Fabulous Phone Book Fables | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 7 | Full Episode

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[@romon3989]

18:10 Mythbusters: "320 pounds...to put that into perspective..." Me: "Oh good, they're going to explain in a measurement system I understand" Adam: "It's about the weight of your average Linebacker" Me: *Cries in European ; ;*

[@jelbecornelis3139]

149,150 kg, you’re welcome

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@jelbecornelis3139 got that about, around 2.2 pounds per kg. But would've expected them to compare it to a washing machine or something like that.

[@Kirbman]

"I was a hitman, I wasn't the money counter." I love it when Jamie plays along with Adams shenanigans.

[@adamthomas1222]

Sorry to burst your bubble but that line was most probably fed to him by the producers. Cause in one of the early behind the scenes special episodes of the mythbusters, you'll see scenes like that where the producers will pause the scene after Adam says something funny and tells Jamie to answer with a particular reply. That one episode ruined the show for me

[@201bob]

@@adamthomas1222 maybe dont watch any behind the scenes for any tv show then lol

[@tommiejonsson8952]

​@@adamthomas1222The sad truth of television is that even gameshow banter and so-called reality tv feuds are scripted and/or created to cater to the "bloodlust" of the viewing public.

[@timthompson7205]

Well that didn’t age well. Everyone can try because everyone has a phone book... 😂

[@zaizoesclashing7103]

Lol nevermind the fact that everyone needs 2 phone books to try this lol. Good luck finding one in most homes 😂

[@bartlambrechts1350]

Maybe you can ask your mates nicely if you can ' borrow ' there Phones for a ' science ' experiment including 2 rental cars😮 # Samsung power # Apple strength

[@timthompson7205]

@@bartlambrechts1350 I'd rather use your balls. They're clearly useless

[@franzpattison]

Dude I haven't had a phone book since the 90s, that's what the Internet is for

[@timthompson7205]

@@bartlambrechts1350 I'm good, I'll leave the homosexual mating to the Brits, Scotts, Welch, Irish, Ozzy's and kiwi's. Speaking of, is that why there's more brown babies in England now? All the white guys only mate with other guys?

[@gummansgubbe6225]

"Everybody got a phone book".😂

[@vanhoras3082]

What is a phone book?

[@Lagbeard]

Obviously the phonebooks are not completely impossible to pull apart from each other, but the amount of friction they create is just so strong that anything even remotely close to functional won't do it.

[@drewb427]

27:24 their reaction to the buoys LOL

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

"you need a pair of tanks to take apart the phonebooks" dang, there goes my money, no jets this week

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

When you realize that Grant actually fixed his buckteeth in the later seasons when you compare what he actually looked like in the earlier seasons, lol.

[@paulbourget356]

What a piece of history this one is. Back in my day, we had books with phone numbers in it.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Same here

[@alexwainwright3592]

And me

[@alexwainwright3592]

Good old yellow pages

[@chrissss696]

20:28 "everybody's got a phonebook" that's how you know it's an old episode

[@MrMonkey2475]

I feel like the phone book one is confirmed because it said that it’s basically impossible to separate them and if you have to get 2 tanks to separate them then that is an extreme nobody can do. Getting 2 tanks to do it is basically the definition of ‘basically impossible’

[@mmmdawe]

You don't need tanks, just 8000 pounds of force

[@MrMonkey2475]

@@mmmdawe how is getting 8000 pounds of force something reasonable 😂

[@mmmdawe]

@@MrMonkey2475 with elaborate system of pulleys and levers you can achieve this

[@MrMonkey2475]

@@mmmdawe umm no

[@luismagarinos3012]

​@@mmmdawe Even if you are right, thats not exactly what I would call reasonable xD

[@LukeTheJoker]

47:29 that force gauge had already hit 14,000lbs, guessing it bumped down to 8,000 when it dropped to the ground.

[@panzerveps]

Still the weight of a normal sized pickup truck :P

[@LukeTheJoker]

@@panzerveps Well pickup trucks these days anyway! 😆

[@borntoclimb7116]

Phone book friction is one of those simple but awesome things.

[@juankfuentesr]

A big fan of the series from Colombia

[@SimplyTakuma]

I love when Adam laughts when he get out with the tank 😂😂😂

[@chenrayen]

Woahhh a season 6 episode has appeared

[@stefcho2004]

One of my favorite episodes

[@simpleemodern]

Great episode as always

[@ScorpiusZA.]

I love this myth so much,

[@firefox5926]

4:11 its also sort of the same way the deep pile foundations in a skyscraper work

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

Underwater explosions are terrifying beautiful

[@kostas666lelapas3]

Good shit.great episode

[@apocalyptosoldier5527]

This is so cool, I wish phonebooks were real

[@Shizzle_My_Nizzle]

...back in the day, when everybody had a phonebook ;-)

[@Kifford]

So... how many mythterns had to clean that lake of foam? XD

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Why do I feel like the shark explosion got some changes in the script during the filming. the 2 1/2 sticks of dynamite worth gave an impressive explosion that took out the shark. So the dialogue in the movie works out right. But someone said the explosion had to be bigger. And they cut down on the taking apart stuff to get powder part.

[@TorQueMoD]

I've been watching the full series again, and I have to say, I think Jamie had a sense of humor that Adam just didn't understand. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Adam Savage, but I think he got irritated a lot when Jamie was trying to be funny. Also, I'd imagine Adam's ADHD didn't help matters much either.

[@melbapeach162]

ADHD meets Autism

[@jannis11]

NiCe

[@frozenhorse8695]

At long last Jamie is home.

[@sebastianb-v2887]

Sounds like the start of "Killing In the Name" by Rage Against The Machine, at 29:27.

[@frizzlethecat2084]

Two things - I love to check out the tags on all the boxes in the shop. That's cool to imagine what they use them for. (and what "toys" entails). Second - I am so weirded out by the fact that Tory (mostly) has to have his caps or t-shirts censored. Wth is on them?!?!

[@rossfleming225]

Probably brand names, I don’t think that discovery likes having brands obviously on display, why the car badges and number plates on the rental cars are also taped over

[@jailen4045]

its called "greeking" in production, essentially removing brand names or logos to stop companies from claiming lawsuits etc for any reason

[@Kruzhh]

10:40 Now while tory finishes up, hugo grant and I start testing the first part of the myth. Where is hugo grant?

[@karlifornyeah]

I need that Mythfits shirt Adam is wearing!

[@HughStLeger]

Can anyone understand what explosive they use in the end? 4000 lbs of _____?

[@DungeonBricks]

400 lbs of TNT

[@sebastianahrens2385]

29:27 RATM - Killing in the name

[@djgulston]

I really want a life-sized foam shark like the one Tori made. It looks so cool! 🦈

[@RedsKevin]

41:24 the worst experiment until the day they express delivered a cannonball into somebody's house.

[@sekaramochi]

Is this fiction or a case of friction, need to know

[@velocityfpv5231]

33:47 so big and WHAT? 🤣

[@fostena]

weighty 😊

[@sekaramochi]

A phone Book? Kids these days wouldn't understand💣

[@nightw4tchman]

20:23 Oh wow that's dated the show. Anyone got a phone book now?

[@dyingspark4668]

Which deep blue see movie is this one ? 7:54

[@andrewcharles459]

Standing right beside tow chains under tension is one of the gravest of H&S violations. These guys are smart enough to know that, so the fact that they would so casually hazard themselves is an indication of fuckery afoot.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

In the 21st century, printed phone books are increasing criticized as waste. In 2012, after some North America cities passed laws banning the distribution of telephone books, industry group sued and obtained a court rulling permitting the distribution to continue. In 2010, manufacture and distribution of phone books produced over 1,400,000 metric tons of greenhouse gasses and consumed over 600,000 tons of paper annually.

[@bigknut6353]

When was the last time anyone's seen a phonebook?

[@SaGeri]

What is a phonebook?

[@riksstaden4927]

Many people seem to miss the fact that the phone books didn't neatly separate in the end. They ripped a lot, which wasn't allowed to begging with.

[@user-tu1gb4sd1r]

I'm here to comment about grocery store line, the serpentine one u need to put 2 people in the casher so after the one there's one coming and no time to waste, try to re-create it and use 2 people each cashier after the one leave the next one and then the other one come so no time wasted by just walking...this is not debatable this is my only opinion...

[@gabrielv.4358]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@TheToastPeople]

the explosion should have been the last segment of the episode not the phone books lol

[@OscarLT321]

Mythbuster fans when their work week doesn't end with an explosion every week 😱😱😭

[@TheToastPeople]

@@OscarLT321 Damn right

[@furyanwolf]

No more phone books but stick two Bibles together and watch as all your friends suddenly start believing in God again.

[@Aconitum_napellus]

When I was a kid I stole someone's phone book and dumped it.

[@NPOSK]

The narration is too low on volume.

[@gabrielv.4358]

not really

[@rafael_lana]

Go on settings > additional settings > enable stable volume. Helps a lot, for anyone in the future

[@franzpattison]

Carrie is so hot

[@daniellefleetwood1765]

Who else thinks they should have used rear wheel drive cars to pull the phone books apart?

[@FenNick1994]

Imagine a book that doxxes everybody's phone number.