Will It Soft Serve?
was a Web Video Series produced by The Technical Difficulties member Matt Gray. It was an episodic series where once per episode, Matt puts in an unusual foodstuff in an ice cream machine, and see if it makes for good ice cream. Hilarity Ensues.
And while Matt has created soft serve variants of things no reasonable human being, nothing is off limits to the series, be it sweet or savory; Mayonnaise, Hummus, HP Sauce and ...Neapolitian Ice Cream.
There hasn't been an episode since October 2020, and Matt revealed the fate of the series here on March 27th, 2021, in that he found the series boring after a while, and that the machine will be sold or binned, therefore making the series officially cancelled after 33 videos (including one crossover involving the rest of The Technical Difficulties crew, and the announcement of cancellation video).
Compare with Will It Blend?, a similar series used to sell a line of blenders.
Let's find out!
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Matt knows how to operate the machine as intended. The point of the series is to invoke this trope to see what disgusting (or surprisingly nice) foodstuffs he can make into ice cream.
- Crossover: "Tech Dif Makes Ice Cream", hosted on the joint Matt and Tom channel, is one for The Technical Difficulties where Chris, Gary and Tom join Matt after a recording of Two of These People Are Lying, a show they all star in. Hilarity Ensues.
- Does Not Like Spam: Naturally all the times the machine makes something so vile Matt never wants to eat it again. Gravy and HP sauce comes to mind.
- Fake Food: Averted. The food shown at the end of the video when the title cards come up is (very quickly) recorded in isolation for the end of the video's credits, and not some alternative. Some of the soft served foodstuffs don't survive very long or come out wrong when exiting the machine, and it's reflected as such.
- Food Porn: Even some of the disgusting results can look good enough to eat. Judging by Matt's reaction to a lot of them; you really shouldn't.
- Gross-Out Show: Logically, this is what the show is aiming for to some degree. Baked beans is a good example.
- Icarus Allusion: Tom on the Crossover Episode warns Matt of his childhood dream of making a really tall ice cream cone.
- Mess on a Plate: Food that didn't come out of the soft serve machine count as this, such as Wine or Irish Cream Liqueur.
- Once an Episode: Matt saying the page quote at the start of each episode.
- Shaped Like Itself: Neapolitan Ice Cream put through a soft serve machine still tastes like ice cream, go figure Matt.
