Elemental Bloopers

ELEMENTAL BLOOPERS

Posted: March 29, 2012

SCIENTIST 1: So we've just done our little test in the tank there. And what we're going to do now.

DAVID POGUE: That was just for the blooper reel. We like to get some material.

DAVID POGUE: Commence the glass-breaking test. I wasn't ready.

DAVID POGUE: Luke, I'm your father.

SCIENTIST 2: Yeah, I'm your father. I know, I know.

DAVID POGUE: I understand that this is where the disease mono first evolved.

SCIENTIST 3: It did indeed. Settled into the lymph nodes of a woman named Monisha.

SCIENTIST 1: I'm gonna flip it upside down and put it in a state of tonic immobility. You just let her go.

DAVID POGUE: Fly, be free! Oh, great she's stuck that way.

DAVID POGUE: Why is it that our lungs are not exploding out of our chest?

SCIENTIST 2: Because what you're breathing is N2 and O2. Not NO3, because that will kill you.

DAVID POGUE: So that would be, would be.

SCIENTIST 4: That will kill you David. You would die. You wouldn't be able to talk anymore.

DAVID POGUE: What are you suggesting?

SCIENTIST 4: So we set up all the mousetraps here and we put ping-pong balls on each one of those mousetraps. It simulates a nuclear chain reaction.

DAVID POGUE: And that's a nuclear chain reaction, folks.

DAVID POGUE: Suppose I were to ask you a question, what would your answer be?

SCIENTIST 5: My question, my answer would be entirely dependent on the question.

DAVID POGUE: Well, see that's the problem with scientists.

SCIENTIST 5: Well, that's the problem with conversation.

DAVID POGUE: I just finished a book today. 900 pages and just about dead.

SCIENTIST 6: Why don't you get that package up by the table here, then we can talk about that one.

DAVID POGUE: He played a trick on me.

DAVID POGUE: Should I worry that my gloves are on fire?

DAVID POGUE: Can I go back to writing technology reviews?

DAVID POGUE: You're a guy.

SCIENTIST 2: Oh really?

SCIENTIST 2: I don't want to hear about your parents.

SCIENTIST 2: That way, dumb ***

DAVID POGUE: You're calling this glass?

SCIENTIST 7: That is glass.

DAVID POGUE: This is, this is plastic dude. I can make a paper airplane out of this.

SCIENTIST 7: Au contraire. It is not at all, it is glass. So there are, there are limits.

DAVID POGUE: I don't think that was supposed to happen.

SCIENTIST 8: We just bought this.

DAVID POGUE: We have a little problem. The funnel fell in the fake pee and splashed me.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Produced by

Scott Stolzar and Adam Talaid

Original Footage

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IMAGE

(David Pogue)

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