Burned up 40 pieces learning that same lesson, so you're not alone lol.

It's the same story with everything marketed as "small" or "compact" these days. You pay extra for less space and then spend twice the effort making it work. Same thing happened to me with a tiny apartment fridge, cost more than a normal one and my milk barely fit on the shelf. Or those travel-sized tools that are supposed to be handy and just end up being a pain. Smaller almost always means more money and more headaches, not less.

Ha, that's amazing! Okay but real question here, was the tape actually snapped and skipping, or was that a single, very committed explosion with three different camera angles? I've had a few thrift store gems, but my best find was a 1994 exercise video where the instructor's mic kept cutting in and out, so she was just silently lunging for like five minutes straight. You gotta wonder if the people donating these knew exactly what chaos they were unleashing.