Bubble wrap is fifty years old today! I have yet to come across someone with bubble wrap in their hands who doesn’t squeeze a few off, even if the precious contents of the box the wrap is inside is supposed to be more fun. Unlike the use thought up by the writers of Red Dwarf, bubble wrap was actually created as a sort of funky textured wall paper. Great unless you have children, cats or adults with poor impulse control in the house! People have taken the idea of Red Dwarf’s Tension Sheet, and created a viable product – a little keyring attachment with five or six permanent bubbles on it – pop one and the air just re-inflates a previously “popped” bubble!
^^ No idea about the video, it was just first one I could find of people seeming to enjoy the popping 🙂 ^^
January 28th, 2010 3:05 am
I don’t remember the Red Dwarf episode about the bubble wrap. I was expecting a youtube clip but it’s just a picture!
January 29th, 2010 7:45 pm
You don’t remember the tension wrap episode? I’m pretty sure it is the one where they can jump into photos, and Lister ends up rich, with Kryten (or rather the same actor) as his butler, a huge statue of himself in a courtyard peeing champagne, all because he went back in time and told himself to “invent” tension wrap before a kid from Rimmer’s school did. I could be wrong though, it has been years since I saw or read it.