Mythbusters!

[James Jacobs]

I'm addicted. It took several years, but this show is awesome. I'm just glad it's not on opposite "Lost" or I'd have to do something CRAZY.

[Pygon]

I got into the show about 4 years ago. I liked Scottie, I was sad when she wasn't on anymore :(

I also liked it a bit more when they were more candid and less showy, and they seem to find an excuse to blow something up almost every show now.

Still, it's the top show I watch, along with Dirty Jobs.

Favorite myths: Hot Water Heater Rocket, and Boom Lift Catapult (not for the result, for the effort). Oh, and Rocket Sled Car Pancake. Oh, and...

[Mikaze]

"WELL THERE'S YER PROBLEM!"

I came dangerously close to basing my gnome PC in a friend's "Boats in Space" campaign on Adam Savage.

[Whited Sepulcher]

Pygon wrote:

Favorite myths: Hot Water Heater Rocket, and Boom Lift Catapult (not for the result, for the effort). Oh, and Rocket Sled Car Pancake. Oh, and...

Yeah, i really liked the hot water heater rocket one, it was great when they went back to it and did a two story mock house for it and it still went through it all like tissue paper. The catapult one was crazy. I also enjoyed the bullets in the oven and the beer keg in the fire one, that was interesting.

This latest episode I enjoyed the drive by slushy myth

[Samnell]

James Jacobs wrote:

I'm addicted. It took several years, but this show is awesome. I'm just glad it's not on opposite "Lost" or I'd have to do something CRAZY.

It used to be on directly opposite Lost. New episodes at roughly the same times too. Then they went through a very regrettable period where every myth was an Adam vs. Jamie competition, complete with staged arguments.

[Kruelaid]

James Jacobs wrote:

I'm addicted. It took several years, but this show is awesome. I'm just glad it's not on opposite "Lost" or I'd have to do something CRAZY.

Haha. Been watching it for a long time. SO many favorites. What a great show.

[Callous Jack]

I've watched it from the beginning and I love it although the three junior MythBusters drive me nuts sometime with their corny jokes and exaggerated enthusiasm.

What's everyone's favorite busted myth? My top three are the rocket car, the water heater explosion and all the MacGuyver episodes.

[Matthew Morris]

We enjoy it, just wish there was less eratic showings.

I'm amused that Kari is such a sadist.

[David Fryer]

Mythbusters is one of the best shows ever.

[The 8th Dwarf]

David Fryer wrote:

Mythbusters is one of the best shows ever.

I hate guns, but for some reason I find Kari Byron and a M-134 Minigun very appealing.

[Sojourner]

The 8th Dwarf wrote:

David Fryer wrote:

Mythbusters is one of the best shows ever.

I hate guns, but for some reason I find Kari Byron and a M-134 Minigun very appealing.

For me, the show is like "Mr. Wizard" (dating myself here) with a much bigger budget (and no pesky liability issues). My favorite episodes are the early ones where they dealt with "myths" that my friends and I grew up believing (and totally perpetuating) with no evidence whatsoever.

Sometimes, though, I am saddened when a myth turns out to be, well, a myth. The episode where they proved that you could not blow up a great white with a tank of compressed air? Roy Scheider's awesomeness faded a bit in my eyes that day...

[David Fryer]

Whited Sepulcher wrote:

I also enjoyed the bullets in the oven and the beer keg in the fire one, that was interesting.

I was actually one of the fans who suggested bullets in the oven. When I heard they were doing that, I had a big Mythbusters veiwing party at my house.

[Whited Sepulcher]

David Fryer wrote:

Whited Sepulcher wrote:

I also enjoyed the bullets in the oven and the beer keg in the fire one, that was interesting.

I was actually one of the fans who suggested bullets in the oven. When I heard they were doing that, I had a big Mythbusters veiwing party at my house.

Ah, nice. Oh, did you watch the later one where they dumped a bunch of them into a fire? That was fun watching them go off... followed later with the aerosol spray cans and then the beer keg.

[David Fryer]

I did watch that one as well. My favorite was the dirty car/claen car test. I'm still trying to convince my wife to let me build a dimpled shell around our car.

[David Fryer]

Callous Jack wrote:

What's everyone's favorite busted myth? My top three are the rocket car, the water heater explosion and all the MacGuyver episodes.

My faorite top three are the Chinese rocket chair, fire extinguisher in the fire, and The Indiana Jones overhang fall.

[Callous Jack]

Actually I have to add the one with the two phonebooks, that was pretty amazing.

[David Fryer]

If we are adding confirmed myths then yeah, the phonebooks were awesome as was lead ballon and concrete glider. The Hindenberg myth was fascinating as a historian.

[Steven Purcell]

I thought they called the two phonebooks one busted but I can't quite remember. Fun show though definitely. My favourite busted myth would be splitting an arrow nock to tip. Favourite confirmed either h'wacha or the entire duct tape episode.

[Knight who says Neek!]

I must add duct tape to my next list of magic items in pathfinder...I was totally in awe of both episodes.

Also liked some of their work on conspiracy theories, like when they tested "meat" bullets for the JFK assassination or their work on the moon landing. I did two papers in college on JFK and was glad to see someone at least try to debunk some of the bunk.

I was impressed by the Salami rocket...not by performance but by the sheer fact they though of using salami for rocket fuel.

I saw a picture of Adam doing miniature work on Attack of the Clones. The still photo showed him touching up the building on Kamino. Such great talent on such a ____ movie.

[Generic Villain]

I love this show. My Mom? Not so much.

When I was 12 or 13, I saw one of the original episodes where they tested the myth about blowing up a microwave by placing aluminum foil inside. It turns out that, while aluminum does make some awesome sparks when you nuke it, there's no kaboom.

I knew my Mom believed this myth, so I waited one day until she got home from work, and called her into the kitchen just in time to see me microwave a big wad of foil. Her reaction was priceless.

Good times.

[Matthew Morris]

Steven Purcell wrote:

I thought they called the two phonebooks one busted but I can't quite remember. Fun show though definitely. My favourite busted myth would be splitting an arrow nock to tip. Favourite confirmed either h'wacha or the entire duct tape episode.

I think it was busted that they couldn't be torn apart. OTOH, when you need two tanks (albiet one a Sheridan) to do it, then I'd say it's close enough.

[Vic Wertz]

Matthew Morris wrote:

Steven Purcell wrote:

I thought they called the two phonebooks one busted but I can't quite remember. Fun show though definitely. My favourite busted myth would be splitting an arrow nock to tip. Favourite confirmed either h'wacha or the entire duct tape episode.

I think it was busted that they couldn't be torn apart. OTOH, when you need two tanks (albiet one a Sheridan) to do it, then I'd say it's close enough.

Phone Book Friction on mythbustersresults.com

One of my favorites is Bull in a China Shop—has to be seen to be believed.

[Whited Sepulcher]

Vic Wertz wrote:

One of my favorites is Bull in a China Shop—has to be seen to be believed.

Yeah, that was hilarious, I loved seeing the reactions from the cast as it unfolded.

Another one I liked was a gun one, just the sheer silliness as they tried to recreate the shooting a hole at your feet from the film, Underworld. It took them how long and how many shots? The part when the two guys were alternating firing guns (one with a shotgun) into the flooring below was hilarious.

The other was the shooting into water myth. Watching them blow out their test tank was funny, it was okay with the pistols, then they brought out the shotgun and it blew through and the water came gushing out. They then moved the testing to a pool, heh.

[Xabulba]

My fav is Rocket sled snow plow.

[Ultradan]

Ropes made out of hair and/or toilet paper... Now THAT was impressive.

Ultradan