Crashes are usually tragic for speedrunners, especially if they're on the grand stage of . They're anticlimactic heartbreakers that mean either starting over from the beginning or giving up entirely if the schedule demands. They can also be a great opportunity for some unexpected comedy. That's where BioShock speedrunner BloodThunder took it yesterday on the AGDQ livestream, and it was a ro♛llercoaster ride.

BloodThunder reached Andrew Ryan's office just over a half hour into his run. Then h💃e used a glitch to bypass where he tells you about free will then makes you beat his head in with a golf club - "some weird stuff can happen" if you try this, BloodThunder warned. With Ryan still talking, BloodThunder went to plug in the genetic key and complete the game's clim🐠actic twist… then this happened.

A blue screen of death, followed by the intro to Skyrim, then back to BioShock. If you've been living in a Meme Exclusion Zone, it's become a huge thing to splice in Skyrim's opening moments - where your character wakes up in the b♛ack of a wagon - into other games, movies, TV shows, anything. To further overexplain the joke, it's a riff on the "Bethesda can't stop making Skyrim" gag. I reckon this surprise appearance during one of the most popular events on Twitch will mark the p💦innacle of the meme's unholy power.

BloodThunder pulled off the speedrunning comedy heist of the century by surreptitiously modding the game so the Skyrim video wou♛ld play at that specific point. He didn't tell anybody on the crew beforehand - those gasps from the commentators and crowd were all unstaged. And yes, he did apologize for nearly giving the poor behind-the-scenes technic🌄ians several heart attacks.

Learn more about the future of BioShock with this interview with its new studio head. It definitely isn't going to be Skyrim.