I don't like that there's a bit of a twist.
>> What‽
How am I bleeding? >> YOU!!
How did that happen?
>> I don't even know how that happened!
>> You cut yourself on the PVC pipe!
[deep synthetic rumble]
[electrical pop] [gentle vinyl static]
[rising chime] Jason Murphy, just answer me this,
is this your own invention?
>> Eh,
yeah.
>> I mean, technically it's the same idea
as the, what was it called,
the hot shot-- the pocket shot or whatever that we did?
[metallic plink]
BRIAN: Yeah! >> KATELYN: Ooh!
>> Yeah, there's not a lot of ingenuity to it.
I just thought, you know what?
How can we make that even more evil?
>> This is taking all the most dangerous elements we've had before.
The danger of all the times
that we've used slingshots, whether with ninja stars
or with BB shot.
[music]
[slowed slingshot sound]
[foam tumbles and crashes]
[foam hits floor]
>> And now with giant needles! [Brian sighs]
>> Okay. Okay.
>> It's a simple build, I don't know if it's going to work
but man, I want to try!
>> Okay let's go, let's go!
>> What I'm going to do, we're just disassembling--
taking the sling part of the slingshot, right?
>> Yeah. >> Taking that off.
>> I'm going to bet that you can use
I guess, surgical tubing,
you could probably use even balloons or rubber bands for this.
>> Yeah.
>> BRIAN: We've got latex gloves.
We've got barbecue skewers, we've got soda cans.
[slowed snap and pop]
>> And then we're going to take this little metal clasp...
>> BRIAN: I figure we are going to--
>> JASON: Oh! You want the metal cinch really tight.
You can only draw it back this far, right?
>> BRIAN: I am going to hold this here. >> Okay.
>> See how hard it is to pull it one length back.
>> Don't let go.
>> No, you don't let it go and don't let it hit me.
Does that seem right? >> Yeah!
>> Man. Is there any chance
that you would pull this back and it would like, I don't know,
slip, and smack your face?
I guess...
any time you have a rubber-based tension device
you run the risk of it snapping and hitting stuff
>> Yeah, absolutely.
And you want to make sure that you get that
really, really tight. >> Yeah.
>> Because when I was doing a few test pulls
it came back and snapped me in the chest.
>> Oh really? >> Yeah.
But I didn't have it nearly tight enough,
like, not even for a moment. >> [with sarcasm] This is very encouraging.
>> It's going to be fine!
>> This is on like that.
>> Yeah!
>> Oof. [nonverbal mumbling]
>> We should absolutely have
protection on.
>> Also, this is not sufficient eye protection
I'm going to rely on the fact that I have
goggles and... and glasses.
>> Also probably not sufficient eye protection.
[vinyl crackling]
We're going to go ahead and put a secondary clasp on here
just in case. >> Redundancy. Smart.
>> And that still doesn't protect us if say, the...
thing tears or whatever, yeah. >> Rubber snaps, yeah.
Okay, so that's double locked on there. >> Yeah.
>> BRIAN: I feel not so bad about it. >> Okay!
Do you want to give it the first shot? >> [with trepidation] I guess.
>> Just launch it out into the field? >> Yeah.
So here, we'll take this dull one. >> Okay.
>> Oh my goodness...
[sinister laughter]
>> I don't like that there's a bit of a twist in it. >> [distracted] What‽
How am I bleeding? >> [something between "you" and "no"]
How did that happen‽ >> I don't even know how that happened!
>> You cut yourself on the PVC pipe!
♪ [bass beat, club music] [echoing] Roll it back!
♪ Da-da da da da da da ♪
>> When did that happen? [dance beat continues]
♪ You got cut by plastic! ♪ [music fades out]
[amused] Yeah you definitely-- you got a paper cut on this.
[laughter]
You load it like a mortar. ♪ [music picks up]
>>> BOTH: Loaded!
>> BRIAN: We got one loaded. >> Yep!
All right, here we go. We are live.
Fire in the hole.
Three,
two...
[launch snap]
That landed behind us. That's probably not good.
>> No, it was right over here.
[slowed launch snap]
[music continues]
>> BRIAN: Where? >> JASON: It hit the tree and then landed over here.
>> Yeah. I don't like that it hit the tree.
[laughter]
Oh you did find it.
Two things about this.
One, it is awkward
that you have to have your aiming hand
work counter to your force-pulling hand
[Jason affirms] and is sort of akimbo and flying all around.
I feel like the perfect version of this would have something to rest in here,
but I'd be kind of like pulling back and then firing,
and I'd have more stability.
>> Okay. >> But I don't know for our improvised scenario
that that would be much of an option
So I can feel it on my belly here.
I'm going to-- get that on there, okay.
And now...
very far away, I--what, straight up?
>> JASON: Sure! >> BRIAN: Three, two, one.
[launch snap]
[laughter]
It looks exactly like when Superman throws the crystal
from planet Krypton. >> Does it just--
>> It just tumbles end over end.
So, I'm going to bet
that there's a reason arrows have those feathers on them
and that it's never going to fly true over long distance.
>> Fletching is a real thing. >> Yeah.
>> They're not just decorative!
>> Right. >> I could have sworn--
[vhs ejection]
>> BRIAN: All right, so we got duct tape on here.
We'll see if this does anything.
>> Looks a little janky, but the whole thing is.
>> I don't even know if it's going to slide down like that.
[Brian stammers]
See, I'm afraid I'm just going to pinch and ruin the fletching now.
>> JASON: Maybe. >> BRIAN: Okay, here I go.
Weapon is live.
Three,
two...
[launch snap]
It flew straightish.
>> Straightish, yeah. Which is--
>> It didn't tumble end over end. >> Yeah, that's an improvement.
>> We'll see if, for the first time we can get
the right side of the weapon to hit.
Three,
two, one.
[slow launch snap] ♪ [music]
[high-pitched] Eh?
>> Better! That's an improvement. >> Better, better!
Part of the problem is I don't think we're getting enough forward momentum
because we can't pull it back far enough. >> Yeah.
>> I guess we could move this forward
and have it be even tighter at the bottom
but I'd prefer to be farther back.
>> Longer, yeah. >> Right? >> Yeah.
>> So, we found this curtain rod
floating around inside.
>> I like it!
Cannibalizing things around the house to make them...
dangerous!
>> Do you want to try just firing just this without
any pointy bits at the end?
>> Let's try it! >> Okay. All right.
>> What could go wrong?
>> [laughing] Welcome to our channel.
>> Here we go.
>> JASON: Got it?
Okay!
>> BRIAN: Oh my god.
Three,
two,
one.
[slow launch snap]
It still, it just flops sideways!
>> Yeah. >> Okay and I honestly feel like
for us to go any farther back, we really risk this thing
flying back into our face.
It's not like a slingshot where you have
something that you're able to brace yourself.
This thing is the thing that sliced your hand,
now imagine it coming at your face!
>> So you're saying,
my weapon making skills need work.
[with indignation] That's okay!
>> I'm saying, we need to turn to the real experts,
the audience for their suggestions on this.
>> Mm, okay. >> I think we're almost on to something,
but just the unwieldiness...
I'm going to say "Yes," to a last ditch prison weapon,
pretty much "No," to anything else, right?
>> [with disappointment] Yeah.
-- CC BY BIZARRE MAGIC --
All right. Back to the drawing board.
Back to my Wile E. Coyote
Pinterest board of murder. [Brian cackles]
>> I want that to be our real Pinterest board!
Wile E. Coyote Pinterest board of murder!
>> I'm going to start it! [Jason laughs]
See, this is more effective.
>> Nope, nope! [Brian cackles]