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Look at what we have here.

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Zombies in a grocery store?

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Lining up in everything.

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That gives me an idea.

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Okay, Jamie, it's time for a pop quiz.

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In all the years we've been making Mythbusters, how many explosions have we caused?

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I don't know.

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Wow, 900.

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Okay, here's another one.

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How many cars do you think we've destroyed?

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No idea.

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Close!

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220.

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Okay, how many volunteers have we used on Mythbusters?

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I know this one.

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A lot.

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You're darn tootin' it's a lot.

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We've used over 3,500 volunteers in the years we've made this show.

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We literally couldn't do it without them.

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That's why in this final season episode we are paying them homage with two more stories

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that require some volunteer help.

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Like what?

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Well, later we're going to be testing a myth that may prove that we've all been waiting

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online at the grocery store wrong.

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I felt a little numb on the pride that we just opened our first business and we've

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got all these customers.

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But first up is a fan favorite that has become a fan favorite to complain about our zombie

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episode, specifically Axe vs. Gunn.

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I thought we did that in Axe 1.

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Well, Axe did win, but fans had to complain about my axe technique.

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I think they called it lame.

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Yep, in the epic zombie special, Adam's axe killed twice as many zombies as Jamie's

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Gunn.

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But fans cried foul.

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So in this final season, it's now or never for a dawn of the dead do-over.

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You remember this axe, don't you?

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It's my zombie killing axe.

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And while I used it to kill zombies in our zombie episode, fans had problems with the

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way I was doing it.

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I was touching them and saying they're dead.

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Fans pointed out rightly, I might add, that it takes a certain amount of force to embed

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an axe in a zombie's head.

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And that's something that we're going to try and replicate to make this more realistic.

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And to do just that, Adam's starting this volunteer special by breaking the mold.

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Oh, check it out!

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Dude, are you ready to have your forehead split with an axe?

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It's too late.

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That's what you were born to do.

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Let's go.

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Adam's anatomically accurate fake head will help his axe wing be more real.

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But how?

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This is Jeremy.

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He's a friend of mine who has helped me on some projects in the past.

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Today he's brought some electronics to help us calibrate our axe hits.

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What do we have here, sir?

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Well, we have an accelerometer here tied into a microcontroller.

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And the accelerometer reads acceleration and deceleration on three axes.

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So what I'm hoping to do, if this works, is attach this to the back of our real axe head,

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cleave our fake zombie in half, and get a value of how much force that takes.

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Yes.

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And that's what we'll get with this machine?

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Yes, we will.

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Awesome.

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Let's do it.

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With the accelerometer taped into place, it's time to swing for science.

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Zombie killing.

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This is more gruesome than I thought it would be when we talked about this in the abstract.

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That was terrible.

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I grazed the side of his skull.

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Yep, take one was not a zombie kill.

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Look at that.

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I peeled off a bit of his flesh.

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Take two has accuracy, but lacks the power to penetrate to the brain.

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You got to hit him harder.

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Take three.

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Yeah, dead zombies all day long.

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Get the kill data Adam needs.

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All right, so I successfully killed my zombie head.

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And to do so, I swung this axe on a 120 degree arc at 7.8 meters per second.

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Now comes the cool part.

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We're going to put the same accelerometer onto my original foam axe, along with a special

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control unit that Jeremy's been building.

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So where do you want that?

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Right up here, right up top.

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Now when I swing that foam axe through 120 degrees at any speed that is 7.8 meters per

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second or higher, then the control unit will let me know I've successfully registered a

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kill.

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We just made this the coolest toy ever.

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But if my swing is not long enough, fast enough or hard enough, it's going to tell me I've

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got to swing again.

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Okay, the machine's ready.

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Did you see that?

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It says kill?

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That's brilliant.

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Ooh, that's not enough.

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That's not enough.

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That's not enough.

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That's enough.

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Okay, killing zombies, I can tell right now, is going to be tiring.

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I'm going to do some push-ups.

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Adam's rig is really pretty nifty.

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Like last time, it's got a foam head, so it's safe to actually swing near people.

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This foam just soaks up the bang.

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And now it not only weighs the same as a real axe, but it also takes a realistic amount

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of effort to swing.

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Oh my God.

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So me and my gun may yet come out trumps.

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But before the zombie volunteers arrive, the guys must first start their store story.

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All right, our next volunteer story is one I have literally always wanted to test, and

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it involves waiting online at the grocery store.

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What's that?

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All right.

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So you get your items, and then you're confronted with a whole bunch of checkout lanes, and you

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try and assess which one is moving faster so you can get out of that grocery store efficiently.

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Well, there's a theory out there that that whole system is totally inefficient, that

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the best way to move people through a grocery store is to have one long, snaking line that

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when you get to the end of it, you're led to the next available cashier.

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And that's supposed to be faster.

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It is.

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Don't you think we should test that?

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Sure.

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Why not?

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Since the 1960s, the average American has spent 80 hours a year standing in line.

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But is it true we've been waiting wrong for so long?

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Well, in this final season, it's time to answer this classic conundrum once and for all.

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To test this myth, we're going to need a market.

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Unfortunately, nobody would let us use theirs.

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Not surprising.

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I mean, if I had one, I wouldn't let us use it either.

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This is why we can't have nice things.

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So we're going to make our own.

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That's right.

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In a few short hours, we are going to use little elbow grease to turn this beautiful empty

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room into a running grocery store full of aisles, products, check-out stands, and ultimately

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customers.

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Welcome to MythBus Store.

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With no real stores willing to play ball, I'll do the aisles if you do the registers.

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Absolutely.

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Here you go.

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MythBusters are going to have to build their own.

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Oh, it doesn't look like much, but it's going to be awesome.

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Adam's starting at the business end by assembling their homemade cash registers.

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Next one.

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He's fabricating five in total.

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Lovely.

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And they'll form the key part of their MythBusters mini-mart.

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Oh, yeah, cash registers.

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It's real.

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And that's not all.

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The coolest part.

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Lit up signs that tell the customers which is the next free aisle.

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Meanwhile, Jamie's on the shelf.

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This is going to take a while.

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With almost 800 feet of shelving for the guys to stack and pack, it's up back-breaking business.

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But it does have its advantages.

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It might seem tedious to have to build our own store, but it allows us to remove variables

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that we might find in a real store that would be beyond our control.

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Jamie's right.

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A real supermarket will already have a layout locked in and won't want anything to slow

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down sales.

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So MythBus stores is the way to go.

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But a build as big as this...

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I have always wanted to do this.

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...is something the guys can only pull off because of their experience.

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We thought of everything.

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We've got baskets too.

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This is exactly the kind of episode we never would have attempted in the early days of

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MythBusters.

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We didn't have the ambition nor the skill to work with large groups of volunteers and

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to build our own large-scale experimental spaces.

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But we have learned so much over the years.

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This is the pinnacle of our ability to work in a budget on a timeline with a whole bunch

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of volunteers to test something.

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It's certainly ambitious.

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And with 5,000 products to place...

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Time to start stacking.

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It's the perfect go-big or go-home setup for this fanfare well.

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What we are 10 hours in and our check-out stands are complete and ready and wired.

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Our shelves are up.

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But now it's time to stock and there's a lot to stock.

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Eat corn!

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We are about halfway there with still a fair bit to go.

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Alright, ready on aisle 3.

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Oh, we don't have any customers yet.

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Still to come in this epic volunteer special, it's the dawn of the dead in Acts vs. Gun.

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But next, Adam and Jamie shop till they drop.

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MythBustor!

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Where shopping is fully experimental.

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Our other tagline was, we're making this up as we go along.

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From testing the laws of attraction to comparing hand hygiene.

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Our test subject group seems to have developed its own ritual.

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The MythBusters have spent 14 years sourcing volunteers for stories big and small.

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She doesn't want to let go.

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And in this farewell season, Adam and Jamie have crowdsourced two final crowds.

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Starting with the undead.

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Here we are back at the scene of our original experiment.

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Our zombie battle dome, if you will.

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We've got the same exact experimental setup with some new colors and the same weapons.

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Jamie gets a gun, I get an axe.

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All we need are zombies.

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Oh, crap.

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With almost 200 volunteer zombies back from the dead, the guys have everything they need

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to retest the myth that fans complained about more than any other.

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Their biggest complaint was with my axe, specifically my technique.

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They said that it was too lightweight.

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They suggested, the fans did, that every time I swing the axe it should be with enough

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force to actually kill a zombie.

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With the axe able to tell if Adam's using enough force to kill, let's go.

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Watch the plan.

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So how's this going to work?

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Well, when I start the timer and I do this, that lets the zombies know that it's time

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to get down to business.

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And then when I see that the zombies have overtaken Adam, I use this again.

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I stop them.

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We do a zombie body count and we see how Adam did with his new axe.

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It's time for zombies.

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In the original episode, Adam dispatched 14 zombies before getting bit.

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But how will his new accurate axe work out?

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What a fine looking group of ladies and gentlemen we all are.

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Are you hungry?

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Okay, here we go.

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In three, two, one.

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This is go time and as soon as the zombies enter the circle, Adam's off and swinging

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hard.

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But not for long.

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With just eight confirmed kills, barely half that of last time, Adam's total has tanked.

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This technique seemed to be to run around the perimeter of the circle as fast as he

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could to collect as many zombie bodies as he could.

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But he's having to put a lot of effort into getting it going and it actually takes a lot

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more time.

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From above, it looked like an iris that was closing on Adam and when it got small enough,

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he was done for.

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The new technique has clearly slowed Adam down.

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But the key question remains, how does the axe compare to the gun?

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It's time.

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Okay, zombies, face masks down.

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To find out Jamie's armed with a paintball pistol that, at the request of fans, has been

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set to semi-automatic.

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Alright zombies, are you ready?

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Are you ready for some sweet, sweet Heidemann flush brains?

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Alright, here we go.

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Starting gun test in three, two, one.

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From the get go, it's clear that Jamie's semi-auto is fast.

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But it's not fast enough to let him shoot his way out of trouble.

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In total, Jamie manages only seven kills, one less than Adam.

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One of my favorite things about this show, one of the most scientific things that we

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do is we take feedback after episodes have aired and we go back and re-retest things.

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I love that.

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Fans did not like my axe technique, so we rejiggered it, made my axe much more realistic

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to swing and as expected, that radically reduced the number of zombies that I could

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kill.

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But I thought that Jamie was going to mop the floor with me with his use of his new

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semi-auto paintball pistol and yet he didn't improve his score at all.

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I am totally gobsmacked that it seems right now like axe versus gun, it's axe.

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Oh yeah.

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Yep, despite the slowdown, the axe is ahead by a head.

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But there's way more to come for our armchair army.

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I'm ready.

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But only after some retail therapy.

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And we are pretty much done.

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Five checkout stands each with working cash registers and indicator lights.

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Five thousand separate food items are rated on over 750 feet of shelving, every single

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one with its own label.

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$56,000 in play, myth busters, money.

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This is without a doubt the most elaborate experimental setup we have ever implemented,

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all to find out which is the more efficient way to wait online.

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Now we are pretty much ready to go, we just got to make sure that everything is properly

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priced.

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This one doesn't have a price, that's a problem.

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The guys are testing whether the traditional picolain method is really slower than one

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long line, known in the trade as the serpentine.

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And with their 5000 products all priced, their elaborate plan is ready to be revealed.

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Here's how this experimental setup works.

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We've got 120 volunteers and they will enter the store where they'll receive a shopping

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list of exactly how many items we want them to buy, then they'll go get a cart.

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Once they have their cart they'll enter the store and choose from the vast selection of

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myth busters merchandise on display.

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Personally, I hope we get cookies.

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Once our customer gets in line for the cashier, that's when the data collection actually begins.

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They will pull out their timestamp card and enter the precise moment they got in line.

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Then they'll proceed right towards the cashier.

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Once our customer reaches the cashier, that's when they enter the second data point, the

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time they got to the checkout stand.

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Thus we will have the precise length of time they spend waiting in line.

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Our last stop is here, data collection, where we not only gather our customers' timestamp,

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but we're also interested in their experience.

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So in the back of each time card they will grade their overall satisfaction with the

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line.

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With five experienced register operators and a stats table staffed by experts, everything

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set to release the volunteers for first a full systems check.

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Alright shoppers, starting in three, two, one, go for the run through.

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I felt a little moment of pride that we just opened our first business and we've got all

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these customers.

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The guys are starting with a trial run to make sure their newly built store can cope,

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which at first it can.

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But ten minutes later, the lines have become unrealistically long.

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We're already seeing some problems with our experimental design because our entire customer

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base ended up in long lines and that's not realistically like what we would have in a

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store so we're going to have to figure out some way of pacing things a little bit to

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get lines that are more realistically sized to what you would see in a supermarket.

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Yep with just too many shoppers, all at once, their commercial space can't cope.

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So the guys kick out their customers and reset.

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Alright shoppers, commence entering the store.

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This time with 25% fewer people.

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There's a special on Jamie Beans on aisle four.

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Which soon results in queues that are much more realistic.

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Jamie this is working beautifully.

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Meaning that the testing can shortly begin.

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We have done countless destructive stories over the years, but I also love myths like

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this one.

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I mean I think when we do something like this we might make the world a slightly better place

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by improving people's shopping experience.

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That's cool.

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That doesn't mean there can't be any destruction like this.

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Clean up on aisle five.

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The mythbusters have helped drivers save dollars.

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The dimpled car, 29.65 miles to the gallon.

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And revealed ways to save lives.

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It's going down.

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Oh boy.

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In fact they've always armed viewers with important information.

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Did you know what was lurking in your basement?

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But at an apocalyptic warehouse let's hope this myth's strange stats aren't ever needed.

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So where do we stand?

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Well so far it still looks like Axe is edging out gun as a method for dispatching zombies.

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However our testing scenario where zombies are coming from all sides.

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That is genuinely like the worst possible case scenario under which you could encounter

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zombies.

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In movies it's much more likely that they're like trying to get in and they get through

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something like a breach or a doorway.

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So that is the scenario we're going to set up next.

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It may sound like an oxymoron but the guys are trying to up the realism of their zombie

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methodology.

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Nice.

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To do that they're ditching the circle surround test and going instead with the classic fence

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breach.

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The question is will the axe still be the winning weapon?

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Like film folklore the undead start by coming through one by one.

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This is working great.

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But what Adam doesn't know is that Jamie's about to release the zombies en masse.

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Reaching the fence.

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Oh no.

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With walkers now pouring forward.

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A living wall.

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Adam's swing frequency has to rapidly rise which causes him to get fatigued fast.

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So much so that the power of his swing starts to fall below the kill threshold.

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Adam is about exhausted and he's slowly losing the battle.

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This is exhausting.

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I'm dead.

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I'm dead.

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That was the hardest thing I've done in a long time.

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Looks like that was quite the workout.

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While Adam recovers I might have pulled a muscle.

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Jamie counts up the dead.

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21, 22, 23, 24.

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To reveal a final tally that's terrifying.

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66, 67.

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It could be another body or so buried under there but I'll call it 67.

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67's on me.

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With 67 the benchmark to beat it's time for Jamie to come out all guns blazing.

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I'm ready.

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Arm to the teeth and then some.

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You want a piece of me?

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What the carnage commits.

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Please remember zombies that Jamie's flesh comes from Indiana which means it's especially

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tasty.

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All right, here we go.

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In three, two, one.

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From the get go.

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He's not even moving.

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Jamie has a clear advantage over Adam.

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As he takes down zombies on both sides of the fence.

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But when the fence gets breached, Jamie must really start firing on all summoners.

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Excellent.

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He's doing good.

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Come on Jamie, you can do it.

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Jamie may not be tiring but the odd gun jam is slowing him down.

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He's going to run around the whole other side of me.

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This is kind of great.

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So much so that his days in the land of the living are numbered.

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He might be dead.

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Calm down.

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Jamie's dead and buried but did he shoot more than 67?

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Mr. Heidemann.

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Yes.

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Stand up.

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You took 57 zombies with you.

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Well, I guess Axe beats gun, huh?

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That is fascinating.

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I would not have called that.

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All right, let's clean up this mess.

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All I got to say, I was surprised.

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You would think that this would be like shooting fish in a barrel.

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But these guns are more complex than something like an axe.

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They have to be reloaded.

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They can jam.

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And a second or two is enough to make everything go haywire.

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So I ended up scoring less than Adam.

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But I was expecting exactly the opposite.

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Yep, it's a result to confound the critics.

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When the apocalypse comes, folks, Axe does beat gun and then some.

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After beating Jamie twice, both in the round and in the breach test, I'm like, damn, Axe,

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you are the proper tool.

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Not only good for a quest through Middle Earth, but also good against zombies.

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But before disbanding their undead army, there's one more zombie request to test.

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Carove me.

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Meanwhile, back at MythBus stores.

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Our employee of the month is James Franklin Heinemann.

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He hails from Columbus, Indiana.

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The lineup trial run has been such a success that the data collection can now begin.

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All right, timer ready.

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Here we go.

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Commence shopping test.

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Individual lines in three, two, one, go.

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This first test, the standard choose your lane method will last exactly 30 minutes.

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It looks pretty much like a busy normal store.

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And to make their data as reliable as possible, the MythBusters are cranking the realism up

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to the max.

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Now some of you who've been watching up to this point might be thinking that we haven't

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set a totally real world shopping scenario because we don't have people who slow the

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lines down with special requests.

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Yee of little faith.

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We've actually built two bogies into our testing procedure.

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One is a price check.

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A certain number of our shoppers will require one and they'll call us on the radio and Jamie

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or I will go out and give the actual price.

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There you go.

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One happened right there.

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Oh, OK.

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That's $3.99.

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The other one is the most dreaded of shopping scenarios.

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Bum, bum, bum.

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The person who pays with a bank check.

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This combined with the price check ought to make our scenario very, very realistic.

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There's no doubt that their super store is super real.

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And halfway through, there's already a deluge of data.

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OK, check on two.

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Roger that.

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Mr. Heiden, the price check on two.

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Not because Adam's so excited about this store story.

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How much is this apple, sir?

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$0.99.

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Thank you.

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He's volunteering to not just observe but to participate too.

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Got my card, got my timestamp.

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Now it's time to go shopping.

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He's been randomly allocated six items.

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Grits, yep.

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Which he selects based on taste.

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Lab grade gravy.

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Delicious.

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And packaging.

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I only buy these because the label features the handsomeest man I've ever seen.

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Then like all the other shoppers, he chooses a queue and notes down the time.

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24.36.

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24.36.

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And that's when the boring part, the waiting, begins.

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No magazines to read.

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I need to know about what's going on with their Kardashians.

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This is the only place in the world I can find that out.

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Three minutes, 18 seconds after joining the queue, Adam finally reaches the register.

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27.54.

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27.54.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Here, I'm buying that banana peel.

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But how will that time compare to his fellow shoppers who continue to collect their data

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with destiny until, luckily for them, time's up?

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Well after a couple of hiccups, we have completed test number one of our line waiting test.

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Thank you very much.

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I'm very happy with how it went.

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In fact, I even participated as a customer during this one and it felt like a very authentic

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shopping experience, which is what we want.

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Next up, set up the serpentine.

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You want a piece of me?

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In the Mythbusters Volunteer Special, the guys have shown that Axe does trump gun.

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That was the hardest thing I've done in a long time.

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But fans also want to know if its gasoline-powered bigger brother is even better.

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And for that, Adam's taking up pit stop at the shop.

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While we've been playing around with guns and axes, I have to say I feel we have neglected

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perhaps the most spectacular of zombie killing tools and no zombie apocalypse would be complete

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without it, the humble chainsaw.

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Although the Axe was awesome, viewers want to know if the iconic chainsaw is really a

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zombie's ultimate enemy.

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To find out, first Adam must calibrate his weapon so that it can reliably register a

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kill.

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And for that, he's switching things up.

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When I take a chainsaw and I touch a zombie, there's a certain length of time I touch him

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for before I've cut through his skull and his cranium.

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I'm guessing three quarters of a second.

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So what I've done is I've set a switch into this chainsaw that will start a timer going

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00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:52,460
that will go BING every time I've killed a zombie.

503
00:30:52,460 --> 00:30:53,460
And this is the switch.

504
00:30:53,460 --> 00:30:58,660
It's a little bit of a UHMW guide, a micro switch, and when I touch a zombie, it clicks

505
00:30:58,660 --> 00:31:00,860
the switch.

506
00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:02,360
Hear that?

507
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:07,700
Adam's timer switch will ensure that he can kill zombies unrealistically fast.

508
00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:09,020
Dead zombie.

509
00:31:09,020 --> 00:31:10,020
Dead zombie.

510
00:31:10,020 --> 00:31:11,940
That's how this is going to work.

511
00:31:11,940 --> 00:31:17,180
But so as to not really harm our volunteers, he's also swapping out the blade for something

512
00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:19,460
significantly less sharp.

513
00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:21,820
I've got to kill zombies without hurting them.

514
00:31:21,820 --> 00:31:25,420
Next comes the predictable paint job.

515
00:31:25,420 --> 00:31:32,220
Before one last addition, a blood spatter system to crank the realism to the max.

516
00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:33,500
Everyone knows zombie blood isn't red.

517
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,100
It's a family show.

518
00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:39,660
And with that, it's finally ready for a full systems check.

519
00:31:39,660 --> 00:31:41,980
This is test number one.

520
00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:42,980
Zombie killing chainsaw.

521
00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:55,860
Let's go kill some zombies.

522
00:31:55,860 --> 00:32:01,300
But before we start that mayhem, it's back to the MythBest store shopping spectacular,

523
00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:06,020
Adam and Jamie are tackling a classic queuing conundrum.

524
00:32:06,020 --> 00:32:10,940
Just remember shoppers, there's also a special on Jamie beans in aisle four.

525
00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:17,020
They're trying to find out whether it's quicker to wait in individual lanes or one giant line.

526
00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:19,980
Here's a little something for your trouble.

527
00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:27,020
And with the 30 minute choose your lane test ticked off, the store manager has the stats.

528
00:32:27,020 --> 00:32:30,700
Well test one is done, the results are in, and I have this handy palm full of figures.

529
00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:33,140
The process 138 shoppers.

530
00:32:33,140 --> 00:32:36,620
They averaged a wait time of five minutes and 39 seconds.

531
00:32:36,620 --> 00:32:38,820
The fastest was two minutes 16 seconds.

532
00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:41,300
The slowest nine minutes and 21 seconds.

533
00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,140
That was an unhappy shopper.

534
00:32:43,140 --> 00:32:47,380
And they had an average satisfaction level of 3.48 out of five.

535
00:32:47,380 --> 00:32:49,220
I think that's a little bit above average.

536
00:32:49,220 --> 00:32:52,500
Now what does this mean when the serpentine line happens?

537
00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:55,260
I can't see it changing it that much.

538
00:32:55,260 --> 00:32:56,460
I could be wrong.

539
00:32:56,460 --> 00:33:01,500
To find out, the guys set up their serpentine, which is pretty simple.

540
00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:05,540
Basically the serpentine line is just a single line.

541
00:33:05,540 --> 00:33:10,380
It may snake around like a serpent, but that's just to fit in the store more conveniently.

542
00:33:10,380 --> 00:33:12,460
Darn right it's a long line.

543
00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:18,020
The customer at the head of the line simply waits for the next available cashier and he

544
00:33:18,020 --> 00:33:19,740
goes there.

545
00:33:19,740 --> 00:33:23,020
That's the concept, but to see if it's faster.

546
00:33:23,020 --> 00:33:24,020
Cashiers are you ready?

547
00:33:24,020 --> 00:33:25,020
Yeah.

548
00:33:25,020 --> 00:33:30,500
The guys open for business for their 90 volunteers.

549
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:31,500
Go.

550
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:34,300
But the test won't start straight away.

551
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:39,180
You might be wondering at this point why we're letting our store run before starting to gather

552
00:33:39,180 --> 00:33:40,180
any data.

553
00:33:40,180 --> 00:33:43,540
And the reason is, well it's best to think of our store like a marble run.

554
00:33:43,540 --> 00:33:46,020
It looks like I'll choose the other player here.

555
00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:50,420
So if you have a marble run with tracks and wheels and you dump 50 marbles in all at once,

556
00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:54,820
you're going to start in a clump and then slowly disperse throughout the machine as it

557
00:33:54,820 --> 00:33:55,820
goes.

558
00:33:55,820 --> 00:33:57,140
That's exactly what we're doing here.

559
00:33:57,140 --> 00:33:59,780
We're bringing in our people and then letting them disperse.

560
00:33:59,780 --> 00:34:04,260
And once they're dispersed, that's when our data is going to be more accurate because

561
00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:06,540
it's more averaged across the system.

562
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:12,100
It takes five minutes to achieve an optimum dispersal and then it's all systems go.

563
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:18,700
All right let's start the clock in three, two, one, commence continuing shopping.

564
00:34:18,700 --> 00:34:22,980
To ensure a valid comparison, they're using the same number of volunteers.

565
00:34:22,980 --> 00:34:25,300
Looks like number two is up for you, man.

566
00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:28,220
With the same number of wildcarts.

567
00:34:28,220 --> 00:34:33,660
But by studying the dynamics of the queue, Jamie's already spotted something serious.

568
00:34:33,660 --> 00:34:39,100
So the amount of time that it took that customer to get from the middle of the line to the

569
00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:44,620
cashier is time that didn't exist if that person was standing in line the conventional

570
00:34:44,620 --> 00:34:45,620
way.

571
00:34:45,620 --> 00:34:50,500
That travel distance that I think has to be making this whole thing take more time.

572
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:55,660
According to the Heinemann, this extra travel to the till will slow the system.

573
00:34:55,660 --> 00:34:57,520
But Adam's not so sure.

574
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,060
When we first started writing out the methodology for this test, I have to tell you I had some

575
00:35:01,060 --> 00:35:04,060
bias and I thought serpentine was totally going to win.

576
00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:08,820
But now after watching this in action, I'm not so sure that I'm right about that because

577
00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:14,700
it may be that this just makes it fairer for everybody but not necessarily faster for

578
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:15,780
everybody.

579
00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:16,780
Price check on two.

580
00:35:16,780 --> 00:35:18,780
Oh, price check on two.

581
00:35:18,780 --> 00:35:19,780
Excuse me.

582
00:35:19,780 --> 00:35:20,780
Still to come.

583
00:35:20,780 --> 00:35:22,300
Jamie shops for signs.

584
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:27,700
It's a good known fact that Heinemann can live for months on nothing but eggs and beer.

585
00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:30,700
And Adam goes in for the kill.

586
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:32,700
Prove me.

587
00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:36,700
Here, yes, yes, ah!

588
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:42,700
To celebrate this farewell season, this is Mythbusters by the Numbers.

589
00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:56,700
From viewers with terrific talents to hordes of human guinea pigs, the Mythbusters have

590
00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:05,700
relied on audience participation for 14 years in change.

591
00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:11,700
So to all our 3,500 intrepid volunteers, we literally

592
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:14,700
couldn't have done it without you.

593
00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:18,700
Yo, I'm Jesse Pikman and it's time to science this Bia chop.

594
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:32,700
Adam and Jamie are testing a super story about the Superstore.

595
00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:38,700
Is it better to line up in individual lanes or in one long line?

596
00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:45,700
Halfway through the long line test and their Mythbust store data is coming in in droves,

597
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:48,700
which is Jamie's cue to join in.

598
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,700
It's time for you to be a customer.

599
00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:51,700
Okay.

600
00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:53,700
Like Adam before him, 10 items.

601
00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,700
Jamie's volunteered to collect data.

602
00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:58,700
Fresh produce is good for you.

603
00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:01,700
As he sources a randomly allocated 10 items.

604
00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:04,700
And some peanut butter.

605
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:09,700
Before standing in line, which is too hard for Adam to resist.

606
00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:11,700
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

607
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:17,700
You can see him that he's blending in with the average populace, not even a little bit.

608
00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:23,700
You can spot him by his absurd mustache and self-referential hat.

609
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:31,700
Whereas Adam Attenborough Savage cued for 3 minutes 18, Jamie's wait is way longer,

610
00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:33,700
a whopping 5 minutes 29.

611
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:34,700
There you go.

612
00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:36,700
Keep the change.

613
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:39,700
But that's still less than the Piccolane average.

614
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,700
So what will the rest of the data say?

615
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:49,700
Well, 6 minutes and 32 transactions later, the guys have all the numbers they need.

616
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:51,700
All right, everybody, freeze where you are.

617
00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:52,700
Freeze where you are.

618
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:54,700
That will conclude test number two.

619
00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:55,700
You guys are awesome.

620
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:56,700
Thank you.

621
00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:59,700
Give it a great jump.

622
00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:03,700
All right, the results of our serpentine tests are in.

623
00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:10,700
And if you remember, the average wait time for our five individual lane shoppers was 5 minutes and 39 seconds.

624
00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:16,700
The average wait time for the serpentine shoppers was 6 minutes and 56 seconds.

625
00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:22,700
Yes, 77 seconds on average per shopper slower.

626
00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:23,700
What the hey?

627
00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:25,700
That's absolutely kind of mind-blowing to me.

628
00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:26,700
That's right.

629
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:28,700
But here's where it gets interesting.

630
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:33,700
Even though the serpentine moved slower, the customers actually liked it better.

631
00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:37,700
In fact, twice as many gave it a five the top rating.

632
00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:39,700
Go figure.

633
00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:43,700
It's a result that's the complete opposite of the myth.

634
00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:47,700
The serpentine was slower, yet also more popular.

635
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:49,700
And Adam thinks he knows why.

636
00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:52,700
So why is serpentine slower?

637
00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:54,700
Well, let's look at the individual lines first.

638
00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:58,700
The fastest time through those lines was 2 minutes and 16 seconds.

639
00:38:58,700 --> 00:38:59,700
That is blazing fast.

640
00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:01,700
No bogies, quick cashier.

641
00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:02,700
Everyone's happy.

642
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:07,700
But our fastest time in the serpentine was almost twice as slow, 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

643
00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:12,700
That's because the speed of the lines is averaged out across the entire group.

644
00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:13,700
And it brings it down.

645
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:18,700
And when you add in the length of time it takes to get from the end of the line over to the next available cashier,

646
00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:22,700
well, it turns out you've added almost a minute to everyone's time.

647
00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:23,700
That's pretty amazing.

648
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:25,700
Yep, it's slower for sure.

649
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:29,700
But because it's also fairer, it's got the volunteer thumbs up.

650
00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:37,700
So how to call this myth is actually kind of interesting.

651
00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:38,700
How so?

652
00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:43,700
Well, the myth as stated is that the serpentine method, the single long line is faster.

653
00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:46,700
And the implication is that it's therefore better.

654
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:47,700
Right.

655
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,700
But even though we found it was 23% slower.

656
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:51,700
The customers liked it better.

657
00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:55,700
Yeah, so we're in this weird position of saying serpentine method is busted.

658
00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:56,700
But it's also better.

659
00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:57,700
Yeah, busted but better.

660
00:39:57,700 --> 00:39:58,700
That's cool.

661
00:39:58,700 --> 00:39:59,700
Let's get out of here.

662
00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:00,700
Okay.

663
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:11,700
Back at their apocalyptic location.

664
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,700
It's time for this last season's last stand.

665
00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:19,700
Against the zombies ultimate nemesis.

666
00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:31,700
But will the legendary chainsaw beat the course record of 67 kills?

667
00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:32,700
Okay, Adam.

668
00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:35,700
Three, two, one, go.

669
00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:38,700
Remember, Adam's rigged his replica.

670
00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:40,700
Zombie blood all over me.

671
00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:44,700
With a switch that lets him kill a zombie in three quarters of a second.

672
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:46,700
Come on, come on, zombies, yes.

673
00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:52,700
Which means he's able to rack up his score faster than a death metal montage.

674
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:53,700
Oh, yes.

675
00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:56,700
Oh, this is awesome.

676
00:40:56,700 --> 00:40:59,700
Ah, ah, ah.

677
00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:00,700
Yes.

678
00:41:00,700 --> 00:41:02,700
Oh, this is awesome.

679
00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:06,700
Ah, ah, ah, yes.

680
00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:09,700
Ah, ah, ah.

681
00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:12,700
With minimal reset time and little fatigue.

682
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:15,700
Ah, oh, I'm falling into zombies.

683
00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:21,700
It's only four manic minutes until Adam is the last man standing.

684
00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:26,700
Ah, ah, ah, yes.

685
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:28,700
Woo.

686
00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:32,700
I killed all the zombies.

687
00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:36,700
It's a final season scene of utter devastation.

688
00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:42,700
All 190 zombie volunteers are dead and buried.

689
00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:45,700
It's been a few decades since I was a mediocre student,

690
00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:50,700
but I remember enough to remember that a really good score is 100%.

691
00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:54,700
That's how many zombies I killed, and it feels good.

692
00:41:55,700 --> 00:41:58,700
With a success rate that's second to none,

693
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:04,700
the chainsaw status as the ultimate end of the world weapon is well and truly confirmed.

694
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:09,700
But that's not the only top tip from the misbusters.

695
00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:12,700
So after all that we've learned with dealing with zombies,

696
00:42:12,700 --> 00:42:14,700
what's your plan in the zombie apocalypse?

697
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:16,700
Run.