My last Bad Movie Night ended with a literal smoking microwave

So last Friday I was hosting Bad Movie Night to watch "The Room" (you know, the one with the football in the tuxedos) and I decided to make popcorn. Well, I put the bag in for 4 minutes like normal, but my microwave is from like 2005 and it just started sparking and smoking, filling my whole apartment with that burnt electronics smell. I had to unplug it and fan the smoke detector for 20 minutes while my friends laughed at the irony of watching a disaster movie inside a disaster kitchen. We ended up ordering pizza instead, but the smell hung around for two days. Anybody else had household stuff fail at the worst possible moment during a movie night?

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grant.felix2d ago

$30 or not, that microwave probably saved you from a worse fire by dying when it did. I've had two microwaves give up on me over the years, and the first one made a pop and then just sat there humming with the lights on but not heating anything. The second one started making this high pitched whine that hurt my ears. In my experience, once they start smoking or sparking, it's time to just pull the plug and not look back. Pizza sounds like a good backup plan, but next time maybe have a fire extinguisher nearby just in case, not that I'm trying to be alarmist or anything.

lucasschmidt2d ago

Honestly it sounds like you're making kind of a big deal out of a $30 microwave from 2005. Like yeah it sucks when appliances die but you got pizza out of it and a funny story. The smoke detector thing is annoying but 20 minutes of fanning isn't exactly a tragedy. My buddy's microwave caught fire last year and melted the handle off the door, now THAT was a disaster. Yours just got a little smokey and quit. That's more of a minor inconvenience than a full blown household fail.

annaw732d ago

Has anyone else ever had a toaster do that thing where it pops so hard the bread flies across the room and lands butter side down on the dog...