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"Mehdi Sadaghdar runs ElectroBOOM, a channel that has really technical videos about electronics; but is which, perhaps unfairly, best known for Mehdi repeatedly shocking himself."
Mehdi Sadaghdar (born January 13, 1977) is an Iranian-Canadian electrical engineer and YouTube comedian.
He runs the channel ElectroBOOM, an educational-comedy channel that deals with electicity-based experiments, as well as other tutorials, with Mehdi enduring pain each video.
His channel, ElectroBOOM, contains examples of:
- Berserk Button: Mehdi has some.
- Saying that electric current kills people.
- Fake DIY projects.
- Free-energy devices is a really big one.
- Spelling his name "Medhi".
- Butt-Monkey: Mehdi himself.
- Cluster Bleep-Bomb: He is known for swearing when things go wrong or when he gets hurt, and the swears are usually censored.
- Don't Try This at Home: A constant refrain....right before he tries it at home. And probably shocks himself.
- Electric Torture: Mehdi constantly gets electrocuted in most of his videos.
- Enforced Plug: In many videos, he stops to talk about the sponsor of the video. For an example, he plugs Brilliant in his "Making Cooler/Generator with Thermoelectric Device" video.
- Genre Deconstruction: Has debunked many a free energy device, electrical BS, and other questionable devices.
- Happily Married: Mehdi is married and has a daughter (nicknamed "ElectroCute") who shows up sometimes in videos.
- Hypocritical Humor: Says he distrusts people with an accent while having a heavy accent himself.
- Jump Scare:
- Some of the shocks he gets cause this for both him and the viewer.
- In "How to Make a Safe and Reusable Firecracker"
, ElectroCute’s sudden appearance scares her father.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Has worked on many a project and has given up at times due to lack of knowledge in a field or things just refusing to work.
- Made of Iron: Mehdi constantly endures whatever pain he feels, no matter how bad it is.
- Plot Detour:
- In many videos, sometimes the main crux is deviated from due to him causing short circuits and stuff blowing up.
- For example in How to Repair a Flat Tire, he accidentally blows the cigarette lighter fuse when trying to use an electric pump, requiring him to fix the fuse.
- Running Gag:
- "FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!"
- Mehdi accidentally grabbing an air horn when he needs a fire extinguisher
- Signing Off Catchphrase: On some videos, Mehdi would say "...and thank you for watching" at the end.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Mainly capacitors but all sorts of electrical components fall apart.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Whenever Mehdi does something he knows is going to shock him.
