MythBusters - Waterslide Wipeout

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I don't own anything. Pictures and video are owned by MythBusters, Beyond Television Productions, and Discovery Communication. Audio is owned by Neil Sutherland.
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On this wet and wild episode, Adam and Jamie tackle the biggest, dirtiest, most vertigo inducing build in MythBusters history.

[@GregHool]

Who's here after Adam posted a video on his Tested channel talking about this build and set of days?

[@bsvenss2]

Me

[@bentron5228]

Me

[@spammer-mw8zk]

Me and I’m imagining a super man flying crew launching off

[@micahned]

And now we all know he was wearing a latex fetish suit lolol

[@nidzdotnet76]

2 tabs open.. lol

[@MundaneMuser]

I remember looking forward to watching MythBusters every week after school in the 2000s. It was one of my favourite shows on TV at the time.

[@jerryjeromehawkins1712]

Yup... Monster Garage and Orange County Choppers too. The good ol days!

[@TonyC2328]

2:17 The yell gets me so much lmao, coupled with the way he flies through the air

[@DJDevvin]

Sounds like a war cry!!!😂😂😂

[@takeoverjupiter]

If he kept his arms and legs together they would have had less resistance built more speed and thus would have gone farther

[@MCshadr217]

+Michael L. Let's see you try to keep balance on a rocky terrain like this. They obviously would have normally kept their legs and arms in. But if you watched it PROPERLY. You can clearly see they keep nearly sliding off the side.

[@takeoverjupiter]

+KrazyKiwi first off. If the slide was considered rocky terrain than that slide would no longer be a flat service and hitting slide like that going 30 mph would send you to the hospital. The bulges on the sides would have kept them on the slide. Nothing would make them go off the sides if it's a straight slide. And yes I could easily do it

[@epacig]

+Michael L. Yeah, I never understood why they considered this myth busted when they couldn't even go down the slide like a pro...going down with legs and arms spread wide is going to slow you down considerably, and they still achieved over 70 feet.

[@kenneth842]

+Michael L. They did it because they wanted to imitate the exact position that the people in the video did, not their own position that would mess up there discovery.

[@brianwalker1688]

+Michael L. why would this slow them down? Where is the resistance coming from?

[@zohanrock]

you wouldn't have known he was miserable the whole time.

[@DavidKnowles0]

I don't think he was miserable the whole time. I think that what he just says now.

[@rookwall8697]

Probably saying that for legal reasons

[@dyondo]

only in the last shot on target he was supposedly miserable. all the first day stuff he was having fun

[@AmusementForce]

I need a water slide like this for Christmas!

[@jekylgaminghd232]

Mum I'm sure its not that big

[@AmusementForce]

I want it right under the tree!!!

[@SpongeFlashie]

So did you get it? >:3

[@AmusementForce]

No! :-(

[@empfliz7922]

SpongeFlashie

[@jocax188723]

Honestly it’s the fact Adam keeps screaming while airborne and he gets abruptly cut off by impact that makes it twice as funny

[@james5637]

Seeing Adam this young makes me feel old. I never missed an episode when I was young!! 🖖🏼

[@hayesbowman5098]

I bet they knew it was fake but they still did it for fin

[@relvex9856]

+Bilbo Baggies It could've been real they just suck at sliding.

[@PM-vs3rh]

+Relvex it is not possible

[@AlMai222]

you are extremely stupid

[@lasseplatburk]

It's easily debunked simply by using math, the princilpe of energy conservation and the basics of kinematics.

[@wynwilliams6977]

annnd by just watching the video ;) if it had been real the side of the pool would of been pushed out. we ALL know it is fake but it IS fun ;)

[@ballisticcranberrypeat7777]

I laughed so hard at the second attempt, his groans of trepidation as he slowly rotates just really got me.

[@tannerwebster7633]

Anyone else come here from the Tested episode to see what he was talking about?😂

[@samanthaamburgey4128]

Adam: "I wish you could try this." Narrator: "Well, we can't." The crew: "HoW 'bOuT i Do AnYwAy!"

[@200odd300]

KZbin recommended it under that video, so I had to

[@TonyB1999]

Yup

[@fromthegamethrone]

Eyo

[@ThatLad685]

Yesssir

[@GregJonson]

This should be a sport on Summer Olympics!

[@52flyingbicycles]

Greg Jonson luge and ski jump are winter olympic sports. Kinda close 🤷‍♂️

[@JF32304]

Here here.

[@timr720]

This should be a winter sport, where you land in a hole in the ice.

[@ltmundy1164]

ABC Wide World of Sports flashbacks anyone? Jim MacKay: And the agony of defeat...

[@mhks68]

Well there’s breakdancing now soooooo?!!

[@ziiChex]

1:40 when you finally break no nnut November

[@edenthesubwoofer4440]

😂😂😂

[@ziiChex]

@@edenthesubwoofer4440

[@SAMHARM1020]

Chex that’s great, made my day

[@ziiChex]

@@SAMHARM1020

[@Kya10]

Chex 😂

[@paddyj7690]

dude that intro music takes me straight back to the mid-2000's, afternoons after coming home from high school, snacking on gas station pizza (yeah I love that stuff).

[@TheDBZ_KING7_Official]

Same, but for me it was elementary and jovy fruit rolls.

[@SM_Acoustics2023]

"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do tody!"

[@gwheyduke]

Much better than watching on Tee Vee where you are forced to watch annoying ads over and over before getting any real show content !

[@Derederi]

With the right technique you can slide a lot faster. This was the worst possible way to slide. I bet with the right technique he could go 50% further.

[@classymuffin4589]

They weren't trying to measure how far they could possibly land...

[@smingjr]

Elbows and heels

[@baileywalter7201]

@@classymuffin4589 they wa ted to replicate the video and thats how the original did it

[@classymuffin4589]

@@baileywalter7201 Indeed.

[@hosmerhomeboy]

@@smingjr exactly, only I use my shoulder blades and heels. I often hit the end of the slides in the run out zone : )

[@wojtekpolska1013]

2:55 "I wish you could try this" "Well, we can't" And then, 10 years later, Adam explained that the camera crew did in fact, against what they were told to, all went down the slide before dismantling it.

[@Jin-Ro]

They really should bring this show back. Big hit in the UK. Big hit everywhere I think

[@theuniversewithin74]

I think we can safely conclude that the Mythbusters had more fun than anyone.

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

Idk, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond probably had way more fun on Top Gear/Grand Tour.

[@theuniversewithin74]

@@dickJohnsonpeter it was nothing but cars... Mythbusters did everything crazy.

[@Empty12345]

@@theuniversewithin74 Fun is subjective

[@theuniversewithin74]

@@Empty12345 fun is fun. And more fun is funner. Fun the fun.

[@Empty12345]

@@theuniversewithin74 Allllrighty then

[@drivewaystar6485]

I watched this TV with my dad and we both laughed our asses when Adam went the full slide lol

[@vintagegamer889]

There is so much human error here.... The video isn't real but if he used any proper form he would have made it much farther

[@classymuffin4589]

That's the flippin point...

[@orangesv356]

Oh OK smarty-pants

[@jamesjoe2048]

To be honest my favorite part of this episode was when they ere buiding the ramp and one of the guys dropped a roll of duct tape making the top and it just started rolling down until it few off the other end

[@xtremegaming1837]

2:17 I died at this point 😂🤣 LMFAO

[@xtremegaming1837]

It’s Adam’s scream that gets me 😂🤣

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

Damn, and you were resurrected. Good job.

[@DJDevvin]

Sounds like a war cry!!!

[@420chriscantr420]

if he closed his legs he would have went past his point

[@wisconsinfirenerd]

I feel like a bad person, but I can't help utterly cracking up over the noises he makes when he takes flight

[@WhatAreYouBuyen]

What if the rope from the "kiddie pool" when in between his legs when he landed? What kind of myth are they busting?

[@kimberlingcumberland541]

Nutbusters

[@royal_throck2983]

WhatAreYouBuyen nut busting

[@horriville4715]

the myth that they have balls

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

The myth they were busting was if you could travel far from a slide into a body of water, as in the MEGAWOOSH video

[@brendanmatelan2129]

0:27, him being falling off like that was like something out of a cartoon. Lol

[@Celestial_Wing]

57 people couldn't go farther than 4 feet.

[@Kya10]

Ice Angel, Celestial Wing 932 now, 4 years later... feeling old ?

[@Zeppec]

3:34 Adam is doing a T-pose!

[@hyliadreamer]

I would do this. I'm terrified of heights, but I would still TOTALLY do this. The boys look like they're having a great time.

[@oblivexx]

The orange ramp change upward to soon unlike the white version. Also Adam and Jaime have there legs open at the start. They need to cross them to get more speed.

[@Mal4de]

feets and miles... what a shitty system.

[@Mal4de]

***** Maintaining a shitty system for pride reasons. Sprinkle some "this is America" and "freedom" on top of that stupid discourse and you have an American Pie of shit. Can't be more American than that.

[@pguth98]

+Spirit Our shitty system got us to the Moon just fine.

[@Mal4de]

Peter Guthrie Yeah... it is "so good" that NASA realized how shitty it was to the point of SWITCHING to f-ing metric a long time ago.

[@pguth98]

Spirit Damn. You're really butthurt about a system of measurement.

[@Mal4de]

+Peter Guthrie Yeah... the ammount of people thinking imperial system is a patriotic issue got my jimmies rustled, man.

[@awwlive]

Have 3 sheets of math, 2 sheets of English, 1 study sheet of science, study for my Spanish test coming up, watching Myth Busters.

[@LilzABug_07]

2019? Idrc I always find myself watching older videos... But they are WAY funnier than the ones we have now.

[@DanArnets1492]

How to make it faster/more dangerous · Narrower slide · Higher walls · Become as narrow as possible

[@eclipsewolf1250]

Me at 0:25 "THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!" Then me at 0:28 "Huh...?! Wha...? AAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!" XD

[@stellaselby663]

I saw it coming 😂

[@theusher2893]

I swear Adam's yells are the absolute best 😆

[@saoudialaeddine]

Who can help me to find a waterslide exactly like this ???

[@pabloo7422]

In ur dreams lmao

[@saoudialaeddine]

-_-

[@Gntaco120]

In Pablo's ass

[@pabloo7422]

@gntaco lol!

[@Gntaco120]

Pablo Loera LOL YOUR ASS.

[@renzo189]

If you see this in reverse, it's about a gigantic fat fish jumping backwards out of the water and landing perfectly in a landing ramp. :D

[@bigflockajon]

Would have been dope if they did like a running start like when we was kids lol

[@lunaargent3159]

Busting myths can be a real pain in the butt

[@reybeez73]

Or...you could just have asked Microsoft who did the CG for that advertisement.

[@FBFJDKOEUEURJFJDJ]

Yeah because that would've made a great episode...

[@YTRINX]

Dave Carr you have more like than the original comment ha

[@mikq]

UNIVERSAL GAMING not anymore

[@DismasBeats]

mythbusters were the coolest thing in my childhood

[@slyfoxguitar6666]

3:50 Jamie is loaded

[@DJDevvin]

At 2:17 it sounded like a war cry!!! Still funny!!!😂😂😂

[@ZaneBastian]

Err... The curve of the slide was all wrong. It has to be a cycloid.

[@krassergamerLP]

Zane Bastian what is that ? yes i am serious and i dont live in an English speaking country that's why i am asking this question

[@FullOilBarrel]

BeastHugzHD its a fucking word google it you illiterate

[@mr.shibeman3198]

BeastHugzHD if you have access to the internet then just look it up.

[@12kzlynn]

Hey vsauce Michael here. Where are your fingers?

[@Alina-fx1ck]

i know i’m a couple years late lmao but y’all all he did was just ask a simple question! yes he could have googled it, but i mean it doesn’t do any harm just to tell him simply what it is! better to help people that are asking for help instead of making them feel dumb for asking for help, at least that’s the way I see it.

[@timothinking9855]

His legs weren't together and he kept intentionally slowing himself out of fear

[@DevourMikey]

Kickass ! I'd volunteer to do that in a heartbeat

[@InigoMontoya-]

Fish are looking up thinking, “Who keeps throwing away perfectly good people?”

[@MightyForSure]

"That undignified dismount" Ah my gawd, lol'd

[@coolnameh5848]

Imagine if they built rollercoasters and waterparks for a living

[@jeyst1414]

99% of the comments: They should’ve tucked their arms in 1% of the comments: THIS COMMENT

[@chrysopylaedesign]

Adam was never seen again after being taken away by the ambulance......Adam's Famous Last Words......"I'm O.K....."I'm O.K."

[@gpcaraudio]

I'm going to make one of these

[@fabianjohnson8733]

Invite me over

[@taliakellegg5978]

Same but I don't wanna so invite me over too

[@copiasrats]

www.GPcarAudio.com can I come over?

[@Aerospace_Gaming]

Please don't

[@martinthewarrior5016]

Well, you've had 5 years. Did u make one?

[@Arjay404]

To the people saying that they need to tuck their arms and legs in. Yes you have a point, doing that will give them more speed. but it also makes it harder to stay on the ramp, they would need to make the slide have a slight dip in the middle of it to make sure they stay in the middle or it.

[@loulouwalker2496]

As I watch I keep yelling " use corn syrup!!!"

[@destinymcintire2188]

How would corn syrup help? Wouldn't it just slow them down? Asking out of curiosity.

[@bibovskij9526]

+Destiny McIntire year i think it would make him go slower

[@morsey_55]

No tide fish soap works best

[@King_of_Apathy]

Yeah corn syrup is like maple syrup. You mean corn oil like Pam. In actually you would want a high viscosity low weight oil water mix. Although add in a concave child slide shape and you would approach the sound barrier.

[@billwalker9509]

The significant error was keeping his legs open, slowing him down. Luge you keep your legs together.

[@bangadesh]

should have made it smaller so he could have put is leggs crossed so the water wouldent spray his face... like you do at real waterslides

[@theeclectic6015]

This slide, the position of the slider, and probably the lubricant, are all different from the video.

[@CT-vr8wb]

That's because you didn't wet the whole slide. If u wet the whole thing u could've got better results

[@isaackim2559]

He never pulled his legs and arms in into a torpedo position. He was slowing himself down

[@AlphaGametauri]

I'm jealous, looks so damn fun!!

[@realdevbro447]

Ooo an f1 fan?

[@havenbastion]

He's keeping his arms and legs open, slowing him down.

[@FOMFAH2]

he did an awesome goofy yell

[@dominicbruno3109]

I miss this show

[@chuckwolfe4688]

Should have tried the non-chloric, silicon based kitchen lubricant by Redco.

[@chrysopylaedesign]

Its been reported by the Voyager II space probe......that Adam's echoing screams ..... are still echoing around the Moons of Uranus.

[@Alina-fx1ck]

lmao i love this video so much, two jolly ol nerds going down a massive water slide, screaming and yelling 😂 loved this! wish i had a water slide that large! also the water is impressively blue lol

[@moultriemanicmechani]

Jamie going down , I've seen videos of a Walrus going down a water slide before 😂

[@theninjustice138]

2:17 "WOOOOOAAA-" *SPLASH*

[@DJDevvin]

Sounds like a war cry!!!😂😂😂

[@gloopgloopglorp]

"I'm Adam Savage and this is Mythbusters" Corona by Minutemen plays

[@aurelkohler6454]

Haha the disclaimer: I don't own anything. Homeless or what?

[@clickmaestro595]

Aurel Kohler that's not funny

[@Kya10]

Aurel Kohler LMAO 😂😂

[@salimufari]

Adam clearly hasn't been to a water park any time recently. Cross the ankles with hands on chest. Lift your butt off the ramp so you are on your shoulders & heals. MAXIMUM SPEED!!!! Ankles crossed to avoid the water wedgie.

[@ratintimbs4553]

why would you keep your arms and legs wide open lol , fucking terrible test.

[@MegaLars10]

so that you stay straight going down

[@tevitateulilo7573]

And also because this is the way the guy in the video slides. To test the video you need to be as accurate as possible

[@brandysigmon9066]

he was chicken shit

[@lsmfreakl5265]

The New Captain to maintain balance duh

[@jonpaul9514]

The dude sliding is trying to slow himself down.

[@ferrma81]

Just watched this video and I'm wondering how the distance would be if someone slide on his belly in a WINGSUIT ^^

[@jayrock4ya]

Or a running start

[@rayl7336]

With olive oil as a lubricant

[@jayrock4ya]

@@rayl7336 yeah sure, and we’ll change pond out for an elephant 😜🤣🤣🤣

[@teddykgb3865]

Legs spread wide and holding onto the sides of the slide. MYTH BUSTED!!!!!!!

[@randy0120]

Whose here after the tested episode?

[@ThisTall]

Dumps the water, then immediately outruns the water

[@legspasm]

its not a fair experiment he spread his arms and legs on the way down which would have slowed him

[@MegaLars10]

you spread your legs to stay centered

[@gurtsmunta1]

On a British documentary program called “QED”back in the eighties they went into the science of water slides simply put it you arch your back so only your heels and shoulders were in contact with the slide you went much faster ,I did this on a slide at splash down water park in Vancouver,I got a bollocking from the staff for showing the Canadian kids how to go faster they were getting air big time on one of the slides.

[@kilikus822]

2:12 Bulge cam

[@NewShockerGuy]

Anyone that has been to a water park KNOWS to cross your hands and feet... I'm really surprised no one there told them that bit of information.. They would have gotten more distance.

[@brandysigmon9066]

he is slowing his self down, it don't matter how far you go up on the ramp if you are going to keep it slow by putting your arms down and legs out. Put somebody on there with some balls and do a real test. T.V. bullshit anyway

[@Adam_K_]

Hahahah! The shots of him flying through the air are hilarious 😂😂

[@LNasterio]

how is it myth busted?? what was the height and angle used in the video, and what is the height and angle used by myth busters?? non of these critical information is given.

[@suparki12]

+Asterio The creators of the original video admitted it was fake.

[@danielrichards3140]

Also in the original video, the kiddie pool was farther down a hill.

[@emmettonline]

This video is cut down

[@drewmadenew3000]

I couldn’t even tell you how many times I’ve “busted in cyberspace”

[@dose710]

mythbusters aren't accurate with their myth busting trials...the slide in the myth video had a wider curve.

[@NHail-oh9wd]

That video was obviously edited, they knew it was busted way before they tested it, they just did it for fun

[@oaktadopbok665]

Never go down a water slide with your legs spread.

[@sustainf]

One thing to note. It looks like the original video is completed in an Alpine area (high elevation = thinner air = higher speed).

[@sylviaelse5086]

Somehow, I find these episodes much less satisfying after learning that Adam and Jamie don't even like each other.

[@ideatechletsunbox]

he could've gone farther and faster, but his arms were extended too much so they created drag.

[@TristanVash38]

I can feel the hard drive failing in this DVR

[@johnspooner1403]

I checked some comments and nobody called it. You want VMax on a water slide? Lock your fingers behind your head and keep your head off the slide. Arch your back and keep your legs straight. That way, the only contact with the slide is shoulder blade points and heels. You friggin' fly. Try it.

[@KeenxLimit]

People in comments saying "they should've..." should watch Olympic skeleton. It takes more time and distance than you think to build up speed. With a running start, on ice and a sled on skates, it takes 5 seconds to hit 50km/h at a distance of 65m. Original video shows the guy travelling at speed when he was at the top, accelerating down the hill for 2 seconds. Not how gravity and acceleration works. The creators even said it's fake.

[@Orrinn123]

don’t go feet first. It makes you insecure and then makes you put your feet on the side to try slow you down

[@TrueHelpTV]

That must have been a fun day. You know everyone did it.

[@wernerbloemwagen6878]

Why are the guys from "myth busters" NEVER PREPARED to admit when a "myth" becomes FACT...

[@9mmhobbes]

the one thing that would've affected this for the better would have been if he have gone down forcing his body up so that all the surface tension was just his feet and shoulder blades, effectively making them skids.