In mad science, "malfunction" does not mean fried circuits and broken equipment. Well okay - that too. But quite often it turns out that a malfunction has created something wondrous (rather than just, yknow, giving you extra work). Usually there is no explanation to how a "malfunction" can make modifications that seem almost intelligent, and no mention to where it gets the parts for a technology that is entirely different from the intended - a toaster can easily become a time machine through Miraculous Malfunction, for example. Examples of Miraculous Malfunction include: