Adam Savage On Why Mythbusters Ended

Adam Savage details his feelings on the end of Mythbusters at Silicon Valley Comic Con 2017.

[@Theonlypayne]

Its better to end a show leaving the viewers wanting more, instead of pushing the show too long and leaving the viewers wondering why its still on.

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

Theonlypayne tell that to the Simpsons.

[@livefree1030]

Theonlypayne I will become depressed once South Park ends. 😖

[@Chalky.]

morelli tech South Park ended for me after three fourth season, and then just watched occasional episodes I hear are good.

[@Pile_of_carbon]

So true. Always quit while you're still ahead.

[@nunyabiihz8922]

Die a hero or live long enough to become the villian

[@DerWaidmann_]

"We weren't gonna do the show for less" gotta respect the pure honesty

[@chazstahs]

Brayden Miller not much behind the pure honesty.. I mean if you did a job for 14 years, would expect to take a pay cut after all that work?

[@edtifa]

I would never take a pay cut if I did a job for 14 years. I would rather maintain the same amount of money I was already making if I was happy with the amount I was getting. If unhappy with the amount I was getting, only then would I say you know after 14 years you need to give me a little more. But a pay cut after all of that work for that many years would just feel like a slap in the face.

[@alfrejof94]

@@chazstahs I think what he meant was more like he didn't lied to people by mentioning things like the usual: the fans, our love for the show, things that were more emotional. He outright mentioned pay, so that's very truthful. Famous people don't usually talk about money in order not to upset the fans but here it worked out as something genuine. My two cents.

[@maxwellsimon4538]

alfrejof94 The Mythbusters was always a show about practicality, logical reasoning, and problem solving. If you’re getting old, and you have to keep pushing the limits from last season, then you certainly can’t do that for less money. It’s a very respectable and honest choice. It’s not even “I’ve been here too damn long to get a pay cut,” its Adam and Jamie realizing they can’t do this forever. Plus now we have Adam Savage’s Tested as well as Brain Candy Live

[@Tranceplant82]

They believe in their talents and they know their worth. Totally fine.

[@marksmith6785]

So, basically the most reasonable thing that could have happened, happened.

[@BoleDaPole]

Yea go out with class and on top.

[@mattpinault3515]

And that usually never happens

[@MyBelch]

Occam's razor

[@emilyarmstrong83]

Basically what happened with Calvin and Hobbes too.

[@Project_415]

Tis a blessing from God!

[@MegaMAWG]

Seinfeld ran for 9, Cheers ran for 11, Frasier ran for 9, heck, even MASH, one of the most beloved shows of all time, ran for 11. So, 14? Pretty darn good. Love to all the Mythbusters gang, thanks for the memories.

[@dennisvanhout720]

Frasier also ran for 11, unless this is similar to Scrubs only having 8 seasons, not 9 (seriously, there is no 9th season, really)

[@ericsaresky6246]

Larry Schroeder Discovery is not a small network. They own 19 networks.

[@erikjohansson1814]

Ron Devon Days of our life’s has been running from 1965 and is still on. My mom watch it therefore I know. So Mythbusters is nothing.

[@mr.e0311]

Gosh diggidy darn it.. You're righty oh right!

[@mr.e0311]

@FlappableBean he just did... Now you are the one that has to deal with it. Every day for the rest of your life.

[@6Fiona6_P_6]

I love how genuine Adam Savage is. Being genuine is a very rare commodity these days. Still miss Mythbusters💥💣🔍

[@kingjames4886]

seems to be becoming more popular...

[@chemicalmike646]

Fiona P in another interview he mentioned they didn't like each other as much as the show tried to imply.

[@MaxLBogue]

Fiona P I

[@steventarsitano3209]

i actually saw him live along with michael stevens from Vsauce when they did their brain candy tour. it was very fun, and very kooky, and i can tell throughout the entire thing that they weren't acting. yes, it was scripted for sure, but it was their own personalities shining through what they said. in fact, my favorite little tidbit of the show WAS unscripted. you see, at the theater i was in, there were a few stage lights that were bolted to the floor on the front and side edges of the stage. at certain transitions throughout the show, they would push a cart or something they were using off to the side. there was a couple of times where adam hit the stage lights, and he just kinda turned his head to the audience and said "this isn't scripted by the way, i seriously am just hitting these things by accident" and the audience got a real kick out of it.

[@richarddecredico6098]

He is being disingenuous if he includes his main co-star as being someone he loves.

[@bigmember5908]

I am glad to hear that Adam and Jamie did not want the build team trio done away with.

[@Nightweaver1]

I also always figured that Jamie and Adam wanted the build team gone because they were taking air time away from the main duo.

[@bigmember5908]

I wish this had come out earlier

[@Djarra]

When talking about their dysfunctional relationship Jamie said the only thing he and Adam truly agreed on was that they didn't want to the Kari, Tory and Grant dropped.

[@ashleyholliday2855]

@Joe Kinchicken hey joe , fuck you too lol

[@ghendar]

@Joe Kinchicken Feel better now Joe? You ranted at a bunch of strangers on the internet. Well played. I hope that helps you sleep at night.

[@HomTolland69]

I still can't fathom the notion that Adam and Jamie aren't close friends.

[@Kinoksis]

Hom Tolland Seriously? That’s a bummer :(

[@HomTolland69]

@@Kinoksis Yep, their relationship is purely a working relationship. They both talked about it.

[@sultryjmac]

It has alot to do with Adam being intolerable to the rest of the cast I've heard.

[@CoyoteRecon]

sultryjmac that’s probably why

[@TheCanadaBoose]

@@sultryjmac Well he is a Savage

[@Jly1974]

R.I.P. Grant Imahara :(

[@FIREBRAND38]

October 23, 1970 - July 13, 2020

[@JayboCorp.2014]

Wait really?

[@strider5119]

@@JayboCorp.2014 yeah

[@JayboCorp.2014]

@@strider5119: That really really sucks, he was great one of my favorites, reminded me of myself sometimes.

[@mikaelious9550]

I know this is really late, but god damn... I didn't even know. May he rest in peace :(

[@Aetrion]

I feel like Mythbusters started to lose ratings because they just kind of ran out of good myths to bust, and a lot of youtube shows where people test things or build crazy contraptions started popping up as well, so it was just less relevant.

[@FloridaGuy549]

IMHO, the show started to lose it when their intent went from trying to prove or disprove a myth, to where they seemed to be deliberately trying to just disprove any myth they felt was not real. Compare the first season to the second to last season, you will see it change.

[@rickynetcl]

they fire kary, tory and grant the show was slow and borring

[@mikejones-vd3fg]

Thats a good point, and kind of what i remembered last watching myth busters, like common hurry up!! enough with the filler, KZbin was conditioning us with no filler, to the point, ADD content at the time and that format was getting a little too drawn out for us content addicts. Maybe it could make a modern reboot after some time, was a great show and not suprised or sad to see it go when it did even though I was a fan.

[@bullfrogpondshop3179]

Towards the end, the myths became less and less interesting, and some were quite a stretch. The Simpsons myths episode was ridiculously stupid.

[@Omegeddon]

It was a perfect storm of running out of big ticket myths, the trend of people moving away from TV as a whole towards the internet, KZbinrs starting to come up and steal some of their shine, and the natural decline of a series like that. I LOVED Mythbusters as a kid but even I slowly stopped watching it due to internet becoming my new medium. Its unfortunate but I'm glad it was ended on their terms instead of getting dragged into the ground

[@G56AG]

I feel like a lot of the loss in the ratings was due to the producers screwing it up, things like getting rid of the trio, that was just plain dumb. But I can certainly understand Adam and some of the others getting tired of doing it.

[@nosleepshogun9968]

Basically if you put what Adam said about how "discovery is seeing the downward trend" and he "isn't willing to be paid less" together, you'll come to a conclusion that discovery is looking to reduce the cost of the show, and cutting the trio was enough the greenlight the final season. so in a way, they had to be cut for there to be a final season

[@VegetaIsBetterThanGoku]

Yeah still, they shouldve taken a pay cut. I mean how much of a better job is out there?? They had the greatest job in the world. And Adam may have said he got tired of it but if you watched him immediately after doing “tested” and other cameos on youtube and stuff everything post MB you could clearly tell he was depressed. That happy energetic personality of his was gone and it still is to some extent. Id rather be paid less having fun doing something I loved than being paid more and be miserable. It’s not work if your having fun and enjoy what you do.

[@ThatGuy56326]

Vegeta Is Better Than Goku its like he said, they had that job for 14 years. It got old pretty simple.

[@VegetaIsBetterThanGoku]

That Guy Yeah I hear ya I’m just saying because it was nearing the end, with the drop of ratings year after year, i think they just said that they wanted it to and and to move on. Like I said I followed Adam for a long time afterwards and he was like shutdown. He barely smiled on camera, he was camera shy, always looked like he was miserable to be there, etc. etc. He seems so much better now and looks like he fully moved on as he’s much happier now on camera again but it’s still nowhere near the level of enthusiasm and excitement he had on the set of MB. Just my opinion based on every video Adam did after MB’s watch some of them you’ll see what I mean. Whatever tho it’s over with anyway just saying that may have saved the show may have made it bomb sooner who knows.

[@Bad_At_Parties]

@@VegetaIsBetterThanGoku Work is work, no matter if the love it or not. It could be argued that you pour more of yourself into things you care about, which does make the pressures and anxieties of the work more monumental than if it was something you didn't get engaged by. Adam and company did the same thing for over a decade, and tested every myth imaginable to the jump that jumping the shark seemed inevitable. You can only do so much of the same thing for so long before you need a break or release. And it's never healthy when something you love becomes more like a chore, and you can no longer tell the difference between your passion and your fatigue.

[@TheThescottydont]

Still my favorite quote from the show is in the "Do Quacks Echo" episode. From our beloved Jamie "quack, damn you".

[@TotinosPizzaRollz]

Discovery channel really screwed up. They could have continued the show with Kari, Tory and Grant as hosts and still kept most of the fans watching.

[@MasDouc]

Well they got Project White Rabbit on Netflix but that's clearly more designed for kids

[@michaelangellotti4773]

True that

[@miranda.cooper]

Yeah I would've watched for sure.

[@omikronweapon]

Project White Rabbit proves that the build team couldnt have done it on their own. I love those guys, but they were just trying too hard to be funny and/or entertaining. Maybe partly down to the writing? But not all of it. None of the three have the right attitude to HOST an entire show imo. At least for me, most of the magic was the scientific method and the sheer skills of Adam (and Jamie I suppose) Everytime I watch a Tested video focused on Adam doing his thing, I'm glued to the screen, even if it takes 90 minutes. His personality backs him up, as he's naturally funny to me. He doesn't have to try, nor does he come up with crazy builds JUST to build crazy things. White Rabbit had some horrible acting and proposterous build ideas.

[@azzajohnson2123]

No management ever has forward thinking like this..

[@upsidedowndog1256]

The new one sucks. You guys were the best TV ever made.

[@scottgolden2766]

Hard shoes to follow. The network had to try though

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

The established format is so good that the new _show_ doesn't really suck, but yeah, the new _hosts_ are *REALLY* sucky compared to Adam, Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant. Jon Lung is incredibly annoying, and Brian Louden is just nothing special. It was a huge mistake to cast the new show based on some arbitrary competitions. They should have just picked a couple of their best candidates, chosen as much for how much fun they'd be to watch, as how good they'd be at building stuff to test myths; filmed a pilot; and gone from there. I was so pissed off when they voted out Chris Hackett. He's one of the only people in the WORLD that could have been a satisfying replacement for Adam or Jamie. He's got the build skills, the imagination, the sense of humor, and the quirkiness to step into that role. I really miss his short-lived show "Stuck With Hackett". I've got all the episodes of the new "MythBusters" recorded, but it's so hard to bring myself to continue to watch them. If they had gone with Hackett and Tamara, I'd be watching the show as obsessively as I did the old incarnation. I did see in a preview that Tamara joined Jon and Brian for at least one of the new episodes, but that's cold comfort. Even better than Hackett and Tamara would be if it were Hackett plus a female co-host who can hold a candle to Kari's geek-sex-icon level of attractiveness and huge, fun personality.

[@rupe53]

Would have to agree that the New Mythbusters format doesn't suck so much as the hype behind trying to compete directly with the old show, mostly using extra props and wild costumes, not to mention over the top (poor) acting to a point where the characters don't seem real. Yeah, the ideas for each experiment are sound but we have to remember the new people don't have the same credibility or history as the original cast so going off on a tangent isn't as funny or as relevant, not to mention the extra props they throw in the background have no history behind them like Adam and Jamie's perpetual clutter in the shop. Could they have pulled off a continuing show series with new people? Sure, but not via the competition style selection they used. Maybe if they had replaced one main character per season to maintain a transition? Not sure that we'll even know.

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

Nah, I just brought myself to watch another episode the other day, and the show itself definitely doesn't suck. If I had no knowledge of the original version, I would think it a great show (with lame hosts), and would watch it regularly. It's only by comparison to the Adam, Jamie, et al. version that it sucks tremendously.

[@GrySgtBubba]

upside downdog Yep Couldnt agree more. The new cast just seem so blah and lack chemistry together. Basically, I feel like they've absolutely no clue what they're doin and is merely bein instructed by real experts off camera only because they possess the "look" for the part...

[@mick4dennis]

I respect him for being honest. I think it was the right time.

[@brucealanwilson4121]

CS Lewis, when he was asked why he closed the Chronicles of Narnia when he did said, "There are two times to stop something like this. Before everyone is sick of it, or after.

[@PK-er6gh]

two*

[@brucealanwilson4121]

Thanks. Sometimes the fingers go faster than the brain.

[@yahyapolat2514]

Too times

[@Isaac-ef3rb]

@@brucealanwilson4121 but you're brain needs to react first if you're moving a body part

[@kIDNEYKid-xt9uc]

@@Isaac-ef3rb its an idiom

[@dennisg69]

As much as I enjoyed that show, they had run out of actual myths to bust several years earlier. When they started calling action and sci-fi movie scenes "myths" to be busted, that was pretty much when they began slowly jumping the shark. You mean, shooting down an RPG with a pistol is not a real thing??? Shocker. Speaking of jumping the shark, I'm surprised they never did that one.

[@ratedrsuperstar1148]

Dennis ...Henry winkler ( The Fonz ) trade marked that saying shortly after he became the poster boy for failed shows. He had heard enough of it and figured if they were going to continue saying or using it, he was going to get paid.

[@palladiamorsdeus]

@@ratedrsuperstar1148 Well considering that Happy Days went on for several more seasons after jumping the shark...that makes no sense what so ever, since his show wasn't a failure after that point. Also I can't find anything to prove what you're saying is true.

[@akulahirpada1993]

Eh the action scenes are what the general public wants them to do. I bet they get absolutely bombarded with fan requests to do the Wanted bullet curve thing.

[@tubularap]

** RUSH ** - your mixing history up. It was Fonz jumping a shark in an episode, when the show was declining, that later was used as description for a failing show. Someone else used the phrase first later.

[@N94able]

This is why I mainly fell off watching. I think there all great people but I couldnt care less about the later movie stuff.

[@jamestarrou3685]

It's great when people know when to end a good thing. The legacy will be remembered as a great show that ended without suffering from viewer fatigue.

[@GTJay]

Have you seen his van though!? Check out Tested, his channel on here.

[@jzac89]

14 years. Eventually it has to come to an end otherwise if it continues it becomes saturated and annoying. 14 years was a good run.

[@Ward1706]

Ju An TL:DR: No matter how good a show is, if it's rebooted nowadays, it ain't gonna be brilliant. Top Gear, however, is the complete other side of this coin. It was also started (well, in fairness, rebooted) in 2002 and stagnated even faster than Mythbusters did. Whereas Mythbusters has gotten a not-bad-but-not-great reboot, Top Gear was just given steroids until they could take them no more, Clarkson finally snapped and then the BBC rebooted the show, at about the same time I think. Bottom line is, unless the original people are behind the same show, it can't possibly recapture that same spark that the original had.

[@oliviersavard8676]

Ben Ward Well, Top Gear always felt like they were acting a bit, except in their special episodes (Burma, North Pole, Patagonia, Vietnam, USA, Chili, etc) where you could see the true character of each even over some scripted things. I always liked it and found it funny, although some parts were boring, and some running jokes went stale quite fast. Plus, even if they get sometimes on each other's nerves, they actually like to work with each other, explaining why they continued on The Grand Tour. Speaking of which, it just feels SO MUCH SCRIPTED, it's almost unbearable. It's still watchable, but it is incredible how much it feels more forced than when the trio was in Top Gear. Look a couple episodes of The Grand Tour and tell me how much worse it is than the old Top Gear. As for the new Top Gear, I just never actually accepted to watch a single episode of the new seasons, so I cannot really tell how it is, but after seeing a couple clips with Matt Leblanc, I'm glad I didn't watch new episodes because he just constantly tries to be funny without managing to actually be funny.

[@takyia9353]

disagree with u 3

[@Illiadofmalorne]

It went really downhill when they started scripting conversations and doing tons of scripted exposition. The science teacher unscripted explanations of the first many seasons was so much better.

[@steffanaarts-greven1352]

that was a folklorist and was only in the first season. Adam explains on his channel that they ran out of folkore to add to the myths at the end of that season already. There wasn't enough folkore around them to grant it it's own sections. Having the narrator fill in the blanks with short animations aided the flow and information on the show much better.

[@hellhound3713]

I grew up on MythBusters. I love the show so much that when it finally came to the final episode I actually broke down and cried. I still miss that show to this day

[@mrfish3961]

it was like missing a couple of very good friends that you hung out with !!!!!! IT"S SO SAD

[@Whin556]

I was absolutely heart broken when they were done. That show was my childhood all the way up to adulthood. I've watched every single episode. Not because of marathons, but because I couldn't wait for the next one. I knew the time it came on and 10 minutes before it came on I was anticipating it's run time. For 14 years I did that. I watched the sit down between the five of them and I imagine my emotions were similar to that of a teenage girl watching a chick flick.

[@Rubin4749]

That's about as honest an answer as you'll ever hear on these type of endings.

[@jamesburk8145]

You can see that moment when she asks the question where it kind of hits him like a ton of bricks that people genuinely loved that entire thing so much, not just "it's a good show" but it's like he has a moment where he's reminded just how much it impacted all of us growing up.

[@2bigbufords]

never impacted my life in any way

[@renegade_patriot]

I remember I was lucky enough to meet and chat with Adam and Jamie back in 2005 at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego. Adam is just as much of a stand up and funny guy off camera as he is on stage. He really is a cool dude. Jamie too 🙂

[@renegade_patriot]

@ickythump333 yes

[@MyVanir]

Jamie was such an afterthought in this comment...

[@SeanHollingsworth]

A couple of the really great episodes on the show were whem doing preliminary fact finding before testing a myth, and they could not find enough information. They became the authority on the science some of the myths that they actually showed. One of them being what happens to a bullet when it's fired vertically. They published a paper on it. One of the other important ones was sewage systems having their methane gas explode. The contribution to science has been amazing. They have a phenomenal run!! Cheers to all of them! :-)

[@DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993.]

I wish more actors would basically go “we deserve more because we know our worth.”

[@garethbaus5471]

Pretty sure they do, but I doubt they would say that in front of the fans.

[@cenciende9401]

Yeah, sure, all those actors being paid MILLIONS deserve more right? Moron.

[@snaplash]

It became the "Blowing stuff up show".

[@unclejustin7267]

Still better than the kartrashians

[@chumon1992]

Adam has always been the sweetest thing ever. I love how hes always so happy and cheerful and the fact that he even mentioned how he didnt want tory grant and kari kicked off. Love him so much

[@salmonstone2358]

Poor buster. What happened to him, will he find another job?

[@tatelovell2659]

He got a job at Tested, the KZbin channel

[@kingjames4886]

they blew him up :

[@RWoody1995]

really they blew up buster? :o

[@Steve.909]

Salmon Stone - Buster had more charisma than Jamie & Adam put together. Hope he's doing good for himself.

[@Tazza81]

Buster was put on a rocket sled aimed at a brick wall and vaporised

[@demochannel6146]

Respect for sinking the ship in a big style. Even Top gear couldn't do it and their last episode before May and Hammond left still taunts me.

[@minderos213fg7]

Saif Taifur Why ? What happens on that episode ?

[@TSEDLE333]

In the last Episode of Top Gear (when the trio was around): Only Hammond and May hosted it. ONLY THE TWO OF THEM ON THAT HUGE SCENARIO (+ cameramen, etc...)It was haunting....all the sadness on their voices and faces. It was the End of an Era, and they knew it. Jeremy had already been kicked out of BBC. It felt so completely empty. And their last goodbye was really an odd mix of haunting, tired and relieved sort of sentiment...hard to explain. Those last weeks after the fight must have been shit in the office...

[@mrgothicman]

@@TSEDLE333 you forgot to mention the giant elephant in the room when James & Richard were filming, it was ment to signify Jeremy. You're right though, after years of that studio being pack to the brim is was oddly haunting to see it so empty.

[@cenciende9401]

That's because they didn't know it was ending... It was sudden and unforeseen due to Jeremy's actions.

[@ViciousAlienKlown]

They admitted that somethings, now matter how great they were, have to end. This besides the diminishing returns versus higher salaries.

[@Mr.majic_cracker]

I loved the mythbusters! The way Adam teased Jamie was hilarious. The moments Jamie got excited and laughed were worth waiting for. Great show!

[@xygomorphic44]

Mythbusters and baseball were the only reasons I still had cable. Now mythbusters is gone and my local company no longer broadcasts my favorite team. Fuck cable monopolies.

[@Honeypot-x9s]

yep! similar story for me. i had comcast (lord help me), and after only 5 shows i ever watched either killed off or moved to a "higher tier" package, i cut the cable, fully. i said screw it, my GF was very pissed off at me, but she understood when i told her to pay $277/Month, she quickly changed her mind and agreed it's stupid, let's pirate shit we want to watch. it's the only way to get price down noticeably though is to completely terminate account, and restart.. if i tried to stay on name account number they wanted $130/month for basic internet, if i refused basic TV package promo, with TV promo was 110/month. terminate entire thing... return all equipment and reopen new account right away for internet only. now i pay $60/month for 200mb/sec internet with no data cap we stream everything. i had to tell them when i called no fine print, no promotions, no cable tv, no home phone.. only internet. got nicest manager to give me base internet + a speed boost for not much more per month.

[@ChefofWar33]

Whats your provider? And what state?

[@Honeypot-x9s]

we since switched.. it was Comcast of course and PA.

[@koloth5139]

Seems to be what you have to do every year when the contract runs out. I honestly think they bank on us being lazy and just paying more for no good reason. And they are probably right most of the time.

[@FieryHyrdra]

Oligopolies*

[@Malidictus]

A combination of money, ratings and a show past its prime. Yeah, about what I figured. I'm sad to see the Mythbusters go, but they had a good run.

[@Fcutdlady]

14 years is a really good run for a TV show. Well done to Adam and Jamie. Fair dues to them both.

[@PlayerUnknown05]

Some of my best childhood memories come from watching this show with my parents every week. It’s crazy how such a simple show in concept became such a fun and beautiful series. I don’t think there’ll ever be another show like it for me.

[@Reavenk]

The closure I needed.

[@hippoman982]

I always loved Adam, he was like a cool, smart uncle I never had. Thanks Adam. The show wouldn't have been as great without you.

[@PaidtoDrive]

Mythbusters will always have a special place in my memory. I used to marathon that show for hours and hours!

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Thank you to the whole team. I enjoyed mythbusters so much. Now I watch it with my grandchildren, they love science as much as I do. Fun, clean and educational. Thank you.

[@AlaskaPirates]

Man, now that grant has randomly and shockingly died, I miss the show even more.

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

That really sucked, he was the one in the build team I personally liked most. RIP grant, we all miss you and your wacky robots 🥲

[@dannyboyz7061]

True to his form, he busted myths with his answer.

[@FnD4212]

The only thing that most memorable for me in Mythbuster is, body of water is a good bullet stopper.

[@chanman21titans45]

I’m 23 now and I literally grew up watching them. Loved the show and everything about it. Thankful for everything y’all gave us.

[@Chalky.]

After 14 years and so many experiments they would likey start getting desperate for ideas and end up with variations of what they've already done if they went much further, but in the future I'd like to see one-off episodes for some really big and interesting myths to bust.

[@darkeyce02]

Marky like Dirty Jobs. They were adding more generic sorta dirty everyday jobs.

[@ernielightning3218]

Marky Go

[@jlogan2228]

Marky yea they kept repeating stuff like pirate myths superhero myths more and more gun movie myths and then the next couple of episodes would be myths that weren't even that interesting

[@Milesco]

"After 14 years and so many experiments they would likely start getting desperate for ideas and end up with variations of what they've already done if they went much further..." Yeah. Indeed, that's exactly what was happening already. MythBusters was a great show, but I think that after a decade and a half it had run its course and it was time to hang it up.

[@dukenukem2258]

I’m glad most of them are living good lives ( R.I.P Grant Imahara)

[@goodtogrow7774]

We love you guys! You answered so many questions we've all had from our youth to adulthood! Best show EVER!

[@KingDecahedron]

Everything has it's own bell curve. That is astounding and so true.

[@WayneCatlin]

I thought he said "belt"??

[@Marinealver]

Everything comes to an end, and we all have to remember the good old times.

[@anthonyjones3193]

I believe instead of being greedy Adam just was letting himself be the fall guy. ether way he doesn't owe anyone his time for less. no matter what the reason.

[@rudimarchand8613]

Glad to see you working with young people passing your knowledge and wisdom on to a new generation. Always pay it forward!

[@alpurl]

This just popped up in my suggested video list, and I'm grateful. It's nice to get a simple, straight answer that actually makes sense. Just like they did on the show. I miss Mythbusters. It was one of my most favorite shows. They were educational, engaging, and entertaining. I haven't even seen a single episode of the new mythbusters, though I've thought about it a time or three.

[@macandcheese__]

it felt like something was missing when carrie grant and tori were not on the show anymore. but i still enjoyed adam and jamie on it. it was always so fun and informative at the same time. if they had it on for longer, i would've gone into the hard sciences for my college degree.

[@buttermuffin0142]

I actually liked the b team. It was nice having two separate groups in each show. The last season felt weird without them

[@theflyingdutchman787]

It ended because The Discovery Channel became the Myth Spreading Channel.

[@JE-ng4ty]

I think you mean the History channel.

[@JoelGetzhasauselessurl]

I thought it became the Alaska and naked survival channel.

[@garethbaus5471]

History channel is the myth spreading channel discovery doesn't even have that.

[@kevinmoore4887]

Mythbusters and Top Gear, the original cast was the show. Can you imagine Seinfeld with a replacement cast? Thank you for setting the record straight.

[@cenciende9401]

I didn't like Seinfeld... A better example (and better show) would be Malcolm in the Middle.

[@maddyg3208]

I can imagine Seinfeld with a replacement cast because that was one of the storylines, and in fact where the "Show about nothing" tag comes from. 😎

[@skepticalpickle5258]

That was a refreshing bit of honesty.

[@tonymusic720]

My neighbor blamed my gravel for making him fall… But it was his dumb asphalt…

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Badum tiss

[@carl_consumer.of.reality]

fuck

[@icu_corey_rn_903]

I was ADDICTED to this show growing up I miss it

[@swinde]

Cable seems to always proceeds to the lowest common denominator, with ratings being the driver. Discovery Channel, History Channel, The Learning Channel, The Science Channel, A & E, and others used to have very good programming. However they learned that they could get more viewers by forgetting science and produce shows with explosions, Ancient Aliens, "reality" shows, that appeal to a larger number of viewers that don't care about science or the truth. Myth Busters became nothing but explosions, fire, and vehicle crashes. Another thing that I did not like about these shows was that they broke up each story into four or five parts and put the parts of a different "myth" in between. That was to keep you tuned in if you liked one particular story. I dislike this manipulation.

[@lachlanizdis4213]

These are the ending years of the best tv shows. They cannot fill this spot with any other tv shows. None will ever compare.

[@ralphyetmore]

People with integrity understand that you don't continue a project when there's nothing more to do. These people had integrity.

[@wolfe1970]

And we still get to enjoy Adam and his crew on Tested, we are truly blessed in so many ways

[@thePeterpumpkin68]

Mythbusters was one of the best ever programmes. Never missed an episode.

[@strikeforce1500]

Gotta respect that. Better to finish on a high note rather than milking the series into a hollow shell, wish we could do that to most shows

[@wlessfanable]

MASH ended the same way. Nobody wants a good thing to end but all things eventually must. And when it does, its good for everyone to go out with good ratings, good fans, good memories, and a legacy that will be eternal.

[@kellogdovahkiin2187]

I remember being rlly young and getting up early to watch mythbusters on a saturday morning . I remember i was rlly sad when it ended and still miss them so much .

[@intotheaether9022]

I love Adam Savage. Every time I've ever seen him on or off the show he has always been so classy.

[@nightmare0931]

Adam, Jamie, Tory, Kari and Grant to me is the only hosts for Mythbusters and not the "new" team

[@iliftthingsupandputthemdow4364]

You know what's weird? For some reason people these days seem to lack any sense of reality. That is, yes Adam Savage was not obligated to do the show for any less than he was happy with, but the fans of said show also are not obligated to like that decision and or not dislike him over it. It's kind of how everyone today thinks the first amendment gives you the ability to state your opinion and not be criticized for it. Like no, you can have your opinion but so too can others have such an opinion about you.

[@GenericNameWasTaken]

name checks out...

[@dumdum93]

mid or feed

[@chrisloewl9104]

These days anyone who offers an opinion differing from yours is a racist who needs to be mocked, ridiculted, insulted, threatened and beheaded. Well, actually, people have been that way since the beginning; the Web gives us a tool with which to show our character. Or lack of.

[@samuelmorkbednarzkepler]

The same applies in reverse though. Adam has the right to do what he wants, people have the right to criticize him for it and supporters have the right to criticize critics. Nobody is saying you are not allowed to think Adam is obligated to you. But we are saying that if you think that, then you are a moron.

[@bobgemale1312]

I think - I know - that anyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi needing to die from cancer... that can't be cured, because of, like, the Illuminati's greedy Big Pharma scheme, and stuff. Mythbusters was forbidden to prove (yet again) that smoking dope does, in fact, cure all cancers. And Big Media wouldn't allow them to try out the myth that coffee enemas also cure cancer, either. Its all a vast right wing conspiracy. Don't believe me? Then croak, pal.

[@julesbabauta]

I think there’s a lot of us that needed that explanation. Thank you!

[@quietdominator666]

I’m no scientist but mythbusters always kept me fascinated and I watched it since I was a young adult until my mid thirties. Miss this show. But was stoked to see Adam and Jamie at a live show a few years ago.

[@ShellShock794]

Who gives a shit if he didn't want a pay cut? He's an extremely smart man that has dedicated his entire life to science and growing his mind. Just because he's on TV doesn't make him some cookie-cutter actor with greedy pockets. He's earned every penny he makes and something tells me the pay-cut they offered was insultingly low (a massive TV network with a show thats ratings are dropping? Yeah, they'll offer him a fair salary for sure......) It was time for it to end. Entertainment has a very specific lifespan and I'm glad this show didn't try to outlive that

[@stevenpuckitt212]

It's strange that people think a for-profit company selling their shows to a for-profit network to paying consumers should have to do it for less, or free, because ...passion. The age of commenters is glaringly apparent. Workers have rights and workers deserve pay regardless of the trade they choose to work in. Nobody is going to stick around for a job making less money if they can still do their passion projects elsewhere. He doesn't have to do it for 'free' so that you can watch it indefinitely while the producers of the shows rake in all the profit. That's not how real life works.

[@jaybrewster2475]

People have bought into the BS "I do it for you guys" spiel that youtubers use to guilt kids and simpletons into giving them donations on Patreon.

[@Saplingbat]

@@jaybrewster2475 there are some people that genuinely just do what they do because it's what they love, I mean if you watch any of the stuff he does over on the tested KZbin channel you can see he's just as enthusiastic if not more so about that. But that doesn't change the fact that you need money to live in this stupid society and praise and good feelings won't keep you off the streets.

[@AverageLeagueHack]

IKR same crowd demanding a $15 hourly wage to create sandwiches at a moderate level of accuracy.

[@ScarfmonsterWR]

People also forget that it's not only Adam & Jamie who were involved. The show was run with their own resources, so less money paid by Discovery meant they would have to cut the wages of all the workers employed by them to run the show. It's easy to demand to"do it for passion" when you don't have other people financially depending on you.

[@Will-Parr]

Awesome run. Thanks

[@maclaren93]

Thanks you adam, tory, jamie, kari and grant . I had a great childhood with you ,guys

[@internziko]

MythBusters got me though some tough times in my youth when I was battling depression. amazing show.

[@Species1571]

I liked the show in the early days, but it overstayed its welcome. Once they started doing episodes where you think "I've never heard of this myth", because they weren't myths, rather just things they made up to see if they could make happen, that's when it should have ended. Thanks for introducing us to Kari, though.

[@jaakkopontinen]

Cheers for all the work.

[@logisticstransfer2475]

Great television is hard to find these days. That show was awesome!

[@perochialjoe]

I was fully ready for the show to go away once every single myth had to have an explosion for no reason.

[@mindblitz6496]

perochialjoe yeah... a few explosions is cool but when you try to put one into everything no matter what the myth... it gets weird.

[@SladeBallard]

I love your profile pic

[@bmatt6447]

Maurice Moss What do you mean? It’s not in Netflix.

[@koloth5139]

No but it is on Hulu.

[@MsSomeonenew]

Explosions mean more view...

[@sigguy1361]

If I ever get laid up and can’t move or something I’m going to binge watch 14 years of MB... 😁

[@Lovely_Bean_]

Now is the perfect time to start, since we're all under quarantine.

[@hitman12]

True answer. Viewers realized that they weren't solving myths but using explosives to cover up the fact they had no idea what they were doing.

[@masamune2984]

God I love when people just GIVE US HONEST, REAL ANSWERS. 🙂👌👍

[@rupe53]

After all those years watching this show, what I came away with is the chemistry of the crew allowed it to be a hit. (and every comic needs a straight man there!) I wasn't sure when the "new kids" came on board but they seemed to hold their own and also gave a different perspective, never mind allowing the others to devote more time to their projects. Yes, the network did have their say and also tried to revive the show with an entirely new cast, but that version (Choosing new Mythbusters) had lost the magic (read: personalities) and duplicating old projects just didn't cut it for the viewers. Knowing how their pay scale works, I suspect those pilot episodes for the new show cost next to nothing compared to extending the original version a few more seasons. Still in all, most TV shows don't make it more than a few seasons and 14 seasons, while not a record, is still quite a feat! 20 years from now they will be in reruns along with the Honeymooners.

[@MrMW2nd]

Adam savage is a real one

[@brucel.6078]

Was a great show with genuine cool people. Thanks.

[@pinkraven4402]

Dang, I have to rewatch this stuff one day

[@brownshit1]

"everything has its bell curve" *applause* huh? I understand the statement, not sure why the audience thought it warranted applause.

[@timh35]

I think it was a delayed applause for what he had said right before lol

[@thoughtyness]

GeebusCripes Because Americans applaud every fucking thing. An eclipse, a pilot landing a plane, an execution, a debate at politician from their house, whatever they just fixed, domestic violence, a simple fact.

[@killxswitch]

"We hit ourselves loudly to demonstrate our approval of the present happenings!"

[@CouncilofCharles]

Because he was being honest and they respected that

[@brownshit1]

Knifiac right...

[@karremania]

I always felt it was Jamie not 'liking' this whole scripted stuff, and he was part of the reason they had to call it. But as more I see Adam around, I got a feeling it wasn't about 'chemistry' between em, but basicly just money. I doubt Jamie had the money as reason (he got M5). I still love the way adam had a hard time telling the season final of memory lane, but I did start see differently how they broke up. But I still love the way adam speak, his words so wonderful chosen, his lines perfectly in harmony.

[@WaddIes]

I duno if the Jamie thing is what killed the show.. it went on for 14 years.. if that was the problem, I feel like it wouldve ended a lot sooner.

[@dracocrusher]

In an interview Adam said he didn't really get along with Jamie that well and that the show kind-of played it up, but they did have a lot of disagreements. But, at the end of the day, they were both professionals who loved doing what they do, so when it just came down to money and the ratings started to decline, then it just kind-of made sense to move on.

[@geekbruin]

I have so much respect for Adam Savage. He’s really one of the good ones.

[@piahansen656]

Good man Adam.....We all wish you well in any future pursuits....same for everyone, even Mr. Lee, who did a super dooper job over the years, adding so much fun to the show...Thank you Mythbusters.. :)

[@justincopus3983]

When they blew up the cement truck it made the show for me. I did not know doing something like that was legal. The show became what I would do if I had a show except done correctly.

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

R.I.P Grant !! 🙏

[@BCoCreativeAgencyFilm]

RIP Grant!

[@denisemayosky1955]

I was sad too! But it's good to hear him speak on it.

[@d4slaimless]

When Mythbusters started I was 23, not a kid, but still rather young. It was great having these guys on my TV screen every so often.

[@brucehubbard1852]

I still feel buster should have gone to the Smithsonian, not destroyed. What do you think?

[@mattg7952]

The production expense wasn't feasible once anyone could upload whatever kind of content they wanted on here 24/7.

[@alexkha]

indeed! Everyone and his dog is busting myths these days...

[@steelersMIZ]

Myth Busters was one of the sources where my curiosity frist came about 😭 love you!

[@reallynow5974]

Such an amazing answer