Up to Eleven: Difference between revisions

*** Later, they did another commercial parody about "The Platinum Mach 14"—A razor with 14 blades.

** One-upped by a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42I26tx2s real razor ad]. The 15-bladed Quintippio is of course a parody, the actual product is an ''electric'' razor.

** Here's [http://agrumer.livejournal.com/429861.html a 9- and a 114-bladed razor]!

** Rotoshaver - an actual (electric) razor with 9 blades.

** ''[[The Daily Show]]'' spoofed the Razor Wars in an interview segment with the commentator's own 16-blade razor...it included four four-blade razors connected at the handles to a rotating motor. The skit ended with the commentator [[Nightmare Fuel|leaning his face in towards the spinning razors...]]

*** The cement company accidentally overfilled that truck, and the ''entire load'' had set. Tory had unsuccessfully tried to loosen it using a jackhammer, and it had pissed him off. The truck deserved everything it got. At the time it was the biggest explosion ever done on the show (now it's only 3rd or 4th biggest but still one of the coolest). There was ''very little'' left of that truck afterwards.

** The build team did this literally when they busted the myth that a sheet of paper can be folded in half only seven times. It culminated in producing and folding a huge sheet of paper (with the same ratio of width to length as a standard sheet of printer paper) in alternating directions to achieve a maximum number of folds... to eleven.

** The ''Hindenburg'' episode had them using scale models of the ''Hindenburg'' to test the myth that it was the chemicals on the skin of the airship rather than the hydrogen that destroyed it. It turned out to be a "contributing factor". Then - just for the hell of it - they took the last scale model, pumped it with hydrogen, and ''coated it with seventeen pounds of pure thermite''. It burned. Oh yeah did it burn.

** Another episode has them trying to cause two tractor-trailer rigs to fuse together in a head-on collision, with a compact car being crushed between them and literally lost in the wreckage. They crashed the trucks into the car at highway speeds, but there was no fusion, and the car was still partially there. Next, they built a rocket-propelled sled with the proper mass and crashed it into the car at ''seven hundred miles per hour''. Still no fusion, though it did successfully make the car vanish, bend a piece of one-inch-thick steel plate in half, and throw a multi-thousand-pound block of concrete about thirty feet. They eventually resorted to [[wikipedia:Explosive welding|explosive welding]]. (The car wasn't just destroyed. ''It was vaporized.'')

* In Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn":

{{quote|How I adore you,Dory Previn/I'll turn you up to eleven/for the band's ears to bleed}}

* Buckcherry's cocaine anthem ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpiF4QGJNY Lit Up]'' alludes to this when making a comparison between the norm and the coked-up person.

{{quote|"Well you're on ten, but honey, I'm on eleven!"}}

* Torpedoes bigger than small frigates, cargo shuttles barely shorter than the [[Star Trek|Starship Enterprise]], frigates the size of [[Star Wars|Star Destroyers]], cruisers that dwarf [[Stargate Atlantis|Wraith hive ships]], thousands of battlecruisers bigger than anything in fiction beyond a [[Star Wars|Super Star Destroyer]]...TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic has it all.

* The card game ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' has a card named "Mine goes up to Eleven!" If you play it, people have to reach level 11 instead of 10 as usual.

** Most ''MTG'' cards at the new "Mythic Rare" rarity level fall under this trope.

*** [http://magiccards.info/autocard.php?card=Maelstrom%20Nexus Maelstrom Nexus] is "cascade up to eleven"

*** ...''et cetera''. Although not all Mythic Rare cards make use of an existing mechanic, it's basically not worth making a card Mythic Rare UNLESS its potency is cranked up to eleven.

** "Darksteel Colossus" goes up to eleven literally. It has 11 power, 11 toughness, and costs 11 mana. Oh, and it's indestructible. Not only that, but if it is somehow sent to the graveyard, it's shuffled into its owner's library instead. This ability (which also appears on the aforementioned Progenitus) is actually meant as a ''drawback'', as it prevents players from discarding or milling it and then reanimating it.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'': Fighter came up with sword-chucks to make a better weapon than nun-chucks. Everyone around him realised this was [[Stupid but Awesome]].

* And then [[Reality Warper|Red Mage]] taught Fighter the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/24/episode-1008-charmed-im-sure/ Glorious Chainsaw Method].

* Subject of [http://xkcd.com/670/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic.

* Linkara from ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' goes "up to 15". Linkara has said that his video personality is basically his real life personality "turned up to eleven".

* Movie-related podcast ''All Movie Talk'' has Top 6 lists because 6 is one more than 5,

* With the revamp of [[ScrewAttack]]'s website, ratings can be given up to eleven. [[Fan Dumb|If you care enough.]]

* ''[http://11points.com 11 Points: Because Top 10 Lists are for Cowards]''

** Of course, he forgot that the Avatar was ''also'' a firebender, among other things.

* In an episode of ''[[Re Boot]]'', Megabyte gatecrashes a concert and produces a powerful electric guitar. Unsatisfied with the sound after a couple tests, he reaches for the dial and cranks it up to 11.

* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''' episode 'Bubblevicious', Bubbles got sick of being the "kid" in the group, so she turned the training simulator up to eleven to prove she was "hardcore". The result is an entire [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her, and her sisters acknowledge it.

{{quote|'''Buttercup:''' Wow, [[Badass|she took the laser]] [[Shout-Out|all the way]] Up to Eleven!}}

** 1001 metric hp (PS) would make around 987 hp. To keep the power rating at the advertised "over 1001 hp" in both systems of measures, metric and Imperial, Veyron engines make around 1020-1040 hp.

** While not quite as fast as the Veyron, the HTT Plethore LC-1300 "Canadian Supercar" has a 1,300 horse power engine and is designed as a 3-seater with the driver's seat and steering column in the centre like a Formula 1 car, and two passengers to the rear flanks of the driver.

** [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S3SR20100729 And 't Koelschip] went into overdrive outdoing [[Brew Dog]] with the Start the Future, at a massive 60% ABV.

* One of the Tv Tropes forums discusses this in terms of bodybuilding, noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.