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Adam, Jamie, Kari, Grant and Tory and the other supporting crew members of Mythbusters. Thank you! RIP for those that have we have lost. Grant and Jessi, apologies for anyone else I may have forgetten. 😢 The show had steered me on a journey to embrace science and be inquisitive…. I am nearing the end of what will be a 6 year PhD come Feb 2024. You guys at mythbusters had a huge influence back in 2009-10 where I use to watch repeats in the morning prior to going to highschool at the time on discovery channel on foxtel and then ended up watching all episodes at a later date Adam you are great science mentor and communicator to many and still share valueable insights to budding scientists. I want to thank you all at mythbusters for inspiring me to going down a STEM pathway.
For me, it's either the cement truck explosion, a sound that is forever etched in my brain, and replays pretty regularly every time I see a cement truck, or it's the water heater rocket, just heat, water, and pressure, and the suspense killing you, I wholeheartedly agree, that was one of the most elegant explosive myths tested on the series.
That’s such a feeling, really put a bunch of things in perspective and i ended up pursuing science, not exactly the high profile stuff but like the management side of freshwater is the dream job
Please, *_please_* do more of these sit downs with the Mythbusters crew members, with _any_ who are willing! Camera folk, sound folk, hell... the person who managed food! 😅 These are great, and it helps give us new Mythbusters content even if the show is no more... ❤
As far as one-liners go, it's hard to beat "Jamie wants big boom." Along those lines though, another contender could be Adam's description of the massive wind generator as "the pipe organ from hell."
Hear hear! _(no pun intended!)_ It was like it was overwhelming the microphone... It was just amazing! In reality, I think it sounded that way not due to hardware in any way, but the sheer _speed_ of the shockwave, and that it was reaching the limits of what can be audibly pushed through the atmosphere; buffering essentially (or something like that). But yea, _whatever_ the reasoning, it was a phenomenal sound, which I can *still* hear in my head! ❤🥹
Eric has great taste in your quotes, Adam. "I reject your reality, and substitute my own" is one of if not my single favorite quotes from the entire show. It's really the unbridled goofy enthusiasm with which you delivered it that really sold it.
For me, it's the wooden cannon. My first recollection of one of my favorite Mythbusters' tropes: "Oh that thing didn't blow up? Let's keep adding until it does!"
I honestly would love to see that done today with modern high-speed cameras -- The original ones weren't even fast enough to capture any mid-destruction frames at all. Also, being able to watch the shock wave on that shot made it truly iconic.
9:11 My favorite line that i've quoted the most is Jamie's: "When in doubt, C4!" For some reason it pops up in my head if i hear a word that rhymes with C4 (before, seafloor/shore, be sure etc.), or when someone says something about doubt.
the "fan myth" episode where you blew up the kid's parent's car, and actually did it comparison style with a Hollywood "explosion" first, then the real thing, was always the iconic moment for me, that showed you guys were really committed it also has one of my favorite lines: "one way to know Mythbusters have been in the area is to look for the shrapnel in the trees"
That tank car implosion was the CRAZIEST thing I EVER saw on Mythbusters... 22,000 ft Fall? No. Cement Mix Up? No. Coffee Creamer Cannon? No. Diamond Blast? No. THAT was just insane. i have been a fanatic of trains my entire life, and I know the sheer size of those tank cars. When I saw the car collapse, I was ASTONISHED. It simply was insane... You guys will forever be my TV idols
I've been a fan since season 1 episode 1, so It's nice to hear the insight of one of your producers and learn how difficult the logistics of the show really were. Your entire crew deserves a lot of credit for having the skills and patience to achieve what you did. I still watch the show to this day. In fact, I watched Drain Disaster yesterday, one of my very favorites. Thank you one and all for educating and entertaining me for 19 seasons and beyond.
Mythbysters truly was one of the greatest pieces of TV media ever made. Thank you so much to the whole cast and crew for making it possible. I miss Grant every day
It was 1996, and I was in L.A. attending my first ever WorldCon. I was in the hospitality suite when in walked Dean Ing. He was a rocket scientist who wrote novels. He sat down, those present had a conversation with him, and he proceeded to debunk the JATO car myth, point by point. It was the best debunking of that I ever heard.
I will have to say that my my favorites would have to be the cement truck and the rocket sled episodes. And before we went to work the next morning before work, knowing what we all seen the night before , just to get to say; there's your problem in any our problems of the day. Thanks so much Adam and Jamie
The parachute on the X-1 Skycycle deployed because the day before the flight Knievel changed from an electronic switch to a dead-man's switch he held in his hand. The g-forces of the launched caused him to lose his grip.
It's the Cement Truck, that... wow. It's everything we all wanted to see delivered in a perfect bite sized chunk of mind blending explosion. It's one of the greatest things ever caught on film, and everyone involved should have at bare minimum a plaque of some kind for their part in it. If you could auction off ad space with a time machine the breaks before and after the cement truck exploded, and that time Timberlake malfunctioned Janet's wardobe would be at the same price point.
I would still watch this show. The host were smart. They tried to teach me something. And showed me either how they wouldn't work that way but would work another way. This is a viable show today.
Heh, I bought a t-shirt that said "I reject your reality and substitute my own" back in the day because I loved that so much. I even wore that shirt on the day I was at a conference in SF and decided to find Jamie's shop and got my picture taken in that shirt in front of M5 Industries. Jamie was just leaving work and I had a few words with him.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." is a great quote and is definitely very popular because of Adam, though people do also remember it from The DungeonMaster (1984) movie. It is first used in TV in a 1974 episode of Dr Who called "The deadly assassin".
When I was in college my engineering group had a FaceTime call with Jaime and he was adamant we don't ask about his moustache or Mythbusters. I understand why as its probably annoying, so props to Adam for going through these questions on Tested and being so excited when talking about Mythbusters stories and history.
Defining myth was Underwater Car. It was a significant build, it involved serious problem solving, it spawned subsequent mini-myths, and it had real life application.
My memorable line from the show was the yellow barrels slowing Jaws episode. You actually got in contact with a memorabilia collector who owned the actual barrels used in the movie. He had one clause to your using them in your test: "Don't burn them up, blow them up, or lose them." Your cast sarcastic response: "Does he watch the show?" S03E10 40:50
“What is bulletproof?” And “bulletproof water” especially blew my mind. Learning that faster projectiles disintegrate faster was a fascinating learning moment.
I don't think I could've come up with a concise answer to the title question; I think of Mythbusters and I think of the Cement Truck explosion, and ping-pong ball boat raising, and underwater car, and so SO many others that I love. As a kid a part of me was always in awe of just the sheer audacity of the types of things Mythbusters got to do, and honestly that's such a core aspect of the show I don't think it shines through much better on any one myth than another.
I always wondered who made the metal MythBusters, Confirmed, Plausible, Busted signs and when all those clips were shot. Some seem to have been shot during the production, others seem totally random. How many versions have there been over the years? I've seen some get pretty much destroyed, especially with gun and explosive myths. Do any of them survive? Thanks for all the insights into this great show. It was my after high school must watch, it was the best.
I seem to remember a previous Tested Q&A where this came up. The answer was the assistants were set loose with their creativity between takes to create bunches of those.
It's like picking my favorite kid. Since others have already brought up some real bangers, I'd have to say the water heater through the roof was a blast!
My favorite line from Adam is "I reject your reality and substitute my own." I love it so much that my wife and daughter bought me a shirt with it on it!😅
So the 2 stage rocket in the civil war was a pretty big deal. It showed that the tech was viable and probably was used at least once on D.C. Also the tuning machine by tesla on the bridge was pretty amazing as well.
On leaving a space you use cleaner than when you got there that is one of the best ways to build a relationship with the owner/steward of the site. My friends and I started a LARP twenty years ago and we use the same park and at the end of every event we police the area we used for any trash whether it was ours or not (usually not). We are also very friendly towards other park goers. The park ranger was always very accommodating to us and very friendly. At one event it had rained most of the week and was raining all that day and we turned the field into a mud hole by the time we finished fighting that day. One of our club officers went to the park the next morning to talk to the ranger and offered for the club to buy grass seed for the field. The ranger said because we were such good patrons not to worry about it she was just happy people were using the park. Two weeks later she stopped by and told us the lawn crew was happy because they didn't have to mow that field. When we started LARPing years before with an established group we wondered why they constantly changed parks. When we asked they would say it was to make it more convenient for some of the members as they lived further away from the city that it is based in, but they rarely used the same parks for more than a year or so. It was after we had been running our own for a few years and went back to visit the 1st one that we realized that they took over the park like they owned it, didn't care if they interfered with other peoples' enjoyment of it and left the place trashed. When we confronted one of the older veterans of the game about it he admitted that they changed parks all the time because they were constantly being kicked out of them for their behavior. A little common courtesy will go a long way.
The death ray was the one for me. Its crazy how when someone states one of these myths as a fact we will say "nope it was busted on mythbusters". This show is actually what we use as a standard for matter of fact in society today. It was much more than a show and I hope they know that
I am distracted by the box containing the mini-lathe, mini-collets, mini-chucks, and mini-milk crates for holding all the mini lathe parts. Looking forward to seeing that build.
The cost of getting all those pingpong balls is such an interesting consideration. It'd almost make you think "maybe it's cheaper to just get a new boat" if boats weren't also way more expensive than you'd think
20,000 balls at 80 cents each is only 16k. they couldn't afford 16k ??? if they could get them with their logo printed on then they could have sold them for way more than the cost to fans of the show,
I love these conversations. Reminds me so much of my engineering and now project management career. Mythbusters was such a huge part of developing my style of problem solving. Thank you for sharing.
For me it had to be the car with the JATO rocket Myth, it was such an urban legend at that time. It.... set the pace for how your team would take a ridiculous scenario, deconstruct it to its component, then work through the different issues and concerns, and then pretty much put a question to rest.
my 2009 buick turned out had laminated side windows. i tried the center punch and it just put a little star crack in the glass. tried a few time. even a hammer only cracked it. so no escape from that unless you can roll down the windows.
I like hearing Eric's perspective. I'm learning to build the right crew for our endeavors. Thanks for giving us a peek inside the production office day to day. Not to mention you have inspired GENERATIONS of engineers, builders, and system thinkers. Often times the things that went wrong, defined the show, and taught us the dangers of such activities verry early on. The show goes beyond the cool explosions that we saw.
That was great. These are great conversations. And really love your soul chats. Still trying to find that Rilke poem. Might take a few years but worth the reacquaintance.
When I think mythbusters, I think of cement mixer for the quintessential boom. I think of lead balloon for how the show works, as well as an image of Adam with a singed eyebrow. I think of underwater car and if attempting to sleep is productive because of usefulness. and I think of cutting down a tree with a machine gun, because that was my moment of "wait, who IS Jamie and how the hell does he have access to this?"
For me it's the shark week episode where they built a shark-punching robot. It's the first episode I actually saw, and I also just think it perfectly encapsulates the central question Mythbusters always asked: "how can we test this urban legend in a beautifully overcomplicated way so that it's safe, entertaining, and actually scientific?"
The crane story reminded me of a Grand Budapest Hotel. "A lobby boy (and evidently producers) anticipates a client's needs before the needs are needed."
My vote would be the cement mixer. That was the one that defined the scale and limit of the show, did something no backyard hobbyist could do and yet something they WANTED to do. Lead balloon would be second.
The episode displaying clearly that elephants are afraid of mice as the elephant nimbly pulled off the Allen Iverson crossover is the episode that becomes this series. Unexpected and amazing! Who knew!?
I've really loved these particular videos (your others are great, too, Adam!) because I love hearing the BTS about Mythbusters. And now...I'm going to go watch Mythbusters! lol
I was out in the field for a Marine exercise. Of course we couldn't take personnal radios out. So we had set up a one word message to find out the outcome of Kneivel's jump. However the control operator got excited and sent negative, negative, negative. So we didn't know for about four days till someone was able to find and pass the word.
I paused it at 00:01 and I'm saying it was the concrete truck explosion heard 'round the world. First video I had ever seen from them and the reason I binge watched the entire 'entirety' of the series.
jaime keeps a low profile. he never liked the fame. there is a video somewhere of him giving a talk to a bunch of nasa engineers about some things he designed . a worm like robot that can traverse any obstacle. and another video of him discussing some stuff he built for the military like a device for navy seals that is magnetic with a drive that can pull a man up onto a ship from the water by climbing the hull.
I liked the idioms personally, the polishing of a turd and lead balloon- lead balloon gets ALOT of attention, but my personal favourite is the turd, because I'm still telling people "ummm actually, they mythbusted that, you can polish a turd, and it's beautiful"
Absolutely the exploding cement mixer. It's the stand out image of the series for me as well. It's synonymous with Mythbusters, and the one thing I think of when I think of the series. An absolute high water mark...
LOL, Yes it was the film The Dungeonmaster (1984) where that line came from. IMDB trivia says this..."Paul's line "I reject your reality and substitute my own" would later be popularized by Adam Savage on the Discovery TV show, Mythbusters."
Both DungeonMaster and Metalstorm starred Richard Moll, so naturally they are filed in the same mental bin. (Also filed in the "Starring Jeffrey Byron" bin, if anyone has one.)
Oh man, I *love* that episode.... 🥹 Adam and Jamie in their mini bunker looking on, and then... 💥BOOM!💥 The little shack is blown apart, they're both startled, pieces are raining down, and _immediately_ they look skywards! 😳 _But then,_ it takes *forever* to land... Like, a FRIGHTENINGLY long time! 🤣 All combined make for comedy gold! 😘👌
i have been rewatching mythbusters on amazon prime and it's so good one thing I wish is they had better slow mo cameras. I can only imagine how expensive their cameras were back then, imagine if we could get a reboot with the slow mo guys. we would be able to see so much more!
You know what is really sad? This far on in the UK I can not watch MB beyond season 9 on Amazon without buying it. Yes yes VPN but this should be available by now.
To answer the video title, I would say for me there are 3 of them: 1. Mentos and soda 2. Why are pirates shown wearing eye patches. 3. And, yes, blowing up the cement truck.
I still remember the day I saw on the discovery channel how a cement mixer disappeared. I was still a teenager and I can still remember the how jamie shifted his shoulders as if about to duck from shock as the explosion happened
Yeah, jato rocket really defines the show. But making the cement truck "disappear", and all the work with water heaters is pure magic. Watching a water heater fly through the roof, and then the tiny building fly apart like legos never gets old.
For me the defining episode of Mythbusters is cleaning the cement truck with dynamite. It's one of the very first episodes I saw and it always stayed with me.
plywood parachute always stuck out as a cool urban legend . not the flashiest episode but very good brain stimulating one. but loved every single one and i re watch every one over and over and over ............
For me, it was the myths involving Buster. I really dont know how many times you guys repaired him.... My favourite one-liner from MB: "Am I Missing An Eyebrow?"
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Adam, Jamie, Kari, Grant and Tory and the other supporting crew members of Mythbusters. Thank you!
RIP for those that have we have lost. Grant and Jessi, apologies for anyone else I may have forgetten. 😢
The show had steered me on a journey to embrace science and be inquisitive…. I am nearing the end of what will be a 6 year PhD come Feb 2024.
You guys at mythbusters had a huge influence back in 2009-10 where I use to watch repeats in the morning prior to going to highschool at the time on discovery channel on foxtel and then ended up watching all episodes at a later date
Adam you are great science mentor and communicator to many and still share valueable insights to budding scientists.
I want to thank you all at mythbusters for inspiring me to going down a STEM pathway.
For me, it's either the cement truck explosion, a sound that is forever etched in my brain, and replays pretty regularly every time I see a cement truck, or it's the water heater rocket, just heat, water, and pressure, and the suspense killing you, I wholeheartedly agree, that was one of the most elegant explosive myths tested on the series.
i 100% agree with those 2 . they are my #1 and #2 favorites but both equal as #1
The PFFTH-OOOooom sound is as clear to me today as it was the week after it aired.
Those two are exactly what came to my mind.
Yeah, that explosion sound is absolutely iconic! As is Jaime's reaction - he genuinely flinched, the only time I've ever seen him react like that.
Weird
To me, the ones that define the show either have explosions or Buster. Man, Mythbusters was a big part of my life growing up, I'll never forget it.
Explosions are definitely up there, Buster too.
I so feel like Mythbusters was one of the shows that shaped my youth
Couldn't agree more!
That’s such a feeling, really put a bunch of things in perspective and i ended up pursuing science, not exactly the high profile stuff but like the management side of freshwater is the dream job
Went from Bill Nye to Mythbusters....good time.
Please, *_please_* do more of these sit downs with the Mythbusters crew members, with _any_ who are willing! Camera folk, sound folk, hell... the person who managed food! 😅
These are great, and it helps give us new Mythbusters content even if the show is no more... ❤
Would definitely love to hear from the caterers/craft table folks on the series, I bet they have some great insights and stories to tell.
@@KidarWolfNow I'm curious what food item Jamie might've demanded always be there.... 😅
@KidarWolf some might find that silly but the office did an audio commentary with the catering crew and it was hilarious
So glad you’re enjoying them!
@@tested Loving them! Thank you for doing them, and all the crew for being willing! 🥹🍻😊
As soon as I saw the thumbnail my brain immediately went "Well there's your problem." One of Jamie's best oneliners in the series!
"I parked it RIGHT. HERE."
As far as one-liners go, it's hard to beat "Jamie wants big boom." Along those lines though, another contender could be Adam's description of the massive wind generator as "the pipe organ from hell."
The sound of the cement truck explosion is a sound I will never forget. Watching that episode for the first time is a core memory of mine.
I agree and it's one of my most revisited moment as well. Especially if it comes up in conversation.
It legitimately went pew followed by the boom.
Hear hear! _(no pun intended!)_
It was like it was overwhelming the microphone... It was just amazing!
In reality, I think it sounded that way not due to hardware in any way, but the sheer _speed_ of the shockwave, and that it was reaching the limits of what can be audibly pushed through the atmosphere; buffering essentially (or something like that).
But yea, _whatever_ the reasoning, it was a phenomenal sound, which I can *still* hear in my head! ❤🥹
My favorite line: "I parked it RIGHT HERE!!!" LOL
Eric has great taste in your quotes, Adam. "I reject your reality, and substitute my own" is one of if not my single favorite quotes from the entire show. It's really the unbridled goofy enthusiasm with which you delivered it that really sold it.
Our family references this quote regularly....especially if something is not working out!
For me, it's the wooden cannon. My first recollection of one of my favorite Mythbusters' tropes: "Oh that thing didn't blow up? Let's keep adding until it does!"
The episode with the cement mixer! That was epic, and the sound made was simply the most satisfying sound ever!
That’s always been my favorite and the fact that it was just obliterated! I mean GONE!
I was shocked by the utter disappearance of the mixer truck! I'm sure the parts that were ever found were miniscule lol
😂
It was a note worthy of Hans Zimmer.
I honestly would love to see that done today with modern high-speed cameras -- The original ones weren't even fast enough to capture any mid-destruction frames at all. Also, being able to watch the shock wave on that shot made it truly iconic.
I agree. The sound of it was crazy. Not a “boom” but a “beeyew” was absolutely incredible.
9:11 My favorite line that i've quoted the most is Jamie's: "When in doubt, C4!"
For some reason it pops up in my head if i hear a word that rhymes with C4 (before, seafloor/shore, be sure etc.), or when someone says something about doubt.
the "fan myth" episode where you blew up the kid's parent's car, and actually did it comparison style with a Hollywood "explosion" first, then the real thing, was always the iconic moment for me, that showed you guys were really committed
it also has one of my favorite lines: "one way to know Mythbusters have been in the area is to look for the shrapnel in the trees"
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing”. That one’s always been my favorite and the way that I operate lol
That tank car implosion was the CRAZIEST thing I EVER saw on Mythbusters... 22,000 ft Fall? No. Cement Mix Up? No. Coffee Creamer Cannon? No. Diamond Blast? No. THAT was just insane. i have been a fanatic of trains my entire life, and I know the sheer size of those tank cars. When I saw the car collapse, I was ASTONISHED. It simply was insane... You guys will forever be my TV idols
others did it before. there was one in germany where it imploded without damaging it. maybe german tankwagons are thinner.
id have to say the lead balloon was probably as close to purest ethos anyone would give to the word mythbuster.
Adam loves that episode for that reason!
How about Hindenburg?
Same here! Great episode!
Besides the history between these two, the chemistry makes watching this that much better.
Apart from the obvious "I reject your reality..." my favorite oneliner is "Well, there's your problem!"
I've been a fan since season 1 episode 1, so It's nice to hear the insight of one of your producers and learn how difficult the logistics of the show really were. Your entire crew deserves a lot of credit for having the skills and patience to achieve what you did. I still watch the show to this day. In fact, I watched Drain Disaster yesterday, one of my very favorites. Thank you one and all for educating and entertaining me for 19 seasons and beyond.
Mythbysters truly was one of the greatest pieces of TV media ever made. Thank you so much to the whole cast and crew for making it possible. I miss Grant every day
It was 1996, and I was in L.A. attending my first ever WorldCon. I was in the hospitality suite when in walked Dean Ing. He was a rocket scientist who wrote novels. He sat down, those present had a conversation with him, and he proceeded to debunk the JATO car myth, point by point. It was the best debunking of that I ever heard.
I will have to say that my my favorites would have to be the cement truck and the rocket sled episodes. And before we went to work the next morning before work, knowing what we all seen the night before , just to get to say; there's your problem in any our problems of the day.
Thanks so much Adam and Jamie
Any episode that got Jamie to giggle were my favorites. There's something about that little "hrr hrr hrr" with the moustache!
The parachute on the X-1 Skycycle deployed because the day before the flight Knievel changed from an electronic switch to a dead-man's switch he held in his hand. The g-forces of the launched caused him to lose his grip.
It's the Cement Truck, that... wow. It's everything we all wanted to see delivered in a perfect bite sized chunk of mind blending explosion. It's one of the greatest things ever caught on film, and everyone involved should have at bare minimum a plaque of some kind for their part in it. If you could auction off ad space with a time machine the breaks before and after the cement truck exploded, and that time Timberlake malfunctioned Janet's wardobe would be at the same price point.
What is bro on about ??
@@thefriendlyforager1788 I said that cement truck explosion was 'aight.
I would still watch this show. The host were smart. They tried to teach me something. And showed me either how they wouldn't work that way but would work another way. This is a viable show today.
The ones I still come back to even after so many years, are the vaporized cement truck and Compact Compact Rocket Sled.
Heh, I bought a t-shirt that said "I reject your reality and substitute my own" back in the day because I loved that so much. I even wore that shirt on the day I was at a conference in SF and decided to find Jamie's shop and got my picture taken in that shirt in front of M5 Industries. Jamie was just leaving work and I had a few words with him.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." is a great quote and is definitely very popular because of Adam, though people do also remember it from The DungeonMaster (1984) movie. It is first used in TV in a 1974 episode of Dr Who called "The deadly assassin".
When I was in college my engineering group had a FaceTime call with Jaime and he was adamant we don't ask about his moustache or Mythbusters. I understand why as its probably annoying, so props to Adam for going through these questions on Tested and being so excited when talking about Mythbusters stories and history.
Defining myth was Underwater Car. It was a significant build, it involved serious problem solving, it spawned subsequent mini-myths, and it had real life application.
A live Evil Knievel finale would have been AWESOME!
Idea for the reunion series!
Right?!
@@tested DO IT!
My memorable line from the show was the yellow barrels slowing Jaws episode. You actually got in contact with a memorabilia collector who owned the actual barrels used in the movie. He had one clause to your using them in your test: "Don't burn them up, blow them up, or lose them." Your cast sarcastic response: "Does he watch the show?" S03E10 40:50
“What is bulletproof?” And “bulletproof water” especially blew my mind. Learning that faster projectiles disintegrate faster was a fascinating learning moment.
7:07 "I was offered a crane before I knew I needed it."
I can't imagine a more succinct explanation of a good producer.
I don't think I could've come up with a concise answer to the title question; I think of Mythbusters and I think of the Cement Truck explosion, and ping-pong ball boat raising, and underwater car, and so SO many others that I love. As a kid a part of me was always in awe of just the sheer audacity of the types of things Mythbusters got to do, and honestly that's such a core aspect of the show I don't think it shines through much better on any one myth than another.
I always wondered who made the metal MythBusters, Confirmed, Plausible, Busted signs and when all those clips were shot. Some seem to have been shot during the production, others seem totally random.
How many versions have there been over the years? I've seen some get pretty much destroyed, especially with gun and explosive myths. Do any of them survive?
Thanks for all the insights into this great show. It was my after high school must watch, it was the best.
I seem to remember a previous Tested Q&A where this came up. The answer was the assistants were set loose with their creativity between takes to create bunches of those.
@@terryforshee5203 I must've missed that one, thanks for the info.
It's like picking my favorite kid. Since others have already brought up some real bangers, I'd have to say the water heater through the roof was a blast!
“Skunks Hate the Sound of Industry”. Loved that line, so much so my daughter eventually made me a T-shirt a couple years back.
My favorite line from Adam is "I reject your reality and substitute my own." I love it so much that my wife and daughter bought me a shirt with it on it!😅
Good ol Doctor Who
So the 2 stage rocket in the civil war was a pretty big deal. It showed that the tech was viable and probably was used at least once on D.C.
Also the tuning machine by tesla on the bridge was pretty amazing as well.
On leaving a space you use cleaner than when you got there that is one of the best ways to build a relationship with the owner/steward of the site. My friends and I started a LARP twenty years ago and we use the same park and at the end of every event we police the area we used for any trash whether it was ours or not (usually not). We are also very friendly towards other park goers. The park ranger was always very accommodating to us and very friendly. At one event it had rained most of the week and was raining all that day and we turned the field into a mud hole by the time we finished fighting that day. One of our club officers went to the park the next morning to talk to the ranger and offered for the club to buy grass seed for the field. The ranger said because we were such good patrons not to worry about it she was just happy people were using the park. Two weeks later she stopped by and told us the lawn crew was happy because they didn't have to mow that field.
When we started LARPing years before with an established group we wondered why they constantly changed parks. When we asked they would say it was to make it more convenient for some of the members as they lived further away from the city that it is based in, but they rarely used the same parks for more than a year or so. It was after we had been running our own for a few years and went back to visit the 1st one that we realized that they took over the park like they owned it, didn't care if they interfered with other peoples' enjoyment of it and left the place trashed. When we confronted one of the older veterans of the game about it he admitted that they changed parks all the time because they were constantly being kicked out of them for their behavior. A little common courtesy will go a long way.
The death ray was the one for me. Its crazy how when someone states one of these myths as a fact we will say "nope it was busted on mythbusters". This show is actually what we use as a standard for matter of fact in society today. It was much more than a show and I hope they know that
jaime saying i'm standing in the death ray and i'm not dead . hilarious
@@ronblack7870 That was priceless
I am distracted by the box containing the mini-lathe, mini-collets, mini-chucks, and mini-milk crates for holding all the mini lathe parts. Looking forward to seeing that build.
The cost of getting all those pingpong balls is such an interesting consideration. It'd almost make you think "maybe it's cheaper to just get a new boat" if boats weren't also way more expensive than you'd think
20,000 balls at 80 cents each is only 16k. they couldn't afford 16k ??? if they could get them with their logo printed on then they could have sold them for way more than the cost to fans of the show,
I love these conversations. Reminds me so much of my engineering and now project management career. Mythbusters was such a huge part of developing my style of problem solving. Thank you for sharing.
For me it had to be the car with the JATO rocket Myth, it was such an urban legend at that time. It.... set the pace for how your team would take a ridiculous scenario, deconstruct it to its component, then work through the different issues and concerns, and then pretty much put a question to rest.
Amazing to be able to watch Adam do these while rewatching the series. At least the episodes i can access in Canada.
My favorite is still the underwater car escape. It informs my daily life - I keep an emergency hammer in my car BECAUSE of that episode.
my 2009 buick turned out had laminated side windows. i tried the center punch and it just put a little star crack in the glass. tried a few time. even a hammer only cracked it. so no escape from that unless you can roll down the windows.
My car windows are hand cranked, so I expect to be able to open them even if I happened to end up under water.
I like hearing Eric's perspective. I'm learning to build the right crew for our endeavors. Thanks for giving us a peek inside the production office day to day. Not to mention you have inspired GENERATIONS of engineers, builders, and system thinkers. Often times the things that went wrong, defined the show, and taught us the dangers of such activities verry early on. The show goes beyond the cool explosions that we saw.
That was great. These are great conversations. And really love your soul chats. Still trying to find that Rilke poem. Might take a few years but worth the reacquaintance.
When I think mythbusters, I think of cement mixer for the quintessential boom. I think of lead balloon for how the show works, as well as an image of Adam with a singed eyebrow. I think of underwater car and if attempting to sleep is productive because of usefulness. and I think of cutting down a tree with a machine gun, because that was my moment of "wait, who IS Jamie and how the hell does he have access to this?"
that was team 2 and carrie cut down the tree with the vulcan minigun with over 3000 rounds.
For me it's the shark week episode where they built a shark-punching robot. It's the first episode I actually saw, and I also just think it perfectly encapsulates the central question Mythbusters always asked: "how can we test this urban legend in a beautifully overcomplicated way so that it's safe, entertaining, and actually scientific?"
To me what defines mythbusters is "I reject your reality and substitute my own". Am I missing an eyebrow? :D
The videos lately have been great! Love to see more of this guy!
The quote is from dungeon master, which has several more titles and versions, all of which are available on the new Blu-ray from AARow films
2 of em…..Cement mixer and Lead Ballon!!!
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Loving these. I love the shop videos too but these are so nostalgic.
The rocket car,any episode with Buster MK1,Adam asking,am I missing an eyebrow,and finally the amazing disappearing cement truck!💘💘💘🤣🤣🤣
All good choices!
@@tested I almost forgot,when in doubt,C4!
I LOVE that MythBusters still lives!
The crane story reminded me of a Grand Budapest Hotel.
"A lobby boy (and evidently producers) anticipates a client's needs before the needs are needed."
My favorite line was "We'll be shooting from a distance of 500 yards, the distance of your average restraining order".
The car-pusher dumptruck is my personal favorite.
My vote would be the cement mixer. That was the one that defined the scale and limit of the show, did something no backyard hobbyist could do and yet something they WANTED to do. Lead balloon would be second.
The episode displaying clearly that elephants are afraid of mice as the elephant nimbly pulled off the Allen Iverson crossover is the episode that becomes this series. Unexpected and amazing! Who knew!?
I've really loved these particular videos (your others are great, too, Adam!) because I love hearing the BTS about Mythbusters. And now...I'm going to go watch Mythbusters! lol
I was out in the field for a Marine exercise. Of course we couldn't take personnal radios out. So we had set up a one word message to find out the outcome of Kneivel's jump. However the control operator got excited and sent negative, negative, negative. So we didn't know for about four days till someone was able to find and pass the word.
This was an amazing interview, i learned a lot personally and it was quite entertaining!
I paused it at 00:01 and I'm saying it was the concrete truck explosion heard 'round the world. First video I had ever seen from them and the reason I binge watched the entire 'entirety' of the series.
Has Jamie been asked to sit in on one of these episodes? Wondering if he even would..
For record I love them lol
jaime keeps a low profile. he never liked the fame. there is a video somewhere of him giving a talk to a bunch of nasa engineers about some things he designed . a worm like robot that can traverse any obstacle. and another video of him discussing some stuff he built for the military like a device for navy seals that is magnetic with a drive that can pull a man up onto a ship from the water by climbing the hull.
I liked the idioms personally, the polishing of a turd and lead balloon- lead balloon gets ALOT of attention, but my personal favourite is the turd, because I'm still telling people "ummm actually, they mythbusted that, you can polish a turd, and it's beautiful"
Absolutely the exploding cement mixer. It's the stand out image of the series for me as well. It's synonymous with Mythbusters, and the one thing I think of when I think of the series. An absolute high water mark...
LOL, Yes it was the film The Dungeonmaster (1984) where that line came from. IMDB trivia says this..."Paul's line "I reject your reality and substitute my own" would later be popularized by Adam Savage on the Discovery TV show, Mythbusters."
Both DungeonMaster and Metalstorm starred Richard Moll, so naturally they are filed in the same mental bin. (Also filed in the "Starring Jeffrey Byron" bin, if anyone has one.)
I think it would be the water heater explosion. Yes, it had explosions and destruction, but the result was genuinely surprising!
Excellent choice.
Oh man, I *love* that episode.... 🥹 Adam and Jamie in their mini bunker looking on, and then...
💥BOOM!💥
The little shack is blown apart, they're both startled, pieces are raining down, and _immediately_ they look skywards! 😳
_But then,_ it takes *forever* to land... Like, a FRIGHTENINGLY long time! 🤣
All combined make for comedy gold! 😘👌
Thank you. Wonderful episode.
Jato was good but, seriously, cement truck! BOOM. Unbeatable, visceral impact
It’s like seeing two life long friends reunite what a good episode
...Because it is lol
How insightful!
i have been rewatching mythbusters on amazon prime and it's so good one thing I wish is they had better slow mo cameras. I can only imagine how expensive their cameras were back then, imagine if we could get a reboot with the slow mo guys. we would be able to see so much more!
I think that rocket car and the first cement mixer with concrete are the most memorable moments
The cement truck was and is always something that remains my favorite thing ❤
You know what is really sad? This far on in the UK I can not watch MB beyond season 9 on Amazon without buying it. Yes yes VPN but this should be available by now.
Thank you so much for these it, I love listening to the insights!
I always think of Adam escaping from a sinking car. A realistic scenario that has true real-world implications.
To answer the video title, I would say for me there are 3 of them:
1. Mentos and soda
2. Why are pirates shown wearing eye patches.
3. And, yes, blowing up the cement truck.
I still remember the day I saw on the discovery channel how a cement mixer disappeared. I was still a teenager and I can still remember the how jamie shifted his shoulders as if about to duck from shock as the explosion happened
the Cement truck is definitely the number 1 - that sound was amazing.
Yeah, jato rocket really defines the show. But making the cement truck "disappear", and all the work with water heaters is pure magic. Watching a water heater fly through the roof, and then the tiny building fly apart like legos never gets old.
For me the defining episode of Mythbusters is cleaning the cement truck with dynamite. It's one of the very first episodes I saw and it always stayed with me.
I love this series with the other cogs in the wheel of the machine that was Mythbusters. ❤️❤️❤️
plywood parachute always stuck out as a cool urban legend . not the flashiest episode but very good brain stimulating one. but loved every single one and i re watch every one over and over and over ............
The cement truck just not existing anymore, in less than the blink of an eye, is something I'll never forget.
Man to sit back at midnight and see 3 episodes of MythBusters was coming down the pike, there was nothing better. Seemed like simpler times.
4:26 20,000 ping pong balls for 80¢ each would cost $16,000. And 60,000 of those ping pong balls would cost $48,000.
Quote wise, I always remembered:
Adam - "Where are you going?"
Jaime - "To get more dynamite."
"The only difference between goofing off and science is taking notes" is up there for me
The Jato rocket car myth is what got me hooked on Mythbusters.
For me it’s the Water Heater as the main Mythbusters Episode. But all the episodes with costumes are the runner ups 😊
DUDE doing the Evel Knievel myth would have been GREAT. I'm genuinely sad we didn't get to see that.
If you get the chance to talk with Linda Wolkowitch, that would be phenomenal.
She's been mentioned in so many anecdotes, so it seems right
For me, it was the myths involving Buster. I really dont know how many times you guys repaired him....
My favourite one-liner from MB: "Am I Missing An Eyebrow?"
Great job guys. Thank you 😊