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Do not try any of the experiments you are about to see at home.

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You heard him. Don't do it.

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On this episode of Mythbusters, we're taking a trip down memory lane

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in a countdown of the host's ultimate highlights.

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This is hands down my favorite episode.

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We'll go behind the scenes.

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It is the beating heart behind why we love doing this show.

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To salute and celebrate the greatest hits, most spectacular misses,

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trickiest builds, and weirdest, wackiest, most exciting experiments.

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It was hilarious.

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So buckle up, calm down, and hold on to your stomachs.

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Because this is the Mythbusters Top 25 Special.

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Holy crap, I'm gonna die.

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Who are the Mythbusters? Adam Savage.

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It's scientific.

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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I call him my little pop gun.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience,

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joining them,

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Tori Bellegi.

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And touchdown.

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Karen Ibarra.

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They're starting to get a little crazy.

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And Grant Imahara.

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That was awesome.

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But they don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Three, two.

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Mythbusters.

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I'll assemble the team.

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I got the call. What's the emergency?

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I don't know. Where's the walrus?

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Good morning, team. Thanks for assembling.

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The network has asked us to make a two hour special.

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The Top 25 Mythbuster Moments.

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I'm sorry guys, this is distracting me.

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What?

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So seriously, we're compiling our all time favorite Mythbuster episodes?

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I got a few.

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Totally. This is gonna be awesome.

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Well, what do you guys stand around for? Let's get started.

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So we're all set to launch the Top 25 countdown.

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And it's gonna be a wild ride full of spectacle,

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science and an intriguing insight into the host's personal highlights.

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Not to mention all those fan favorites you love to see again and again and again.

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So where do we begin? What do we got?

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In a 25, the first most memorable Mythbuster moment is in fact the first ever myth.

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Yep, way back when Adam looked 16 and Jamie looked like Jamie.

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Our dynamic duo took on the myth of the Jato rocket car.

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And to test it, they built their own jet assisted take off rockets,

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attached them to a car and hit the desert with mayhem in mind.

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I'm gonna have to have a green egg to me.

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It's funny after all these years in our first episode,

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the Jato rocket car is still a fan favorite and still actually really a high point for me and Jamie.

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Brakes are coming off. We are a go.

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Sitting in that chopper watching the rocket car take off.

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Okay, we're in line. Okay, coming out of the drop.

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I'm coming home with the electronic.

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It was just extraordinary.

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Go ahead, set it off. Fire it in. Three, two, one, fire.

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Three, two, one, fire it in.

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Three, two, one, fire it in.

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Fire it in.

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I mean, the closest example that I can give to it is that it was like watching some sort of African animal take off.

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Really quickly across the savannah.

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I said, this was a car with a rocket on it.

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I mean, it was beautiful. Gorgeous.

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At a classic myth buster moment.

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That was hysterical. That was absolutely outrageous.

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A hit of the absurd, a dash of engineering and a side salad of busted urban myth.

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That was beautiful.

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From a single soaring moment in the Mojave to a whole lot of locket and loading, responsibly, of course.

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Let's do it.

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Guns are a part of our standard stock and trade on this show, and I got to say, I have some reservations about that because,

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where we use materials and tools and ways for which they were never intended.

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Things get real interesting real fast.

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You're looking at a vegetarian.

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From California.

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I never expected that I would be a gun person.

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Guns and ammo are part of the myth buster tradition, but that relationship is built on respect

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and an ultra safe environment created by expert armorers and law enforcement officials.

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But the moment that fires guns and ammo into number 24 is from the viewer requested mini myth

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that it was possible to cop down a tree with a machine gun.

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And after touring, Grant failed with the small arms, our vegetarian tree hug and hippie stepped up to ramp it up.

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One of my all time favorite moments on myth busters was shooting a gatling gun to mow down a tree.

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They were going hot.

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I had never shot anything this crazy before.

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We're talking 30 caliber bullets, 3,000 rounds per minute.

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From guns and ammo to a weapon of mass deduction.

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Wake up! Time for science!

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I know that a lot of our viewers tune in because we blow a lot of crap up.

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And make no mistake, that is fun.

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But for us, what's kept it fun, kept the whole show dis-entertaining for all these years is the science.

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Gravity man, it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

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It's the beating heart behind why we love doing this show.

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We're popping popcorn with lasers.

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It's scientific!

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And the tall tale that provides the fondest memory of solid scientific methodology and makes it in at number 23 is the time the team fired up.

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The myth was that a bullet fired straight into the air will kill you when it comes back down to the ground.

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What they did was find a dry lake bed that was pretty pristine, fired the bullets up, and see where they landed.

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Simple, right? Sometimes the best science is simple.

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The US military had actually done a fair amount of research into it between the two wars.

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They wanted to know what happened with falling bullets.

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There she blows. That's 9mm round.

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We found it!

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We did all their research and by the end of our episode, we effectively tripled, I think, the amount of real practical knowledge there is about bullets, how they fall, what speed they fall at, and what they'll do to you once they hit you.

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I'd say that's probably one of the few episodes we could publish the results from and I'm really proud of that.

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This is science in action.

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The next most memorable myth... most memorable... hold on.

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The next most memorable myth buster...

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This doesn't happen to me. It usually happens to Jamie.

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Am I actually failing at trying to say failure is always an option?

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Can we just roll the... tape?

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To say that things go wrong on the show is an understatement.

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And fabulous failures that stick in the memory include...

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This bunker test to the myth of the Confederate rocket, which put an end to shop-bound tests with rockets.

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I heard it go...

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When the runaway trucks...

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They're gonna go into the water.

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The weakest link in this chain was the breakaway rope, and that's what we wanted it to be.

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I think the most epic failure of all time was the Jato rocket revisit.

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When there was so much planning and so much work going into getting this car...

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It's good. It's on the hook.

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It's moving well.

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It's heading towards the ramp.

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You can't reset for a Jato rocket car launch, because blowing up is your last chance.

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Boom! Done! No reset.

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That was one thing I didn't expect.

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Total explosion upon ignition.

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Failure is always an option.

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Isn't the accidents, mishaps, and chaos, it's the science.

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Failure is always an option as a phrase that I came up with, actually, and put on early crew hats as a Christmas gift early in the show.

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And it's not just a joke.

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It's actually really the cornerstone of our approach to the scientific method.

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Any result to result, that's for sure.

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We screw things up all the time on this show.

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And we have no pretense that we don't screw up.

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In fact, when we fail, we learn things, and so we actually kind of respect it.

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That was the scariest thing I've ever done on this show.

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The car is going.

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The car is going.

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The cultural idea of the scientist is someone who sets up an experiment, and when it doesn't happen the way they expected, they think,

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Any experiment that yields data is a viable experiment.

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Information is key, not what you expect the outcome to be.

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Therefore, any kind of failure of what we perceive might happen is an option.

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Nothing beats your first world first.

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I had a nightmare like this once.

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The Glass Break episode is our first world first, and it's a real high point for us.

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Going into that episode, everyone's heard the myth that an opera singer can shatter a glass with their voice,

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and we thought that that was totally possible.

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that nobody had ever filmed anybody doing it,

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that there were films of a speaker doing it, but never someone solely with their voice.

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Baby, man, dude!

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That is a first on television.

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Honestly, this is one of my all-time favorite high-speed shots.

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Seeing Jamie there, watching the glass, vibrate back and forth,

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and then watching as Jamie's, like, about six years later, pulling his lips away from the shattering glass,

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It doesn't get much better than that.

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After the story aired, we got a lot of feedback from people indicating that they didn't believe

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that we were actually able to break that glass with a human voice.

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Yep, some of you thought that this microphone boom is a sonic gun,

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and that this lens flare is a fishing line.

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Both theories suggesting that the glass break was fake.

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We like controversial results from our testing,

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and we, in fact, also like it when people criticize what we've done on the show,

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and, you know, that's where it's all at.

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If you're thinking about the show, then you're being engaged, and we're doing our job.

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Next up is not so much a single moment, but a medley of main machines.

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Over the years, the team has collected plenty of crazy contraptions, mad models, and rad robots.

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Hey, close attention to this. Here's exactly what's going to happen.

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And that's what's going to happen.

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These beastly builds have provided many of the team's all-time highs.

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Watch out!

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And although this moment is a monument to them all...

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Pretty sexy, huh?

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The hosts do have a few cherished examples.

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For both Adam and I, building crazy machines, well, it's what we live for.

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Like that. Just a godly torrent of water.

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But out of all of them, what would be my favorite or the craziest?

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Working on these machines is great for my skin.

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Nice! I'm very pleased. And terrified.

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I mean, this thing was just so out of control.

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It was terrifying to even be close to it. It was insane.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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I mean, who gets to build a 20-foot rubber shark?

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What do you think of the car?

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I'm like the luckiest guy in the world.

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And Grant, well, that's easy. He's the man with the army of robot minions.

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He's alive! Alive! Ha ha ha ha ha!

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You know, I think that building these machines is one of my favorite things on the show.

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Decapitation hazard, everybody.

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Oh!

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One of my hobbies before starting Mythbusters was fighting robots.

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And the idea is that you build a robot, it fights other robots inside the Serena.

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And I think that the machines that I build for Mythbusters are an extension of that.

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I didn't train him to do that.

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Grant always says he knows when he's built a really, really good robot.

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When, just before you, you set it off.

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Even though everybody's behind blast shields in a bunker far, far away.

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Everyone on the crew, including yourself, takes a little half step back.

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Alright, here we go. In three, two, one.

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In the serious business of solving crimes of science.

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Huge dramatic music.

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Sometimes you need a little protection.

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Good luck, baby.

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Yeah, that could shake a booty in this.

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Come on, let's go!

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I feel like I'm ready to go out clubbing.

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Uh-huh.

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It's not the similar from how Jamie was dressed when he first came to Earth.

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You want to take off your hood and participate in this conversation?

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I kind of like it in here, it's private.

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Hell, people of Earth, I come in peace.

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Yep, the team often pull on protective clothing.

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In their line of work, it'd be foolish not to.

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Ah, good.

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But over the years, at your urging, they've also worn costumes that are not strictly necessary.

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And this fan-requested costume comedy and creative use of safety gear

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has provided a host of audience highlights.

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So, let's take a moment to remember all those moments

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when the team took one for the team and got dressed up like idiots.

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James, I'm frightened.

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You're never the right to be afraid, my lovely.

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How do you feel?

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I feel kind of sexy.

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They were definitely firmer at 8,000 feet, but not by much.

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Well, do you want to go all the way?

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Yes, yes.

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We're busting out of here, see?

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You ready?

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Oh, yeah.

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This is disturbing as I think it is.

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It's even more disturbing than you think it is.

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I like it.

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So, yes, sir!

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I predict that I'll be dancing on Jaime's intestines in minutes.

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Are you okay?

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I think so.

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Good job, dude.

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Once again, making my family proud.

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Number 18 is a watery fable that proved science saves lives.

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While we've tested stories that really range the gammon,

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everything from purely abstract physics thought experiments, conceptual ideas,

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to Hollywood really misconceptions about physics.

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Every now and then we get our hands on something that has real-world consequences.

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And for me, the high point in that is the underwater car.

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The fifth being that if this happened,

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you wouldn't be able to open the door to escape until the interior filled with water.

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So, cue the car.

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I had to remove the engine from the car to clean the car up, so I did.

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The water?

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Don't pee in the pool.

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And for Adam, the opportunity of a lifetime.

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It's something I've always wanted to do.

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This is my story from the get-go.

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Okay, it's coming past my waist.

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Now I can start to see under the water.

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Oh my God.

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That being said, being in that car while it was sinking,

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buckled in, hearing the water rushing under the dashboard,

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feeling the cabin of the car pressurizing,

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all of those things are totally wrong.

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And, you know, you're clear that if you ever felt these in real life,

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things will have been going very, very badly.

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All of that being said, it still was like a super high point for me.

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I've always wanted to be the hero of my own action movie,

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and this is one of the chances.

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That myth is confirmed.

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I could not open that door until the cab seemed to be full of water for a while.

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So, Adam got to live out his stuntman dreams.

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But what makes this myth remarkable is that they didn't stop there.

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Adam and Jamie went on to test various escape techniques that would work.

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Freedom!

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One of which made Adam and Jamie real life lifesavers.

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About six months after I under water car air,

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I got an email from a fan who's a truck driver,

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who had been driving, had a seizure, passed out,

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and woke up having driven his truck into the water.

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He woke up with his cab under water,

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and he tried opening the door, and it wouldn't open,

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and he remembered our episode, and he...

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I still can't believe he did this.

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He reached up to the roof of his cab and opened the air vent in the roof

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and let his truck fill up with water.

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This is nighttime. He can't see anything.

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He held his breath, and then he opened the door and swam to safety.

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My hat is off to him. That blew all of our minds.

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That's right!

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Incredibly, the host's stomach-churning antics have worked their way into your affections.

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Oh, that's great.

343
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Smells like pizza.

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I'm done with science for today.

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So once again, for your viewing pleasure, we bring you Green Grant...

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...the crazy Carrie...

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...and C-Sick Savage.

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I've been C-Sick all over the world.

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I've been C-Sick in Africa.

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Adam's doing his best right now to help us attract more sharks.

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I've been C-Sick in the Pacific.

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I've even been C-Sick on a plane.

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Adam, you got it! You got it! Come on! Stay with us! Stay with us!

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We got it! Come back!

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You with me?

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I'm with you. I almost probably passed out there in a second.

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I will say, of all the times that I have been C-Sick, the Blue Angels flight...

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...was the only time in which being C-Sick did not diminish in any way from what I was experiencing.

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I'm starting to feel a little nauseous. I think I may throw up.

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Alright, you got the bags back there.

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I'm done.

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I mean, I threw up. I think I filled seven barf bags on those three flights that I took.

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And I still had a fantastic time, and I'd do it again tomorrow if I could.

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There we go.

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You know what this is? Of course you know what this is. It's the vomit bucket.

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It's given to me by the producers.

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Just think, when you vomit, the test is over.

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The reason you know what it is, is because they enjoy showing that footage over and over again.

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Alright, it looks pretty soft. You want to, like, smash out a big...

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You see, that's how it works on this show.

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They find out what your weakness is.

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That sucked.

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And they keep exploiting it. They push it like a little button.

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There, there's a bucket in front of you.

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Well, that remedy doesn't work.

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You don't like meat?

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Come on. Never leave your position, Carrie.

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Guess what? You're going to be going to get the meat.

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Of course, I'm the one they pick when there's anything nasty to pick up.

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You get seasick. You get motion sick. Guess what? You're going to be the one throwing up on camera.

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Atta boy.

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That's what they do.

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Totally.

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I think I could throw up my lunch right now.

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Up next, the team celebrates, collates, and pontificates on results that defy expectation.

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My favorite part on this show is when you expect one thing to happen and then the exact opposite happens.

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His stomach is inside my helmet.

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It never ceases to amaze me when we're starting on a story that we think is going to turn out one way

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and we get a totally unexpected result.

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Take the mice versus elephants story.

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That was amazing. The elephant totally avoided the mouse.

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Or the spinning tire of death bed.

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Wow!

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It just goes to show that you should never assume something. You need to actually test it.

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There is a golf ball like a bag.

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That's the coolest thing ever.

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I can't even describe how thrilling it is, but the best word for it, honestly, and this is going to sound like a trope, is scientific.

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You can, in fact, polish a poop.

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That's what science is all about and we see that happen all the time on the show.

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And a perfect example was a bull in a china shop.

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You've heard this expression your whole life, bull in a china shop. It means a really clumsy person breaking things.

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Did it hurt the bull?

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I'm okay.

404
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You know, we set up this kind of rickety, shelved china shop, complete with all these dishes in this bull pen.

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This one looks like it's ready to go without the bull.

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And we let one bull in.

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For us, it was just a laugh.

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Oh, dang! Here comes the bull.

409
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Look, he's totally avoiding all the china.

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It was the most graceful thing I'd ever seen and it was running fast. It wasn't just walking.

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I mean, it was moving quick, just weaving in and out of these shelves, not even touching it.

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Whoa, he's getting right through the shelves without knocking over a single piece.

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That was cool.

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Okay, that's strange. Let's let two bulls in.

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So, the two bulls, one follows the other one and they just go around the china shop.

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Look at that.

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They're very careful of the breaking china.

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I was elated when I found out that the bulls weren't going to break anything because it was just so counterintuitive.

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I mean, they're big, giant, lumbering beasts.

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But no, they're ballet dancers. They're the ballet dancers of the wild.

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I think we're going to have to just admit it. It's a stupid saying.

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I'm never going to use it again. Bull in the china shop, busted.

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Busted.

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It's busted.

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After the break, the countdown continues with another trio of hard-hitting...

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Nice work, buster!

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...absurdly satisfying, weird and wonderful post-highlights.

428
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Right, this part might be a little gross.

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I think we should go on buster. Buster. Buster sounds pretty good.

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Yep, rocketing into the countdown. It's the dummy who's taken not just one, but dozens for the team.

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The thing about buster is you do really think of him as a person. I mean, as a character.

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His head's gone.

433
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The most fun thing about working with buster is watching him bounce.

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It's watching buster hit something and then bounce off of that thing.

435
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You really get the potential injury personified for you.

436
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Why does everybody think it's so mean that I like watching buster get beat up? You guys do realize it's a doll.

437
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The best part about buster is he will take tons of abuse and never complain.

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Nice work, buster! Nice work!

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Throughout the mayhem, mischief, use and abuse be suffered in silence for science.

440
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I had to give a name to buster's primary skill in the show.

441
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I would say it's first person data acquisition or rather last person data acquisition.

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But if buster thought his career in data acquisition had been rough, his most memorable moment really was pants.

443
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Somebody ordered some exploding pants? Exploding pants. I mean, it was right up our alley.

444
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The story is that these farmers were using this herbicide. It was getting into their pants and it made their pants super flammable.

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We're gonna blow your pants off. To the point where just friction or some heat source alone would set their pants on fire.

446
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I always loved the exploding pants episode because for me it was just quintessential myth busters.

447
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We had great small scale experiments. We had a historical myth.

448
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And in the end, we got to blow buster's pants up.

449
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So you want to ramp up the results?

450
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And then the pyrro pants explode.

451
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This is a high velocity explosive that we're using here, a specialty explosive.

452
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We expect buster to get a pretty interesting ride.

453
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That's what I'm talking about. Those are exploding pants.

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It's like he'd been vaporized.

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And after something like that happens, you do feel bad for the guy.

456
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That's all that's left of his pants.

457
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As for buster, well he was worse off than his pants.

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And I found this finger or was a burn up hot dog from some old barbecue on the bomb range.

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I don't know, but I kept it because I think it might have been a part of buster.

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But this was truly the first time that I could not put him back together.

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In at number 14 is a household material that's stuck in Adam and James' absurd affections.

462
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Relax. This one hurt a bit.

463
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I take a certain glee in using tools and materials in ways for which they were never intended.

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Fun for the whole family.

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Take the duct tape sailboat for example.

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It's such a common material, but look what you can do with it if you set your mind to it.

467
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It's such an adventure.

468
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Yeah baby, you can keep your duct tape prom tucks.

469
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We got a boat!

470
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The duct tape boat satisfies because it's a totally absurd object.

471
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Who would ever want a sailboat made out of duct tape?

472
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This is actually working.

473
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I know that there are art movements like the Dottas and the Futurists and the Cubists and the Impressionists.

474
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I think there should have been some absurdists.

475
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Well, it's true that failure is always an option.

476
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I have to say success is pretty sweet.

477
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And in the absurdist art movement, Jamie and I would be card carrying members.

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Alright, this part might be a little gross.

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This next memorable moment is a monument to all those...

480
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
What the hell are we doing?

481
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
...moments.

482
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:55,000
And I've made this ballistics gel zombie dot to illustrate our point.

483
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Oh yeah.

484
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000
It's sweet when I walk.

485
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
I can't answer that.

486
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
I'm tying a pig's stomach into a skeleton clamp.

487
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000
We are continually having these moments where we all just kind of stop and say,

488
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
What the hell are we doing?

489
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000
I mean, this is insane.

490
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,000
That's not tendon.

491
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,000
You're grabbed out of there.

492
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,000
What is it?

493
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Penis.

494
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000
I mean, it's like things that we do on this show are so outrageous.

495
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000
You're so in the moment, you're so focused on having it work.

496
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
But there's a split second where you stop and go,

497
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000
This is one of the craziest things I've ever done.

498
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000
What in the hell are we doing?

499
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000
I climbed down a rope of human hair to try to break out of jail.

500
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000
I see split ends.

501
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
You should have used conditioner.

502
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000
There's split ends.

503
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Oh no, that was so scary.

504
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Yeah.

505
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,000
For me, the ones that stand out are really specifically the ones I just never imagined I would get to do.

506
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Oh wow.

507
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
Like, hand feeding an octopus that fell in love with me.

508
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Yeah, he's very excited.

509
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Swimming in syrup.

510
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
How cool is that?

511
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Whoever has tried that.

512
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,000
One of the grossest ones for me was when I was building Beat Man.

513
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,000
I present to you, my creation, Beat Man.

514
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Oh, almost threw up.

515
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
The list goes on and on.

516
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000
And yet, it all started right here.

517
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000
With my rear.

518
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Yep, way back in episode two.

519
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000
I come from a planet butthead.

520
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:47,000
The team had their first ever and most memorable, what the hell are we doing moment?

521
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,000
While tackling a tall tale of toilet mishap.

522
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Apparently, while prone on the airplane throne, a lady of large proportions hit the flush

523
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000
and the resulting suction meant she couldn't get up.

524
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,000
And detested safely in the shop, Carrie donated her model butt.

525
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000
So how did you have this done?

526
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
That's an actual Carrie's butt.

527
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,000
This was my first real entrance into television.

528
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Okay, I'm going to take a shot.

529
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Try to hold this still as possible for an hour.

530
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000
And in my mind, I thought, some little cable show.

531
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Come on, Mythbusters, now that you'll see this.

532
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Now if you Google my name, the first thing that comes up, my butt.

533
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:39,000
With Carrie's artificially enlarged posterior in position, the suction was souped up and the myth butt stood.

534
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,000
She'd have one big hickey.

535
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Big butt hickey.

536
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
That's going to be hard to explain.

537
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:52,000
And to prove the veracity of the result, Jamie was prepared to stake Adam's butt on it.

538
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Are you ready to try it?

539
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
You know, the real deal?

540
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,000
Sure.

541
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Adam with friends like that who needs enemas.

542
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Oh, that's significant.

543
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Oh my gosh.

544
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Oh wow, that was really significant.

545
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Next up on the countdown.

546
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000
The mission sequence starts.

547
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000
The team shot for the moon while shooting down the conspiracy theorists.

548
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:51,000
On this episode of Mythbusters, was the moon landing a hoax?

549
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:57,000
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

550
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000
What's that, Neil?

551
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
We really went to the moon.

552
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
Absolutely unreal.

553
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Say hoax.

554
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Hoax!

555
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,000
When I hear statistics like 20% of Americans think that the moon landing was potentially faked,

556
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
that's 100% wacky right there.

557
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
I am really glad that we're on the air.

558
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000
It tells me that we're doing something more than just making an entertainment show.

559
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
That we're actually promoting critical thinking.

560
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
And that's a very valuable thing.

561
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000
It makes us feel quite useful, honestly.

562
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
But if you want to know what really got me excited about doing this,

563
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
it was building the miniatures and models.

564
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,000
That's perfect.

565
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Because keep in mind that for something like 20 years before I started on Mythbusters,

566
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,000
that was mainly what I was doing.

567
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,000
So it was a real joy to be able to practice my craft again.

568
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000
He's standing full on in the shadow and you'd think he wouldn't be able to see him.

569
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
He'd be dark, but he's not. He's in brightest day.

570
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
The cool thing about the moon landing myth is we actually got to work with NASA.

571
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000
Oh my god.

572
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,000
When do you get that opportunity to actually go to NASA's testing facility?

573
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000
It's a portable hug.

574
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Use their equipment.

575
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Yeah!

576
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000
In order to find out whether or not we landed on the moon,

577
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000
it was just a rare opportunity and a very memorable one.

578
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
And your face conspiracy theories.

579
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Over the years, fishy fables have netted a heap of highlights for the hosts.

580
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Take one.

581
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
Coming up.

582
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Go!

583
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Come on, it's moving.

584
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Oh!

585
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Take a break.

586
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Yeah, let's give him a little bait.

587
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
We're going to need a bigger boat.

588
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,000
And to mark number 11 in the countdown,

589
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:49,000
the hosts have dived into the archives to select their favorite shark-infested adventures.

590
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:54,000
I'm jumping into shark-infested waters for science.

591
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,000
In the realm of doing things that you can't believe are actually being called your job,

592
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000
diving with the lemon sharks on Tiger Beach in the Bahamas has to top the list.

593
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
It was crazy great.

594
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Really difficult, really tiring, but insanely great.

595
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
You know, that's what it is. It's really fun.

596
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000
You know how in science fiction movies there's like a time portal you walk through

597
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,000
and you get to another world or a closet that opens to some magical land?

598
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Well, the ocean is in fact another world.

599
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
The surface of the ocean is the portal to that world.

600
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
We need protective gear just to go there.

601
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,000
And when we get there, we are not at the top of the food chain.

602
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,000
And for humans, it's a very freaky and scary thing to not be at the top of the food chain.

603
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000
I'm going to get my serenading in my wet suit, okay?

604
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Relieved that Adam's highlight is out of the way,

605
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000
next is a myth masterminded by Carrie.

606
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:53,000
While marooned in shark-infested waters, is it better to play dead?

607
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Okay, so here's the plan. We jump the heck out of the water.

608
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000
We attract as many sharks as possible and then you two jump in.

609
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Well, no, that sounds like a bad idea.

610
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Who thought of that plan?

611
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Hottails and appetizers!

612
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000
I hope they like sushi.

613
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Oh, I hope they like Italian.

614
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Fish it, fish it!

615
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Oh man, I got to give you credit. I'd never do this.

616
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Yeah.

617
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
This is freaking scary.

618
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
You're brave.

619
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Oh.

620
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000
This sucks. This sucks so bad.

621
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
This sucks a lot.

622
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,000
I don't want to do this.

623
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Why the hell are we doing this?

624
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,000
Every fiber of your body is saying,

625
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000
no, this is the worst idea ever.

626
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
You were a piece of me!

627
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000
You know, you just overcome it, get in the water.

628
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000
First, I'm thrashing around, he's playing dead.

629
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,000
Don't get to dinner!

630
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Oh my god!

631
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Oh my god!

632
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000
And then he starts thrashing around and I'm playing dead.

633
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Damn!

634
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:59,000
During the shark special where I'm trying to play dead,

635
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,000
while sharks are circling us.

636
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,000
Hell!

637
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,000
You're really realistic, it's almost like you're scared.

638
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,000
This particular myth combines two things that I'm really afraid of.

639
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000
One, being out in open water,

640
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000
and two, fish touching me.

641
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Oh, f***!

642
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Something just touched me!

643
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
I think that was a shark!

644
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Right there! Come on!

645
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
That is intense.

646
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,000
He was squealing like a girl, he was terrified!

647
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
It was hilarious!

648
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,000
Hell!

649
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Especially since I was on the boat watching.

650
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Don't get it!

651
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,000
And it was like the most primal scream.

652
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000
He was like, hell?

653
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Hell!

654
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Hell?

655
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Hell!

656
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Hell?

657
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
He didn't harm, they're just hungry!

658
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Alright, come back in, I think we might have confirmed this one.

659
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,000
That was really intense.

660
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:01,000
At number 10 is the exclusive broadcast premiere of a much-loved viral video.

661
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Back when the team tackled facts about flatulence...

662
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Hey, we got one!

663
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,000
In the interest of good taste, we left out an incendiary mini-myth.

664
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000
I find it amazing that one of the most famous moments from our show,

665
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:25,000
me lighting my own flatus, has never actually appeared on the air until now.

666
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,000
It says something about the net sensation that is mythbusters.

667
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Yep, the myth that you can light your own flatus escaped onto the net,

668
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:40,000
where you, yes you, logged on in your millions to watch it again and again.

669
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,000
Oh yeah.

670
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000
So, sit back and hold your nose.

671
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000
Let's get that gas wound.

672
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Because in a world first, here is Adam's attempt to eject hot air on air.

673
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000
I've got the lighter, it works.

674
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000
I've got the position.

675
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000
And any minute now, hopefully we're going to make television history.

676
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,000
And it wasn't long before he piped up with a brief tune on the buttock bassoon.

677
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,000
Oh, got it.

678
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,000
Hey!

679
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Big one.

680
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,000
Finally!

681
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Finally!

682
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,000
Woo, I smell some singed blue jeans.

683
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,000
The high speed camera is, I think, the most important tool that we use on the show.

684
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:27,000
And we've used it to do things like illuminate things happening in explosions far faster than a human eye can see.

685
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000
We've also used it for recording me lighting my own flatus.

686
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,000
From the sublime to the totally trivial.

687
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,000
Oh, got it.

688
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:49,000
Except for the fact that we also know that no one else has ever filmed a flatus being lit on fire on high speed camera.

689
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,000
And we love being the first at anything on this show.

690
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000
As chosen by the team and you the fans.

691
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,000
Nothing to test me!

692
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,000
We've already seen a heap of highlights.

693
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:34,000
But now that we're into the top ten, we're counting down to the biggest bangs and best of the test.

694
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,000
Holy crap!

695
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:47,000
And in at number nine is a collection of those moments the teams strap in, buckle up, and jump off for science.

696
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,000
One!

697
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:54,000
We do all our own stunts. The only stunt double you'll ever see on Mythbusters is Buster.

698
00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:00,000
The concept of human guinea pig is more than just something that we've printed on our shirts.

699
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,000
I mean, it's a central idea of Mythbusters.

700
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:12,000
I've always wanted to be a stunt man as a kid, so this job on Mythbusters is kind of like a dream job.

701
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:22,000
Yes, every single time the team gets an opportunity to live out their stuntman dreams, they make a deposit in the personal highlights bank.

702
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:26,000
Water skiing behind a rowboat, that was just plain exciting.

703
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,000
We were curious to see whether it was actually possible.

704
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,000
And it was.

705
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000
And never one to miss a chance to ramp it up.

706
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,000
I can't believe we're going to do this.

707
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,000
Our resident action man, Tori, took the towing tail to the next level.

708
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:55,000
That was probably one of the coolest moments on the show for me, where it's just like, to be able to say you've wakeboarded behind a cruise ship.

709
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,000
Another man!

710
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,000
I can't even describe to you the feeling.

711
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000
I mean, it was just like, oh.

712
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,000
But it's not always as free and easy as the guys make it look.

713
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,000
Some of these adrenaline fueled highlights are hard won.

714
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,000
You know, if you do a lot of stunts, you think you would get used to it, but for me, it's not the case.

715
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,000
Bang!

716
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,000
It's like starting over every single time.

717
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Oh!

718
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,000
You have to sight yourself into it to actually go through with it.

719
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,000
Oh!

720
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:42,000
Oftentimes what happens with a stunt is that I will anticipate it with excitement until just before I'm about to do it, and then I'll realize how scary it is.

721
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,000
And then get that fear under control to do the thing.

722
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,000
And slowly get better and better as I go.

723
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,000
And that is a really interesting process, overcoming that fear reflex to be able to do something.

724
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,000
Let's go for it.

725
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:05,000
Because one of the things about stunts that's really fascinating is all the work happens before you do the stunt.

726
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,000
There's no correcting in the middle of a stunt.

727
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,000
This is something that I've learned the hard way.

728
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:16,000
You have to be mentally prepared so that once you take the jump or dive or slide, it all happens right.

729
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,000
And attaining that sensitivity to it is really awesome.

730
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:36,000
This next moment marks the myth where iconic high-speed images met science, mystery, and history.

731
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:44,000
The Hindi version is one of those episodes in a category I can't believe we hadn't thought of that before.

732
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,000
You don't want to mix blur with blur.

733
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,000
Why?

734
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,000
Oh!

735
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:58,000
Because once we started to dive into it, there's so much rich material, so many pieces that you can start to tease out and get a great episode out of it.

736
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,000
These things are always catching on fire.

737
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,000
That is the textbook definition of irony, kids.

738
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,000
The thing I enjoyed most about this was the actual process.

739
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:16,000
Building these large miniatures, playing around with a material that was doped with thermite.

740
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,000
Now, we're going to blow up some zeppelins.

741
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000
Whoa!

742
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:32,000
It was just such a joy to work on these things and the fact that they lined up so perfectly with the actual original footage, it was wonderful.

743
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,000
This is my favorite scale experiment we've ever done. Full stop.

744
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000
I reject your t-shirt slogan and substitute my own.

745
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,000
Well, as Adam would say, there's your problem.

746
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:56,000
In at number seven, we're compiling and celebrating the one-line wonders and recurring themes you love the most.

747
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,000
Warp.

748
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:04,000
Because people watch Mythbusters over and over and over, sometimes things that we say kind of off the cuff...

749
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,000
Crack, damn you.

750
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,000
...become memorable lines that get repeated and put on t-shirts. It's so bizarre.

751
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,000
I reject your reality and substitute my own.

752
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,000
Jamie wants big bones.

753
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,000
I'm fine, I'm fine. Am I missing an eyebrow?

754
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:26,000
Am I missing an eyebrow? Actually, for me, the funniest part of that clip isn't the Am I missing an eyebrow line.

755
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:30,000
It's right after that when Jamie goes, yeah, and most of your hair, and I go, ha, no way.

756
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,000
I am missing an eyebrow, aren't I?

757
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,000
You could have lost a lot of air up there, too.

758
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,000
You're kidding me.

759
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,000
I lose all of my sense of humor in a nanosecond.

760
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,000
You're all right. It's not going to... it won't look weird after a day or two.

761
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000
One of my favorites is...

762
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,000
Holy crap, run!

763
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,000
Run, run!

764
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,000
Because we really, really use it a lot, unintentionally.

765
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,000
Here comes chaos.

766
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,000
My toes always lands but aside up.

767
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,000
There's your problem.

768
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,000
Let's pillage!

769
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,000
I don't know if that's illegal in California.

770
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:03,000
Go get him, boy.

771
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,000
That is messed up!

772
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,000
I wouldn't say Jamie's an evil genius.

773
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,000
Say hello to our little friend.

774
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000
This is going to kill you.

775
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,000
High explosives and electricity.

776
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,000
Woo!

777
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,000
That's why we can never have anything nice.

778
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,000
It's like a wet t-shirt contest, really.

779
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,000
This is the kind of thing I do on the weekends.

780
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000
It's starting to feel like a bad idea.

781
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,000
It's almost too exciting.

782
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,000
Clumping as fast as I can.

783
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,000
I'm making a rocket out of meat.

784
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,000
Our death ray doesn't seem to be working.

785
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,000
I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

786
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,000
That was intense.

787
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,000
That was heavy.

788
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:39,000
But it's not just the one-liners that top the fan charts.

789
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,000
There are a few much-loved themes and motifs as well.

790
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,000
There's the dark side.

791
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,000
I am your father.

792
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,000
Ah, never!

793
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,000
You're not my father!

794
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,000
The light side.

795
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,000
Which makes my voice sound much higher.

796
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,000
The slippery side.

797
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Jamie's built an entire special of X-Sets out of lard.

798
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,000
Sometimes you just need a little extra lubrication.

799
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,000
And then there's Jamie.

800
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Well, who wrote this crap?

801
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,000
Come, silent walrus!

802
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,000
Let us storm the castle!

803
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000
I will don my safety gear!

804
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Jamie, underwater.

805
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,000
You know, the funny thing about Jamie, okay, the longer the show is on,

806
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,000
the more kind of iconic he becomes.

807
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,000
Does this remind you of when you used to count money for the mob?

808
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,000
I was a hit man. I wasn't a money count.

809
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,000
I mean, he's kind of like a superhero figure now.

810
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,000
How are we going to test this one?

811
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,000
But I mean, he's just a normal guy, you know?

812
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:49,000
He puts his beret on like any other dude who chooses to wear a beret.

813
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,000
Jamie, pensive.

814
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:57,000
Over my shoulder is a wild, high-nament in his natural environment.

815
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,000
And he seems, if I'm correct, to be dung hunting.

816
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,000
Aaaaaaaah!

817
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,000
So little is known about this elusive animal.

818
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,000
There's this tenuous existence at the very edges of society.

819
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Sad.

820
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,000
That's important. We stay very quiet. They are deadly, if provoked.

821
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000
Scared.

822
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,000
Let's see what he does.

823
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,000
Oh, he's gone into hiding.

824
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,000
Is he doing his David Attenburger thing again?

825
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,000
See, you can't use that. He will kill me.

826
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,000
The Alcatraz Escape is such a classic myth buster story.

827
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:58,000
There's such mystery surrounding it, and we may never, ever know what really happened that night.

828
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:03,000
The spoon proves mud here than the bars and supposedly escape-proof Alcatraz prison.

829
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:08,000
That is one of the episodes I'm still most proud of and most astonished that we got to do.

830
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:13,000
I mean, who else has actually gotten into the water off of Alcatraz

831
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,000
and paddled their way to safety in a boat?

832
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:22,000
And it was that kind of commitment to the cause that squeezes this myth into the top ten.

833
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:28,000
And it began when armed with the precise details of the legendary getaway, the prevailing conditions,

834
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:34,000
the convict's materials and plans, Adam and Jamie embarked on an ingenious build.

835
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:43,000
I think one of the funniest things I've ever seen us do on the show was Adam banging away on the raft on the table in the shop

836
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:47,000
while we were building this thing and then stopping and saying,

837
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,000
Wait, was that a card?

838
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,000
No.

839
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:04,000
With the stealth and subtlety of a prison riot, Adam and Jamie completed their flimsy rubber raincoat raft.

840
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000
Hurry up, hurry up, they're coming.

841
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:12,000
And headed for the rock where they face the cold, dark, turbulent waters of Frisco Bay

842
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:16,000
in obligatory comedy convict costumes.

843
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,000
You look funny.

844
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,000
You don't?

845
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:29,000
Here we were in the middle of the night in this rough waters and we just built this raft out of raincoats

846
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,000
and we have to dive into it and see what happens.

847
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:38,000
We spent 25 hours putting together all the components of the Alcatraz escape boat

848
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,000
and yet even after all that work,

849
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,000
Oh Jamie, you're the man baby.

850
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:50,000
We really kind of expected it to disintegrate and honestly sitting in the little robot watching Jamie do his little caterpillar dance

851
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:55,000
out onto the Alcatraz raft, I could not believe it was holding up to that kind of abuse.

852
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,000
Oh yeah, we're taking that water, okay.

853
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:03,000
Despite the team's fears and the sheer unlikelihood of the recreation being successful,

854
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:08,000
all of a sudden, astonishingly, the mythbusters were breaking out of Alcatraz.

855
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,000
They're escaping.

856
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:17,000
The other most astonishing thing about the escape was how crappy Jamie's rowing is.

857
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,000
I have no idea where we are.

858
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,000
If you look carefully, you'll see that I'm doing all of the work.

859
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:28,000
I'm up there at the tip of the boat, shoveling the water, shoveling the water, pushing it across.

860
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,000
Look at Jamie's oar.

861
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,000
He's like, he's like not even doing anything.

862
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:38,000
And I don't, I've still yet to hear a suitable explanation from him for why he's doing so terrible.

863
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,000
This is so cool.

864
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,000
It seemed like for the entire voyage that the thing was about ready to sink,

865
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:53,000
but, you know, sooner or later, the opposite side of the shore came into view and we were out.

866
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,000
It actually worked. It was amazing.

867
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,000
We made it!

868
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,000
DEMOLISHING DERBY

869
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:14,000
Demolition Derby was my favorite episode ever because we got to do the car drop.

870
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,000
It's about to be a nail.

871
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:20,000
The car drop was logistically, technically.

872
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,000
All those years of video games are going to pay off now.

873
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:27,000
Emotionally, the hardest thing we've ever, ever achieved.

874
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:35,000
Now, to explain what the myth is, it's luxury car commercial.

875
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:40,000
And they suspend a luxury car from a helicopter.

876
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:44,000
And they start another luxury car at starting line on the ground.

877
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:50,000
And both are racing towards this giant X drawn out in the middle of the desert.

878
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:56,000
In the end, of course, the luxury car on the ground is faster than gravity and it zooms past the X

879
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,000
Just before the other car drops and shatters into its own pieces.

880
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:01,000
Listen.

881
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,000
It's quiet. Too quiet.

882
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,000
It's like the calm before the storm.

883
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,000
Look, man, no hand!

884
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,000
This is going to be nuts.

885
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,000
So in my career, I've read and controlled a lot of things.

886
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,000
Vehicles, big and small, robots.

887
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:21,000
Oh, okay, I'm going to take the break down here.

888
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:27,000
But I think this one in particular was one of the hardest things that I've ever done.

889
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,000
How are you feeling?

890
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,000
All right.

891
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,000
Really, because you look like you're freaking out.

892
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:37,000
But despite that stress and pressure, everyone geared up for the grandest of grand finales.

893
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
All right, here we go.

894
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:45,000
When we actually executed this myth, it's one of those things where a hundred things have to go right,

895
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:51,000
but only one thing can go wrong and it will ruin everything.

896
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,000
It's very true for this.

897
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,000
It was so complicated.

898
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000
You're all buckled in. Good job.

899
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,000
I'm all buckled in and ready to go.

900
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,000
Yeah!

901
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:02,000
There it goes.

902
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:04,000
Here we go.

903
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:05,000
Wow.

904
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,000
Oh, this is crazy.

905
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,000
That's mighty.

906
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:14,000
There was a giant cargo helicopter with a quick release holding up a real car.

907
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:21,000
There was a radio controlled luxury car on the ground that I'm controlling from a helicopter.

908
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,000
All right, cars being lifted off the ground.

909
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,000
Oh, man.

910
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:34,000
And all of these pieces moving up there, it's like juggling a dozen different balls,

911
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:38,000
having them all up in the air and not dropping a single one.

912
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,000
Okay, we're at a thousand feet.

913
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:46,000
Being in a helicopter that size and watching from above,

914
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:52,000
I got to watch the car drop, slowly become tiny, hit the ground.

915
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Grant, in your own time, start driving.

916
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,000
Okay, here we go.

917
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,000
Three, two, one.

918
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,000
Car is away, car is away.

919
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:05,000
What's the speed, Grant?

920
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:06,000
45.

921
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,000
45 miles an hour.

922
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,000
Looking good.

923
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,000
60 miles an hour.

924
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,000
70.

925
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:14,000
Looking great.

926
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:17,000
80.

927
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,000
Cars looking good.

928
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,000
We're going straight for the X.

929
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,000
You're at a thousand feet for the start marks.

930
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,000
We're at 95 miles an hour.

931
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,000
Okay, on target.

932
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,000
Looking good, Grant.

933
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,000
Looking good.

934
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:29,000
Stand by.

935
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,000
Coming up to the park soon.

936
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:32,000
Okay.

937
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:33,000
500 feet.

938
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,000
Okay, on target.

939
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,000
Holding 105.

940
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,000
Rumping in three, two, one.

941
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,000
Release the car.

942
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,000
Here it comes, 105.

943
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,000
Holding 105.

944
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,000
Here it comes, 105.

945
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,000
Holding 105.

946
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,000
Woo!

947
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,000
I don't just hit the down as the target's coming up.

948
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:55,000
Go again!

949
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,000
Go again!

950
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:58,000
Mission accomplished.

951
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,000
Myth busted and in terms of team effort,

952
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,000
our Intrepid Trio's most memorable myth yet.

953
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,000
I felt like I could, you know, I had so much adrenaline,

954
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,000
I could lift a car myself.

955
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:11,000
Yeah!

956
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,000
We did it!

957
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Yeah!

958
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,000
Woo!

959
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,000
Just the amount of work and things that could go wrong

960
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,000
in this experiment, the fact that everything came together

961
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,000
and it all worked, it still, it blows my mind.

962
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,000
I still can't get my mind around it.

963
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,000
I mean, it was beautiful.

964
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,000
On a personal note, I was pregnant that whole time.

965
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Had no idea, so I think maybe it was a little bit more emotional

966
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,000
for me than it should have been.

967
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,000
I was less excited after my first kiss.

968
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,000
At the top of most fans' memorable moments list

969
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:00,000
are the trials and tribulations of Adam and Tori.

970
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,000
Oh!

971
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,000
I'm scared.

972
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,000
I see injuries in my future.

973
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,000
So here at number four, we're celebrating all of the eye watering.

974
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,000
I'm okay.

975
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,000
Wins inducing incidents.

976
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,000
Our pair of Gleat Happy Pain partners

977
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,000
have produced for your viewing pleasure.

978
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,000
Wow!

979
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,000
That hurt a lot.

980
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,000
And one interesting aspect of the pain game

981
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,000
is how it's developed to meet early days of calamity and chaos

982
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,000
to a more refined science.

983
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,000
The pads screwed me.

984
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,000
Early on in the show, I said,

985
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,000
this is the show, it's like four minutes of science

986
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,000
and then ten minutes of me hurting myself.

987
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,000
And a hundred episodes later, I think the ratio is totally reversed.

988
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:00,000
I think we've gotten more complex with our storytelling,

989
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,000
so there's a lot more science in that regard.

990
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,000
And I've gotten more precise and surgical

991
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,000
about inflicting pain on myself.

992
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,000
I don't know if I'm closer to being sober,

993
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,000
but I'm certainly closer to being dead.

994
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,000
So I'm able to boil it down to some just key moments

995
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,000
that really, differently deliver.

996
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:21,000
Okay.

997
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,000
I'm totally cool.

998
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,000
Whoa!

999
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,000
A lot of competition,

1000
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,000
but that might be the worst thing I've ever had to do on the show.

1001
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,000
Yep, by mixing his drinks and the high-speed camera,

1002
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Adam's at the cutting edge of accidental entertainment.

1003
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,000
And of course, Jamie lends a helping hand.

1004
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:42,000
Oh!

1005
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:46,000
Holy bleeping, bleeping, bleep!

1006
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,000
Can I do that again? That was kind of fun.

1007
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,000
No, that made my head ring.

1008
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Oh!

1009
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,000
There's a good-sized slap there.

1010
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,000
Let's look at it again.

1011
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,000
It's like your whole head is rubber.

1012
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,000
That's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

1013
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,000
And speaking of a helping hand from the Heinemann...

1014
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,000
Oh, you baby.

1015
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,000
Do I enjoy seeing Adam in pain?

1016
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,000
Hmm.

1017
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:16,000
Shoot me in the ass.

1018
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,000
Well, Adam gives great reactions,

1019
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,000
so that makes for good TV.

1020
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:22,000
Oh!

1021
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Look, some of Jamie's supposed entertainment,

1022
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,000
am I getting hurt,

1023
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:33,000
is the editor's creatively telling a story that isn't quite there.

1024
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,000
Some of it.

1025
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,000
E-wow!

1026
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:44,000
Ow!

1027
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:45,000
Yeah!

1028
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:46,000
But Adam's a pain in the ass,

1029
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,000
and so I don't mind if I see him suffer once in a while.

1030
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:52,000
Oh!

1031
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,000
God!

1032
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,000
The rest of it is that Jamie is a sadistic and cruel man.

1033
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,000
God, that hurt.

1034
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,000
He's time to go to bed.

1035
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,000
Next up is Tori, our man of action...

1036
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,000
and accidents.

1037
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:11,000
A man first to volunteer for the tough tasks.

1038
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:13,000
A fearless man,

1039
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,000
at a man who occasionally fails to think things through.

1040
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,000
Oh, Tori, are we going to ever have an episode where you don't hurt yourself?

1041
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,000
A man who combines all of these attributes

1042
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:27,000
to bravely bring those moments of leg-crossing comedy gold.

1043
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,000
Oh, you f***ing f***!

1044
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,000
If I had a nickel for every time I got hit in the nuts on this show,

1045
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:35,000
I could retire.

1046
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:38,000
Oh, dude!

1047
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,000
I hope I can still have kids.

1048
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,000
They're like a magnet to flying things.

1049
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,000
Hey!

1050
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:47,000
Maybe I should wear a cup.

1051
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,000
Gotta stretch it out a little.

1052
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,000
Aside from his magnetic charisma...

1053
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,000
That's not for science, is it?

1054
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:55,000
That's just for you.

1055
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:58,000
Tori has a tendency to trust his fellow hosts.

1056
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,000
I saw you punch yourself in the head.

1057
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:12,000
A trust that has, on occasion, been taken advantage of.

1058
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:14,000
Can you smell that?

1059
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,000
What's that?

1060
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,000
Bad things.

1061
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,000
Let's sag him on until he hurts himself.

1062
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:25,000
One accident that I had that I get a lot of questions about is the bike jump.

1063
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,000
It seemed like an easy enough thing to do.

1064
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,000
Carrie and Scotty told me that I could make it.

1065
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,000
I mean, I did a couple of tests next to it, and they said,

1066
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:34,000
oh, you totally got it.

1067
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,000
Yeah, it looks like you cleared it.

1068
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,000
Go for it.

1069
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,000
Does it?

1070
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,000
You wonder why you always see him getting hurt.

1071
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:46,000
He took me seriously, tried to jump the little red wagon,

1072
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,000
and flew through the air like Superman,

1073
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:52,000
skidded on his face, and got up...

1074
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:55,000
not hurt, not a scratch.

1075
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:56,000
Totally fine.

1076
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,000
Now that is really fun to watch.

1077
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:08,000
I'm okay.

1078
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,000
Why do I always laugh when you get hurt?

1079
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,000
That looks so bad.

1080
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,000
My God, I can't believe you did that.

1081
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,000
I thought I was going to make it.

1082
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,000
Coming up, the top three most memorable myth buster moments.

1083
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,000
Find out who will be number one.

1084
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:41,000
And at number three is an explosive pair of revisits with rockets.

1085
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:46,000
The revisits are by far the most scientific thing I think we achieve on myth busters.

1086
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:54,000
I don't know any other show that goes back over old broadcasts of theirs

1087
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:58,000
and say, we got it wrong as part of the structure of your show.

1088
01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:59,000
Hey, look at that.

1089
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,000
Well, gee, that looks like a bullet.

1090
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,000
And I'm proud of the fact that we're doing them

1091
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:07,000
because what you're seeing on this show is the real deal, mistakes and all.

1092
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:11,000
And we fully acknowledge that sometimes we get it wrong.

1093
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,000
That means that we have to revisit it to do the job right.

1094
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:18,000
That thing was going so fast that it was in and out of the range of the camera

1095
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,000
before it knew what was going on.

1096
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:24,000
And of all the great myth busting moments that revisits have reaped,

1097
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:30,000
the two that make it to number three involve result replication with rocket sleds.

1098
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:35,000
First to launch was Adam and Jamie when they proved that to compact and compact...

1099
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Oh my God.

1100
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,000
You needed a whole lot more than two trucks traveling at highway speeds.

1101
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,000
Let me spell out for you exactly how this is going to break down.

1102
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:48,000
When we push the launch button from the bunker, this back sled fires,

1103
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,000
pushing this front sled down the track to here,

1104
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:55,000
where the front sleds rockets kick into gear and carry it the rest of the way down the track.

1105
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:58,000
By the time our sled reaches the end of the track here,

1106
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,000
it ought to be going 700 miles an hour.

1107
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,000
It will then leave the track traveling across 20 feet of open space

1108
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,000
where it will eventually hit our car.

1109
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:06,000
Smack on the nose.

1110
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,000
Now the car is backed up against that steel plate in that concrete block

1111
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:13,000
and that should simulate our two truck impact at the speed of sound.

1112
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,000
Are you ready?

1113
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,000
I'm ready.

1114
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,000
Do you mind if I flip the switch?

1115
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:19,000
Go for it.

1116
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:25,000
This is compact, compact rocket sled in three, two, one.

1117
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,000
Wow!

1118
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:33,000
Holy crap!

1119
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:37,000
That didn't mess around.

1120
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:38,000
Oh no!

1121
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,000
That second stage was a hell of a thing.

1122
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:45,000
It was like, whoa, it just disappeared.

1123
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:47,000
I've seen things go supersonic.

1124
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,000
I've fired cannons.

1125
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:50,000
I've watched jets go by,

1126
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,000
but there is something about that rocket sled.

1127
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,000
Watching the sled reach 400 miles an hour

1128
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:58,000
and then the second set of rockets kick in and watching it

1129
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:03,000
reach 700 miles an hour before hitting the supposedly immovable object,

1130
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:09,000
it's like a visceral experience of something that makes you feel good to be alive

1131
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,000
and not in its way.

1132
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:20,000
The rocket sled test has to be one of the more spectacular things that we've ever done,

1133
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,000
but having been there and seen it live,

1134
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,000
I have to say that it's almost too much to absorb.

1135
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,000
It all happens so quickly.

1136
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:33,000
The only way that we really get a chance to absorb it

1137
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,000
is by looking at the footage afterwards.

1138
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,000
And that's where this moment comes into its own,

1139
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:45,000
because the high-speed footage is nothing short of spectacular.

1140
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:49,000
And it's a high-point iron trepid trio also got to experience

1141
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,000
when they had a result replication request.

1142
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:57,000
When we test the myth that a car gets in a head-on collision with a snowplow

1143
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:00,000
and gets split in half, we could not replicate the results.

1144
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,000
I mean, we got it to split halfway,

1145
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,000
but it didn't split the car completely down the middle.

1146
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:09,000
Cue the car, the rockets, their sled, and the bunker.

1147
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:16,000
In five, four, three, two, one.

1148
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:21,000
Oh, my God!

1149
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:24,000
That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen!

1150
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:25,000
Wow!

1151
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:28,000
That went so much faster than I thought it was going to.

1152
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:29,000
That was great!

1153
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,000
It was like, here, one second, and then gone.

1154
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,000
I really didn't think we were going to be able to split it in half.

1155
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,000
I thought the rocket sled was just going to obliterate it,

1156
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:44,000
but it pretty much cut the car clean in two.

1157
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,000
We found two distinct halves.

1158
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:49,000
I mean, it took so much force to make that happen,

1159
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,000
and the rocket sled delivered.

1160
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:52,000
We split!

1161
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:55,000
I cannot believe we split the car in half!

1162
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,000
Look at it, it went right down the tape line.

1163
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,000
We have two perfect halves of the car!

1164
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,000
It's like, I can't help but smile,

1165
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:07,000
and watching that high-speed footage, it's just like, we did it.

1166
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,000
Even though I was there and I saw it,

1167
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,000
I still can't believe that we actually did it.

1168
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:26,000
For me, using the rocket sled is one of the closest things

1169
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:31,000
that we get to being Wiley Coyote in the cartoons.

1170
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,000
In Second Place is an idiom,

1171
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:51,000
and interesting insight into just what makes Adam and Jamie tick.

1172
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:05,000
Something tells me balloon myth.

1173
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,000
My favorite episode is lead balloon.

1174
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:11,000
Even though it doesn't involve any spectacular crashes or explosions,

1175
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,000
this is hands down my favorite episode.

1176
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:16,000
The myth is that it is totally impossible to make a balloon

1177
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,000
like this one out of lead.

1178
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,000
And so we're going to build one.

1179
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,000
Well, that's the only way to test it is to try.

1180
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,000
That's what we do.

1181
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,000
And I know we've blown up cement trucks,

1182
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,000
we've virtually gone to the moon and back on this show,

1183
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:33,000
and still lead balloon holds the top spot for me.

1184
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,000
No explosions, no rockets, and no Hollywood-style stunts.

1185
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,000
So why exactly does this story

1186
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:44,000
top Adam and Jamie's personal memorable moment list?

1187
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,000
It's the episode that most clearly demonstrates

1188
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:53,000
how much fun the internal process of problem-solving is to me and Jamie.

1189
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,000
Because we had to go into our heads

1190
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:59,000
and walk through every last step in detail

1191
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,000
with absolutely no room for error.

1192
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,000
The problem is this.

1193
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,000
It just kind of falls apart.

1194
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,000
It's like almost like wet toilet paper.

1195
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:11,000
And that it actually works, it was just thrilling.

1196
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:13,000
And the cornerstone of that success

1197
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:18,000
was an ingenious design from our resident swami of Origami.

1198
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,000
The biggest problem that lead is giving us is that it's delicate.

1199
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:25,000
We have to build our three-dimensional shape flat and then inflate it.

1200
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,000
And so with their elegant design in mind,

1201
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:32,000
we have to build our three-dimensional shape flat and then inflate it.

1202
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:36,000
With the design in mind and their incredibly delicate material in hand,

1203
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:39,000
the team went to work with military-like precision

1204
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:44,000
to build the supposedly oxymoronic-led balloon.

1205
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:48,000
This whole build depends on how carefully we do this.

1206
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,000
Why is that piece of tape there?

1207
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:52,000
It has to be pristine.

1208
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:53,000
We're going to lay down paper.

1209
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:55,000
We're going to be wearing booties when we're working around this.

1210
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,000
This is going to be like a medical procedure.

1211
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,000
My flat-pack cube design for the balloon

1212
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,000
was something I actually thought about for weeks and weeks

1213
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,000
before we actually implemented it.

1214
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:07,000
I was thinking that the shape had to be simple,

1215
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,000
a simple platonic polyhedra.

1216
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:12,000
And I settled upon a cube as probably easy to make

1217
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:15,000
in the conditions we had to make it, which was flat

1218
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,000
and you couldn't move the lead once it was laid down.

1219
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:19,000
It had to be built in place.

1220
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,000
It's all working out quite well right now.

1221
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,000
It makes me a little nervous.

1222
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:27,000
One of the other reasons that I love lead balloon is its total pointlessness.

1223
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,000
To do something so pointless and so successfully,

1224
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,000
no one needs to know how to make a balloon out of lead,

1225
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,000
but now we do know.

1226
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:38,000
And I find that strangely thrilling.

1227
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:40,000
Hey, Adam.

1228
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,000
Congratulations on the design.

1229
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,000
It unfolded and twisted out just the way it was supposed to.

1230
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,000
Whether it flies or not, I don't know, but your plan worked.

1231
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:51,000
I'm really psyched about this story.

1232
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,000
He was psyched all right, but also frantic.

1233
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,000
Opening tank three.

1234
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,000
Because in the closing stages, the pace picked up.

1235
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:02,000
Rips and tears appeared as fast as they could be repaired,

1236
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:04,000
but the lead balloon...

1237
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:06,000
Hold on. That's it.

1238
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,000
...like Adam's voice, kept rising.

1239
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:11,000
I gotta tell you, I'm pretty happy about this thing right now.

1240
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:13,000
I'm pretty excited. It's a lead balloon.

1241
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,000
Oh my God, I'm getting dizzy.

1242
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,000
It's a balloon made out of lead and it's up there.

1243
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,000
It's floating.

1244
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,000
It worked.

1245
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:25,000
Dude.

1246
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,000
That is a lead balloon.

1247
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,000
I am really pleased.

1248
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,000
We might have been able to get away with a smaller balloon,

1249
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:37,000
but this is a lead balloon.

1250
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:39,000
We did it.

1251
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:55,000
So here it is.

1252
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:59,000
The number one Mythbusters most memorable moment.

1253
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:05,000
And appropriately, the top 25 countdown concludes with a countdown.

1254
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,000
Jamie wants big balls.

1255
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:09,000
Big balls. Big balls. Big balls.

1256
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:13,000
In three, two, one.

1257
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,000
Explosion.

1258
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,000
Combustions.

1259
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,000
Conflagrations.

1260
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:25,000
Pressure vessels that undergo catastrophic failure.

1261
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,000
And plain old big boos.

1262
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,000
Oh yeah.

1263
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,000
Everybody say it with me.

1264
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:35,000
Jamie wants big boos.

1265
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,000
Are all part of the fabric of the show.

1266
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,000
That's what we do on Mythbusters.

1267
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,000
We blow crap up.

1268
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:53,000
And so here at number one, we celebrate the biggest booms,

1269
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,000
the most deafening detonations,

1270
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,000
and the scariest fireballs.

1271
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:04,000
But first, to start the end with a bang,

1272
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:08,000
we salute the all-time fan-favorite explosion.

1273
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,000
The truck that disappeared in the light.

1274
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:16,000
Cement truck is by far the fan's favorite explosion, full stop.

1275
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:22,000
Well, we're going to use 850 pounds of commercial blasting agent.

1276
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:25,000
Isn't this like the biggest explosion we've done on Mythbusters?

1277
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,000
This is the biggest by like a thousand percent.

1278
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,000
I think the cement truck became a fan favorite,

1279
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,000
because it's like your first kiss.

1280
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,000
It's something that you're going to remember.

1281
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,000
Well, that's what we do on Mythbusters.

1282
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:40,000
We take large objects and make them into very small objects.

1283
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:44,000
But it wasn't the explosion itself, per se, that gets people going about it.

1284
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:48,000
It was the simple elegance of the whole thing.

1285
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:52,000
First it was there, and then it was just gone.

1286
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:54,000
It blows people away.

1287
01:18:54,000 --> 01:19:00,000
Five, four, three, two, one.

1288
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:08,000
There's a piece of chalk coming down, man.

1289
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:16,000
And there's an aspect of it that I really wish could be communicated

1290
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,000
that just isn't there in the episode,

1291
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:21,000
which is we were standing a mile and a half from where that truck blew up,

1292
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:26,000
which meant that the shockwave and the sound took two different periods of time to reach us.

1293
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:29,000
We stood there and we watched this silent explosion.

1294
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:33,000
And literally a second later, a shockwave hit us, which nobody was expecting,

1295
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:36,000
and it felt like somebody had just hit me in the chest.

1296
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:41,000
It seemed so peaceful, and it just like...

1297
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:50,000
If you have a chance to watch a cement truck get filled with 850 pounds of ampho and blown up,

1298
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,000
it's just a big boom.

1299
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:56,000
I highly recommend it.

1300
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,000
Well, there's your problem.

1301
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,000
Where'd it go?

1302
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,000
It's all gone.

1303
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,000
I left it right here.

1304
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,000
This is just one cement truck zero.

1305
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,000
This has got nothing to do with the myth.

1306
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,000
This is just a big boom.

1307
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:19,000
But that was just the start of a beautiful big boom relationship.

1308
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:28,000
Over the years, the team has had the opportunity to savor and appreciate a wide variety of explosions and conflagrations.

1309
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:35,000
Because the show's been on the air for so long and because we've been able to work with so many different types of explosions...

1310
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,000
And every explosion has its own texture, its own feel.

1311
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,000
Bye-bye!

1312
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:42,000
One in doubt.

1313
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:44,000
C4.

1314
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:45,000
Ha ha.

1315
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:53,000
The high-speed explosives like the plastic explosives C4, etc. those tend to be really snappy.

1316
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,000
Those tend to have a very sharp crack.

1317
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:00,000
And they don't last very long.

1318
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:03,000
Three, two, one.

1319
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:05,000
Like exploding microwave.

1320
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:10,000
Those speed explosives like dynamite and ampho, they have a much throatery of thud.

1321
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,000
You really feel them in your solar plexus.

1322
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:13,000
They're awesome.

1323
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,000
But big is not always best.

1324
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:33,000
Carrie for one prefers a little bloom in her booms.

1325
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:37,000
A visual flourish that requires additional ingredients.

1326
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:43,000
My favorite explosions always involve some sort of fuel.

1327
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,000
I love when you add gasoline.

1328
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,000
I love when you add propane.

1329
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,000
I love when you add coffee creamer.

1330
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,000
Three, two, one.

1331
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,000
I mean it was like Armageddon.

1332
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:11,000
And we had this huge 50-foot wall of flames coming down on us.

1333
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:14,000
And it was like, holy crap, I'm gonna die.

1334
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:17,000
That was frightening!

1335
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:27,000
Quite honestly though, my favorite explosions of all aren't even technically from a physics standpoint explosions.

1336
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,000
And it's watching hot water heaters fail.

1337
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:33,000
Normally with an explosion, you have control over it.

1338
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:37,000
You have a primer, you have your finger on the button, you have the countdown, it goes off.

1339
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:42,000
But when you're waiting for a pressure vessel to explode, you have no idea when it's gonna go off.

1340
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:44,000
You have no idea how big it's gonna be.

1341
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,000
Oh, this is killing me!

1342
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,000
Those moments, they're probably the most exciting.

1343
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:10,000
Now another thing that people don't realize on the show is that we often end up exploding things that aren't specifically explosives.

1344
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:12,000
For example, CO2.

1345
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:14,000
Two words.

1346
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:18,000
Sounds like...

1347
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:25,000
Sometimes people ask us if we're acting when an explosion goes off and we're screaming and yelling and high-fiving.

1348
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,000
It's an explosion, are you kidding me?

1349
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:42,000
There's something about that release of energy.

1350
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:48,000
You feel it, and you feel a little scared and a little excited.

1351
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,000
Okay! Is everybody okay?

1352
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,000
Explosions are sort of a cathartic release.

1353
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:10,000
You get this amazing, beautiful dirt-throwing, flame-throwing plume that throws a shockwave at you that you can just feel.

1354
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,000
Why are explosions such an integral part of the show?

1355
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:16,000
No more cars!

1356
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:19,000
It's not only because we love to blow stuff up.

1357
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:29,000
One way that you can tell that Mythbusters has been in the area is to look for shrapnel in the trees.

1358
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:36,000
It really seems to be that most of the best stories end with something being destroyed in some spectacular fashion.

1359
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:40,000
And when you want to destroy something in a spectacular fashion...

1360
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:45,000
Well, we've tried most things and few things work better than explosions.

1361
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:51,000
Which gives us the opportunity to reconfirm the myth that it's better to end with a bang.

1362
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:53,000
We made something wrong!

1363
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:04,000
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the chart-topping, most memorable Mythbusters greatest hits.

1364
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,000
The first hit is a very good one.

1365
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:14,000
It's a very good one.

1366
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:16,000
It's a very good one.

1367
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:18,000
It's a very good one.

1368
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,000
It's a very good one.

1369
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:22,000
It's a very good one.

1370
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,000
It's a very good one.

1371
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,000
It's a very good one.

1372
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,000
It's a very good one.

1373
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:30,000
It's a very good one.

1374
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,000
It's a very good one.

1375
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,000
It's a very good one.

1376
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,000
It's a very good one.

1377
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,000
It's a very good one.

1378
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:40,000
It's a very good one.