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One small thing happens, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, and so on until after all of that, something (usually quite trivial, like turning on a shower) happens. The joke is that it would have been easier to just turn on the shower than set it all up. Essentially it's a Zany Scheme performed by a machine. As with the Unspoken Plan, the efficacy of a planned contraption is generally inversely proportional to the amount of its workings known to the audience. You can read more under Rube-Goldberg Machine on That Other Wiki.

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  • Rube Goldberg Device
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  • One small thing happens, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, and so on until after all of that, something (usually quite trivial, like turning on a shower) happens. The joke is that it would have been easier to just turn on the shower than set it all up. Essentially it's a Zany Scheme performed by a machine. As with the Unspoken Plan, the efficacy of a planned contraption is generally inversely proportional to the amount of its workings known to the audience. You can read more under Rube-Goldberg Machine on That Other Wiki.
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  • One small thing happens, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, causing something else to happen, and so on until after all of that, something (usually quite trivial, like turning on a shower) happens. The joke is that it would have been easier to just turn on the shower than set it all up. Essentially it's a Zany Scheme performed by a machine. The name is taken from the drawings by American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, which had a ridiculously complicated sequence of events to do something as trivial as giving someone a back scrub. Obviously, this is different from a traditional invention in that it gives a complicated solution to a simple problem, not the other way around. This device is also known as a Heath Robinson contraption in Britain (after cartoonist William Heath Robinson, and whose ideas also came before Goldberg), or a Pythagoras switch (ピタゴラスイッチ) in Japan, among other terms used around the world. As with the Unspoken Plan, the efficacy of a planned contraption is generally inversely proportional to the amount of its workings known to the audience. Necro Non Sequitur is often an example of this. Compare Disaster Dominoes, and Butterfly of Doom. The Chessmaster is often responsible for these, either for fun or as part of the plot. Xanatos Roulette is the using the same principle for evil plans. If the contraption is lethal, then it's safe to say that Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts. Awesome but Impractical, since many things they do are pretty much easily done by hand...but hey. They look damn cool! You can read more under Rube-Goldberg Machine on That Other Wiki. Examples of Rube Goldberg Device include:
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