Microwave Me: Banana

Experiment #7: Banana

(Originally uploaded on November 7, 2012 on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdq3oqsih4w

(Rated PG) Originally my most viewed video until the silverware one overtook it, which surprised me since it's not that great of an episode. I initially thought it was the double meaning of banana that drew in the viewers, so I ramped up the dirty level to over 9000, hoping to attract new viewers. Later on, I found out it was because of something in an anime called Steins Gate. Like the chestnut episode, there's one brief moment of crude humour, and I know originally I rated this PG-13, but that was before I had a more standardized rating system, but honestly the lone "banana" joke is no worse than you'd hear on a show like Family Feud, so I lowered the rating to PG. A later episode does, however, earn its PG-13 rating, as you'll find out when I get around to uploading it here.

Anyways, about the episode itself. This was about the point that I started feeling comfortable as a host of an internet show and no longer just saw myself filming stuff like on a camcorder, hoping people would enjoy it. If you notice, the banter is a LITTLE more organized and there's a lot less extraneous "fluff" than even the stick of butter episode. And when I was uploading these, this is when I had begun to focus a little more on the microwave show than on the music. But I was still uploading these to my music channel. I'd hoped this series would get people checking out my music, but little did I know that my inspiration would dry up a mere four months after posting this. But at this point I was preparing to move away from the "boring" items from the first few episodes and towards slightly more exciting stuff. "Boring" items would still be used occasionally after this until as late as season 4, where I microwaved a TV dinner with a sensationalist title. Anyways, due to increased issues with YouTube's poopy commenting system, I'm going to upload more of these here more frequently since I want to eventually be using this alongside YouTube to upload my stuff. And once I get to season 8, I'll link to the Vimeo videos for the first few since they were uploaded a week or more before they were mirrored on YouTube. And I hope by the end of the year to be posting videos regularly on both sites alongside each other and getting the views that reflect that you people are really interested in my stuff.

Once again, if you like my show, PLEASE COMMENT, DAMMIT! I know I'm new here, but it's kind of discouraging that I've only so far gotten one comment, and that was from a good friend who knows me on YouTube.