Cannonball!!
December 9, 2011 There's been a lot of speculation over the exact course of that errant Mythbusters cannonball that went flying through a suburban neighborhood this week.
Yes, gone are the days when cannonballs will fly in dependable straight lines and plop down with nice dependable kabloomies. These days they use the front door, ricochet through bedrooms, bounce up hills, careen through streets in a drunken fit, and generally behave almost exactly the way cannonballs don't.
Fortunately, we can trace the trail of wreckage and piece together exactly what happened. So let's follow along, shall we?
4:14 PM: The cannonball "myth" fires.
(BWAHAHAHAA!!)
(Sorry.)
From there, it bounded over barriers, sailed through suburbia, and ricocheted off the top tier of the Kyle-Deckard wedding cake:
;)
Followed by a quick bounce off the Maitland anniversary cake:
;)
...a quick hopscotch through a local pound cake display...
;)
...and a sliding skid through a nearby birthday party.
;)
Next it executed a tight right turn, picking up speed while narrowly missing these two characters:
;)
Nice reflexes, guys.
Then things REALLY got interesting.
The shockwave from the ball's* passage knocked 3 out of 4 turkey's heads CLEAN OFF.
;)
*"Ball's". Heh. Aheh. Heh.
...AND blasted the cake right out from under a Mr. Louis E. Tully's frosting:
;)
"And that wasn't fondant, man," stated Mr. Tully at a press conference later. "it was buttercream. Anyone wanna take my picture?"
Next, according to a sheriff's spokesperson I am totally not making up, "the cannonball took a few unfortunate bounces."
After which it bowled through an innocent tray of cupcakes...
;)
...repeatedly pummeled a defenseless ice cream cake...
;)
... and, apparently just for spite, rolled behind the counter and scrawled grammatically incorrect insults on all the waiting orders.
;)
This was one nasty cannonball, guys.
Finally, after literally bringing down the house...
;)
"Oh, oh, oh!"
...the cannonball came to rest in little Arthur Dent's birthday cake:
;)
Where it was iced over and sold by the pound.
THE END.
Thanks to Katie M., Jessy A., A.S., Bre D., Alexis G., Michelle M., Joel F., Kevin P., Jennifer E., Monique R., Lisa B., Beth J., & my all-time favorite cannonball wranglers, the Mythbusters gang.
And now...
BONUS FUN CAKE OF AWESOMENESS!
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Submitted by James B. and made by Ginger Pops, aka Faeries-Demise on DeviantArt
Say, is Adam missing an eyebrow? :D
Reader Comments (88)
Way to make "wrecks" sound perfectly literal! I assume the censor bar wasn't serious.
Abby Maitland and Connor Temple, were they to have an anniversary cake, would not even be remotely bothered by a bit of frosting-slide. After all, they survived the Cretaceous.
Ser'ous censor bar
peers over monocle, coughs,
covers your ankles.
These cakes made me afraid of what I might be getting for my bday this weekend. But the last cake totally made me realize all cakes are awesome!! I reject your reality and substitute my own!!!!
.... balls
Last night I went to a benefit hosted by one of my favorite writers, and featuring my favorite band AND favorite comedian. And now, as I bore my husband with my theory that everything I love is connected, I find this. My favorite blog together with my favorite guys who blow things up is almost more than I can stand. Sigh...
Your blog continues to crack me up (and make me want to eat cake)!! Love it.
"Nice reflexes" had me laughing out loud. I wish I had a picture of my son's first birthday cake. We had his party at a park and football landed in it right as I put it down in front of my son.
Best. Post. Ever!!! <3
I love MythBusters!! And .. when Isn't he missing an eyebrow? ;)
Earthquakes? Cannonballs? Our turkeys' heads are falling off? I HATE this place!
Folks, if you haven't yet, read the article in SFGate about Adam and Jamie going to apologize. Please note that they weren't at the Alameda range when the accident happened. Torie, Grant, and Kari were. The comments from some of the neighbors were pretty priceless.
Here's the article
Oh, and bonus that they mention the "Wreck the Halls" in the ads on the same page...
I should watch this show more often. My son's names are Jamie and Adam. But the resemblance ends there :)
The idea of Rick Deckard marrying Selina Kyle... LOL.
I adore the Mythbusters cake! Why have I never gotten one of those for MY birthday?
Ok, awesome post, and I squealed in delight at the Mythbusters cake - I would totally want one of those for my birthday - or wedding, whatever...
This is actually very appropriate considering I've been on a massive Mythbusters kick for the past couple of weeks. Hilariously appropriate, that is.
That should be "YOUR grandma is a "
I LOVE MYTHBUSTERS!!! My family was playing Pictionary once, and I had to dray Alcatraz. So, naturally, I draw Adam and Jamie in their boat made of coats. My brother got it instantly.
LOVED the Hitchhikers reference! Lol!
Hey, isn't Aurther Dent a character from Adventures in Odyssey? Well, that aside, these caked are supremely ugly and your commentary made me laugh, as usual.
Oh, and the MythBusters cake of awesomeness was totall awesome. :D
That first one is kinnd of sad because it looks pretty well made besides the mess,
I think I saw a VeggieTales reference in there too! This was fabulous. And possibly a nod to the Muppets early on?
Lol love this post! The only question I have is why on earth would someone put an insult about a grandma on that cake?? The sprinkles looked delicious though. Wow. Just thought if I saw that cake at say a party for said grandma I would honestly hope the wreckerator ran for the hills lol. Really hope no one bought that particular cake though I suspect it was wrecked after someone brought it home. Ahh love my Mythbusters cannon ball :D.
Too freakin' funny!
And the "pound cakes" look to me like the world's ugliest green-dyed angel food cakes...that have been pounded by a cannonball, so yeah, I guess you can still call them pound cakes :)
That's not BUTTERcreme either. Real buttercreme doesn't stand up on its own. However, Crisco-creme does.
Unfortunately, most bakers don't know the difference between BUTTERcreme and CRISCOcreme. And so the world is subjected to countless cakes covered in slimy, way too sweet (and apparently way too firm) frosting, and yet another person comes to the conclusion: "I don't like frosting".
<heavily sighing baker>
Viva la BUTTERcreme revolution!
Those two Disney cakes must have had towels over their heads when the bugbladd... uh... cannonball... came through.
I feel so bad for the Maitlands. Not only did their car fall off the covered bridge, but they didn't even get to enjoy their anniversary cake.
"Myth fires".... Love it!! No Myth Conceptions here, Little Myth Manners would definitely be peeved over Gramma's cake!
"Makes a right turn, in midair, mind you...
"THAT my friends is one magic cannonball..."
Grandma is a whale? Love that the Cannonball used "You're" incorrectly. At least it's a true wrecker!
#1 [holding unfrosted cake] "I knew we left something out of that top tier!"
#2 "Ok, did we remember to bring everything? Cake? Check. Napkins? Check. Silverware? Uh oh... this is going to be really messy."
#3 The first business to return to Pripyat (near Chernobyl) just had to be a bakery...
#5 Where's her dinosaur?
#6 "Let us cater to your every need." If I ever need a cake that looks like roadkill, I know where to go.
The guys might have conducted their experiment with a CCC instead of a cannonball, but the destruction would have been much more widespread.
"The cannonball took a few unfortunate bounces." Proving once again that physics should be a mandatory subject, not an elective. Unless the people there live in a gravitational anomaly.
generally behave almost exactly the way cannonballs don't.
That cannonball rejects your reality, and substitutes its own!
the worst part of the insult cake is definitely the "re" and the end of what should have been your. sigh.
< / i > Ahem. Frisking keyboard -- I typed the correct characters, but something subtly different came out. Can I borrow that cannonball? (It's not a PC issue, John -- peripheral, not CPU.)
cakewrecks + mythbusters = best. post. ever!
I always love it when you cross the streams.
The fact that you are a fellow geek (and I mean that in the best way possible) makes these wrecks even more awesome. LOVE IT!!
Does that count as turkey bowling?
I LOVE MYTHBUSTERS! It has been my fave show for years and I was smiling/giggling/running around the house with my screen showing the last cake and yelling "I want this cake for my birthday this year!" throughout the whole post. The cannon that missfired was Tory's homemade cannon that they used for both the myth of ball and chain prison escape and the myth of cheese cannonball. A while after the misfire I had the urge to draw the cannon shooting cheese with the Mythbuster style "PLAUSIBLE" sign in front, but now I think I should change the cheese into a cake! Love your blog and sorry for the looonng comment. <3