First Year of Microwave Me in 5 Minutes
633 views · Published 16 November 2013 · 4:56 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: MicrowaveMeShow · 2013 · Entertainment
NOTE: After realizing that very few people would follow me over to Vimeo, I eventually shifted my focus back to YouTube. I still do upload Vimeo episodes, however, but after this failed experiment, this should really be called the first year of Microwave Me in 5 minutes. I'll make another one for seasons 8 to whatever the season I finish in October-November 2014 is. This video is exactly what the title says, five minutes of clips from all 260 episodes of my microwave show. Every episode is featured in this one, including many that never saw the light of day in my clip shows. Generally, I give one second to each episode, but if it was one of my favourites or something exciting happened, I gave it a little more attention. For example, the champagne video has about 3 seconds dedicated to it. I tried to get the best part of each episode, or if it was a boring one, a representative sample. For some of my experiments, like the bOOmtastic ones, it was easy, just feature the explosion, but for more complex experiments, I wasn't 100% sure what to include. I think it's fun looking at the progression of the show, the first season was just me playing it safe and sticking to ordinary household items, the second season I took a few more risks but again the show got its material from stuff I found around the house, the third season I began doing more dangerous stuff, including things I bought specifically for the show like the balloon. The fourth season was really when I began buying stuff just to microwave, the silly string, the CO2 cartridges, the easy button, all for the show. Also, the show began to take a more dangerous direction. The spray paint can, works bomb, champagne bottle, and fireworks are perfect evidence of that. My most expensive items were the blender and the champagne bottle, both season 6 items, although one could argue that it's actually the bunch of watch batteries I never got around to microwaving. Also, notice how out of place the cassette is with the rest of the first 50 episodes. It was the first time something cool legitimately happened. And there are so many experiments I never got to actually do. But fear not, I WILL continue the show on Vimeo, but in a holiday special format. It is funny though that my most viewed episode was the highlighters (especially how it became so suddenly famous after months of being ignored), yet my best video, at least in my opinion, was the champagne bottle. The only other video to even compare to that one was the fireworks. And for all the people complaining my videos were too long, you watched the long ones, I tried putting up short ones (under 40 seconds) and none of them have more than 200 views. In fact, my only video with over 1000 views that's under a minute long is the match episode, the others aren't even close. Here's my list of my personal favourite episodes 1. Champagne 2. Fireworks 3. Spray Paint 4. Silly String 5. Chestnuts 6. Lighter 7. Cassette Tape 8. Megabulb 9. Axe Can in Oil 10. Jell-O 11. Pencil 12. Works Bomb 13. CO2 Cartridges 14. Toothpaste 15. Static Guard Some of those might leave you scratching your head, but I just remember really enjoying the experiments, for example the Jell-O one was filmed right around Christmas and that for some reason made me happy. It was just simple fun. And the toothpaste smelled nice. And the chestnuts were more funny than anything. Your top 15, well, just look at the most viewed to see what you like, the highlighters and 100 CDs wouldn't even be in my top 50, same with the banana and the gummy bears, but the silverware one almost made my list, same with the candles one. And there is a tiny bit of overlap. Anyways, thanks for watching my show, I really appreciate it. It hasn't really been easy with people no longer getting subscriptions. Some of my recent videos don't even have 100 views. However, my show will continue on Vimeo, as well as on Trendo. My 261st episode will be microwaving a Santa Claus doll with a lighter stuffed up his butt.
