You can't talk about Mythbusters without bringing up the Busters. The valiant crash test dummies that did the job of being the human stand in for many of the myths.
Think my favourite Mythbusters pushing to the limit was when Jamie Hyneman shot fish in a barrel, and turned up in a limo with a minigun mounted on it.
The one with the cement truck exploding is my exception to the not here for the explosions rule. The high pitched noise, the tuck just being gone, it's amazing.
While i agree with the non explosive myths are better, one of my faves is the cement truck one. Just because it's so hilarious seeing the truck just disappear.
Just to add at 23:10, I'm pretty sure that there was a Q&A where Adam said that the producer in question turned the power up above what the three co-hosts had been testing it at or something to that effect.
Fun fact: Mythbusters: The Search was hosted by science RUclipsr Kyle Hill (before he was a RUclipsr). And science-adjacent RUclipsr Alan Pan was a contestant.
@@Chris-et2fm I had to look up what that means: there's a developmental syndrome that happens before birth, a few english acronyms(one being what you meant), and quite a few different things in various non-english languages.
Wait they passed? Well then. I guess there is nothing else to say except RIP. You guys really helped make Mythbuster such a great show. Helped make my child hood.
As a little kid I pretty much only watched Toonami and Mythbusters on tv. At the very least, I have memories of knowing when those programs would be coming on or rerunning. I’d have chores/homework done so I could sit down to give Mythbusters my full attention.
Something adam has mentioned it that the producer that shocked him was also responsible for a lot of rhe in screen arguing because he would deliberately manipulate both adam and jamie until they compared notes and realized the producer was the problem and had him fired.
I was working night shift in EMS when that episode came out. One of the other employees told me about it and I was skeptical, so we did it with two small phone books and left it for the day shift to take apart. We got in so much trouble for that!
the floating on the door only worked after adam and jaime took off their life preservers and tied them to the bottom of the door. not something frosen panicking people in darkness are likely to think of. and i think the james cameron respose specifically was along the lines of "i acknowledge your results. but in the script. Jack dies!" so i guess it's more of a props department issue.
I am one of the Poors I don't have money for Patreon or RUclips Prime, so I have taken to watching the ads to support the team. I wish I had money to avoid the ads, so bad
The other thing too is grant tory and cari were already employees and coworkers before they joined mythbusters. So they already had a good reputation with the show before they joined.
Loved all five of the Mythbusters gang! Did you guys get the red green show in England? Not very scientific, but the comedy sketches and crazy inventions were amazing
(American here) Damn I absolutely loved the Red Green Show. I loved the comedy of it so much. And Red’s crazy inventions were almost always a hoot and a holler.
@wildstorm3486 My favorite episode of the Red Green show was when Red was concerned they'd have to go on city water and sewer. After discussing it with the guys of the lodge and voting how often they showered and drank water, he figured it'd be fine and not too costly.
@@christinebenson518 honestly I don’t remember a lot about the Red Green Show. It’s been well over a decade already since I last saw it. I was rather young when we used to watch it. So I can’t remember much besides small snippets. Usually stuff that was repeated a lot. Like the lodge motto. Or the sewage guys motto. And even then not very well. The best I can remember was the joy and laughter I remember the show bringing. Awaiting what crazy antics that Red was going to get into when he tried to mikgiver up a solution to a “problem”.
My favorite moment in the show ADAM'S ANGER QUICKLY EVAPROATES, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S A BIG TANK TO PLAY IN Jamie: "You know what they used that tank for right? Something about fecal matter?" Adam: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
When I program, I often say to myself "Whenever you see an over-complicated design, that's a sign of an inferior engineer. Simple is always better." Though I'm sure if I was a mechanical engineer, I'd be saying "When in doubt, lube." instead.
a )What on Earth made you believe that Kari and Tori were actually married? b) They don't hate each other, they're just not friends. It's not an _either or_ thing.
@@MLennholm they had such great chemistry and this show premiered when I was a young kid, one of my friends told me that they were husband and wife, and I thought it was so cool, a husband and wife doing science together. So when I found out a few years later that she was married to some other dude, it broke me a little.
There's two "Principia" . One written by Isac Newton about principles of physics and another made a couple hundred years later by Bertrand Russell that proves 1+1=2 starting from set theory
Actually hot things don't freeze faster. It was tested by professionals and proven wrong. The hot liquid cools down faster because it has more cooling to do, but once it catches up to the cooler liquid, they freeze at the same rate because they're now the same temperature.
I don't know if they ever revisited it, but I don't think they gave the sword vs gun barrel myth the best possible chance. They had a horizontal blade strike a vertical barrel or perhaps it was the other way around. I think they should have tried with the sword hitting the barrel at different angles. Don't try this at home, but I did a little "experiment" to see if it had a chance of making a difference. First I tried striking a pencil directly with a knife. Then I tried striking the pencil at a bit of an angle. Hitting it directly didn't do much except when enough force to snap the pencil was applied. Striking the pencil at an angle easily cut through. It took less force to get through the pencil and it did so with a cut, not a break as with hitting the pencil directly.
Regarding the breathalyzer test thing. A common one I've heard is that sucking a coin will beat a breathalyzer. I have a theory of what may have started this. In the early 90's, there was a sitcom called _Faith in the Future._ In one scene, our protagonist, Faith, is driving whilst drunk (which apparently was funny in the 90's) She is pulled over by the police and in a panic tries to grab a mint from her glove compartment to mask the smell of booze. However, she is so drunk, she picks up a couple of peices of small change and pops in her mouth. I think people miss-understood this scene and not noticed the mints and thought she sucked the coins deliberately.
I just looked up Brainiac - I remember watching it many years ago - and you know the “actual scientist” they put in a bikini to see if fruit would float? Actual actress Rachel Grant, not a scientist. And I’m not sure whether that’s better or worse.
Years ago I was talking to a couple ladies, trying to decide if I was going to pursue a relationship with either because both seemed interested. I mentioned Mythbusters to one and she said "what?" …I decided that she wasn't the one for me, and considering I married the other one - who definitely knew what Mythbusters is - in 2021 i think i made the right choice!
The thing that sucks is that the rebooted series of MythBusters is that it's fine, it's perfectly fine television - miles ahead of a lot of the other guff on air - but it just can't stack up against the OG cast.
I have been watching Traitors UK and after i went over and watched the US version, and the cuta for the commercial breaks and other production choices can be really jarring.
I'm glad whoever pushed for that shocking Adam thing got fired, I hated that moment so much. It was so uncomfortable to watch and obviously dangerous because when the build team were trying it themselves they all said immediately after that it was to far and it was like being punched in the chest.
Just an aside, you can stream mythbusters in america, and me personally I own a dvd with some episodes on it, we absolutely know what you mean, hell even with the ads it could get to be a bit much.
@@rtyuik7 a joke? That's what you're going with? 😂 Just accept you thought you had a clever work around and it didn't work, don't try to pass it off as me being a killjoy when you didn't even say anything funny.
But, I suppose, to give a more serious answer: to argue 1+1≠2, you'd need to argue against whatever definition your using. Let's use the successor function as an example. The way this function works is that you give it a positive integer (and/or 0), and it gives you the next number in the sequence of all positive integers. So S(4)=5, S(17)=18, S(20734)=20735 etc. So now let's create 4 definitions: Def 1: S(0) = 1 Def 2: S(1) = 2 Def 3: a + 0 = a Def 4: a + S(b) = S(a + b) Now, let's get back to our original equation. 1 + 1 = 1 + S(0) (Def 1) 1 + S(0) = S(0 + 1) (Def 4) S(0 + 1) = S(1) (Def 3) S(1) = 2 (Def 2) What this all means, is that arguing that 1+1≠0 is to argue eighter that one of the definitions are wrong, that the successor function should not be defined (or be defined differently), or that the sequence of all positive integers is wrong. So, what would an argument for something like that be? Well... I don't know. Such a (valid) argument probably doesn't exist, cause, well, 1+1 DOES equal 2.
That dissonance between American and British TV breaks is nothing compared to American DVD releases of American shows. I honestly might still have whiplash from watching box sets of Buffy and Smallville
que? Buffy was 45min of content per episode with no retelling of the last minutes due to ads as shows like Mythbuster did" so not entirely sure what you mean (Smallville I never seen so cannot comment).
@@Henrik_Holst The difference of watching it with and without ad breaks and how the pacing changes. I grew up with the those series on DVD where the ad breaks are cut, and later watching it on broadcast is jarring. You can really tell how the story is designed, edited and shot around, to borrow a word from NCIS showrunners, "Fwoof moments," because it's necessitated by the broadcast TV format. Most specifically, how often information is repeated after an ad break to smooth the experience for a cable experience.
@@Henrik_Holst That's more than fair. Newer releases and streaming services do a much better job with the editing, but the earlier releases don't bother cutting the extra footage designed to be around breaks and it's frustrating after a while
@@skynyrdjesusI have the DVD:s from 1997 and cannot see any extra footage designed to be around breaks (unless ofc if the European version is edited differently than the US release) of Buffy. Mythbusters on the other hand is a pure chore to get through where they keep on repeating the same thing over and over and over.
You're saying the reboot didn't work because they couldn't find anyone with charisma and an eclectic set of skills... who could we find to put across from Nick Offerman? Maybe Neil DeGrasse Tyson? I'd watch at least a season of that.
When they say the "British version" they're talking about a different show that was more or less a cheesy rip-off of Mythbusters. The actual Mythbusters was also broadcast in the UK but with a different narrator.
Hey, I loved brainiac...ok...yes it was sexist sometimes but at 12-14 it got my attention quick...I have things I still carry with me from brainiac besides which fruit floats...
I don't have a favorite off top of my head, been forever since I watched it, but there is one that irritates me. The Robin Hood one. They listed that one as busted instead of plausible. It IS possible to split an arrow with another, it's not probable to happen. Therefore, plausible.
I love that Adam has a presence here on RUclips and regularly answers questions about Mythbusters
In my lab anytime we cobble together some crazy improvised shit we call it a
"Savage-Hyneman apparatus".
We need this to be the official name for this kind of thing.
@@tVt2000 We got it from a guy who worked in another lab. So it's slowly happening.
Speaking of Mythbusters quotes: "I reject your reality and substitute my own" - not originated by Adam Savage, but he's the reason I know it
“Niiice. Dungeon Master!” - Kayaba Akihiko
@@kleyperr6113this is probobly a really confusing comment if someone only saw the original and not the abridged
You can't talk about Mythbusters without bringing up the Busters. The valiant crash test dummies that did the job of being the human stand in for many of the myths.
Not only do duck quacks not echo, pigeon calls don't either. The reason is that while most sounds bounce off walls, a coo sticks
Think my favourite Mythbusters pushing to the limit was when Jamie Hyneman shot fish in a barrel, and turned up in a limo with a minigun mounted on it.
James Cameron's excuse was, "It doesn't matter case the script calls for jack to drown" I remember that episode.
The one with the cement truck exploding is my exception to the not here for the explosions rule. The high pitched noise, the tuck just being gone, it's amazing.
While i agree with the non explosive myths are better, one of my faves is the cement truck one. Just because it's so hilarious seeing the truck just disappear.
what timing, just watched mythbusters channel surfing while i made a coffee, now i can watch this while i drink it!
The one with how many balloons it takes to get a toddler to float.😂
Just to add at 23:10, I'm pretty sure that there was a Q&A where Adam said that the producer in question turned the power up above what the three co-hosts had been testing it at or something to that effect.
Fun fact: Mythbusters: The Search was hosted by science RUclipsr Kyle Hill (before he was a RUclipsr). And science-adjacent RUclipsr Alan Pan was a contestant.
RIP Grant and Scottie
Scottie? Did I miss something or do you mean Jessi? Either way, agree, RIP.
@@Quiltfish yup, I screwed that up. Jessi
Here before that title gets flagged
RUclips can flag bofa
@@Chris-et2fm I had to look up what that means: there's a developmental syndrome that happens before birth, a few english acronyms(one being what you meant), and quite a few different things in various non-english languages.
@@Chet_Manly I just got Bank of America from googling "bofa" (though I do know what it's meant to be).
@@Chet_Manly oh, ok
Always
RIP Grant Imahara and Jessi Combs
Wait they passed? Well then. I guess there is nothing else to say except RIP. You guys really helped make Mythbuster such a great show. Helped make my child hood.
One of my favorite has always been crime and mythdemeanor 2 where they beat a sound alarm with a FRIGGIN' BEDSHEET!
As a little kid I pretty much only watched Toonami and Mythbusters on tv. At the very least, I have memories of knowing when those programs would be coming on or rerunning. I’d have chores/homework done so I could sit down to give Mythbusters my full attention.
Something adam has mentioned it that the producer that shocked him was also responsible for a lot of rhe in screen arguing because he would deliberately manipulate both adam and jamie until they compared notes and realized the producer was the problem and had him fired.
I feel like this is just a very chilled out version of Fact Fiend and I really like it good work.👍🏻👍🏻
Mythbusters + Wiki Weekends? Yeah, this is going to be good.
I like the episode where they leafed together 2 phone books and held a car in place
I was working night shift in EMS when that episode came out. One of the other employees told me about it and I was skeptical, so we did it with two small phone books and left it for the day shift to take apart. We got in so much trouble for that!
the floating on the door only worked after adam and jaime took off their life preservers and tied them to the bottom of the door. not something frosen panicking people in darkness are likely to think of. and i think the james cameron respose specifically was along the lines of "i acknowledge your results. but in the script. Jack dies!" so i guess it's more of a props department issue.
RIP Grant, he played a great Sulu on Star Trek Continues
I am one of the Poors I don't have money for Patreon or RUclips Prime, so I have taken to watching the ads to support the team. I wish I had money to avoid the ads, so bad
The other thing too is grant tory and cari were already employees and coworkers before they joined mythbusters. So they already had a good reputation with the show before they joined.
Talking about quotes at the end, they didnt mention my favorite jamie quote "if in doubt, C4!"
Loved all five of the Mythbusters gang! Did you guys get the red green show in England? Not very scientific, but the comedy sketches and crazy inventions were amazing
(American here) Damn I absolutely loved the Red Green Show. I loved the comedy of it so much. And Red’s crazy inventions were almost always a hoot and a holler.
@wildstorm3486 My favorite episode of the Red Green show was when Red was concerned they'd have to go on city water and sewer. After discussing it with the guys of the lodge and voting how often they showered and drank water, he figured it'd be fine and not too costly.
@@christinebenson518 honestly I don’t remember a lot about the Red Green Show. It’s been well over a decade already since I last saw it. I was rather young when we used to watch it.
So I can’t remember much besides small snippets. Usually stuff that was repeated a lot. Like the lodge motto. Or the sewage guys motto. And even then not very well.
The best I can remember was the joy and laughter I remember the show bringing. Awaiting what crazy antics that Red was going to get into when he tried to mikgiver up a solution to a “problem”.
Still sad that Grant's gone. His r2 was awesome...
My favorite moment in the show
ADAM'S ANGER QUICKLY EVAPROATES, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S A BIG TANK TO PLAY IN
Jamie: "You know what they used that tank for right? Something about fecal matter?"
Adam: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
I think you could get something similar if you combined the hacksmith, and corridor crew (throw in kyle hill & allen pan for extra)
When I program, I often say to myself "Whenever you see an over-complicated design, that's a sign of an inferior engineer. Simple is always better."
Though I'm sure if I was a mechanical engineer, I'd be saying "When in doubt, lube." instead.
I loved this show, and I remember my world shattering when I found out a) Kari and Tory weren’t married, and b) Adam and Jamie hated each other.
I haven't heard that they hated each ither, just weren't friends and had no relationship outside of work.
a )What on Earth made you believe that Kari and Tori were actually married? b) They don't hate each other, they're just not friends. It's not an _either or_ thing.
@@MLennholm they had such great chemistry and this show premiered when I was a young kid, one of my friends told me that they were husband and wife, and I thought it was so cool, a husband and wife doing science together. So when I found out a few years later that she was married to some other dude, it broke me a little.
There's two "Principia" . One written by Isac Newton about principles of physics and another made a couple hundred years later by Bertrand Russell that proves 1+1=2 starting from set theory
Been a crafty bodger of building stuff for years, Gorilla glue, don't fall for the hype! The Apple of adhesives
I always thought that Bang Goes The Theory was the British version of Mythbusters.
Actually hot things don't freeze faster. It was tested by professionals and proven wrong. The hot liquid cools down faster because it has more cooling to do, but once it catches up to the cooler liquid, they freeze at the same rate because they're now the same temperature.
Dogs can't look up either
I don't know if they ever revisited it, but I don't think they gave the sword vs gun barrel myth the best possible chance. They had a horizontal blade strike a vertical barrel or perhaps it was the other way around. I think they should have tried with the sword hitting the barrel at different angles. Don't try this at home, but I did a little "experiment" to see if it had a chance of making a difference. First I tried striking a pencil directly with a knife. Then I tried striking the pencil at a bit of an angle. Hitting it directly didn't do much except when enough force to snap the pencil was applied. Striking the pencil at an angle easily cut through. It took less force to get through the pencil and it did so with a cut, not a break as with hitting the pencil directly.
Think may try, like a bull going through a fence to get some.
i definitely agree with that "dont get Chimp Putty-- get REAL Gorilla Glue" mindset
I found if you wrap a bottle of soda in a wet paper towel it'll get cold faster in the freezer than if you didn't.
Classic British humour
Regarding the breathalyzer test thing.
A common one I've heard is that sucking a coin will beat a breathalyzer. I have a theory of what may have started this.
In the early 90's, there was a sitcom called _Faith in the Future._ In one scene, our protagonist, Faith, is driving whilst drunk (which apparently was funny in the 90's)
She is pulled over by the police and in a panic tries to grab a mint from her glove compartment to mask the smell of booze. However, she is so drunk, she picks up a couple of peices of small change and pops in her mouth.
I think people miss-understood this scene and not noticed the mints and thought she sucked the coins deliberately.
I just looked up Brainiac - I remember watching it many years ago - and you know the “actual scientist” they put in a bikini to see if fruit would float?
Actual actress Rachel Grant, not a scientist. And I’m not sure whether that’s better or worse.
IIRC, some of the women they had on that show were actual porn stars
I’ve got the same headphones, Lucas!
I didn't know that Richard Hammond was in Brainiac.
one thing to look for is the original Australian voice-over versions. The regionalised ones are not the same to listen to.
Hello nearby Lucas
Years ago I was talking to a couple ladies, trying to decide if I was going to pursue a relationship with either because both seemed interested. I mentioned Mythbusters to one and she said "what?" …I decided that she wasn't the one for me, and considering I married the other one - who definitely knew what Mythbusters is - in 2021 i think i made the right choice!
Quack damn you 😂😂😂
I hope they got to keep the cannon ball
The thing that sucks is that the rebooted series of MythBusters is that it's fine, it's perfectly fine television - miles ahead of a lot of the other guff on air - but it just can't stack up against the OG cast.
I have been watching Traitors UK and after i went over and watched the US version, and the cuta for the commercial breaks and other production choices can be really jarring.
I'm glad whoever pushed for that shocking Adam thing got fired, I hated that moment so much. It was so uncomfortable to watch and obviously dangerous because when the build team were trying it themselves they all said immediately after that it was to far and it was like being punched in the chest.
Just an aside, you can stream mythbusters in america, and me personally I own a dvd with some episodes on it, we absolutely know what you mean, hell even with the ads it could get to be a bit much.
Adam and Jamie still do a podcast together.
Adam’s RUclips channel Tested is pretty great.
Meh. The exploding water heater/ unintentional rocket remains one of my favorite episodes.
So how would someone argue that 1+1 doesn't=2?
@@rtyuik7 that's not 1+1 that's 1.4+1.4 rounded up. If you round up after the addition it's a different equation
@@rtyuik7 but it isn't one, it involves parameters outside what was requested
@@rtyuik7 a joke? That's what you're going with? 😂 Just accept you thought you had a clever work around and it didn't work, don't try to pass it off as me being a killjoy when you didn't even say anything funny.
By arguing 1+1=3, obviously
But, I suppose, to give a more serious answer: to argue 1+1≠2, you'd need to argue against whatever definition your using. Let's use the successor function as an example.
The way this function works is that you give it a positive integer (and/or 0), and it gives you the next number in the sequence of all positive integers. So S(4)=5, S(17)=18, S(20734)=20735 etc.
So now let's create 4 definitions:
Def 1: S(0) = 1
Def 2: S(1) = 2
Def 3: a + 0 = a
Def 4: a + S(b) = S(a + b)
Now, let's get back to our original equation.
1 + 1 = 1 + S(0) (Def 1)
1 + S(0) = S(0 + 1) (Def 4)
S(0 + 1) = S(1) (Def 3)
S(1) = 2 (Def 2)
What this all means, is that arguing that 1+1≠0 is to argue eighter that one of the definitions are wrong, that the successor function should not be defined (or be defined differently), or that the sequence of all positive integers is wrong.
So, what would an argument for something like that be? Well... I don't know. Such a (valid) argument probably doesn't exist, cause, well, 1+1 DOES equal 2.
That dissonance between American and British TV breaks is nothing compared to American DVD releases of American shows. I honestly might still have whiplash from watching box sets of Buffy and Smallville
que? Buffy was 45min of content per episode with no retelling of the last minutes due to ads as shows like Mythbuster did" so not entirely sure what you mean (Smallville I never seen so cannot comment).
@@Henrik_Holst The difference of watching it with and without ad breaks and how the pacing changes. I grew up with the those series on DVD where the ad breaks are cut, and later watching it on broadcast is jarring. You can really tell how the story is designed, edited and shot around, to borrow a word from NCIS showrunners, "Fwoof moments," because it's necessitated by the broadcast TV format. Most specifically, how often information is repeated after an ad break to smooth the experience for a cable experience.
@@skynyrdjesuswell I never seen it on broadcast with ads since I'm European, only seen the dvd version (on a regular basis).
@@Henrik_Holst That's more than fair. Newer releases and streaming services do a much better job with the editing, but the earlier releases don't bother cutting the extra footage designed to be around breaks and it's frustrating after a while
@@skynyrdjesusI have the DVD:s from 1997 and cannot see any extra footage designed to be around breaks (unless ofc if the European version is edited differently than the US release) of Buffy. Mythbusters on the other hand is a pure chore to get through where they keep on repeating the same thing over and over and over.
RIP to Grant and Jamie
Jamie isn't dead... Grant passed away, yes but Jamie is still alive.
I think you meant Jessi
You're saying the reboot didn't work because they couldn't find anyone with charisma and an eclectic set of skills... who could we find to put across from Nick Offerman? Maybe Neil DeGrasse Tyson? I'd watch at least a season of that.
RICHARD HAMMOND WAS ON THE BRITISH VERSION???
When they say the "British version" they're talking about a different show that was more or less a cheesy rip-off of Mythbusters. The actual Mythbusters was also broadcast in the UK but with a different narrator.
Hey, I loved brainiac...ok...yes it was sexist sometimes but at 12-14 it got my attention quick...I have things I still carry with me from brainiac besides which fruit floats...
Hey everybody reading, I hope you're all having a great day today! Stay safe out there!
I don't have a favorite off top of my head, been forever since I watched it, but there is one that irritates me. The Robin Hood one. They listed that one as busted instead of plausible. It IS possible to split an arrow with another, it's not probable to happen. Therefore, plausible.