That brief Onion clip is far better than the last movie I saw that was based on a teenager building a nuke, a/k/a 1986′s The Manhattan Project, starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, and Cynthia Nixon.
The true groaner in that movie was at the very end when the home-built nuke somehow got activated (as if it wasn’t going to happen) and it took some electronic surgery from Lithgow & Collet to stop it from going BOOM. When they successfully defused the weapon, the timer read 07:16:45. If I’d had anything to hand, I would have hurled it at the screen.
Charlotte | February 21, 2011
Didn’t 17-year-old “Radioactive Boy Scout” David Hahn actually ‘tope in 1993?
Andrew Tubbiolo | February 21, 2011
It’s probably an abusive family that push their kids to become breeders.
Dan Joyner | February 21, 2011
THAT IS AWESOME.
Jochen Schischka | February 23, 2011
Absolutely hilarious!
Maybe they should make another ‘documentary’ on the second up-and-coming youth activity, too:
‘SSILEERING
(aka designing and mass-producing ballistic missiles in similar behind-the-closet factories…)
Captain Ned | February 20, 2011
That brief Onion clip is far better than the last movie I saw that was based on a teenager building a nuke, a/k/a 1986′s The Manhattan Project, starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, and Cynthia Nixon.
The true groaner in that movie was at the very end when the home-built nuke somehow got activated (as if it wasn’t going to happen) and it took some electronic surgery from Lithgow & Collet to stop it from going BOOM. When they successfully defused the weapon, the timer read 07:16:45. If I’d had anything to hand, I would have hurled it at the screen.
Charlotte | February 21, 2011
Didn’t 17-year-old “Radioactive Boy Scout” David Hahn actually ‘tope in 1993?
Andrew Tubbiolo | February 21, 2011
It’s probably an abusive family that push their kids to become breeders.
Dan Joyner | February 21, 2011
THAT IS AWESOME.
Jochen Schischka | February 23, 2011
Absolutely hilarious!
Maybe they should make another ‘documentary’ on the second up-and-coming youth activity, too:
‘SSILEERING
(aka designing and mass-producing ballistic missiles in similar behind-the-closet factories…)