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MythBusters is a popular science program that airs on the Discovery Channel. The show follows five people who get paid to blow things up, surf, skydive, waterski, fire guns, wreck cars, set things on fire, drop things from massive heights, travel the world, launch frozen chickens and blow more things up, "all in the name of science".
Who Are The MythBusters?[edit | edit source]
Adam Savage - A middle-aged infant who spends most of his time dressing up as a pirate, ninja, caveman, cowboy, astronaut, superhero, indian, clown, mime or ballet dancer and putting on silly voices.
Jamie Heineken 2.0 - An advanced multi-functional robot built to look like a french walrus. Aswell as being a visual effects expert, he is also a scuba diver, a linguist and a bear wrestler.
Between them more than 30 minutes of special effects experience. Joining them...
Tory Belleci - The expendable one. Does most of the dangerous stunts when testing myths, because noone will care if he dies.
Grant Imahara - A technosexual. Loves building robots. His creations include a punching robot, a sword-swinging robot, a chainsaw-juggling robot, a child-molesting robot, a T-1000 and Jamie.
Hayley Williams - Redheaded artist on anti-depressants. Hired for her ass to give geeks something to masturbate over.
They don't just tell the myths, they get taught how to do super cool things for free, while claiming to put them to the test!
Early History[edit | edit source]
Fifteen years ago, the Discovery Channel was in trouble, its ratings were the lowest around. Apparently back then people weren't interested in learning about exciting, adrenaline-fueling subjects such as moss, igneous rocks and the mating rituals of various elephants. They wanted to see dull, yawn-inducing explosions and learn a bunch of useless trivia, such as how to escape a sinking car or how to save someone who's about to be run over by train.
So Discovery decided to give viewers what they want and they devised a show in which special effects wizards would do just that. It was given the working title "The Best Job in the World". The show's half hour pilot episode was entirely made up of various clips of car crashes, explosions, helicopters spinning out of control, police shootouts, shark attacks, natural disasters, trains colliding head on, two asian girls making out, moonwalking birds, trees falling on people, cats in microwaves, fat people falling down the stairs, midgets being railed down with a Minigun and spontaneous head explosions, with "Yakety Sax" and the "1812 Overture" as background music. The show received viewing figures of 42, a record high for the Discovery Channel.
However, parents complained that the show had no educational value at all. All it did was make children want to attempt some of the dangerous stunts at home. One mother was shocked to find her eight year old son stuffing his baby sister into a microwave, while her older daughter actually kissed another girl! So Discovery had to think of a way to pass the show off as an educational program, while including lots of warnings against trying any of the experiments seen on the show, at home. Thus, MythBusters was born.
Show Format[edit | edit source]
Each episode begins with the MythBusters recieving a phone call from a scared person whose house is being haunted by a myth. The narrator then shows the audience a piece of stock footage related to the myth. Afterwards, the team get in their "MythMobile" and drive off, then theres an advert break. After the adverts, more stock footage is shown and there's an unnecessary recap of the very little amount of stuff that happened in the previous part. The MythBusters then arrive at their clients house and begin to use a variety of scientific techniques to disprove or "bust" the myth. If the myth is successfully busted, they lock it up and the client is now myth free. Throughout the episode there are more advert breaks, unnecessary recaps and "don't try this at home" warnings, which in total take up at least a third of the length of the episode. If the team fails, and the myth is confirmed then it will continue to haunt the clients house with no way of stopping it. At this point the MythBusters have no other option but to destroy the clients house with a spectacular explosion.
Often viewers complain on the fansite that a busted myth was treated unfairly. This occasionally results in a lawsuit, demanding the myth be released. The released myths continue to haunt people until they are revisited in special episodes and the MythBusters attempt to shut the fans up and bust them once and for all.
Myths Tested[edit | edit source]
“We should start out small scale. Where's Grant?”
“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!”
| Myth Statement | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A 33hz sound wave can give a woman an orgasm. | Hayley sat on a beasty amp, while it played a 33hz sound wave at 160db. | Busted. Although she did climax, it was because the amp was basically a giant vibrator and the sound had nothing to do with it. |
| You can be killed by a flying champagne cork. | Grant built a champage cork launching robot and fired several shots at Tori's head. | Busted. Tori didn't die, although he was rendered completely blind in his left eye. |
| You can make an anti-gravity device using a cat and buttered toast. | They taped slices of toast, butter side up, to a number of cats and used a cat-throwing robot to launch them into the air. | Confirmed. The forces exerted by the butter and the cats feet were in perfect equilibrium causing the cat and toast to defy gravity. |
| It's possible to make a fire extinguisher look sexy. | See picture. | Confirmed. |
| Frantic masturbation can make you go blind. | The less said about it, the better. | Busted. Like their balls. |
| If you flip a penny ten thousand times, because the heads side is heavier, it will land on tails significantly more times. | They built a mass coin flipping robot to flip a hundred pennies a hundred times each and recorded the results. | Plausible. They got bored about half way through and just decided to put ten thousand pennies in a pile and blow them up with C4. |
| Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer. | Jamie's MythTerns tried a variety of methods get Chuck Norris to cry. | Inconclusive. All efforts failed and the MythTerns died of roundhouse kick related injuries. |
| The World Trade Center was actually brought down using Diet Coke and Mentos. | A 100th scale model of the World Trade Center was built and filled with powdered Mentos and Diet Coke. | Plausible. The scale models were successfully destroyed, however the MythBusters were arrested by the FBI when they attempted to go full scale. |
| Crossing the streams is bad. | Using plans submitted on the fansite, Adam and Jamie built their own proton packs and crossed the streams. | Confirmed. A total protonic reversal occurred, causing all the molecules in their bodies to explode at the speed of light. Luckily, Grant was able to build another Jamie. |