Howard Hamlin/Chuck’s shaken Soda Hack
In season six, episode seven Howard tells Cary Anderson to rotate a dropped or shaken soda a few times while it stands vertically on a hard surface. He mentions that former partner Charles McGill taught him that, and that he was compulsive about rotating his sodas.
This actually works. I have shaken a soda can for at least ten seconds and then rotated it ten times (probably could do it less) and it did not explode. It also works for bottled drinks as well. I have yet to try with an alcoholic beverage but I’m going to assume it will yield the same result.
This proves that Howard was a good person. He kept the firm from being disgraced by Cary’s clumsiness, AND he credited this find to Chuck, when he could’ve snatched all that centrifugal glory for himself./s
If Chuck was *ten (sixteen?) years older when Jimmy was born, I’m assuming he would’ve taken his award winning personality on the road while he was in middle and high-school way before James knew the hysterical glories of the shaken soda. I feel like he might’ve experienced a lot these kinds of pranks from his peers.
*I give such a vast age gap because according to fan Wikipedia Charles was born in ‘44 and James was born in ‘60 and according to some redditors who follow the their time line a lot more closely they’ve surmised a ten year gap.