Definitely, this blimped into my mind. The Bonaldi effect is more like « demoing something with great hype, that was working perfectly at rehearsal time, will ultimately fail with an audience, in proportion with the hype/reality ratio », but yeah it ended up being generalised enough to be a superset of Vorführeffekt.
For non French readers, the Bonaldi effect is generally understood as having catastrophic side effects, causes, or downright coincidences way beyond the intended demo not working: the climatic example being a demo of a vacuum cleaner that was met with the studio’s mains breaker triggering and outright killing the live broadcasting, millions of TV viewers being suddenly met with static (post mort en showed the vacuum cleaner was not in cause). An analogy would be demoing some totally harmless piece of code and encounter a kernel panic or a LAN/WAN takedowns.
In spite of Bonaldi trying increasingly hard for such events not to happen, they still did, and the audience was increasingly watching the show both for the often cheesy devices demonstrated, the comedic effect of the hype of such obvious cheesiness and the unexpected ways things would go sideways.
For non French readers, the Bonaldi effect is generally understood as having catastrophic side effects, causes, or downright coincidences way beyond the intended demo not working: the climatic example being a demo of a vacuum cleaner that was met with the studio’s mains breaker triggering and outright killing the live broadcasting, millions of TV viewers being suddenly met with static (post mort en showed the vacuum cleaner was not in cause). An analogy would be demoing some totally harmless piece of code and encounter a kernel panic or a LAN/WAN takedowns.
In spite of Bonaldi trying increasingly hard for such events not to happen, they still did, and the audience was increasingly watching the show both for the often cheesy devices demonstrated, the comedic effect of the hype of such obvious cheesiness and the unexpected ways things would go sideways.