Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 22 | Full Episode

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

45:56 - 46:03 *"We need to stress that no fish have been, or will be injured in filming this myth. Eh, they're mostly blown to pieces."* The delivery of that line still cracks me up. 😂😂

[@mavis34]

Concerning the mouse/elephant myth , I don't think you are seeing terror, it's simply intelligence on the elephants part. He didn't want to step on the mouse. The elephant didnt run away it just stepped aside. Elephants are amazing animals.

[@LastGoatKnight]

Yeah, like when you almost step on a snail or butterfly. You step back and avoid it in a large circle. Unless you're a psychopath

[@srf2112]

I totally agree.

[@johnniejones30]

I somewhat agree. Honestly, I think it has more to do with the fact a mouse popped out from under a turd & the mouse was white.

[@Kjf365]

As cool as elephants are, I don't think they have quite enough empathy to deliberately decide to stop in its tracks and make a wide berth around a random mouse it sees on the ground for the mouse's own sake.

[@mikewazowski7830]

Each and every single one of you are wrong intelligence would be knowing that you can simply go around instead of having to back away from something and then go around if the elephant knew there was no danger to itself it would have just simply went around or just completely stepped over as opposed to moving back with a slight amount of speed to then go around what you saw was initial fright but the elephants urge to travel in that direction eventually overcame that amount of fright to an animal such as a elephant they are used to only seeing animals that way about 15 lb or more That includes everything from the common primate all the way up to themselves of course when they see something that tiny that they are not used to that is scurrying around Yeah they're going to be frightened just the same way as almost any human with a non-pet rodent or some other kind of pest animal running at you let a large spider run at you or jump at you when you are trying to catch it in a container of some sort to go and let it outside Yeah you're intelligent enough to understand you need to relocate it to outside your home but when it foils your plans to do so you jump and then you reassess the situation if you don't just completely start screaming and shrieking like a little schoolgirl running from Cooties y'all are not capable of comprehending the premise behind elephants and mice

[@MrBattlecharge]

@46:30 "what about you at home, you want more? They want more" How the f--- did this guy hear me through space AND time!?

[@roelant8069]

When I hear the saying of shooting fish in a barrel I always pictured a barrel just stuffed to the brim with fish, probably salted fish in those times I guess. But being able to his those is a foregone conclusion so I see why they went this other route

[@antiquesrestoration3874]

Agreed. It's "fish in a barrel" not "a fish in a barrel."

[@Kjf365]

They literally brought that up in this episode lol. No one actually knows which kind it's referring to since the origin is unknown.

[@zebjensen4251]

More fun this way trying to see them hitting one fish in a barrel or the mini gun rather then a barrel packed to the hills with fish.

[@chrisallen9638]

@@Kjf365 Considering the point of the adage, it's obvious which one it's referring to.

[@slightlycynical4308]

No no, the fish are IN the gun and are being shot INTO the barrel

[@Erik_Danley]

36:36 “hey Adam, are you *dung* yet?” I couldnt resist

[@ZedOhZed]

I wouldn't be surprised if this entire fish-in-a-barrel segment is simply one long excuse to shoehorn a mini-gun into a myth.

[@russelljohnson6267]

Me either!

[@uberXserial]

Ahh yes, back when the hottest pepper was 1,000,000.

[@CrazySC833]

The Ghost is the king, no? Or the Reaper?

[@LevaOrel]

@@CrazySC833pepper x

[@noodlelynoodle.]

​@@LevaOrel a lot of people are fairly certain pepper x is a scam after the sauce that was supposedly 91% pepper x ended up only testing at 61k scovile which shouldn't be possible if it's even remotely as strong as has been claimed like they claim the sauce averages at 2.693 million scovile units but is also a completely different color than pepper x which when that's making up 91% of your sauce wouldn't be the case especially when there aren't any ingredients that would make it red rather than the yellowy green of the supposed pepper x. The breeder is being hella secretive about allowing anyone else access to the peppers themselves, he claims because he got nothing out of developing the Carolina reaper but it's all very shady

[@kitsunekid16]

​​@@LevaOrel Isn't pepper x still untested? Edit: nevermind they did test it

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Most mammals have brains that are programmed to jump back or be startled by critters that scurry by in a hurry. Elephants, regardless of how big they are, are also startled by things that move by them fast, like mice. According to elephant behavior experts, they would be scared of anything moving around their feet regardless of it's size.

[@sciencehistoryandentertain734]

any living thing as they were not startled by the fake dung moving...

[@wherethetatosat]

Makes sense. I'm not terrified of mice and rats. But I did have a wild rat get in to my room once. After a long day at work, I opened my bedroom door at 11 PM and the rat ran right past my foot. I leapt back on one foot and hrmeugh!

[@johnniejones30]

If I was walking & a pile of poop flipped over to present a scared mouse I would be like, Wtf!!! Definitely don't step on that poo...

[@kJ.H1]

Always makes my day when a new episode comes out

[@michaelmayhem350]

Not new the show ended 20+years ago

[@TB-wi3sq]

@@michaelmayhem350it‘s 8 years now, not 20+

[@michaelmayhem350]

@@TB-wi3sq the show premiered in 2003 so the show is actually more than 20 years old and despite your insistence on being pedantic the show was csncelled long ago and there were never be new episodes which was the point of my original comment

[@TB-wi3sq]

@@michaelmayhem350 yeah, it STARTED 2003

[@michaelmayhem350]

@@TB-wi3sq yeah it's a 20 year old show that ended with the last season being filmed in 2014 (2013 was last one with full cast as only Jaime & Adam were in the last season) so it ended production 10 years ago. It's over 2 of the 6 co-hosts are dead there will never be new episodes

[@r3ynolds_ow581]

People: "Why are elephants so scared of mice? They're so small and they couldn't even hurt them!" Also people when they see a spider: "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

[@Evaonk]

🕷

[@TheStartrek99]

​@@Evaonk AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[@thorpizzle]

Spiders are venomous. If it's the right spider, it could absolutely hurt you.

[@shy8291]

@@thorpizzle i have a pet spider and she doesnt hurt me :(

[@thorpizzle]

​@shy8291 I did not say "all spiders." I said "the right spider." I would imagine your pet spider is not a funnel web or a brown recluse.

[@ddd09ish1]

my mother, knowing damn well that the roach is smaller then her pinky "intense screaming

[@davidwalsh9986]

More full episodes! Love it!

[@adventureawaits6923]

The elephant lifted and pulled its trunk away, which got me thinking, an elephant's trunk is basically a tunnel for a mouse, and since elephants have to sleep where mice roam, I imagine they deal with mice up the ol' schnoz once in a while - and I don't wager it's a pleasant experience (not to mention potential infections from wounds inside their trunks). I don't think they're afraid of the mouse, the elephants just seem to be avoiding potential harm; they don't eat plants that make them sick, They're smart as shit, and they're not about kickin it with tiny mammals that crawl up their noses and scratch and bite their business all up. That's my guess, but I've never studied elephants, so I don't know jack shit anyway. Funny episode, been forever since I've seen this!

[@Splendid_Spl]

I would like to take a moment to appreciate Tory swishing cheap tequila like a mad lad. 27:55

[@mikeboyce21]

Can you imagine being that mouse. Being picked up by a giant and the giant forces you inside a giant turd 😅😂. Poor confused mouse. 😂

[@carlzee3230]

43:15 best myth wrap up ever, unbelievable moment

[@alchemyrecords657]

9:08 Appreciate with me that this mans title is "Pope of Peppers"

[@micha0001]

Grant made a mistake: don´t drink the milk, shuffle it in your mouth. Or eat sheep´s cheese, it´s even better!

[@DamonNomad82]

My mom grew up in Thailand from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. At that time, before selective breeding had created things like "Ghost Peppers", "Carolina Reapers" and "Pepper X", Southeast Asia was home to some of the world's hottest peppers. The remedy they used for the heat was raw fresh veggies. Personally, my remedy would be some sliced raw bell peppers piled with sour cream, as well as shot glasses of lemon or lime juice, with plenty of water handy (for use as a post-remedy palate cleanser, not as a direct remedy in its own right).

[@lollerich]

That little toot the elephant made ❤😅😊

[@kirkbaranowski4996]

7:06 beavius would be happy

[@johnisarobot]

Props to Adam for keeping a straight face lmao

[@SkopiousIsHere]

4:36 once i understood the weakness of my scales... it disgusted me

[@sethmcvey6165]

Im honestly suprised how far i had to scroll through comments to finally find somebody acknowledging the fact Adam put the mouse (who was just in elephant dung) on his face and in his mouth lol

[@thorpizzle]

I have two questions about the chili cure myth. Did Tory repeat the milk test with the habaneros? Was that real wasabi, or was it just green-colored horseradish that most sushi places in North America use?

[@noodlelynoodle.]

Either way it's still the same chemical (AITC) in both causing the spiciness meaning it wouldn't make much difference the source of the chemical really doesn't matter for a situation like this

[@thorpizzle]

@@noodlelynoodle. I say the source absolutely matters. A ghost pepper is still spicier than a jalapeño. The chemical might be the same, I'll give you that. But the concentration is what makes the habanero pack a bigger punch.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@thorpizzle yeah but it still has the same effect, even if one is a bit stronger it's still going to do the same thing

[@burgesj7]

BTW, what is hot in a pepper ISN'T THE seeds, it's the placenta. I learned that the hard way :( Pepperheads are VERY pompous

[@alan2here]

Oh no it's a toad 😮🐸, I mean, oh yeah it's just a toad.

[@jladams61]

In my opinion, as far as the elephant and mouse go, elephants are proven to be very caring and compassionate beings. When seeing the mouse they compassionately stopped and stepped aside so as not to harm their little buddy.

[@KenCriswell]

Elephants are afraid of mice because they can run up their legs and get into their ears etc and if that happens there's no getting them out on their own. This is the exact reasons why elephants have evolved into being scared of mice. Wild elephants are even more scared. These were somewhat tamed so to speak.

[@bringmemyflail1321]

Does best Hank Hill imprrssion "What's a bunghole?"

[@Jamie_D]

The phrase "like shooting fish in a barrel" is an American idiom dating back to the early 20th century. Its origins lie in the image of a situation where fish, confined in a small space like a barrel, would be an extremely easy target for a shooter. This visual metaphor illustrates something ridiculously easy to accomplish, implying that the fish would have nowhere to escape in the enclosed space, making them easy to hit. Historically, barrels of salted or pickled fish were common for storage, and shooting at such fish would be a task with little challenge. The expression captures that sense of a situation requiring minimal skill or effort-just as shooting fish in a barrel would be nearly impossible to miss.

[@Joe45-91]

😐😑😑😑😑😑🤦

[@eastercat]

Pet peeve for me, but there were a lot of Loon (native to North America) sounds when they were in Africa.

[@cyruskhalvati]

Ice cream is better than milk for peppers. Especially when the butter fat content is 10% or more.

[@Durrum1]

At 40:20 hot mouth cure: 1/2 & 1/2 is 2x better than whole milk

[@Tigerlady248]

What kind of favor did Jamie do to get the minigun?!

[@shiperobin]

You can tell Jamie really enjoyed Africa and seeing elephants in their natural habitat

[@TheHutchy01]

That's about the only sober hyena Hyneman I can think of. And that's the same trip he went shark diving, so that must have been a pretty great time

[@koolaidman324]

43:05 why does he put the mouse in mouth? Hahah

[@wross5961]

Uncooked habanero peppers made into paste with seeds? Sounds like a real bad idea, most of the heat is in the seeds.

[@sdhproductions8877]

One cure y'all didn't try for spice mouth is a piece of bread.

[@MaleniaLi]

The fish here look surprisingly similar to I Did A Thing's fish powered boat fish harness

[@TheHutchy01]

The inventor of vaseline used to eat a spoonful of vaseline every day, he lived to 96, it was almost certainly unrelated but he thought it was connected but y'know it was the 1930s.

[@phecto]

I still think the best solution to spicy food burning your mouth is to just not eat anything spicy

[@yorhv]

Yeah

[@TheHutchy01]

I mean Grant tried that one, and it really didn't help him here!

[@noodlelynoodle.]

But spicy stuff is delicious and the endorphin rush when eating something really spicy that's like 1.5 million scovile is so intense lol you'll be sweating and dropping snot but you'll be smiling and laughing cause of the endorphins after a few bites lol

[@phecto]

@noodlelynoodle. It's really not, doesn't taste good and I'm not a masochist so I don't enjoy pain

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@@phecto lol it's absolutely delicious but have fun with your British food

[@Ani-rq7wv]

I have a very mild capsaicin allergy, even just a jalapeño resting on the food can be enough to make my face and mouth get all itchy. It’s so wild too because like. The whole milk cure thing just doesn’t work! For years I thought I was just unbelievably wussy about spice but nah. I’m cursed to look like a loser/jerk, but that’s life I guess

[@noodlelynoodle.]

You could try some Sichuan chile to see how that effects you cause it's the same scovile level as a jalapeno but doesn't contain capsaicin

[@Metoobie]

If I took a crap followed by said crap rolling over on its own to reveal a live mammal, I'd run away too.

[@Scot-p1v]

I really, really want to know what that elephant was thinking when he saw Adam playing with his poo. Yes; I am at about the maturity of an 8yo.

[@bradybennett5403]

Due to the 480p I couldn't tell if his 9mm was a highpoint but I sure hope it wasn't

[@BeccaHetrick]

How good is an elephants eyesight? Why not try it with a brown mouse and see if the elephant reacts to that one, too. I think since it wasn't the movement of the dung that scared the elephant, maybe it was the white mouse? But I don't know how good an elephants eyesight is...

[@Zarkawi17]

My go-to spiciness cure when something is far too spicy for me is to spit as much as I can. It's gross, but not grosser than wolfing down some petroleum jelly. Also it seems pretty effective, a lot of capsaicin binds to your saliva, so spitting it out just directly removes some of it from your mouth.

[@Scot-p1v]

Crackers work pretty well when I need to bank the fire in my mouth. Maybe it’s the starch? Because a piece of sushi (rice:not raw fish) works well when I hit the wasabi too hard

[@hrodga]

I'm pretty sure they used the petroleum jelly wrong.. you're supposed to use it as a barrier between your mouth and the capsaicin.

[@Joe45-91]

This myth is for people who can't handle spicy but eat most of their food with their eyes closed anyways 🤦 I've never had this happen to me, if it's way too spicy I already know it is.

[@Bartskarts]

Vodka neutralizes the capsaicin... Vodka works..

[@anthonyslazas6413]

You need to worry about the day after when it comes out it's more painful I know from experience from Dave's insane hot sauce.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

It's only a small percent of people who have that issue cause your body can't fully digest the capsaicin unlike a lot of people who can

[@cesargarduno5959]

For extremely hot foods… just use lime juice! Amateurs 😂.

[@ChildrenOfOwls]

Does that work? I'm huge into spice but usually milk works just fine

[@cesargarduno5959]

@ yes it does! You can also add lime juice to a spicy food and neutralices its spiciness.

[@DamonNomad82]

I like to diversify my remedies. Three of the most effective ones are raw veggies, dairy, and lemon/lime juice. If I was planning on doing some kind of hot pepper challenge, I'd make sure to have a heaping plate of sliced raw bell peppers, piled high with lots of sour cream, with a big bottle of lemon or lime juice and a shot glass handy.

[@jimholmes2555]

The heat index of the Scoville scale is determined as a ratio of one drop of the pepper oil to how many drops of milk needed to neutralize the pain on the tongue.

[@tildessmoo]

Not actually true at all. It was originally determined by making an extract from equal masses of each dried pepper in equal volumes of alcohol, then making various dilutions of the extracts in sugar water and determining the level of dilution at which a random test panel could no longer detect any heat. Once capsaicin itself was discovered and the content relative to the heat of a pepper in SHU was determined, it was possible to assign a value in SHU to pure capsaicin and other capsaicinoids (mostly dihydrocapsaicin, which is about 89% as hot as capsaicin); with capsaicin determined to be able 16,000,000 SHU, the scale is now defined in terms of that value. The heat is generally determined by measuring capsaicinoid concentration directly, though it's a little error-prone due to the measurements being done on dry mass while agricultural products have varying levels of water content. What you may be thinking of is the widely-spread rumor that Wilbur Scoville developed the scale based on how many spritzes of sugar water spray it took to _remove_ the spicy feeling from a person's mouth, which does make more intuitive sense (500 spritzes = 500 SHU, right?), but that would actually have been a terrible methodology for an experiment, given that the time taken to do all that spritzing would both allow the then-unknown spicy compounds to dissipate and also allow the subjects to just plain get used to the feeling and not notice it as much. Too many confounding variables.

[@jimholmes2555]

@tildessmoo check out sequoia books " Pocket Ref" 4th. Edition by author Thomas J. Glover . Then you will have all the facts of the World at your finger tips.

[@Zachary_Walker]

Who gives if they shoot real fish 😂 your fish your method of dispatch

[@coyote.redfire]

Grant's prediction 😭 kzbin.infoUgkxT4nxTCmWH0Gz6yvxF5oAf6oL15URwLof?si=mKwrshWTEM4dSE35

[@thaguy69]

Why do people choose Mexican food as the "spicy food"? Yall never eaten Asian food?

[@noodlelynoodle.]

Cause it's California actually spicy Mexican food is more common than actually spicy Asian food like you can definitely get Asian food made spicy here but you usually have to order it that way cause they make it white people level otherwise whereas the Mexican places just do the same spice level regardless of who you are typically

[@thaguy69]

@@noodlelynoodle. I know that, but that just kinda proves my point. Asain food needs to be toned down to even sell it to white people. I kinda thought that was common knowledge.

[@PoiSonSonic]

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[@ArmedReject]

Whoever is uploading these Episodes for Mythbusters should Really Consult Discovery's Website, Every Episode Season and Episode label is incorrect on the uploaded Videos, Shooting Fish in a Barrel/Elephants afraid of Mice are from Season 5 Episode 22, Also, you uploaded this Episode twice, This one and the one you called Episode 23

[@SxTxferlife]

Glad I'm notbthr only one who noticed

[@noodlelynoodle.]

As far as I can tell this is run by Banijay who owns the rights outside of the us

[@rodziegman]

They have to have the rights, discovery scrubbed others many times for copyrights.

[@jenerhart7025]

The saying "as easy as shooting fish in a barrel" refers to barrels of salted fish. No water, no swimming involved.

[@evananouna8244]

What about the different percentages of milk?

[@seanfoltz7645]

I'm a fisherman and have filleted more fish than I can count, but I find them taking a dead fish and putting a motor in it far worse than just shooting at a live fish - should have just bought some rubber fish and put motors in them. Magic fruit - the fruit that makes sour taste sweet - is not only a cure, but grants you a couple of minutes of immunity to chili to boot. She should have given them ghost peppers - then he'd be like "petroleum jelly - give me the whole jar - I'll try anything!!!" The elephants aren't afraid, instead, they were simply startled to see something suddenly appear which they didn't recognize - white mice aren't normally found in the wild after all.

[@ChildrenOfOwls]

I agree it's a of a waste of a few meals to do that stuff to a fish but how is talking to it cruel? I don't think it minds, it's dead.

[@seanfoltz7645]

@@ChildrenOfOwls Didn't say anything they did was cruel, nor that they "talked" to the fish - the fish were dead so they couldn't feel anything - instead, turning it into a fish zombie by adding a motor was simply creepy and disturbing.

[@ChildrenOfOwls]

@@seanfoltz7645 I apologize I totally misread your comment, don't even know where I got the talking from to be honest lol.

[@dyllangreen1907]

SurpriseD you guys never submerged the firearms in the barrel to see if the water does anything to the shock wave , more or less

[@orphanpixels]

Hot water is the best way to clear a palate.

[@calumhughes2778]

*plate

[@orphanpixels]

@@calumhughes2778 Both are true.

[@istapleton11]

19:22 dude idk what the problem people have with habaneeeeero peppers.

[@Damaged7]

It was the hottest at the time.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

​@@Damaged7ghost peppers were a thing already by then, they were officially "discovered" in 2000 but had been used for centuries in india

[@kJ.H1]

The elephant and mice myth may be similar to how some humans have an irrational fear of spiders

[@matthewmpofu5423]

But some spiders are really deadly

[@kJ.H1]

@@matthewmpofu5423 I’m talking about the fear some people have for spiders regardless of if there venomous or not for instance a lot of people are scared of house spiders even though they are harmless

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

As a Pokémon fan I rephrased the saying ‘shooting fish in a barrel’ to ‘shooting magikarp in a barrel’ After they proved plausible that elephants are scared of mice I started referring my relationship with spiders to it for I’m the elephant in the scenario the spider’s the mouse and my older brother’s the lion that kills the mouse weather I want the spider dead or not and unless it’s venom is lethal to humans or if it touched me or got close enough to almost touch me then I want it dead and in the latter scenario I often kill it myself out of terror and the former scenario almost never happens because I live in central Ontario and therefore the only lethal venomous spiders are the black widow and they’re extremely rare this far north and true there’s a few in the forest I live in but I only encountered at least two and one I was on a walk and decided not to stick around to guarantee confirm it’s a widow and the other black widow my brother killed before I saw it and a good thing because I wouldn’t go outside again if I saw it

[@sekaopelaelo1934]

A fish in a Burrell will be killed by the shock wave

[@Untiligetfree]

Tory should have got serranos to make it a lil more fair lol habaneros taste ug

[@alanrickett2537]

They covered the answer fish and salt were packed in a barrel. So proved the rest is just them wasting time

[@Damaged7]

Yup, they wasted their time filming the TV show they were supposed to film

[@LyndoneBelle]

Pretty sure shooting fish in a barrel is kinda metaphorical like saying easier than beating a shackled person in a race.

[@Damaged7]

Thats kind of the point of the show. They hear a saying, they ask "Gee, I wonder if thats actually true" and they test it.