1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Deck the halls on this special episode. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 The Mythbusters are cracking open holiday myths. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Can turkeys explode? 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Turkey master, I hand you your bird. 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Will a spoon keep champagne fizzy? 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 It's like drinking stars. 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Are there killer icicles? 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Oh wow! 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Who are the Mythbusters? 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Adam Savage 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 I reject your reality and substitute my own. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 And Jamie Heineman 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 I don't like any of this, it's private. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience. 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 That was intense. 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 They don't just tell the myths, 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 they put them to the test. 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Man Jamie, it snowed like crazy out here last night. 19 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Yeah, this is how it snows in San Francisco, in plastic bags. 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:09,000 We've got to take a look at the myth of whether or not a clothed snowman melts slower than a naked snowman. 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Can we show a naked snowman on television? 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 This is a family show. 23 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Maybe we'll put a fig leaf. 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 At any rate, let's just get started making some snowmen. 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Just remember everyone, we're working in a really cold environment. 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:31,000 So if your fingers start to lose feeling, make sure you go inside and get a cup of tea or something. 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 That would be Adam's untrimmed nose hair. 28 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 What does it say? 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 80 degrees. 30 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 80 degrees out here, San Francisco summer. 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Let's start the timer. 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Okay. 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And go! 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Alright, so a check in on our snowmen. 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Let's see here. 36 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 That looks a lot more intact than yours does. 37 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Yeah, I mean, mine's just completely collapsing. 38 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 It was just as big as yours when we started. 39 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 We've been going for a couple of hours now. 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 It looks like it's going to be a lot more difficult to get it out of the way. 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I mean, it's just a lot more difficult to get it out of the way. 42 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 I mean, it's just a lot more difficult to get it out of the way. 43 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 I mean, it's just a lot more difficult to get it out of the way. 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 So, we've started. We've been going for a couple of hours now. 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 It looks like yours is starting to lean over. 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I think it's going to crumble any minute now. 47 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Let's just give them a little bit longer and then we'll see what happens. 48 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 This one's a classic holiday myth. 49 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 It's the idea that a silver spoon put in the neck of an open bottle of champagne 50 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 will actually keep it bubblier than any other method. 51 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 So, it looks like we need to leave one alone as the control, right? 52 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Exactly. 53 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Then the other one will have the silver spoon hung in it. 54 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Right? 55 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 One that's left open without anything on it. 56 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Correct. 57 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And then one that we've taken the cork out and put it back. 58 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Yes. 59 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Ooh, I'm feeling a little lightheaded already. 60 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 It's like drinking stars. 61 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Oh. 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:20,000 So, we have our control, the silver spoon, open bottle, and the recorked bottle. 63 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Okay. 64 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 All right. 65 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So, we'll check them out tomorrow and see which one remained the bubbliest. 66 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Well, Adam, it's been five hours and 40 minutes out here. 67 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 The snowmen have been merrily melting away. 68 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Yeah. 69 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 What do you think? 70 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Well, on the surface of it, without undressing your snowman, 71 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 I think that the myth is completely confirmed. 72 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 A dressed snowman is melting a lot slower than a naked snowman. 73 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 It's like keeping it in a cooler. 74 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Yeah, absolutely. 75 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Look at that. 76 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Barely melted at all. 77 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 You can see it melted a lot more where there wasn't a coat. 78 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Wow. 79 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 All right. 80 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Well, it's been 24 hours or champagne has been sitting in the fridge. 81 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Well, let's pull it out and see what it tastes like. 82 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 All right. 83 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 The guys do a blind taste test to individually rate the fizziness of each bottle. 84 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 So, we see how we did? 85 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Maybe it's the holiday spirit, but for once they agree, 86 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 both ranking the glasses in exactly the same order. 87 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 J3, J4. 88 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Okay, now for the real test. 89 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Let's peel the stickers off and see what we got. 90 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 All right, let's start from least bubbliest. 91 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Silver spoon was the least bubbliest. 93 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Open bottle. 94 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Yep. 95 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 And that one would be the cork. 96 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Whoa! 97 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 For some reason, we thought the control bottle was not as fizzy 98 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 as the recork bottle. 99 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:30,000 I think pretty handily we struck down the silver spoon as a preservative for bubbliness. 100 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Well, that's another Christmas myth, not the chimney. 101 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 So, Adam, what's our next Christmas myth? 102 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:45,000 This next myth is based on the idea that it could be so cold outside 103 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 that if you went outside and had a wheat, your urine would freeze before it ever hit the ground. 104 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:56,000 And we've built this little freezer where it's actually like 70 below zero. 105 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 It's right off the scale. 106 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Yeah. 107 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Well, the coldest ever recorded in the continental United States was in Montana in 1954, 108 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:08,000 and it was 69.7 degrees below zero. 109 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Well, that means our freezer here is right on target, and I've got my fake peeing rig here. 110 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 All right, Jimmy, I don't think I can hold on anymore. 111 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 You ready to try? 112 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Yeah. 113 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Okay, take the hemo off there. 114 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Let's see. 115 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,000 It's not freezing. 116 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And we know from the thermometer that right about here, it's at 70 below zero. 117 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 I don't know what it would take to make your urine freeze, 118 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 but it's not going to happen in the United States. 119 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 That's for sure. 120 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 You know, I think this is fairly straightforward. 121 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 I'd agree with you. 122 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Jimmy, are there no end to these crazy Christmas myths? 123 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 I mean, what could possibly be next? 124 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Well, we have one of those freak occurrences, and that is, 125 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,000 what if an icicle fell off the eve of your house and this icicle falls down and pierces you on the heart? 126 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Would it, like, stab you and kill you? 127 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:13,000 I'm a little dubious about that, but obviously I guess the first place to start would be to be making some mighty big icicles. 128 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Funny you should mention that, because I happen to have some mighty big icicles ready to go right here. 129 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Lovely. 130 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000 The Mythbusters stairwell will be the scene of this unlikely holiday catastrophe. 131 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:34,000 15 feet of tube will guide the killer icicle, and a nice piece of beef will play victim. 132 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 You ready, Jimmy? 133 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Ready. 134 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 On my count. 135 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Okay. 136 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Five, four, three, two, one. 137 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Whoa! 138 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Dude, that is really gnarly. That was a perfect dead center landing. 139 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 That looks kind of deadly, doesn't it? 140 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,000 If you take away all the other stuff, like, it's probably not going to fall correctly, and all of that stuff, 141 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 a reasonably sized icicle, can be deadly. 142 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 It worked first time, like a charm. 143 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Of a turkey, and you're fire-suit at the same time. 144 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Well, there's a popular holiday tradition in the south that involves deep-frying turkeys. 145 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And apparently, if you drop the turkey in too fast, it'll explode. 146 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Oh, explosions. 147 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Turkey master, I hand you your bird. 148 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 According to the myth, the problems happen when the turkey is still frozen. 149 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 So, as a comparison, they'll start with a thawed one. 150 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Three, two, one. 151 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 No exploding turkey. 152 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Now, how about a frozen one? 153 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Three, two, one. 154 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Yeah! 155 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Okay, that would be bad. 156 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Boiling oil all over your kitchen and stuff like that. 157 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 It still wasn't an explosion, though. 158 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 It was dangerous, to be sure, but, like I said, we had no explosions, and that was no explosion. 159 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Merry Christmas, Adam. 160 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Merry Christmas, Jamie. 161 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Well, what's our next Christmas myth? 162 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,000 The next myth is that lighting a fire in your house will actually make your house colder. 163 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Because while it heats up the area around the fire, it's drawing heat up the chimney and making the outlying rooms colder. 164 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Well, we just started a fire and we've got thermometers staged around the house. 165 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Hey, it went down! 166 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Jamie, the thermometer in the other room went down by almost three degrees. 167 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Cool. Well, the air's got to come from somewhere. 168 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Yeah, so, I mean, let's check out the kitchen. 169 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 The kitchen's not much changed, but it's pretty actually, you know, open to the living room. 170 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 But in the outlying areas, it actually went down by three degrees. 171 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Well, you know, I was actually afraid that in California it's too warm. 172 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I mean, outside it's only 55 degrees. 173 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I was afraid we wouldn't be able to actually prove it here. 174 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 We'd have to go somewhere where it's snowing, but this myth is confirmed. 175 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Yeah, well, that was cool. 176 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Well, Adam, I've got a Christmas present for you. 177 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Oh, Jamie, thank you. You shouldn't have, but I actually got you something, too. 178 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Oh, wow. 179 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Thanks, well, here you go. 180 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 All right, thank you. 181 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Oh, wow. 182 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 A laser bench focusing array. 183 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 How did you know? 184 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 It's just one of those things that when I saw it, I knew you'd want it. 185 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 That's awesome. 186 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Oh, mustache trimmer. 187 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Are you trying to tell me something? 188 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Yeah, just take it all off. 189 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Go ahead. 190 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 I don't think they'd let me do that. 191 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 This is cool. 192 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Ooh. 193 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Oh, wow.