Duck Tape Crazy! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 13 | Full Episode

Myth Busters Daring Duo builds a duct tape bridge and risks a fifty-foot fall! How will it hold?
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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[@N13J]

Every duct tape episode is just so entertaining.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

cringe title says duck, what has ducks go tto do with tape

[@td8648]

Explosions are cool, but seeing what people can do with duct tape is mind blowing

[@ideges-smasszer]

Jamie being a walrus and being uneasy at heights somehow just makes sense 😂

[@Silver_Semtexagon]

Lmao 😂

[@borntoclimb7116]

Obey the walrus

[@rickcs7050]

Agent walrus, phd on myth busting

[@idkcba]

Although the fact that Jamie feels an emotion is kinda odd don't you think? 😂😂

[@angusmctwangstick4079]

I wonder how long Adam spent building his fantastic contraption instead of hooping ten rolls over a single post. Jamie was very diplomatic in his response to the invention. 20:00

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Well, it may have taken a while to build it, but now they have a device that will let them make duct tape ropes quickly whenever they want.

[@hellspoodles5166]

Kari has the best fashion. Almost every day she's bringing a new fit. Respect.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped." -- Andy Weir

[@pegoossens]

The car repair story remains my favorite one. The tape remained unbreakable

[@elemanielpagan8519]

I love that you can see Heineman's mustache from his POV camera haha

[@iines4856]

Best thing to calll ducktape is the finnish one jeesusteippi, witch mean jesustape

[@wendighoul]

Jesus may have been born into carpentry, but everyone knows his real passion was adhesives.

[@maastomunkki]

​@@wendighoulSo is that what the film "passion the christ" is all about?

[@kyuofcosmic]

Just noticed the duct tape dice, cute.

[@Rachel_MythicalBeast]

This is one of my favourite episodes.

[@andyhutley2857]

It might have failed eventually to stop the car but it also bent the nose in 8+ inches

[@owenhoward5168]

I thought duct tape and gaffer's tape were two different things? Gaffer's tape isn't quite as strong but doesn't leave behind a residue when you pull it off. It's less likely to damage painted sets.

[@kyuofcosmic]

You are correct. I do mix them up occasionally as well.

[@adamfox01]

how did i never notice they swapped out the duck tape repaired tyre.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Jamie Hyneman: "I fear no living enemy, but this bridge... it terrifies me."

[@deadboy9955]

I'm curious to see how a diamond-weave duct tape would stop the car. I feel that the diagonally positioned strands of tape would gradually dissipate the energy.

[@onepunchman230]

RIP Grant, a real Genius, and Robot overlord

[@michaelmayhem350]

What about Jessie she went out with a bang

[@ochsenfu1582]

For real? How?​@@michaelmayhem350

[@onepunchman230]

@@michaelmayhem350 just read up on that, very sad didn’t know to be honest, RIP Jesse 😞

[@YourComputerExpert]

Makes me feel uncomfortable how everyone on the show is relatively young, and half of them have already passed away.

[@michaelmayhem350]

@@YourComputerExpert it makes me uncomfortable how bad at math you are. Because half of 6 is 3 not 2. Jaime Adam Tory Kari are still alive, only Jesse and Grant have died and Jesse was only in a few episode while Kari was pregnant so for regular hosts we could say 1/5 died which is even further from half. Also this show is like 20+ years old lol

[@Litti100]

This used to be one of my all time favourite Mythbusters episode. I love these guys

[@onepunchman230]

Class episode

[@ERMediaOfficial]

What happened in Season 7 that Robert stands in that left corner?

[@Jumpstyler101214]

he loves to seduce our left ear :'D

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

Mixing error.

[@Kawasaki_King]

"duck" tape?! The mind boggles... 😂

[@borntoclimb7116]

I love the duct tape bridge

[@robmckennie4203]

43:04 holy shit it's one of those cars with the automatic seatbelts

[@Tjescoo]

You mean a pre-tensioner? I believe these are mandatory in any new car these days

[@tarre206]

great show, cool people, thank you so much!!! 😍 i bet that a better duck tape structure can stop a car!! it just needs to "graduarly" stop the car, like different lengths of ropes 🤗 I may be wrong too!!! hahaha big hug

[@jayerjavec]

On tonight's episode of Mono audio ...

[@serafim3897]

Oh I thought my speaker are broken 😂

[@michaelmayhem350]

​@@serafim3897nah the narrator likes to whisper in your left ear. No idea why it's like this, it wasn't like that on my surround sound back when the show aired lol

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

@@michaelmayhem350 Mixing error. Old archival footage be like that sometimes.

[@thespiritofthenight8196]

just turn on mono mode

[@pilot7350]

at least its only the narrator mono audio. if it was all mono i couldn't watch this ep

[@Schmorgus]

The fact that Jamie went against his fear of heights and walked on that, shows that people in general are just pansies now a days :P

[@foramagasobeselettucepurpl6911]

Gotta love that duck tape jacket!😂

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

duct *

[@WyldMooN00]

Kari is just full of awesomeness

[@pilot7350]

They need to try a car bridge

[@colinofay7237]

3:14 funny cause i think i heard him say on his own channel he hates duct tape😂

[@kikixchannel]

Not sure what you mean? The timestamp points to a part where he just says what they need to do for the myth. Shortly before that he talks about 'awesome power of duct tape', so I guess you refer to that? If yes, then this and that does not counter each other. People can very much hate something they consider amazingly useful. For example I acknowledge the great health benefits coming from garlic, but that doesn't stop me from despising it and being unable to eat anything if I actually can taste garlic in it.

[@BaumisMagicalWorld]

Duct tape is amazingly strong, but a pain in the ass to work with. It's really sticky and basically impossible to come apart once you accidentally make it touch. So, I do get that sentiment.

[@apawhite]

Adam's talked about this before. Duck tape is a phenomenally versatile jack of all trades, but it's very much a master of none. Adam's happy to keep a roll of it around for emergency patch jobs etc., but as a maker it's ALWAYS inferior to using the right materials, and Adam would rather just use the right materials. (Also, despite the list at 11:20, gaffer's tape is a different thing, and FAR superior for many jobs.)

[@CookieMonstaHG]

why is the narrator behind my left side?

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

At least Kari’s husband knows what he’s in for if he gets on Kari’s dark side

[@Shizzle_My_Nizzle]

She was divorced in 2020

[@DotDodd]

My date when we finally get back to my place 44:20

[@lordmmx1303]

as long as the floor of the car is in one piece, it will hold together

[@Shizzle_My_Nizzle]

3:01 - back in the day, when Segeway was a thing, for a while...

[@BurningTrapezoid]

They swapped out the duct tape tire before testing :(

[@rameshramesh4477]

Oo my left ears👂 paining 😢

[@AnonymAnonym-fv3uc]

Poor volvo 240

[@Schmorgus]

Talking about Mythbusters, I would have assumed they understood tension... Taping a car to a pole and full throttle will give less tension than nudging it forward. The myth was not confirmed at 23:51 .

[@Rschaltegger]

Anybody els hearing notes of: Children of the Omnissiah? Or just me?

[@frizzlethecat2084]

Okay but... Miley Cyrus TOTALLY stole her idea for the Wrecking Ball video from Kari. Right?? 8:35 ff

[@frizzlethecat2084]

Also, the ductape bridge has a design-flaw in as such that the handles are too low. It gives the walker the feeling of flipping over the handrail. Instead, they should have made them higher so that they are about navel-height.

[@Tjescoo]

Too bad they didn't have to fix car parts that are actually part of the drivetrain...

[@Britephartt]

Gaffer tape is different.

[@Kirbman]

Duck tape, huh?

[@nathancundy6803]

Im so confused! Is it duck or duct tape?

duct tape is good for a bridge but not recommendly

[@martiansoon9092]

Here's something for chemists: Make these duck tape bondings permanent with some additional spray or liquid. With duck tape you can build almost anything, but it lasts only awhile with sticky bondings. If you can solidify these bondings, then these construction will last far longer. Start studying this. (You may even have a solution already...)

[@hannuala-olla4302]

Weirdest bridge? Nah, Living root bridge in India is weirder. Or from more modern bridges: Falkirk Wheel in Scotland.

[@Tjescoo]

Isn't the Falkirk wheel more like a water lock, which would make it similar to an elevator rather than a bridge?

[@hannuala-olla4302]

@@Tjescoo colloquially yes. More broadly bridge means a structure that gets you over an obstacle. I suppose it's semantics though.

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

Its duct tape... its why it exist, to tape duct joints,

[@grahamsong4585]

9:36 I forgot I was watching MythBusters and thought I was on my private browser. Def a great intro before everyone's clothes come off

[@DerSpinneman]

Why is narrator so far away 😢

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

Mixing error. Old footage has different mixing tags, different tracks, different this, different that. It happens.

[@vinkuu]

Isn't it called duct tape? Not a native speaker. Anyway, gorilla tape has since passed in superiority.

[@georgebulbakwa9017]

The original is Duck tape. Adhesive stuck to duck canvas. Original uses were for quick waterproofing. The problem is "Duck Tape" is a trademarked name. When the imitations came out they had to rename the copies to avoid legal problems. Since it was commonly used for duct and vent repairs at that point and it souded close, the imitations called themselves "Duct Tape". Duck was the original. Duct is the generic copy.

[@vinkuu]

@@georgebulbakwa9017 "The original is Duck tape". Did not know that. In my country that tape is used for attaching ducts with each other. Hence I've always thought it's called duct tape.

[@Tactical_Hotdog]

DUCT tape, not duck.

[@itzxsliick7036]

It is duct tape but some brands do in fact call it duck tape and that’s where the name probably came from(or how it got popular)

[@Tactical_Hotdog]

@@itzxsliick7036 one brand... I know, dumb Americans as usual

[@TheGhostzZ]

The audio is screwed up...

[@ristopoho824]

I keep two kinds of duck tape in stock usually. One that has a better tensile strength, and one that has better glue. All the way through the episode i kept thinking of which one i would use in which situation.

[@ristopoho824]

Ow dang i just thought of something. The fabric in the thing is the duck, and that's the thing giving it the pull strength. So. One of the ducktapes has better duck and the other has the better tape.

[@Tjescoo]

The real question is: did you ever need it for anything because haste was required, and you had no better option available?

[@ristopoho824]

@@Tjescoo I like to prototype with it. And then attach more permanently later. On most of things i ever do, a wonderful material for that.

[@vongoku]

There is no way the safety harness extended that far would have stopped there fall..

[@zwippie92]

35:04 Last second?? The way they edited this it looks like it veered off course way before the last second looking at the camera from the car. Like 70-100 feet before the crash.

[@AutoCrete]

From Alaska, source Aviation Humor. (some pretty interesting photos) A Piper Cub bush plane smelling of fish from a recent fly in got the attention of a grizzly bear who figured there was one hell of a feed of fish inside the Cub. The grizzly tore the plane apart including the tires. The pilot got a buddy to fly in tires, several rolls of cellophane and 3 cases of duct tape. He repaired the plane and flew it home. His insurance company had a look at the Cub and wrote it off. You do have to respect the pilot for a 'bush repair' that got him home.

[@d4slaimless]

And Mythbusters had the episode where they repaired the plane with duct tape. I think it was exactly this story that inspired the episode of the show. I remember Kari making bear paw with claws specifically to tear the boards.

[@SPierre-dm4wo]

Mythbusters producers: So we'd like to see if Grant and Tori can repair a mangled car using gaffer's tape, which means you, Kari- Kari Byron: Wooohooo! WRECK 'N ROLL, BAYBEEE!

[@apparentlyretrograde]

*Duct

[@sintoxic]

Nope, "Duck tape" is actually correct as well. It was invented to water-proof ammo boxes during the war and repel water (like the feathers of a duck do). Over time people used it for many things like sealing ducts too, which gave it numerous new names.

[@Kolfonik]

*Dick

[@apparentlyretrograde]

They consistently refer to it spelled as duct in the episode and then title the video duck. Also, Duck Tape is a brand of duct tape.

[@kikixchannel]

@@apparentlyretrograde They literally showed numerous names by which it also goes, including Duck Tape, in this very episode. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXbUp5yjrqqekK8

[@nattythepanda4692]

@@apparentlyretrograde In the episode itself, Kari says that duct tape was also referred to as "duck tape", doubling down just makes you look dumb.

[@user-ge6vc5ue6y]

I remeber when this episoe aired live and they had a bit where adam tested the myth of screaming racial slurs at bystanders. Glad they took it out for the youtuibe upload.

[@Nivola1953]

Jamie and Adam are great builders, but they fell asleep during physics classes in school. That breaking force you measured pulling down in the centre is a lot less than the pulling force along the tape. If you graphically construct the forces diagram, you know that the closer you are to horizontal the higher is the longitudinal component needed to compensate the orthogonal force. That’s why suspension bridges have a long bow of cables that describe a curve called catenary, from the Latin word for chain.

[@MidlandsAirsoft]

kari looked great here

[@g1expert102]

i dont think they should bust the ductape car catcher should be plausible

[@dgthe3]

The actual myth was about a single roll of duct tape stopping a car going 60 mph. It absolutely can not. They ramped it up to 100 rolls and the car only slowed down a bit. If they used 500 rolls, maybe they could have stopped it. But that is 500x the amount of the original myth. Busted.

[@colinofay7237]

How many posts that contain fake sadness for grant dying will this episode get i wonder

[@ideges-smasszer]

Init mate!? Especially considering the fact Jessie passed away too and never gets mentioned. But it’s every single episode full of these pretentious posts if ya take a look at them

[@dgthe3]

@@ideges-smasszer what? Every episode she was in there was a RIP Jesse post.

[@kyuofcosmic]

Why assume it’s fake? Literally doesn’t affect you in any negative way for people to post RIP?