MythBusters and HTF... (1 Viewer)

[Paul McElligott]

Okay, this one was another good one, with a true Mythbusters-style approach to a problem. Jamie sure looked humbled by his, um, engineering error.

Still, I don't think either of them took the basic myth very seriously. It was just an excuse for wanton distruction and wrecking a car.

The Robin Hood myth was fun (Kari in Ren-faire garb never hurts) even if the end result was pretty easy to predict.

 

[MarkHastings]

The whole episode seemed kind of "whatever". Not much planning or thought seemed to go into it. While it was good, it wasn't one of their better ones.

 

[Ken Chan]

At least they definitely showed not to leave an axe or bowling ball on the rear deck.

 

[Paul McElligott]

In other Mythbuster news, the Discovery Science channel is showing a new British import called "Beyond Tomorrow". One segment each week is an excerpt from the Mythbusters. This week they used the "cell phone blows up gas station" myth.

I wonder how the Brits like Jamie and Adam?

 

[Citizen87645]

That was pretty hilarious. Definitely noted as a "Don't Do."

This afternoon the channel reran the episode where Kari gets to butt model for the airline toilet suction myth. I've been waitin' for that ep for awhile! The final product was kind of a turn off after all the modifications she made though.

 

[Paul McElligott]

Who cares about the final model? The image of Kari in that flesh-colored body suit more than made up for it.

Am I right that it was Kari's first appearance on the show?

 

[Citizen87645]

That's my understanding. Here's her bio on the Mythbusters site:

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/my...t/meet_04.html

 

[MarkHastings]

I believe so. That was the first time I ever noticed her, and believe me, if she was on BEFORE that, I'd have noticed.


p.s. Has anyone else noticed that it seems like Kari and Tory have a 'thing' going on?

 

[Citizen87645]

I'm choosing to ignore that possibility Actually, I think someone else mentioned something going on between her and Adam, but I just learned Adam is a newlywed.

 

[MarkHastings]

I think we all are

Seriously, I can't tell if it's just the typical "closeness with working together" kind of thing or if there's something more.

 

[Citizen87645]

Well, Tory has his share of accidents from boneheaded stunts, so we might be seeing a lot of her comforting him after an injury. And if that is the case, I can see why he's always pulling those stunts

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

I cringe everytime they show him trying to hop over that red wagon. Oooooh, that has to smart.

 

[Francois Caron]

By any chance is this the same girl he was going to date the day after he burnt part of his hair and eyebrows in a gasoline explosion?

 

[Citizen87645]

Yes, I believe so! The day he got his lip sucked into the vacuum cleaner motor was also when he asked her to marry him.

From the online chat transcript on the site:

 

[Francois Caron]

Imagine the wedding! Broken nose and a sprained foot. And I hope they don't have kids! I don't even want to imagine that one!

 

[Citizen87645]

Imagine the sex! - err, scratch that.

 

[Paul McElligott]

I still miss Scottie.

And I love the opening of her bio on the Discovery website:

Now that's a resume!

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

Really fun myths tonight, with Indiana Jones and the life raft parachute.

Poor poor Buster.

 

[Jim Dalton]

My only problem with this show is that sometimes they don't do an "apples-to-apples" comparison. In the Indiana Jones myth, the inflatable raft landed on a snowy hill, not a flat hard terrain which they did.

It was the same with shark week when they did the shark. Instead of going with Jaws' "Godzilla" shark they went with a size that was smaller and lighter because it fits with "known" figures.

Jaws had the Godzilla shark. Doused with radiation, it's bigger, badder and glows in the dark, too.

Other than that, I love the show and got de wife hooked on it as well.

 

[MarkHastings]

Yeah, you can definitely tell the airplane cargo drop was really about them wanting a really cool destruction thing to happen (mainly for ratings). The test could NEVER replicate any one specific plane crash and all of the conditions that need to happen to achieve the same results.


Also, you know you've been watching this show for a long time when they were showing the air leaks in the phoney cockpit and you just KNEW something bad was going to happen.