apartment super, Henry Weems (Willie Garson) and an ailing young boy, Ritchie Lupone (Shia LaBeouf) in a real-life Goldberg device. The 2010 music video "This Too Shall Pass – RGM Version" by the rock band OK Go features a machine that, after four minutes of kinetic activity, shoots the band members in the face with paint. "RGM" presumably stands for Rube Goldberg Machine. 2012 The CBS show Elementary features a machine in its opening sequence. The 2012 Discovery Channel show Unchained Reaction pitted two teams against each other to create an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine. It was judged and executive-produced by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, known for hosting the science entertainment series MythBusters. The 2014 web series Deadbeat on Hulu features an episode titled "The Ghost in the Machine," which features the protagonist Kevin helping the ghost of Rube Goldberg complete a contraption. It will bring his grandchildren together after they make a collection of random items into a machine that ends up systematically injuring two of his grandchildren so they end up in the same hospital and finally meet. Games Both board games and video games have been inspired by Goldberg's creations, such as the '60s board game Mouse Trap, the 1990s series of The Incredible Machine games, and Crazy Machines. The Humongous Entertainment game Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse involves searching for the missing pieces to a Rube Goldberg machine to complete the game. In 1909 Goldberg invented the "Foolish Questions" game based on his successful cartoon by the same name. The game was published in many versions from 1909 to 1934. Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game, the first game authorized by The Heirs of Rube Goldberg, was published by Unity Games (the publishing arm of Unity Technologies) in November 2013. See also Chindōgu Deathtrap (plot device) Domino effect Domino show Frederick Rowland Emett Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist who created Rube Goldberg–like sculptures Mickey One PythagoraSwitch References External links Official Rube Goldberg website Toonopedia entry Smithsonian's Archives of American Art: Oral History Interview with Rube Goldberg, 1970 NCS Awards Guide to the Rube Goldberg Papers at The Bancroft Library Rube Goldberg interviewed by Edward Murrow, 1959 Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game 1883 births 1970 deaths American editorial cartoonists Engineers from California UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni American humorists American male journalists Journalists from California Artists from