Top 10 Rube Goldberg Machines in Movies

[@gnewt75]

That entire opening sequence of Pee Wee's Big Adventure was hilarious: The retractable bed sheets, the bunny slippers sniffing the toy carrot, Pee Wee lifting 3lb weights like its 50lbs. and the whole morning breakfast Goldberg machine leading to Pee Wee eating one bite of food and feeling full!! HEE-LAR-EE US!!!! LOL

[@Corrupted]

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[@MrThepatrickshow]

Why so many breakfast machines? I'm guessing it's because so many screenplay writers want to start the first scene with the main character waking up in the morning. So, if that character is either a nutty inventor, or a general screwball... gotta have the breakfast machine... no matter how cliche' it's become.

[@prettzsama]

+Patrick Melody Because no one wants to do anything when right after waking up.

[@emdotrod]

Top 10 Breakfast Machines in Movies!

[@jefferson6994]

+Patrick Melody I think they are trying to one up eachother

[@RDeathmark]

+Patrick Melody i think it's got more to do with the inherent desire to make the morning routine as easy as possible, if you had a machine that would cook breakfast for you each morning it'd be great wouldn't it? of course,...what they don't show is them having to reset a lot of those things each night before bed lol

[@Igorcastrochucre]

+Patrick Melody I don't think a breakfast machine is a cliché, like most Rube Goldberg machines, they're fun to look at. However, look at the opening credits from 4:52 until 5:13. That's a way to hammer in the main character is intelligent and depending of your knowledge on math, that text is cringe-worthy.

[@robin888official]

I obviously misunderstood the term "Rube-Goldberg-machine". Only the first 3 places are actual chain-reactions.

[@revimfadli4666]

Aren't the rest Heath Robinson machines?

[@PADARM]

Rube Goldberg machine, is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way

[@Tardisius]

Casper's dad made a good one in 'Casper The Friendly Ghost' =))

[@Badbiology]

Agreed. I was thinking the same thing.

[@charleswilliams2165]

THANK YOU

[@annne6539]

Yeah! I wonder how they forgot to add that?

[@DKQuagmire]

+Tardisius That awesome ride on the moving chair. I want one for myself. I think Casper called it "The up and atom machine"

[@MCBigman]

+Tardisius I thought about that one too. The only thing preventing it from being a TRUE Goldberg machine is chain reaction.

[@Dremag_Gaming]

"Want to turn on the lights but dont feel like walking 5 feet away to flip a switch? Well with this 20 step process, you dont have to"

[@CaptEoNinja83]

I'm not entirely sure if CGI or animated sequences should count in this list, but that's just me. But I'm seriously stoked you included "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"! I was just thinking as I was starting this video that that machine in C.C.B.B. better be in the list and TADA! LOL, I CALLED IT! And hooray that Great Mouse Detective is number one!

[@CreepyPopMovies]

This feels so satisfying

[@CreepyPopMovies]

+Yuri Nakamura uhmm congrats?

[@bmarcelo]

So satisfying for breakfast!

[@DKQuagmire]

I know its not a movie but there was a sketch on Family guy with a Rube Goldberg Machine, that supposedly makes breakfast, but ends in a gun being fired at Peter Griffin. I do believe he was using the same machine as Peewee's.

[@jasminejohnston6393]

3:45 Hey look, Robots and Flubber. Two movies in a row on this list with Robin Williams in them!

[@thomasking4965]

Wallace and Gromit - A Close Shave when Wallace gets ready for window cleaning through so many cool contraptions and Gromit just opens and closes the door to hop on the bike and put on his helmet.

[@ePai9e]

I loved these machines when I was a kid.

[@sonicguyver7445]

I'm glad Ernest's house at least got an honorable mention. But Pee-Wee's whole house is amazing. I recently watched that opening and I suddenly remembered how much I loved the movie as a kid. That whole house is a child's dream if silly fun an insane mechanics in action.

[@trevorbuchh]

I frigin love Rube Goldberg machines. This list was so satisfying.

[@Nazrininator]

I think this is the first time you mentioned Robots in a Top 10 list. Robots is an underrated movie.

[@MaddestMousse]

7:40 you can see 'RUBE G.' painted onto the side of the white table.

[@Chaos89P]

Rube Goldberg machines, so needlessly complex, but so fun to watch.

[@AceofScares]

I almost scrolled past this but couldn't resist

[@bensostaric7853]

But what about the kid machine that the female pig makes in Sing??? That was awesome!!!

[@CanadaDragon1]

At 7:54, WRONG!!! Pee-Wee's Big Adventure was released in 1985, not 1995.

[@ZOXEY555]

That was probably a typo.

[@ScrabbleDiva]

I always liked the "up and at'em" machine from Casper. :)

[@bmarcelo]

Breakfast machines?! Satisfying!

[@nicolelylewis]

YASSS!! Great Mouse Detective!! :)

[@jueshua148]

How could you leave our Honey I Shrunk the Kids??.

[@thewatcher3035]

cuz it wasn't a tube gokdburg mach ine

[@CameronMaltwood]

I feel like Garfield was overlooked. Possibly because the machine wasn't planned. But nevertheless, the greatest and funniest Rube Goldberg scene ever.

[@knightofarkronia8652]

Why are so many of these doodads used for making breakfast? I counted at least 5 (6 you count the dog food one).

[@ApsaraMenaka]

when I saw the title i immediately thought of the breakfast machine in chitty chitty bang bang. and I wasn't disappointed.

[@emmamorris6947]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Anyone ringing the doorbell sets off the machine which eventually plays a recording of Ferris Bueller being ill in bed.

[@Jillybean711]

Yeah the Goonies and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang one deserves this list by far. xD

[@KenPotter]

Anyone else remember Foghorn Leghorn with a see-saw, and a bowling ball and a gutter, and a match that lights a wick... ?

[@emmamorris6947]

Honda Car advert in the UK called "The Cog" - every part of the Honda Car is used in a rube goldberg layout.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I can see why people would want to try to win the Rube Goldberg contest! These are some of the craziest bits of cleverness I’ve ever seen. I bet it was awesome to be s part of his family!!

[@bandgeek89]

don't forget about the mailbox machine in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

[@ginnrollins211]

There was a Rube Goldberg test in Waiting... that was used as the decorations in the restaurant, but they've managed to set it off in the movies making of documentary. Plus, Jackass tried doing a Goldberg test with the crew being apart of the test, but it failed.

[@PictureProductStudio]

It's 3AM and thanks to this video I want a breakfast, preferably made by a Rude Goldberg machine. Thanks, WatchMojo.

[@Crzypengu]

One of my favorite top ten lists so far

[@WatchMojo]

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[@danjc2]

It may be animated but the tube Goldberg machine used for The Professor's sympathy killing in Futurama (episode where he has Yetism) is amazing and funny.

[@sebbes333]

I'm impressed that you remembered the Charly Chaplin machine :D

[@singer5678]

All the breakfast machines! 😍

[@TheCfp12]

Great Video. My Tech kids loved watching this video before we started our Rube Goldberg Projects. They also love Mr T cereal!!!! :)

[@1234Martd]

There are 5 Breakfast Machines (6 if you include the one from Modern Times which isn't a breakfast machine but still is food based) on this list...

[@plottwist3364]

Too bad the Honda commercial can't count for this list

[@Apollo-cq8wq]

On 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids' the dad built a dog treat dispenser.

[@mitchlmitten5874]

Hey, I'm not the only one who remembered Robots! Yay!

[@nanazezo8375]

Almost 10 mill subs can't wait :)

[@JazzyAnasazi]

when I think of Pee Wee Herman's Breakfast Machine, I think of 100 ways to die in Halo 3

[@Aerotactics]

+556FATHOMS YES Im not the only one.

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Aerotactics love you too

[@ferntheyoutuber9960]

KZbin censored the song for copyright bullshit. Fucking stupidest shit I've ever seen

[@JazzyAnasazi]

FernTheKZbinr dude! it's been lifted! :D

[@ferntheyoutuber9960]

556FATHOMS Omg it has. =D

[@TheNavy830]

Breakfast, the most Rube Goldburgiest meal of the day!

[@dtavs_exe]

The lack of Raymond Scott's Powerhouse during this Rube Goldberg Machines baffles me

[@SuaveGemini]

What about the one from "Waiting"? That one was awesome.

[@mohdkhairul9701]

The one at the end of Waiting is my favorite.

[@brianwise5850]

+illyounotme I know I loved seeing it in waiting...

[@Fools_Requiem]

+Mohd Khairul yeah, i'm disappointed it wasn't mentioned.

[@EPmessi9800]

Good list

[@Jebbtube]

Some people just gotta make simple things overly complicated. For that matter, what's with all the breakfast machines?

[@snarkus63]

All of the devices in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" were created by Rowland Emmett,a cartoonist and kinetic sculptor. Like everything he created,they all actually worked,in their own limited way (although the filmmakers did exaggerate what they could actually do).

[@nathanapplegate5374]

The wood chopper is anything but a Rube Goldberg machine

[@Fruktodlaren]

I second the voting for the Tommy Lee Jones movie "Blown Away" (1994), which has some amazing Rube Goldberg trigger mechanisms for the mad bombers bombs.

[@SulliMike23]

A couple of the Rube Goldberg machines in cartoons.

[@prettzsama]

Tommy Lee Jones's device that (eventually) blew up the casino ship.

[@Neopulse00]

Which film was that?

[@prettzsama]

Neopulse00 Blown Away (1994)

[@Neopulse00]

Scott M Completely forgot about that film. It was when he was a mad bomber I think

[@nuttyprof99]

This list made me hungry.

[@mr.im-a-sonic-fan6866]

The crosstown express is my favorite scene from Robots as well as my favorite Rube Goldberg machine I wish I could ride the Crosstown Express.

[@TheTeaCupKiller]

This video. That category was the most specific thing, there aren't a whole lot of options that work for this.

[@TheTeaCupKiller]

But robots was awesome

[@emdotrod]

If there any Top 10 Rube Goldberg Machines in Music Videos, OK Go will win for obvious reason.

[@scarletrobin]

+Ardimo Harsa I was trying to think of 10. All I can think of is Ok Go and The Bravery's "Honest Mistake"

[@claytonharbeson8835]

Really? Next, do you wanna do "Top Ten First Person Shooter Gun Skins"?

[@Kizer5Red]

I always wanted to build a Rube Goldberg machine when I was a kid, have it set up in my house like the breakfast machine in chitty chitty bang bang or any evil masterminds Traps, like The great mouse detective or the older james bond and dr. evil movies.

[@Sandlot1992]

no wonder Casper wasn't on this list!

[@Beautiful.Disaster1990]

you forgot the mailbox in Honey I Shrunk the Kids. and the machines in Edward Scissorhands!

[@dog..4884]

Yes!!! This WM voice!😇😇😇

[@RBDashie]

actually all my favorite childhood movies

[@EnergyFalcon23]

Watchmojo.com should do a top 10 of all time LEGO series.

[@animehuman2981]

Dont request in the comments, request on the website

[@mastick5106]

YES! The Great Mouse Detective at #1!

[@alissameade-fields9615]

5:26 It would also do the same thing to the hardworking cooks at McDonald's and Village Inn.

[@scarletemperorrocky8900]

Hey,can you guys do the Top 10 PlayStation games of all time,meaning,from the first PlayStation to the PlayStation 4.

[@cumabisabadang]

Cool videos friend

[@JJSiddoss]

I'm not doing this for likes or attention, but i'm on a date with this girl and she's on her phone and not really talking to me, so i'm writing this comment to make it look like i'm doing something on my phone.

[@TheBlueCerulean]

+JJSiddoss slap the bitch

[@RDeathmark]

+JJSiddoss cool bruh

[@Sislis01]

the Mithbusters made a pretty good one, I liked it :D

[@LyricNear]

Mythbusters

[@jtbm71]

Look Snub Pollard's silent comedy from 1923, entitled "It's a gift". There is another breakfast machine.

[@victorhernandez8723]

I did not see the number 1 choice coming. Completely unexpected.

[@bobbybrown5519]

I'm learning about these in school

[@MitchCyan]

The Goonies was the first film I thought of ^_^

[@MrUn1versal]

Although it's TV: I like the Family Guy one where the end result is Peter getting shot

[@adrienneanderson-smith2257]

#7 reminds me of the opening credits of The Jetsons

[@Hard_passs]

Really running ideas. It's pretty obvious when you have two breakfast rube goldburg machines.

[@Hard_passs]

4*

[@mysterymayhem7020]

Where the hell is “Honey I Shrunk the Kids”. That was a classic Rube Goldberg home.

[@mohinderbauer]

They forgot to include any movie from the Saw franchise.

[@WilliamMaslow]

this list was entertainig

[@zvimur]

Does the rolling boulder in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" count?

[@emmamorris6947]

Happy Gilmore - Golf Putting obstacles, near the end of the movie

[@connorsmith75]

Lemme guess... Tomorrow's gonna be "Top 10 Rube Goldberg Machines in TV?"

[@IknowIamkindagreat]

Note to self, Disney loves breakfast machines.

[@Neopulse00]

Would the machine in "Fracture" be considered what? It doesn't complete a function, but it's nice to look at though.

[@ladyoftheunderworld6775]

They should do top 10 best love conditions in TV and #1 should be arrow olicity 3x09 because it's awesome!!!

[@themarquess]

I like the one from that OK Go music video.

[@donovanholland-wasson7177]

When I saw this I immediatley thought "The Goonies."

[@kantapatgame1517]

Is only this could include all Rube Goldberg machines Tom and Jerry would made the list

[@narcangoat]

Awww, the wall display from 'Waiting' didn't make the list. :( ((Watch after the credits, or on certain 'deleted and bonus scene' editions.))

[@emmamorris6947]

The thief and the cobbler, bringing down the enemy's army by way of a rube goldberg effect.

[@wallykorona7713]

Even though it was at the end of the credits the movie waiting had a kick as beer opening machine not mad just thought it should be mentioned

[@aeromoe]

How about the one in the Looney Tunes short (cartoon) with Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny?

[@sheckylemoine]

I can't believe the one at the end of waiting wasn't even mentioned

[@HeadFullaStuffin]

I feel like an opportunity was missed in the temple escape scene from the first Indiana Jones movie.

[@techniclepanther7538]

But the deaths in the Final Destination movies are not coincidences...