Over-Extended Thanksgiving Oven Cries For Mercy
Submitted By: Alex
Favorite Comment(s!): Fixer Blackmoore says, “I’m sorry Dave. I can’t cook that.”
AND: Fixer Doug says, “Dear worthless owners,
HE:LP! I’ve been stranded here for years, being turned on and off at will, sometimes being ignored for months at a time. Then, without warning, you expect me to cook a turkey perfect the first time. How about a cleaning every so often? That 3″ of bacon grease on my floor that’s now turned black really burns. And I take the dirt out on your turkey. Seriously.
Clean me. Please. I need HE:LP.
Sincerely,
Your Mr. Chef Oven.”
I’m sorry Dave. I can’t cook that.
+1
+1. Brilliant comment.
+ errr +1000 or something!
Total win!
ROFL!!!!!
i envy the microwave with a HELP setting…
I think it’s actually a message from the turkey, not the oven.
Dear worthless owners,
HE:LP! I’ve been stranded here for years, being turned on and off at will, sometimes being ignored for months at a time. Then, without warning, you expect me to cook a turkey perfect the first time. How about a cleaning every so often? That 3″ of bacon grease on my floor that’s now turned black really burns. And I take the dirt out on your turkey. Seriously.
Clean me. Please. I need HE:LP.
Sincerely,
Your Mr. Chef Oven.
i’m sorry, but i don’t see the kludge. is the oven asking for help or offering it? with what?
It’s a stretch, but maybe it’s a design kludge? No backup battery means the clock fails every time the power goes out. Instead of programming the “help” message, couldn’t they have just installed a little backup battery?
It’s a normal programmed feature of the oven, and a smart one at that. It only qualifies as a kludge for the engineer who had to make it work (and letters on a 7-seg display are well documented).
It just learned that Daddy will be cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year
The bottom-left switch, is a quick setting for medium grilled rat!
Like “husabob”, I don’t see a kludge here!
This brings back memories of the time the oven’s heating element caught fire on Thanksgiving…three years in a row.
My microwave wish me “Enjoy your meal” even if I just boiled water so I’m not surprise to this dumb microwave!
My English sucks…
Artificial Intelligence?
It just became self-aware
Just looking at it, it does seem to be a microwave but a oven/range control panel.
It is indeed an oven control panel. I own one of these. That ‘help’ message is displayed whenever you lose power and the clock on the oven needs to be reset.
I dont talk to machines.
Two exploded pies and three cans of oven cleaner later, Oven realized it was time to give up his stubbornness and beg the refrigerator for help. The refrigerator was to busy giving him the cold shoulder to hear.
This is the same as my old gas oven. Whenever there’s a power-loss and the clock resets, it says “HELP” until you reset it. Our oven has been asking for help for about two months.
Oh lordy, I died laughing when I was told what this was. actually, though I think it found out that my dad would cook thankgiving this year. He’s a terrible cook. Burns water and melts pots if you let him… Hence why we don’t let his nurse let him cook anything more complex than pudding. No warmth or stove required.
non-kludge kludge
even so, it’s still funny!
That’s actually a message from the tiny Jewish person trapped inside.
Ouch.
Look at all those settings and lines and diagrams. Even the poor oven doesn’t know how to run itself.
Looks like the microwave’s dreams of becoming a Karaoke machine are finally coming to fruition. “Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone, heeeelp! When I was younger, so much younger than todaaay…”
Still don’t see the Kludge.
This was the day when appliances found out what they are stuck with – sandwiches made of yell-o, peanut butter and ketchup, brats, bimbos, crazy football fans, rednecks…
You’ve Neglected me for these Past Few Decades, and Expect Me to cook that!? No, I dare say. NO! You Have Entrusted me from everything from that Spiral Cut Ham you Cooked in me when you bought me, to that Cup of Ramen you had me warm for you… for Five Hours. And Don’t Get me started on that one winter where you “Forgot” to pay the Heating Bill. You, Yes, YOU, Mr. Anderson, are the Fool in this little charade. So, Leave Never to return.
Just stick some duck tape over it. Fixed.
Aww, the poor thing. Nobody wants to help it
my friends moved into a 150yo old house that used to be a doctors surgery and the oven said HELP, it was hilarious to see the guys faces
My oven does this after a power outage.
Anyone else remembers X-Files’ “Blood” episode?
“All done…..Bye Bye”
cool, makes sense that it would be a timer function.
one of my first microwaves would not work at all until the clock was timed, it would just generate random numbers (no sequence) Luckily whatever made it heat up (did they ever explain that fully?) would not come on unless the time was set, or it could ahve conceivably kept heating indefinitely…
great pic!
The Beatles are even in a oven
poor oven
“Stuck in oven. Send HE:LP”