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* On {{FSTDT}} a common response to an ironic statement made by one of the fundies whose statements have been quoted is that it has [[InvokedTrope "destroyed my irony meter."]]

* An old episode of ''MyLittlePony'' featured a band talent show with a scale that [[ThingOMeter measured how good the performance was.]] When the heroes performed their song, the scale [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale hit the roof]] and blew up.

** A filler scene later on showed that SSJ Goku and final-form Frieza could blow up computers in different ''solar systems''.

** Vegeta's power level in the Namek arc broke at least two scouters -- the first time, Zarbon's scouter blew up when he killed Cui, and Frieza's new scouter exploded when Vegeta proved he could actually go toe-to-toe with him (at least until Frieza transformed).

* One ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strip had an ImagineSpot where Calvin's dad lets him drive, and instead the car starts flying.

* In a ''{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Snoopy added the number of pizzas he and Woodstock ate before midnight to the number of pizzas they ate after midnight. The result blew Snoopy's pocket calculator.

* In ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', the title mech literally eating a Big Bang safely spoon-fed by Lordgenome causes the power gauge to shatter ''[[BeyondTheImpossible and then keep going outside the monitor]]''.

* {{Lampshaded}} by the ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum." [[OnceAnEpisode Frequently]], their Canon Analysis Devices blow up when faced with particularly heinous breaches of canon. Savvy agents will hurl their CAD's in the opposite direction the moment something truly awful happens. Occasionally, they just don't turn their CAD's on at all, knowing that it would go boom--[[BeyondTheImpossible which doesn't always stop the explosion]].

* In ''TheSpoonyExperiment'', Dr. Insano's {{Gaydar}} blew up when watching a scene with a swishy proprietor in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/04/17/beastmaster-2-through-the-portal-of-time/ this review]] of ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster 2]]''.

* In [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/nash/specials/29196-nash-doctor-who-classic-the-tv-movie this review]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 8th Doctor movie, [[WebOriginal/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]] had a [[FlameWar "Nerd Rage meter"]], and when it turned out the Doctor was half human, it finally blew up. Then it blew up again later on.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' - if scouters aren't getting [[AGlassInTheHand broken]], they're blowing up while their owners are still wearing them.

* In ''DragonBallZ'', Vegeta's power level in the Namek arc broke at least two scouters -- the first time, Zarbon's scouter blew up when he killed Cui, and Frieza's new scouter exploded when Vegeta proved he could actually go toe-to-toe with him (at least until Frieza transformed). A filler scene later on showed that SSJ Goku and final-form Frieza could blow up computers on ''other planets''.

* In ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Ponder Stibbons' magic-measuring [[ThingOMeter thaumometer]] melts when the magic field used to create the Last Continent exceeds its limit of one million thaums.

* In [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/nash/specials/29196-nash-doctor-who-classic-the-tv-movie this review]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 8th Doctor movie, [[WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]] had a [[FlameWar "Nerd Rage meter"]], and when it turned out the Doctor was half human, it finally blew up. Then it blew up again later on.

** And the Ass Counter blows up during a particularly blatant [[MaleGaze ass shot]] in ''Film/DeadOrAlive''.

* ''TheGoodies''. In one episode the temperature gets so high that a thermometer ends up blowing its top and squirting fluid in someone's face.

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* In TengenToppaGurrenLagann, the title mech literally eating a Big Bang safely spoon-fed by Lordgenome causes the power gauge to shatter ''[[BeyondTheImpossible and then keep going outside the monitor]]''.

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* In [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/nash/specials/29196-nash-doctor-who-classic-the-tv-movie this review]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 8th Doctor movie, [[WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]] had a [[FlameWar "Nerd Rage meter"]], and when it turned out the Doctor was half human, it finally blew up. Then it blew up again later on.
* In ''TheSpoonyExperiment'', Dr. Insano's {{Gaydar}} blew up when watching a scene with a swishy proprietor in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/04/17/beastmaster-2-through-the-portal-of-time/ this review]] of ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster 2]]''.
* Shane Killian's "Bogometer", used to measure the dishonesty of creationist claims, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsSKTl0uNc explodes at 3:18 of this video]] when Janet Folgar claims that "It was Bible-believing Christians who gave us science as we know it."

* On ''PhineasAndFerb'', Phineas was trying to track a cute little alien, so he built a cute-meter. Later he mentioned that he filtered Isabella's cuteness and when he turned the safety off, the cute-meter blew up.

* In TengenToppaGurrenLagann, the title mech literally eating a Big Bang safely spoonfed by Lordgenome causes the power gauge to shatter ''[[BeyondTheImpossible and then keep going outside the monitor]]''.

* In ''JoeBarTeam'', the main characters destroy numerous radar speed gun radars with their motorbikes using this very trope.
* An old episode of ''MyLittlePony'' featured a band talent show with a scale that [[ThingOMeter measured how good the performance was.]] When the heroes performed their song, the scale [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale hit the roof]] and blew up.
* In ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Ponder Stibbons' magic-measuring [[ThingOMeter thaumometer]] melts when the magic field used to create the Last Continent exceeds its limit of one million thaums.
* In [[{{Lensman}} Children of the Lens]], the last physical battle of the series involves [[spoiler:a faster-than-light planet hitting a star]].
-->Finally it happened. What happened? Even after the fact none of the observers knew. The fuses of all the recorder and analyzer circuits blew at once. Needles jumped instantly to maximum and wrapped themselves around their stops. Charts and ultraphotographic films showed only straight or curved lines running from the origin to and through the limits in zero time.
* ''TheGoodies''. In one episode the temperature gets so high that a thermometer ends up blowing its top and squirting fluid in someone's face.
* Lampshaded by the ''Protectors of the Plot Continuum." [[OnceAnEpisode Frequently]], their Canon Analysis Devices blow up when faced with particularly heinious breaches of canon. Savvy agents will hurl their CAD's in the opposite direction the moment something truly awful happens. Occasionally, they just don't turn their CAD's on at all, knowing that it would go boom--[[BeyondTheImpossible which doesn't always stop the explosion]].

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* In ''DragonBallZ'', Vegeta's power level in the Namek arc broke at least two scouters - the first time, Zarbon's scouter blew up when he killed Cui, and Frieza's new scouter exploded when Vegeta proved he could actually go toe-to-toe with him (at least until Frieza transformed). A filler scene later on showed that SSJ Goku and final-form Frieza could blow up computers on ''other planets''.

* Lampshaded, of course, by the ''Protectors of the Plot Continuum." [[OnceAnEpisode Frequently]], their Canon Analysis Devices blow up when faced with particularly heinious breaches of canon. Savvy agents will hurl their CAD's in the opposite direction the moment something truly awful happens. Occasionally, they just don't turn their CAD's on at all, knowing that it would go boom--[[BeyondTheImpossible which doesn't always stop the explosion]].

* ''TheGoodies''. In one episode the temperature gets so high that a thermometer ends up blowing its top and squirting fluid in someone's face.