MythBusters Funniest Outtakes

[@laudysmartinez1475]

I no longer wonder why Christine quit 😢 glad she stood her ground and didn’t succumb to peer pressure/ guilt tripping

[@SynthfulDuck]

When she said "you don't pay me enough for this" I 100% believe her.

[@nickyoung9108]

I wonder if that's the same producer who planned the "let's shock Adam with the not-Baghdad battery" trick

[@masterlinkace]

Not only shocking to see this happen, but to see that they thought it was a good idea to show on the outtakes gives me really bad vibes about what those early years must have been like. That combined with them letting crew literally try out torture techniques on themselves is crazy. I hope they learned their lessons 😬

[@johannesblank1552]

Yeah the producer acted like a douchebag. You can really tell from the difference in Christine's reactions how she feels regarding her coworkers, from "I want to do it for you" for Adam to "You're not paying me enough" for that pushy producer.

[@jarydm87]

@@nickyoung9108 Yes it was, Peter Rees

[@jerryfox143]

damn you know this is OLD when he busts out that cellphone (also vhs)

[@robertkiehn7459]

37:35 Sign reads "No Paper Towels in Toilet" while he flushes paper towel down the toilet.

[@theothertonydutch]

Agent of chaos

[@mycroftsanchez901]

VHS tapes, this makes me feel really old!

[@LordBeMine]

Back when this aired, I was really surprised to know Jamie has a fear of heights.

[@badad0166]

I worked at a TV station with a "bulk eraser" for videotape. A big electromagnetic with a conveyor belt. Nobody did it when I was there, but the big prank threat was to send someones wallet through.

[@squidcaps4308]

I've had a credit card stop working after carrying PA speakers.

[@nickyoung9108]

45:14 Happily coincidentally, seasons later we got to see how MASSIVELY flammable sawdust could be in the sawdust canon myth (and also the ever more massive fireball of non dairy creamer)

[@meinjapan]

I’m with Jamie 100%. Man, Adam in his younger years could be really annoying 😂

[@espfan9841]

About "free energy". In the Netherlands someone had put up a circle of wire with a light bulb close to a transmit tower. You know, where you can hold a TL ligt in your hands and it will glow. The electric compagny sued him because they were thinking he was taking energy from their transmition power. He won the case by simply point out that the arced bridge accros a river takes lots more energy than his little line. (that was the bridge they should have taken in the move "a bridge to far")

[@4224Prod.]

Ik wil hier meer over weten xD

[@zsoltbartus169]

I love how a company sued someone for "taking free energy" while they supposed to know laws of physics doesn't allow it...

[@jeschinstad]

@@zsoltbartus169 Induction is not free energy. Otherwise, charging your phone wirelessly would not cost you anything.

[@ricardorunos9782]

Re: the penny on the train track myth at 47:17 - There's a stretch of train track in Hanoi, Vietnam with pubs/bars on either side. People often place bottle caps on the track for the passing trains to flatten into tokens/souvenirs like those penny machines. Those caps are much thicker than coins, yet they evidently don't derail the trains and end up like the coins used in the myth test.

[@chasdart7298]

Bottle caps are thicker, but only because they are formed into a cap. With a little force they will go thin very easily. Coins are solid discs of metal. I still do not think that either would reliably de-rail a crane, but the coin would have a better chance.

[@colinofay7237]

They seriously couldve made probably a 100 or 100s of episodes like this

[@squidcaps4308]

Old magnetic strip credit cards can be wiped by a weaker magnet, it just has to be a freak occurrence. I have had it happen, and there are very few things that would explain it. Used it earlier in the day to take money from ATM, then i had a load-in where i carried a bunch of PA speakers upstairs with my credit card in my chest pocket, then went to ATM: did not work, even again. No superficial damage, and the only possible cause in that day was those PA speakers. The way those particular units were carried was holding them against your chest.

[@alceees]

Indeed. I used to work at a makerspace and this one time I put a few 6x3mm neodynium magnets in my pocket togheter with my access card to our lab and walk around like that for a few hours. Then I went out of the lab and couldnt get back in again, had to have a new card made.

[@vink6163]

Yes it's not the strength of the magnets, it's that the magnetic field has to change. So a weak magnet just has to move about a bit more relative to the card in order to wipe it. A larger magnet doesn't have to move as much and can do so from further away. It's why bulk erasers use AC current to produce an oscillating magnetic field.

[@kyesickhead7008]

Morty's mind blowers

[@jomorken4853]

Hay fires occur when there is wet grass under dry grass. if packed very tight, it will start to ferment or something, starting to smoke, and then catch fire. Us kids always slept in the hay if we had any rain while taking in the hay. I have seen it smoke quite heavily so I grabbed it and burnt my hand. Just smalkl lump of moist hay under loads of dry hay pressing down. Sawdust needs spark, but very little

[@TheTrueBatBrain]

Quick note, that really noticeable and strong wind Jamie was experience with the plywood I think possibly invalidates the fan question and subsquent revist about updraft. Also, I don't remember watching this episode before but definitely remembered "With enough lubrication we can do anything"

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

43:20 sounds like an early concept of the sawdust/creamer canon fireball

[@matoatlantis]

Well if I had to choose between being 45min in a coffin (or even way worse what Jamie did) or to attempt to clean the truck for an hour I'd take cleaning the truck job with a smile.

[@AndrewNiccol]

Please upload the episode "Shop 'til You Drop."

[@uriituw]

I don’t think they recorded the show on VHS.

[@the_mini_axe2817]

no, but around the time they were doing this, VHS would be cheap props that have a presence when destroyed

[@starwar]

these early episodes have bad dynamic range to the picture and i think they probably were shot on vhs. vhs looks worse getting cloned and the tapes rewatched but if this was the original negative that was soon scanned it might not look that bad. revenge of the sith was shot on massive vhs tapes before being digitized. you can see that in the behind the scenes documentary.

[@uriituw]

@@starwar It was definitely not shot on VHS. Revenge of The Sith was not shot on VHS.

[@uriituw]

@@starwar What?

[@faultboy]

@@starwar You know that there are many many different formats that use magnetic tape, big and small? This has nothing to do with VHS... Even high quality digital formats from Sony etc.

[@danielmadar9938]

😂❤😂❤

[@Jonny2myren]

Trying to pressure her into going down the zip line was in really poor taste.

[@jomorken4853]

with flour itis only the driest airborne that will ignite. too much and it will choke it

[@rhysioeren3203]

15:16 i wonder if this was before or after he electrocuted adam. That would explain everything 🤓.

[@SiNFPVGUAM]

21:17 Id like that myth tested... hes on FM, not AM...

[@DeaconTaylor]

There's that clip that showed how much of an a-hole the producer was. Yes, he created the show, but you don't get to act like that. Shocking adam in Baghdad battery was his idea too.

[@alch3myau]

Really? Why do they look like blockbuster tapes?

[@A_Lesser_Man]

the bridge did not collapse because of "resonance". it collapsed because of "weight".

[@MattQrillz]

Today i become an alcoholic. Adam with a metal detector has haunted me worse than anything on this planet. God, Satan, whoever is quickest, I am ready. 😳 Please Hurry.

[@fanta_k1982]

fun fack, todays kids they don't know what are thos black boxes ;)

[@3Gfotos]

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[@Baztav]

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[@3Gfotos]

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