Microwave Me

Microwave Me is "Youtube's Best 3rd Generation Microwave Show". It began on October 24, 2012 as a gimmick to draw audiences toward Matthew Villani, the host, director, editor, and producer's music channel. After becoming a full-fledged microwave show, it was cancelled on November 11, 2013 due to YouTube's increased inaccessability. It was continued as a Vimeo exclusive from November 19, 2013 to November 29 of the same year, after which it also began running on YouTube. The show continued its format designed on Vimeo until season 10, after which it took to a new format, with similar verdicts, but with credits at the end, and a themesong reiterated. This lasted until early Season 13, which shortened the mini-clip show at the beginning to a couple notes, and a slide saying "Microwaving random junk since 1992."

Microwave Me Before Microwave Me
The show's host, Matthew Villani, began experimenting in 1992, when, at age 7, he put a cup of hot chocolate in the microwave for 12:34 to see what would happen. The earliest taped episode, however, is a small Lucky Charms chocolate cake on July 11, 1992 for 35 seconds. In his own words, here are early experiments from 1992 to 2006.

"I began microwaving random junk in 1992, the only thing shows like "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?" did were to inspire me to make videos of my experiments. Overflowing cup of liquid? My first experiment, done in 1992. Metal plate? 1995. VHS tape? 1996. Silverware? 1998 through 2001. Egg? 2000. Tinfoil? 1994. Styrofoam? So many times I lost count. Marshmallows? 1993. Peeps? 2006. DIY mini cake? 1992. Microwave troll video? 1999."

In summer 2012, Matthew discovered he could make a microwave show, so in late summer 2012, Matthew took elements of dOvetastic Microwave Theater and Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? and filmed a pilot for Microwave Me (coined as Microwave my Head), which was discarded, but footage was released in January 2013. In October 2012, Microwave Me was born when Matthew microwaved Hot Pockets. Microwave Me was mostly a parody of the aforementioned microwave shows until it became a microwave show in its own right.

Microwave Me since Microwave Me
Microwave Me was filmed with a state of the fart camera from Seasons 1-3 before it was switched out for a much better, state of the art camera, which is still used today. After Season 7, Matthew moved his show to Vimeo, but since his move was quiet, he returned midway through Season 8. He has changed locations different times, but most locations are outside in some way (back porch, front porch, garage, yard) with only the kitchen episodes being truly indoors. The first 11 episodes were uploaded on his music account and later mirrored on MicrowaveMeShow.