That’s one way to beat lockdown boredom! Joker’s painstaking attempt to explode a watermelon with rubber bands ends spectacularly
- Jeremiah Warlick tests the strength of a watermelon with his comical video
- The joker places more than 900 plastic bands around the fruit before it blows
- He is nicknamed the ‘rubberband man’ after his hilarious explosion attempts
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A man has become a hit on social media for his unusual solution to curing coronavirus lockdown boredom – wrapping plastic bands around watermelons and waiting for them to explode.
Jeremiah Warlick, known as the ‘rubberband man’, shares his comical and often painstakingly long challenge videos online and his viewers find his reactions to the explosions hilarious.
The 18-minute-long watermelon challenge video sees Mr Warlick, wearing his signature hairstyle with multiple pigtails, applying rubber band number 672 onto the already bulging fruit.
Joker Jeremiah Warlick has found a novel way to cure his coronavirus lockdown boredom – putting hundreds of rubber bands onto a watermelon until it explodes
Covered in what looks like white talc and wearing a pair of pink goggles, the actor and comedian continues to roll the stretchy bands down the watermelon.
The ring of bands gets bigger and bigger as Mr Warlick grabs more from the large pile he has to his right ready to be applied.
At band 735 he nearly loses all his work as the watermelon tips to the side and nearly falls off the counter.
He pauses for a second on the 800th band as a cracking noise can be heard but the fruit surprisingly remains intact.
The comedian becomes increasingly nervous as he applies more bands and his facial expressions are hilarious
The watermelon suddenly splits on one side after Mr Warlick applies band number 943 and there is a pause while the bands make their way through the fruit
When he makes it to 900 he brings the melon closer to the phone screen and juices from inside can be seen dripping from the top with the pressure.
At 916 the cracking begins again and Mr Warlick stops what he is doing to prepare for the explosion he thinks is about to happen but still the melon stays whole.
He becomes more and more nervous anticipating the explosion is imminent before a large split appears in the side of the melon on band 943.
The watermelon suddenly splits and the top half shoots up into the air leaving behind a trail of red fruit
The force of the watermelon exploding knocks the actor and comedian backwards on his chair and his legs hilariously flail in the air
Mr Warlick holds it in his hands waiting but there is a few seconds delay as the bands make their way through the watery fruit inside.
Suddenly the watermelon bursts up and the strength of the explosion comically knocks Mr Warlick backwards in his chair.
The joker has made several videos of him using rubber bands to explode watermelons with a range of results.
He has also done the same challenge on water balloons, bell peppers, a raw chicken and a bottle of milk.
To make his videos more interactive Mr Warlick asks his followers to guess how many bands they think it will take split the items.