Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/06/pee-wees-big-adventure-isn.html
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And I think I’ve seen a lot of software apps based on that.
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Cracking Toast, Gromit!
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My favorite of these breakfast machines, and favorite of the Wallace and Gromit series. Nice!
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I would have thought the Back to the Future one would have been the “best known” in pop culture. I guess it’s a generational thing. I’ve never seen anything with Pee-Wee Herman (other than the voice of Captain Rex in the original version of the Star Tours ride).
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Rowland Emmett designed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, all fo Caracatus Potts’s inventions, and this amazing thing
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The first thing I thought of. Glad someone thought to mention it!
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This one includes a few missed by the OP, particularly Brazil’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it breakfast machine. It seems like usually these are a subset of a broader genre of “morning get ready” device.
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You have missed Snub Pollard in “It’s a gift” (1923):
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Not a movie (yet, but I can hope): The Venture’s “electric butler” of The Witches of Karres.
… which was often on the fritz and occasionally delivered breakfast, hot, to the control room floor.
Came specifically to note that this classic had been omitted - left satisfied.
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it’s the wrong trousers, Gromit – and they’ve GONE WRONG!!
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Not a machine per se, but definitely in the same ballpark, and definitely funny!
The master at table:
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Was just going to say Brazil!
“empty as a saloon” ? oh, 1920, prohibition had just begun
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Gremlins? I’m sure there was one in that.
Came here to like this. Or post it myself, but realistically, to like it.
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you have 3 more days to see this exhibit of Rube Goldberg original comic art at the queens museum.https://queensmuseum.org/exhibitions
