You know that scene in Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers where Wallace is catapulted out of bed, dressed mid-air, and lands at the breakfast table like it’s just another Tuesday? Yeah, someone looked at that and said, “Hold my tea.”
That someone is Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines – a man whose job description basically reads “makes life harder in the most delightful way possible.” Armed with a deep love for contraptions and zero concern for his own spinal alignment, Joseph set out to recreate the iconic Rube Goldberg breakfast routine without animation and without CGI.
If you’re not interested in seeing how they built the thing, you can skip to 7:39 to see the finished machine in action, complete with a side-by-side comparison to the original.