end well.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_658f7bd	comment	In Edward Scissorhands, there is a highly stylized contraption used to prepare and bake cookies by the Inventor early in the film.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_68fdbad	comment	Modern Times: In the eating machine scene, a device that makes people eat without using their hands is tested on the Tramp. Due to a malfunction, it ends up rubbing a corn in the Tramp's face and pouring soup on his shirt, among other things.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files has an episode titled "The Goldberg Variation" involving an extremely lucky man. Any attempt on his life is foiled by absolutely ridiculous coincidences, usually caused by Goldberg/Robinson sequences. He also constructs Goldberg-type devices just for fun.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Nearly everything ever made by tinker gnomes, from the Dragon Lance setting (and spread in the Spelljammer 'verse). Justified in that they are a divinely created species cursed with Science-Related Memetic Disorder, which outright compels them to go about creating devices in the most ridiculously complicated and unlikely manners possible, to the point they are the number one cause of Fantasy Gun Control in-setting.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6bf2d08	comment	Super Mario Maker, and before that several ROM hacks of Mario games, feature "auto Mario" levels. The player has to release the controls and let the level move Mario forward through the use of bouncing blocks, conveyor belts and other contraptions. These levels are usually used to play music.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6c1234ed	comment	Part of the fun of Dwarf Fortress is building these. The community calls them Stupid Dwarf Tricks and has devoted a page of their Wiki to them.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6c1d09b3	comment	There's the Gold Ribbon Grocers in Fallout 3, where an entire Rube Goldberg Device has been set up as an Easter Egg. Upon entering, painted arrows on the floor lead you to a pressure plate to deliberately set off so you can watch it go off (it includes a domino effect using a row of boxes of detergent and several small explosions) and get several goodies when it's finished.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6c1d09b4	comment	The Contraptions Workshop DLC of Fallout 4 allows you to build your own Rube Goldberg devices.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_6f64ed2f	comment	At the start of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, the title character is shown in his arctic Fortress of Solitude laboring on inventions that (the Narrator declares) may one day be useful to Mankind! After gazing at the stars through a telescope, Doc appears to be building a Retro Rocket to take him there, but it turns out to be a tiny rocket he uses for ice fishing that launches into the air when a fish takes the bait, pulling the fish out of the water while simultaneously ringing a bell to let Doc know dinner's ready.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_73b2c1eb	comment	In "Tweetie Pie", Sylvester builds an elaborate device to lure Tweety out of his cage so a bowling ball will fall on him. Everything works perfectly, until the bowling ball somehow falls on Sylvester instead.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_755b343f	comment	In the Halo series's Forge Mode, it is a common pastime to build an elaborate suicide deathtrap that can be triggered by tossing a grenade into a mancannon or just pushing a box sideways, just for fun.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_76af8266	comment	Ned's Newt: Ned and Newton do a short one at the start of "Jurassic Joyride". Basically, it involves a vehicle on a racetrack, which takes a pair of scissors with it. The vehicle then reaches a rope that the scissors cut, causing a toy dog tied to a balloon to start floating. The balloon then gets popped by a drawing pin, making the dog fall and trigger its parachute, but not before finally landing on a bucket of water.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_78d932ca	comment	Ernest's house in Ernest Goes to Jail is full of these types of machines. They're all even synchronized to Ernest's walking speed.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_7ac0e0b0	comment	In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, you can help Rex build one the second time you help him build something. He creates a system of pulleys and ramps to bring some cookies straight to his hammock from a distance.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_7bdcc46e	comment	Diego from Because I'm Depressed designs one in order to elaborately end his life.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_7c038c18	comment	Subverted in the Phineas and Ferb episode "I, Brobot". After Phineas explains his plans to build robot versions of himself and Ferb, you see a ridiculous contraption, which includes a tuba, a plunger, and a banana peel. When Phineas and Ferb activate the robot building device, they turn away from the ridiculous contraption towards a simple box which the robots walk out of.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies. Graeme Garden, being the resident Mad Scientist of the trio, often comes up with these. For instance in "Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms", he comes up with an elaborate device to pour Cornish cream into containers, that's powered by Graeme relaxing in a rocking chair while Bill and Tim do all the hard work.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_7e2d78bf	comment	The Wrong Trousers: There is a device that drops a person out of bed, dresses them, shoots a bit of jam that collides with a toast and then lands the toast on the plate. Later, Gromit drops from the bed, but he faces the wrong way, the clothes are put on backwards, and when the drop of jam shoots out, there's no toast to intercept it, so it lands on his face.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: There's the Gold Ribbon Grocers in Fallout 3, where an entire Rube Goldberg Device has been set up as an Easter Egg. Upon entering, painted arrows on the floor lead you to a pressure plate to deliberately set off so you can watch it go off (it includes a domino effect using a row of boxes of detergent and several small explosions) and get several goodies when it's finished. The Contraptions Workshop DLC of Fallout 4 allows you to build your own Rube Goldberg devices.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_810d4160	comment	In an issue of Exiles, the titular team's mission is to buy a danish. Buying said danish leads to a sequence of events that thwarts an alien invasion.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_81e7f2fa	comment	In Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Jake and the others raise the Team Treasure Chest from a vault under the sand via use of a Rube Goldberg Device.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_83443877	comment	Not set up or planned by any of the characters,note unless you take the viewpoint that God counts, the text is ambiguous on this point but the sequence of events which lead up to the final resolution of Adam Felber's comic novel Schroedinger's Ball fits the trope perfectly. The book even comes with a helpful diagram. One could argue this results in a Necro Non Sequitur. However, the only one who actually died was dead anyway, only nobody had observed that he was dead, so the possibility of him being alive existed until somebody actually looked in the basement... which just happened to be the exact same time the truck hit him. It Makes Sense in Context, really — at least as much as anything does.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_87d16626	comment	Pirate101 has a quest involving one of these. You get an anchor and a cannon both hanging from opposite ends of a rope stretched between two pullies in a shipwreck's rigging. You then go to the top of a nearby cliff and orient a telescope in just the right way so that the sunlight burns the rope near the anchor's end of the rigging, causing them both to fall. The burning end of the rope snakes out of the pully and swings down to light the fuse of the cannon, blasting open a gate in the side of the cliff you're standing on. It doesn't have quite as many steps as most other examples, but it's impressive because the whole thing was designed years before you performed the final steps.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_8a0f6e8a	comment	Donkey Kong 64: Whenever a Kong gives Snide a blueprint, the latter character activates a sequence of contraptions, with each one triggering the next, that eventually drops a Golden Banana for the Kong to collect; the assets vary depending on the world. Snide was the one who designed the structure of K. Rool's Blast-O-Matic and also knows how to delay its activation during the final level, so it's not surprising.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_8bd02a57	comment	Ghost Trick: Puzzles are often solved by tweaking seemingly unrelated objects until they react to each other and set each other off in just the right way. A more traditional application is the murder machine in the junkyard basement, which was based on the one Kamila built for her mother that 'accidentally' killed her. It was only supposed to light the candles on her birthday cake. However, the Big Bad used his powers to make it so it killed her out of revenge. One of the side characters spent years finding out how the 'murder' happened and concluded that it shouldn't have.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_8d87d97a	comment	The kids in the second and third seasons of the 1999 revival of Zoom try to build their own Rube Goldberg machines; in the second season, they build a device which ssqueezes toothpaste onto a toothbrush, and in the third season, they build a device which pours a glass of milk. The kids who built the milk-pouring device later reported that it took them all summer (i.e., the entire taping season!) to do so. Both seasons also feature home video submissions of kids who made Rube Goldberg devices of their own.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_8db76a9b	comment	Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse: Freddi plans to build an elaborate contraption in order to capture the ghost stealing all the toys. The purpose of the trap is to drop a chandelier on the ghost, which involves a bunch of unnecessary moving parts (such as a bowling ball launching a helmet via a seesaw) for what is effectively a simple snare. Most of the game involves Freddi and Luther needing to collect all of the missing components needed to finish the contraption.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_8f4ee60f	comment	Back to the Future: The opening sequence to the original movie had such a device to prepare Doc's coffee and open a can of dog food for Einstein, Doc Brown's dog. The ice-making machine Doc made in the Wild West in Back to the Future Part III. Its status as a Rube Goldberg Device is primarily due to the fact that Doc was constrained to 1885 technology. Later on in the movie, there's a downplayed breakfast machine which fries two eggs and some bacon.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: While in a game cube in "Life's a Glitch", a Rube Goldberg Device is constructed out of objects within the kitchen, designed to defeat Rocky the Rodent. The contraption's final move ends up opening a cupboard door hard enough to send Rocky flying through the doggy door and back outside, taking a life in the process.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_9139221c	comment	In The City of Lost Children, this happens most notably in an elaborate sequence in which a single tear drop causes a chain reaction of events happening all around the city, ultimately leading to a barge crashing into a dock. Jean-Pierre Jeunet even mentions Rube Goldberg by name in the DVD's commentary track.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_918c5a7e	comment	Evil Genius allows you to create chains of traps that trigger one another. The more traps an enemy agent triggers in rapid succession, the more bonus cash you are awarded. A single trap triggering does not offer any reward (other than dealing with that pesky, pesky agent).
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_9199db2f	comment	In the Wild Kratts episode "Platypus Cafe", Chris rigs a Rube Goldberg booby trap in Gourmand's kitchen.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_93683e89	comment	In Not the Nine O'Clock News, the sequence starts with Rowan Atkinson as a bored policeman turning a handle. The camera follows the linkage from the handle, until it ends up at the rotating "New Scotland Yard" sign.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_9495e492	comment	In the first season of Taskmaster Australia, Nina Oyama tries to make a Rube Goldberg machine for "do the most incredible once-in-a-lifetime thing that you've never done before and will never do again", but it fails miserably. When she tries to explain what it was "somehow" supposed to do, the Taskmaster snarks that Rube Goldberg never used the word "somehow" when describing how his machines work.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_94a444e6	comment	The Kobold Quest hack for Goblin Quest involves the players constructing an elaborate machine from whatever they can hastily find to complete whatever task the Great Dragon King assigns them, and then hoping each component works as intended using a sequence of consecutive dice rolls.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_95a46db4	comment	Doctor Slump: In a special two-part chapter, Sembei builds an especially ridiculous one (to the point that it involves the Sun sweating) to get a Panty Shot of Ms. Yamabuki just because Arale told him that she was wearing strawberry panties. The machine works perfectly, but the plan fails, of course.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_96bfb5e3	comment	For Pencilmation, Pencilmate and Pencilmiss create a little something called the Trap-your-average-number-two-pencil-kiss-your-butt-goodbye-murder mystery-dumbest idea ever machine!
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_9799ebfe	comment	The ice-making machine Doc made in the Wild West in Back to the Future Part III. Its status as a Rube Goldberg Device is primarily due to the fact that Doc was constrained to 1885 technology. Later on in the movie, there's a downplayed breakfast machine which fries two eggs and some bacon.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_98744614	comment	Brave: The witch uses such a contraption to activate her Magic Cauldron the second time Merida visits her hut. She's not present to do it herself, after all.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_9ab8eee9	comment	Widget from Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is often prone to this, except they are more of machine form. In the season one Easter Special "Eggs Over Easy," she finds the process of decorating eggs to be complicated, so she ends up building a machine that decorates eggs. And then there is the invention that cleans Walden's glasses and an un-named invention that holds up a picture frame.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_9e7ed97a	comment	The deaths in Dead Like Me were frequently caused by things like this. The Movie starts with a textbook example. Naturally, it's a suicide machine. The man was an engineer, and is more pleased that it worked than anything else.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_a0ae470	comment	In Toy Story 3, when the toys try to escape from the Caterpillar room, they employ a complicated sequence of events to get Buzz up on the transom.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In "The Duh-Vinci Code", the devices in Da Vinci's workshop are arranged so they could form a spaceship when the right lever is pulled. Parodied in "The Tip of the Zoidberg" with the Murdolator. About halfway through, it gets damaged and the whole thing falls apart catastrophically. Bender calls for a reset.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_a5d64c3b	comment	In the Final Destination series of films, a number of characters escape Death's original design due to a premonition. In an attempt to restore order, they are killed one by one by a series of seemingly unrelated events in this fashion, with some sort of malfunction leading to another and so forth.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo: It doesn't matter what version it is, it is a guarantee that a Robinson Goldberg Contraption is going to show up at least Once per Episode, and quite a few times in each movie. Unfortunately, they seldom work as planned. For example, in one incarnation, Fred's overly complicated plan successfully traps himself and the gang, leaving the monster standing there.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_a9c54c8d	comment	In the Motu Patlu episode "Tuition Teacher", Motu, who has decided to come with Patlu to get Bunty and Pinky to pay attention to their schoolwork, notices a sign on the bell on the teacher's desk saying not to press it. Motu presses it to see what it does, and it sets of a complicated Rube Goldberg device set up by Bunty and Pinky. The Rube Goldberg device culminates in Motu and Patlu being covered in flour.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_aa0c474	comment	In Violine, the mansion has one at the front door which washes and clothes anyone who comes in, due to its germophobic inhabitant.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_ab863e74	comment	In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the Dwarves use one where the end result is dipping Smaug in molten gold. Unfortunately, this doesn't faze the dragon and only pisses him off even more.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_b61bbe0a	comment	In Modern Family, Luke and Manny prepared one to get even with Lily (whom they were jealous of for everyone else thinking she was so cute), triggered by picking up a cookie to make a mess in the kitchen. Cameron takes the cookie instead and ends up slipping on spilt milk and breaking his back.note In reality, he was only pretending to have a broken back so that he can search for a Tupperware mold he claimed Claire never returned.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_b6c4ee04	comment	Tamagotchi: The Movie shows that Mametchi has one in his bedroom. It activates a platform next to the house, acting as an elevator to his bedroom from the outside.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_b7e0a235	comment	The Mind's Eye: In The Gate to the Mind's Eye, one such device exists in the confines of a simple-looking box. A folded piece of paper placed in a slot triggers a number of devices that eventually produces an "IOU" card through the second slot.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_b8b584cf	comment	A Zits Sunday strip has a device for getting teens out of beds that starts with the sun focusing through a pair of spectacles on the windowsill and ends with Jeremy getting hit in the face by his phone. One of the intermediate steps involves a squirrel nibbling stale pizza.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_b94ae31e	comment	Wallace's devices in Wallace & Gromit (especially the whole system for arranging breakfast). Justified, sorta, in that Wallace is an inventor by trade. The Wrong Trousers: There is a device that drops a person out of bed, dresses them, shoots a bit of jam that collides with a toast and then lands the toast on the plate. Later, Gromit drops from the bed, but he faces the wrong way, the clothes are put on backwards, and when the drop of jam shoots out, there's no toast to intercept it, so it lands on his face. A Close Shave: Applies to when Wallace gets ready to wash someone's windows. Wallace goes through a Thunderbirds-esque sequence of going down slides and having machines put his helmet on and sitting him on his bike, and then has Gromit just walking through a door next to the bike and climbing into the sidecar. Wallace then uses a mechanical foot to start his bike for him, which involves moving his OWN foot out of the way. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: There's a sequelce that involves a mechanical hand cranking the van for them. He probably had to modify the van to use a hand-crank instead of an ignition key to begin with.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_bacb3abc	comment	One such contraption is seen at work at the beginning of The Rock. The characters don't pretend it's anything but a way to fight boredom.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_bcf04dc4	comment	In order to get a Babel fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), you have to set up a completely absurd series of events that will ultimately cause the fish to land right in your ear.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_bf75e9ab	comment	Witches' Legacy 8: Dark Days to Come has one which starts with a toy train pushing a metal ball onto a scale and ends with lightning-sparked chemistry equipment creating the letter "A" you need for a certain hot spot.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_c00be9e4	comment	The Incredible Machine: This computer game series has its gameplay based on this trope, as what you need to do in each level is complete one of these. The Incredible Toon Machine is much the same, only with cartoon cats and mice killing each other for laughs. A Spiritual Successor, Crazy Machines, was released, which seems to use roughly the same concept with more of an emphasis on not only physics, but also element-based reactions.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_c19c6efa	comment	While Minecraft's physics do not seem to allow the construction of many mechanical devices, this video will show you how it's done.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Parts of the TARDIS herself can be considered to approach this trope, considering the absurd materials and work-arounds used to try keeping her together and almost fully functional. In "Human Nature", John Smith (the Doctor in human form) saves a baby from a falling piano by improvising such a contraption in a few seconds. It's a pretty good sign the Time Lord is still in there somewhere.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_ccd1ec22	comment	The climax of The Thief and the Cobbler includes an impossible Rube Goldberg device-like sequence resulting in the destruction of a highly advanced war machine. The sequence is started by the Cobbler of the story shooting a tack at the main villain and missing. What really kills the machine, however, is the giant vats of molten lava that are tipped over by the Rube Goldberg sequence, setting the machine on fire.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_d2ef54a3	comment	In Dumbing of Age, Carla constructs one that spells her name out in lasers, as well as a box that slams a pie into Mary's face. Why did she do that? Because there's nothing that pisses Mary off more than the fact that a trans woman like Carla exists.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_d5c716b4	comment	Trapt gives you large bonuses for setting up traps in such a way that a victim will fall into several in quick succession before getting flung into one of the mansion's in-built hazards.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_d62bc996	comment	In the Tom and Jerry cartoon "Designs on Jerry", there's an entire blueprint worth of this — and the blueprint Jerry asking for the real Jerry's help to rewrite the trap so it gets Tom instead.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_dad248df	comment	Invoked by Johny in two Siblings episodes. "Don't Wake Robby!": "Don't Sleep, Robby!":
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_dd9666b9	comment	How Fig travels from the upper decks to the lower in his wrecked ship house in Tumble Leaf. It involves a shower, a slide, and a bag of bananas.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_df491a0c	comment	A few levels in Angry Birds have Goldbergian layouts, especially the Golden Egg levels — fling a bird at a pebble or TNT pack and watch as it sets off a chain reaction of flying stones and TNT explosions.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_e356cbe8	comment	Shoot 'Em Up: In order to get into the Abandoned Warehouse he's using as a home, Smith takes a rat out of a cage, removes a brick from the wall and pushes the rat inside. The rat runs down a tunnel into a wire basket on a pulley which drops from the rat's weight, pushing down a latch to open the door.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_e5d7af26	comment	The PC adaptation of I Spy School Days features a mini-game involving the balloon popper from the book the game is based on. There are three different tracks the ball can go down, but you need to find the correct pieces and put them in the correct places in order for the balloon to pop. Track One simply has you find the train or grocery cart hidden in the same screen, while Tracks Two and Three require you to find pieces from the riddle sections of the game.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_ea4f62db	comment	In the Family Guy episode "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Peter orders a breakfast-making machine that works just like this in a parody of the breakfast machine from Pee-wee's Big Adventure, complete with a Suspiciously Similar Song. After going through the sequence, all it does it shoot him, causing Peter to wonder what the point of it all was.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_ec27847f	comment	The title sequence for I Spy features Spyler operating the balloon popper from School Days as he sings the theme song. The show's title appears when the balloon pops.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_ece42231	comment	Filmation's Ghostbusters includes one of these as part of the Transformation Sequence.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_f3f68a7b	comment	Garry's Mod users are fond of constructing these, usually relying on little more than Source's physics engine, spawned props, some ropes, and high explosives.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_f41cfa9b	comment	Enola Holmes 2: There's a recurring flashback to Eudoria and a young Enola putting together a complicated machine with many steps that simply ends up cracking an egg. It fits with the story's theme of small, random things affecting change. In the climax, Enola remembers it while looking at the pulleys on the ceiling of the Paragon Theatre, and it lets her defeat Grail.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_f7f25782	comment	Pee-Wee Herman uses one of these in Pee-wee's Big Adventure to prepare his breakfast. Ironically, the only part he actually eats is cereal, which he pours himself.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_fa3ca713	comment	Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey: The gadget Odysseus set up to keep his bow away from intruders is very complicated. Working out how to deactivate it serves as the penultimate puzzle of the game.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_fc0e7530	comment	One episode of Dexter's Laboratory begins with Dexter trying to create "free energy" with his highest-of-high-tech new invention. It fails. The plot quickly shifts to an unwanted visit to his grandfather's house... where the old man succeeds in creating free energy with one of these.
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Rube Goldberg Device / int_fe16b92c	comment	Happy Heroes: In Season 2 episode 1, Big M. makes a device to shoot meatballs at some guard dogs as a distraction. How does it work? Big M. scares a squirrel, which runs in fear and bumps into a hammer that knocks over a bunch of balls. The balls are dispensed onto a wheel which dumps them onto a little cardboard platform which, when weighed down, push a button that causes a robotic arm to appear and, finally, flick a meatball at the dogs.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dragons Forever / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Edward Scissorhands / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Enola Holmes 2 / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Flubber / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Hatari! / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Lucy / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Modern Times / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Murder by Death / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Now You See Me 2 / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Pee-wee's Big Adventure / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Pee-wee's Big Holiday / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Radio Flyer / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Shoot 'Em Up / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Sorcerer / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Addams Family / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Goonies / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Little Rascals / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Smurfs / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Tom & Jerry (2021) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Waiting... / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Waterworld / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Witness / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wonka / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Bart Simpson's Guide to Life / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dragonlance / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Fer-de-lance / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
I Spy / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Serge Storms / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Garden of Sinners / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Train Man (2004) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Machinima) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
MAD (Magazine) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
MAD (Magazine) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
PythagoraSwitch	seeAlso	Rube Goldberg Device
RubeGoldbergDEvice	sameAs	Rube Goldberg Device
TrueArtIsComplex	seeAlso	Rube Goldberg Device
Chinpui (Manga) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Sabagebu! (Manga) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (Manga) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
David Byrne (Music) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Bleak Expectations (Radio) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Class Trials Side Trials (Roleplay) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
MSF High Forum (Roleplay) / int_53ec6079	type	Rube Goldberg Device
'Allo 'Allo! / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Beakman's World / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Bunk'd / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Deadbeat 2014 / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Harry Hill's TV Burp / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Hell's Kitchen / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
McGee and Me! / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Modern Family / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
MythBusters / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Mythic Quest / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Play School / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Scorpion / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Red Green Show / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Zoom / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Goblin Quest (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Mouse Trap (1963) (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Spelljammer (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The SpongeBob Musical (Theatre) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
CrazyMachines	seeAlso	Rube Goldberg Device
Deception (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Disney's Animated Storybook (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Donkey Kong 64 (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Freddi Fish (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Gotham Knights (2022) (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Grammar Games (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Heart of Darkness (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Mystery Case Files (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Popeye (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Samorost (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Room (Mobile Game) (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Smelly Mystery (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Video Game) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Siblings (Web Animation) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Web Animation) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
CraftedMovie (Web Video) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Drawga (Web Video) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Joseph's Machines (Web Video) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
SipsCo. Dirt Factory (Web Video) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
3kliksphilip (Web Video) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
You Suck at Cooking (Web Video) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Problem Sleuth (Webcomic) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Betty Boop for President / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Brave / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Curious George / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Fillmore! / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Foghorn Leghorn / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Goof Troop / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
I Spy / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Jake and the Never Land Pirates / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Johnny Test / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Jungledyret Hugo / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Martha Speaks / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Mr. Magoo / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
ReBoot / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Robots / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Sing / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Sonic Boom / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Dick Tracy Show / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Garfield Show / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Great Mouse Detective / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Mind's Eye / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Mr. Men Show / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Three Little Pigs / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Wombles / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Tigtone / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Toy Story 3 / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Tweetie Pie / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wallace & Gromit / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wild Kratts / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device

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