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On this special episode, he's taken more than a dummy can bear.

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But now, Buster is being rebuilt.

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I gotta say that looks like it hurt.

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Every battered nut and bolt.

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I love it.

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I think it's great.

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At last, he'll get a brand new body as we get under the bruised and burnt skin of the

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myth buster's ultimate fall guy.

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And who did this to him?

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Adam Savage.

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I reject the reality and substitute my own.

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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I kinda like it in here, it's private.

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Between them more than 30 years special effects and dummy wrecking experience.

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That was intense.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put Buster to the painful test.

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Look at this poor guy, Jamie.

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I mean, he's been burnt, bashed.

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Yeah, beaten and blown up.

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I mean, we have absolutely trashed this dummy.

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Yeah, it's time Buster had a totally new body built from scratch, I think.

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I remember when we first got him, how pink and perfect he was.

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Trash is a newborn baby.

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It was the start of a great adventure.

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In this box right here is the new star of myth busters.

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Oh, look at that.

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That's all I need is another dummy around this place.

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Yeah, but you can kick this one's ass.

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And let's just come back for more.

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What part of the body is this?

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That would be the, uh, goes into the torso.

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Oh, that's the stomach.

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Okay.

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Wow.

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Oh, that's beautiful.

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This is like a giant size GI Joe.

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Take a really good last look.

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He was fresh faced, undamaged, enthusiastic and, well, that was all about to change.

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I think we should call him Buster.

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Buster.

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Buster sounds pretty good.

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Kind of manly, a little pretty descriptive.

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It doesn't have any ears.

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And so to Buster's first job, the exploding toilet.

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A can of flammable gas is somehow emptied into the bowl.

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The homeowner sits down, drops a cigarette between his knees and the myth busters used

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gunpowder.

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How much?

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I put it all in there.

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That's too much.

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Half of it?

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That's a hell of a lot.

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Should give you one hell of a effect.

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For Buster, it would be a baptism by fire.

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If you can lift his thighs and I'll scoot him back.

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Okay, here we go.

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He was about to learn two valuable lessons.

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First, even for a crash test dummy, smoking is bad for your health.

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And second, you really should ask a few questions before signing on for TV stunt work.

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Are we good to go?

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Yep.

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Ready?

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Go.

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That was great.

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It didn't even move him.

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No, he didn't even move.

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He could blow his pants out though.

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He's still holding the cigarette.

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Buster had his first myth busting battle scars.

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Sadly, he wouldn't be able to show them off in polite company.

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Yeah, I've had days just like this too.

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Buster had survived the mother of all initiation hazings and was now officially part of the team.

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Well, that was Buster's very first baptism of fire.

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Yeah, Buster is trashed.

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And that was not remotely the worst that we put him through.

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So we've come to a place called the Bone Room.

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To get some bones.

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To rebuild Buster.

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There aren't too many places around where you can buy human bones.

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But you can at the Bone Room and plenty else besides.

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What is that?

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It's a giraffe vertebra.

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Look at the size of it.

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Croggy.

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So, Christina, we actually need some human bones and arm and leg bones specifically.

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Pull this one out.

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There you go. That is one human femur.

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It's normally a hangout of taxidermists and med students.

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But Jamie and Adam are looking for bones to test for strength to help with the rebuild.

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There are your bones.

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Okay, well, we have some great supplies to help us rebuild Buster.

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Because while he was designed to be in car accidents, what the myth busters did to him

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took him far beyond the call of his original duty.

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Yeah, we came down on him like a ton of bricks.

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Wow!

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Testing the barrel of bricks myth was Buster's first real taste of just how evil the myth busters could be.

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I gotta say that looks like it hurt.

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And that was just the warmup.

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A little barrel.

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The guys had something far more painful in mind.

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How's that feel, Sport?

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Ugh!

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Huh?

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In this myth, an unfortunate builder fights a losing battle with a barrel of bricks and gravity.

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To test it, the guys needed a scaffold 30 feet high.

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More than 10 feet you can break limbs.

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At where we are at about 30 feet, you could easily die falling that high.

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A pulley was secured at the top and a rope passed through.

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The barrel at one end, Buster waiting nervously on the other, which was tied off on the fender of Jamie's truck.

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Buster had a quick release hand so he could let go of the rope at the right time.

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Have a seat there, buddy.

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Your life's about to get really hard.

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It was, but first, Jamie had to load in 500 pounds of bricks.

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A lot of creaking going on up here.

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Turns out that was more weight than the rig could handle.

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There was no time for Buster's last words.

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I'm not even sure actually that the pulley's going to stay on that pipe.

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The pipe's bending. We've got to go now.

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Yeah.

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Okay?

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In five, four, three, two, one.

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The barrel didn't fail.

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The barrel didn't break. Buster was left hanging.

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And there would be no escape for our hero.

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The barrel was weakened, a board placed in the drop zone, and once again Buster was ready for lift off.

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Three, two, one.

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The barrel didn't break.

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The barrel didn't fall.

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The drop zone, and once again Buster was ready for lift off.

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Three, two, one.

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It worked perfectly.

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That was fun. That was really cool.

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I mean, it went up, it went down, it went up, it went down.

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It's like dummy getting beaten every which way all through the whole process.

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That was hysterical.

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So it worked. They showed the myth was possible.

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Time to go home for a nice rest.

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Or not.

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Three, two, one.

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Well, the guys were happy at least. Buster had broken ribs and legs,

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but they seemed willing for him to pay that price.

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We broke and crashed this dummy, man. I think that's a red letter today.

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Yeah!

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You know, over the years we put Buster through a heck of a lot of abuse,

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and if he had real bones like you and I, they probably would have broken by now several times over.

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So we thought, as long as we're rebuilding him, why not give him something that breaks exactly when real bone would break?

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So the first thing we need to know is exactly what a real bone will take.

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And I built this machine here which will tell us exactly that.

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Alright, so lower it down.

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Okay, here we go.

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That's a femur, and there's 200 pounds on the bar.

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Well, that's taking the weight.

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Okay, that's easy.

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Yeah, I'll put on 25 more pounds.

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The femur is generally regarded as the strongest bone in your body,

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but you won't believe how strong.

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500!

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Come on, Drake already.

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I don't know when this is going to end.

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Somebody's been eating his Wheaties.

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The human race.

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No way.

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600 pounds coming up.

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Oh!

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Six!

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25!

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625!

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Man, that was violent.

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625 pounds.

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That sounded like a gun went off.

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It did. It sounded like a gunshot. That was really intense.

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So now we need to find a material that will take 600 pounds, but not 625.

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Because it's happened before, and it's likely we'll deliver that kind of force to Buster again, and again, and again.

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Well, there's this myth that if you fall off a high structure like a bridge or a crane or something over water,

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and you throw a hammer in front of you, that it'll save your life,

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because it'll break the surface tension of the water.

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Bridge jumping. What a joy for Buster.

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But after the barrel of bricks, he was in no condition to jump off anything.

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You know, I hadn't thought if it was possible to break a crash test dummy,

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but I must admit an inordinate amount of pride that we did.

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So they broke him. But could they put him back together again?

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Absolutely. We can totally rebuild him. We can make him better.

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He's just like a big tinker toy set, really.

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While they were at it, Buster was to get a new brain.

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This is an accelerometer. This will measure the G-force when he hits the water.

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I like this. I'm quite pleased with this.

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I'm going to get your chest back on.

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You think you're better than me?

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Hey, this guy's almost ready to throw off the bridge.

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I'm going to get you.

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I'm going to get you.

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You think you're better than me?

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Hey, this guy's almost ready to throw off the roof.

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Oh, good. This was to test the accelerometer.

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Three, two, one.

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That was perfect.

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We've cracked his entire head in.

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I mean, just some big old welds along here should be fine.

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Easy for him to say. It wasn't his head.

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But the accelerometer worked fine.

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Now they wanted to test this one at the Golden Gate Bridge, just like the myth.

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But security concerns meant they had to settle for a crane, 180 feet high.

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It's a strange combination of sheer terror and delight.

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I'm not sure. I think my fascination is overriding my terror.

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Ha ha ha.

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First up, they tested Buster's Impact without the hammer.

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Three, two, one.

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No.

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Oh, no. Poor guy.

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Oh, no, no, no.

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One drop, one leg. Two drops.

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Two legs. Who'd have thought?

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He's completely, completely trashed.

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The cast aluminum of his thigh bone right here absolutely just shattered and contacted with the water.

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It's pretty obvious that from that height, you're completely screwed.

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Likeless, Buster concurred with that scientific assessment.

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But his day wasn't done.

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With the addition of a hammer, break the water's surface tension and save his skin.

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We're ready on your count.

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Three, two, one, go.

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Oh, oh.

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In short, the hammer made no difference whatsoever.

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I'd say that's a good day's work.

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Want to get the hell off this crane.

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Well, I'll tell you, I never imagined that falling into water, which I knew was dangerous,

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would actually tear you limb from limb.

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I mean, it tore Buster's legs right off.

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Yeah, and then I had to spend a half a day on the weekend by myself out there with a clam rake finding the lower limb.

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I'm really glad you did.

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Well, for whatever good it did. How are you doing with the bone tests?

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Excellent, actually. I've got what I think is perfect arm bone material, both upper and lower.

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And I'm just about to do the final test on this roughly three-quarter inch poplar spar,

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which I think is going to make a perfect set of leg bones for him.

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That was perfect.

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This broke at exactly the same weight as the human femur.

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Yeah, it looks like Buster's new bones are going to be made out of poplar.

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And you know what this will tell us is, for instance, if I got launched 200 feet out of a culvert,

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whether or not that resulting landing would actually break any of my bones.

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Well, I think we already know the answer to that one.

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Well, what's next in line for Buster is to put him in a three-foot pipe with a bunch of gasoline

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and maybe even gunpowder and see if we can launch him like a cannonball.

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In this myth, a hillbilly is blown over his house after trying to blast a raccoon out of a rain pipe using gasoline.

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It's like a secret escape hatch!

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The guys had a pipe three feet round, just like the myth.

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It was positioned in a pile of earth for stability and safety.

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Well, we just covered the pipe with dirt, and so I guess we're going to pour some gasoline down there

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and light it with the dummy in the tube.

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We pretty well know that nothing's going to happen.

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Just like the genius in the myth, Buster was positioned head-first in the pipe, eyeballing the cranky raccoon.

251
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The raccoon's probably all the way at the very end, you know, up against like a steel grate or something like that.

252
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So he's probably like right here, trying to be as threatening as a raccoon soaked with gasoline can be.

253
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Five gallons of gasoline should get this party started.

254
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Okay, it's kind of a lot. A lot of gasoline pouring out of there.

255
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That's it.

256
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Alright, get out of there.

257
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In three, two, one.

258
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There we go. We have ignition.

259
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Put it out now. Go.

260
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Well, that wasn't nothing at all. Let's see how our raccoon did.

261
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For those who like their raccoons deep-fried.

262
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We replicated the myth, we got nothing.

263
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Now it's time to see what it takes to launch him out of that tube.

264
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So, scratch gas.

265
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If you really want to blow a hillbilly over a house, you need gunpowder.

266
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We're using 10 one-pound cans of the Go-X black powder.

267
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That should give us a pretty good bang.

268
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And a sealed tube.

269
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Jamie's built this foam saboo so Buster would be tight in the pipe, like a bullet in a barrel.

270
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Oh, yeah.

271
00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,760
Buster is locked in the saboo. It's a perfect fit.

272
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So that's the 10-pounder, isn't it?

273
00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:57,760
It's a 10-pounder.

274
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It doesn't look like much.

275
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Until it goes off.

276
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Look at that. That's perfect.

277
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A whole damn thing could blow up for all we know, but our best shot is that it's going to come out of there

278
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and it's going to come out really fast and it's going to look really cool.

279
00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:18,760
Jamie's so confident he's parked Buster's chair right where he thinks he'll land.

280
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Jamie, you hoping to catch him?

281
00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:21,760
Yeah.

282
00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,760
That's about the most optimistic thing I've ever heard.

283
00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,760
If you catch him, I'll give you $100.

284
00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,760
Buster, of course, would get nothing but trouble.

285
00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,760
5, 2, 3, 2, 1.

286
00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:44,760
Oh my God.

287
00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,760
I almost made the chair.

288
00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,760
I almost made the chair.

289
00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,760
Oh, he survived.

290
00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,760
Buster survived.

291
00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,760
How you feeling, buddy?

292
00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:08,760
Buster perfected the art of the nearly human cannonball and once again gave all in the name of Mythbusting.

293
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:20,760
After a season of abuse, Buster the Crash Test dummy is being rebuilt from the ground up.

294
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,760
At this point, we're just about halfway there.

295
00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:28,760
Now once we get these parts molded into rubber, Buster will be ready for active duty.

296
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:35,760
And you know, this time he needs to be ready for absolutely anything because somehow I don't think the original designers

297
00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,760
really intended him to test the world's deadliest washing machine.

298
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,760
In this myth, a man is overloading his washing machine.

299
00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,760
To stuff the clothes in, he stands inside the machine, but it switches on,

300
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:59,760
spinning him around, knocking baking soda off the shelf and terrifying his pet dog, who pees on the soda.

301
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:04,760
Causing a small explosion, at which point the laundry machine went into its spin cycle,

302
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,760
turning him at about 70 miles an hour where he smacked his head into his shelf and died immediately.

303
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,760
Well, that sounds ridiculous.

304
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,760
Well, yeah.

305
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,760
So the Mythbusters created Frankenwasher.

306
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,760
Oh, there we go.

307
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,760
Now it's finally linked up. Good.

308
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:28,760
A bucking bronco of a machine, packing 10 horsepower of spin cycle insanity.

309
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,760
A field trip to the park would turn up the other component of this myth, eventually.

310
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,760
Come on.

311
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,760
Jamie, what?

312
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,760
He was going to go in my pants. You messed it all up.

313
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:48,760
Good job.

314
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,760
Beautiful. Excellent.

315
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,760
And it was time to take Buster for a spin.

316
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,760
He's swinging the butt all the way upside down like this.

317
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,760
There's a camera out of there.

318
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:02,760
Yeah, here.

319
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,760
Now we let him...wait, he's copping a field, right?

320
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,760
There we go. Buster!

321
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,760
See? See? We're done.

322
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,760
Buster's reluctance was understandable.

323
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,760
See, that was easy.

324
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,760
And his fortunes were about to take a turn for the worse.

325
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760
A big turn.

326
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,760
I told you no colors with the whites.

327
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,760
Let's do it.

328
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,760
I'm going to operate it from over here. It's safe distance.

329
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:37,760
Okay, quiet, guys.

330
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:38,760
Ready?

331
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,760
By Myth Buster's standards, Buster got off lightly,

332
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,760
dizzy but otherwise unharmed.

333
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,760
That was a lot of fun. That was pretty cool.

334
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,760
He was like a top or a Tasmanian devil.

335
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:07,760
But does the last part of this myth contain a drop of truth?

336
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:13,760
Basically now I'm about to pour the dogweed on the pile of baking soda,

337
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,760
which if the myth is correct, should cause a small explosion.

338
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,760
Or if we're actually on Earth, we'll do absolutely bupkis.

339
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,760
Get me the Jack Russell Terrier urine. That ought to do it.

340
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,760
They're hyperlid creatures.

341
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,760
Alright, are you ready?

342
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:31,760
On set!

343
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,760
Well, what do you know? Nothing happened.

344
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,760
No explosion at all.

345
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,760
Well, Jimmy, that's actually a first for us.

346
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,760
There's not one fact about this myth that's true.

347
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,760
This round belongs to Buster.

348
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,760
He emerges from that machine, washed, dried, fluffed, and folded,

349
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,760
and ready for more dirty work.

350
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,760
Well, Buster definitely got off pretty easy in the Killa Wash Machine myth.

351
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,760
Yeah, we hardly had to do anything at all to fix him.

352
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,760
You know, I'm really hoping that this is the very last major rebuild we'll have to do for a while.

353
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:11,760
Yeah, well, I can't hardly wait to see what it takes to bust Buster's new skeleton.

354
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:12,760
Excellent.

355
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,760
Hey, it's not ready yet. You can't do that.

356
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:16,760
Sorry.

357
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,760
Hardly any of the original Buster will be left.

358
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,760
Jamie and Adam have custom-made nearly all of the skeleton.

359
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,760
I love it. That's terrific.

360
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,760
And there's a little bit of play in there. I think it's great.

361
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,760
He's got new, more flexible aluminum joints.

362
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,760
And the wooden pieces will closely match the strength of human arms and legs.

363
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,760
And best yet, they're all quickly and easily replaceable.

364
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,760
So, Dr. Heineman, will I still be able to play the piano when this operation's over?

365
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:54,760
Piano playing is fine, but I would like you to watch the safety film on the dangers of playing the trombone.

366
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,760
This is a musical myth.

367
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:11,760
A wacky trombonist thinks it'd be fun to fire his mute into the audience at the crescendo of the 1812 overture.

368
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:20,760
Instead, his firecracker-propelled mute hits the conductor, blowing him into the crowd,

369
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,760
and the trombone slide is shot into the second violinist.

370
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:31,760
Strangely, none of the local concert halls expressed any desire to help out.

371
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,760
He's pretty floppy. It's like trying to get a dead guy to stand up.

372
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:42,760
So, this would be an outdoor show, with Buster making his conducting debut.

373
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,760
He had a little stage front, understandable,

374
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:54,760
given the mythbusters brought in pyrotechnician Jack Morocco to ensure they got enough bang for their concert going back.

375
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,760
Just another day of blowing something up.

376
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,760
I think it's going to be a nice loud bang. I think it's going to destroy the mute right off.

377
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:07,760
I don't think nearly anything that we're going to be able to do is actually going to get the mute to Buster.

378
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,760
I knew it, he's good. All right. Are we all good to go?

379
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:18,760
Notice how everyone moved behind the safety screen. Some nights, Buster dreams of doing that.

380
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,760
In three, two, one.

381
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,760
Well, it didn't go anywhere.

382
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,760
He's using that trombone.

383
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,760
Holy crap!

384
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,760
Why is he smoking so much? It looks like it did hit him.

385
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,760
It hurts on fire.

386
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,760
And look, the slide's still in place.

387
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:45,760
The slide?

388
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,760
I think if it didn't blow off with that, it's not going to.

389
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,760
The slide is still in place.

390
00:25:52,760 --> 00:26:00,760
It was quite a performance. Buster was hot, but of course, what self-respecting show ends without an encore.

391
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,760
More gunpowder, please, maestro.

392
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,760
Ready to fire in three, two, one.

393
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,760
He had a blast. Busted the myth, but Buster's conducting days were over.

394
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:53,760
Buster was excited. They were taking him scuba diving, but this was no Hawaiian holiday.

395
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:54,760
Maybe we should grease him.

396
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,760
With some lard.

397
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,760
Myth has it a scuba diver was found dead in a forest fire.

398
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,760
Seems he was sucked up by a firefighting helicopter and dumped there.

399
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,760
Those choppers have massive pumps.

400
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,760
To replicate the story, the mythbusters built their own.

401
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,760
And guess who got to play the unlucky diver?

402
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,760
Adam helpfully pushed Buster up towards the funnel.

403
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,760
But nothing.

404
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,760
There was just not enough suction to hold him. I mean, his tank was in the way. Everything was in the way.

405
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,760
That was a lot of water coming out the other end, though.

406
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,760
And I have to tell you, if you were a diver and you heard that sound.

407
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,760
You'd go in the other direction.

408
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,760
I think you'd go in the other direction, because I can hear it very clearly under there, and it sounds like a bad thing.

409
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,760
The funnel and guard were removed from the pipe, and Buster stripped of his tank.

410
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:06,760
So we're pulling off the cowling, and we're going to try him right on the end of the pipe.

411
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:12,760
That's the worst case scenario. They don't run those machines like that, but that's what we're going to try and see if there's enough suction at all.

412
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,760
Once more, Buster was sucked into the vortex.

413
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,760
But as soon as air got into that tube, the suction was broken.

414
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,760
That is so busted!

415
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,760
It pulled him up out of the water a little bit.

416
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,760
A little bit short of a forest fire.

417
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,760
Well, this new Buster has a lot to live up to.

418
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Yeah, you know, scuba divers, the world over now feels safer diving near forest fires thanks to the old Buster's efforts.

419
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,760
And people in elevators know exactly what to expect if and when the cable snaps.

420
00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:02,760
Although, you know, I think our title of that one was a little bit of a giveaway, the elevator of death, not the elevator of happiness.

421
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,760
Or the elevator of love.

422
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,760
No, no, that is a trapped elevator.

423
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,760
We're not going to test that one, are we?

424
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,760
Not you and me.

425
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,760
I guess that's it.

426
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,760
It's an eight-story building.

427
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:29,760
For the elevator of death, Jamie found a hotel due for demolition and figured they'd get a little head start on the wrecking ball.

428
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:32,760
Yeah!

429
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,760
This is the classic Last Hope myth.

430
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:43,760
If your elevator falls, can you save yourself by jumping up right before hitting bottom?

431
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,760
Buster was going for a ride.

432
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:53,760
To do it, Jamie and Adam needed to rig the elevator to fall and rig Buster to jump at the right time.

433
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,760
So first, put a little spring in his step.

434
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,760
And you're Scotty with her blowtorch.

435
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,760
Voila! The world's greatest pogo stick.

436
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,760
Okay, here we go.

437
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,760
Well, that wasn't very much at all.

438
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,760
The world's greatest pogo stick.

439
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,760
About 20 centimeters.

440
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,760
His feet came to a very high level.

441
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,760
One more time, maybe?

442
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,760
I think that's a good run. I think we're there.

443
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,760
That was significantly more than what we got before. He looked like he jumped.

444
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,760
Buster was bouncing beautifully.

445
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,760
Time to take a fall.

446
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,760
We are cutting the cable. Stand by.

447
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,760
With considerable thought, a lot of work, and a little luck,

448
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,760
Jamie and Adam managed to get the elevator working again.

449
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,760
Yeah, baby!

450
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,760
And rigged it with a quick release catch.

451
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,760
Okay, Buster, this won't hurt a bit.

452
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,760
Inside, we have a little bit of a break.

453
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,760
We're going to take a break.

454
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,760
We're going to take a break with a quick release catch.

455
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,760
Okay, Buster, this won't hurt a bit.

456
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,760
Inside the car, Buster sat as comfortably as possible under the circumstances.

457
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,760
The shaft was eight stories high.

458
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,760
A cable would pull the pin on his pogo stick six feet from the bottom.

459
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,760
It's about perfect to me.

460
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,760
Okay, the rig is stationary.

461
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,760
There seemed little chance of this myth actually being true and saving Buster's life.

462
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,760
I think Buster's toast.

463
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,760
But then that's his job.

464
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,760
Of course, they never mentioned that at the job interview.

465
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,760
All right, here we go.

466
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:55,760
Ready to drop in five, four, three, two...

467
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,760
Man, that was intense.

468
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,760
That was such a rush.

469
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,760
It was just like this enormous blast of air.

470
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,760
Oh, no.

471
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,760
His head's gone.

472
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,760
Buster might have literally lost his head,

473
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,760
but not when it came to testing.

474
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,760
It's just like a blast of air.

475
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,760
It's just like a blast of air.

476
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,760
He's literally lost his head,

477
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,760
but not when it came to testing this myth.

478
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,760
In some of its finest work,

479
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,760
he showed there's no way jumping up

480
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,760
will overcome the downward speed of a falling elevator car.

481
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,760
He hit bottom at a shattering 51 miles an hour.

482
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,760
I don't know if we can put him back together.

483
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,760
Yeah, Scotty can do it.

484
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,760
We can rebuild him.

485
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,760
His head came off.

486
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,760
His arm.

487
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,760
He cracked a few ribs, and this goes here.

488
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,760
Did you go to medical school?

489
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,760
I think Buster feels good about a job well done,

490
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,760
and he just hopes that we don't put his head on backwards.

491
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,760
Well, here's a test piece of Buster's new flesh.

492
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,760
It's called dragon skin.

493
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,760
Dragon skin?

494
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,760
Dragon skin because it's supposed to be resistant to heat,

495
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,760
and it's really tough.

496
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,760
That's really good.

497
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,760
Well, I've got a simulated dragon right here.

498
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,760
Let's see how it takes direct flame.

499
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,760
I mean, it's not actually burning.

500
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,760
God, look, it's getting red hot.

501
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,760
Wow, it just, it's perfect underneath.

502
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,760
It's not exactly fireproof,

503
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,760
but it's definitely fire resistant,

504
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,760
and that's all we need for Buster.

505
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,760
Well, we also need him to be able to take a pretty hard hit.

506
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,760
I mean, like that?

507
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Well, no, no, no, I mean, it's something like this.

508
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,760
I thought it was more like that.

509
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,760
I think it's ideal.

510
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,760
So Buster is really busted up now.

511
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,760
Even though he still has his head this time,

512
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,760
his arm is off.

513
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:16,760
His arm attachment, shoulder blade is just all broken up.

514
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,760
His leg is off.

515
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,760
His ball joint is missing now.

516
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,760
He's still smiling though.

517
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,760
He always has that little smile.

518
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,760
I have to put him back together

519
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,760
so that we can then launch him 200 feet

520
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,760
from a boom lift catapult.

521
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,760
Scotty's metal maiden skills

522
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,760
meant she was perfect for an ongoing role

523
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,760
as Buster's personal physician.

524
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,760
How's Buster doing?

525
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,760
Both his legs are back on.

526
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,760
Woo! Look nice.

527
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,760
I brought you something special.

528
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,760
I heard his little heart got broken,

529
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,760
so I made him a new one of duct tape for you to put in.

530
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,760
Is he ready for action again?

531
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,760
He is ready.

532
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,760
Look at that brand new hips.

533
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,760
New heart, new hips.

534
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,760
Buster is back in one piece,

535
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,760
though not all his own pieces.

536
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,760
You're going to take another ride.

537
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,760
Buster, come on, stop climbing around.

538
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,760
He's wet his pants.

539
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,760
In this myth, he'll play the unfortunate hero

540
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,760
who's trying to lift an engine out of a car

541
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,760
using a boom lift.

542
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,760
But the chain breaks,

543
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,760
catapulting him over his house.

544
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,760
All right, I'm going to count down.

545
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,760
49, 48.

546
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:33,760
Just kidding.

547
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:38,760
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

548
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,760
And Buster didn't even spill his coffee.

549
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,760
He didn't drop the cup.

550
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,760
The Mythbusters mayhem meter didn't even move.

551
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,760
Time to supersize this one.

552
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,760
What we're going to do is we're going to raise it up,

553
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,760
grab these points here,

554
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,760
and then let the actual thing swing forward.

555
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,760
Just like that.

556
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,760
And so a simple little myth

557
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,760
turned into a magnificent,

558
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,760
stupid, monstrous challenge.

559
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,760
Once again, Buster would be at the center of the storm.

560
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,760
That looks pretty good.

561
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,760
That looks good there.

562
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,760
Or at least, that's where he'd start.

563
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,760
Adam thought he'd finish about 100 feet away.

564
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,760
Well, I mean, obviously the tradition is

565
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,760
we always have to see if we can catch Buster

566
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,760
by estimating his distance perfectly.

567
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,760
So I think about another maybe 15 feet that way.

568
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,760
It's got to be 100 times more, you know,

569
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,760
thrust than what the myth would have in it.

570
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,760
You still don't think he's going to go a couple hundred feet?

571
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,760
No, I don't think he's going to go much farther

572
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,760
than right about here.

573
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,760
Yeah, I'm starting up, okay?

574
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,760
Next, the arm was lowered and caulked.

575
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,760
Stay back.

576
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,760
Adam took the strain in the forklift.

577
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,760
Buster's slowly descending.

578
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,760
Everything looks just fine.

579
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,760
Roger that.

580
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,760
Okay.

581
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,760
Of all the places in the whole world

582
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,760
for Buster to be just then,

583
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,760
this was the worst.

584
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,760
On my count in five, four, three, two, one.

585
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,760
Buster!

586
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,760
Woo!

587
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,760
Ha ha ha!

588
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,760
What?

589
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,760
I don't think we're going to be returning this lift.

590
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,760
Ha ha ha ha!

591
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,760
So he did lose both legs.

592
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,760
Oh.

593
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,760
He lost both legs.

594
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,760
One leg separated and his hand ended up

595
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,760
in the middle of the leg.

596
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,760
What do you think, guys? Is this the myth, Buster?

597
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,760
No, myth totally failed, completely busted.

598
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,760
Totally completely busted.

599
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,760
And Buster busted.

600
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,760
And Boom Lift busted.

601
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,760
Everything's busted.

602
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,760
Check around. Busted.

603
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,760
Buster's new dragon skin body is taking shape.

604
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,760
Buster's new dragon skin body is taking shape.

605
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,760
Buster's new dragon skin body is taking shape.

606
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,760
That looks pretty good.

607
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,760
Oh, God, these are coming out great.

608
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,760
That looks like a chunk of meat.

609
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,760
That's perfect. The color's good.

610
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,760
And it's actually really bouncy and fleshy.

611
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,760
I think it's a little pink, but maybe if Buster had

612
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,760
had this flesh on him when he was in Plywood Builder,

613
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,760
he would have bounced instead of crashed like he did.

614
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,760
He might have bounced a little bit,

615
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,760
but I still don't think it would have helped him

616
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,760
survive at all.

617
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,760
In the Plywood Builder myth,

618
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,760
a construction worker falls from a building

619
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,760
but survives by holding onto a sheet of Plywood.

620
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,760
Jamie and Adam will help the myth out

621
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,760
by using five single sheets to make their own flying rigs.

622
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,760
For this myth, Buster got a modification.

623
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,760
The disturbingly named

624
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,760
Buster's new dragon skin body is now in the Plywood Builder.

625
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,760
And the new dragon skin body is now in the Plywood Builder.

626
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,760
And the new dragon skin body is now in the Plywood Builder.

627
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,760
With this myth,

628
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,760
the new dragon head is now in the Plywood Builder.

629
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,760
And if you look at the modification,

630
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,760
the disturbingly named ball of death,

631
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,760
this little globe of fake blood would smash

632
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,760
if Buster took a fatal impact.

633
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,760
Wow.

634
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,760
It looks gruesome, doesn't it?

635
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,760
And so to the drop zone.

636
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,760
Perfect.

637
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,760
The guys built full-sized Plywood rigs

638
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,760
from 60 feet up.

639
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,760
He's a very relaxed dude.

640
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,760
He doesn't know what's about to happen to him.

641
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,760
Okay, be careful with this dye now.

642
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,760
He has a brain.

643
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,760
You know, Buster, everyone really appreciates

644
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,760
how you're willing to take one for the team

645
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,760
time and time again.

646
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,760
Are you ready for a piece of Plywood?

647
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,760
Oh, I can tell you're feeling it.

648
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,760
Oh, he's ready.

649
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,760
With the Plywood Sheet Save Buster

650
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,760
from another busting.

651
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,760
He's gonna die.

652
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,760
But it's gonna look great.

653
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:02,760
In five, four, three, two, one, go.

654
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,760
Well, the Plywood didn't help at all.

655
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,760
He hit the ground at 36 miles an hour.

656
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,760
And the result?

657
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,760
He's got blood dripping out the back of his head.

658
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,760
We can look at the speed tests

659
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,760
and we can look at the death ball,

660
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,760
but I don't think I need to see either of them

661
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,760
to say this one's busted.

662
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,760
He's done for.

663
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,760
Let's go get our solutions.

664
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,760
Let's go try my wooden parachute.

665
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,760
Okay.

666
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,760
Strangely, the idea of falling beneath Adam's

667
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,760
parachute didn't seem to cheer Buster up.

668
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,760
No.

669
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,760
Little fat lot of good that did.

670
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,760
Oh well, the best laid plans.

671
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,760
Nice try.

672
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,760
It worked most of the way.

673
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,760
I'm taking solace in the fact that your wing

674
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,760
is gonna fail so utterly, spectacularly.

675
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,760
Finally, Janie's wing.

676
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,760
Buster really needed a lucky break about now.

677
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,760
Dude.

678
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,760
Go!

679
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,760
Bummer.

680
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,760
Poor guy.

681
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,760
Janie, Janie, Janie, Janie!

682
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,760
That was better than I could have ever hoped.

683
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,760
This reminds me of when we first got him,

684
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,760
how pink and perfect he was.

685
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,760
I reckon we did pretty good for four days of work.

686
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,760
Yeah, he's not half bad.

687
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,760
But you know, there is one more thing

688
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,760
that we have to do with this guy.

689
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,760
We've got to dress him.

690
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,760
Yeah, we do.

691
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,760
I think he'll fit in his clothes.

692
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,760
You know, this reminds me of when we first got him.

693
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,760
How pink and perfect he was.

694
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,760
I reckon we did pretty good for four days of work.

695
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,760
Yeah, he's not half bad.

696
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,760
I think he'll fit in his clothes.

697
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,760
I think he's a little porkier.

698
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,760
Look at him!

699
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,760
He's so cute!

700
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,760
Finally something for the female fans.

701
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,760
I think he looks pretty darn good.

702
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,760
I think he's ready for some high impact,

703
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,760
highly flammable, highly improbable situations.

704
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,760
You mean like simulating an ancient Chinese guy

705
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,760
going into outer space on a throne

706
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,760
that's got a whole bunch of rocket strap to it?

707
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,760
That is exactly the type of situation I'm talking about.

708
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,760
The story goes that a 15th century Chinese astrologer

709
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,760
decided to see if he could launch himself into space.

710
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,760
So he strapped 47 rockets around the base of his throne

711
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,760
and had 47 people, like 47 fuses, all at once.

712
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,760
And when they did, apparently he went up in a puff of smoke.

713
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,760
They claimed that he got into space.

714
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,760
We're here to see if he did.

715
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,760
To test this improbable story,

716
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,760
the Mythbusters built two kind of sort of authentic

717
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,760
ancient Chinese thrones.

718
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,760
No, Adam. Perfect.

719
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,760
Strap to one would be bamboo rockets

720
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,760
powered by a dubious homebrew gunpowder Adam cooked up.

721
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,760
One, zero!

722
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,760
That's perfect!

723
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,760
The other by conventional, modern, high-powered rocket engines.

724
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,760
We should put both legs in first, I'm just thinking.

725
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,760
So all they needed was an ancient Chinese astrologer.

726
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,760
Oh, and here he is now.

727
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,760
He looks great.

728
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,760
Oh, I'm going to teach you a lesson.

729
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:10,760
I think Buster, aka Wan Hu, is ready for his launch.

730
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,760
And rocket chair number one is ready too.

731
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,760
This is the most dangerous part.

732
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:21,760
80 pounds of gunpowder, 22 idiots, one crash test dummy.

733
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,760
Priceless.

734
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,760
With 22 idiots to choose from,

735
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:31,760
Buster was again entitled to wonder why he was the one being strapped to the rocket chair.

736
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,760
The future was again looking bleak.

737
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:44,760
I'm staring at a Chinese dressed crash test dummy on a throne strapped to 70 pounds of gunpowder.

738
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,760
I just had another one of those Mythbusters moments.

739
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,760
Five, four, three, two, one.

740
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,760
Well, it was fast, whatever it was.

741
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,760
Just like Wan Hu, Buster's vanished.

742
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,760
But he's no astronaut.

743
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,760
In fact, he's toast.

744
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,760
Get the dummy before it goes.

745
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,760
His ass is on fire!

746
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:23,760
And here I thought the elevator of death was the most damaged he'd ever withstand.

747
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,760
He is burnt to a crisp.

748
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:36,760
I think there's hardly a single patch of skin left on his body that is uncharred.

749
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,760
And, you know, frankly, I don't think this is something that we can really fix.

750
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,760
Buster is gone as we know him.

751
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:51,760
Buster, aka Chinese astrologer, was completely obliterated.

752
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,760
I mean, the amount of heat was just unfathomable.

753
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,760
Buster was taken to another world in a puff of smoke.

754
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:09,760
Buster was entitled to hope that other world would be a safer, kinder place.

755
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,760
But it wasn't.

756
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:16,760
As soon as he'd stopped sizzling, he was strapped into rocket chair number two.

757
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,760
The one with the serious power.

758
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:23,760
We have a fair suspicion that this chair is actually going to go somewhere.

759
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,760
And so, lest Buster just fall out in the first couple of feet,

760
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,760
I thought we should probably anchor him a little better than we did the last time.

761
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,760
Looks like Buster's ready for the second shot.

762
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,760
Look out and stay away.

763
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:44,760
Five, four, three, two, one, go.

764
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,760
Well, there you go.

765
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,760
Well, he definitely got off the ground.

766
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,760
Oh, my poor chair.

767
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:09,760
Oh, man.

768
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,760
I'm glad we tied him in.

769
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,760
I think everything held as good as we could have asked it to hold.

770
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,760
Myth busted, and a familiar feeling for Buster.

771
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:25,760
Shooting for the stars, winding up battered and burnt in the dirt.

772
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,760
Life as a myth Buster was never meant to be easy.

773
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,760
But who knew it was going to be this hard?

774
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,760
And from the ashes of the Ming dynasty rocket,

775
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,760
the new improved Buster rises like a phoenix.

776
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,760
Well, you know, he may have the same head, hands and feet,

777
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,760
but the new improved Buster has a ton of new features.

778
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:48,760
Yeah, he's fireproof.

779
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,760
He's got breakable bones.

780
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,760
He's got joints that won't be too hard to replace, which we will have to replace.

781
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,760
Yeah, he's exactly the same weight as the old Buster.

782
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:03,760
I mean, we put the old Buster through an awful lot of trials and tribulations.

783
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,760
We dropped him off a bridge.

784
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,760
We've dropped bricks on him.

785
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,760
We've blown him up with Chinese explosives.

786
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,760
We've dropped him eight stories on an elevator.

787
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,760
He's been blown up sitting on a toilet.

788
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,760
We fired him out of a cannon.

789
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,760
Flung from a boom-width catapult.

790
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,760
Flown off a building holding onto a piece of plywood.

791
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:27,760
I mean, he's done an awful lot, and hopefully this new Buster

792
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,760
has the same type of destructive feature to look forward to.

793
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,760
I'm going to christen him.

794
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,760
I christen you Buster 2.0.

795
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,760
Are you going to make me repair his head again?

796
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,760
I christen you Buster 2.0.

797
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,760
I christen you Buster 2.0.

798
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:56,760
You've never done that before, have you?

799
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,760
No.

800
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,760
You