He's Swiss, not Swedish.

You wouldn't believe how many people make that mistake all the time, much like Austria and Australia.

Meh, the only one he should do an impersonation of (due to striking resemblance) is French Stewart, preferably in his role as Harry in 3rd Rock from the Sun.

I regularly eat stuff that's at least 30 years old or so, of course it's army rations (crackers and such), but they're still as good today as they were back then...even though they're made out of 95% preservatives.

yayo, it's not a fake tattoo, it's a fresh tattoo. Fresh tattoos have moisurizers applied to them to keep them, well, moist so they heal better. What you're seeing is the shine from the flash, indeed, but it is the shine from moist skin, not the shine from a tattoo sticker.

bmezine.com is one of my favourite sites in the world, body modifications 4 teh win!

Wouldn't that technically be more like a popsicle though? I mean, ice cream is by definition creamy (to some degree at least) whereas popsicles are just frozen, flavoured, liquid.

Econerd, the amount they have there, or even compressed in the tank, shouldn't be so much in the greater perspective, especially if we consider how much cars and factories spew out of carbon dioxide every day all around the world. Drop in the ocean if anything.

Marcelo, it doesn't really have to do with the lungs but rather the vocal cords. The helium being less of less density than regular enables the vocal cords to actually vibrate faster, i.e. in a higher pitch, than normal. Just like sulfur hexafluoride is more dense and enables the vocal cords to vibrate slower, with more bass.

Haha, damn, I took too long in typing and making sure I got my facts straight. Good one Russell, glad to see I wasn't barking up the entirely wrong tree anyway.

If my not entirely rudimentary knowledge of chemistry serves me right it's not just "hexafluoride", the fluorine (or more correctly fluoride ions) has to be bonded to a central atom, such as sulfur for instance (which has the required amount of free spaces, i.e. six, to bond to make a hexafluoride) thusly making sulfur hexafluoride. Odorless, non-toxic and non-flammable.

The density is indeed much much denser than regular oxygen (or even the mixture of mainly oxygen and nitrogen that we call "air"). Oxygen has a density of 1.429 g/L, nitrogen of 1.251 g/L and sulfur hexafluoride a density of 6.13 g/L.

Tellurium would work instead of sulfur as well (making tellurium hexafluoride), however that variant is highly toxic and would not be applicable in a situation such as in the video. Xenon or uranium would also work in making hexafluorides, however both creates a crystalline compound instead of a gas.

No fishing wire, just clever chemistry.

Indeed, that's a tesla coil and not a microwave, though only more impressive because of the bolts of electricity shooting out into the air, otherwise it's just like a microwave.

Further have to second The Liberal Avenger, kids, do try it at home! At least with a microwave oven, as long as you turn off the microwave immediately after the firework is done it's a pretty safe thing to do, chances of destroying the microwave are absolutely minute. Though, I don't know what long lasting effects it may have in terms of contaminating the microwave oven, in case you use it to cook food with as well.

Yeah, these were really common a few decades ago but has become an item of obscurity lately. Would be pretty neat to see them making a comeback though, especially in this day and age of electronic devices inside everything. Lowtech 4 life!

Most likely just too much time, especially considering that they're never repeating any stunt twice within one clip. I bet they have hours and hours of video with failed attempts.

Yeah, I can imagine that's a hard thing to get if you're not used to that sound. Think of it as the word "git" just with a very short "i". So more like "smeedi-git" I guess, just with a short or silent last "i". Swedish is a painful language if you're not born into it :P

It's pronounced something like "smiddigt" or "smid-iggt" depending on where in the country you're from and how fast you speak. Surprisingly much how you think it'd be pronounced if read in English. :)

smidigt.se, not smidgit.se. Smidigt means literally flexible or limber in Swedish, but also is a popular slang for cool things or people, suave and groovy sort of.