Chemist Breaks Down 22 Chemistry Scenes From Movies & TV | WIRED

I'm a sucker for these 'expert-watches-tv-and-movies-and-comments' style of videos.

In order, you get...

• Breaking Bad - HF isn't the best choice for dissolving a body, and Walt should wear goggles.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Don't huff gasoline.
• Rick & Morty - Their recipe for oven-less brownies isn't real. Shocking, eh?
• Spider-man: Homecoming - Carbon makes four bonds...not two or one. I actually, kind of disagree here because organic chemists often omit the hydrogens in their drawing. I've done the demo she does at 4:00. We do it in our material science class at Princeton every year.
• Black Panther - Vibranium isn't real, but elements do come to Earth via asteroid.
• Breaking Bad - Walt and Jessie wear good PPE when cooking meth, and the synthesis uses real glassware and procedures - but maybe not for meth.
• Zoolander - Don't have a gas fight, but luckily you would likely need a bigger spark to make that explosion.
• Christmas Vacation - Sewer gas maybe could explode, especially hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), but probably not like it shows.
• Con Air - Cigarettes dropped into a trail of gasoline isn't going to make a fire like that.
• Community - Chloroform doesn't act that quickly.
• Blow - Chemists to test for purity with melting points. That's f'real...but the instrument shown is odd.
• Fight Club - Lye doesn't burn like that. Acids burn more like that.
• The Big Bang Theory - I've already said I hate this show, but their science is pretty good here. Elephant toothpaste is f'real.
• Spider-man - "It's just garbage."
• Chernobyl - "His explanation of a nuclear reactor is beautiful. I love it."
  
• Chernobyl - Yes, xenon is useful in nuclear reactors, and hydrogen explosions really happened in Chernobyl.
• Mr Bean: The Whole Bean - Mr Bean should wear goggles, and his glassware is all set up backwards.
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day - A liquid metal frozen in liquid nitrogen could cause shattering...maybe...but it wouldn't look like that.
• Radium Girls - Very accurate and sadly deadly
• National Treasure - There are invisible ink recipes, but the movie version is fakey.
• Casino Royale - Sodium cyanide is very soluble. Could work, might make Bond look sickly like that. There's more to neutralizing the poison than the movie shows.
• The Rock - VX nerve agent is real but doesn't look like that. The green beads are pretty but not real.
• The Martian - Yeah, you could burn hydrazine like that - at least chemically - but it would likely explode like it does in the movie. He should have way more PPE to use it.

From what I've read, Kate the Chemist's bona fides seem to be f'real, too. Her squeals during her demos, though, don't do it for me.