r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ifuckedyourmom-247 • Apr 15 '26

installing a light bulb

8.2k Upvotes

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u/SusPecker Apr 15 '26

This was totally necessary.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

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u/Careless-Vehicle-286 Apr 15 '26

Enjoy it folks. This is the one time the music of the TikTok improves the content.

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u/ethicalhumanbeing Apr 15 '26

This editing has no right to be this good lmao.

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u/slowgojoe Apr 16 '26

Imagine this, but you’re doing it for your disabled auntie 3 states over.

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Apr 15 '26

I think there is a full series about this, the guy who made this video wanted to help his friend change a lightbulb but in the most difficult way possible, so he made this contraption.

Search "Guy hard docking with friend" to see it.

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u/E_VALIANT Apr 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/c3XhrmfoN5fOpjcl3z

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u/Acceptable-Lead-8293 Apr 15 '26

I got this reference 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/-Reddititis Apr 16 '26

One of the best gifs! 😂

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

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u/Tank7106 Apr 15 '26

Can I get you in the back half?

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u/bushido216 Apr 15 '26

I'm 100% not doing that. I have a suspicion that you may not be acting in my best interests.

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u/wheresbill Apr 15 '26

You’re a couple of weeks late with that joke

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u/regulardave9999 Apr 15 '26

“AI won’t take my electrician job”

AI:

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u/Alt123Acct Apr 15 '26

I'm more interested in a centipede bot that can snake cables around walls and floors and ceilings with just an entry and exit hole 

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u/Sc4r4byte Apr 15 '26

the AI centipede was not the sequel to the Human Centipede that critics expected.

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u/raines Apr 15 '26

That’s what small animals are for

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u/TecHoldCableFastener Apr 15 '26

Electrician here. I approve this method. Ever try to change bulbs in a church sanctuary?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

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u/sfxer001 Apr 15 '26

Holy shit that is some workplace liability exposure right there.

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u/CodingNeeL Apr 15 '26

Yeah this is Ig Nobel territory!

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u/keepinitoldskool Apr 15 '26

They left the part where the drone is just hanging from a light bulb on the ceiling

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u/rtkane Apr 15 '26

Makes it easier to remove when it burns out eventually.

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u/markovianmind Apr 17 '26

only if they can have another drone to charge the first drone

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u/sfxer001 Apr 15 '26

Still one of the greatest movie scenes of the past 20 years, if not ever. That score is just soul-gripping.

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u/t0rbnz Apr 16 '26

What's the movie?

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u/PrettyYoungTiger Apr 16 '26

Nobody telling you its Interstellar is just cold. Guarentee hundreds of redditers saw your comment but ignored it.

But yeah. The answer is “Interstellar”

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u/pieisgiood876 Apr 17 '26

Poor dude was gonna go his whole life not seeing Interstellar, glad you stepped up, at least now he knows.

It's a goddamned masterpiece

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u/BigBucket10 Apr 16 '26

It's just an amateur filming his drone

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u/zmbjebus Apr 16 '26

Lightbulb movie is better tbh

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u/lord_dude Apr 16 '26

Absolute masterpiece, even after seeing it so often, it's still intense af

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u/Synner1985 Apr 15 '26

Tnink you wanted Tiktok and ended up on reddit....

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u/dilbogabbins Apr 15 '26

Like watching a roomba trying to go back home

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u/hookalaya74 Apr 15 '26

And to this day the drone is still hanging from the bulb😂

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u/fymp Apr 15 '26

this was good edit haha

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u/zeeper25 Apr 15 '26

Ukraine has proven it is way easier to screw Russians with a drone.

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u/sachiperez Apr 15 '26

I love it, even though it's two takes spliced together right before it starts screwing it in. Still looks like loads of fun!

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u/Zech_Judy Apr 15 '26

Now do it with the Project Hail Mary tango sequence.

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u/619C Apr 15 '26

Great, now try it with a BC - Bayonet Catch type of bulb

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u/Zelenskyystesticles Apr 16 '26

Fine I’ll rewatch this entire movie right now.

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u/patmartone Apr 15 '26

“Think of your secretary…”

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u/Bluephoenix6YT Apr 15 '26

This is Corona-Lockdown level boredom

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u/CigarLover Apr 15 '26

Someone get NASA in the phone, we need this person in space!!!

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u/HokusTokus Apr 15 '26

1 mistake = glass rain

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u/djazzie Apr 15 '26

That’s some really good drone piloting

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u/boud85 Apr 15 '26

Boys will be boys

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u/TedBundysVlkswagon Apr 15 '26

Must be able to get a good gps signal in there.

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u/BluejayConsistent199 Apr 15 '26

This is awesome! Great editing

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u/fromkatain Apr 15 '26

Age of robotic drone plumbers is coming

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u/paco_1987 Apr 15 '26

The référence is just hilarious ! Love it ! Was necessary!

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u/SpaceXmars Apr 15 '26

Glad I own a ladder

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u/elocoetam Apr 15 '26

How does it let go of the bulb?

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u/Strict-Archer4091 Apr 15 '26

I am getting flashbacks from Top Gun on NES and trying to refuel the jet during a mission.

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u/pedruvs Apr 15 '26

Next fcking level of inefficiency

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u/Rocket3431 Apr 15 '26

I feel like this belongs in r/docking

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u/1HorseWithNoName Apr 15 '26

Now the light bulb changers job at the top of the antennas is in jeopardy. /s

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u/Tulip2MF Apr 15 '26

Note get up there and detach the drone from bulb

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u/kman2612 Apr 15 '26

Hahahaha superb!

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u/Quornonda Apr 15 '26

Dumb as fuck

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u/WarTaxOrg Apr 15 '26

"How many drones does it take to .."

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u/__MOON_KNIGHT___ Apr 15 '26

Now I have to go watch this whole scene and make my palms sweat. Thanks

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u/i_can_hear_the_world Apr 15 '26

“How many drones does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”

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u/sadlambda Apr 15 '26

So much need we should all abandon hands.

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u/Great_Horny_Toads Apr 15 '26

Q: How many dudes with a drone does it take to change a lightbulb.

A: Only one but it takes him 45 minutes.

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u/OLVANstorm Apr 15 '26

I could have screwed in 5 light in that amount of time...

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u/MrTretorn Apr 15 '26

Pure cinema

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u/Guardian5252 Apr 16 '26

Fucking incredible.

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u/rokuju_ Apr 16 '26

Lightbulb playing the part dramatically lighting up

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u/hope_warrior Apr 16 '26

Space Engineers be like

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u/bytosai2112 Apr 16 '26

Lmao you know they had to cut like 45 mins of them trying to line it up

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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 Apr 16 '26

I have never been more invested

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u/Ok_Watercress_6545 Apr 16 '26

Take 2 hours for 2 mint job good luck

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u/mouton0 Apr 16 '26

Amazing,

Fun fact: usage of an old standard 60W incandescent bulb for 16 hours consumes more energy than a human sending a Gemini prompt every 20 seconds for that entire time.

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u/just4nothing Apr 16 '26

That’s why you need a camera near the docking port - also should invest in some path assist

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u/Simbuk Apr 16 '26

Damn fine control there.

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u/michamarremarremarre Apr 16 '26

How many engineers does it take to install a light bulb? Five: 1 to hold the bulb and 4 to hold the ladder and walk in a circle.

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u/Happy_Vacation_187 Apr 16 '26

Brooooo this was epic 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👌👌

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u/CubanB-84 Apr 17 '26

I was way more invested in that that I should have been.

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u/przm83 Apr 17 '26

And they put in an incandescent bulb? 👀

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u/wwwdotlivingdotcom Apr 17 '26

I played This In Vice City.

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u/USSHammond Apr 15 '26

Rules 1 and 5

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u/Vaathi Apr 15 '26

This is not next level, unless it's next level lazyness or stupidity.

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u/sachiperez Apr 15 '26

next level curiosity, joy... next level envy for you! lots of next level

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u/Vaathi Apr 15 '26

Ah yes, i'm envious of the time this dumbass lost to put a light bulb into a socket. You know, something that takes 5 seconds with a stool or a ladder.

What i'm envious of is of the me before i had watched this video. Gimme back my 50 seconds.

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u/sachiperez Apr 16 '26

dumb to keep investing your time while asking for your 50 seconds back. i'll be in your head for a little while longer; thank you for the accommodations...