I always thought that cake looked so violently chocolaty. I was surprised the kid didn't collapse due to a heart attack. The fact that he was spitting it out makes so much sense. Also, who would've thought the cake was a lie? It was all over his face...
I like how prop masters are always finding ways to make edible versions of things that aren't edible, but then when it's cake they make it out of rubber
Bane of your existence??! That’s so weird to me, cause it looks disgusting the way he has to eat it all. 😆 Can’t you just…buy yourself a cake? Do you never get cake, like even once a year? Idk it doesn’t appeal to me even having gone through an intense chocolate cake phase that lasted me about 3 years, but my parents weren’t super restrictive and militant about stuff like that so maybe that’s why. Balance is great! Treat yourself to a cake this birthday !
@samaraisnt I got carrot cake as a birthday cake every year so no I wasn't getting giant chocolate cake with icing. I've gotten cakes like that since then but I still love the look of the one in matilda
One of my all time favorite props to design- our tray had a hidden compartment with a lazy Susan in it and a slice shaped hole to “disappear” the cake and a hole the actor could stick a hand in to rotate the lazy Susan 🤗
The Broadway show used the collapsible hat. I designed a stage prop that the actor could drop the "cake" down a hole in the desk that was hidden from audience view. It worked well and is one of our most popular rentals.
I was going to write and say every video this bloke posts a good, there’s never a dull moment and I like the channel. Dude doesn’t need my praise, he’s got over a million subs.
Well whaddaya know, he’s exactly as he seems in the video, a top bloke. ill take this chance to correct the spelling of the word ‘are’ for the ‘a’ in my comment and reiterate how much I love this channel. Keep up the good work.
I got to go behind the scenes on this one! A family friend is a propmaster and set designer for lots of broadway shows, and I believe she used that last method, or something else that "deflated" when Bruce was hidden. She said the child actor hated the taste of the chocolate icing he had to smear on his face to sell the illusion and would always run backstage afterwards to wash his mouth out!
I love hearing how open to ideas Danny Devito was in making this movie happen. Thinking completely out of the box in every aspect of this film. Would’ve loved to have been on this set.
I was today years old when I learned there is a musical stage play of Matilda 🤯 I also did not know they remade the movie!! Matilda was my absolute *favorite* movie when I was a kid, too!
I saw the Swedish staging of Matilda a few weeks ago and they used a stacked cake which appeared to be telescopically collapsible. Each time the other students blocked Bruce, his actor pushed a layer down into the others to make the cake gradually disappear. They also had some makeup or chocolate for him to smear around his mouth so it actually looked like he'd been eating. I love practical effects like those.
In highschool i was given the task to make the cake my approach was to have a raised kind of plate with spinning pannels that can be moved over a foam cake that id paint and the idea was to push the foam cake into the plate and move the pannels over each time they danced infront of him. Its just a sname i the funding never came through since out compurers had crashed.
I was in a Matilda production recently, prop master used a foamy cake that was edible but very squishy so that half of the eating could be done and the other half could be flattened
My skinny stick friend played bruce one time on the middle school play and he ate the whole. Goddamn. Cake. Let me remind you that he was a twig of a child!!
I really appreciate the art of special effects but wouldn't have ever been this interested in it. However, the jokes make me stay until the end of your videos. I also like that you show that it's a job that can be done many ways. Brilliant production!
I was props master for my theaters production of Matilda, and we used collapsible cups to make the cake go away, and then put chocolate whipped cream on top right before the scene.
I cant remember what we used for our production but we had real chocolate frosting and i remember always being in the wings while our trunchbull draged bruce off to had him a wetnap and it took a lot of practice for me not to breakdown laughing when this kid would come off the stage screaming then look at me, take the towel and go "thank you 😊" while covered in frosting. I think honestly one of my favorite memories.
My brother was Bruce in his children’s play in 6th grade. They had a fake cake that he hid underneath, but a small portion of it was real so instead of eating it, they had him simply smear it all across his face and then take a big bite, so that when he said his line it was all muffled out! It was really cool to see they used real cake in a children’s play!
Our middle school ran Matilda and we made a box out of 2 ply-plywood and had some styrofoam cake slices. There was a hole in the top of the box big enough for the slices. Bruce would pretend to eat the cake but would actually be shoving it in the hole
I thought you were about to say they fed the stage actor polyfiber cake 😂 Now I've been watching ur shorts a while, and this one is really the icing on the 🍰
I wolves to do this job. And to learn about all the creative ways they do things, and making fake cakes look real all of it! I’d absolutely love to be a part of it. ❤❤❤🎉😊
I hear the first solution and think "that's genius, there is no other way to do that!", and the Scott goes on to describe more options 😂 Awesome how you can just do whatever as long as it works.
I played Bruce for my high schools production! I had a partially hollowed out cotton candy cake with a glob of frosting in a place the audience wouldn’t see and a water bottle in the desk’s cubby :) Opening night I almost died bc I choked on the water at the beginning of the song, but after that show everything was great!!
When I was a little girl I was in productions of The Nutcracker a couple times. I always was enchanted by how the drinks were just plastic glasswear painted inside and with glitter to look like champagne. Thank you for explaining theater props too!!
When I played Bruce we used the third example with the springs, and covered one of the slices with actual chocolate frosting. Nobody figured out how we did it lol
This one really takes the... time to explain how prop masters are so creative.
This one takes the cake
Boo! Hiss!
Desperation and threats from directors
@@Dan_The_PaperBOO GET OFF STAGE
@Dan_The_Paper no need to add your comment Dan. We all got OPs
so you're saying it was full of spit takes? that really takes the cake.
Beat me to it 😂
😂😅
@@thisguyhd6591pause
It’s the dad jokes at the end of the video that keeps me coming back 😂
you came?
Love your multi-layered cake prop puns. You really said a mouthful.
This pun takes the cake.
He definitely took the cake with that one.
Eh. It was a piece of cake
@@VincentPriceFan1911dang it you beat me to it
You caked it
I always thought that cake looked so violently chocolaty. I was surprised the kid didn't collapse due to a heart attack.
The fact that he was spitting it out makes so much sense.
Also, who would've thought the cake was a lie? It was all over his face...
That scene always made me crave chocolate cake lol
@@lovesgibsonsame it looks so tasty
@@lovesgibson to this day!
@lovesgibson really?? it makes me feel nauseous lol
I found a really REALLY nice chocolate cake recipe that was based off the way the movie version looks. It's so good
I like how prop masters are always finding ways to make edible versions of things that aren't edible, but then when it's cake they make it out of rubber
Everything is cake *except* cake. 😄
@@ZacabebOTGthe cake is a lie
Well I’d argue cake is edible, but a 16” multiple layer chocolate cake in one sitting is NOT edible
@@AK-jt9gx try me.
@@AK-jt9gx Hold my glass of milk.
That Matilda choc cake is LEGENDARY
I remember wanting that cake so bad as a kid
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Please talk about more theatre props, especially from Matilda!
When I was in Matilda and played Bruce, we used the collapsible version and but chocolate frosting on it. Pretty tasty!
Imagine if it were real on stage.
He’d end up worse than Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock did after performing in “Mystic Pizza: the Musical”.
The flex seal touch is what makes me certain this cake will work underwater
You can probably build a boat out of those cakes too
Used it to seal my storm door. I now use it at a boat!
I wonder if the actor in the movie Matilda hates chocolate cake now 😂😢
That cake always looked so good in the movie
Ommmgggg it scarred me and i almost can't ever eat chocolate cake. Thank godni guess now that i know im celiac..
Reminded me of the cake from Portillo's in Illinois. Just far more chocolate!
That cake was the bane of my childhood existence. I wanted it so bad that id dream about it. Even now it looks positively divine
Bane of your existence??! That’s so weird to me, cause it looks disgusting the way he has to eat it all. 😆 Can’t you just…buy yourself a cake? Do you never get cake, like even once a year? Idk it doesn’t appeal to me even having gone through an intense chocolate cake phase that lasted me about 3 years, but my parents weren’t super restrictive and militant about stuff like that so maybe that’s why. Balance is great! Treat yourself to a cake this birthday !
@samaraisnt I got carrot cake as a birthday cake every year so no I wasn't getting giant chocolate cake with icing. I've gotten cakes like that since then but I still love the look of the one in matilda
One of my all time favorite props to design- our tray had a hidden compartment with a lazy Susan in it and a slice shaped hole to “disappear” the cake and a hole the actor could stick a hand in to rotate the lazy Susan 🤗
I like the ingenuity of using the top hats
That scene with Bruce lives in my head rent free
Work smart not hard, when you make it right it's gonna be piece of cake.
The Broadway show used the collapsible hat. I designed a stage prop that the actor could drop the "cake" down a hole in the desk that was hidden from audience view. It worked well and is one of our most popular rentals.
I was going to write and say every video this bloke posts a good, there’s never a dull moment and I like the channel. Dude doesn’t need my praise, he’s got over a million subs.
Thank you!! I do appreciate it!!!
Well whaddaya know, he’s exactly as he seems in the video, a top bloke. ill take this chance to correct the spelling of the word ‘are’ for the ‘a’ in my comment and reiterate how much I love this channel. Keep up the good work.
shotouts to Flex Seal
The puns is the icing on the cake
He spits it out?!!! Way to stay in character.
🤦🏻♂️ 🎂 🤣🤣🤣
The amount of times per week I either think about or reference this cake and scene from Matilda is INSANE 😂😂
I got to go behind the scenes on this one! A family friend is a propmaster and set designer for lots of broadway shows, and I believe she used that last method, or something else that "deflated" when Bruce was hidden. She said the child actor hated the taste of the chocolate icing he had to smear on his face to sell the illusion and would always run backstage afterwards to wash his mouth out!
Top tier dad joke on this one.
My school did a production of Matilda last year and the actor for Bruce kept one of the fake cake slices as a souvenir lol
The cake scene in matilda is one of the most haunting memories of my young life.
I still think about the chocolate cake from Matilda to this day. It looks so good
No way my middle school did that top hat trick when we did Matilda! Such a fun musical, it was definitely an amazing first show for me
Hats off to a sweet prop trick. 🎉 Thanks for indulging us. 😊
As a kid, that cake always looked so good lol
The Matilda cake looked so good, until you saw who cooked it. 😂
I love hearing how open to ideas Danny Devito was in making this movie happen. Thinking completely out of the box in every aspect of this film. Would’ve loved to have been on this set.
Matilda is one of my all-time favorite movies
The magic of live theater is what keeps me going
Whoaaa that one woth the collapsible hats is a GENIUS solution!!!!
When we did Matilda in highschool (I played Miss Trunchbull), we had a trapdoor in Bruce's desk that he dropped the slices into
That matilda cake always looks so damn good.
This is so cool! Seeing how different prop masters solve the same problem is interesting!
Goes to SHOW, you can have your cake but can’t eat it too.
I was today years old when I learned there is a musical stage play of Matilda 🤯 I also did not know they remade the movie!! Matilda was my absolute *favorite* movie when I was a kid, too!
Finally someone really showing Flex Seal. We all know that patch is not going to work on the hole in the boat filled with water. 😂😂😂
In highschool I made a cake for a play with insulation foam and calking. It wasn’t as technical but it looked pretty tasty
that’s how they still make professional fake cakes, which i find disgusting. 😆 knowing how the sausage is made 🤪
Our prop master had a breakaway that would crumble intoitsleft when the actor interacted with it
The foam one is interesting but the idea of using collapsible top hats is really clever. That idea takes the cake
cats...spider-man , now matilda the musical? enough is enough
"hard to digest it, no matter how you alice it..."
Oh you!!!
I bet if you bit into the foam rubber cake, you'd say "Oh, fudge..."
I saw the Swedish staging of Matilda a few weeks ago and they used a stacked cake which appeared to be telescopically collapsible.
Each time the other students blocked Bruce, his actor pushed a layer down into the others to make the cake gradually disappear. They also had some makeup or chocolate for him to smear around his mouth so it actually looked like he'd been eating.
I love practical effects like those.
My tech theater prof got me into this channel, I have become one with the dad jokes... Thanks Griffin
In highschool i was given the task to make the cake my approach was to have a raised kind of plate with spinning pannels that can be moved over a foam cake that id paint and the idea was to push the foam cake into the plate and move the pannels over each time they danced infront of him.
Its just a sname i the funding never came through since out compurers had crashed.
The new Matilda wasn't even Matilda. It was like the new scary movie 2
I was in a Matilda production recently, prop master used a foamy cake that was edible but very squishy so that half of the eating could be done and the other half could be flattened
okay but that chocolate cake actually looked delicious
My family and I love Matilda! Such a classic
I'm actually thinking of going to the Matilda show in India at nmacc and would love to see this fake prop and great dad jokes as always Scott
My skinny stick friend played bruce one time on the middle school play and he ate the whole. Goddamn. Cake. Let me remind you that he was a twig of a child!!
I really appreciate the art of special effects but wouldn't have ever been this interested in it. However, the jokes make me stay until the end of your videos. I also like that you show that it's a job that can be done many ways. Brilliant production!
I was props master for my theaters production of Matilda, and we used collapsible cups to make the cake go away, and then put chocolate whipped cream on top right before the scene.
I appreciate you highlighting others works
Do you ever run out of dad puns?😂 or is it some special superpower you have?
Nope , he's a father so he's got millions of them 😁
“…and for the icing, used urethane rubber mixed with poly F~iB>eR.”
I cant remember what we used for our production but we had real chocolate frosting and i remember always being in the wings while our trunchbull draged bruce off to had him a wetnap and it took a lot of practice for me not to breakdown laughing when this kid would come off the stage screaming then look at me, take the towel and go "thank you 😊" while covered in frosting. I think honestly one of my favorite memories.
So the cake is a lie?
Nah that kid totally ate the whole cake.
That tophat one is SO clever!
The cake in the film looks insanely good
Do more theater props!
That kid was like, "I can do it I can handle the real cake. No really i can!"
That policy fiber cut was slick
My brother was Bruce in his children’s play in 6th grade. They had a fake cake that he hid underneath, but a small portion of it was real so instead of eating it, they had him simply smear it all across his face and then take a big bite, so that when he said his line it was all muffled out! It was really cool to see they used real cake in a children’s play!
Our middle school ran Matilda and we made a box out of 2 ply-plywood and had some styrofoam cake slices. There was a hole in the top of the box big enough for the slices. Bruce would pretend to eat the cake but would actually be shoving it in the hole
The cake from matilda is still one of my most wanted foods.
Director speaking to actor, points to propmaster: "Her sweat and blood went into this cake!"
By far one of the most interesting pages on yt
I've seen a lot of your videos but this one takes the cake
I thought you were about to say they fed the stage actor polyfiber cake 😂
Now I've been watching ur shorts a while, and this one is really the icing on the 🍰
I wolves to do this job. And to learn about all the creative ways they do things, and making fake cakes look real all of it! I’d absolutely love to be a part of it. ❤❤❤🎉😊
i Love watching your videos and i LOVE all your PUNS lmao
My high school recently put on the musical (I was drumming in the pit) and some of the icing got on our conductor lol
I'd still eat it
I always thought when Ms. Trunchbull said the cake was made with sweat and blood that it was literal.
I hear the first solution and think "that's genius, there is no other way to do that!", and the Scott goes on to describe more options 😂
Awesome how you can just do whatever as long as it works.
The puns were delectable!
I have dreamed of having a cake that looks as good as the one in the movie
good lord that second prop cake sounds tasty 😋
I played Bruce for my high schools production! I had a partially hollowed out cotton candy cake with a glob of frosting in a place the audience wouldn’t see and a water bottle in the desk’s cubby :)
Opening night I almost died bc I choked on the water at the beginning of the song, but after that show everything was great!!
It’s funny because despite the entire point of the scene, I remember it because I wanted to eat the cake
Yeah thats understandable seeing as chocolate is notorious for clogging up your vocal chords
When I was a little girl I was in productions of The Nutcracker a couple times. I always was enchanted by how the drinks were just plastic glasswear painted inside and with glitter to look like champagne.
Thank you for explaining theater props too!!
the bad puns are like... uhh... the icing... goddammit I was going somewhere with this
When it comes to comedy looks like ireally take the cake
Timmah 😤
Got to see Matilda at the Zhuhai opera house in 2019. Amazing performance at an incredible venue.
Don’t talk to me about that cake from Matilda unless you can get me the recipe from the original prop master!
When I played Bruce we used the third example with the springs, and covered one of the slices with actual chocolate frosting. Nobody figured out how we did it lol
The "FIBER" adr/edit made me giggle.😅
Theres no way he spit out EVERY bite, that cake looks too damn good.
woah!!! the tophat cake was really cool! what a great idea!!! :O
That scene made me cry I was so scared