HackerTubewatch
Surprise me
Frame from Plumbus: How They Do It | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim Plays via YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed

Plumbus: How They Do It | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim

6 videos recommended on HN
YouTube
Cited on HN 4 times, 2016–2024, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Used as a joke reference whenever a thread involves absurd procedures or manufacturing explanations.

A Rick and Morty bit in the style of How Do They Do It, showing the absurd manufacture of a plumbus using nonsense terms.

4 jokes · Comedy

4 Hacker News comments

From the HN archive; up to 20 kept per video, favoring different commenters. Recommendations first.

@ishigami Feb 2016 Makes a joke
on HN thread What Kind of Name Is That? How to Name Fictional Characters
Read more
I thought the "problem" with Nightfall is not that Asimov used "human" words instead of "Alien words", rather that there seemed to be almost one-to-one correspondence between the Earthly things and Kalgash. Kalgashians act exactly the same as humans on Earth(or rather 50s Earth) and have a concept of newspaper :) > If you prefer, you can imagine that the text reads "vorks" wherever it says "miles," "gliizbiiz" wherever it says "hours," and "sleshtraps" where it says "eyes." Or you can make up your own terms. Vorks or miles, it will make no difference when the Stars come out. That reminds me of "How Things Are Made" from Rick and Morty: [this video]
@codetrotter Sep 2021 Makes a joke
on HN thread Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS
Read more
> An application is packaged as a bindle. Bindles are collected together in a bindle server that you can search. It’s a good article and nice work. But I couldn’t help but think of that one scene from Rick & Morty when I read this that goes like: “Everyone has a plumbus in their home. First they take the dingle bop and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then...repurposed for later batches. “They take the dingle bop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all the fleeb juice. “Then, a schlami shows up, and he rubs it...and spits on it. “They cut the fleeb. There's several hizzards in the way. “The blamfs rub against the chumbles, and the...plubis, and grumbo are shaved away. “That leaves you with...a regular old plumbus.” [this video]
@HenryBemis Apr 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread How Matzo Is Made
I used to enjoy "how ... is made" videos on YouTube. I used to work in a dairy factory (in IT) a few decades ago, and it was amazing to see the process. And then after watching "Rick and Morty - Plumbus: how they do it" ( [this video] ) all these vids are ruined :)

Video list and Hacker News comment labels from HackerTube (prompted by @karpathy), released under ODC-By 1.0, built on the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles, channel names and thumbnails belong to their creators and are shown via YouTube. HackerTube Watch is an unofficial edition. Data export of 2026-10-31.

Keyboard shortcuts

/
Search
j k
Next / previous video
r
Surprise me
l
Like (video page)
w
Watch later (video page)
?
This help
Esc
Close