How to crack open an apple with your bare hands like Paul Rudd (video)

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/09/how-to-crack-open-an-apple-with-your-bare-hands-like-paul-rudd-video.html

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I didn’t know Paul Rudd could do it. I learned the trick from WILTY legend Bob Mortimer.

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Sampson asks, is this supposed to impress dates?

Delilah says no, maybe…

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Well a date is fruit, right? I’d think it would be more likely to scare the date.

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I had some of THE best dates in Doha recently. OMG candy from heaven.

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But could you break them in half with your bare hands?

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Hmmm no, sticky, squishy, snd sweet fingers was the result.

Better with apples.

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I do it to impress the fellas.

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Said Eve with an evil laugh.

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Though it’s entirely possible Bob was bluffing the entire time, and didn’t know he could do it until he was put on the spot.

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Ah, the video won’t play for me, but I suspect they’re promoting “Living with Yourself.” I loved that show, and was almost as bummed when it got dumped as I was when the V reboot was canned. That was back when we were starting to see how cut-throat streaming shows were going to be.

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This the thumbs in the stem part and twist method? Has worked for me.

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I was hoping it was one a these.

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I’ve always been fond of Chase Hilt doing it

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For those not familiar with WILTY? you are about to have a wonderful discovery - Bob Mortimer is the absolute apogee of making any story sound implausible; but put Lee Mack on the spot with an impossible story - and magic happens:

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Watch Bob (very first post above). Absolutely no twisting! Gripping only. “Gripping is ripping.”

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Nobody does telephone books anymore. Wimps.

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You just turned a key that unlocked a flood of memories of the Power Team ripping phone books in half to…prove Jesus was real somehow?

  • steroid dudes tear phone book or break bricks
  • Jesus is real
  • profit???

They’d have destroyed a bunch of lame little apples!

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Because of this thread, I cracked my apple in half today. Thanks, thread!

I did have to put my thumbs in the top to get it started, though. I’ll work on that.

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This is a neat trick. I’d like a video on how to be declared Sexiest Man Alive like Paul Rudd next, please!

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