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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' - if scouters aren't getting [[A Glass in the Hand|broken]], they're blowing up while their owners are still wearing them. No wonder they got phased out of the series.
** After Bulma jury-rigged Raditz's scouter, Goku's [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] made it explode from across the planet.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Seen a fair few times in the [[Troperiffic]] ''[[Discworld]]'' series.
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
* In [[Lensman|Children of the Lens]], the last physical battle of the series involves {{spoiler|a faster-than-light planet hitting a star}}.
{{quote|Finally it happened. What happened? Even after the fact none of the observers knew. The fuses of all the recorder and analyzer circuits blew at once. Needles jumped instantly to maximum and wrapped themselves around their stops. Charts and ultraphotographic films showed only straight or curved lines running from the origin to and through the limits in zero time.}}
== [[Live
* ''[[The Goodies]]''. In one episode the temperature gets so high that a thermometer ends up blowing its top and squirting fluid in someone's face.
** That could be a [[Shout-Out]] to a ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode about the world becoming unbearably hot.
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* [[Lampshaded]] by the ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]''. [[Once an Episode|Frequently]], their Canon Analysis Devices blow up when faced with particularly heinous breaches of canon. Savvy agents will hurl their CAD's in the opposite direction the moment something truly awful happens. Occasionally, they just don't turn their CAD's on at all, knowing that it would go boom--[[Failure Is the Only Option|which doesn't always stop the explosion]].
* Shane Killian's "Bogometer", used to measure the dishonesty of creationist claims, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsSKTl0uNc explodes at 3:18 of this video] when Janet Folgar claims that "It was Bible-believing Christians who gave us science as we know it."
* In ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'', Dr. Insano's [[Gaydar]] blew up when watching a scene with a swishy proprietor in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130810040017/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/04/17/beastmaster-2-through-the-portal-of-time/ this review] of ''[[The Beastmaster|Beastmaster 2]]''.
** And the Ass Counter blows up during a particularly blatant [[Male Gaze|ass shot]] in ''[[Dead or Alive]]''.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106030617/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/nash/specials/29196-nash-doctor-who-classic-the-tv-movie this review] of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' 8th Doctor movie, [[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?|Nash]] had a [[Flame War|"Nerd Rage meter"]], and when it turned out the Doctor was half human, it finally blew up. Then it blew up again later on.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Professor Frink on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' invented a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXmKPMaHMo sarcasm detector], which of course exploded in the presence of overwhelming sarcasm.
** In another episode, Homer is being interrogated by Agent Scully while hooked up to a lie detector. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmHXnryakA He didn't understand.]
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Try and measure the voltage across your car's battery - while leaving your meter connected for measuring current. It will not last long. The same, of course, applies to using the same multimeter to measure a voltage far beyond what it is rated for - like that output by a simple doorbell transformer that has been connected in reverse. The results of this mistake can often be interesting.
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