1x010 - Christmas lights

Plot
"It's the season to be jolly" and Jory has a strand of colored Christmas lights, which he has an incentive to make as warm and toasty as chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Thus he turns to his laboratory to microwave the lights. He pushes them all inside his Unnamed microwave oven and goes with a two-minute experiment session.

The lab's own lights are always turned off for the experiments, but the effect is more dramatic as the series of filaments glow inside the microwave, emitting many pretty colors worthy of ooh's and ahh's. Due to the length of cord and amount of lights, however, the strand often couldn't turn with the microwave's tray, and Jon is the first to notice that the experiment might also be on fire; he suggests stopping the run. Jory struggles for a moment to abort the microwave's generator, but once he does, he motions to leave the laboratory so the room can ventilate.

After returning a short while later, Jory reaches into the microwave to pull out the completed experiment. He also shows a plastic bulb that had broken off one of the lights, already anticipating that this was a Bad Idea. He readily comes to the conclusion that the one-time light show only ruins the possibility of ever using this string of lights again. In addition, he shows one of the lights that had been broken at some point prior to the experiment.

Trivia

 * Jory changed from his M*A*S*H shirt to his yellow "El bee" shirt. It is unknown whether all of the season 1 episodes were filmed on the same day and Jory changed his shirt to make it appear as though a lot of time had passed, or whether his shirt is different because filming occurred over the span of a few days.
 * Although Jory introduces this as a Christmas episode, it actually premiered in the summer, well before the Holiday season.
 * This episode is the source of the "Two minutes?" and "Yeah, I think they're on fire" audio clips used in the season 1 intro.
 * Jory has successfully learned the name of the show by this point.

Quotes

 * Jory: As you may know, it is the season to be jolly!
 * Jory: We should probably evacuate the room because of the fumes. This seems to be a common occurrence on "Is it a Good Idea to Microwave This?"
 * Jory: Well, let's see what happened to our lights. (holds up broken bulb) Judging by this, they did not fare well in the experiment!
 * Jory: It makes an awesome show, but you aren't hangin' these puppies on the Christmas tree anytime soon. And then, trying to find the one that's broken? (whispers) It's this one! That would be a bitch!

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