One of life’s biggest entertainments is watching other people’s failures live. No edited footage, just unadulterated fails as it is happening.
Even more entertaining when the one failing is a large corporation, or in this case Astro, a Malaysian television network, promoting unbreakable plates (looks Corelle branded) on their home shopping network Go Shop.
Wait, home shopping networks still exist?
Astro TV Host: This is an unbreakable plate!
Me: K
Astro TV Host: *Proceeds to attempt to break plate*
Plate breaks.
Me:
The original tweet, having gained 610k views, 28k retweets and 12k likes since posted on 19 June (YouTube mirror):
https://twitter.com/DrHasif/status/1141530237307457536
After the shatter fest, the co-host and host said the plate probably broke because it “had been thrown many times”.
In case you know nothing about Corelle plates: these actually last a super long time and are quite shatter resistant if you don’t try to break them deliberately.
I mean, duh, if Corelle was shatterproof, Captain America’s shield wouldn’t be made of Vibranium. It would be made of Corelle. I present to you the greatest beacon of American hope, fueled by capitalism:
But when they break, they don’t just shatter. They explode into billions of pieces and are a general bitch to clean up.
Twitter noticed Co-host using hands for cover
But it would appear the co-host seemed to have seen this coming, as a twitter user has pointed out:
Dia macam dah tau je apa akan terjadi pic.twitter.com/ND533fat30
— sm (@SYAM1L) June 20, 2019
“She looks like she knew what will happen”
Some others noted that for Corelle to not shatter, it has to be a specific angle:
Pinggan korel ni klo xnak pecah bila jatuh angle dia kena flat. Klo bucu dia kene lantai dulu mmg pecah
— Tine (@tineraksarawat) June 20, 2019
“If you don’t want these Corelle plates to shatter the angle has to be flat. If the corner hits the floor first then it’ll definitely shatter”
Which, I want to point out should be a concern for the designers when engineering a shatter resistant plate, but ok.
Photoshop battle in the tweets
Some took it as a chance to show off their video editing skills, like this one showing a repeated drop of the plates:
https://twitter.com/saifuddinbahri/status/1141657191503392769
And this one suggesting an edit showing “Directed by Robert B. Weide” (which you can find the explanation for the meme here):
https://twitter.com/aimanrossaidi/status/1141588814852288512
Several Robert B. Weide Edits:
https://twitter.com/lanxhou/status/1141593199804211200
— lan. (@Landibulan) June 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/no_goth/status/1141623591454167040
This isn’t the first time failure has happened live on television, as shown by another tweet:
same energy hshdhdhd pic.twitter.com/hkL4sOXKe0
— Teha Kamaruddin (@fkadeya) June 20, 2019
That time, the pressure cooker actually exploded for real.
