1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,440 In this episode of MythBusters, get ready to rot. 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,640 That pig's gonna be one big bag of maggots. 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,560 Heard about the car with a big smell that won't sell? 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,200 The smell from over here is horrifying. 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,840 There's a terrible stink as an experiment goes too far. 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,840 Plus, dummy and dumber. 7 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,840 A MythBusters superstar chases a raccoon down the drain to test the myth. 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,840 And blows a hole in the story. 9 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:40,840 Who are the MythBusters? 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,840 Am I missing an eyebrow? 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,840 Adam Savage. 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,840 I always enjoyed seeing Adam in pain. 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:50,840 And Jamie Heineman. 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,840 Jamie wants a big boom. 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,840 Between them more than 30 years special effects experience. 16 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,840 You're kind of sexy. 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,840 They don't just tell the myths. 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,840 They put them to the test. 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:18,840 For our MythBusting heroes, testing tall tales is a mix of danger and stupidity. 20 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,840 Shocks and shake ups. 21 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,840 And a liberal dose of their old favorite. 22 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,840 Explosions. 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,840 Well, I tell you what. 24 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,840 Usually it's a laugh and a test of wits with the occasional tantrum. 25 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,840 I don't care actually, Adam. 26 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,840 But are they about to meet their MythBusting match? 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,840 All hands on deck. 28 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,840 This experiment will take them into a world of putrid, putrid pain. 29 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,840 Christ, now I just got a really bad whiff of it. 30 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,840 Adam and Jamie want to test the myth of the stinky car. 31 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,840 This actually is perfect for us, this one. 32 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,840 It's kind of gross, but it's excellent. 33 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,840 It's been told for years. 34 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,840 The idea is always the same. 35 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,840 That a really valuable car is on the market for a great price. 36 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,840 No one will buy it because of the smell. 37 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,840 It's out that someone has died in the car, 38 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,840 and even though they've attempted to clean out the smell, 39 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,840 it still persists, and even at this great price, no one will buy it. 40 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,840 Our Queen of Folklore, Heather Joseph Witham, picks up the scent of this story. 41 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:35,840 You've got a young guy who wants a really hot car, usually a sports car, 42 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,840 and young guys can't afford sports cars, and they can't afford a Ford NICE car, certainly. 43 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,840 This is the only way that this sort of blue-collar working class young guy 44 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:46,840 is going to be able to get such an awesome car. 45 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,840 But sort of the moral of the story is that the blue-collar guy 46 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,840 never can get something that he won't be able to afford like this 47 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,840 unless it literally stinks. 48 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,840 So what are the ingredients in this recipe for regness? 49 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,840 We need a car and to simulate a rotting human, 50 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,840 a pair of pigs that have died of natural causes. 51 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,840 The method to the madness is simple. 52 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,840 On paper anyway. 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,840 Put pigs in car, leave to simmer for two months, 54 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:18,840 then see if you can clean up the mess and sell the car. 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,840 I expect that this is going to be pretty bad, actually. 56 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,840 I'm not looking forward to it, and yet I am. 57 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:32,840 Let's work on the least disgusting part first, buying a second-hand sports car. 58 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:35,840 Are you guys on schedule or what? 59 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:36,840 Are you telling? 60 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,840 Yeah, I recognize you two. 61 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,840 Tom has an 87 Corvette for sale that looks about right. 62 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,840 This is my baby. 63 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,840 Looks pretty good. 64 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,840 This is Tom's fifth Corvette. 65 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,840 It's a love affair that's been running since the 60s. 66 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Has anyone died in this Corvette? 67 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,840 Not to my knowledge. 68 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:56,840 Not to your knowledge? 69 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:01,840 Have you heard about the myth of a car that was so stinky that no one would buy it? 70 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,840 Even though it was a really good deal? 71 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:04,840 No. 72 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,840 Okay, time for a test drive. 73 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,840 I always look at cars that have four or five controls just for your ass. 74 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,840 I'll be back in five minutes. 75 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:19,840 That Corvette is a nice looking car. 76 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:22,840 It's really sleek, really sexy, Americana. 77 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:26,840 Okay, there's power there. 78 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:28,840 More than I'm used to. 79 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,840 The Corvette was the first all-American sports car. 80 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,840 Chevrolet began production in 1953, 81 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,840 and these stylish muscle cars quickly became classics. 82 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:43,840 They've been building Corvettes ever since, a million on the road today. 83 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:51,840 And at the wheel of every one of those cars is a very passionate Corvette fan. 84 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:57,840 What we're about to do to that Corvette is going to make a lot of veteran Corvette owners 85 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,840 all over America squirm. 86 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:05,840 You know, I mean, this is an absolutely horrible thing to do to a beautiful car. 87 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:09,840 Okay, that was fun. 88 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:12,840 You'll enjoy driving this back in San Francisco. 89 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:15,840 I think we should get it. 90 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:17,840 Yeah, I like it, and I think it's hot. 91 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:22,840 It's a done deal, but for Tom, there's a little twist in this transaction. 92 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:23,840 Oh, really? 93 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:24,840 You want to tell them? 94 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:34,840 We have, waiting eagerly for this car, a recently dead pig that we're going to put in there 95 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:41,840 and let it sit for about maybe a month or two, and I wondered what you feel about that. 96 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:47,840 Well, not real happy to tell you the truth, I mean, because it's a really nice car. 97 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:52,840 What do you think all the other Corvette owners across America are going to be thinking about this 98 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:54,840 when they see it on air? 99 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,840 When you put a dead pig in here, they're going to think you're nuts. 100 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:01,840 They may be right. 101 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:05,840 Yeah, baby. 102 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:11,840 Time to take this machine back to the Mythbusters workshop and get it ready to rot. 103 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:13,840 Adios. 104 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:33,840 That's the last time this thing's going to be driving for a while. 105 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:38,840 Well, we've got wheels. 106 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,840 Now we need squeals. 107 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:46,840 To find a pair of pigs, Jamie and Adam have to go on safari. 108 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:56,840 Welcome to Bischoff's, taxidermists to the stars, supplying stuff, stuff for films and TV. 109 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:59,840 Gary here has an animal for every occasion. 110 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:04,840 We have our jaguars and our leopards here and our whole bird area. 111 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Some of our favorite stuff is our stand ins, like this little guy over here, one of our stars you might recognize from one of the movies. 112 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,840 This is our little pug. 113 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,840 This was men in black too. 114 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,840 He's been taxidermied and preserved for the movie industry. 115 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,840 So these things, by and large, are dying of natural causes, then? 116 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:27,840 Yes, yeah. 117 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:29,840 These animals are all natural causes. 118 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,840 We don't go out and get animals and kill them for the movies at all. 119 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,840 He's got little pockets in his claws. 120 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,840 This is a scary freezer. 121 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:45,840 You keep a separate freezer for food, popsicles. 122 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,840 Yeah, does anyone have a lot of ice cream? 123 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,840 No sign of the other white meat in there. 124 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,840 Maybe it's time to pop the question. 125 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,840 We need to get a hold of some pigs for this project that we're doing. 126 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,840 Pigs that have died from natural causes. 127 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:07,840 We'll put in a call and say we need two, three pigs, whatever it is, and they'll search and they'll call us when they come up with it. 128 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,840 We have scary for the whole pig. 129 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:15,840 That means the guts, the animal, everything that a pig naturally dies with. 130 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,840 Because as it turns out, it's not all that easy to get a hold of that through a butcher or other things. 131 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:27,840 We want to replicate what a human would be like if that person died in a car. 132 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,840 It's a whole new fashion statement. 133 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,840 A week and a half later, the pigs are here. 134 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,840 I've got a dead pig in the truck. 135 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,840 They have just died of natural causes on a farm. 136 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,840 The funky phase of this experiment is about to begin. 137 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,840 No, I'm going to tape these up, man. 138 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,840 I don't want this touching me anywhere. 139 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,840 I'm ready to put on a second painter's suit. 140 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,840 What else are going to test how good these actually are? 141 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,840 There we go. 142 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,840 I feel ready to tackle the pig. 143 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,840 As the boys struggle to get a grip on their stunt hogs, 144 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,840 a nose-withering stench begins to take hold of them, 145 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,840 the air, and everything these putrid porcars come near. 146 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:25,840 Hey. 147 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,840 I think it's so many yards to sell this car. 148 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,840 Alright, let's close it up. 149 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,840 Well, we'll come back in three months and see how it looks. 150 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:36,840 Not so fast, Adam. 151 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,840 There's still a few little ham-fisted hiccups coming your way. 152 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,840 How come the lights are on? 153 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:43,840 Brother? 154 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,840 Are they pressing on a brake or something? 155 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,840 Yeah, that's exactly what it is. 156 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,840 The pig is pressing on a brake. 157 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,840 In fact, I'll say that there's nothing we can do about it. 158 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,840 Rather than face the horror of more pig wrestling, 159 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,840 Adam decides to disconnect the battery instead of moving the pig off the brake. 160 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,840 It's a shortcut that will come back to haunt him. 161 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,840 Next step, seal the vehicle. 162 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,840 That pig's going to be one big bag of maggots, 163 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,840 and at some point I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't kind of like start to inflate 164 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,840 and then explode spewing stuff everywhere in the car. 165 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,840 I still don't have a problem with the park. 166 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,840 I can go right out tonight and have, you know, some glazed ham. 167 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,840 Damn, it still stinks. 168 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,840 That guy missed the party. 169 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,840 He's all like, yo, let me in, dudes. 170 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,840 Yo, I know you got some good snacks in there. 171 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,840 You know, I'm like, yo, dudes, we got all our kids in here. 172 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,840 We can't let you in. 173 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,840 The Corvette is finally locked and loaded, 174 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,840 but there's still a hint of trouble in the air. 175 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,840 Yeah, now, Christ, now I just got a really bad whiff of it. 176 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,840 My main concern is that the car seal them up. 177 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:16,840 I really would just as soon not have that horrific odor in front of my shop for the next six months. 178 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,840 I don't want the smell getting out of the car. 179 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:25,840 And right now, Jamie is convinced that smell has broken out and is making a dash for freedom. 180 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,840 He reopens the car and tries to seal it even further. 181 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,840 What's going on, Ombre? 182 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,840 How's it going? You want to take a ride? 183 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,840 Thanks, but no. 184 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,840 Well, it seems that the car's not as well sealed up as we thought. 185 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,840 Someone's sloppy work is a little stinky, too. 186 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,840 You didn't really do that good of a job at taping it up. 187 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:48,840 No, I didn't. 188 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,840 The smell, well, it's not really, really powerful. 189 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,840 It's just extremely pervasive. 190 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,840 So the tiniest bit of it drives everybody nuts. 191 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,840 The car also has to be moved, 192 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:05,840 and that turns one of their earlier quick fixes into a big problem. 193 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,840 The hardest part about this whole deal is we've got to get the little pig off the brake. 194 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,840 We've got to get the little pig off the brake? 195 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:12,840 Yeah. 196 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,840 Oh, damn. 197 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,840 It's going to be kind of like surgery getting that damn thing out of there, 198 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,840 and it's not pretty. 199 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,840 Jamie and Adam thought parking two pigs in a car would be easy, 200 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:37,840 but it's turned into a marathon with more to come. 201 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,840 Hey, all right, that's good. 202 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,840 Okay, Paulino is going to be lifting that up. 203 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,840 You're going to be licking that up? 204 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,840 Yeah, that's it. 205 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,840 Did he say he's going to be licking that up? 206 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:01,840 Even taping this Corvette into a modern-day sarcophagus isn't going to be enough for Jamie. 207 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,840 Next, he calls in a pyramid for its burial, 208 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,840 a hopefully smell-proof shipping container. 209 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,840 PDU! 210 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,840 They're just turning it hard. 211 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,840 Close your back a little further. 212 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,840 That was incredible, you people. 213 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,840 Fabulous. 214 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:39,840 I didn't think you were spokesable. 215 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,840 Ominously crawling around the floor of the container, 216 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,840 our first maggots, a taste of the trauma to come. 217 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:52,840 For now, the car is sealed and set to stew for two months. 218 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,840 Will it set a new benchmark for stench? 219 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:01,840 Find out later in the show when the real horror of the stinky car begins. 220 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,840 Woo! 221 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:10,840 This is horrifying. 222 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:33,840 This is a real monster area. 223 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,840 Take your seat as we ride the Raccoon Rocket. 224 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,840 In 1998, in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, 225 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:48,840 apparently some good old boys from the San's Oat were hanging out on their porch drinking beer, 226 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:53,840 and they saw a raccoon go by, so they all opened fire on it. 227 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,840 So they noticed that the raccoon's taken refuge in a drainage pipe. 228 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,840 One of the smart fellows goes over to the drainage pipe 229 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,840 and he pours gasoline down there and he tries to light it. 230 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,840 Unsuccessful at doing this, one of them decided to go down into the pipe 231 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,840 to better light the gasoline and get the raccoon out, 232 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,840 at which point the gasoline actually did ignite, 233 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:18,840 and it shot this guy out the tube at a high rate of speed. 234 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,840 He goes shooting straight out of this pipe, 235 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,840 and he flies about 200 feet right over the house and falls, 236 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,840 and manages to get up relatively unharmed. 237 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,840 Well, it sounds like we have all the information we need to proceed. 238 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,840 What is the plan? Have you got a plan? 239 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,840 Well, we need a big-ass pipe, I guess a sewer pipe. 240 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,840 It's got to be 20 feet long, 3 feet in diameter. 241 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,840 We've got to have 5 gallons of gasoline. 242 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,840 We have to have some means of igniting it safely from a distance. 243 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,840 I have one more question about this. 244 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:47,840 What's that? 245 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Which one of us is going to get launched from this pipe? 246 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,840 Well, you, of course. 247 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,840 You know, much as I'd like to do it, 248 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,840 it sounds to me like it's a job for Buster. 249 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,840 Buster is the silent partner of the Mythbusters team, 250 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,840 a long-suffering crash test dummy. 251 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,840 I am making a new knee for the crash test dummy. 252 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,840 We have busted him up so fully that both of his knees are completely shattered. 253 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,840 Weighing in at 180 pounds and standing 5-foot-10 inches tall, 254 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:30,840 Buster represents roughly 95% of the United States adult male population. 255 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:36,840 His role is to behave just like a human would in extreme situations. 256 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,840 Something he excelled at for many years when he crashed cars for a living. 257 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,840 Since joining the Mythbusters, he's been through hell and high water, 258 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,840 all without a word of complaint. 259 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:55,840 Well, what's next in line for Buster is to put him in a 3-foot pipe with a bunch of gasoline 260 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,840 and maybe even gunpowder and see if we can launch him like a cannonball. 261 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,840 Before Buster becomes a cannonball, Jamie and Adam need to find the cannon. 262 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,840 That means a trip across town in search of some monster drainage pipe. 263 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:15,840 Hi, I'm Jamie. 264 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,840 Andy. Adam. Nice to meet you, guys. 265 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,840 How are you doing? Oh, pretty good. 266 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,840 I think we're here to pick up some really big pipe. 267 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,840 It's a pipe lover's paradise. 268 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:27,840 What's this stuff normally used for? 269 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,840 Storm and sewer drain, mostly stormwater. 270 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,840 Bingo! Stormwater drains, 3 feet wide. 271 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:42,840 Exactly the kind of drain a terrified raccoon and its boozy pursuer might stumble down. 272 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,840 Adam tries it out for size. 273 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,840 That's pretty cool. You know, it makes me want to like... 274 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:49,840 Whoa! 275 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,840 All right, that's enough of that. 276 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,840 After a peek at the pipe, Jamie's mustache is twitching. 277 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,840 It's all a whole bunch of stupid stuff. 278 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:11,840 The more he thinks about this wild raccoon chase, the more he thinks it's the truth that's gone down the drain. 279 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:17,840 The biggest problem that I see is that you can see that I fit pretty easily in this pipe. 280 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,840 And there's a lot of room around me, a lot of air room. 281 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:26,840 And so even if there is a big blast, all this air is just going to go right past me if there's no seal. 282 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:31,840 This is one of the rare occurrences where Jamie and I agree all the way down the line on this. 283 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:37,840 He's right. The problems are myriad. The myth is almost patently ridiculous just on its face. 284 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:43,840 But when there's a hint of flames or explosions in the air, the mythbusters will make it happen. 285 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:50,840 I think one way or another, we are going to propel that dummy quite energetically out the end of this tube. 286 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,840 I don't think it's going to work quite the way the myth says though. 287 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,840 Let's bring on this raccoon. 288 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:10,840 Back in the workshop, Adam creates a remote you won't lose under your couch. 289 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:17,840 I've got this lighter rig, which we've used before on mythbusters. 290 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,840 It lights a lighter remotely. 291 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,840 And in the past, I've always used cable, like bicycle cable. 292 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:29,840 And it's never been quite reliable. So this time I'm going to actually go with a small pneumatic cylinder, 293 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,840 which will go and light the lighter that way. 294 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:38,840 This will let him light the gasoline in the pipe from a safe distance. 295 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,840 It works. Excellent. 296 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:47,840 So it is the world's most complicated lighter. 297 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:57,840 Now fully recovered from knee surgery, Buster needs to be dressed for the occasion. 298 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:06,840 This stylish woolen sweater and slacks outfit will protect our dummy from looking unfashionable and save him from melting. 299 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:15,840 The fabric of choice for firefighters and Formula One drivers, wool is one of the most fireproof fabrics you can wear. 300 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,840 It does not melt and it does not support a flame. 301 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,840 You know, I don't think Buster's ever looked so fashionable. I mean, dude, you are looking sharp. 302 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:37,840 Time to grab a $25.98 toy raccoon and put this myth to the test. 303 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,840 Our firing range is an abandoned airfield on the outskirts of San Francisco. 304 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,840 Job number one, get that pipe into launch position. 305 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:52,840 For this, our boys will need a nice new toy. 306 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,840 I think this is the biggest thing we've driven yet. 307 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,840 Very, very, very cool. 308 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,840 But does anyone know how to drive this thing? 309 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,840 So did you get any instructions on it? 310 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:06,840 I did not. 311 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:13,840 A few quick tips from the Backhoe Delivery Man and Adam is an instant expert. 312 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,840 This goes side to side. You can drop this pin in the center. 313 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,840 Okay. 314 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,840 And it will lock it. 315 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,840 Yeah, it will lock it from going like this. 316 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,840 That was fun. 317 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,840 I'm going to back it up a little bit more. 318 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,840 Yep. 319 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,840 It's like a sneaker in a skate patch. 320 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,840 You know, he's taking an awful long time to do this. 321 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,840 I think he's having just a bit too much fun. 322 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,840 Finally, our cannon is in position. 323 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,840 Well, we've just covered the pipe with dirt. 324 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,840 And so I guess we're going to pour some gasoline down there and light it with the dummy in the tube. 325 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,840 We pretty well know that nothing's going to happen. 326 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,840 We'll get a big whoosh of gasoline out of both sides of this tube. 327 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,840 But besides that, it's not going to launch this dummy in any way. 328 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,840 The stunt is ready. 329 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,840 So where's the fall guy? 330 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:33,840 For extra fireproofing, Buster gets a dressing down with a special flame retardant gel. 331 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,840 Okay, so we're going to shove him about three feet up in there? 332 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,840 Yeah, feet first, because his head's got to be down. 333 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,840 Like he scoots down the pipe with a lighter and was like, you know, that kind of business. 334 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,840 The scene is set exactly according to the myth. 335 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:59,840 We have one not so smart man, Buster, who's crawled down a three foot wide drainage pipe chasing a raccoon. 336 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:00,840 Like that. 337 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:01,840 Like this? 338 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:02,840 Yeah. 339 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,840 The raccoon's probably all the way at the very end, you know, up against like a steel grate or something like that. 340 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:13,840 So he's probably like right here, trying to be as threatening as a raccoon soaked with gasoline can be. 341 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:14,840 Okay. 342 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,840 Let me get my automatic match. 343 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,840 The MythBusters team gets ready for launch. 344 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,840 Cameras will cover it from every angle. 345 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:29,840 Sensitive equipment is protected by a bulletproof plastic shield. 346 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,840 A baby fire truck is at the ready. 347 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,840 And it's Big Daddy, just in case. 348 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:36,840 Excited. 349 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,840 We're going to blow some stuff up, then we go home. 350 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,840 Now Jamie adds the final element. 351 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,840 Five gallons of gasoline. 352 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,840 Okay, it's kind of a lot. 353 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,840 Oh, it's kind of really a lot. 354 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,840 It's a lot of gasoline pouring out of there. 355 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,840 That's it. 356 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:53,840 That's it. 357 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,840 All right, get out of there. 358 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,840 Okay, here we go. 359 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,840 Standing over here with me, Jamie. 360 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,840 Yeah. 361 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,840 In three, two, one. 362 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:07,840 Zero. 363 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:08,840 Nothing happens. 364 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,840 Tell me if you see it lighting. 365 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,840 Yeah, I don't see any, any flames. 366 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,840 It seems that pesky raccoon slipped down onto the lighter. 367 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,840 He's repositioned and we are clear for launch. 368 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,840 Okay, here we go. 369 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,840 There we go. 370 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,840 We have ignition. 371 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:29,840 Put it out now. 372 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:30,840 Go. 373 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,840 Well, that wasn't nothing at all. 374 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:38,840 Nope. 375 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,840 That was like a little campfire. 376 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,840 Well, it probably would have set the whole tube on fire after a while. 377 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,840 It sent you the heck out of our raccoon. 378 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,840 Let's see how our raccoon did. 379 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,840 That's one piping hot toy raccoon all right. 380 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:53,840 But not much else. 381 00:24:53,840 --> 00:25:00,840 And certainly not enough to satisfy the destructive desires of these two strange men. 382 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,840 The myth is in fact busted. 383 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,840 But there's always two parts to a myth buster story. 384 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,840 There's replicating the myth and then there's duplicating the result. 385 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,840 And we replicated the myth, we got nothing. 386 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,840 Now it's time to see what it takes to launch him out of that tube. 387 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,840 I think we're going to have to go back to the shop and think this one through. 388 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,840 It's not, it's not trivial to turn this 20 foot long tube into a human cannon. 389 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,840 We can't just put gunpowder behind him and hope it'll launch him. 390 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,840 It's just going to blow him up. 391 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,840 Back in the shop, Jamie's mind contorts around a devilish conundrum. 392 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:42,840 We pretty well know that the dummy's not going to get launched out of the tube, you know, just by sitting there. 393 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:49,840 So we've got to put a container around it that actually remotely seals the dummy in the tube. 394 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,840 He needs to make a tricky device called a saboo. 395 00:25:53,840 --> 00:26:01,840 In the world of weaponry, a saboo is used when a specialized bullet or projectile is too small for the barrel of a gun. 396 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:09,840 The saboo fits around the bullet to seal the chamber so the blast from the gunpowder can send it firing out of the barrel. 397 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,840 It's hard enough remembering how to say saboo. 398 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,840 Now Jamie has to work out what to make one from. 399 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,840 That's about two feet, so darn that tube's big. 400 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,840 It's going to make me work. 401 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:29,840 What about stretching a car inner tube around that and inflating that and squeezing that between a couple pieces of plot? 402 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:35,840 These two professional problem solvers go into the Mythbusters mind meld. 403 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,840 Put two of them around there and then they gask it to each other. We fill them just up enough. 404 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,840 Stretch it out onto there. 405 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,840 And back it, I'd say, with one piece of ply. 406 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,840 Now we're making the very size. 407 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,840 Suppose it's just like four gaskets of ply. 408 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:56,840 Out of the brain blender comes a juicy plan. The saboo will be molded from foam. 409 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:03,840 Jamie, that's beautiful. 410 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Easiest pie. Usually things don't work this easy. 411 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,840 35-cheese, you're within a quarter inch. 412 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,840 Seems like it should be perfect. 413 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,840 Without this thing, gasses would just go past the dummy and not propel him. 414 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,840 With it, it blocks the chamber and hopefully it will carry the dummy with it. 415 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,840 Out of the barrel, the saboo will fall away in its four parts as we've designed it. 416 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,840 And the dummy will continue on his trajectory. 417 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,840 Let's hope the plan stays on target. 418 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,840 Because back on the firing range, we are now working with dangerous explosives. 419 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,840 Second circuit, just to the end of the tube here. 420 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,840 If we have a problem in the first circuit, we'll just tie into this. 421 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,840 Sounds good. So I'll tie this on the first one. 422 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,840 We want to fire a 180-pound projectile 200 feet. 423 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,840 So, how much gunpowder will we need? 424 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:55,840 Well, in World War II, the guns of the mighty U.S. battleship Missouri 425 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:02,840 used 660 pounds of explosive powder to launch 2700-pound projectiles 426 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,840 with a range of up to 23 miles. 427 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,840 There are no records of raccoons being present on the U.S. as Missouri. 428 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,840 Back up on the back up. 429 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,840 Preparing to launch. 430 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,840 John McLeod normally creates pyrotechnics for Hollywood films. 431 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,840 Today, he's cooking up a different kind of blockbuster. 432 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,840 We're using 10-1-pound cans of the Go-Ex black powder. 433 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,840 That should give us a pretty good bang. 434 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,840 Buster is locked in the sabo and loaded into the pipe. 435 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,840 Okay. Show me the hand. 436 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:35,840 Oh, yeah. 437 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,840 Oh, baby. 438 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,840 Okay, we need a little more push here. 439 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:41,840 All right, here we go. 440 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:42,840 Okay, ready? 441 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,840 That's good, right? 442 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,840 Well, that's tight, huh? 443 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:46,840 That's pretty good. 444 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,840 Cue the bomb. 445 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:50,840 So that's the 10-pounder, isn't it? 446 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,840 It's a 10-pounder. 447 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:53,840 It don't look like much. 448 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,840 Until it goes off. 449 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,840 The local geese are heading south to safety. 450 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,840 You think they can tell we're about to blow something up? 451 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,840 John will use an electric detonator to ignite the powder. 452 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,840 With the wiring all checked, it's time to seal the end of the pipe. 453 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,840 Look at that. That's perfect. 454 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,840 All right, I'm going to bury it. 455 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,840 The pipe must be plugged to direct the force from the blast towards Buster 456 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,840 and send him out the other end of the tube. 457 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,840 Will it work? 458 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,840 That's in the lap of the gunpowder god. 459 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,840 I think if any of the worst thing that could happen was it would rupture the back end of the tube 460 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,840 and maybe shoot dirt and sand and possibly little rocks. 461 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,840 It's also, I'd say, 50% likely that it stays back there in the tube 462 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,840 and the whole thing just blows up. 463 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,840 That's totally acceptable to me as well. 464 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,840 The whole damn thing could blow up for all we know. 465 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,840 But our best shot is that it's going to come out of there 466 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,840 and it's going to come out really fast and it's going to look really cool. 467 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:57,840 Jamie is so confident he's parking Buster's wheelchair right where he thinks he'll land. 468 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,840 Jamie, you hoping to catch him? 469 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,840 Yeah. 470 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,840 All right, that's about the most optimistic thing I've ever heard. 471 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,840 If you catch him, I'll give you $100. 472 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,840 Okay, let's put this big bang theory into practice. 473 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,840 You want to put some protection on there? 474 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:15,840 I think I'm all right. 475 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,840 He thinks he's all right. 476 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,840 Five, two, one. 477 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,840 Oh my god. 478 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,840 I almost made the chair. 479 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,840 You almost made the chair. 480 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,840 We've got two very excited mythbusters on our hands. 481 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,840 He survived. 482 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,840 Buster survived. 483 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,840 It came out, there were some horsemen. 484 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:50,840 How are you feeling, buddy? 485 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,840 It worked absolutely perfectly. 486 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,840 I was off by about five or ten feet. 487 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:09,840 Buster heroically executed a textbook superhero style exit from the cannon. 488 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,840 Oh my god. 489 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,840 You know, I gotta say, I think we planned this whole thing really well. 490 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:18,840 The saboteur worked. 491 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,840 He did launch a significant distance out of the barrel. 492 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,840 The myth says 200 feet that the guy lived. 493 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,840 I tell you, watching that dummy land, there's no way he would have lived at that distance, 494 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,840 let alone that distance again. 495 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,840 This myth is just complete and utter lunacy to think that it's true. 496 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,840 Well, Buster, how are you feeling, man? 497 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:41,840 What do you think? 498 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:42,840 Raccoon rocket? 499 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,840 True or busted? 500 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,840 What do you think, Jamie? 501 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,840 I'd say it's pretty effectively busted, you know? 502 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,840 We would have died if we'd been in Buster's place, that's for sure. 503 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,840 He is a little worse for a way. 504 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,840 You've heard the fairy tale of the three little pigs, right? 505 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,840 Well, in this myth-busting moral, one got away, 506 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:15,840 and the other two have been quietly decomposing in a 1987 Corvette for two months. 507 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,840 Huffing and puffing? 508 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:17,840 You bet. 509 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,840 The moment Jamie and Adam open the doors of that car, 510 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,840 and it might be the myth-busters house that gets blown down. 511 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,840 They're testing the myth that if someone dies in a car, 512 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,840 it can get so stinky, you can't clean it, and you can't sell it. 513 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,840 Time to call in an expert in extreme cleaning. 514 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,840 Neal Smither runs a business called Crime Scene Cleaners. 515 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,840 It's a cleaning maintenance service specializing in biohazard. 516 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,840 Primarily homicide, suicides, accidental deaths. 517 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,840 We're really known now for doing just extreme cleanups. 518 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,840 Stuff other people just won't mess with. 519 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:05,840 He knows exactly what the stinky car of the myth would smell like. 520 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,840 And that smell, you can taste it. 521 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,840 You just can't even describe it. 522 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:16,840 It's such a unique flavor, but you know instantly what it is. 523 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:23,840 Time for Jamie and Adam to get their hands dirty on a training run with the Crime Scene Cleaners. 524 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,840 We're here cleaning up a coroner's van. 525 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,840 I expect to learn a lot about their protocol, 526 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,840 how they approach moving through a vehicle to find the smells, 527 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,840 and I think that's going to be invaluable to cleaning out the Corvette. 528 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,840 That's not residue from melted popsicles, you know? 529 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,840 It's a real deal. 530 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,840 I'm afraid I'm not quite as enthusiastic as the owner of this company is about this kind of work, 531 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,840 but it'll be interesting. 532 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,840 Let's start with cleaning the top of it. 533 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,840 Have you heard the myth of the stinky car that can't be sold? 534 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:53,840 I have heard that. 535 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,840 It's a fallacy. Totally. 536 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:56,840 What was that? 537 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,840 It's a fallacy. 538 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,840 You can get the smell out? 539 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,840 Wait a minute. 540 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,840 Now that's a big news flash for Jamie and Adam. 541 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,840 So what you're telling me is that there's no smell that you can't get out, is that right? 542 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,840 Yeah, I think if you clean it correctly, there's no smell that we can't get out so far, 543 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,840 and we've done some radical smells. 544 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,840 There's a methodical, meticulous approach to this kind of cleaning. 545 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:24,840 It's good. 546 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,840 Thanks. 547 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:29,840 Knock yourself out. 548 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:30,840 Alright. 549 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:35,840 Any speck of scum that's missed will keep on stinking. 550 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:42,840 The boys have discovered that Neil uses a special enzyme-based cleaner to wipe out really bad smells. 551 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:48,840 The enzyme secret mix that we haven't been informed the contents of. 552 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,840 This may just hold the key to getting the Corvette clean. 553 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,840 The enzymes create a chemical reaction with organic materials, 554 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,840 speeding up their breakdown into smaller, simpler pieces. 555 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,840 Just like the enzymes in your saliva start breaking down food from the first bite. 556 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,840 It's hot. 557 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:13,840 This warm-up bout with the crime scene cleaners is a success. 558 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,840 Invaluable training for Jamie and Adam's upcoming fight against the funk. 559 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,840 Well, you know, it's really helpful to talk to a professional about this kind of thing. 560 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840 You know, we just kind of go in and start doing it. 561 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:30,840 I thought the myth was entirely possible and plausible when I first heard it, 562 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,840 but talking to Neil and seeing how well this stuff works, 563 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,840 I think we might be able to clean this car out, and it might not smell at all. 564 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,840 Either it is cleanable with the enzyme or it gets ripped out, 565 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,840 and we will get that car clean. 566 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:44,840 Brave words. 567 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,840 We will get that car clean. 568 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,840 So, let's put that confidence to the test. 569 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,840 It's been two months since this car was turned into a stink bomb. 570 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,840 Now, it's judgment day. 571 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:09,840 Time to terminate any fresh air on the Mythbusters doorstep and open that awful container. 572 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,840 Watching on is the nose that always knows. 573 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,840 Neil, the extreme cleaner. 574 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,840 I'm catching whiffs here and there, and it's pretty typical. 575 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:26,840 I'll have a better indicator once we get in, but right now it just smells like standard death. 576 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:33,840 And while our rookie cleaners look like they're ready to enter Chernobyl, 577 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,840 the pro calmly knocks back even a nose clip. 578 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,840 No, I'm okay. It's not that bad. 579 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,840 Now the car has to be rolled out of the container and into the yard. 580 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,840 Oh, yeah. 581 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,840 Oh, man. 582 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,840 Oh, that's foul. 583 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,840 They're not going to bite. 584 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,840 Climbing. 585 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:58,840 All right. 586 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,840 Go for it, Hyman. 587 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,840 Oh, man. 588 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,840 Well, one thing that bothers me is that it is totally, it's raining in there. 589 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:19,840 Like any place that I move around, I'm like going to get covered with, I mean, I hope these things are waterproof. 590 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:20,840 Are these waterproof? 591 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,840 No, not really. I mean, those, those, those are more than, than anything else. 592 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,840 I would just hurry up and get it done. 593 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,840 Oh my God. 594 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:31,840 That is horrible. 595 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:37,840 The pig's sort of like sealing off the whole area. It's like flowing over the parking brake. 596 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,840 He's going to have to think awfully fast, coated with gore. 597 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,840 When I move it, the tank makes him. 598 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,840 Yeah. 599 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,840 Circles, circles, circles. 600 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,840 Then, an unforeseen drama. 601 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,840 The decaying pigs have given off ammonia. 602 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,840 A potentially fatal gas that almost overcomes Jamie. 603 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,840 How you doing, Jerry? 604 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,840 It's a ammonia. It's not the smell. I was, I was not getting any air. 605 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,840 It's not a spew. I was going to pass out. 606 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:23,840 Because the Corvette was sealed so carefully, the gas was trapped and concentrated inside the car. 607 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,840 Stop. 608 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,840 Oh man. 609 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,840 It's ammonia. It's not, the filter's not handling it. 610 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,840 I need a separate air source. 611 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,840 Oh my God. 612 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,840 This thing was useless. 613 00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:04,840 As the whole grotesque reality of this car lover's catastrophe hits home, the mythbusters are reeling. 614 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,840 Jamie looks like he's about to pass out. 615 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,840 And our own Mr. Confidence is going a little weak at the knees. 616 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,840 No way. No way. 617 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:21,840 There's no way we're cleaning this thing. This is, this is horrifying. 618 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:30,840 I think, you know, having to get in there and close the car with these two remnants of creatures was probably one of the more horrible things I've ever had to do. 619 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,840 What's the worst thing you can imagine? 620 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:38,840 Hey Adam. 621 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,840 I can't get past this. 622 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,840 Oh, disintegrating. 623 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,840 The ever helpful Neil is just glad it's not him. 624 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:54,840 I would just put a bunch of paper towels in and let the paper towel soak up as much as that liquid as you can because you're going to have to get in there. 625 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:55,840 Yeah. 626 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,840 You know, literally laying down to get to the bolts. Are you going to lay in that puddle? 627 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,840 I really, you know, I won't be, oh, I won't be sad when this day is over. 628 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,840 This is a severe clean up. No doubt about it. 629 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,840 Oh man. 630 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:16,840 Oh God. 631 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,840 They're not prepared for this clean up at all. 632 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:30,840 I gotta say this respirator works really good because the smell from over here is horrifying. 633 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,840 Oh, my glasses are running over here. 634 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,840 When you pull the seats, you better have something to contain them because they're going to pour liquid. 635 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,840 Carpets, the seats, the door panels, all history. 636 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,840 And there's a lot of word left. 637 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,840 Well, we got all of the wet stuff out of there. 638 00:40:52,840 --> 00:41:01,840 There's still little dribbles here and there, but you know, we must have removed about three, four hundred pounds of wet something. 639 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:08,840 I have to say, I didn't expect that this would happen, but I see myself as a vegetarian for at least the next couple of weeks. 640 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,840 Don't want to do that again. 641 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:21,840 Now Jamie and Adam try out the tip they got from Neil, the crime scene cleaner, using a special bioenzyme fluid to cut through all the organic gun. 642 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:27,840 They're praying this might give them an edge in the war on stinkiness. 643 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,840 The quantity of flies has decreased. We've been doing something. 644 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,840 Well, I know we've been doing something. 645 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,840 Something the flies don't like. 646 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,840 Something's really bad right here. 647 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,840 Now it smells like a diaper, a really bad diaper. 648 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,840 If my baby's poo smelled like that, I'd take him to the hospital immediately. 649 00:41:53,840 --> 00:42:01,840 After a full day of frantic, forensic scrubbing, the boys are coming to grips with a grim possibility. 650 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:06,840 Corvette lovers cover your ears. This car may never drive again. 651 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:14,840 Are we actually cleaning a car to get the stink out, or are we just removing all the stinky bits and ending up with a parts car? 652 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,840 Seats were so bad that they were just falling apart. So what are you going to do if they cost six grand, the car's not worth that. 653 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:24,840 I think we can get the stink out, but I'm not sure that we end up with something that's really a car. 654 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,840 We can safely say one part of this story is true. 655 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,840 It is possible for somebody to die in a car and ruin it. 656 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,840 But can it be completely clean? 657 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:41,840 Even Neil said it would take his boys several days to get rid of every last thing and put it back together again. 658 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:46,840 There's no doubt in my mind that we could resurrect the car. The only question is whether it's practical or not. 659 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:51,840 The place where I think you would never get it out is like all the air conditioning system and the ducts and stuff. 660 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:59,840 I know all that stinks. We can clean the car perfectly and be like, it's done. We turn on the AC and be like, ah! 661 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:05,840 Given the way the car smells now, even selling it for parts is going to be pretty difficult. 662 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:12,840 I tell you, if I took one drop of the juice we cleaned up yesterday and put it in your car, you'd want to sell your car. 663 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:19,840 So what's the final verdict from the Mythbusters? Jamie would be quite happy never to see that car again. 664 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,840 Oh man, that is nasty. 665 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,840 That Mythbusters, there's no way you're going to sell the car after that. 666 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,840 You know Jamie, I want to get away from this smell as much as you do, but unfortunately we said we'd make a stinky car 667 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:35,840 that we'd try and clean it out and that we'd sell it. So we got to go through the third phase. 668 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,840 We got to try and sell that car, even if it's only for parts. 669 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:39,840 Vomit. 670 00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:04,840 One week after an infernal clean up, it's time to sell. But will they find a buyer? 671 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:13,840 Knowing how bad it was, it's not nearly that bad. But it's worse than anything anybody else but me and Jamie have ever smelled. 672 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,840 It smells more like a barnyard now. 673 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,840 Nope, the smell hasn't gone and the car isn't going anywhere either. 674 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,840 What is that? Ready? 675 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:22,840 Yeah. 676 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,840 Nothing. 677 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,840 I'm not sure I'm getting any power at all to anything. 678 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,840 I really wouldn't be helpful to get it started to sell it. 679 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,840 The fuse box is fried. 680 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:43,840 This is all corretted, it's all green in here. Maybe some more scrubbing will work. 681 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,840 How is this doing over here? 682 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,840 I'm going to try and start it again. 683 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,840 I'm not getting squat. 684 00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,840 Are you sure it's hooked up? 685 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:54,840 Yep. 686 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:55,840 Positive and all that? 687 00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:56,840 You bet. 688 00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,840 Adam is ready to raise the white flag. 689 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,840 Now we push. 690 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,840 But Jamie is determined to get this car started. 691 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:11,840 It's just a little bit of corrosion is all we're talking about. It's a real simple thing if we can find the spot. 692 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:16,840 Like the engine's fine, we should be able to sell it better if the engine's running. 693 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,840 You know, you can't really ask a lot of money for a car that doesn't start with no interior. 694 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,840 If I can find the starter solenoid, then we can jump it. 695 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:30,840 It's a total Jamie thing to pursue these avenues that seem completely ridiculous and end up with total success. 696 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:31,840 It's really unnerving. 697 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,840 Eventually Jamie admits defeat. 698 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:37,840 You gonna help push? 699 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,840 No, I was going to watch from up here. 700 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,840 You guys doing any work at all? I think I'm carrying this whole thing. 701 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:50,840 It seems like we trashed this car. 702 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:51,840 And that's all we did. 703 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,840 Like we put some pigs in it, it ruined the car and it's junk. 704 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:01,840 I think the question is how much money can we get for a big piece of stinking junk? 705 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,840 Not very much. 706 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,840 Let's clean it, close it, sell it off. 707 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,840 It won't start and it stinks of dead pig, but it will look good. 708 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:19,840 Time to place an ad on the internet to entice some buyers with an unbelievably cheap 87 Corvette. 709 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,840 Alright, so we're going to sell this car. What should be in the ad? 710 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:29,840 Well, I guess we should just list the good things about it. It's like shiny, it's got a good finish on it. 711 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,840 Shiny? 712 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,840 It's got good wheels and tires. 713 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,840 It's a great parts car. We lost the interior. 714 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,840 Yeah, we just lost it. 715 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:48,840 Hidden cameras are set up to secretly record the reactions of unsuspecting buyers. 716 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,840 So, who will buy this slightly soiled vehicle? 717 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,840 Maybe a die-hard Corvette lover? 718 00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,840 I didn't know it was good. 719 00:46:58,840 --> 00:46:59,840 Yeah, well... 720 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:00,840 Is that how you bought it? 721 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,840 No, it... don't like that. 722 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,840 Jamie will have to do the hard sell on this one. 723 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:13,840 We're only asking 3,000 for it. So you can take it for parts. 724 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:18,840 The wheels alone are worth like 7, 800 bucks. Still not impressed. 725 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,840 No, I'm wondering how much that smells seeped into the fiberglass. 726 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,840 No sale. The guy from the junkyard has a sniff. 727 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:33,840 I think it's worth about 500 bucks. 728 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,840 Well, we're definitely going to wait for better offers than that. 729 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,840 So does it even start? 730 00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,840 How about this gentleman? 731 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,840 So is there an interior for it? 732 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:43,840 No. 733 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:47,840 He seems kind of interested. 734 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:48,840 How many miles does it have? 735 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:55,840 It's got a... I think it's got a quarter of a million, but it's only 50,000 on the last... on this engine. 736 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:57,840 Well, I'll let you know if I'm interested. 737 00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:58,840 Alright. 738 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,840 After sleeping on it, he becomes our buyer. 739 00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,840 Guess what are you going to do with the car? 740 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,840 We're probably going to part it out. I'm interested in the engine and transmission. 741 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,840 The stinky car is going cheap. Only $2,000. 742 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,840 Here's the title and the keys. 743 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,840 But at least it's finally gone. 744 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,840 So there you go, man. No shortage of buyers. 745 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,840 I don't think that there's a car in the world that's too stinky to sell. 746 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:31,840 If somebody dies in a car, it can easily get so bad in there that you're not going to just kind of wash it with some windex 747 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:36,840 and some stuff like that and be able to sell it like it was. 748 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,840 I think we busted both halves of this one. 749 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:39,840 I guess we did. 750 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,840 I still can't get that taste out of my mouth, though. 751 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,840 God, what a horrible thing that was. 752 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:45,840 Absolutely. 753 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:46,840 Horrible. 754 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:48,840 Horrible. 755 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,840 That was something else. I remember that the rest of my life.