Help me find this video

December 8, 2004 2:36 PM

My memory fails me - there's a funny video that made the rounds online (including mefi) that was a fake industrial film for a device with a name like "interociter". It was loaded with all kinds of nonsensical technical terms. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to it.
posted by O9scar to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Would it have been a scene from "This Island Earth", in which a scientist constructs an Interocitor, which also serves as a test of his intelligence?

http://trconnection.com/~todd/interocitor.html
posted by agropyron at 2:43 PM on December 8, 2004

Well there was the "industrial" scene in the MST3k Movie, in which Cal and Joe are putting together an interocitor:

"Industry, science, and technology! Big men putting screwdrivers into things, turning them, and adjusting them! Build your own atom storage box! Bringing you state-of-the-art in soft serve technology! Pulls off caps of any size jug, bottle, or jar. And it really, really works."
posted by cubedweller at 2:43 PM on December 8, 2004

Best answer: The Retro-encabulator! Discussed here.
posted by zsazsa at 3:00 PM on December 8, 2004

Response by poster: Yes! Thanks so much.
posted by O9scar at 3:02 PM on December 8, 2004

The retro-encabulator is great. There was also a SNL (late '80s, I'd say) fake ad for "Wilson Countersink Flanges" in which every word was gobbledygook. Fantastic.
posted by Vidiot at 9:12 AM on December 9, 2004