Sources from MIT’s School of Engineering recently confirmed that their lousily-constructed Rube Goldberg machine accomplishes its intended task with reasonable efficiency.

“Ideally, an over-designed machine like this would take several minutes to accomplish a mundane task,” said lead engineer Gregory Lyons as the Rube Goldberg machine cracked an egg into a frying pan through an intricate but exasperatingly efficient set of chain reactions. “Meanwhile, this machine is completing its objective in mere seconds. I don’t know where we went wrong.”

“We’ve been tinkering with ways to extend the machine’s runtime: a few more domino tracks here, a couple more paper towel tubes there—maybe even some pipe cleaners,” continued Lyons while a team of engineers worked behind him to reset the machine’s numerous mechanisms. “But if we aren’t able to get this machine working at an abysmal pace by the end of the day, we might have to scrap it and try again another time.”

At press time, an incredibly fuel-efficient Jeep traveled five miles per gallon.

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