What's been your biggest onstage malfunction?
Biggest wardrobe malfunction: Palin's $150,000 shopping spree, for which she was reimbursed with an endless barrage of jokes, like this one from Letterman: "The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick, Prada shoes, a Gucci handbag, and a few $3,000 suits".
Biggest talking-point malfunction: Obama's run-in with Joe the Plumber, in which he gave a shout-out to Karl Marx by saying, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody".
This year they have obliged, with a steady supply of big-screen explosions, malfunctioning submarines and scenes where men cradle oversized guns ("The Sum of All Fears", "The Bourne Identity", "K-19 The Widowmaker").
faced a computer malfunction at a big utility it monitors, FirstEnergy of Akron, Ohio, making it harder to track grid conditions, and computer problems at its own headquarters that were, at the least, an added distraction.
A seasoned big-name magician, Harry seems unable to even pull a rabbit out of the hat and as props malfunction all around him, his big finale is exposed by the misfiring lighting.
The biggest problem for all three phones are malfunctions involving the touch screen or keyboard.
The overblown 'Nipplegate' wardrobe malfunction involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake in 2004 became a bigger talking point in the weeks after than the game itself.
Big Boi's set was undone by a computer malfunction (which, admittedly, seems a bit ridiculous), but in a somewhat shocking twist, comedian/recluse Dave Chappelle took the stage to crack wise about the delay and festival culture.
The slump began in 2005 after reports of occasionally deadly malfunctions in cardioverter defibrillators from Guidant, Medtronic's biggest competitor.
