Microwave Me (Matthew Villani) Wiki



Welcome to the Microwave Me (Matthew Villiani) Wiki
Hello! This is an wiki from the microwave show (microwave me) that is still work in progress. Matthew Villiani Is host and founder of the show, also known as "Captain Microwave", a title he developed from watching a pirate video by a woman who was also a fan and suggested microwaving bubble wrap. His curiousity with microwaves began as a child when he liked to play around with the power levels to see what they did, including one time in 1992 when he heated up a cup of hot chocolate for 12:34 to see what it did. He also once time in 2001 did an experiment with a spoon in a cup of coffee and a fork with his supper. He found that the spoon was safe but the fork wasn't.

He didn't know until summer of 2012 that it was possible to make a show out of microwaving "unusual" items. In late summer 2012, he filmed a pilot episode which would later be discarded, and instead on October 23, 2012 uploaded a second pilot episode done with hot pockets. Initially the show was a parody of "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?" and "dOvetastic Microwave Theater" with the jokes and naming conventions of the former but the microwaving style of the latter, but beginning with episode 8 it began to move away from that and slowly became a microwaving show in its own original format. For the first two seasons, the show had no budget and was entirely stuff found around the house. Beginning with the third seasons, more and more items have been specifically bought for the show, most notably the Easy Button, the traffic light, and the Wheel firework.

Some running gags from earlier seasons remained, such as continuing to joke about being "low budget", a simplistic idea verdict at the end, and taking inspiration between other microwaves shows with a dash of another show that he's a fan of, "What Happens When You Microwave This?" by BLHProductions. Beginning late in season four, he introduced an "intermission" segment for longer experiments that took awhile to do something due to requests of that nature, but dropped it in later seasons and replacing it with a direct cut to action.

Later on, he would drop the naming of the microwave entirely, phasing it out in 2015, and dropping it entirely in 2016, with the last named microwave being named Sammie. His new microwave that replaced Jennie was never given a name and only used for one formal experiment (a packet of soup mix with a funny name) until season 19.

History
Currently, Microwave Me has been retired and has grown from its humble origins as a parody show to a proper microwaving show. Initially the show had a lot of racy humour, but because a lot of the viewers were very young, the racy humour was phased out in season 6 and most of season 7 was mostly safe for all ages. However, some viewers requested the racy humor to return, so it has made a few return appearances.

After Season 7, Microwave Me moved to Vimeo in Season 8 due to difficulties at the time regarding YouTube forcing channels to merge with Google+ and removed the theme song after requests to skip to the microwaving. However, the move to Vimeo was quiet, so later into the season, videos were uploaded both on Youtube and Vimeo, until returning to exclusivity on YouTube, starting around Season 9. Also starting with season 8, the verdicts changed, and the verdict titlecard disappeared and was replaced by a stylized text. The biggest change is that "great idea, good idea, and push" all merged into "Safe" although "Push" does make a couple cameos but for things originally described as a bad idea. Some former "bad idea" experiments now would be categorized as "safe", such as certain light bulb episodes, "unsafe" replaced "bad idea" and the lighter "really bad ideas", and "dangerous" replaced "really bad idea" and the lighter "deadly ideas", however "deadly", "stupid", and "highly deadly" (with "idea" dropped from the wording) remain. Since fans wanted a theme song again, a new theme song was used, starting being used in Season 10. Also starting in Season 10 was the return of the verdict jingles, as well as the introduction of credits. Most of the credits are an off-blue with yellow text, but we now know that "deadly" uses a black background with white text. We also know that "shitty" (the Season 8+ version of a one-time verdict) has a brown background with white text.

The Lava lamp episode of season 10 was one of the most dangerous experiments of the show, with the explosion happening inconveniently right as Matthew was about to inspect the microwave; however, the video went very viral and helped launch not only the show, but the channel into being one of the better recognized YouTube destruction channels. At its peak, Microwave Me was averaging 5000 new views a day and grabbing 3000 to 10,000 views per video.

However, in late 2016, viewership had begun to decline, and would continue through 2017. Due to financial issues from less ad revenue due to decreased viewership and the destruction of his garage by a storm, the show had to go on hiatus after completing the 500th episode, intending to return that fall.

In early 2018 the channel became under attack by trolls and due to multiple community guidelines strikes, the channel housing the show was unable to upload for months. On August 16, 2018, MicrowaveMeShow was temporarily suspended, but the secondary channel, Captain Microwave, still remained, which was created in 2013 as an emergency backup. Starting in March 2018, Trolls have been creating impostor accounts, using the channel name, likeness, and reuploads of his videos, often claiming to be a backup account. Captain Microwave has reported that any account claiming to be the "new" Microwave Me is fake. After the raid of troll or trolls (it's unknown if the show was raided by one person or a group) made many fake accounts have been taken down, he moved to sites that Matthew did not frequent such as TikTok where they could get views by impersonating Captain Microwave without his permission.

On December 27, 2018 his account was restored with most content intact, but has been having difficulties getting restarted. Season 19 was mostly small things done in Matt's home microwave and has been struggling to reach his audience again. Matthew was planning to film some more exciting experiments in Season 19 with a spare microwave he had bought, but these plans were cut short when it died after just one experiment. Because the show wasn't making a profit anymore due to the demonetization of many of his cooler experiments, Matthew couldn't buy another microwave and stuck to more home microwave experiments. On December 7, 2020 the show officially ended with a video of microwaving an hourglass and Matthew posting a video explaining the decision in detail on January 13, 2021. Ever since then, the show has been posting throwbacks to classic videos and comments about the show on it's community tab.

On October 14, 2021, Matthew announced that he had managed to get ahold of a working microwave to use for experiments and will be using it for two special episodes commemorating the show's 9th and 10th anniversaries which will be uploaded on October 24th 2021 and 2022 respectively. The experiment subjects are planned to be giant novelty light bulbs of sorts. It is unknown if the microwave will have a name.

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