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MythBusters

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MythBusters	comment	Gonzo pop culture meets off-beat science as Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman — two special effects guys with over thirty years of experience between them — take on urban legends, ancient myths and tall tales of all kinds to debunk (or confirm!) them. The show ran from 2003 to 2016.Adam and Jamie originally gained minor celebrity status when their robot Blendo was a competitor on Robot Wars then later BattleBots (and was so badass that it was forced to withdraw from the Robot Wars competition in exchange for co-championship because it was knocking chunks out of the competitors and sending them over the safety walls protecting the audience), and Grant was also a known competitor with his famed middleweight robot Deadblow.With the help of their crack team of smart-ass builders (artist/sculptor Kari Byron, model builder/carpenter Tory Belleci, robotics engineer Grant Imahara, and formerly welder/metal worker Scottie Chapman and temporary replacement/metal worker Jessi Combs) from Seasons 2-9, as well as crack crash-test dummy Buster, Adam and Jamie meticulously take apart popular myths ranging from the legend of Archimedes' solar "Death Ray" to "free energy" to the most common Hollywood exaggerations such as exploding cars and the knockback from a bullet.They render each myth down to its component elements, then apply a goofball scientific rigor to reproducing those elements. Jamie owns and continues to run the special effects studio M-5 Industries, where he has all the equipment you would possibly need to build any sort of contraption they need to. And whenever they come across something that is beyond their expertise, they call in favors from colleges and other specialists. Their reputation has gotten to the point that they can get to just about any place because they provide excellent PR (to the point that sitting US President Barack Obama appeared on a 2010 episode) — a contrast to the first episode when Jamie found trouble trying to obtain a military grade JATO rocket; they ended up commissioning a custom one (or the third episode, where Sears wouldn't let them film in the store when they were trying to track down a specific model of lawn chair).When a legend fails to pan out, as it often does, they usually escalate matters to the point where the legend's expected results do occur. This process is affectionately called "replicate the myth, then duplicate the results" — usually at a point so far beyond the normal parameters that it isn't even remotely plausible that it happened by accident (or at the very least, so incredibly dangerous that anyone capable of sound judgment wouldn't attempt it in the first place). Usually these escalations involve entertaining explosions (such as a popular one in a March 2005 episode which vaporized a cement truck, or, even better, an April 2009 episode where they annihilated a car with a rocket-sled).Not every myth is busted, though — they are happy (although frequently surprised) when they prove that a story, however wild, is at the very least plausible. In "Big Rig Myths", they managed to confirm all three myths, and in their first episode devoted to viral videos, the myths that made it to air went four-for-four in confirmation. And so far, nearly every myth has some kernel of truth, even if that truth doesn't directly relate to whether the myth is plausible.The show has a geek-chic atmosphere that is almost irresistible. Part of the attraction is the Odd Couple pairing of Class Clown Adam and stolid Jamie, with their frequent jibes and competitions, and the kind of "intellectual The Three Stooges" vibe that the build team emits. Also, it's the humor and wacky sense of fun with which they all go about their mission. They once built not one, not two, but three different machines designed to drop buttered toast on the floor. For Christmas 2006 they built a Rube Goldberg Device to celebrate the holiday. The fact that Scottie, Kari and Jessi are three of the most attractive, genuinely intelligent women on TV doesn't hurt with the male (or gay) viewership, either. Grant and Tory also have their fans. (This series is a shining example of Geeky Is Sexy.) Grant had a growing fanbase in the Steampunk community, having even appeared in an webisode of The Adventures of The League of S.T.E.A.M. and building a robotic ringbearer for the steampunk wedding of two of their members.They don't have official education in scientific experimentation, but are just skilled in engineering, model making, construction and special effects (prior to the show starting, Jamie's M5 Industries was a sought-after model-making company, and Adam, Grant and Tory worked for ILM). Because of that they carry across an image of being One of Us; their reactions are much like regular people. Here are some examples of the dialogue.The show received seven Emmy nominations (2009-2015, no wins), and was easily one of the most popular programs on the Discovery Channel. In 2010, the show aired redux versions of certain older episodes as "Buster's Cuts", featuring on-screen pop-ups containing behind-the-scenes notes, bits of humor and trivia, and points about the myth being tested that didn't make it on the episode. Additionally, content from older episodes was recut to be used in the more kid-friendly Head Rush aired on Discovery Kids Channel.In 2014 Kari, Grant and Tory were released from the show due to growing production costsnote each new contract negotiation tends to raise the salaries for the people involved, not lower them, so even a hugely popular show like MythBusters would have gradually diminishing returns, and after another season of hosting the show alone Adam and Jaime announced the end of MythBusters, with the series finale airing on March 5, 2016. During the course of the show Adam and Jamie went on the road for a series of Behind the Myths tours (a/k/a MythBusters Live), but, with the end of the show, they have ended the tours also, with them amicably going their separate ways.Soon after, sister network Science announced plans to revive the show with a new cast, beginning with MythBusters: The Search — a reality competition to determine the new cast, followed by the proper revival series later in the year. The first season of the revival premiered on November 15th, 2017. In the meantime, Netflix commissioned Beyond International Group, the company behind MythBusters, to rope Kari, Tory and Grant into a Spiritual Successor of the show called White Rabbit Project, which also focuses on legends and theories, but instead of busting them, the show seeks to validate and rank them. White Rabbit Project premiered with 10 episodes on December 9th, 2016, on Netflix. Additionally, Adam, along with several other close friends, started a Web Video and podcast series called Tested, along with working with Michael Stevens of V Sauce on a series called Brain Candy. Originally they roped in Jamie for the show Tested as well, but he then bowed out as he wished to retire from the public eye and work in privacy.Then, in April 2018, The Science Channel announced that Adam will be returning to MythBusters to a certain extent, as host of a Spinoff Babies series called MythBusters Jr. So far, one season of this show has aired. Adam again returned to the Science Channel in June 2019 with a new show, Savage Builds.On August 27, 2019, at the age of 39, Jessi was killed in a crash of a rocket-powered car while trying to break the women's land speed record for four-wheeled vehicles. She was posthumously awarded the honor by the Guinness Book of Records; it still stands to this day.On July 13, 2020, at the age of 49, Grant died as the result of a ruptured aneurysm in his brain. In his honor, Discovery Channel aired an all-day MythBusters marathon on July 17.The Franchise went into indefinite hiatus in 2021 following the debut of Motor MythBusters, which saw former Build Team member Tory Belleci joined by engineer Bisi Ezerioha and mechanic Faye Hadley in testing myths and urban legends about automobiles.See also Tropes Examined By The Myth Busters.For tropes related to the 2017 relaunch, go to MythBusters 2017.
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MythBusters / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
MythBusters / int_10134c97	comment	There's also "Adam's Anatomically Accurate Avian Appendage" (a mock hand made from chicken wings), which was used for a myth involving an explosive consequence of holding a revolver the wrong way.
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MythBusters / int_10ca13e4	type	Stereotype Flip
MythBusters / int_10ca13e4	comment	Stereotype Flip: Played with when tackling stories inspired by events occurring along the Mexican border with the United States; they typically would transplant the circumstances of the myth to the Canadian border in order to remain culturally sensitive. Most obvious with the "Border Slingshot" and "Driving in the Dark" myths.
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MythBusters / int_110a7d7	type	Finale Season
MythBusters / int_110a7d7	comment	Finale Season: Season 15 was written, repeatedly referred to and advertised as such.
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MythBusters / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
MythBusters / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: When something involves shooting a gun, chances are good that they repeat the very same test with a minigun just for the heck of it.
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MythBusters / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
MythBusters / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: The staggering amount of strange stuff they've modified air cannons or rifles to fire, among others (see the trope page for specific examples). They've even tried cheese, and it actually worked.
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MythBusters / int_12e0bb9	type	Urban Legends
MythBusters / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: Testing them is kinda the point of the show. Not so much in later seasons, as a lot of the classic ULs aren't really testable. (How do you test something like "The Hook" or "Blue Star Acid"?)
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MythBusters / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
MythBusters / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License â€“ Linguistics: When analyzing the "Exploding Pants" myth, after they did confirm that a specific set of circumstances did in fact cause a pair of pants to catch on fire, Grant was still reluctant to call it Confirmed, saying that it wasn't technically an "explosion," since there was no compression, merely a "spontaneous ignition." Kari and Tory made the observation that, to the average person without the scientific knowledge to know the difference, if their pants spontaneously burst into flames, they would say the pants exploded.
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MythBusters / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
MythBusters / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: "9 strong MythBusters and Adam."
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MythBusters / int_1392fbe7	type	Drunk Driver
MythBusters / int_1392fbe7	comment	Driving while tipsy. note For legal reasons, they couldn't run any driving test when the driver was at or above 0.08 BAC.
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MythBusters / int_13a9273f	type	Gassy Gastronomy
MythBusters / int_13a9273f	comment	Gassy Gastronomy: They once tested out (in the episode "Franklin's Kite") if certain foods cause more flatulence. Jamie got beef, Kari got soda, and Adam got beans. Adam's rate of flatulence doubled after a day-long diet of beans.
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MythBusters / int_1402982a	type	Pretend We're Dead
MythBusters / int_1402982a	comment	Pretend We're Dead: Tory tries this. It even works. For a little while.
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MythBusters / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
MythBusters / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: To test a myth of a tornado sending a sheet of glass fast enough to decapitate someone, the Build Team made Neckman, a guy with a biiig neck. Now, take a look at him; if you don't see it, squint. Now, what does it look like? Lampshaded in preparation of a Sith myth, specifically the lightsaber fight from Revenge of the Sith. Adam is building a safe replica lightsaber, which is basically a long rubber tube. As he's sliding it into the metallic sheathe that will allow it to register hits, he remarks that this reminds him of something.
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MythBusters / int_1574193a	type	Pushed at the Monster
MythBusters / int_1574193a	comment	Pushed at the Monster: In the first Zombies special, Tory, Kari and Grant tried this, though since zombies aren't real they hired dozens of extras to dress up and act like zombies. When trying test ways to distract a zombie horde, Kari pushed Tory into a wheel chair, duct-taped him into it, and pushed him onto the horde. As Tory was "eaten" by the "zombies", Kari went around the large group that surrounded Tory, zig-zagged around a few stragglers attracted to the commotion, and made it to the finish line.
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MythBusters / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
MythBusters / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: One example of this happens while preparing to retest "Knock Your Socks Off". They need to see whether socks come off a smooth leg easier than a hairy leg, and to that end Tory is having one of his legs waxed. Happens twice in a row when testing if a gun dropped into hot frying oil will go off. First they drop the gun into 390 degree oil, but it doesn't go off within 15 seconds as they expect. After two minutes of waiting: Then they put the gun into cold oil and start heating it. When it reaches 340 degrees:
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MythBusters / int_16bd97d1	type	ICallHerVera
MythBusters / int_16bd97d1	comment	I Call Her "Vera": When they test myths involving cannons, they frequently use a cannon called "Old Moses", so named because it "speaks in a mighty voice and lays down the law."
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MythBusters / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
MythBusters / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Adam has repeatedly mentioned that if nothing goes wrong in the small-scale tests, or the setup for the final test, there will be some kind of catastrophic failure at the end. He's rarely wrong. Also proven correct in the "Rocket Car Revisited" segment of the Supersized Myths Special, where almost every preparation step went on flawlessly only to have the entire car explode the instant the rocket was ignited as it hit the launching ramp. Every once in a while, the MythBusters will predict how the show will be edited. This was especially apparent in the "Behind the Scenes" special. Usually they're right, because they're predicting a cut back to something they said earlier, which is now very foolish. While some contributors of items to the show exhibit Genre Blindness, some know that they're not likely to see the item intact ever again—in fact, some look forward to seeing it destroyed. One of the earliest examples of this was Cadillac Ben, who donated Earl the Caddy to the MythBusters at the beginning of season 2, with the intent of seeing it destroyed. It eventually was, but it took several episodes before it was finally put out of its misery—with Ben as a live witness.
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MythBusters / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
MythBusters / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Any time the MythBusters are about to set off a particularly big explosion, the first of these, the cement truck from Cement Mix-Up, is always going to be brought up, by the narrator if no one else. Same goes for any time the "big booms" of the series are brought up.
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MythBusters / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
MythBusters / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual / Deleted Scene: Some steps in testing a myth may be cut out due to time constraints, but are shown or referred to in the aftershow footage posted on Discovery's website, as well as explanations for some of their decisions.
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MythBusters / int_1825867d	type	Tastes Like Chicken
MythBusters / int_1825867d	comment	Tastes Like Chicken: Busted. Tory and Grant had a blind taste test, and each were able to successfully determine what was and wasn't chicken.
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MythBusters / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
MythBusters / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Who are the MythBusters?" There are also title drops for individual myths. No Pain, No Gain has "But you know what they say? No pain, no gain.". And that's just one out of many.
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MythBusters / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
MythBusters / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Happens sometimes, when the results of a test (typically an explosive test) were greater than anticipated. The sawdust/creamer cannon may be the most definitive example. The Esparto explosion was another example; the blast in the quarry was larger than expected, causing havoc in the nearby town, leading the MythBusters to become personÃ¦ non gratÃ¦ there.
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MythBusters / int_19add21f	type	Why We Can't Have Nice Things
MythBusters / int_19add21f	comment	Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Grant has used this exact line a few times, and the narrator has sometimes referred to the the MythBusters' insurance premiums being high because of all the destruction they cause in the course of testing myths.
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MythBusters / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
MythBusters / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: Despite being "what you call 'experts'", there are still occasionally major accidents and people either get hurt or come dangerously close to doing so. One of the most infamous was "Cannonball Chemistry", where a misfire at the test range sent a cannonball over a hill and bouncing around a suburban neighborhood, including through a house, across a six-lane street, and into a (parked) car. It's a miracle nobody got hurt. The episode covering the experiment skipped the footage of the incident itself and the aftermath (in accordance with the wishes of the victims of that accident) instead cutting off right after the misfire happened and returning to the discussion table at M7, where the Build Team quickly outlined what happened afterward, the steps they took to help the community, and the steps they took to avoid that type of disaster in the future. When this was brought up in the reunion special after the series' end, news footage from the town showing some of the damage the cannonball did was shown. The myth in the early episodes back when they were more lax with safety requirements tested if jawbreakers can get so hot they can explode. This resulted in an incident where Adam ended up getting burned on the arm and Christine getting hit in the face by molten sugar from an exploding jawbreaker. Christine even lampshades how idiotic it was for her not to be wearing her face protection at the time, and after this incident the show began to take safety precautions far more seriously.
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MythBusters / int_1af2ac43	type	Dive Under the Explosion
MythBusters / int_1af2ac43	comment	Dive Under the Explosion: They tested the "Dive to Survive" trope. It was ruled plausible but dependent on what type of explosive is being used. It worked well against a Hollywood-style gasoline fireball, but the ANFO broke every single blast disk.
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MythBusters / int_1b89151e	type	Forgotten Phlebotinum
MythBusters / int_1b89151e	comment	Forgotten Phlebotinum: Averted; so long as a testing rig doesn't get destroyed during the course of a myth the MythBusters will usually put it in storage so that it can be used again for revisits or (usually with some modifications) similar myths. Look at how many times they re-purposed the sword-swinging robot. Adam lamented this in the earlier seasons when Jamie decided to cut up the chicken cannon, since they'd never have time to rebuild it.
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MythBusters / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
MythBusters / int_1bdbbbae	comment	The Klutz: If Adam isn't hurting himself, odds are Tory is. And if it's not Tory, it's Grant. Kari usually manages to stay safe, although she was entirely sidelined for a number of segments during one season with an unexplained leg injury.
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MythBusters / int_1bf3170b	type	The McCoy
MythBusters / int_1bf3170b	comment	The McCoy — Kari
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MythBusters / int_1c4e308e	type	The Spock
MythBusters / int_1c4e308e	comment	The Spock — Grant
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MythBusters / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
MythBusters / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Jamie, with Stoic Spectacles for good measure. The most glaring example of such was during the Battle of the Sexes myth, where all five MythBusters had to be photographed while portraying different emotions. Jamie was thrown out as a subject because all his photos had the same neutral expression.
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MythBusters / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
MythBusters / int_1d3c92da	comment	Doubly so in a number of myths (see Failsafe Failure above) where there are multiple failsafes in place to prevent exactly what the myth is about; requiring the MythBusters to deliberately disable them to replicate the myth (where the myth is that this happened by accident; often their justification for this was that the mentioned failsafes could succumb to wear and tear and stop being effective on older machines.)
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MythBusters / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
MythBusters / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Jamie's Julbo Drus sunglasses.
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MythBusters / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
MythBusters / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": During the toilet experiment in The Simpsons special, Adam points out anytime anyone — including him — says "number two".
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MythBusters / int_1e68311c	type	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction
MythBusters / int_1e68311c	comment	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction: When they first tried to test the Rocket Car myth, the U.S. Air Force sent them two letters denying them assistance. Justified, in that nobody knew who they were back then, Federal Law prohibits the sale of that sort of ordnance to civilians, and they were asking for something that's barely one warhead short of a missile, less than two years after 9/11.
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MythBusters / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
MythBusters / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: During "Cannonball Chemistry", Tory, Grant, and Kari address the audience directly at the beginning of the episode, and again when they reach the "where did that cannonball just go?" point in the original filming. The pilot who takes Adam on the U-2 flight is keenly aware of the fact that he's on TV:
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MythBusters / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
MythBusters / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: In the final episode, when Adam prepares to drive a giant wedge through their entire collection of old props, "The Final Countdown" starts up. Since this was the last stunt they ever filmed for the show, it literally was the final countdown.
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MythBusters / int_1e7cf07c	type	Out of Control Popcorn
MythBusters / int_1e7cf07c	comment	Out Of Control Popcorn: The scene from Real Genius was tested where a house is destroyed by having a massive amount of popcorn cooked inside of it. Sadly, real life popcorn will fail to pop if it is under pressure during cooking, so it's not actually possible.
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MythBusters / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
MythBusters / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: Jamie. A sign Jamie put up in M5 says it all, "Clean Up Or Die". During one build, Adam broke Jamie's lathe. Watching the next clip, of Jamie talking to the camera, it's hard to tell if he's more upset about the damage to an expensive machine, or the fact that Adam didn't sweep up the sawdust.
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MythBusters / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
MythBusters / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Invoked preemtively by Jerry, the blind man who was helping them test the drunken navigator portion of the "Blind Driving" myth.
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MythBusters / int_1fdb5403	type	Last-Second Showoff
MythBusters / int_1fdb5403	comment	Last-Second Showoff: Played with in the Powder Trail test. To see if a protagonist could really run ahead of the burning gunpowder and break the trail, Jamie lounged in a folding chair until the line of powder had burned a while, then started running...and then Adam charged in from the side and shoved Jamie away from the powder.
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MythBusters / int_21ac3809	type	Ancient Grome
MythBusters / int_21ac3809	comment	Ancient Grome: When they test the arrow machine gun, which was allegedly invented by Dionysius the Elder, a Greek, Adam wears some very Roman armor. They fire at a target that is dressed as a Greek hoplite, but they call it a Roman centurion. Adam wears the same armor while directing the ("Greek") mirror bearers during a Solar Death Ray revisit.
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MythBusters / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
MythBusters / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Probably an unintentional example in the "Fire vs. Ice" episode. In the beginning, Adam is using a fire extinguisher to put out Jamie's homemade flamethrower, which appears as a cloud of dark blue gas to the thermal camera and covers the heat from the fire. This is the same method that the Build Team uses to obscure warm bodies from a heat-seeking camera in their myth later in the same episode. The MacGyver special has one during Adam and Jamie's "MacGyver Challenge": after they escape being tied up at the beginning of the challenge, Jamie takes the rope with him, and they use it as the tail for the kite they build as a signal at the end.
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MythBusters / int_2311e2de	type	Accidental Aiming Skills
MythBusters / int_2311e2de	comment	Defied in at least one test; when testing the remote controls of the first Impala for the 2013 retest of the JATO rocket car myth, Grant steers it to avoid hitting a camera. At least that's the excuse he gives for swerving all over the lot.
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MythBusters / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
MythBusters / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: The reason behind the whole show - up until you reach the point in the episode where they decide 'to hell with it' and blow something up. One might contend that that too is science, albeit in an Aperture-inspired manner.
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MythBusters / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
MythBusters / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: In "Holiday Special", Kari gets attached to a zombie dog replica.
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MythBusters / int_24fbee90	type	Broke the Rating Scale
MythBusters / int_24fbee90	comment	Broke the Rating Scale: Most myths (from season 2 onward) adhere to the Busted/Plausible/Confirmed scale. There are, however, some deviations. Type 2s are not uncommon ("Plausible, but ludicrous" or variants being the most common), and there has been a Type 4. During the Supersized Special, the MythBusters performed a test that failed in a way that did not yield useful data—namely, Supersize Rocket Car (the car blew up as it was supposed to launch). Because the test yielded nothing useful, the MythBusters simply called it "Appropriately Supersized". At the end of the CSI fireball myth, the ramped-up version was rated "Gratuitous!" A test to see if driving at a high rate of speed is sufficient to keep the rain out of a convertible with the top down was rated "Plausible, but Not Recommended", because of it being so blatantly unsafe. Testing the myth of bullets being fired up killing someone received all three ratings: 'busted' because if a bullet were fired straight up, it would tumble as it fell, slowing it down to nonlethal speeds; 'plausible' because it's difficult to actually fire a bullet straight up, and even a slight deviation allows the bullet to maintain a ballistic trajectory and the lethal speed involved; and 'confirmed' because they located documentation of someone actually being killed by a bullet that had been fired into the air. The Dirty vs. Clean Car myth pulled off arguably the most complex rating ever on the show: "Myth busted, concept plausible". This was because the myth as stated - that a dirty car is more fuel-efficient than a clean car because the dirt creates an effect similar to the dimples on a golf ball - did not work at all when subjected to a standard test (the dirt actually reduced the car's fuel efficiency), but when they devised another method of re-creating the effect the myth describes (by applying an even layer of clay to the car and then carving out dimples using a homemade circular wire cutting toolnote If you're wondering about the weight difference, they put a box filled with the carved out clay in the backseat of the car to account for that during the second test.), that actually did improve fuel efficiency by 11% over the clean car. In the "Killer Washing Machine" myth, not one aspect of the story was deemed to be in any way plausible. First, 50 pounds of clothes cannot fit into a residential washing machine, next the drum is not powerful enough to spin a man around. In fact, they could easily stop the spin cycle with their hands and feet, no to mention that most washing machines will not operate with the lid up. Finally, dog urine and baking soda in no way causes any kind of explosion. The myth was declared to be Decimated.
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MythBusters / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
MythBusters / int_251bbe0e	comment	While some contributors of items to the show exhibit Genre Blindness, some know that they're not likely to see the item intact ever again—in fact, some look forward to seeing it destroyed. One of the earliest examples of this was Cadillac Ben, who donated Earl the Caddy to the MythBusters at the beginning of season 2, with the intent of seeing it destroyed. It eventually was, but it took several episodes before it was finally put out of its misery—with Ben as a live witness.
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MythBusters / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
MythBusters / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: During the first Pirate Special, Adam sees a passing tumbleweed, which he notes is not a "pirate thing"; this is while he is using an angle grinder to reshape a cannon ball. Adam, in regarding their construction of a tree cannon: "I'm not doing anything the Paks wouldn't have done if they had had a chainsaw." In the second ninja special, during one of the arrow firing tests, Adam is wearing medieval European armor. Jamie calls him out on it.
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MythBusters / int_25ea229	type	Siege Engines
MythBusters / int_25ea229	comment	Siege Engines: The Build Team recreated a Hwacha!!! or multiple arrow launcher. Adam and Jamie made a trebuchet out of an old boom lift. It didn't work so well... In the final season, the boys made a trebuchet out of duct tape (and lumber). Thanks to properly considered engineering, it worked a lot better.
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MythBusters / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
MythBusters / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: During the "Knock Your Socks Off" myth, they set off an explosion for the final phase of the experiment, and everyone, including their explosive experts on location, underestimated just how big the shockwave would be. In nearby Esparto, California, it ended up knocking people off sofas, setting off car alarms, breaking windows and knocking down ceiling tiles, and the news reported that the MythBusters had leveled the town.
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MythBusters / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
MythBusters / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: "Failure is always an option." More specifically, it's clear that every Mythbuster has become a crack shot after working on the show. Gun myths in early seasons tend to involve clamping the gun down and calibrating it exactly with a laser to make sure it's on target. In later seasons, they just shoot the guns themselves. At one point, they skip calculating terminal velocity, simply stating they remember it from all the other times they've dropped Buster off something 10 stories high.
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MythBusters / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
MythBusters / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Oftentimes, if someone is expositing to the camera, someone else will slip into the background and mess around. In one episode, Kari, Grant and Tory are testing a food myth. Grant is shown with a mouthful of meat, chewing in slow motion. Kari (a vegetarian) is seen watching. Her expression is priceless. In another episode, Adam (disguised as Jamie) is dancing in quite over the top fashion in background, while the actual Jamie is talking. From the Multitasking myth: while Kari explains the testing procedure, Tory can be seen picking up the windup toy baby which is supposed to be kept from wandering off, and ensures it can't wander off ... by shutting it up in a cabinet. During the Titanic myth, there's an interlude where Jamie and James Cameron are on the floor of the shop discussing the myth's historical context. Behind them is a steel barrel that has a raging fire in it, which neither of them pay any mind to... until Adam comes in, puts it out with a fire extinguisher, and wordlessly exits. During the episode where the Build Team tests various remedies for dealing with mouth burn after eating spicy food, Grant and Tory take several shots of tequila after eating a jalapeno paste, followed by Kari explaining the aftermath with a drunk Grant in the background playing air guitar with a broomstick while wearing a sombrero.
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MythBusters / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
MythBusters / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Primarily athletes brought in for myths requiring their abilities, though other celebrities sometimes appear.
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MythBusters / int_27e9edc	type	Undercrank
MythBusters / int_27e9edc	comment	Undercrank: Used at times to indicate something happening over a long period of time, or the silver-on-blue doodles introducing each myth.
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MythBusters / int_2816d1ca	type	Guns Firing Underwater
MythBusters / int_2816d1ca	comment	Guns Firing Underwater: Tested and Busted. Even if a gun does fire, the water will slow a bullet down to nonlethal speed in short order. Larger rounds like .50 BMG wound up being shredded when fired into water.
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MythBusters / int_282501bf	type	Experiment Show
MythBusters / int_282501bf	comment	Experiment Show: MythBusters is considered the first.
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MythBusters / int_2828fd9a	type	Promotion to Opening Titles
MythBusters / int_2828fd9a	comment	Promotion to Opening Titles: The Build Team. They were promoted to full MythBuster status initially, then demoted back down to being the Build Team (though they remained in the opening titles).
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MythBusters / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
MythBusters / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: During an episode that eventually required dropping a pig carcass from a helicopter: "The Pork Chopper". There were many more. Another from a sub-variant of exploding lava lamps. What have they bean doing while waiting for a giant can of beans to explode? Well they've bean making bean jokes of course.
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MythBusters / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
MythBusters / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The "Warning—Science Content" label usually precedes the MythBusters discussing the historical, and not scientific, context of a myth.
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MythBusters / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
MythBusters / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded by Grant in the 'Road Rage' episode.
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MythBusters / int_2a51fd2d	type	Beam-O-War
MythBusters / int_2a51fd2d	comment	Beam-O-War: Done with a flamethrower vs. a heavy duty fire extinguisher. Actual myth: Busted. Results: Awesome.
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MythBusters / int_2a6e43d3	type	Iron Butt-Monkey
MythBusters / int_2a6e43d3	comment	Tory after getting burned holding a lava lamp: It gets hot!
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MythBusters / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
MythBusters / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Unless it's for a test, Jamie is almost never seen in anything other than his standard outfit of leather work boots, khaki pants, a white button-down shirt over a black undershirt, and his beret. The "latex masks" test used deliberate differences in his wardrobe as part of the testing. The only consistent variant is that he's often worn a long-sleeved black shirt instead of the black/white shirt combo. Grant's wardrobe also qualifies; he's always wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans, occasionally adding a black button-down or a black leather jacket.
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MythBusters / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
MythBusters / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: John Hunt, aka "John the Researcher", who appeared in three episodes in 2006, and again in the Viral Hour episode in 2008. Not seen much on-camera anymore, but he's still a researcher for the show.
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MythBusters / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
MythBusters / int_2b14367f	comment	Non-dairy creamer cannon, and the gigantic fireball resulting from it. Grant went so far as to request clean underwear.
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MythBusters / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
MythBusters / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: As demonstrated in this show, "like taking candy from a baby" does not actually mean "easy"—test subjects struggled mightily with that very task.
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MythBusters / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
MythBusters / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Frequently employed. At the end of their live show, they bring out an anti-aircraft paintball gun to demonstrate what kind of armor Adam would wear if he were to play paintball (A full suit of plate mail).
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MythBusters / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
MythBusters / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: In its later seasons, as the show began to run out of myths, urban legends, and sayings to test, it became increasingly focused on testing movie special effects and visual tropes. Adam, starting with season ten have outright referred to a lot of what they test as tropes instead of myths.
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MythBusters / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
MythBusters / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson for our friends in more Commonwealth-influenced lands) would be so damn proud. One in particular was opening a safe by cutting a small hole, filling it with water and dropping an explosive charge in it. Water doesn't compress so the power is distributed to the weak points of the safe, the door. The principle behind it is sound and works, but it took over 30 minutes to cut the hole and the stuff inside was charred from the cutting lance. Never mind the fact that the safe leaked like a sieve, despite attempts to seal it from the outside. The water stun gun. A sailboat can, in fact, be propelled forward by blowing a giant fan into the sail...but simply pointing the fan backwards works so much better. You can tenderize meat with explosives, or with a giant air cannon firing kevlar-wrapped meat into a steel target. You know, in case you don't have a tenderizing hammer close at hand? In the ninja specials, they tested being able to catch an arrow in midair (possible but unlikely) and catching a sword swing (only if you have hand protection). In both cases, it's noted that you'd be better served by dodging than trying to stop whatever's coming at you. Tailgating in a big rig's slipstream does in fact enhance your gas mileage. It's also likely to get you killed. Next time you're being attacked with a flamethrower and all you have is a super-powered fire extinguisher, remember that you can defend yourself with it. If you've got properly sealed metal containers, plenty of wire, a big boat of an automobile, and a certain celebrity chef, you can cook a full Thanksgiving dinner with your car. It is possible to build a balloon out of lead foil and make it float with helium... but aluminum foil is both stronger and easier to get in large quantities.
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MythBusters / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
MythBusters / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: A lot of construction myths turn out to be this. The claim made for the substance is true on a micro level, but is too flawed to use in the large-scale way the myth states. Examples: Using ping-pong balls to raise a sunken ship (true, but you need thousands of them just to raise a relatively small fiberglass boat.)note Not that this kept the concept from being used in 1964 to salvage the sunken freighter the Al-Kuwait.; Using balloons to lift a person (a couple thousand just for a five-year old kid); Building ships from "pykrete", a mixture of ice and wood chips (the substance performed surprisingly well, but a small boat quickly started shedding). (This is one of the tests that led to a lot of debate, since the original concept was for making large aircraft carriers for use in the North Atlantic, and they would have been solid blocks of Pykrete with refrigeration units to prevent melting, not the thin shell boat that the MythBusters made. Still, the fact that it lasted only about fifteen minutes in the waters off Alaska probably says something about the viability of the material....) Using explosives to make diamonds. When the build team played host to New Mexico Tech to show how they could make diamonds, an enormous amount of explosives, a gigantic explosion, and baths of acid were used to create... a tiny amount of dirty industrial-grade diamond grit, worth about a quarter. Not a quarter of a million dollars, but 25 cents. An excellent example of this trope in action is the lead balloon. The MythBusters proved that it is possible to make a balloon out of lead foil and make it fly...but there are far, far better materials to make a balloon with. If it must be a metal foil balloon, aluminum foil is safer, lighter, stronger, easier to work with, and easier to get a hold of.
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MythBusters / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
MythBusters / int_2cc5703c	comment	Driving while needing to use the toilet.
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MythBusters / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
MythBusters / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Jamie actually played this role in a short, silent film setting up a movie myth about awnings.
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MythBusters / int_2d5b1c65	type	Expansion Pack Past
MythBusters / int_2d5b1c65	comment	Expansion Pack Past: Jamie; the man has lived an interesting life. May be more of a Multiple-Choice Past depending on how much Adam is making a joke of it at any given time. While Adam and Jamie are interlacing the pages of a phone book (to allegedly make them inseparable):
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MythBusters / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
MythBusters / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: An almost literal version when the Build team tested whether an ice cannon could be a viable weapon. It isn't as good as a regular cannon and blows out if too much gunpowder is packed in or if it is use too much.
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MythBusters / int_30e222a1	type	Censor Steam
MythBusters / int_30e222a1	comment	Censor Steam: Subverted in this video. A last second move of Kari's head blocks the actual decapitation of the dead lamb, but then they replay it from another angle, uncensored, in slow motion.
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MythBusters / int_316194d2	type	Hyperventilation Bag
MythBusters / int_316194d2	comment	Hyperventilation Bag: Kari breathes into one right before being dropped in an airline crash rig. Adam being Adam, he tries to pop it.
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MythBusters / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
MythBusters / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Some have joked that their methodology comes down to, "Let's try it again with 2 tons of TNT." Also, see Rule of Cool.
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MythBusters / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
MythBusters / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: In the Duct Tape Island special, Jamie caught a fish using his duct tape and wood created spear. He apologized to it for killing it, but it was for a good purpose.
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MythBusters / int_331f410b	type	Mouthful of Pi
MythBusters / int_331f410b	comment	Mouthful of Pi: In the "Prison Escape" myth, Grant's "prisoner number" is "3.14". Kari's is "5150" (the California code for an involuntary psychiatric hold, the LA police code for a false alarm, the title of a Black Sabbath song, as well as the title of a Van Halen song and album. Most recently, it was the title of a hit song by Dierks Bentley that came out in 2012). Tory's is "000".
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MythBusters / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
MythBusters / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Just about everybody on the show. During "Helium Football": During "Deep Sea Dive" Although Grant seems to do the laugh best (and most frequently), as highlighted by the completion of Robo-Cat for "Beat the Guard Dog":
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MythBusters / int_353d6ca3	type	Microwave the Dog
MythBusters / int_353d6ca3	comment	Microwave the Dog: The myth about drying a dog in the microwave is one of the only classic urban myths Adam and crew refuse to put to the test, and the episode where this myth was brought up resulted in their first assertation of their No Animals Were Harmed policy.
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MythBusters / int_35a24c16	type	Geo Effects
MythBusters / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: Tests the "high ground" advantage that Obi Wan Kenobi supposedly has over Anakin Skywalker in a lightsaber fight. It's busted: out of 50 rounds between Jamie and Adam after proper swordsmen's training, the combatant on higher ground won only 26, just barely over half.
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MythBusters / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
MythBusters / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Largely averted, although Adam tended to get bleeped roughly once an episode in the first few seasons when a lot more of the work on the myths was being shown on-screen. Also, there are the rare times when something goes seriously awry with a test or a build, such as Adam's profanity-laced call to the insurance company after being told he couldn't be a stunt double in a Hollywood myths episode, and Grant's reactions to his (repeatedly) failed "dental floss jail door cutter" machine. Adam Lampshaded this himself after getting slapped by Jamie in the "Alcohol Myths" episode (for sobering-up techniques): In one episode the (normally taciturn) Jamie spends a lot of time and effort welding two large pipes together, only to realize that he's made an amateur welding mistake, closing off an opening that makes the whole thing useless. His reaction, especially when he has to explain what happened to Adam, is dutifully recorded in full and then just as dutifully censored. "No Pain, No Gain" included using this trope as part of the testing — specifically, whether or not cursing increased your ability to tolerate pain (it did). The editors had fun with that episode. When Adam tests out his curse-proof tool, listen carefully to the beeps. If you know Morse Code, there's a message in there. Again when Tory lets loose. Respectively, HELLO and HURTS. Multiple bleeps are required when Jamie and Adam plan out their poop-polishing experiment, mostly because they're discussing which words they can or can't use to describe the raw materials on the air. ("Is bleep okay?" "No.") When testing "bungee jumping for apples," both Adam and Jamie swear liberally when they have to do their first bungee jump, and afterwards.
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MythBusters / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
MythBusters / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: All five of them. Just because they do it safely and legally doesn't make the trope any less applicable.
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MythBusters / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
MythBusters / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Does the experiment really call for several hundred pounds of explosives packed in a cement truck? Not really, but damn if it isn't awesome. In the Hurricane Windows episode, before exploding a tree:
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MythBusters / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
MythBusters / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: A parody/homage of the show used a myth that if you interleave the pages of a pair of phone books, the raw friction would make them inseparable short of destroying the books or manually "unweaving" the pages, with the parody presenters coming to the conclusion that you could not do so. The MythBusters themselves decided to test this, ramping it up from a tug-of-war and two tire-burning rental cars to finally chaining them between two tanks. Myth busted, despite it ultimately requiring 8,000+ pounds of force - more than could be generated than if both rental cars had been simultaneously suspended from the phone books in mid-air - to pull them apart. Has ascended so much that it is a major part of their live tour. Adam suspends himself from a ceiling hook, with only the friction of the phone book pages (which are interleaved earlier in the show by audience volunteers) connecting his harness to the hook.
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MythBusters / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
MythBusters / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Quoted after the Build Team's "Don't Drive Angry" myth. The latter part of the myth involved Kari driving both Grant and Tory up the wall, involving the most irritating and uncomfortable car to drive in, anti-relaxation 'pastimes' (a fish foot-bath for Grant, a pummeling "man-massage" for Tory), and the consumption of caffeine drinks with added laxatives to really push them over the edge. Once the test was over and confirmed, Kari came clean and told them that the laxatives were vitamins. Cue her infuriated co-workers trying to strangle her. If the pre-episode bump is any indication, she may not have known the laxatives were vitamins at the time; if that's true, Grant and Tory should have been going after the producers instead.
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MythBusters / int_3823c722	type	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...
MythBusters / int_3823c722	comment	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "Mini Myth Mayhem," Adam and Jamie try (successfully) to mail a coconut to themselves. Jamie sorts through the day's mail in this fashion, replacing "junk" with "coconut" as it thumps onto the table.
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MythBusters / int_38b9969	type	The MÃ¼nchausen
MythBusters / int_38b9969	comment	The MÃ¼nchausen: Jamie.
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MythBusters / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
MythBusters / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy — First Scottie, then Grant. They make the robots. Grant is not necessarily smarter than anyone else, but is the only member of the team with a degree related to what they do (electrical engineering), giving him a larger base of knowledge to tackle certain builds.
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MythBusters / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
MythBusters / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Turns out, in a myth testing how to light a room with directed light and mirrors, that all Jamie has to do is step into the beam with a crisp white shirt. It lights the room nearly four times as brightly as any of their other methods. When trying to get past a high-tech motion detector which uses sound waves to detect movement, Kari discovered that by far the most effective method was to simply hold up an ordinary bedsheet between herself and the sensor. The second-most effective method was to move through the room at a painfully slow speed; literally boring, but practical. The sword-swinging robot. It's just a swinging pneumatic arm with a clamp to hold a sword. The sheer number of myths the MythBusters have re-purposed it for is absolutely incredible.
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MythBusters / int_39cee4cc	type	Team Power Walk
MythBusters / int_39cee4cc	comment	Team Power Walk: Most episodes usually end this way, with Adam and Jamie and/or Kari, Grant, and Tory walking away from the smoldering aftermath of their main event myth.
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MythBusters / int_39cf2a24	type	Dunking the Bomb
MythBusters / int_39cf2a24	comment	Dunking the Bomb: This got tested in episode 81 "Grenades and Guts" by putting a grenade into a bucket of water. The bucket was annihilated in the explosion, but Adam and Jamie differed on the verdict of whether or not it would save one's life. (Adam said "no" because it still gave one of the stand-ins a lethal injury; Jamie disagreed, pointing out that the injuries to the stand-ins weren't as serious as the control, plus unlike Jumping on a Grenade, it didn't require a Heroic Sacrifice.)
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MythBusters / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
MythBusters / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Peter Rees, veteran maker of science documentaries. Creator, producer, writer, and director of MythBusters, and the guy who personally cast Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on the show. Never seen onscreen except in certain specials like MythBusters Revealed. (Rees left the show in 2006.)
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MythBusters / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
MythBusters / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The team will also sometimes test things that they know in advance will be confirmed or busted (especially if it promises to be spectacular) because the true purpose of the show is to investigate and explain the science behind the results. Subverted when the team tests a myth that they know has a foregone conclusion, only to achieve surprising and sometimes eye-opening results.
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MythBusters / int_3bfd638c	type	Warts and All
MythBusters / int_3bfd638c	comment	Warts and All: The show has no problem showing when the MythBusters screw up or do something ridiculous. However, it gets taken even further in the "Behind the Scenes" special; the announcer even used the trope name to describe it.
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MythBusters / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
MythBusters / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: During "Cheese Cannon", Kari states that they haven't used cheese as ammunition before. She then clarifies that she hasn't, and that she doesn't know whether either of the others has. Grant hasn't. But Tory has. And he doesn't care to talk about it.
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MythBusters / int_3ccaf3ac	type	No Swastikas
MythBusters / int_3ccaf3ac	comment	No Swastikas: The Hindenburg replica just had white circles on its tail.
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MythBusters / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
MythBusters / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Any time Jamie and Adam do some type of build-off, Jamie, who is more experienced in engineering of the two, tends to kick Adam's ass quite easily. There are several exceptions, however, including "Needle In a Haystack" and "Paper Crossbow".
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MythBusters / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
MythBusters / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Subverted. They've tested several myths regarding this trope, and busted the majority of them. (It turns out it is possible for a car to explode on impact under the right circumstances, but gas tanks are positioned specifically to avoid those circumstances in the first place.)
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MythBusters / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
MythBusters / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: A source for a lot of their humour. Some examples: Tory: Lemon juice stings when it gets in your eye! Tory after getting burned holding a lava lamp: It gets hot! Tory standing in a bull ring wearing a bright red jumpsuit: This is starting to feel like a bad idea. Adam and Jamie after deliberately crashing a car into a wall: Jamie: Yep, it's a car crash, I think. Adam: I'd say what happened here was that this car, here, hit this wall, there.
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MythBusters / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
MythBusters / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Played straight and subverted. In the Viral Videos episode, they warned that the viewers shouldn't believe every video they see online... yet all four of the videos tested were Confirmed. However, they did make their own example involving Rubik's cubes, in order to show how someone could easily fake an online video. They would later bust other videos, such as the giant lego ball video.
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MythBusters / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
MythBusters / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: Sharp-eared gamers may recognize one of the musical snips they sometimes use between shots during Seasons 2 through 11 as coming from the soundtrack of MechWarrior 2. Specifically, it's the beat at the beginning of Ambushed and two places it can be heard are during the Skunk Cleaning segment in S2 and after the Hypermiling myth in S11.
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MythBusters / int_4061b99	type	Water Torture
MythBusters / int_4061b99	comment	Water Torture: The team tested the Chinese water torture in one episode, restraining and racking Kari while leaving Adam unrestrained as a control subject. After an hour or so, poor Kari was so rattled the team called a halt early; they declared it plausible and too dangerous to go for full confirmation. Interestingly, Adam actually found the experience of feeling cold water and quiet time surprisingly pleasant, leading him to hypothesize that the stress of the "torture" comes more from the restraint than the water itself.
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MythBusters / int_41c6c75d	type	Alcohol Is Gasoline
MythBusters / int_41c6c75d	comment	Alcohol Is Gasoline: The team tested this in "Moonshiner Myths". They concluded that it is possible for a short while, however, only with extremely high concentrations of ethanol (192 proof); likewise, burning ethanol isn't as efficient or good for the engine as regular fuel. A more detailed summary of the results can be found here.
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MythBusters / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
MythBusters / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Grant cracks up when he hears that one of the trained alligators is literally named Fluffy. The other two are Skipper and Bob.
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MythBusters / int_41f3b3a2	type	Generic Cop Badges
MythBusters / int_41f3b3a2	comment	Generic Cop Badges: Invoked. When the Busters set out to test a story about a police badge stopping a bullet, they got test badges from the company that makes the real thing but genericised and personalized with the show's name.
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MythBusters / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
MythBusters / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: Used for both covering swearing and hiding the name of ingredients to dangerous substances. Lampshaded by Adam in "Hindenburg Disaster" on making thermite:
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MythBusters / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
MythBusters / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: When testing out James Bond myths, Kari put on an evening gown with a fur wrap, just to get that classic Bond Girl look.
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MythBusters / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
MythBusters / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: The entire male cast has gotten a handful of these over the show's run (Jamie in the tree cannon episode, for example).
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MythBusters / int_46a4f490	type	Carcass Sleeping Bag
MythBusters / int_46a4f490	comment	Carcass Sleeping Bag: This has been tested by the Mythbusters, who mimicked the Star Wars example specifically and were surprised by how effective it was.
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MythBusters / int_46b3ec7c	type	Fun Personified
MythBusters / int_46b3ec7c	comment	Fun Personified: Adam is as close to a Real Life example as you'll ever get.
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MythBusters / int_470442c8	type	I'll Be in My Bunk
MythBusters / int_470442c8	comment	I'll Be in My Bunk: After busting the viral video of a man shattering an SUV window by tapping his fingers, Tory attempts to replicate the video by putting a â€œpersonal massagerâ€� under his glove. After it fails, Kari grabs it and walks off saying sheâ€™s â€œgoing to go put it in storageâ€� for him.
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MythBusters / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
MythBusters / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: Tested in one episode. In some of the footage not featured in the episode (but shown when they went on The Colbert Report), the masks were shown to be good enough to ''fool Jamie's dog''.
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MythBusters / int_47d646a2	type	GenkiGuy
MythBusters / int_47d646a2	comment	Genki Guy: Adam, even more than Kari fits the girl version.
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MythBusters / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
MythBusters / int_47fea76b	comment	One example notable for its sheer improbability: the Build Team's attempts to test vodka as a cure for poison oak. In theory, it's a simple test: expose a person to poison oak, then use a commercial balm on one part of the affected area, vodka on another section, and leave a third area clear as a control. First they used Tory as a guinea pig. No rash. Then they tried Adam. Again, no rash. So they tried it on Grant. Yet again, no rash. As a result, they drafted three members of their production crew. Only one of the three (researcher John Hunt) actually got a rash. Five of six human guinea pigs did not respond to being exposed to poison oak (90% of the population being vulnerable). On top of that, Tory and Grant were previously known to be allergic, and yet failed to get a rash.note If you're wondering why they didn't try Kari, her childhood reaction to poison oak was so severe that they deemed it not worth the risk.
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MythBusters / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
MythBusters / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger for the final final episode, the MythBusters cast reunion, is a recreation of the shawarma-eating scene which was the stinger in The Avengers.
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MythBusters / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
MythBusters / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Very common in the early episodes, presumably to save money and pad out the length. It's become such a defining feature of the show that even though they can afford more expensive footage, they still use at least one piece of stock footage during the setup for each myth. They usually rely on custom-made animation to demonstrate myths that came from television shows and movies, which they'll replay a few times during the episode. But either due to the budget or their reputation, they are increasingly being allowed to use the actual television and film clips in the show.
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MythBusters / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
MythBusters / int_48dfb7e4	comment	They also did a test comparing various Stock Sound Effects with the real-life thing they're supposed to be representing. Most of them didn't sound the same, but the rattlesnake actually did! They recorded a rattlesnake themselves and it sounded almost exactly like the rattlesnake sound they were testing.
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MythBusters / int_49d5dd74	type	"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate
MythBusters / int_49d5dd74	comment	"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: The fansite was host to a nasty argument over whether a plane could take off if it were on a conveyor belt that was running in the opposite direction. MythBusters result: Yes it can!
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MythBusters / int_4a364781	type	Hidden Purpose Test
MythBusters / int_4a364781	comment	Hidden Purpose Test: When Jamie and Adam tested the Mission: Impossible Latex Perfection mask, they tried it out on several observers who thought they were helping with a different myth. Later in the episode, they did a different such test with Grant and Kari. They do this a few times, such as in the "Is Yawning Contagious" myth, bringing in a large group of people for an unrelated purpose and yawning for one sample but not the other. After all, if you tell people you're testing if yawning is contagious, then yawn in front of them, their awareness of what the test is for will skew the results.
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MythBusters / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
MythBusters / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Whenever someone (usually Adam or Tory) has to get injured in the name of an experiment, the other team members will generally express glee about it, especially if they get to inflict the pain.
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MythBusters / int_4a7ee7bc	type	Yellow Snow
MythBusters / int_4a7ee7bc	comment	Yellow Snow: During the first Alaska Special, the narrator mentions that Kari is doing everything worth doing on fresh white snow. Including, apparently, urinating her own name into the snow.
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MythBusters / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
MythBusters / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": In "Tipsy vs. Tired", this was Kari's reaction after being told that she strayed out of her lane during the highway/"monotony" portion of the tipsy test over 100 times. She was a bit too exhausted to respond when she more than doubled this number during the later tired test that confirmed the myth.
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MythBusters / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
MythBusters / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands like in a western movie would result in an 1860s-era pistol shattering into lethal fragments, rather than being torn from the wielder's grip like what's depicted on screen.
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MythBusters / int_4d0372b	type	Everybody Knew Already
MythBusters / int_4d0372b	comment	Everybody Knew Already: While describing the James Bond boat jump myth, Adam says that they are at a secret location, while standing in front of a sign that clearly states "Lake Yosemite". Immediately after Adam's briefing, The Narrator hangs the lampshade by calling it the "not-so-secret location".
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MythBusters / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
MythBusters / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Guns, explosions, robots, redheads and manly mustaches galore!
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MythBusters / int_4ddd4d1a	type	Swivel-Chair Antics
MythBusters / int_4ddd4d1a	comment	Swivel-Chair Antics: Occurred a few times. The most famous, which was sampled in the intro in some episodes, involved Jamie using a pair of malamutes to pull him around the building. Not shown in the intro was the part where the chair snagged on a door frame and Jamie kept going.
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MythBusters / int_4dfc538d	type	The All-Solving Hammer
MythBusters / int_4dfc538d	comment	The All-Solving Hammer: Grant often makes the suggestion that he could build a robot for a myth. Usually, this is a viable option (and the route they actually take), but occasionally he makes the suggestion when it's patently ridiculous. Grant has a trigger swivel rig that he has modified at least five times; he initially built it to swing a sword, going through bang a hammer and even kick a soccer ball.
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MythBusters / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
MythBusters / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first seasons, when it was mostly just Jamie and Adam, with some secondary urban legend experts. Also, their rating system wasn't fully developed, so various terms (most commonly "true") were used instead of "confirmed", and "plausible" didn't even exist as a rating. In the first episode they examine a myth (the JATO Rocket Car) and then examine another myth (Pop Rocks), a template followed for much of the first season. In later episodes the myths are intercut with each other throughout the episode. The process of obtaining the necessary equipment to test a myth was often given a fair amount of screen time, and Adam or Jamie would be the ones on the phone. Today this is no longer the case, as even if the producers weren't taking care of equipment procurement now, the show's fame and reputation allow them to easily obtain almost anything except certain levels of military equipment or extremely dangerous/toxic substances. And even then, the people in charge of that equipment/substances are often fans of the show and are willing to help out as best they are allowed to - such as Adam getting a ride in a U-2, courtesy of the U.S. Military, or the Build Team being allowed to bring roaches to a nuclear research lab to bombard them with lethal radiation. A few early episodes of the show play up conflicts and disagreements between Adam and Jamie, even featuring segments where one host express their frustrations with and criticisms of the other. These were added at the behest of the producers who thought the show needed drama, and were eventually put to a stop by Adam and Jamie, who didn't want to partake in such unprofessional behavior and show it on TV. Another jarring incident from the show's early days that demonstrates similar unprofessionalism, as well as a lack of safety considerations, is when the other members of the team played a potentially very dangerous prank on Adam by shocking him with a battery left over from a prior episode. Adam was not happy about this incident, which can be clearly seen in the footage. It was yet another order from the producers in order to create "drama" on the show, which Adam and Jamie balked at, and from then on the show's production operated with a strict "no pranks" rulenote Adam has also noted that, given the kinds of people who work on the show, and the equipment and expertise available to them, prank wars could quickly and easily get out of hand and become dangerous.
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MythBusters / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
MythBusters / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Although it occasionally suffers collateral damage, M5 Industries has never been deliberately destroyed- it is, after all, Jamie's place of business. But the Mythbusters do their best to honor the trope in the series finale, lining up 14 years worth of props from various tests and having Adam drive truck right through them.
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MythBusters / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
MythBusters / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy — Tory. Reasonably athletic, he is the one who usually tests the more physically challenging myths. Also has the most jokes at his expense, often involving slapstick.
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MythBusters / int_5029a6a9	type	Blow Gun
MythBusters / int_5029a6a9	comment	Blow Gun: As part of the ninja special.
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MythBusters / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
MythBusters / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Tory's Meatman: a fake skeleton with pork sewed onto it to serve as muscle and skin, with its abdomen filled with various organs and fake blood. It was used to test the myth that if a deep sea diver in an old-timey suit lost his air supply (and a safety valve failed to work), the resulting pressure difference would crush the diver's body into the helmet of the suit. The myth was confirmed; even the helmet began to buckle under the pressure, with bits of Meatman beginning to leak out. Poor, poor Meatman.
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MythBusters / int_5080221	type	Faux Horrific
MythBusters / int_5080221	comment	Faux Horrific: Some gags when they're examining sites and/or supplies to test myths commonly involve references to horror movies or Horror Tropes. For example during the testing of a piano dropping through the roof of a house into a basement, The Build Team was looking through a house already slated for demolition and Kari closes the bathroom's medicine cabinet to reveal Tory holding an axe behind her, cue her releasing an over-the-top scream.
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MythBusters / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
MythBusters / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Jamie again, he keeps lard on hand for any situation. Lampshaded in Duct Tape Canyon; Jamie packed suitcases full of duct tape and bubble wrap for a drive to a VIP reception. Grant can build a robot for anything.
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MythBusters / int_51a12a6f	type	Hong Kong Dub
MythBusters / int_51a12a6f	comment	Hong Kong Dub: Invoked by Adam during one of the pre-commercial break teasers in the "Ninjas 2" episode, to hilarious effect (especially as the final part of the "dub" occurs with Adam having already been "shot dead" by three arrows and not moving his mouth at all).
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MythBusters / int_521f5afe	type	Incorrect Animal Noise
MythBusters / int_521f5afe	comment	Incorrect Animal Noise: Averted, at least with Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes. They thought they'd find an incorrect noise when testing Stock Sound Effects as many of the other sounds they tested didn't sound like the real thing, but the most commonly used sound effect for a "rattlesnake" and the footage they managed to collect of a rattlesnake themselves matched up very well, and they rated the sound Confirmed.
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MythBusters / int_52748705	type	Bamboo Technology
MythBusters / int_52748705	comment	Bamboo Technology: Part and parcel of some myths, and occasionally merges with Steampunk. They've had to test myths of plans for American Civil War era rockets and even a steam powered machine gun. Invoked literally on the MacGyver special where they built a lightweight plane out of bamboo, garbage bags, duct tape and a cement mixer motor. While it did roll on the ground just fine, it plummeted straight down as it rolled off a cliff to attempt liftoff. The Hwacha!!!, a missile battery for large firework-powered bamboo ballistae. Then there was the "Ming Dynasty Astronaut" myth, in which a Chinese philosopher supposedly blasted into space on a throne strapped with 47 rockets made out of bamboo. Exaggerated in an episode where they have to survive on a desert island using nothing but duct tape and bamboo. They not only manage to do essentials like gather food and water, but they also build hammocks, chairs, a table, a chess set, and in the end, they build a canoe and escape the island.
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MythBusters / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
MythBusters / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Both Jamie and Adam are coming close, if they haven't hit this trope already. They've had enough specialized driving instruction for various myths that when they tested whether driving in high heels was inherently more dangerous (due to lack of control), they needed a fairly extreme driving course to give themselves a challenge. Adam has told a story about driving with his wife in fairly icy conditions, and his skill level was so high that he was intentionally letting the car slip and slide a little, easily regaining control, for little reason other than personal amusement - until his wife couldn't restrain herself and started yelling at him to stop before he gave her a heart attack. She knew intellectually that he was fully in control, but it was still so terrifying that she had to make him stop. Kari has picked up some mad driving skills through the years, pulling some remarkable Tokyo-drifting in a go-kart; Grant himself has had to drive mere inches from an 18-wheeler at highway speeds; Tory has stopped a car using another car via piercing grappling hook. Don't forget the mad skillz at radio-controlled driving (of multiple full-sized vehicles) displayed especially by Grant, but also to a lesser degree by Adam and Jamie.
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MythBusters / int_53b22e1f	type	Tattoo as Character Type
MythBusters / int_53b22e1f	comment	Tattoo as Character Type: Both Scottie and Jessi are experienced mechanics and welders, traditionally a male dominated field, and carry a good number of tattoos to show for it. Scottie's tattoos were also referenced in an experiment about iron-heavy tattoo ink exploding in an MRI.
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MythBusters / int_53b39668	type	Reality Show
MythBusters / int_53b39668	comment	Reality Show: Especially with first season of the revival series.
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MythBusters / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
MythBusters / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: A literal invocation, as an eager stuntman promptly performed a diving stunt in a shot where he was simply supposed to agree to do it.
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MythBusters / int_53f44cdf	type	Washy Watchy
MythBusters / int_53f44cdf	comment	Washy Watchy: A dishwasher and not a clothes washer, but a similar scenario happens when Adam, Jamie, and Alton Brown try to cook a lasagna using the pots and pans cycle. Adam and Alton agree that the noise is worth the visuals.
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MythBusters / int_5400ad8	type	Never Bareheaded
MythBusters / int_5400ad8	comment	Never Bareheaded: Jamie has this reputation, though he doesn't quite fit the strict definition. That said, though, beret on is his default appearance, to the point that when he accepted a honorary PhD fans and students alike wondered if he'd wear his beret or an academic cap to the ceremony. His beret.
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MythBusters / int_541c0283	type	Jumping the Shark
MythBusters / int_541c0283	comment	Jumping the Sharkinvoked: Both lampshaded and parodied in the Science Channel Duct Tape Special. They bring out a giant, inflatable slide with a shark motif. A graphic appears: "Number of times this show has jumped the shark: 1Ì¶0Ì¶ 11". They promptly fire up their duct tape trebuchet and fire-bomb the thing.
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MythBusters / int_544d3a44	type	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction
MythBusters / int_544d3a44	comment	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction: Parodied with a line by Adam that provides the page quote, where the actual names of the ingredients for an experiment are blurred out to keep from giving the audience ideas. When examining the Hindenburg disaster, they tested the flammable properties of both the hydrogen gas and the zeppelin's metallic paint, and decided that a combination of the two was probably responsible. When they were testing a Breaking Bad method of Disposing of a Body, they accelerated sulfuric acid with some "special sauce" to make something monstrously corrosive.
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MythBusters / int_55172a70	type	Zombie Gait
MythBusters / int_55172a70	comment	Zombie Gait: An enforced slow shuffle is required of all the volunteer zombies.
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MythBusters / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
MythBusters / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: In one episode they take on the infamous freefall conversation scene from Point Break (1991) by having another skydiver try to tell Grant a "pull my finger" joke during freefall. The joke was completely inaudible, proving the movie played the trope very, very straight.
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MythBusters / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
MythBusters / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: Subverted in the "Duct Tape Island" episode. We never see anyone else but the two MythBusters (and, briefly, some of the camera crew), but Adam and Jamie noted that the beach they landed on had quite a few footprints, and the overhead drawings included maps that looked suspiciously like the island of Oahu (the most populous island in the Hawaiian chain). Their access to sushi and fried chicken is also something of a giveaway and in the "Aftershow" online episode they admitted they'd actually slept in a hotel but all the builds they did were real enough. In the episode itself, Adam managed to catch a wild chicken with a duct tape trap, then gave a quick No Animals Were Harmed disclaimer to assure fans that the wild chicken was released, and the chicken he and Jamie eat later on was store-bought.
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MythBusters / int_55818ad2	type	Tough Beetles
MythBusters / int_55818ad2	comment	Tough Beetles: While testing the Trope that Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth, the team subjected 3 bugs to high levels of radiation to see how well they tolerated it. The 3 bugs were fruit flies, cockroaches, and flour beetles. While the fruit flies died off quickly, and cockroaches only survived the low and medium radiation doses, a few flour beetles did survive the high dosage.
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MythBusters / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
MythBusters / int_55af5099	comment	Adam and Jamie also hosted Unchained Reaction, which showed teams making various Rube Goldberg Devices.
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MythBusters / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
MythBusters / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: "Ye Oldie Times"
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MythBusters / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
MythBusters / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The show says that the Hwacha is an ancient Korean weapon when it was introduced towards the end of the Medieval period. While testing moon myths, Adam makes a big deal over having a figure of Neil Armstrong and having a replica spacesuit modeled on Armstrong's and saying that it's because the figure and the suit both have red commander markings. Neil Armstrong never wore a suit with red markings, which were an embellishment added to commanders' suits from Apollo 13 onward to help better distinguish the two astronauts on the moon when viewed through a TV screen.
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MythBusters / int_56766569	type	Token Religious Teammate
MythBusters / int_56766569	comment	Token Religious Teammate: Tory, despite his rather goofy, airheaded nature, is actually the only Christian out of all five of the main crew.
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MythBusters / int_56e3c2b5	type	Wildlife Commentary Spoof
MythBusters / int_56e3c2b5	comment	Wildlife Commentary Spoof: Adam ribbing on Jamie by narrating sightings of "the wild Hyneman" is a Running Gag. Lampshaded by Jamie once: "Is he doing the David Attenborough thing again?" Grant also did it once (with Tory as the target) when testing the myth of the "sand necktie". While guiding a big ballistics gel block through a swimming pool:
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MythBusters / int_56f9e23e	type	Gas-Cylinder Rocket
MythBusters / int_56f9e23e	comment	Gas-Cylinder Rocket: It didn't launch upwards, but did slam its way straight through a concrete-block wall at floor level.
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MythBusters / int_581bc55c	type	Bucket Helmet
MythBusters / int_581bc55c	comment	Bucket Helmet: Used in the myth about walking in circles blind in a forest. This really is how people train to navigate dangerous, low-visual range situations such as blizzards.
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MythBusters / int_58b70952	type	Failure Montage
MythBusters / int_58b70952	comment	Failure Montage: While testing the claim that dental floss can cut through prison bars, Grant initially tried to build a floss-bot out of things a prisoner could plausibly get his hands on (primarily a cassette-tape player). Cue one Failure Montage, complete with bleeped-out swearing and frustrated throwing of robot parts.
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MythBusters / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
MythBusters / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: Episode Underwater Car and Inverted Underwater Car successfully test that cabin doors cannot be opened from the inside once a car has plunged into water. One has to wait for the pressure differential between the inside and outside to stabilize, which can take until the cabin is filled to the brim.
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MythBusters / int_59a9605d	type	Never Smile at a Crocodile
MythBusters / int_59a9605d	comment	Never Smile at a Crocodile: Subverted; the team expected crocodiles to be a lot more dangerous than they actually were. In "Crocodile Escape," a myth where they tried to test whether you could escape a crocodile chasing you by running in a zigzag, no crocodiles chased them, and they concluded that zigzagging isn't really worth the effort because you really escape from crocodiles by staying out of the water. Being ambush predators whose hunting tactic is to suddenly lunge at a victim at the edge of the water, they don't chase people (or even animals) for large distances on land. If the initial lunge fails, they'll just reset and wait for the next prey to come along.
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MythBusters / int_59d9af07	type	Five-Second Rule
MythBusters / int_59d9af07	comment	Five-Second Rule: Actually tested by the Mythbusters. The results were not promising to anyone who has ever invoked the rule, as it was determined that a mere millisecond on the floor could pick up bacteria, and that it was the conditions of the surface, not the time spent there, that determined transference.
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MythBusters / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
MythBusters / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Say it with me: "Jamie want big boom".
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MythBusters / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
MythBusters / int_5b12f598	comment	Million to One Chance: A few myths they said were reasonably plausible in theory, but to do it by accident or even on purpose requires the right alignment of stars. Those myths involve the sniper scope shot with modern scopes and one with a belt buckle with a testimonial from a local police officer. One of the best examples is the exploding bumper, where nothing they did could get the result of a bumper being launched explosively from a burning car, yet were able to prove it IS possible given JUST the right circumstances by finding a person who actually had her leg broken by this happening. Doubly so in a number of myths (see Failsafe Failure above) where there are multiple failsafes in place to prevent exactly what the myth is about; requiring the MythBusters to deliberately disable them to replicate the myth (where the myth is that this happened by accident; often their justification for this was that the mentioned failsafes could succumb to wear and tear and stop being effective on older machines.) Also applies in cases where the myth is known to be possible but the Mythbusters are unable to replicate due to the number of factors that have to be exactly right, as well as a good deal of luck (such as surviving a fall from high-altitude without a parachute, as some pilots and at least one flight attendant are known to have done).
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MythBusters / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
MythBusters / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Adam goes on the ocean to test myths an awful lot for someone subject to violent seasickness. Adam "volunteered" to get himself bitten by Daddy Long-legs spiders despite his supposed arachnophobia (though the very fact that he allowed this to happen so readily makes him having actual arachnophobia highly unlikely). Interestingly, the next time Adam was confronted with spiders (tarantulas this time!) he said he'd gotten over his "phobia" of them since the Daddy Long-legs myth. In the Self-Hypnosis myth, Adam was forced to put his hand in a box of bees twice to see if self-hypnosis could cure him from his fear of bees. It didn't, but a later myth involving bees actually helped him a bit, thanks in part to the beekeeping outfit he was wearing for that one and some time spent testing with a single bee; he was less nervous around the bees the second time. Perhaps something similar happened with his earlier arachnophobia. In another episode, Kari forces Grant to sit blindfolded with his feet in a bucket with live fish, because of his intense fear of them (they were testing driving performance under stress). Grant's phobia was also on display when they were testing whether splashing around attracts sharks. Tory and Grant were the guinea pigs and each had to either float calmly or splash around. When it was Grant's turn to splash around, he was visibly fearful and screaming for his life, especially when "IT JUST TOUCHED ME!" Acrophobe Jamie spent most of the Hammer Drop myth on top of a crane, or jumping off a building in "Dumpster Dive", or walking across a wobbly bridge made of duct tape. Invoked with Kari, a pescetarian who finds the very sight of meat repulsive (except when she was pregnant, when she reportedly couldn't get enough of her mother's beef stew). Naturally, whenever testing a myth involves sheep heads/animal guts/pig stomachs/slabs of meat, Kari has to be present. To test the myth about "Cold Feet", the Build Team were deliberately exposed to their greatest fears. Tory was put in a stunt plane, Grant had tarantulas dumped all over his face, and Kari was forced to eat live insects. Grant actually explains this in the Top 25 Mythbuster Moments Special. The producers intentionally do it, since their reactions make for good TV.
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MythBusters / int_5c290805	type	Cone of Shame
MythBusters / int_5c290805	comment	Cone of Shame: Played for Laughs during one build. After cutting down a large metal funnel, the leftover piece (which looked just like one of these cones) was plopped on Scottie's head.
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MythBusters / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
MythBusters / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: Often done to obscure labels on chemical bottles. Also done to preventing lip-reading of cusswords prior to the last two seasons. This is apparently expensive enough that when doing a test that involved a lot of cursing (to see if it helped one handle pain), Adam built an in-universe version of it — a mouth-guard helmet with Symbol Swearing on it. Done again in the Breaking Bad special. They busted the show's "dissolving a body in hydrofluoric acid" trick, but it turns out the more-powerful sulfuric acid mixed with...something else...will do the trick (but still won't dissolve a bathtub.) The chemical added to the sulfuric acid was referred to as "special sauce" and the label pixelated. As Jamie put it, the MythBusters are "not in the business of telling you how to dispose of a dead body."
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MythBusters / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
MythBusters / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Originally averted — in the first season there were only three regular cast members, namely Adam, Jamie and Heather Joseph-Witham. Then in the second and early third season there was actually an equal gender split, with Adam, Jamie, Kari, Scottie, Tory and Christine all appearing on a regular basis. Played straight since Scottie and Christine left however, with Kari (and, during her pregnancy, Jessi) being the only regular female cast member.
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MythBusters / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
MythBusters / int_5db59a03	comment	Heck, they even have a whole myth devoted to finding the Brown Note in the first episode of season 3.
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MythBusters / int_5e9d35b	type	Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate
MythBusters / int_5e9d35b	comment	Bulletproof Fashion Plate: Jamie, though Adam tries to trash his white shirt. You do not try to take his hat (although he did for one of the "discovery.com/mythbusters" bits, unknown if Jamie let him). Averted when they tested the "poop hits the fan" saying — Jamie was just as splattered as Adam after the final test. (And Adam was the only one wearing a protective jumpsuit. Jamie was in his normal attire.) Literally busted when Jamie let Adam skeet-shoot his beret. Adam hit the beret in flight, and the holes in the hat were proof of it.
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MythBusters / int_5f5d1178	type	Painful Body Waxing
MythBusters / int_5f5d1178	comment	Painful Body Waxing: When they were retesting whether socks could be knocked off with enough force, and in order to see if leg hair had an effect, Tory had one of his legs waxed so the Busters could compare them. According to Tory, the hot wax wasn't too bad, but yanking the hair out was.
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MythBusters / int_5f7e03b7	type	Girls vs. Boys Plot
MythBusters / int_5f7e03b7	comment	Girls vs. Boys Plot: The team tested several claims about one gender being "better" at something than another. They also alluded to this during "No Pain, No Gain", when they looked at which gender has better pain tolerance.
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MythBusters / int_5ff71094	type	Finger in a Barrel
MythBusters / int_5ff71094	comment	Finger in a Barrel: They tested this trope, and it's busted. The victim will lose his finger if not his hand, the gun still works if not a bit damaged, and the shooter is always uninjured. They also made a parody of this trope.
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MythBusters / int_607a4594	type	Scope Snipe
MythBusters / int_607a4594	comment	The myth involving the plausibility of a Scope Snipe was retested using a Vietnam-vintage scope, since the most well-publicized occurrence of the feat was Carlos Hathcock's shot, which the sniper admitted was a fluke.
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MythBusters / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
MythBusters / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer — Adam. He was chosen by Jamie as co-host because he considers himself too dull. Also The Face as he is the most gregarious and outgoing of the team, and gives the most public presentations. While Jamie is the most iconic person on the show, Adam is the one most responsible for presenting the show to the audience.
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MythBusters / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
MythBusters / int_60e49895	comment	The Leader — Jamie. He owns M-5 and was responsible for the initial concept of the show, alongside Peter Rees. He often develops the plan for how a myth will be tackled and keeps everybody on-track in their respective roles within the build, although a lot of his leadership is cut out because he can come off as very gruff when telling people what to do.
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MythBusters / int_6136e02f	type	Brain Food
MythBusters / int_6136e02f	comment	Brain Food: What their zombies are after. They even get some red jello brains at the end of the episode. (In an educational "short" partway through the episode, Tory notes that this is actually a misconception about most zombies; most zombies actually hunger for any kind of human flesh.)
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MythBusters / int_613ecc2d	type	Riding into the Sunset
MythBusters / int_613ecc2d	comment	Riding into the Sunset: Many episodes end with Adam and Jamie walking into the sunset, sometimes leaving behind a label that shows the verdict of the last myth they tested. Originally this was a coincidence, as it often took so long to get certain tests to work without the wrong parts blowing up that they would often film until they ran out of light. Later, they did it on purpose just because it was a good way to close out a show. The trope was lampshaded and averted in "Blown out of the Water", when getting a mine to blow up a boat was only finally filmed after the sun had already set, and the duo just stood around awkwardly.
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MythBusters / int_62700738	type	Ear Trumpet
MythBusters / int_62700738	comment	Ear Trumpet: Parodied by Adam during a build â€” he was assembling a huge funnel, and when he finished it he held it up to one ear.
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MythBusters / int_633114a4	type	Grub Tub
MythBusters / int_633114a4	comment	Grub Tub: They once filled a pool with syrup to test the myth that you can swim through it as easily as water. Another time, they tested the myth about the dangerousness of quicksand by filling a pool with cornstarch.
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MythBusters / int_6469d82f	type	Euphemism Buster
MythBusters / int_6469d82f	comment	Euphemism (Myth)Buster:
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MythBusters / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
MythBusters / int_6492f4ca	comment	There's also their stable of frequently-contacted experts: former FBI agent Frank Doyle, Bomb Squad Sgt. J. D. Nelson, rocketry expert Erik Gates (may he Rest in Peace), Firearms expert Lt. Alan Normandy, and audio engineer Dr. Roger Schwenke. Series announcer Robert Lee is more of a Spirit Advisor: he explains all the myths and narrates the action and can only be heard by the audience (except when it would be funny for him to be an Interactive Narrator instead, usually with Adam). He also offers "advice" to the MythBusters, but because his narration recorded after the fact they tend to ignore it, often to their own peril.
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MythBusters / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
MythBusters / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: Made by Kari for the myth of a kid being carried away by balloons, as well as the Duct Tape Plane.
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MythBusters / int_6595b784	type	Animal Reaction Shot
MythBusters / int_6595b784	comment	Animal Reaction Shot: An unintentional version, but during the "Antacid Jail Break" myth as the guys are about to test the myth in the small scale Jamie's dog Zero starts coming down the stairs, but apparently sensing what's coming stops dead in her tracks. Cue the glass in the test tank shattering outward.
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MythBusters / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
MythBusters / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Adam is phlegmatic and sanguine, Tory is sanguine and choleric, Jamie is choleric and melancholic, Grant is melancholic and phlegmatic, and Kari is leukine.
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MythBusters / int_66583b22	type	Weapons Breaking Weapons
MythBusters / int_66583b22	comment	Weapons Breaking Weapons: Tested and then retested to see if this is possible. Yes, a sword can possibly snap another sword in half if the difference in the alloys is great enough and at the correct angle, but a clean cut as depicted in the movies is impossible. They also tested to see if a sword can slice through a machine gun barrel. The result was that, after heating and cooling barrels of varying thicknesses, it was either the sword breaking or the gun barrel bending. Blasting It Out of Their Hands like in a western movie would result in an 1860s-era pistol shattering into lethal fragments, rather than being torn from the wielder's grip like what's depicted on screen.
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MythBusters / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
MythBusters / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: A couple episodes are just padding, like the Clip Show highlighting Buster's long (and painful) career and him being rebuilt a la The Six Million Dollar Man. Other times they substitute one of the myths they do in an episode and do something different like having a contest between two teams on building a hovercraft using leaf blowers, and once Jamie and Adam decided to just do a holiday special Rube Goldberg Device. The behind-the-scenes episodes hold a special place: for example, the Shop-Til-You-Drop special showed where the MythBusters obtain a good portion of all their trinkets and doo-dads, as well as small peeks into the homes of the hosts; there isn't much difference between Jamie's home and one of the part warehouses.
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MythBusters / int_67a90462	type	Experimental Archeology
MythBusters / int_67a90462	comment	Experimental Archeology: The basis of many myths. Escape from Alcatraz in a rubber life raft? Check! Lawnchair balloonist? Check! Build and sail a boat out of ice and newspaper? Check! Ming Dynasty astronaut going up in a rocket chair? Um... check, but only for a certain value of "going up". (Poor Buster...) Some accounts of the Ming astronaut say that he was never seen again. Now we know why.
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MythBusters / int_6a1a1f8a	type	Glasses Pull
MythBusters / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: Tory does one of these (complete with a corny Quip to Black) after setting up a myth from an episode of CSI: Miami. There's even a very subtle YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! during the scene change.
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MythBusters / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
MythBusters / int_6a6c1f35	comment	The Power of Rock: They've proven that "hardcore, to the bone death metal" makes plants grow better than silence, kind or mean words, or classical music. Rocker Jaime Vendera broke a glass with the power of his voice alone.
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MythBusters / int_6ac72f5b	type	Fold-Spindle Mutilation
MythBusters / int_6ac72f5b	comment	Fold-Spindle Mutilation: This trope was the gruesome result of testing whether a diver in an old-time pressure suit would be crushed up into the suit's helmet if the air-pumps and the check valve failed.
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MythBusters / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
MythBusters / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Pops up with a vengeance during the Latex Perfection myth, where both Adam and Jamie attempt to disguise themselves as each other using rubber masks. Up close, people can see right through the charade due to how deep they fall into this trope invoked.
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MythBusters / int_6bd9e644	type	Meaningful Look
MythBusters / int_6bd9e644	comment	Meaningful Look: During small-scale testing for the Exploding Pants myth, Frank Doyle gives one of these to the camera (while covering his ears) just before the Build Team performs an impact test on a sample of the pants material covered in weed killer, making it clear he knows damn well what the outcome will be before it happens.
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MythBusters / int_6ca339ed	type	Born as an Adult
MythBusters / int_6ca339ed	comment	Born as an Adult: Joked about during the Bikes and Bazookas episode when Adam designs a supposedly efficent motorcycle cover:
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MythBusters / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
MythBusters / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Substitute R/C car, rocket, rig, Death Ray etc...then again, considering the number of these things that explode, crash or otherwise are broken, it'd hardly be surprising.
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MythBusters / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
MythBusters / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: The show sometimes digs up old clips of Adam's previous acting work when he was a child. Tory's little mishap where he faceplanted while riding the bicycle also counts.
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MythBusters / int_6e51da74	type	Hair-Trigger Explosive
MythBusters / int_6e51da74	comment	Hair-Trigger Explosive: Subverted when testing out the myth that a defibrillator could cause a nitroglycerin patch to explode. It was soundly busted. Another one is if C4 can blow up if put into a microwave. It can, but only if it has a blasting cap in it. Another subversion is that burning C4 doesn't make it go off. Also, dropping an anvil, stomping it, and shooting it with any bullet they tried didn't make it blow. For the final try, they ignited thermite right on top of C4. That didn't work. The scene in Breaking Bad where mercury of fulminate was thrown to the ground was busted, as it didn't explode. Then the actors (who were guest-starring) tried to Handwave by saying Walt had a bit of fulminate of silver with the mercury. The claim that a binary explosive used in special effects work can be set off in a car wreck was busted. It's far too stable to be set off that way ... and that's assuming anyone's dumb enough to transport the stuff already mixed.
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MythBusters / int_6e872753	type	Sexiness Score
MythBusters / int_6e872753	comment	Sexiness Score: They once tested the idea of "Beer Goggles" by having cast members rate peoples' attractiveness On a Scale from One to Ten while sober, buzzed, and drunk.
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MythBusters / int_6efdfe5c	type	Money Mauling
MythBusters / int_6efdfe5c	comment	Money Mauling: For the "Penny Drop" myth, Adam and Jamie build rigs to shoot pennies at targets, including a modified rifle that can fire a penny at supersonic speeds. In a subversion of this trope, even pennies fired from the rifle fail to do more than superficial damage.
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MythBusters / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
MythBusters / int_6f33059b	comment	Jamie's signature outfit that he almost always wears, especially the white shirt.
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MythBusters / int_708614d3	type	Killer Outfit
MythBusters / int_708614d3	comment	Driving in high-heeled shoes.
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MythBusters / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
MythBusters / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Kari and Scottie, in a real-world incarnation. While Kari was on maternity leave, Jessi Combs worked with Grant and Tory. From her bio, it looks like she qualifies for this trope as well.
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MythBusters / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
MythBusters / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: Even though the MythBusters themselves busted the myth that goldfish have a memory that lasts only 3 seconds, they do seem to believe their viewers have very short memory spans. Over the course of an episode, the viewer is constantly reminded of what myth the team is testing and how they are testing it. (Which is partly the producers and directors' fault, but also partly justified in that it lets viewers who tuned in late know what's going on.) Then there are the repetitions of "ballistics gel is similar to human flesh". Although it's just about reasonable to mention it every episode that uses ballistics gel, to inform any new viewers, the sometimes multiple repetitions in a single episode can sometimes get tedious. Lampshaded by Adam in "Killer Cable Snap" at the beginning of a segment: "The myth we've been testing, in case you haven't been paying attention..."
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MythBusters / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
MythBusters / int_71e514b5	comment	Tory often says it before doing something you shouldn't try at home.
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MythBusters / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
MythBusters / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When trying to find out if C-4 on fire can be detonated without a cap.
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MythBusters / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
MythBusters / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Even they admitted it. They test fired a cannon designed to shoot out a 10 pound grappling hook... without taking into account the hook's mass in determining how firmly the cannon needed to be anchored down. Which law of physics is it again... Jamie called this on himself in "Killer Tissue Box", when his crash cart design didn't survive the initial setup test: Jamie holds it again during the initial smokescreen test of Spy Car Myths. Driving a convertible as the spy car, Jamie didn't account for the low air pressure zone created by the open cabin. Some of the smoke from his smokescreen (intended to blind Adam, riding in a chase car) got sucked into the spy car's cabin and blinded Jamie as well. They later redid the test after moving the smoke bombs further away from the car, and thus confirmed the myth. Narrowly averted with a sword swinging robot, only because they realized after it was built that the horizontal swing arc was at head level...they were just really careful around it. Didn't stop Tory cracking his head on it anyway (while standing up). Trying to test if a frozen or unfrozen chicken causes more damage to a aeroplane windshield, which they tested on windshields not rated for bird strikes! They managed to bust the myth (and a lot of windshields) anyway.note A later revisit changed the outcome of the myth to Plausible; the backup test used in that particular episode turned out to be a red herring. Tory and bicycles.
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MythBusters / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
MythBusters / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked with Kari, a pescetarian who finds the very sight of meat repulsive (except when she was pregnant, when she reportedly couldn't get enough of her mother's beef stew). Naturally, whenever testing a myth involves sheep heads/animal guts/pig stomachs/slabs of meat, Kari has to be present.
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MythBusters / int_745a43fc	type	Fun T-Shirt
MythBusters / int_745a43fc	comment	Fun T-Shirt: Adam has plenty of them, often with quotes from the show. "<Mythbuster>Am I missing an eyebrow?</Mythbuster>" has featured for years. Adam's a Target shopper, as one of his more frequently-appearing shirts "I do my own stunts" is a fixture at that store.
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MythBusters / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
MythBusters / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Scottie, Jessi and the Mythterns all left without much fanfare. Also happened to the entire Build Team (Grant, Kari, and Tory) in the last episode of the 2014 season. The Bus Came Back: Scottie briefly returned back not just once but twice; first while aiding Jamie and Adam as a 'special guest' fabricator on the (1st) JATO rocket car rebuild for the 2007 "Supersized Myths" episode and again the following year, as a '4th" Build team member for the 2008 "Young Scientists" Special.
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MythBusters / int_768d59aa	type	Cool, but Stupid
MythBusters / int_768d59aa	comment	Cool, but Stupid: Many a "carry a myth to its logical conclusion". Examples include a car with a golf ball surface and a boat made out of duct tape. Adam has summarized this trope in something he's said on a handful of occasions: "I've just had a 'what the hell are we doing' moment..." That is, the fact they are called upon by Discovery Channel to do something completely outlandish and absurd, something that anyone with a value for their time would never venture into, not only for our entertainment, but a paycheck at the end of the week (and, at least part of the time, For Science!).
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MythBusters / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
MythBusters / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Jamie.
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MythBusters / int_77e527d6	type	Spent Shells Shower
MythBusters / int_77e527d6	comment	Spent Shells Shower: Any time automatic weapons are fired or semi-auto weapons are fired rapidly in Bullet Time, viewers will see spent brass flying/falling away, with the best example being the M134 minigun used in Shooting Fish In a Barrel and Cutting Down a Tree.
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MythBusters / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
MythBusters / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: During the Laser Blaster myth from "Star Wars: The Myth Strikes Back", Jamie gets hit in the groin by a foam ping-pong ball being used as a shot from said gun. Before he says "It got me in the cock", the camera quickly snaps to Adam before Jamie can utter the last word in that sentence.
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MythBusters / int_78450f15	type	Tropes of the Living Dead
MythBusters / int_78450f15	comment	Tropes of the Living Dead: October 2013 saw the MythBusters tackle several Zombie Apocalypse related myths. Brain Food: What their zombies are after. They even get some red jello brains at the end of the episode. (In an educational "short" partway through the episode, Tory notes that this is actually a misconception about most zombies; most zombies actually hunger for any kind of human flesh.) Everything's Deader with Zombies: The whole point of the episode. Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: In the zombie special, while they're testing whether humans can outrun a zombie horde, the camera lingers briefly on a zombie extra in a wedding dress. There's also one wearing military camo - in fact, it's the one who catches Tory pretending to be one of them. Our Zombies Are Different: The MythBusters had to lay down ground rules as to just what kind of zombies the extras were supposed to play: slow speed, no intelligence. Pretend We're Dead: Tory tries this. It even works. For a little while. Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Jamie and Adam both try this to determine which zombie defense weapon type is better: ax or shotgun. Room Full of Zombies: All of the myths use this. Zombie Gait: An enforced slow shuffle is required of all the volunteer zombies.
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MythBusters / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
MythBusters / int_78c895c8	comment	In a retrospective on Tory's bike crash, they pointed out that you can clearly see Tory faceplanting on the asphalt (his hands were tied up holding onto the bike). The fact he shrugged it off and seemed perfectly fine afterwards was an impressive feat on its own.
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MythBusters / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
MythBusters / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: The testing for some myths show that sometimes simpler solutions can beat or outperform their more advanced rivals. Case in point, the tests to see what could defeat a state-of-the-art motion sensor. Every convoluted plot the Build Team tried failed utterly. They then found (to their surprise) that a bedsheet held in front of the movement source could fool the motion sensor.note The motion sensor works by emitting ultrasonic pulses and measuring the time it takes for them to return; a time that's shorter than that produced when the room is empty will trigger the alarm. The bedsheet absorbed the pulses rather than reflecting them, thus the sensor didn't hear anything unusual. An infra-red detector was also defeated, not by wearing heavy clothing, carbon-dioxide fire extinguishers or covering one's body in mud, but by placing a piece of glass in front of the detector, blocking the infra-red rays.
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MythBusters / int_7a81a554	type	Incongruously-Dressed Zombie
MythBusters / int_7a81a554	comment	Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: In the zombie special, while they're testing whether humans can outrun a zombie horde, the camera lingers briefly on a zombie extra in a wedding dress. There's also one wearing military camo - in fact, it's the one who catches Tory pretending to be one of them.
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MythBusters / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
MythBusters / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: While testing methods of stopping a runaway car, the Build Team decide to come up with their own devices. Tory's is a hood-mounted hook used to drag the other vehicle to a halt.
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MythBusters / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
MythBusters / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Generally averted; the Mythbusters frequently have firearms experts on hand to ensure their gunplay myths are carried out safely. During the "Curve a Bullet" tests Kari even wore a bulletproof vest, since she was pregnant at the time. However, testing gunslinger myths (for the "Exploding Lighter" episode) saw the Build Team head out to their parking lot and start shooting some Old West revolvers loaded with blanks; it didn't take long for someone else in the complex to start berating them (rightfully) for firing off guns in a parking lot. Discharging a firearm within city limits is something of a no-no. Even with only blanks (which can still be dangerous at close range), even with permission from the police, the noise is going to be very concerning for anyone nearby. But most often, the Mythbusters utilize a wide range of indoor and outdoor firing ranges where they can shoot off their assorted ordnance legally and safely.
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MythBusters / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
MythBusters / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: The diaper incident from "Brown Note". In a serious example, the team once handled a myth involving a common household substance that could be made into a terrific explosive. The result of their experiment was so explosive that they deemed the knowledge too dangerous to be given to the public, destroyed all footage, and pretended the test never took place.
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MythBusters / int_7d7a5f3	type	Carpet of Virility
MythBusters / int_7d7a5f3	comment	Carpet of Virility: In all but one of his Shirtless Scenes, Jamie displays his. (The exception was the Goldfinger painted-with-latex myth, for which Jamie had to shave everything below the neck.) Tory has one as well.
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MythBusters / int_7dd334b	type	Faux Computer Code
MythBusters / int_7dd334b	comment	"<Mythbuster>Am I missing an eyebrow?</Mythbuster>" has featured for years.
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MythBusters / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
MythBusters / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Sort of. When the series started, Adam had a goatee and short buzz cut, and sometimes had his head completely shaved (especially after the Exploding Cellphone myth which singed off his eyebrow and a chunk of his hair). As he's gotten older, he's generally gone for medium-length hair and almost a full beard. You can also easily tell how much post-production work and myth-testing time goes into the series just by looking at Kari: she'll sometimes have a different haircut or hair color during the expository segments (the ones where they establish the myth and brainstorm methods to tackle it), and sometimes even during the actual testing. Sometimes there are episodes in which Kari actually has THREE different hair colors (one in the expo sequences and two during testing) while tackling the same myth. Any person who cares for his/her hair knows the time that must be spent between dying sessions to not damage it, so this is an easy way to identify a myth that took a LONG time to test. During the "Cannonball Chemistry" segment, Tory bounces back and forth between clean-shaven and full beard. But that is the segment interrupted by a ricocheting cannonball touring a residential neighborhood....
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MythBusters / int_7f3be191	type	Impossibly Cool Clothes
MythBusters / int_7f3be191	comment	Impossibly Cool Clothes: Parodied. Jamie's standard outfit on the show is khaki pants, a white dress shirt (that almost never gets dirty) over a black t-shirt, red sneakers and his trademark black beret. In one episode it was so windy Jamie almost lost the beret and Adam realized that hadn't ever happened before. Adam once said that Jamie's outfit (and generally appearance, really) is so iconic that he gets recognized by fans much more often when he and Jamie are together than when Adam is by himself.
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MythBusters / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
MythBusters / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Common, usually before the device is even completed. But they just soldier on whenever it happens. One time, Adam needed to chop a bunch of stuff out of a car so the guys could add a safety rig. He got carried away with the saw and chopped out the power line to the fuel pump...which then had to be replaced, because they needed the car to run. Oops.
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MythBusters / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
MythBusters / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: The Narrator has a brief one in the Trombone Revisit episode after hearing Jamie tell J.D. how he used to play the tuba while doing business on the toilet.
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MythBusters / int_7ffca8c4	type	Immortality Begins at Twenty
MythBusters / int_7ffca8c4	comment	Immortality Begins at Twenty: Adam's Expansion Pack Past jokes about Jamie often humorously factor this in, such as when they are setting up the Arrow Machine Gun myth:
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MythBusters / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
MythBusters / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Jamie often expresses annoyance (or at least indifference) at Adam's antics and jokes, so it's a significant event when Adam actually gets Jamie to struggle to keep his facade. For example: when testing a myth about a woman who left her groceries unbound in the back of her pickup and was then killed when she hit the brakes at highway speed and her groceries flew from the back of her bed and hit her in the back of the head, Adam quips "Food for thought!" Cut to Jamie trying very hard not to grin. During the description of the "cannonball vs. splinters" myth in the first Pirate Special, Adam's oddball "pirate" accent actually gave Jamie a fit of the giggles. Adam lampshades this when they test the "slipping on banana peels" myth. Adam has said in interviews that in the editing room, pretty much anything that makes Jamie laugh is going to be aired.
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MythBusters / int_812f36e8	type	Nausea Fuel
MythBusters / int_812f36e8	comment	Nausea Fuel: invoked This shows up occasionally for the cast depending on the myth(s) being tested: Adam is very prone to seasickness, and just about every episode that's had him on a boat has shown him throwing up. He even puked in the rig during the "killer whirlpool" episode. Grant has also gotten sick in a few episodes, thanks to the motion sickness test chair. The Earwax Candle had the entire Build Team gagging, and Grant has confirmed it as his most disgusting myth to date. Kari is a pescetarian (as per That Other Wiki) and is visibly miserable whenever they do a myth that involves copious amounts of meat. Usually because they mutilate it with swords or explosives.
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MythBusters / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
MythBusters / int_816a4e80	comment	Lampshaded in preparation of a Sith myth, specifically the lightsaber fight from Revenge of the Sith. Adam is building a safe replica lightsaber, which is basically a long rubber tube. As he's sliding it into the metallic sheathe that will allow it to register hits, he remarks that this reminds him of something.
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MythBusters / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
MythBusters / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Everyone except Jamie. Adam will frequently get into the character of myths. Tory and Grant are known to do it too, to the chagrin of Kari, but she's been known to indulge a time or two herself.
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MythBusters / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
MythBusters / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Adam has a tendency towards this, particularly when he's describing what a rig is supposed to do.
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MythBusters / int_82b78473	type	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
MythBusters / int_82b78473	comment	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Three different times—2004, 2006, and 2010 at the request of President Barack Obama—the show tested the "Archimedes Death Ray". The legend holds that Archimedes once helped the Greeks fend off a Roman fleet by using mirrors to focus light from the sun, and thus setting fire to Roman ships. All three times the myth was busted, as the show determined that there is just no way for people holding mirrors to focus light well enough to set fire to a wooden ship.
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MythBusters / int_8319aaea	type	Compensating for Something
MythBusters / int_8319aaea	comment	Compensating for Something: Invoked by Grant as he brings out the hydraulic piston he just built... that's over 5 feet tall.
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MythBusters / int_8334ba2e	type	Big, Bulky Bomb
MythBusters / int_8334ba2e	comment	Big, Bulky Bomb: A cement truck with the mixer packed with high explosives.
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MythBusters / int_83445b04	type	Pun
MythBusters / int_83445b04	comment	Adam once was disallowed by the producers from trying a dangerous myth because of insurance, while Tory apparently they had no problem with. But Tory may be getting more respect these days, as the insurance company denied him permission to be pushed off the back of a truck by a running treadmill machine. They wound up going with sand-filled overalls (named Tory's "sand-in" by Kari) instead.
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MythBusters / int_83d3bf25	type	Anvilicious
MythBusters / int_83d3bf25	comment	Invoked so Anviliciously prior to Tory riding a jet-powered skateboard as to pretty well telegraph the eventual subversion.
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MythBusters / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
MythBusters / int_8409a385	comment	Subverted in that the resentment and suppressed emotion typical of this trope are absent. Adam and Jamie have always been frank about not getting along outside of work, but have also made it clear that they respect one another immensely as coworkers and professional collaborators. Their not being friends is exactly that, nothing more or less, and there's no indication that they actively dislike each other or hold anything against the other. They're just not compatible socially.
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MythBusters / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
MythBusters / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Adam is the Red Oni to Jamie's Blue Oni (Adam excitable and energetic, Jamie stoic and level-headed); Kari is the Red Oni to Grant's Blue Oni (Kari being a bit more indulgent, Grant being more cool and logical), with Tory being more of a Purple Oni.
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MythBusters / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
MythBusters / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Adam.
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MythBusters / int_84dbc10f	type	McNinja
MythBusters / int_84dbc10f	comment	McNinja: There are of course several ninja-related tropes tested over the course of the show.
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MythBusters / int_84fe1d10	type	Annoying Background Event
MythBusters / int_84fe1d10	comment	Annoying Background Event: In one episode, Adam and Jamie are testing whether a person wearing a latex mask of another person would pass scrutiny. While Jamie is explaining their testing procedure to a camera, Adam (dressed as Jamie) is in the background doing a bizarre dance. Jamie glares at Adam when he finishes the piece to camera. Adam hastily stops dancing and innocently puts his hands in his pockets.
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MythBusters / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
MythBusters / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Possibly behind some of the fan complaints when the MythBusters bust a commonly-believed myth. In addition, some myths that are "busted" on the show are actually true. (In general, either they revisit the myth at some point and demonstrate it's true, or it's something that they know happened but can't replicate no matter how hard they try.) They also did a test comparing various Stock Sound Effects with the real-life thing they're supposed to be representing. Most of them didn't sound the same, but the rattlesnake actually did! They recorded a rattlesnake themselves and it sounded almost exactly like the rattlesnake sound they were testing. One of the more outlandish cases they've tested was in Dirty vs. Clean Car, where the myth was that a car covered in crud would achieve a "golf ball"-like effect to reduce drag and thus make the car more fuel-efficient. Predictably, the simple weight of the crud adds drag to the car, which surprised no one. But that's not the shocking part: the twist comes when they did their routine up to eleven and made a heavy clay cover with golf ball dimples carved into it (with the carved clay placed inside the car for consistent weight)... and it worked, improving fuel efficiency by 11% when compared to the previous test where the clay covering was unaltered, and laughing in the face of decades of effort and belief that a streamline car chassis gives better mileage.
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MythBusters / int_86cffd8e	type	Action Insurance Gag
MythBusters / int_86cffd8e	comment	Action Insurance Gag: They often joke about this right before wrecking/blowing something up. One "coming up next" blurb featured a car hanging from a crane, and Kari with the quick-release cable saying "Find out why we can't get car insurance!" On a more serious note, the show does carry some pretty hefty insurance for when a test goes wrong, and they've had to pay out a few times. Interestingly, in one episode where they were testing whether someone could survive falling through numerous cloth awnings, Adam was told he couldn't do it due to insurance issues, but they allowed Tory to do the stunt. Tory joked he wasn't sure whether to feel better or worse about the decision of the insurance company.
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MythBusters / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
MythBusters / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The underlying point of the show.
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MythBusters / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
MythBusters / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: While testing the 'Exploding Toilet' myth, Adam lights a cigarette with a blowtorch while Jamie is building a rig to allow Buster to drop a cigarette.
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MythBusters / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
MythBusters / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In "More Myths Reopened", one of the myths began like this: In the conclusion of the "Mission Impossible Mask" segment, the man next to Grant wore the Adam Savage mask and Adam's clothes but spoke in Jamie's voice, with the man next to Kari being the reverse case... Cue the unmasking scene which shows Adam and Jamie wearing the masks with their likeness.
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MythBusters / int_87a18d19	type	Gonna Need More X
MythBusters / int_87a18d19	comment	Gonna Need More X: Sometimes they have to add more explosive components or other mundane things like rope, or distance, or weight, etc. Inverted in the "water on a grease fire" myth; at one point Adam and Jamie attempted to scale down the fireball by reducing the amounts of water and oil, as well as the size of the pan. The fireball still ended up being too large to properly measure, prompting Adam to remark:
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MythBusters / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
MythBusters / int_8829dfa0	comment	During the description of the "cannonball vs. splinters" myth in the first Pirate Special, Adam's oddball "pirate" accent actually gave Jamie a fit of the giggles.
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MythBusters / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
MythBusters / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: In myths that involve swearing (for the alleviation of pain, say) or subjects that are considered delicate to Moral Guardians, like flatulence or feces, Adam will hear and point out when one of his co-hosts uses a word that gets bleeped, and suggest a word they are allowed to use instead. In one example where profanity was actually the variable being tested for, Adam actually devises a "swear helmet" that obscures the test subject's lips, as the editing required to blur lips is much more time-consuming and expensive than just a standard bleep.
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MythBusters / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
MythBusters / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Usually happens whenever a myth just implodes on the guys.
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MythBusters / int_8a03b3f1	type	Everything Explodes Ending
MythBusters / int_8a03b3f1	comment	Everything Explodes Ending: Almost every episode in the later seasons.
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MythBusters / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
MythBusters / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: There've been a lot of cool vehicles, but special mention goes to "The Beast", a mobile defense bunker made out of a dump truck. When they added a wedge-shaped "cow-catcher" grill during "Traffic Ram," it plowed through a traffic jam's worth of cars like they were water.
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MythBusters / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
MythBusters / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: They use high speed cameras that can record up to about 2000 frames per second. Used for a lot of experiments just so they can see what actually happened. Adam's favorite was mentioned as being a hot water heater rocketing out of a makeshift house. Sometimes they just do it for fun, like a sobering myth where Adam got slapped in the face by Jamie pretty hard. Adam: "That's the funniest thing I've ever seen!" The bullet time footage of a rocket sled vaporizing a car is likely the most popular footage ever, and likely paved the way for the show Time Warp, which revolves around nothing but Bullet Time. Then Adam's drunken treadmill running (and falling...and getting back on, only to fall even more violently) became a clip that he started showing off while doing lectures well before the show aired, because it just looked so funny. The final episode featured them using a camera that shot at upwards of 50,000 frames per second to film an RV being exploded.
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MythBusters / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
MythBusters / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Their motto: "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
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MythBusters / int_8b7e2c1a	type	BBC Quarry
MythBusters / int_8b7e2c1a	comment	BBC Quarry: Whenever the crew requires a lot of explosions they rent a nearby rock quarry and a bombing expert for a day, with some locations reappearing a lot. Same with crash tests for cars.
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MythBusters / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
MythBusters / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre / Rain of Arrows: The Hwacha!!!: a rig that fired 200 rocket-powered explosive tipped arrows almost simultaneously. The Hwacha worked almost perfectly (only one arrow failed to launch), but the build team actually underestimated its range, and most of the arrows overshot their foam "army" targets. A later myth, the Chinese Fire Dragon, took this a step further, by creating rockets that launched Hwacha-style rocket arrows. And they built ten of them.
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MythBusters / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
MythBusters / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: The MythBusters had to lay down ground rules as to just what kind of zombies the extras were supposed to play: slow speed, no intelligence.
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MythBusters / int_8bce92b0	type	Buzzing the Deck
MythBusters / int_8bce92b0	comment	Buzzing the Deck: Their attempts to shatter glass with a sonic boom culminated with Adam going up with one of the Blue Angels and, after being taken on a wild thrill ride, making a series of supersonic passes over a shed they'd set up in the desert with a glass window, each one lower than the last. After a number of passes at a reasonable altitude, Adam was dropped off and the pilot went back up to make another series at a dangerously low level. They did finally get the glass to break, but the plane was practically flying on the deck at that point.
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MythBusters / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
MythBusters / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: Fans will most likely already label Jamie as calm, cool and collected, harboring a staunch and unwavering personality in stark contrast to the rest of the group. But long-time viewers who watch very closely will notice during experiments that concern the element of surprise (e.g. waiting for explosions), Jamie is pretty jumpy when the shock happens, which is more obvious next to Adam, who's pretty composed when the surprise occurs. This was actually an issue in the Unarmed and Unharmed myth, where Jamie dropped the gun on two counts. Also, for a test regarding alkali metals in a water-filled bathtub:
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MythBusters / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
MythBusters / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: In the spirit of this trope, they like testing idioms to see if there's any literal truth in them. Turns out, nothing can literally knock your socks off (while leaving you alive to tell the tale), but you can literally polish a turd, as well as teach an old dog new tricks. Also, while shooting fish in a barrel is very easy, taking candy from a baby is not.
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MythBusters / int_8dff5979	type	Homemade Flamethrower
MythBusters / int_8dff5979	comment	Homemade Flamethrower: In one episode, Jamie made a homemade flamethrower from old scuba tanks, plumbing parts, and other materials he had in the workshop. The montage of him building it, unlike other projects, was hidden from view of the audience and informs the viewers that he had to notify numerous government agencies about what he was doing, and undergo a lengthy, time-consuming process, and finally, Jamie tells the audience that if they want to jury rig their own flamethrower at home, they shouldn't.
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MythBusters / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
MythBusters / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The aforementioned announcement of Kari, Grant and Tory's departure.
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MythBusters / int_8e7835b3	type	Wunza Plot
MythBusters / int_8e7835b3	comment	Wunza Plot: Adam and Jamie. One's an energetic funny guy, one's a stoic techy guy; they Bust Myths.
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MythBusters / int_8ea29181	type	Raised Hand of Survival
MythBusters / int_8ea29181	comment	Raised Hand of Survival: At the end of the Halloween special, Jamie and Adam walk away from the "grave" where they just buried a simulaid (in a spandex body suit to protect it) ... and a hand clad in the same spandex pushes up out of the dirt.
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MythBusters / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
MythBusters / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: Every so often, they try something that they know can't possibly work, and yet does. Perhaps most famously, Kari managed to fool a motion detector by holding a simple bedsheet up in front of her. Or using an emergency escape slide as a parachute. Or skipping a car across a 120-foot lake using nothing but raw speed. The entire Duct Tape Island episode. The set-up — Adam and Jamie are stranded on a deserted island with nothing but a palette full of duct tape, and have to find food and water, make shelter, make clothing, and escape using only the island's natural resources and their miles of tape. The verdict — success all around.
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MythBusters / int_904530eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
MythBusters / int_904530eb	comment	Recycled In SPACE: Testing whether or not cars explode when they fall off a cliff is Every Car Is a Pinto in a slightly different context.
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MythBusters / int_90d60f4a	type	And Some Other Stuff
MythBusters / int_90d60f4a	comment	And Some Other Stuff: The MythBusters will often censor the ingredients for dangerous chemicals or leave out crucial steps for certain processes they don't want viewers to try at home. Lampshaded during the Hindenburg experiment (see Pixellation below).
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MythBusters / int_90dd217f	type	Little Known Facts
MythBusters / int_90dd217f	comment	Little Known Facts: The source of many myths.
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MythBusters / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
MythBusters / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: In a myth involving hammers, Tory hit a wooden board in the exact same spot twice, missing the nail. Grant then asked him why he didn't put the nail there. The very next try, the hammer flew out of Tory's grip and skipped across the ground, passing the front of Grant's steel-toed boot and hitting him in the side of the foot. Hilarity ensued.
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MythBusters / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
MythBusters / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: Considering it is a pseudo-reality show you know it was mostly intentional. The Leader — Jamie. He owns M-5 and was responsible for the initial concept of the show, alongside Peter Rees. He often develops the plan for how a myth will be tackled and keeps everybody on-track in their respective roles within the build, although a lot of his leadership is cut out because he can come off as very gruff when telling people what to do. The Lancer — Adam. He was chosen by Jamie as co-host because he considers himself too dull. Also The Face as he is the most gregarious and outgoing of the team, and gives the most public presentations. While Jamie is the most iconic person on the show, Adam is the one most responsible for presenting the show to the audience. The Big Guy — Tory. Reasonably athletic, he is the one who usually tests the more physically challenging myths. Also has the most jokes at his expense, often involving slapstick. The Smart Guy — First Scottie, then Grant. They make the robots. Grant is not necessarily smarter than anyone else, but is the only member of the team with a degree related to what they do (electrical engineering), giving him a larger base of knowledge to tackle certain builds. The Smurfette Principle — Kari. The only (permanent) girl of the group. Known mostly for her artistry skills, but she's more than willing to get her hands dirty when the situation calls for it. Usually more reasonable than the others but is just as fond of explosives as everyone else on the show.
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MythBusters / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
MythBusters / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Scottie briefly returned back not just once but twice; first while aiding Jamie and Adam as a 'special guest' fabricator on the (1st) JATO rocket car rebuild for the 2007 "Supersized Myths" episode and again the following year, as a '4th" Build team member for the 2008 "Young Scientists" Special.
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MythBusters / int_92f863b6	type	Revival
MythBusters / int_92f863b6	comment	Revival: Just days after the finale aired, The Science Channel announces that they plan to reboot the show. Given the date, many thought it was an April Fools' Day Prank. However, given that there have been no retractions and how prolific the news was, and that Discovery has started to officially leak out information about the revival as it's being filmed as of September 2016, it's safe to assume Mythbusters currently holds the record for the fastest show to be revived by a network.
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MythBusters / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
MythBusters / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: After leaving the show at the end of the 2014 season, Tory, Kari, and Grant return in the last episode to reminisce about their past experiences with Adam and Jaime.
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MythBusters / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
MythBusters / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Adam becomes seasick multiple times, and such shots (with the actual vomiting only occasionally blurred out) are naturally shown to remind the viewers whenever Adam is about to go out on the water. Whenever Grant goes for a spin in the motion-sickness test chair, this is guaranteed to occur at least once.
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MythBusters / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
MythBusters / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: Adam refers to the outcome of the third attempt at JATO Rocket Car as "a case of mythus testus".
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MythBusters / int_95ef5b0d	type	Symbol Swearing
MythBusters / int_95ef5b0d	comment	Symbol Swearing: Invoked in the episode which tested whether or not swearing helps you tolerate pain. Since the show blurs lips to prevent lipreading, this would have caused the episode's video editing budget to go way, way up. To help prevent this, Adam build a "swear shield" covered in Symbol Swearing to cover up their mouths. "[Blur is expensive;] bleeps are cheap!"
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MythBusters / int_97514bef	type	Parodied Trope
MythBusters / int_97514bef	comment	Parodied with a line by Adam that provides the page quote, where the actual names of the ingredients for an experiment are blurred out to keep from giving the audience ideas.
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MythBusters / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
MythBusters / int_978937d6	comment	See Brand X above for straight examples.
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MythBusters / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
MythBusters / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Many myths are introduced via a segment in which the hosts purport to "tell" each other about a myth with which both are already familiar. They vary on how staged this bit is.
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MythBusters / int_984763bb	type	555
MythBusters / int_984763bb	comment	555: At one point during the first Pirate Special, there was a fake infomercial for a cannon that Adam and Jamie made and one of these numbers was scrolled along the bottom of the screen.
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MythBusters / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
MythBusters / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Jamie and Adam respect each other, work well together and have excellent chemistry, but they have both said that they aren't particularly good friends. You can kind of sense it with a few projects they've done. Coworkers, collaborators, maybe even comrades, but not friends. Adam elaborated on this in an interview with Indoor Boys:
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MythBusters / int_98f94ce6	type	Parent Service
MythBusters / int_98f94ce6	comment	Head Rush, which ran on the Science Channel during daytime hours. It consisted of recut MythBusters episodes with the commercial breaks replaced with school-grade science quizzes and try-at-home experiments and was hosted by Kari, who was clearly there for Parent Service. Obviously aimed at a younger audience, it had more censorship, not just of language but also of the "how to make explosives" portions of the show, as well as, for some reason, the Product Placement.
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MythBusters / int_99994ce5	type	Unaffected by Spice
MythBusters / int_99994ce5	comment	Unaffected by Spice: The team tested if chilis and other spicy concoctions would be effective shark repellent (based on a myth that indigenous seafarers would string them around their boats to prevent attacks). It ended up busted because of this; chilis evolved their spiciness to counter land-based grazers, not sea-based predators, and thus the capsaicin within the chilis was completely ineffective against the sharks.
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MythBusters / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
MythBusters / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Became a problem in the "Swimming in Syrup" myth. They brought in an Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer hoping that he would be able to provide the most consistent swim times possible. While his swim times were very consistent in water, once he got into the syrup, his technique was completely wrecked thanks to the fact that he spends hours every-day training in a dedicated lap pool with warm water and was thus more sensitive to swimming in a recently dug trough filled with cold syrup. Since Adam was a more casual swimmer his lap times weren't nearly as affected by the differences in viscosity and environment, so they threw out the Medalist times to settle on Adam's as the best data set.
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MythBusters / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
MythBusters / int_9abe931d	comment	On another note, there was a also a book based on the show that had sections that detailed how you can try the myth at home but in a different manner such as the Quicksand Sucks myth, you can replicate it at home with cornstarch and water. The tagline of the book was "Don't try this at home. (Unless we tell you to)"
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MythBusters / int_9af829dc	type	Hot-Blooded Sideburns
MythBusters / int_9af829dc	comment	Hot Blooded Sideburns: Adam rocks some serious mutton chops in the final season.
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MythBusters / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
MythBusters / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the intro of the Phone Book Friction myth, the bluescreen first showed Adam and Jamie alone tugging on the phone books, then two groups of people, then two cars, then two tanks. These are the methods they attempted to pull the phone books apart. Guess which one worked. In the opener for the 'Catching a Sword' myth in the Ninja Special, Tory and Grant mime out the motions to demonstrate what they're talking about. The (blunted) sword Tory is using eventually slips through Grant's hands and hits him on the head and shoulder. The experimental rig wound up having this problem too. In Rear Axle, Jamie comments how he's worried about the steel cable they're using to test the myth snapping and potentially 'cutting someone in half.' They'd later test, and bust, that exact myth several seasons later in Killer Cable Snap. In 'Shooting Fish in a Barrel' Adam mentions 'taking candy from a baby' as part of the introduction skit. They'd later go on to test that idiom on Mini Myth Mayhem several seasons later. In the myth testing if it's possible to do a complete 360 on a swingset, Tory notices the swingset they had bought to test with specifically noted it was designed specifically for kids and not adults. Sure enough, when Tory tested it to see how far he could get on the swing, it ended up breaking mid test. Thankfully, he had prepared for that.
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MythBusters / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
MythBusters / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: When Jamie responds to a pain test with an almost sarcastic "ow", the narrator says Jamie is so tough, he occasionally rusts. In a retrospective on Tory's bike crash, they pointed out that you can clearly see Tory faceplanting on the asphalt (his hands were tied up holding onto the bike). The fact he shrugged it off and seemed perfectly fine afterwards was an impressive feat on its own.
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MythBusters / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
MythBusters / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: They're not trying to destroy (expensive) high-speed cameras, it just happens. Dramatic shots being essential to the show, but expensive to lose, in later seasons the cameras start getting armored. Defied in at least one test; when testing the remote controls of the first Impala for the 2013 retest of the JATO rocket car myth, Grant steers it to avoid hitting a camera. At least that's the excuse he gives for swerving all over the lot. And subverted during their non-dairy creamer cannon—they assumed they lost the camera closest to the cannon—only to discover it was still in working order. The next footage it shot was them cleaning off its lens. In the A-Team special, Jamie and Adam built a rig to fire 2-by-2 lumber at "bad guys". During testing, Adam managed to hit one of the little cameras placed down-range to capture images of the sticks being fired. During the "Human Slingshot Myth" an early test sees a camera rig taken out when the sling boomerangs backwards with the cannonball load still in place. The camera survives and we are treated to the recording it made while tumbling.
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MythBusters / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
MythBusters / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Tory's reaction whenever he gets volunteered for a potentially painful or dangerous test.
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MythBusters / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
MythBusters / int_9dfd7154	comment	A minor one at first blush, but really serious when you think about it. The build team tackled gunfighter myths, so they head out to the parking lot and start firing guns loaded with blanks (to test the "drop a quarter from the back of one hand and empty a revolver before the coin hits the ground trick). It doesn't take long for someone to start yelling at them, asking if they have permission to be firing guns in a commercial parking lot shared with several other businesses. That particular test comes to a very quick halt. Discharging a firearm within city limits, without a really good reason, is a rather serious offense. Even if they're loaded with blanks, which can still be dangerous at close range, and the sound of gunfire is rather distinctive and going to draw some concern.
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MythBusters / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
MythBusters / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Regarding a bullet-dumping robot:
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MythBusters / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
MythBusters / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: During one of the "Seconds from Disaster" tests, Tory pretends to check the terms of his contract. Little did we know that right around the time the episode aired, contract terms for the Build Team were getting checked for realz...
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MythBusters / int_a0b0840c	type	More Expendable Than You
MythBusters / int_a0b0840c	comment	More Expendable Than You: Sort of. Adam once was disallowed by the producers from trying a dangerous myth because of insurance, while Tory apparently they had no problem with. But Tory may be getting more respect these days, as the insurance company denied him permission to be pushed off the back of a truck by a running treadmill machine. They wound up going with sand-filled overalls (named Tory's "sand-in" by Kari) instead. In 2014, the insurance company refused to let the Build Team test a myth by playing tennis on the wings of an airplane in flight. They built a set of wings, mounted them on a truck trailer, and drove down a runway instead.
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MythBusters / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
MythBusters / int_a188ac4b	comment	The Build Team recreated a Hwacha!!! or multiple arrow launcher.
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MythBusters / int_a1b74f5d	type	And That's Terrible
MythBusters / int_a1b74f5d	comment	And That's Terrible: During the "Killer CD" segment: Also, during their first attempt at the "Appliance in the Bathtub" myth (the circuit turned out to be improperly grounded):
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MythBusters / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
MythBusters / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The narrator used it on the "Car Off a Cliff" myth, and something goes wrong. Invoked so Anviliciously prior to Tory riding a jet-powered skateboard as to pretty well telegraph the eventual subversion. Tory often says it before doing something you shouldn't try at home.
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MythBusters / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
MythBusters / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: During the myth about shooting a thrown airborne grenade, Jamie allows Adam to shoot his hat after they practice skeet shooting. Also a natural result of testing the "blow the cowboy hat off someone's head with a bullet" Wild West trope. (As it happens, the only thing with enough force and spread - a shotgun - will remove both the hat and large chunks of your head.)
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MythBusters / int_a293102a	type	Eek, a Mouse!!
MythBusters / int_a293102a	comment	Eek, a Mouse!!: When testing the "snowplow blows over car" myth, they get an old snowplow. Grant and Kari jump and yelp when they discover it has a rodent in residence. While testing whether stress can affect gas consumption while driving, Tori put two uncaged mice in his car.
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MythBusters / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
MythBusters / int_a2ba7393	comment	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: Testing to see if smugglers can drive on a dark road at night without using any light and relying only on their eyes acclimated to the darkness, they discovered it was barely possible, but if any light passed by them, such as a car with its headlights on, they would immediately crash.
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MythBusters / int_a3a6fdb2	type	Room 101
MythBusters / int_a3a6fdb2	comment	Room 101: Referenced by the narrator in a segment examining self-hypnosis, when Adam and the build team were testing Internet self-hypnosis tapes, Adam using one to get over his fear of bees. The control involved Adam sticking his arm in a box filled with bees. Long time fans may also remember a similar event as a finale to the Daddy Long Legs myth to help Adam with his (supposed) arachnophobia.
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MythBusters / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
MythBusters / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Occasionally when Adam makes up tidbits regarding Jamie's prior jobs/personal history, Jamie himself will chime in with an alternate scenario.
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MythBusters / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
MythBusters / int_a4883667	comment	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: Inverted and thankfully averted, as Jamie reminds Adam that since his excavator is facing backwards on the dump truck, he doesn't have to set it to reverse. A form of this was actually tested as a means of stopping a car in both automatic and manual. Both were busted for different reasons as the automatic's engine immediately stalled due to the transmission engaging on the reverse gear and causing the input shaft and transmission half of the torque converter to spin backward while modern automatics would have a computerized lock-out to stop this from happening.note The narrator said that the latter occurred but Grant's comment of the Check Engine and Battery lights activating implies the engine had stalled. The manual didn't work because the output was still running forward and the dog clutch of the reverse gear lacks synchromesh, making it impossible for it to engage. For one last idea, they tested if putting an automatic in park could stop a car which also didn't work.note Park simply engages a parking pawl on the transmission's output to hold it and thus the wheels in place. Doing this at speed in a mechanical automatic without a computerized lock-out has a very good possibility of shearing the tooth of the pawl right off.
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MythBusters / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
MythBusters / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Jamie and Tory (both male). Former cast members Scottie, Jessi, and Jess the Mythtern (all female). Also Robin Banks (male), the narrator on the European version of the show. It's worth remembering that Tory is short for the very male (and very Italian) name Salvatore. "Jamie" is a variant form of "Jimmy", being a nickname for anyone called James. (Next time you watch the Jimmy Hoffa episode, listen closely when Jamie does the piece-to-camera.) At least in England, Jamie is exclusively a male name, and Jess is usually female.
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MythBusters / int_a56753ec	type	Elephants Are Scared of Mice
MythBusters / int_a56753ec	comment	Elephants Are Scared of Mice: In one episode, Adam and Jamie test the myth of whether elephants are naturally fearful of mice by visiting an elephant reserve in Africa and placing a mouse in an elephant's path. They do this twice, and in both cases the elephant doesn't stampede away, but it stops in its tracks at the presence of the mouse and actively avoids it, thus earning the myth a "plausible".
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MythBusters / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
MythBusters / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: Discussed in the "Titanic Survival" episode, with the duo seeing if Jack could've survived the ending. While they concluded that it was Plausible, James Cameron himself pointed out that regardless of what the verdict was, the point of the story is that Jack dies, and that even if the prop designers left room for the possibility of him surviving, the story being told is ultimately what matters most.
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MythBusters / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
MythBusters / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Why Adam — and Kari, Tory and Grant (to a lesser extent) — are there in the first place; if the show didn't have to be entertaining, it'd just be a bunch of Jamies. This is precisely why Adam is on the show to begin with; Jamie has stated in a number of interviews that he brought Adam in because he sincerely believed he couldn't lead the show on his own due to him not being funny enough. To his credit, he may very well have been right (not that the Beret'ed One can't pass a good laugh on his own, it's just that his interactions with Adam are where the comedy gold is - a straight man is only funny when there's a funny man too).
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MythBusters / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
MythBusters / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Kari and Tory both had minor roles on the show before being hired as part of the build team. After pestering her way into an off-camera job, Kari can be briefly seen in the background in the first episode, when the MythBusters are in the desert testing the JATO Rocket Car myth. Kari's next appearance was having her butt scanned to make a model for the second episode, in which the MythBusters examine whether a loss of pressure can cause one to get stuck to an airplane toilet seat. Tory also appeared in the background a few times, and they and Scottie Chapman were all credited as the "Build Team" throughout the first season, even though they were not featured on camera.
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MythBusters / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
MythBusters / int_a6cda066	comment	Tory standing in a bull ring wearing a bright red jumpsuit: This is starting to feel like a bad idea.
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MythBusters / int_a6d0b83	type	Despite the Plan
MythBusters / int_a6d0b83	comment	Despite the Plan: The MythBusters usually manage to pull it together and get a valid or workable result.
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MythBusters / int_a73c667a	type	Captivity Harmonica
MythBusters / int_a73c667a	comment	Captivity Harmonica: Tory humorously uses his voice, with his hands cupped in front of his face, to emulate this during the Prison Break myth.
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MythBusters / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
MythBusters / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Proven with the Laser Blaster myth from "Star Wars: The Myth Strikes Back". The shots from the blasters are calculated between 130-135 mph (209-217 km/h), and even when testing from both ready and holstered positions, the shots were much too fast for Adam and Jamie to dodge.
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MythBusters / int_a7b10289	type	Instant Convertible
MythBusters / int_a7b10289	comment	It happens whenever there is a malfunction in the rig they've set up for some large scale project. But the two biggest ones happened during the Demolition Derby special. A semi-truck went off its tow cable and was about 30 feet from going into Alameda Bay; if the grass bank hadn't been there to slow it down it likely would have. When they tested the Instant Convertible trope by running a car underneath a semi-trailer it worked too well — the car easily cruised underneath the trailer but the brake system intended to stop the car after the collision failed. The car then hit the dirt embankment behind the trailer at near full speed, and launched over it like a missile. Tory and Kari went from cheering about the successful test to shocked and wide-eyed speculation about the potentially disastrous ramifications. Thankfully, there was nothing on the other side of the embankment, which was likely one of the design concerns when E-Tech built the test track.
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MythBusters / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
MythBusters / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: Averted by Adam, because he's that manly. Played straight in the Storm Chasers special; after the Storm Chasers' vehicles are put through winds equivalent to a category 5 twister, each one hugs a Mythbuster, thanking them for not destroying the cars, before they turn and hug each other.
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MythBusters / int_a966fdee	type	Mascot
MythBusters / int_a966fdee	comment	Mascot: Buster, the constantly abused and rebuilt crash test dummy.
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MythBusters / int_aae246fd	type	Technician/Performer Team-Up
MythBusters / int_aae246fd	comment	Technician/Performer Team-Up: Built this idea into the show through hosts Jaime and Adam. Jaime was working with a producer on the concept, and already owned a special effects studio and had a long history of engineering and prototyping devices. However, Jaime is also a fairly reserved individual and felt himself not qualified to be the sole host, so he recommended Adam, a model maker who he worked with on Battlebots and other projects beforehand. Adam is more of a self-described cartoon character who is much more confident in front of the camera, allowing a Vitriolic Best Buds vibe which complimented the problem solving that went into testing the myths. A handful of myths explicitly take advantage of this by having each design their own version of a device and see the positives and negatives of their strategies.
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MythBusters / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
MythBusters / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The "Cannonball Chemistry" episode begins with a statement that it was during that episode that the infamous cannonball accident happened. Later, they're at the Alameda County bomb range, where the incident occurred, for testing of the cannons. The Narrator carefully describes all the safety measures they're taking to make sure things don't go wrong... while everyone watching knows these measures won't be enough.
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MythBusters / int_ac6f8b65	type	Weirdness Coupon
MythBusters / int_ac6f8b65	comment	Weirdness Coupon: Nobody bats an eye at whatever weird things these guys do, because they're the MythBusters and they do weird things.
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MythBusters / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
MythBusters / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The MythBusters have scared themselves from time to time. It happens whenever there is a malfunction in the rig they've set up for some large scale project. But the two biggest ones happened during the Demolition Derby special. A semi-truck went off its tow cable and was about 30 feet from going into Alameda Bay; if the grass bank hadn't been there to slow it down it likely would have. When they tested the Instant Convertible trope by running a car underneath a semi-trailer it worked too well — the car easily cruised underneath the trailer but the brake system intended to stop the car after the collision failed. The car then hit the dirt embankment behind the trailer at near full speed, and launched over it like a missile. Tory and Kari went from cheering about the successful test to shocked and wide-eyed speculation about the potentially disastrous ramifications. Thankfully, there was nothing on the other side of the embankment, which was likely one of the design concerns when E-Tech built the test track. Non-dairy creamer cannon, and the gigantic fireball resulting from it. Grant went so far as to request clean underwear. Jamie's reaction to his difficulties in crossing the duct tape bridge. Made even worse by his fear of heights. Poor Jamie. At the end of The Green Hornet Special, they blow up a front-loader. In one shot, one of the explosives experts is standing behind and to the right of the bunker when the explosion occurs; it starts raining parts, and he takes two steps to the left. A minor one at first blush, but really serious when you think about it. The build team tackled gunfighter myths, so they head out to the parking lot and start firing guns loaded with blanks (to test the "drop a quarter from the back of one hand and empty a revolver before the coin hits the ground trick). It doesn't take long for someone to start yelling at them, asking if they have permission to be firing guns in a commercial parking lot shared with several other businesses. That particular test comes to a very quick halt. Discharging a firearm within city limits, without a really good reason, is a rather serious offense. Even if they're loaded with blanks, which can still be dangerous at close range, and the sound of gunfire is rather distinctive and going to draw some concern.
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MythBusters / int_ad269113	type	Oh, Wait!
MythBusters / int_ad269113	comment	Oh, Wait!: While testing a miniature steam cannon, it fires a tennis ball and wedges it behind a pipe on the ceiling, leading to this quote:
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MythBusters / int_ada439c0	type	Opt Out
MythBusters / int_ada439c0	comment	Opt Out: Tory asked if he could do this with the FMRI lie detector after he learned the "punishment" for failure (see Cool and Unusual Punishment above). Unfortunately for Tory, the answer was no.
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MythBusters / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
MythBusters / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jamie. Adam tries, but usually can't keep a straight enough face to fully invoke the trope. The Narrator also indulges, and quite skillfully.
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MythBusters / int_aea21604	type	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped
MythBusters / int_aea21604	comment	In another episode, Adam starts a bizarre "explanation" of a build in a fake French accent. The subtitler struggles with it for a while before finally giving up in confusion.
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MythBusters / int_aec88ae0	type	Driving into a Truck
MythBusters / int_aec88ae0	comment	Driving into a Truck: MythBusters did it once, to see if it was really doable or just Hollywood magic. (It is really doable.)
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MythBusters / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
MythBusters / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The (1st) attempt to retest the JATO Rocket Car myth ended with the entire car exploding once the rocket engine is activated. The MythBusters seemed on the verge of tears during the wrap-up. Jamie even flatly said "The rocket car sucked" during the episode close-out. Especially so since they'd already mentioned that they hired a experienced company to build the rocket and that said custom rocket cost the show $10,000. One hopes they got a refund for what must have been a rather large error on behalf of the professional rocket builders. The test of the gigantic ball of LEGO bricks ended abruptly when the ball shattered about a third of the way down its track; the time it took to put the ball together in the first place made a retest impossible. That said, part of the myth was about how nimble the ball would be and thus the result showed it to be fairly fragile. Despite promising small-scale builds of Newton's Cradles in increasing sizes of ball bearings, the full sized build with five wrecking balls was spectacularly anticlimactic; it only gave three halfhearted clunks and stopped.
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MythBusters / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
MythBusters / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In 2010 Grant created a humanoid robot skeleton named "Geoff Peterson" to serve as a Non-Human Sidekick for Craig Ferguson on CBS' The Late Late Show.
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MythBusters / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
MythBusters / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Several, most of which are recycled in the opening credits: "Well, there's your problem!" (Usually in response to a fully intended destruction of a vehicle, or when looking for parts or pieces for a build, and finding a car with no engine. Also applied to many other situations, such as when a fingerprint lock proved embarrassingly easy to fool.) "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing." Also referred to as the "MythBusters Mantra". "When in doubt, C4." "Jamie wants Big Boom." "PHYSICS!" "When in doubt, lubricate!" "Laaaaaaaard." "Failure is always an option on MythBusters." "This is why we can never have anything nice." (Grant, usually right before something is destroyed.) "Will our insurance cover this?" (Usually right before they destroy an item that was hard to get, or are about to attempt something that is questionable.) "For Science!!" i.e. "X went away." Often used by Jamie as a euphemism for "X was completely destroyed by an explosion." Kari thinks all these catchphrases are AMAZING! Adam thinks, "That's beautiful!!" Although he sometimes reckons, "that's horrifying!!" Or the similar "that's a horror show!!" "Replicate the myth, then duplicate the results." Though not a catchphrase, Adam's nervous laughter is by far the greatest echo of the entire series. Even the narrator has a catch phrase. "Ain't that the truth!" is often said after one of the hosts described what had just happened. He also says, "That's the theory," a lot. The narrator will also often say "Ah, Houston...we have a problem" whenever an explosive fails to go off, when a vehicle (often a rocket) fails to get going, or for other obvious failures during testing. In later episodes, Jamie has taken to saying "Buh-bye!" just before he triggers an explosive or incendiary device. "[Often overly long name of impending test] in three, two, oneâ€¦" You'll also hear "There's only one way to find out." a lot, right before one of the aforementioned impending tests. "Let's get outta here" is common at the end of episodes. In the Breaking Bad special, Vince Gilligan repeatedly says "In my mind's eye..." while trying to Hand Wave explanations for why the MythBusters' tests aren't working as originally depicted.
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MythBusters / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
MythBusters / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Kari Byron, though to their credit they don't overdo that angle. Of course, that hasn't stopped them from mentioning (and showing pictures from) her FHM photoshoot. The trope is parodied when the narrator mentions that one of the cast will have to get fitted for a bra. Cut to Tory's hairy chest, with a bra on it. And let us not forget her first appearance on the show was getting her butt computer scanned. She also attempted to use a happiness punch to make goats faint; it only affected Tory, sadly. The team also tested a myth regarding whether women's breast size correlates to tips (in this case, a barista). Let's just say the large breasted version of Kari was shown a bit more. Even Tori and Grant were shocked at how she looked. By the way, Kari's large breasted version did get more significantly more tips.
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MythBusters / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
MythBusters / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Adam is the very definition of this trope, building and using complex machinery and making equally complex scientific observations, all while retaining the mindset of a ten year old on caffeine.
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MythBusters / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
MythBusters / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Several myths have proven far more difficult to test than they originally thought. Despite the Plan: The MythBusters usually manage to pull it together and get a valid or workable result. One example notable for its sheer improbability: the Build Team's attempts to test vodka as a cure for poison oak. In theory, it's a simple test: expose a person to poison oak, then use a commercial balm on one part of the affected area, vodka on another section, and leave a third area clear as a control. First they used Tory as a guinea pig. No rash. Then they tried Adam. Again, no rash. So they tried it on Grant. Yet again, no rash. As a result, they drafted three members of their production crew. Only one of the three (researcher John Hunt) actually got a rash. Five of six human guinea pigs did not respond to being exposed to poison oak (90% of the population being vulnerable). On top of that, Tory and Grant were previously known to be allergic, and yet failed to get a rash.note If you're wondering why they didn't try Kari, her childhood reaction to poison oak was so severe that they deemed it not worth the risk.
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MythBusters / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
MythBusters / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Averted when they tested whether hitting somebody in the head with an empty beer bottle was more dangerous than a full one. The least you would get would be a nasty concussion and lacerations from the broken glass. However, in the case of the full beer bottle, if it doesn't cave in your skull, you could still suffer catastrophic brain damage. Their initial testing showed that even hitting someone who was wearing a football helmet over the head with a beer bottle was too dangerous for them to do for real.
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MythBusters / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
MythBusters / int_b1bf5c9b	comment	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Jamie and Adam both try this to determine which zombie defense weapon type is better: ax or shotgun.
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MythBusters / int_b219ac90	type	ReTool
MythBusters / int_b219ac90	comment	Retool: Occurred in 2015/Season 10. The Build Team was let go, the show's set of graphics effects was overhauled, and more of a focus is placed on the process of building the rigs and equipment used to test the myths.
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MythBusters / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
MythBusters / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: They are willing to re-examine older myths when the fans complain about something they supposedly got wrong when they originally tested them, if it can be proven they didn't adhere to the spirit of the myth, didn't use proper/enough equipment, or simply didn't go far enough (laughable, granted, but possible). So far about 60 percent of the retested myths have remained busted, while the others have been either outright confirmed (proving the MythBusters got it wrong originally) or some footnote about a "plausible" verdict that comes from stretching the boundaries of the myth. Some notable examples: The myth of the barrel of a rifle splitting like a banana peel if you stuck your finger in it; it was busted even with welding an iron spike into the barrel, but a revisit showed a sniper rifle fired with an alignment laser still in the barrel was enough for the split.) The myth involving the plausibility of a Scope Snipe was retested using a Vietnam-vintage scope, since the most well-publicized occurrence of the feat was Carlos Hathcock's shot, which the sniper admitted was a fluke. For an example for a retested myth that remained busted, the myth of Archimedes' solar "Death Ray" was retested after massive backlash with the MythBusters actually telling the complainers to put their money where their mouth was and come on the show to prove it was possible. They couldn't. And at the end, a team composed of the MythBusters, MIT, and one viewer set up an array of bronze mirrors (only things available at that time period) and attempted to set fire to an accurately made Roman ship that was actually in the water. Even after hours of coordinated efforts nothing happened other than some smoke. In the end, they set fire to the ship by tossing a jar of burning fuel at it. This myth even got another re-test, with none other than Barack Obama himself requesting it. It's still busted, though Jamie did comment that all of the mirrors on shore were blinding him (he was on the boat in a fire-resistant suit). He cited that as the "kernel of truth" from whence the myth came. Firing frozen chickens from a chicken cannon: they ran no less than four different tests on this one, over the course of two episodes. Two were inconclusive due to faulty testing materials (the first test involved firing chickens at airplane windshields they later found were not rated for birdstrike; the third involved firing chickens at foam cubes that turned out to not be uniform), and a third, initially used as a "definitive" test, turned out to be a red herring (the second test involved firing chickens at a solid concrete wall and measuring the time it took for the impact to be absorbed). The final, definitive test involved shooting the chickens at a stack of twelve glass sheets and seeing how many broke. The two thawed chickens they fired broke two of the twelve sheets in the stack; the two frozen chickens punched a clean hole straight through their stacks. One of these "clean-throughs" can be seen in the background of the blueprint room in later episodes.
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MythBusters / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
MythBusters / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Kari, and it shows.
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MythBusters / int_b486877f	type	Squick
MythBusters / int_b486877f	comment	Squick: In-universe: Several myth tests involving animal parts have grossed out the cast, especially Kari. The show's got a bad tendency to repeatedly show the cast getting hurt; in one test, Tory struck his shin on a window ledge hard enough to require several stitches, and the impact and his bloodstained jeans were shown over and over again. One very funny example was in an episode where Grant and Tory took a long, fleshy object out of its container and began to examine it. Few myths have been quite as revolting to watch as the human earwax candle, in part because of the nauseated reactions of the cast and crew (especially Grant, who nearly threw up). Grant has mentioned in a promo that he'll never forget the horrible smell of the earwax burning. The "can you get the smell of death out of a car" episode where they left a pig carcass in a sports car long enough for it to thoroughly decompose. Everyone that worked on that was wearing protective clothing and respirators and they were still reeling from the smell (and the ammonia), and even people in buildings around the area were visibly disgusted by the stench. Dissolving a pig carcass in supercharged sulfuric acid to test Walt White's preferred way to dispose of dead bodies. Jamie called the resulting black slop the most disgusting thing he's ever seen. Despite using a synthetically created substance that mimics fecal matter (and in a teal color one would hope never to see in real feces), the "when poo hits the fan, everything gets covered" tests it was still rather unsettling to think what would happen if that was crap hitting the fan (especially since Adam describes one of the softer samples as being the same as "when [his] dog eats soft food"). Jamie also got into the art of creating neat little poo patties which...look like stereotypical poo piles. During a promo, Tory mentioned that the refrigerator truck that was storing the ingredients for "Meat Man" had been turned off overnight, and that he had to build it using spoiled meat.
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MythBusters / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
MythBusters / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: When it comes to animal experiments, they do draw the line if it involves anything above insects. Insects are fair game just as long as they were bred for science. Pig cadavers are a common practice since theyâ€™re used as analogues in place of humans, but (in early episodes) the pigs had to have died of natural causes in order to be allowed. (The myths tested with those pigs involved the rotting process of a body, so whole carcasses, unmodified, were required for the best results. Later episodes got pigs from a slaughterhouse, albeit one that was—according to the hosts—relatively humane.) Ballistic gel models are also used and made to mimic the human form. And they flat-out refused to put a dog in a microwave.
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MythBusters / int_b4a6fef1	type	Tough Room
MythBusters / int_b4a6fef1	comment	Tough Room: Most of the time when Adam's being silly in the presence of Jamie (especially in the blueprint room), Jamie will express either indifference or annoyance at Adam's antics, sometimes punctuated by a very loud cricket. Most of the time.
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MythBusters / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
MythBusters / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: This is usually the basis for most myths. Sometimes it actually happens while testing myths, with the Supersized Rocket Car Revisit being one of the best examples of such. A less spectacular (but generally weirder) case of this involves the MythBusters and microwaves. In season one, Jamie decided to try building a "super-microwave" using four magnetrons pointed at a metal box. A glass of water was measured before and after being exposed to the microwave for several minutes. The super-microwave was very loud while in operation... but was not only ineffective at heating the water, the temperature of the water had dropped a couple of degrees. A callback of sorts happened about three years later on the Holiday Special. One of the myths tested was whether a ship's radar could roast a turkey. The internal temperature of the turkey before being put on the radar: 50 degrees Fahrenheit. After an hour of "cooking" on the radar...45 degrees Fahrenheit. Did we mention that the external temperature was higher than that of the turkey? Quoted by Adam on the Do Try This At Home special. The myth was that a large amount of metronomes placed on a platform will eventually sync up, but when Adam and Jamie ramped it up to 216 metronomes on a air hockey table, all they got in the end was a syncopated symphony and a set of metronome dominoes. Looking at the aftermath, Adam sums it up nicely.
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MythBusters / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
MythBusters / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Mr. Savage, the floor is yours...
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MythBusters / int_b563947c	type	Science Show
MythBusters / int_b563947c	comment	Science Show: Mythbusters wasn't designed for the expressed purpose of being one — as the hosts and producers can attest, it was pitched simply as "a show about seeing if myths are true or not" — but the show inadvertently became one as the consideration of various relevant factors, from physics to chemistry to psychology and so-on, became integral to the whole testing process, which is itself a solid introduction to The Scientific Method.
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MythBusters / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
MythBusters / int_b5785433	comment	The Cold Open for the Grand Finale episode references Pulp Fiction, specifically the glowing MacGuffin briefcase in the film (in this case, one of the storage boxes at M-5).note Said briefcase was itself a Shout Out to Kiss Me Deadly.
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MythBusters / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
MythBusters / int_b58b4e3c	comment	In testing the hot water heater myth, they proved that if both safety devices are removed or plugged, the heater can become a rocket and will potentially demolish anything in its flight path... which is why there are two safety devices in the first place. It's worth mentioning that the failure of both was considered entirely plausible (especially since Adam posited that some homeowners would cap the safety valve because they didn't realize what it was really for—bonus points if the valve was already leaking water, because that usually means the thermostat has already failed); as a result, and since the researchers had found actual occurrences of that exact type of failure, the myth was Confirmed.
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MythBusters / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
MythBusters / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: They've had some very odd ingredient lists when testing myths, though ultimately this trope is subverted because the use for each material is shown. Lampshaded once, when Kari was asked by Tory and Grant to name what a set of items had in common: creamer, cheese, leather, chicken, duct tape, and a steel pipe. Her first two (incorrect) answers were "Saturday night at Adam Savage's house" and "Saturday night at Jamie Hyneman's house".Correct Answer"Cannon"; all of them had been used in association with cannons in previous myths, either as payload or construction material (except leather, which was the subject of the current cannon myth).
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MythBusters / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
MythBusters / int_b6de94d1	comment	During a presentation, Adam expressed great interest in testing more "mundane" myths, like comparing consumer products to see which ones perform better or whether they perform up to the standards their manufacturers claim. However, it will never happen because the executives are afraid of losing their sponsors or getting sued. The closest they get is when a myth item won't work, and they compare that to a consumer product (such as keys, cellphone, or shoe to break a window underwater; none worked, but the store-bought breakers worked every time.)
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MythBusters / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
MythBusters / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: There are a few moments where the MythBusters test a myth and admit they are stretching the boundaries of how it could have happened—the reason being that some myths are purely about whether it could be done at all, not whether it could be accomplished in the exact manner claimed in the myth. For example, in trying to build a crossbow out of paper while in prison, they assumed it would be possible for an inmate to shave a plastic spoon by scraping it against the cell wall for use as the tip of the arrow. Therefore, they agreed that they could use a table-mounted sander to do the same thing in the interest of saving time. Lampshaded in the "Escape from Alcatraz" episode: Another lampshade in the Tree Cannon myth:
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MythBusters / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
MythBusters / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: While building the wrecking-ball-sized Newton balls, Adam and Jamie spend an undisclosed amount of time distracted by smacking a large piece of scrap metal with mallets, making a variety of different tones like a giant xylophone.
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MythBusters / int_b87ae3ba	type	Crash Course Landing
MythBusters / int_b87ae3ba	comment	Crash Course Landing: On a simulation, both Adam and Jamie failed to land planes on their own, but succeeded with help over the radio. They did not know that at the time there was no record of this in real life.
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MythBusters / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
MythBusters / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Sometimes, their determination of whether a myth is Confirmed or Busted really comes down to interpreting the exact wording of it. For example, their analysis of the Soft Water myth was specifically about whether "landing on water from a high enough distance is just as bad as landing on concrete." From a purely scientific standpoint, this was conclusively Busted, as the impact readings from the concrete landings were significantly higher than those of the water landings from all three heights. However, all but one of the six readings were Confirmed to be far above the threshold that the human body is capable of tolerating and surviving. Meaning that, scentifically, while landing from water at a high altitude isn't "just as impactful" as landing on concrete, it is still metaphorically "just as bad" since you'll end up "just as dead" from it.
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MythBusters / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
MythBusters / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: The Alcatraz, in an episode where the one-and-only successful (in terms of getting off the island) escape could've succeeded in the sense of getting to dry land.
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MythBusters / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
MythBusters / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: Many times; not just in the "Lighting a Fire" myth, but most attempts to cause fireballs or explosions in line with a myth end up failing due to the reality of the materials or poor stoichiometry.
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MythBusters / int_b9561236	type	A Good Name for a Rock Band
MythBusters / int_b9561236	comment	A Good Name for a Rock Band: "Touch of Orange", the name Adam comes up with for his future cover band when they're testing flu myths and using a snot-like substance that glows orange under a dark lamp.
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MythBusters / int_b95cc514	type	Turbine Blender
MythBusters / int_b95cc514	comment	Turbine Blender: In one of the earlier seasons, they confirmed that an aircraft propeller could shred a metal airplane fuselage like so much paper. When they decided to test whether a lawn mower could produce lethal debris when striking rocks, Jamie decided to take a lawn mower up to eleven. 4 X 50 horsepower electric car motors + a 90-volt, 1500 Amp battery + a 50 pound, 3 foot x 8 inch steel bar = mower blade dancing across the range at 50+ MPH, looking for ankles to eat.
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MythBusters / int_b96fdd94	type	Extra-Long Episode
MythBusters / int_b96fdd94	comment	Extra-Long Episode: The "Jaws Special" (the first time Jamie and Adam hosted "Shark Week") was two hours long. Subsequent repeats on Discovery have either been split into two one-hour segments or edited down to a single hour.
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MythBusters / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
MythBusters / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In an early episode Adam was working on the Chicken Cannon that involved welding a 4 ft. tall pipe standing vertically on what will become the tank for holding the air pressure. Adam paused for a moment to adjust his glasses and a piece came off and fell into the pipe. Adam just stared bemused into the narrow tube, then at the camera, then back to the tube. Twice in the first Battle of the Sexes episode; For context: They're testing whether men or women are better at packing a car, and one of the items to be packed is a doll in a booster seat representing a child. When Kari tried to fool a motion detector with a bedsheet, this was their reaction when it worked perfectly.
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MythBusters / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
MythBusters / int_ba236071	comment	While guiding a big ballistics gel block through a swimming pool:
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MythBusters / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
MythBusters / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: Jamie's custom bike, brought in for the Tablecloth Yank test.
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MythBusters / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
MythBusters / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: When Adam and Jamie tested the Ming Dynasty Astronaut myth, Adam said about the burning Buster "His ass is on fire!", which was not bleeped out.
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MythBusters / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
MythBusters / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: There are various experts they bring in who are certainly skilled with their guns, but they have proven that some skills like hitting a coin out of the air isn't a "first shot" kind of thing. And then on the "Davy Crockett split bullet" myth, Tory makes the shot on their last attempt before letting the expert get a crack at it.
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MythBusters / int_bdc0a18e	type	Idiosyncratic Wipes
MythBusters / int_bdc0a18e	comment	Idiosyncratic Wipes: Scene transitions are almost always tailored to the myth being tested.
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MythBusters / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
MythBusters / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Barry the Ballistic Bust, used for the lethal lava lamp legend. There's also "Adam's Anatomically Accurate Avian Appendage" (a mock hand made from chicken wings), which was used for a myth involving an explosive consequence of holding a revolver the wrong way.
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MythBusters / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
MythBusters / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Adam, a lot. For the second Pirate episode, he does it so much it actually starts to annoy Jamie (which he does almost every episode, somehow). Speaking of, Jamie is very often a victim of this; most people on the set have mockingly imitated his voice and mannerisms at one time or another. In the 2011 season premiere Adam and Jamie disguise themselves as each other and attempt to fool people. The masks are good enough to work from a distance but each fails to imitate the other's voice correctly. Torynote Which, incidentally, is short for the Italian first name "Salvatore" will occasionally affect a faux Italian accent. For the most part, if a myth comes from an action movie, Adam will certainly describe a part of it at some point in a thick British accent.
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MythBusters / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
MythBusters / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Jamie, at least according to Adam.
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MythBusters / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
MythBusters / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: A necessary part of the "Beating the Lie Detector" myth, stressing over telling a lie was mandatory and thus Adam put forth an ultimatum, beat the machine or instead of taking a plane back to San Francisco they had to take a 3,000 mile bus ride. (There was also a bonus to beating the machine; a person who managed to do so would receive $1,000.) Grant managed to confuse the machine and was appropriately joyful, while they had to censor Kari's response.
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MythBusters / int_c1283c	type	Soda-Candy 'Splosion
MythBusters / int_c1283c	comment	Soda-Candy 'Splosion: Naturally, as a series focusing on testing Urban Legends old wives' tales, this was covered at multiple points. The first time this was attempted, it was not given any sort of rating ("Busted", "Plausible", or "Confirmed") and instead simply had the science behind it explained, with them using a nozzle to reach a height of over 30 feet. A later episode tested out the myth that this reaction could cause a ruptured stomach; when attempted with that of a pig, it was discovered that simply drinking the soda eliminates much of the carbon dioxide responsible for the eruption. Even when the gas was directly pumped into the stomach, it only inflated, albeit to a point that would cause pain. The very first pilot episode looked at the soda and Pop Rocks myth in relation to the Little Mikey claim. Like in the later Diet Coke and Mentos test, it was determined that the reaction was far from powerful enough, though the pig stomach used inflated to a painful extend when unrealistically large amounts of both were added.
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MythBusters / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
MythBusters / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: In a test to see whether men or women were better at packing cars, one of the items that needed to be packed was an inflatable beach ball. Adam makes special note of one participant, who was the first (and possibly only) one out of the total 20 participants who actually thought of deflating the beach ball before packing it. In defense of the other 19, they may have believed that the point of the test was to account for something the size of the inflated ball.
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MythBusters / int_c2d62e12	type	Eyebrows Burned Off
MythBusters / int_c2d62e12	comment	Eyebrows Burned Off: Infamously in an early episode when Adam stood too close to a box full of gas fumes that exploded. He even had a date that night!
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MythBusters / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
MythBusters / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The MythBusters are this. Adam has even acknowledged it during a Q&A session.
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MythBusters / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
MythBusters / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: While building model Hindenburgs, which they intend to set ablaze later, one of them catches fire while Jamie is doing some repairs to the welds; Adam points out it is a textbook case of irony. Situational irony bites Adam in the Rocketmen episode when he's melting gummi bears on a burner in a glass dish. He describes all the dangers involved in working with a superheated syrup, only for the dish to suddenly shatter from the heat.
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MythBusters / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
MythBusters / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The first season had accredited folklorist Heather Joseph-Witham give some background information and sociology regarding the current myth they were testing. She was phased out because she wasn't adding anything that couldn't have been explained by either the narrator or the hosts, her footage anyway was shot much like an interview and she didn't interact with Adam and Jamie, and the shift of the show from testing urban legends to testing tropes, scenes from film and TV, Internet videos, idioms, etc. would have made her useless.
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MythBusters / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
MythBusters / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: The intro for the first few episodes boasted that if what the guys needed wasn't found at M5 Industries, it could be found within Adam's "junk collection". Said junk collection was never even shown, let alone used (or at least not mentioned if it was) and that part was dropped from the intro quickly.
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MythBusters / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
MythBusters / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Jamie.
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MythBusters / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
MythBusters / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: One might imagine that they are Heterosexual Life-Partners, but both Adam and Jamie have said that they don't like each other and don't spend any time together outside of work. On occasion, especially in the early episodes, this comes through onscreen. In the 10/19/2011 episode (Exuberent Excavators) Adam came flat out and said "We work together well but we don't like each other." In a clip filmed in 2016, he mentioned that he and Jamie "drive each other batty" and that they wouldn't be collaborating on any more projects. Subverted in that the resentment and suppressed emotion typical of this trope are absent. Adam and Jamie have always been frank about not getting along outside of work, but have also made it clear that they respect one another immensely as coworkers and professional collaborators. Their not being friends is exactly that, nothing more or less, and there's no indication that they actively dislike each other or hold anything against the other. They're just not compatible socially.
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MythBusters / int_c3eb411b	type	One I Prepared Earlier
MythBusters / int_c3eb411b	comment	One I Prepared Earlier: During the "Jaws Special", Adam was talking to the camera about the method he was using to build a fake shark, and pulled out a mockup "he'd prepared earlier".
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MythBusters / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
MythBusters / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Jessi Combs was billed this way in the intro sequence during Kari's maternity leave (Kari remained in the credits even though she and Jessi did not appear in any episodes together).
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MythBusters / int_c4cd07fa	type	Pyramid Power
MythBusters / int_c4cd07fa	comment	Pyramid Power: Does fruit stored in a pyramid rot more slowly? Can pyramids sharpen razor blades? The MythBusters test them to find out! Answer: no. After this one, Adam opined that he wasn't a fan of such "oogie-boogie myths", and declared that there would be no more such nonsense on the show (it's perfectly fine with the nonsense it's got). In the end-of-series reunion special, everyone bemoaned testing these myths.
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MythBusters / int_c52ac939	type	Helium Speech
MythBusters / int_c52ac939	comment	As noted above, Adam taking advantage of Helium Speech whenever helium is used on the show.
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MythBusters / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
MythBusters / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Done in the 2012 Halloween special. At one point, a camera revolves around Adam Savage a couple of times as he wonders where Jamie is. As the camera dollies around, Jamie is nowhere to be seen. Then, the camera pans in the opposite direction, revealing Jamie right next to (and slightly behind) Adam.
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MythBusters / int_c6b38794	type	Censored for Comedy
MythBusters / int_c6b38794	comment	The editors had fun with that episode. When Adam tests out his curse-proof tool, listen carefully to the beeps. If you know Morse Code, there's a message in there. Again when Tory lets loose. Respectively, HELLO and HURTS.
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MythBusters / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
MythBusters / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the revisit for the painting with explosives, Jamie created a large, 3,500 pound steel sphere to try to spread the paint more effectively. J.D. Nelson referred to it as the Death Star while the narrator added That's No Moon The Cold Open for the Grand Finale episode references Pulp Fiction, specifically the glowing MacGuffin briefcase in the film (in this case, one of the storage boxes at M-5).note Said briefcase was itself a Shout Out to Kiss Me Deadly. The Stinger for the final final episode, the MythBusters cast reunion, is a recreation of the shawarma-eating scene which was the stinger in The Avengers.
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MythBusters / int_c76ab3f5	type	Cow Tools
MythBusters / int_c76ab3f5	comment	Cow Tools: M-5 certainly qualifies, with one wall that spans almost the length of the main building (at least 75 feet) with shelves and cubbies to hold all sorts of things. Apparently Jamie doesn't like to throw anything away and the random trinkets do come in handy. Even lampshaded with lots of them having some strange labels, like the one labeled "RAW MEAT." Lampshaded in one episode, where Adam did some mathnote which he actually got wrong - once the math was redone correctly, a more reasonable mass figure was obtained to determine that Buster would have to have more mass in order to accurately portray the myth:
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MythBusters / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
MythBusters / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: The cover photo◊ on the Season 5 DVD features Adam doing this with his homemade paper crossbow.
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MythBusters / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
MythBusters / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: When they confirm the myth that women have a higher pain threshold than men, Adam lets the "weaker" sex have it.
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MythBusters / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
MythBusters / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: The original Buster has since been retired, but his name lives on through subsequent dummies, and even for some of the Simulaids (See The Other Darrin below).
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MythBusters / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
MythBusters / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Usually the show intercuts between two (or more) myths, one worked on by Adam and Jamie, the other worked on by The Build Team with some minor crossovers here and there. Occasionally they'll team up and tackle one epic myth together.
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MythBusters / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
MythBusters / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: The Build Team. Might have been literally invoked during the Gorn Cannon myth if not for Kari's maternity leave. (Jessi ended up playing Janice Rand in her place.) The Kirk — Tory The Spock — Grant The McCoy — Kari
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MythBusters / int_cb5a0181	type	Where's the Kaboom?
MythBusters / int_cb5a0181	comment	Where's the Kaboom?: There's a very good chance of this coming up during a myth if explosives are used at some point. It's pointed out that this can be one of the worst things that can happen because it's unknown whether or not the kaboom will happen any second, making it unsafe to approach the area to determine what's going wrong. Subverted in a couple times, when it turned out that the amount of explosives the myth called for resulted in a boom so miniscule it wasn't even noticeable. ("Sorry, Houston; we didn't have a problem.") In one of these cases, it was played distressingly straight later that same episode. ("Ah, Houston, me again. This time we really do have a problem.")
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MythBusters / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
MythBusters / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: The whole point of the episode.
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MythBusters / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
MythBusters / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: Jamie's distinctive beret really makes him stand out in a crowd. As Adam mentioned in a behind-the-scenes special, "When we go out together, Jamie and I, I get recognized about twice as much as when I'm alone, because I might be that guy from that show, but he is without a doubt that guy from that show." Adam's fedora and cowboy hat also qualify, although they don't get nearly the attention that Jamie's beret does.
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MythBusters / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
MythBusters / int_cc6f4612	comment	Beyond the Impossible: Played with. The premise of the show is to deconstruct this. They find out what really is possible and what is not. Sometimes the trope is played straight when a particularly dubious myth is confirmed. Perfect example: any myth involving duct tape, but ESPECIALLY the duct tape airplane myth. Inverted with some myths where every single part of the myth is so completely busted it leaves not even a grain of truth left. For example: the myth of the giant rolling LEGO ball. They could only get 1 million LEGO pieces after taking all the pieces from both Legoland California and the largest private collection; this is nowhere close to the five million predicted by the myth. They also only needed the 1 million pieces to make the giant ball anyway. Finally, the ball broke apart half way down the track.
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MythBusters / int_cc8e6ce1	type	Politician Guest-Star
MythBusters / int_cc8e6ce1	comment	Politician Guest-Star: Barack Obama invited Adam and Jamie to the White House Library to request they retest "Archimedes Death Ray" AGAIN using child labor - I mean hundreds of middle school science students aiming individual mirrors. The report back to the president was obviously filmed right after the opening segment. Amusingly, the president was upstaged by the next episode, which featured guest star Seth Rogen.
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MythBusters / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
MythBusters / int_cccfa535	comment	Blindfolded Trip: On the first trip to the "secret location" to shoot a fish with a minigun, Adam is not allowed to know where it is, so Jamie drives him there blindfolded.
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MythBusters / int_cd682fe1	type	Dodge the Bullet
MythBusters / int_cd682fe1	comment	Dodge the Bullet: They tested in one episode if it would be possible for a normal person to dodge a bullet, and surprisingly, the answer was yes!... kind of. The test was done by using a muzzle flash to trigger a light-sensitive point-blank paintball gun after a timed delay lining up to the flight time of a real bullet. Jamie (hardly the peak of human speed) was able to twist his body clear of a bullet's path given 0.49 seconds between the muzzle flash and the bullet's impact under lab conditions and 0.62 seconds in the field (with a "bullet" that seemed to be modeled around 800 m/s muzzle velocity). It turns out that seeing the flash is pretty important for knowing when to dodge, and that was a lot harder hundreds of yards distant outside than in a lab with controlled lighting. The main quibble was that it was only ever possible at a very long distance (500 yards for the 0.62 second test) and with Jamie knowing it was coming (which he normally he probably wouldn't without superhuman senses) - at close or medium range the bullet just strikes too quickly for Jamie to do anything.note Most pistol rounds are more like 250 to 380 m/s so theoretically he should have been able to dodge one of those from a much shorter distance, though "much shorter distance" in this case would still be "minimum 125 meters in 0.5 seconds" (not accounting for velocity loss), at which point no one's going to be shooting you with a pistol...
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MythBusters / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
MythBusters / int_cdd835ce	comment	invokedDude, Not Funny!: When a (now former) producer forced Kari, Scottie, and Tory to hook up an electric fence battery to an Ark of The Covenant replica, and trick Adam into touching it, his reaction is this. Mostly because it was potentially lethal, and there was nothing funny about how excruciating it was (there's a reason that producer was fired). Though, Kari's hilariously insensitive remark, "Do you feel God?", was kind of funny.
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MythBusters / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
MythBusters / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Often done while testing a myth, due to the show's method of first replicating the myth (which rarely works the way it claims), and then attempting to scale things up enough to get the result that the myth describes.
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MythBusters / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
MythBusters / int_cf4d770	comment	When they decided to test whether a lawn mower could produce lethal debris when striking rocks, Jamie decided to take a lawn mower up to eleven. 4 X 50 horsepower electric car motors + a 90-volt, 1500 Amp battery + a 50 pound, 3 foot x 8 inch steel bar = mower blade dancing across the range at 50+ MPH, looking for ankles to eat.
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MythBusters / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
MythBusters / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: In the Dumpster Diving episode, Adam wore a long black coat reminiscent of something out of The Matrix.
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MythBusters / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
MythBusters / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: Though it is probably more for legal reasons than anything else, MythBusters does this with just about every material they use that isn't gonna get blown up/crushed/shot in the next five minutes (by replacing that thing's logo/name with references to MythBusters). They even lampshade it every now and then:
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MythBusters / int_d137b509	type	Competence Porn
MythBusters / int_d137b509	comment	Competence Porn: The show inspired generations of fans to get involved with engineering and other craftsman trades. Every Mythbuster had their own particular specialty but the biggest engagement with the show centered on them troubleshooting the mechanics of the myth and building a set-up to test it. Stuff Blowing Up at the end helped too.
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MythBusters / int_d323d090	type	Incendiary Exponent
MythBusters / int_d323d090	comment	Incendiary Exponent: All. The. Time. In one episode Adam states, "the only thing that separates us from a couple of teenage pyromaniacs is ballistic glass." In another, he tells the audience that "the difference between you and us is that we call the fire department first."
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MythBusters / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
MythBusters / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In a "spy car" test, a smokebomb released behind Jamie's convertible was sucked back into the car by the airflow and forced him to pull over.
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MythBusters / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
MythBusters / int_d39e327f	comment	Adam attempts to use a smoke bomb of Jamie's design to get revenge on Kari and Tory for their Baghdad Batteries stunt. He fails miserably, and winds up being chased off with a fire extinguisher.
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MythBusters / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
MythBusters / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: Discussed previously in several other myths where they had to scale down miniatures based on size and mass, and explained during the Titanic myth by Adam (and earlier by Jamie for Lead Balloon).
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MythBusters / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
MythBusters / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: Spoofed in the Superhero Hour, when Adam announced that they were testing a myth related to... Nocturnal-Echolocating-Flying-Mammal-Man. See Brand X above for straight examples.
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MythBusters / int_d5a50cc2	type	Noisy Duck
MythBusters / int_d5a50cc2	comment	Noisy Duck: Zigzagged when they try are trying to test the Duck quaking echo myth, only for the ducks to refuse to quack with Jamie even saying "Quack damn you." They finally get them to quack when they bring the ducks back together and they did so loudly, since ducks apparently won't quack without anyone to talk to.
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MythBusters / int_d794d419	type	Slap Yourself Awake
MythBusters / int_d794d419	comment	Slap Yourself Awake: Proved true; slapping yourself sobers you up a bit.
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MythBusters / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
MythBusters / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Head Rush, which ran on the Science Channel during daytime hours. It consisted of recut MythBusters episodes with the commercial breaks replaced with school-grade science quizzes and try-at-home experiments and was hosted by Kari, who was clearly there for Parent Service. Obviously aimed at a younger audience, it had more censorship, not just of language but also of the "how to make explosives" portions of the show, as well as, for some reason, the Product Placement. Adam and Jamie also hosted Unchained Reaction, which showed teams making various Rube Goldberg Devices.
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MythBusters / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
MythBusters / int_dabc7a46	comment	Sixth Ranger: Jessi. She filled in for Kari, but was more Gearhead over Wrench Wench. There's also their stable of frequently-contacted experts: former FBI agent Frank Doyle, Bomb Squad Sgt. J. D. Nelson, rocketry expert Erik Gates (may he Rest in Peace), Firearms expert Lt. Alan Normandy, and audio engineer Dr. Roger Schwenke. Series announcer Robert Lee is more of a Spirit Advisor: he explains all the myths and narrates the action and can only be heard by the audience (except when it would be funny for him to be an Interactive Narrator instead, usually with Adam). He also offers "advice" to the MythBusters, but because his narration recorded after the fact they tend to ignore it, often to their own peril.
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MythBusters / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
MythBusters / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: During the myth of being talked into landing and the first attempt of Adam and Jamie attempting to land by themselves while the GPWS was shouting what they thought was "Don't Think" until they realize it was "Don't Sink" which refers to altitude loss after take-off or with a high N1 (throttle) setting. This meant that they had the nose pointed downward with the throttle forward.
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MythBusters / int_dc4e0f9a	type	Eat That
MythBusters / int_dc4e0f9a	comment	Eat That: The "Cold Feet" myth went to great efforts to unnerve the Build Team, and required Kari, a pescetarian, to choose from a smorgasbord of bizarre and spoiled animal parts and live insects, ostensibly to test whether fear makes one's feet cold.
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MythBusters / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
MythBusters / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence Enforced by real life in one episode, due to the uncertainty of when pressure vessels will fail. While waiting for a fire extinguisher to over-pressurize and explode, the build team starts playing charades. As Grant starts acting out a clue, Tory says, "Two words... sounds like...?" At that moment, the extinguisher erupts in a massive explosion. Another example involving Grant occurs in the myth where they test how bad a hangover someone would have with a strict regiment of beer vs. a mix of beer and liquor. Kari assures Grant the vomit test (conducted with a machine that will induce sea sickness) will end after he throws up...at which point he promptly throws up before the test even starts. A lot of the myths that are found "Plausible" would require one (or two) of these in order to happen.
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MythBusters / int_dc841707	type	Room Full of Zombies
MythBusters / int_dc841707	comment	Room Full of Zombies: All of the myths use this.
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MythBusters / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
MythBusters / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Adam and Jamie try to start their own YouTube fad during the Diet Coke and Mentos myth. They fail, as none of their attempts are feasible and/or safe to do with stuff lying around the home. Adam attempts to use a smoke bomb of Jamie's design to get revenge on Kari and Tory for their Baghdad Batteries stunt. He fails miserably, and winds up being chased off with a fire extinguisher.
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MythBusters / int_dd4d4d19	type	Taught by Television
MythBusters / int_dd4d4d19	comment	Taught by Television: The MythBusters have spoken of being told by fans that things they've learned through watching the show have come in handy. One of the more commonly cited examples of this is people managing to escape from cars after accidents where they ended up in the water.
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MythBusters / int_de4d1d28	type	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
MythBusters / int_de4d1d28	comment	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Seemingly deliberately invoked by Adam: "I think so, Jamie, but it's gonna be hard to find four oak doors and 30 feet of greased chain!"
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MythBusters / int_deecec48	type	Brass Balls
MythBusters / int_deecec48	comment	Brass Balls: After Jamie crosses a duct-tape bridge despite his severe acrophobia:
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MythBusters / int_dfc9f24d	type	Similar to the Show
MythBusters / int_dfc9f24d	comment	Similar to the Show: Product Placement has involved the Build Team "busting myths" for one of the show's sponsors at the start of a commercial break.
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MythBusters / int_e034f77b	type	Safe Driving Aesop
MythBusters / int_e034f77b	comment	Safe Driving Aesop: They've tested several scenarios said to cause dangerous driving, including: Driving while tipsy. note For legal reasons, they couldn't run any driving test when the driver was at or above 0.08 BAC. Driving while sleep-deprived. Driving in high-heeled shoes. Driving while using a cell phone (both normal usage and hands-free). Driving too closely behind a big-rig truck in order to reduce drag on your car and increase fuel-efficiency. Driving while angry. Driving while needing to use the toilet. Swapping drivers while the car is still moving. Driving into a moose.
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MythBusters / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
MythBusters / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Everyone, but especially Adam and especially if explosives, high-speed collisions, or both are involved in a myth.
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MythBusters / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
MythBusters / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Subverted in nearly every episode, as just about every myth involving an explosion usually results in the items said to be explosive stubbornly refusing to detonate. Even a car fuel tank shot with incendiary rounds or left to burn for over 10 minutes. Played straight on quite a few occasions as well, like the Thermite/Ice myth, which exploded on the first try. Hilariously done straight with the Hindenburg scale tests. Adam wanted to see how fast the material would burn with and without hydrogen by setting fire to the material stretched over a box filled with the gas. Upon adding the fire to it, the fabric exploded off the box like a gunshot. Adam was noticeably shaken. The model was even set ablaze while they were merely building it, prompting the amused Adam to observe "These things are always catching on fire!" From "Exploding Port-a-Potty"
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MythBusters / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
MythBusters / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: Invoked. In one episode, Adam and Jamie are shown solving Rubik's Cubes one with his feet and the other blindfolded, and then showed what they actually did, which was reversing the footage of them slowly scrambling the Rubik's Cubes. They even pointed out how they had crew members walk backwards through the shot and rigged a wall clock to tick in reverse, so that when they reversed the film, they would appear to walk through normally (for added realism).
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MythBusters / int_e51511d5	type	Fiction Science
MythBusters / int_e51511d5	comment	Fiction Science: Probably the most iconic examples of this trope. Two special effects guys and a crew of crafters scientifically test how possible in real life some urban legends and tropes are.
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MythBusters / int_e54482ee	type	Keet
MythBusters / int_e54482ee	comment	Keet: Adam brings the energy to the main duo. To quote the show's narrator, "Like Tigger, he [Adam] does his best thinking while bouncing."
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MythBusters / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
MythBusters / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Explosions (and to a lesser extent high-speed camera shots) were always a part of the show, but as seasons progressed they eventually became the core the rest of the show was built around. This would be repeatedly lampshaded by the hosts in later seasons, but most notably by Jamie at the beginning of the Explosion Special.
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MythBusters / int_e602a3	type	The Kirk
MythBusters / int_e602a3	comment	The Kirk — Tory
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MythBusters / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
MythBusters / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: Adam describing the Rube Goldberg Machine in the "Holiday Special".
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MythBusters / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
MythBusters / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the rest of the team (sans Jamie and Grant at that point) give Adam a powerful shock as a practical joke, the normally genial Adam's look of genuine shock and anger followed by his stomping out of the room clued them in that they messed up bad. In a later interview, Adam revealed that it wasn't the Build Team's idea—the producer made them do it, and it terrified and pissed him off to such an extent that the entire crew was mad for him, and when instructed to follow Adam, told the producer where he could shove that idea. In a show where they shamelessly recorded decapitation of dead animals, devices that can kill people, Kari undergoing Chinese Water Torture (she volunteered, but it reportedly bothered her for at least a few days until the bruises on her wrists faded), and Adam vomiting multiple times due to seasickness, even they decided it would be crossing the line to bother him after what went down. That producer is no longer with the show. Make of that what you will. Speaking of Kari's water torture, when she reaches the point where she says she doesn't want to do it anymore (at which point she's starting to cry), Tory (who is usually only a couple of ticks below Adam on the "silliness" scale), immediately says they're to get her out, delivered in a rapid and deadly serious tone of voice which clearly conveys his concern for Kari. She's immediately released from the rig, and decides against further testing.
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MythBusters / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
MythBusters / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop:
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MythBusters / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
MythBusters / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: The build team — Kari is the Id, Tory is the Ego, and Grant is the Superego.
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MythBusters / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
MythBusters / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: For the series finale, they advertised their biggest explosion ever on the show. It was bigger than the show's previous record-holder by a single pound. They didn't say how much bigger! Also, more controversially, used to declare some myths as Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed. The Headscratchers page features several examples.
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MythBusters / int_ea480f92	type	Simple, yet Awesome
MythBusters / int_ea480f92	comment	Simple, yet Awesome: During Water Stun Gun, they tested a significant number of water guns to see which one would be the best fit for adapting to build their stun gun, including an especially cheap-looking model that came two to a pack and wouldn't look out of place at a discount store. It was so basic that Jamie even commented on it. It wound up being the only one that worked for their purposes.
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MythBusters / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
MythBusters / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: On a few occasions, Adam has asked post-production (on-camera) if they could add this sound effect to the breech-loading air cannon he's working with. They always oblige.
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MythBusters / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
MythBusters / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Tory gets clocked by a playful goat during the "Fainting Goat" segment of the "Viral Hour" episode. He also got hit by a rock attached to a kite's tail during the Ben Franklin myth. Appropriately, this happened immediately after he called it the "death kite" and the "kite of punishment". During the Superhero Special, he hit himself down there with a ballistics gel fist. "Star Wars: The Myth Strikes Back" was full of these, especially the "Dodge a Bolt" section. In addition to Jamie's above, that poor stormtrooper armor seemed to have a target on its crotch while it was empty. One of them got hit close enough for discomfort during the myth, itself. Both 'Busters got one in the lightsaber portion of the episode. At least all of the main cast have suffered from one of these, even Kari (during the "Rocket Man" story, while preparing the parachute mechanism for Buster, the explosive charge went off and the chute hit her in a tender spot; this was during her first pregnancy, though fortunately, the amount of explosives used was so minimal the impact only caused minor discomfort).
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MythBusters / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
MythBusters / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: A semi-example with CSI. Jamie and Adam make an appearance in one episode of CSI when Nick Stokes is determining whether or not a stun gun can ignite a guy covered in pepper spray. Then, on an episode of MythBusters, Jamie and Adam themselves do the exact same experiment to determine whether or not a stun gun can ignite a guy covered in pepper spray, inserting clips from the CSI episode. Of all the possible works of fiction to show in, they also made an appearance in The Salvation War. They busted the myth that rich men can't enter the kingdom of Heaven... yeah, it's a long story. Jamie and Adam were in the 2006 Darwin Awards, where they played two guys running an army-surplus store from which a Darwin Awards winner buys a rocket — leading to the JATO rocket myth. The second episode of Fall 2010 was a cross over with Discovery series Storm Chasers. They didn't so much test tornado myths as put the chaser's souped up armored tornado chase vehicles to the torture test (with a jet engine) and design/build/test a prototype portable single-person tornado shelter that would protect a person caught away from the car from 180 mph winds. The host of Ask a Ninja visited MythBusters during a ninja special. Grant has a speaking role in the Series Finale of Eureka. Alton Brown of Good Eats once did a MythBusters parody on his show as he ran an episode dedicated to picking apart cooking myths. He has now appeared on the show proper on the "Food Fables" episode by preparing a Thanksgiving dinner and cooking it using only a car's engine. And he fits in with them just as awesomely as fans of both shows would expect. Another same-channel crossover in the vein of the Storm Chasers meet up, the cast of Deadliest Catch appeared in an episode that featured myths such as whether crab pots can be blown up, if taking short naps during 30-hour shifts improves a person's ability to perform their duties, and if it's possible to get pulled overboard and to the bottom of the ocean by getting caught in the rope of a crab pot. All three were confirmed, though the crab pot did weather the first explosion surprisingly well. The framing sequence for the June 19, 2013 duct tape special was an obvious plug for Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon on June 23. Wallenda even had a couple cameos in the show. A crossover episode with Breaking Bad looked at two early scenes: using mercury fulminate as an improvised grenade triggered by being thrown, and hydrofluoric acid destroying a corpse ... and the bathtub, and the floor under the bathtub. Both were busted. The guys from Sons of Guns were convinced that they really could ignite a propane tank with a single shot, even though the Build Team had already busted it. They were so convinced that they invited Kari and Tory to watch them try. They failed. There was a pseudo-crossover with Moonshiners for an episode dealing with moonshine myths. Scheduling prevented any of the Moonshiners cast from flying to San Francisco, note and Discovery is still insisting every drop of alcohol distilled on that program is made illegally, so they couldn't really come out for a cameo anyway, but the episode included several clips from the show.
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MythBusters / int_eb97a54a	type	Cardboard Pal
MythBusters / int_eb97a54a	comment	Cardboard Pal: In one Blueprint Room piece-to-camera, Adam discusses the next step in the testing of the myth (which involved whether Christmas trees could auto-ignite from the heat of the lights) with a full-size cardboard cutout of Jamie (with Jamie dubbing his lines in). It's out of nowhere, unexplained, and a little off-putting, especially when the real Jamie reappears in the very last shot of the sequence.
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MythBusters / int_eba4e300	type	Honorary Uncle
MythBusters / int_eba4e300	comment	Honorary Uncle: Considering Adam's description of the team as "like family", it is fitting that Jamie has been occasionally referred to as "Uncle Jamie" — twice by Adam, of all people ("Ancient Death Ray", 2004 — during the "What is Bulletproof?" segment, and again during "Tablecloth Chaos" in 2010) and also by Robert Lee, the narrator ("Viral Hour", 2008, during the Sawdust cannon section.).
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MythBusters / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
MythBusters / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: Five entire episodes have been devoted to duct tape, in which duct tape has been used to build a cannon, build a boat, build a rope bridge, lift a car, hold a car's frame together, and cover the entirety of an airplane. The third, and probably most extreme, episode has Adam and Jamie surviving on an island, in the style of Survivor, Man vs. Wild, or Survivorman, with (almost) nothing but duct tape to help them. They manage to: build shoes and hats to protect their bodies; build spears and nets to fish and catch wild chickens, respectively; build water sacs to get fresh water from a spring; build shelter made of tarps and hammocks; make a fire bow to build a fire; make a chess set and surfboard to entertain themselves; and, finally, build a canoe and provision storage to escape the island.The fourth episode follows in the same vein, with the pair being stranded in the desert and trying to make do. It culminates with them each building a raft and going down some rapids- though they chose to portage the Inevitable Waterfall. The fifth duct tape special, shown exclusively on the Science Channel, sees them testing duct tape as a seat belt replacement, and finally building a full-sized trebuchet using only lumber and duct tape. A Discovery Channel commercial claims that they've used 15 miles of duct tape over the course of the show.
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MythBusters / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
MythBusters / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: During a presentation, Adam expressed great interest in testing more "mundane" myths, like comparing consumer products to see which ones perform better or whether they perform up to the standards their manufacturers claim. However, it will never happen because the executives are afraid of losing their sponsors or getting sued. The closest they get is when a myth item won't work, and they compare that to a consumer product (such as keys, cellphone, or shoe to break a window underwater; none worked, but the store-bought breakers worked every time.) In the break-in special, the Build Team attempts to bypass a motion sensor, but their first attempt (a "chicken suit" made from shag carpeting) fails. The next thing they try is their bottom of the barrel, "never gonna work" idea: holding up a bedsheet. It works.
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MythBusters / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: While the Build Team didn't debut until season 2, Kari actually made her first appearance in the first episode, containing a shot where she can briefly be seen working on a computer in the background. As fate would have it, filming happened on her first day as an intern for Jamie in the studio.
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MythBusters / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
MythBusters / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Jessi's farewell letter.
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MythBusters / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: During the "Cold Feet" episode.
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MythBusters / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
MythBusters / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Sometimes they don't try very hard to make the scripted myth-introduction scenes seem realistic, especially the build team. One notable aversion was when they wanted to test the Hypnosis Recall myth by plotting a tense altercation with some delivery boys. Adam and Jamie were in on the act and while the viewer could tell they were acting you could also see how Tory, Grant and Kari would fall for it. Especially invoked by Adam, who used to be a professional actor. Averted and lampshaded by the "latex masks" episode, when Adam and Jamie hired a professional acting coach to help them perfect how to imitate each other.
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MythBusters / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
MythBusters / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: About evenly divided between the two leads, though as a general rule Adam's tend to be more blatantly funny and Jamie's more intentionally groan-inducing. For instance, after successfully making a lead balloon, Jamie suggested that next time they should take a crack at a lead zeppelin. And he proposed calling an airborne dummy "Ariel" ("aerial"). These are also staples of Robert Lee's episode narrations. The Build Team are also very prone to this, especially Kari. Generally there'll be Chirping Crickets or a tumbleweed accompanying their puns.
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MythBusters / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
MythBusters / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: Just about everyone, but especially the narrator, Kari, and Jamie.
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MythBusters / int_f4f01ac	type	Deadly Rotary Fan
MythBusters / int_f4f01ac	comment	Deadly Rotary Fan: The ceiling fan decapitation myth.
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MythBusters / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
MythBusters / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Happening in the later seasons, thankfully during commercials and not in the show itself. It's still blatant because they aren't actors playing characters, they are themselves, so Tory trying to prove the superiority of his diesel VW just reeks of Money, Dear Boy. Averted in the show itself, depending on the myth involved, as no company wants their product to be the one shown to be a) defective, b) dangerous, c) both (a) and (b), or d) used in an embarrassing myth. Most notably soda, which is even stranger when you get to the Mentos/Diet Coke myth they still couldn't mention the brand on air, but everybody knows what it was anyway. Actually, the narrator uses "Diet Coke and Mentos" throughout that entire episode. It's only during the actual testing that they used the term "diet cola and mint candies", indicating that by the time they got around to recording the narration for the episode they'd managed to get the necessary clearances to use the brand names. Adam and Jamie used the real names in a later episode. They aren't shy about revealing the brand names of some of the equipment, or tools they use in busting some of their myths. Consistent examples include the ShockWatch shock indicator stickers and the OSECO burst discs. In the episode devoted to Big Rig myths, there's a loving shot of a Freightliner truck's logo and even have one of their employees talking about how many hours went into designing its streamlining. The test was filmed at the Freightliner test track, as was skipping a car across water. Two entire episodes were basically extended promos for the show Storm Chasers and the film The Green Hornet, respectively. Spoofed in one episode: After accidentally causing minor damage to a supplier's property, the camera focuses on store's name and the announcer apologetically offers the business some free advertising. The minor property damage? It was done to the very sign they focused on at the end (thankfully repaired by that point).
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MythBusters / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
MythBusters / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: The end of Buster the Crash Test Dummy was to be put on a rocket sled and fired at a brick wall at more than the speed of sound. They never found his remains, and the high speed camera's footage suggested he completely disintegrated upon impact.
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MythBusters / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
MythBusters / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Jessi Combs is a thin blonde, has some tattoos, is proficient in welding and vehicle mechanics, and even copied Scottie's shipping-container-into-ramp trick that she did for the 2nd attempt at the JATO Rocket Car myth.
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MythBusters / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
MythBusters / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: Except for when the editors are having fun, the work is usually shown, in either a series of jump cuts (most often used with Grant building a robot) or an extended time lapse for something that takes longer than people think it should, or just the size (like putting together the paper used for the 8 folds myth). In later seasons, they add flavor by having a (digitally added) member of the Build Team standing a distance away explaining some aspect of the build itself. In at least one case, Tory turns toward the montage and tells himself to hurry up. Himself doesn't take Tory's "encouragement" very well.
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MythBusters / int_f65ae0a8	comment	Science Foils: Both this series and shows based on it seem to follow this mold, except that the two guys are the main focus of the show. They tend to have largely overlapping but distinct areas of expertise, with personalities that make them a bit of an Odd Couple (and which may be exaggerated to give the show a semblance of drama).
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MythBusters / int_f65ccaf2	type	Testing Range Mishap
MythBusters / int_f65ccaf2	comment	Testing Range Mishap: Given the nature of the show, this is a common occurrence. One such incident with the Build Team resulted in a cannonball being launched beyond the bomb range and hitting a house miles away, which got the whole crew banned from the bomb range for a year.
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MythBusters / int_f663a7eb	type	Domestic Appliance Disaster
MythBusters / int_f663a7eb	comment	Domestic Appliance Disaster: Explored extensively, whenever they looked into a myth of an appliance gone berserk because of mishandling or another (such as how possible (and lethal) the Electrified Bathtub could be (result: more modern appliances would probably shut down the moment they hit the water and not create a shock, but older appliances were still pretty dangerous) and whether or not an overloaded washing machine that had its user standing on it when it went off could injure said user (the result: washing machines do not have the kind of horsepower necessary to perform said spinning, let alone cause injuries).
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MythBusters / int_f6b1ac42	type	Tim Taylor Technology
MythBusters / int_f6b1ac42	comment	Tim Taylor Technology: Let's see...how about the time Jamie built a "Microwave of Death" by combining the magnetrons from six different microwaves? Or the time they made a car fly using high pressure water...Jamie turned it up and up until he reached the limit of what the pumping substation could supply. Grant's superhuman sword-swinging machine, or his punching robot.
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MythBusters / int_f7a1c539	type	Three Plus Two
MythBusters / int_f7a1c539	comment	Three Plus Two: Inverted. It started with Adam and Jamie, and then added the Power Trio build team.
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MythBusters / int_f7cf9612	type	Neologism
MythBusters / int_f7cf9612	comment	Neologism: Adam sometimes makes up words when he finds there's no word to describe the ridiculous awesomeness of the moment.
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MythBusters / int_f8e927df	type	Licking the Blade
MythBusters / int_f8e927df	comment	Licking the Blade: In the Videogames special, Adam licks fruit juice off his katana after playing a real-life round of Fruit Ninja.
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MythBusters / int_f9814fe7	comment	Improvised Lockpick: In one episode, Jamie and Adam are trapped in a room and need to use the filament of a light bulb to pick the lock and escape. It takes a while, but it works within their time limit.
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MythBusters / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
MythBusters / int_f9f2c33	comment	Adam ribbing on Jamie by narrating sightings of "the wild Hyneman" is a Running Gag. Lampshaded by Jamie once: "Is he doing the David Attenborough thing again?"
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MythBusters / int_fa1d0606	comment	Interactive Narrator: Averted for the most part, but occasionally the presenters will invoke it during the taping of the episode. During the "Car Cling" myth, Adam takes a moment to nitpick a comment the viewer just heard the narrator make, then ends on a point where the narrator promptly picks up again. In one episode, Jamie introduces a guest expert, then asks the narrator to tell the audience their guest's qualifications. Robert Lee obliges.
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MythBusters / int_fa8245fb	type	Death Ray
MythBusters / int_fa8245fb	comment	For an example for a retested myth that remained busted, the myth of Archimedes' solar "Death Ray" was retested after massive backlash with the MythBusters actually telling the complainers to put their money where their mouth was and come on the show to prove it was possible. They couldn't. And at the end, a team composed of the MythBusters, MIT, and one viewer set up an array of bronze mirrors (only things available at that time period) and attempted to set fire to an accurately made Roman ship that was actually in the water. Even after hours of coordinated efforts nothing happened other than some smoke. In the end, they set fire to the ship by tossing a jar of burning fuel at it. This myth even got another re-test, with none other than Barack Obama himself requesting it. It's still busted, though Jamie did comment that all of the mirrors on shore were blinding him (he was on the boat in a fire-resistant suit). He cited that as the "kernel of truth" from whence the myth came.
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MythBusters / int_fb3c0a6	type	Firing in the Air a Lot
MythBusters / int_fb3c0a6	comment	Firing in the Air a Lot: The test of whether bullets fired in the air could be lethal. They couldn't replicate a lethal shot and "kill" Buster, but did find trajectories that wouldn't slow the bullet down too much to be deadly and find records of people who'd died from bullets fired into the air, so had to declare the myth simultaneously Busted, Plausible and Confirmed.
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MythBusters / int_fb4e0f18	type	Asian and Nerdy
MythBusters / int_fb4e0f18	comment	Asian and Nerdy: Grant plays this up for his own (and the audience's) amusement. The guy builds robots on any excuse and used pi as his "prisoner number" in the jailhouse rope episode. As if that wasn't bad enough, when they were testing a lie detector machine, it was revealed he had thought about building a female robot. In another episode, he was reduced to a stammering idiot when he met a high-tech bomb disposal robot. This vibe is intensified when you realize his college degree is in electrical engineering. When testing three different rigs to throw a soccer ball, the team concludes that their initial rig, a pressure cannon, is consistently the most stable; Grant reaches the same conclusion but he includes that he calculated the standard deviations of the data "just for fun". Predictably, Kari calls him out in his definition of "fun".
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MythBusters / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
MythBusters / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: To test a myth about jailbreaks, Jamie hires a horse as an example of one horsepower. Apparently he doesn't realize that James Watt defined the unit as a horse's continuous output capacity, whereas the horse's maximum momentary output — which is what's called for in this scenario — is an order of magnitude greater. The "Unarmed and Unharmed" myth about shooting a gun out of a person's hand. To test the myth for real, Adam and Jamie built a gun with two barrels as according to Isaac Newton's third law, the bullet fired would exert just as much energy on a person's hand as if said gun had been hit by a bullet. The only problem is that they completely ignored Newton's second law; while the energy generated would be the same, the amount of said energy that is actually transferred to the hand is affected by the medium it travels through. And since gas compresses and spreads energy much more evenly than a physical object, the energy received by the hand would be much lower by the fired bullet than if the gun had been hit by a bullet. It wasn't the first time they had run into this problem either. During the famous "Chicken Gun" myth, they first claimed the myth was busted as being the same mass and traveling the same speed, the frozen and thawed chickens would exert the exact same amount of energy when they hit the windshield. It was only later that the myth was overturned and they actually fired the chickens against a series glass panes and found out that the frozen chicken did in fact have much greater penetration. The reason, of course, being that the fresh chickens waste a lot of their energy compressing when they hit something, and the myth was specifically about if frozen or thawed chickens fired at the same velocities would exhibit different penetrative characteristics. In short, mass and velocity being roughly identical means the kinetic energy is roughly identical, but the hardness of the projectile greatly affects how that energy will be transferred to a target. While testing the lethality of rocks thrown by a lawnmower blade, they conclude that a golf ball-sized rock moving at 400 fps has more kinetic energy than a .357 magnum bullet moving at 1400 fps. Yeah, nope. What really happened with their test was the the bullet cleanly penetrated through their measuring pendulum, so that only a small fraction of the bullet's energy was able to push it back. Meanwhile, the rock, with its slower speed, greater mass and lower density, stopped at the pendulum and therefore hit with all of its kinetic energy. A pendulum capable of absorbing the .357's full impact would have been knocked much farther back.
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MythBusters / int_fcf6bca9	type	Robosexual
MythBusters / int_fcf6bca9	comment	Robosexual: Grant, as much as they can milk it in a PG-rated show.
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MythBusters / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
MythBusters / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Jamie's little marching helmet robots from "Breakstep Bridge". Robot "Baby Buster" used in the multitasking myth on Battle of the Sexes, Round 2.
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MythBusters / int_fd5603b	type	MacGyvering
MythBusters / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: Many, if not most of the contraptions devised; not to mention the episode dedicated to MacGyver, who is frequently called "The Patron Saint of MythBusters." Appropriately enough, the MacGyver episode saw Adam and Jamie improvise an unexpected solution: Grant and Tory put the two at an "enemy camp" and challenged them to signal a helicopter. The idea was for the two to cobble together a potato gun from the parts lying around, but instead they tore down the tent and made a kite. During the Pirate Special to test whether Tory could hold onto a knife as it ripped through a sail on the way down to the deck, they built a rig with a 200 pound counterweight that would make the sail shoot straight upward while Tory held the knife in the sail. For his safety, he wore a chain mail shirt, goggles, and a football helmet. The show's final MacGyver myth of smothering explosives in concrete to safely detonate them produced problems which, appropriately, they had to fashion an improvised solution for within a limited time frame. The explosive charges floated up with the concrete instead of being smothered, and they couldn't easily get into the drum to reset them before the cement dried, forcing Adam cut a hole in the back wall of the driverâ€™s cab and climb in to re-secure it. Then they discovered that the truck was leaking which they had to also improvise a solution for. Finally they detonate the explosive and it appears to have worked... only to discover only some of the explosive went off incorrectly due to the weight of the cement dislodging the primer cord, which caused a very dangerous reset.
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MythBusters / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
MythBusters / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: In one episode they were working a pulley system to ensure two semi-trucks would collide at a specific point. Jamie wanted to double the amount of breakaway rope while Adam felt that the two ropes they were using would be good enough. (They eventually compromised, going with three ropes.) When the system fell apart because of the ropes breaking off too early, Jamie was a good enough sport not to boast about it. He explained to the camera (in a very fault-neutral manner) what happened and how they were going to fix it, the subtitles filled in what he was "really" saying. In another episode, Adam starts a bizarre "explanation" of a build in a fake French accent. The subtitler struggles with it for a while before finally giving up in confusion. In the "Bullet vs. RPG" episode, Grant asks if he can be the one to fire the RPG. John replies "We'll see". The subtitle below says "NO!"
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MythBusters / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
MythBusters / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Can you mail a coconut without putting it in any packaging? Yes, you can. Early in the Waterslide Wipeout episode during small-scale testing, Adam declares that he doesn't believe that using the handheld weed-sprayer to lubricate the entire length of the full-scale slide will be necessary, and says he'll pay Jamie $100 if that's the case. It was. After the myth is declared busted, Jamie chimes in about the $100 Adam owes him. Adam begrudgingly pays him in the credits. An easily-missed one: the fuel-injected car used for the "Great Gas Conspiracy" myth testing came with a vanity license plate: "ENVY DIS". The plate is seen again in the Beat The Speed Camera myths, when Jamie does the old spy-car license plate switcheroo with the "NO DOUDT" plate they'd been using all episode. Jamie is seen doing something with the back license plate early on in the episode to set this up.
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MythBusters	hasFeature	Beauty Is Never Tarnished / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bedsheet Ladder / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Beer Goggles / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Berserk Board Barricade / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Better than Sex / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Big Badass Rig / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Big, Bulky Bomb / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill... / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Black-Tie Infiltration / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blade Brake / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blade on a Rope / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blasting It Out of Their Hands / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blind Driving / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blind Shoulder Toss / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blindfolded Trip / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bloodlust / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blow Gun / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Blown Across the Room / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bomb Disposal / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bombproof Appliance / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bond Gun Barrel / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Boogie Knights / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bookshelf Dominoes / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Booze Flamethrower / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Borrowed Biometric Bypass / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brain Food / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brain in a Jar / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brand Names Are Better / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brand X / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brass Balls / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Breathe on the Fan / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brick Break / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Brief Accent Imitation / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Broke the Rating Scale / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bucket Helmet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Building Swing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Built with LEGO / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bull Seeing Red / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bullet Catch / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bullet Sparks / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bullet Time / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bullethole Door / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Buried Alive / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Burning Rubber / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Buzzing the Deck / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cabin Fever / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Caltrops / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Camera Spoofing / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Can't See a Damn Thing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Can't Tie His Tie / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Captain Colorbeard / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Captain Obvious Aesop / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Car Fu / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Car Skiing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Carried by the Host / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Carry the One / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cartoon Bomb / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cassandra Bystander / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Catapult to Glory / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Celebrity Survivor / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cell Phones Are Useless / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Censor Box / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Censored for Comedy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Chainsaw Good / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Chalk Outline / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Changing Clothes Is a Free Action / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Character Filibuster / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cheaters Never Prosper / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Checkpoint Charlie / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Chew Bubblegum / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Chirping Crickets / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Chroma Key / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cigar-Fuse Lighting / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Circling Birdies / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Clark Kenting / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Close-Call Haircut / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Clothes-Eating Wager / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Clothing Damage / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Clumsy Copyright Censorship / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cluster Bleep-Bomb / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Code Emergency / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Coin-Targeting Trickshot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Collector of the Strange / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Combat Stilettos / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Comedic Sociopathy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Competence Porn / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Concealment Equals Cover / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Confusing Multiple Negatives / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Constructive Body Disposal / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Contest Winner Cameo / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Contractual Obligation Project / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Contrast Montage / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cool Boat / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cool, but Inefficient / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cool, but Stupid / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cool Car / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cool, Clear Water / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cool Shades / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Couldn't Find a Lighter / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cow Tools / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cower Power / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Crash Course Landing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Crazy Enough to Work / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Creepy Cockroach / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Creepy-Crawly Torture / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Cymbal-Banging Monkey / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dead Man Walking / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dead Unicorn Trope / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deadly Rotary Fan / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Death by Gluttony / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Death Dealer / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Death Ray / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deceptively Simple Demonstration / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deceptively Simple Demonstration / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deconstructor Fleet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deep-Fried Whatever / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deliberately Monochrome / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Delicious Distraction / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Deserted Island / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Despite the Plan / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Directionless Driver / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dirt Forcefield / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Disappears into Light / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Disposing of a Body / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Disposing of a Body / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dissimile / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dive Under the Explosion / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Do I Really Sound Like That? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Doesn't Like Guns / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dogs Are Dumb / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Domestic Appliance Disaster / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Don't Ask, Just Run / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Don't Eat and Swim / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Don't Try This at Home / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Doom Doors / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Doom It Yourself / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Doomy Dooms of Doom / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Drinking on Duty / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Driving a Desk / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Driving into a Truck / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Droste Image / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Duct Tape for Everything / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dude, Not Funny! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dunking the Bomb / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Durable Deathtrap / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Dye Hard / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ear Trumpet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Eat That / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Edible Ammunition / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Edited for Syndication / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Education Through Pyrotechnics / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Eek, a Mouse!! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ejection Seat / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Electrified Bathtub / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Elephants Are Scared of Mice / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Elephants Are Scared of Mice / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Elevator Failure / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Elevator Floor Announcement / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Emergency Food Supply Animal / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Enforced Plug / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Enforced Technology Levels / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Epic Hail / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Epiphany Therapy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Episode Code Number / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Euphemism Buster / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Every Car Is a Pinto / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Everything Explodes Ending / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Everything Makes a Mushroom / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Executive Ball Clicker / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Expansion Pack Past / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Expensive Glass of Crap / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Experiment Show / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Experimental Archeology / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Exploding Barrels / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Explosive Decompression / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Expo Label / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Exposition Diagram / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Expospeak Gag / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Extended Disarming / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Extra-Long Episode / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Eye Catch / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Eyebrows Burned Off / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Eyepatch of Power / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Failsafe Failure / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Failure Montage / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fake Boobs / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fake Muscles / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Farts on Fire / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fashion-Shop Fashion Show / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Feathered Fiend / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fell Asleep Driving / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Film the Hand / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Final Season Casting / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Finale Season / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Finger in a Barrel / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Finger Wag / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Firing in the Air a Lot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Firing One-Handed / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	555 / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Five-Man Band / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Five-Second Rule / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Flashback... Back... Back... / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Flashback Effects / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Flat Joy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fluffy the Terrible / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fold-Spindle Mutilation / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Follow the Chaos / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Food Coma / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	For Science! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	For Science! / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Foreign-Language Tirade / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Forgets to Eat / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fruit Cart / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fun Personified / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fun T-Shirt / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fun with Flushing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Fun with Subtitles / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	G-Rated Drug / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gadgeteer Genius / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gag Censor / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gale-Force Sound / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gangsta Style / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gas Chamber / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gassy Gastronomy / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gatling Good / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gendered Insult / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Generic Cop Badges / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Getting Eaten Is Harmless / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Girlish Pigtails / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Girls vs. Boys Plot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Glass Cannon / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Glass-Shattering Sound / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Go Mad from the Isolation / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Going in Circles / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Golf Clubbing / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gonna Need More X / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Good with Numbers / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Got Volunteered / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Graceful in Their Element / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Grade Skipper / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Grandfather Paradox / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gravity Screw / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Great Big Book of Everything / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Great Escape / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Grenade Hot Potato / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gretzky Has the Ball / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Grievous Bottley Harm / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Grub Tub / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Gunman with Three Names / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Guns Firing Underwater / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Guns vs. Swords / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	HA HA HAâ€”No / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hair-Trigger Explosive / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hands-On Approach / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Handshake Substitute / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hanging by the Fingers / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hangover Sensitivity / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Happy Dance / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Happy Fun Ball / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hard-to-Light Fire / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hat Damage / int_c4778e4b
Hat Shop	seeAlso	MythBusters
MythBusters	hasFeature	Having a Heart / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hazmat Suit / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Helicopter Pack / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Helium Speech / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	"Here's Johnny!" Homage / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hero Stole My Bike / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	He's Okay / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hidden Purpose Test / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hide Your Pregnancy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hideous Hangover Cure / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	High-Dive Hijinks / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	High-Up Ice-Up / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hilarious in Flashback / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hit Stop / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hollywood Acid / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hollywood Magnetism / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hollywood Restraining Order / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hollywood Silencer / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Homemade Flamethrower / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Homemade Inventions / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Horse Archer / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hot Men at Work / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hot Paint Job / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hover Board / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Humble Goal / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hurricane of Puns / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hyperspace Arsenal / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Hyperventilation Bag / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Always Wanted to Say That / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Always Wanted to Say That / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Call It "Vera" / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Can See My House from Here / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Know Mortal Kombat / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Love the Smell of X in the Morning / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Minored in Tropology / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Reject Your Reality / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	iSophagus / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Take Offense to That Last One / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Was Quite a Looker / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I Was Young and Needed the Money / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Iconic Item / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Iconic Outfit / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Wipes / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	If I Had a Nickel... / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	I'm Okay! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Impossible Genius / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Impossibly-Compact Folding / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Imposter Forgot One Detail / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Impressive Pyrotechnics / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improvised Catapult / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improvised Clothes / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improvised Lockpick / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improvised Parachute / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improvised Scattershot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Improvised Zipline / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Inconsistent Dub / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Incorrect Animal Noise / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Inexplicably Awesome / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Infection Scene / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Infrared X-Ray Camera / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Instant Knots / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Instant Waking Skills / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Institutional Apparel / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Intercontinuity Crossover / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	International Coproduction / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Iron Butt-Monkey / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Is That What They're Calling It Now? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Island Help Message / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Jar Potty / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Jump Cut / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Jumping on a Grenade / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Katanas Are Just Better / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Kevlard / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Kiai / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Kicking Ass in All Her Finery / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Kids Driving Cars / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Kill It with Ice / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Killer Outfit / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Killer Outfit / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Kitchen Sink Included / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Lampshade Wearing / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Laser Hallway / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Laser Sight / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Last-Second Showoff / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Latex Perfection / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Laxative Prank / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Leap and Fire / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Left It In / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Lemony Narrator / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Lethal Harmless Powers / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Let's See YOU Do Better! / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Lightning Gun / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Literal Cliffhanger / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Literally Shattered Lives / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Little Known Facts / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Long List / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Long-Runner Cast Turnover / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ludicrous Speed / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	MacGyvering / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Macross Missile Massacre / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Mad Bomber / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Made of Explodium / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Magical Defibrillator / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Major Injury Underreaction / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Man in a Bikini / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Manipulative Editing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Marathon Running / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Mascot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Masochist's Meal / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	McNinja / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Meat Versus Veggies / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Mega Maelstrom / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Microwave the Dog / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Million to One Chance / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Mind-Control Device / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Minor Injury Overreaction / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Miserable Massage / int_c4778e4b
Modern Battlefield Weapons	seeAlso	MythBusters
MythBusters	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Money Mauling / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Monty Hall Problem / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	More Dakka / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	My Horse Is a Motorbike / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	My Little Panzer / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	My Nayme Is / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Myopic Architecture / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Nausea Dissonance / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Neat Freak / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Necro Non Sequitur / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Nerd Glasses / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Nerdgasm / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Net Gun / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Never Bareheaded / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Never Gets Drunk / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Never Work with Children or Animals / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ninja / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	No Animals Were Harmed / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	No Swastikas / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Noisy Duck / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Not in Kansas Anymore / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Not the Intended Use / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	"Not Wearing Pants" Dream / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Noun Verber / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Now That's Using Your Teeth! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Nude-Colored Clothes / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Odd Couple / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Official Fan-Submitted Content / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Oh No You Didn't / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Oil Slick / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Old Dog / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	One Drink Will Kill the Baby / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	One I Prepared Earlier / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	One-Liner Echo / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Orbital Shot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Out of Control Popcorn / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Outrun the Fireball / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Outside Ride / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Oven Logic / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Overclocking Attack / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Painful Body Waxing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Painted-On Pants / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pants-Positive Safety / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Paper Master / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Parallel Parking / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Parasol Parachute / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Parody of Evolution / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Parrying Bullets / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Patron Saint / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pepper Sneeze / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Perfect Disguise, Terrible Acting / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Perfectly Cromulent Word / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Perpetual Motion Machine / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Persona Non Grata / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Phone Booth Changing Room / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Piano Drop / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pillow Pregnancy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pin-Pulling Teeth / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pinball Projectile / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pixellation / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Placebo Effect / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Playful Otter / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Plunger Detonator / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pocket Protector / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pop Culture Urban Legends / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	"Pop!" Goes the Human / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pop the Tires / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pop-Up Trivia / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Potty Dance / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Powder Trail / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Precious Puppy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pregnant Badass / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Prematurely Bald / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pretend We're Dead / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Product Displacement / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Professor Guinea Pig / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Projectile Toast / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Promoted Fanboy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Promotion to Opening Titles / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Psycho Electric Eel / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Public Domain Artifact / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Public Service Announcement / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pungeon Master / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pushed at the Monster / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pyramid Power / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Pyromaniac / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Quip to Black / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Raiders of the Lost Parody / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rain of Arrows / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rainbow Pimp Gear / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Raised Hand of Survival / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rape, Pillage, and Burn / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rapid-Fire "No!" / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Readings Are Off the Scale / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Real-Person Fic / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Recognition Failure / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Recursive Ammo / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Reed Snorkel / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Renaissance Fair / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Renaissance Man / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Repeat Cut / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Revival / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ridiculously Potent Explosive / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Right Out of My Clothes / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ring of Fire / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rise from Your Grave / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Robinsonade / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Robosexual / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Robot Girl / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Robot Master / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rock Beats Laser / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rocket Jump / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rollerblade Good / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rope Bridge / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rube Goldberg Device / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rubik's Cube: International Genius Symbol / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rule of Funny / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Rule 34 â€“ Creator Reactions / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Safe Driving Aesop / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Safecracking / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Same Language Dub / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Scare the Dog / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Science Foils / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Science Hero / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Scope Snipe / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Screaming at Squick / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Screwy Squirrel / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Scunthorpe Problem / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Seesaw Catapult / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Selective Magnetism / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Seven Dirty Words / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Severely Specialized Store / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sexiness Score / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sexy Coat Flashing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Share the Male Pain / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shatterpoint Tap / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sheet of Glass / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shoe Phone / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shoot Out the Lock / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shoot the Bullet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shoot the Fuel Tank / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shoot the Rope / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Short Run in Peru / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shotguns Are Just Better / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Shouting Shooter / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sick and Wrong / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Side Bet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Siege Engines / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sigil Spam / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Silver Bullet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Similar to the Show / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sinking Ship Scenario / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sistine Steal / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Slap Yourself Awake / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Small Girl, Big Gun / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Smart People Build Robots / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Smelly Skunk / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Smoldering Shoes / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sniff Sniff Nom / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Soda-Candy 'Splosion / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Soft Glass / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Soft Water / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sorry Ociffer / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Space Is Slow Motion / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Space Whale Aesop / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Spectacular Spinning / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Spent Shells Shower / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Spiked Wheels / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Splitting the Arrow / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Spoiled by the Format / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Spoof Aesop / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Spy-Tux Reveal / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Square-Cube Law / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stealth Expert / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stock Animal Diet / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stock British Phrases / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stock Scream / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stock Scream / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stout Strength / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Straight Man and Wise Guy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Straying Baby / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stun Guns / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Subliminal Seduction / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Suddenly Sober / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Sundial Waypoint / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Swivel-Chair Antics / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Symbol Swearing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	TV Never Lies / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Take Our Word for It / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Take the Wheel / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Talking to Plants / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Talks Like a Simile / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tally Marks on the Prison Wall / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tank-Top Tomboy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tastes Like Chicken / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Taught by Experience / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Taught by Television / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Taught by Television / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Team Title / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Teleporter Accident / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Temporary Substitute / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Terrified of Germs / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Testing Range Mishap / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Testosterone Poisoning / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Thanking the Viewer / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	That Satisfying "Crunch!" / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Alcatraz / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The All-Solving Hammer / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Blind Leading the Blind / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Coconut Effect / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Gunslinger / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Klutz / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Last Straw / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The MÃ¼nchausen / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Nose Knows / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Pen Is Mightier / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Pete Best / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Thememobile / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	There Will Be Toilet Paper / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Thermometer Gag / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	They Have the Scent! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Think of the Censors! / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	This Page Will Self-Destruct / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Threatening Shark / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Three Plus Two / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	360-Degree Swing Set Swing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tim Taylor Technology / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Time for Plan B / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Time Lapse / int_27b0262b
TimeWarp	seeAlso	MythBusters
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tomato Skunk Stink Cure / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tongue on the Flagpole / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tongue Twister / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Too Fast to Stop / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Too Many Halves / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Torment by Annoyance / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tough Room / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Trash Landing / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Travel Montage / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Treadmill Trauma / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tree Buchet / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Turbine Blender / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ãœbermensch / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Unaffected by Spice / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Unconventional Learning Experience / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Unflinching Walk / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Unintentional Uncanny Valley / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Unit Confusion / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Unreliable Expositor / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	V-Formation Team Shot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Vanity License Plate / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Vapor Trail / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Variable Terminal Velocity / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Vast Bureaucracy / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Viewers Are Goldfish / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Viking Funeral / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Visible Boom Mic / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wacky Cravings / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Waddling Head / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Walk, Don't Swim / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Walk on Water / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Walking Armory / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wall Crawl / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Washy Watchy / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Water-Geyser Volley / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Water Guns and Balloons / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Water Torture / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in the Future / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Weaponized Headgear / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Weapons Breaking Weapons / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Weight and Switch / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Weirdness Coupon / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Welcome to My World / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	What a Drag / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	What Could Possibly Go Wrong? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	What Is This, X? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦ / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Where Do You Think You Are? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Where No Parody Has Gone Before / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Where's the Kaboom? / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wholesome Crossdresser / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Why We Can't Have Nice Things / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wildlife Commentary Spoof / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	With Catlike Tread / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wolverine Claws / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wrap It Up / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Wrench Wench / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Writing Around Trademarks / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	X-Ray Sparks / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	You Just Had to Say It / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	You Just Ruined the Shot / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Your Answer to Everything / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Your Costume Needs Work / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Zombie Apocalypse / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Zombie Gait / int_27b0262b
Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast)	seeAlso	MythBusters
MythBusters	sameAs	MythBusters
NeverEverDoThisAtHome	seeAlso	MythBusters
Oddities	seeAlso	MythBusters
PennAndTellerTellALie	seeAlso	MythBusters
MythBusters	hasFeature	Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Late to the Punchline / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Paintball Episode / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Parasol of Prettiness / int_27b0262b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Stoic Spectacles / int_c4778e4b
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tuxedo and Martini / int_c4778e4b
mythbusters	sameAs	MythBusters

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