When I was in college, my then-girlfriend’s brother attended a party at my apartment and proceeded to break the glass of our microwave. He tried to Big Daddy it by draping a kitchen towel over the microwave to conceal the damage, but being college students who relied on a microwave for the majority of our dietary needs, my roommates and I quickly realized that our microwave did not have a front windshield.

We also realized that microwaves are pretty expensive, and that we’d be damned if we were going to buy a new one—especially since this was a rare occasion in which it wasn’t our, but someone else’s, drunken lack of responsibility that was the cause of destruction. And while my then-girlfriend’s brother was a good guy and eventually paid us back, expedited payment was his strong suit, and thus, during the month and half between fully functioning and safe microwaves, we were forced to use the broken one by throwing our food in, hitting START and sprinting out of the room like a bunch of Marines who had just thrown a Bagel Bite grenade down a foxhole.

Of course, this really doesn’t have much to do with the above video, but it is tangentially related and I didn’t want to just say, “Here’s a commercial for a Mexican restaurant that shows different shit blowing up in a microwave.”

[Via Reddit]