There’s a new sheriff in the well-maintained upper-middle class suburb of Jeopardy!, and he’s perhaps the best showman the series has seen since the “DANKEY KANG” contestant.

Damn, Look at This Huge Explosion

Sam Biddle

2/25/15 6:08pm

Damn. Look at this. Yesterday a Stafford Township, New Jersey house filled with gas from a broken main, and then exploded. God damn. Look at this mother blow. It's a freaking big explosion, from gas.

Fireworks Factory Catches Fire, Explodes, Knocks Guy on Ass

Jay Hathaway

1/06/15 5:40pm

"One person sustained minor injuries and several roads were closed" in Granada, Colombia, the BBC reports, which is the BBC's way of saying "Holy fucking shit, a fireworks factory caught fire, setting off hundreds of fireworks at once in an explosion that knocked this local TV cameraman on his ass."

Will the Entourage Movie Be Epic or Dope? A Data-Focused Investigation

Dayna Evans

1/05/15 2:56pm

It's barely been three weeks since the trailer for the forthcoming Entourage movie premiered right before our thirsty eyes, but it's already raised many important questions: Will Vinny make the movie? Will Turtle get to fuck female MMA champion Ronda Rousey? Will Ari's heart finally explode from an anger-related…

Holy Shit, All the Fireworks Went Off at Once

Jay Hathaway

11/14/14 1:15pm

This video, shot earlier this year in Italy and uploaded today by a pyrotechnics enthusiast, shows what happens when an entire fireworks display accidentally goes up at once. To sum up: Holy shit. You'll want to turn the volume down a little bit for this one.

Suicide Bombing Teacher, NY Times Combine on Most Ironic Headline Ever

Adam Weinstein

2/10/14 12:25pm

Perhaps it was really a lesson on Beckett-like absurdism in our modern political culture. Perhaps it was just a moronic dipshit with 1.5 brain cells and a Radio Shack catalog. Whatever the explanation, the accidental boom in a suicide-bombing class made for good copy in today's Times:

This Cake Comes With Exploding Airbag Stuffing

Brian Barrett

12/08/10 9:04am

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There are pranks, and then there are pranks that could cause irreparable bodily harm. Hiding an airbag under layers of goopy cake frosting and exploding it in your friend's face is definitely the latter. It's also really fun!

This Is What the Times Square Bomb Would Have Looked Like

Max Read

9/29/10 9:18pm

The FBI videotaped themselves blowing up a Nissan Pathfinder in order to demonstrate how big the explosion would have been if attempted terrorist Faisal Shahzad's Times Square car bomb had actually worked. So, how big? Pretty big!