The 100th Episode : MacGyver Myths | MythBusters | Season 5 Episode 30 | Full Episode

[@crackerjaq9974]

Honestly, the fact that they made an acceptable solution that wasnt intended in the last clip is perfectly in the spirit of MacGyver. Even though they couldnt figure out the film, i say they pass with "flying" colors

[@lordcola-3324]

The fact that you used C4 to destroy the wall is just perfect. What MacGyver couldn't do Jack O'Neill and his C4 could!

[@borntoclimb7116]

True

[@silentdeath7847]

😂👏

[@DeltaNovum]

How ever high you rate O'Neill with a double L, he'll still be underrated.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Like when he destroyed a spaceship. "We have to climb down 30 storeys, avoiding patrols, then carefully disable the shield generator" O'Neill: drops a grenade.

[@4F6D]

@@HappyBeezerStudiosStories*

[@NacnudPinky]

such an amazing quote from Jamie at 22:30 "When in doubt: C4"

[@GwilsonDrums]

"Jamie is stirring the ammonia with his finger" "well his hand is synthetic"

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Can we just agree that Jamie is a 5000 year old alien robot....

[@nicholascrow8133]

I love how in the final part of the challenge, they came up with a solution that was significantly better than the planned solution. A potato cannon isn't really an efficient way of signalling for resuce...

[@wingerding]

We'll never know

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

For a good signal they would need to set the potato ablaze as some sort of flare. But they they could just make a smokey fire, because the smoke will get high enough.

[@Idiomatick]

@@HappyBeezerStudios As someone that has shot flaming potatoes from a cannon at night before (honestly i never thought this would come up) the fire does not make them any more visible, even at night. The external fire basically puts itself out and at best you get a dull glow (like an ember).... If you're curious, i was doing this to fire the flaming potatoes into explosives to set them off from range.

[@LUk3.M.]

I thought they would've used the potato cannon to launch the kite straight up in the air. Should've.

[@marvhollingworth663]

I once MacGyvered my way through a door. I locked myself out on my birthday. I found a coat hanger, which I broke & jammed into the letter box to keep it open without obstructing the opening. I borrowed some magnets from 1 neighbour & some string from another neighbour & a neighbour's keys. I put their key in my lock to push my key out of the other side. Then I tied the string round the magnets & lowered them through the letterbox. The letterbox wasn't aligned with the lock the key fell from, so I had to swing the magnets to get them to go to the side. It was really tricky & took a while, but eventually I managed to fish my keys through the letter box. Not as scientific as MacGyver's solutions, but I managed to use what I had available & was quite pleased with myself. Never locked myself out again.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I locked myself out recently and just used an old bank card.

[@chriswatson6231]

I got locked out once. So i went to the back door with an old lock and a gap below the door. Put a sheet of newspaper through the gap, pushed the key out with a twig, it fell onto the paper and i pulled the paper back through the gap to get the key. This only took a few minutes because id seen Dr Who (Tom Baker) do it in the talons of weng chiang

[@dangeary2134]

@@chriswatson6231I saw this trick when I was a kid in grade school. Problem was, there was no skeleton keys around and no doors to fit them, anyway. That was in the 60s!

[@salamathesusatbiyernesulit2161]

One of my favorite MB episode. Rest in peace Mr. Imahara.

[@kledus420smith8]

R.i.p Adam savage 2024

[@beetlegoose9808]

Adam and Tori have a great vibe together

[@nicholascrow8133]

I love how in this episode you get a glimpse of how well they work together. Tori was brought onto mythbusters from working with Adam at ILM

[@hipinretku]

It's awesome that we can watch these episodes here, thank you ❤. Mythbusters is still my favourite tv-show.

[@Nightfox777]

Humans made 3 big mistakes this millennia -the end of mythbusters -the end of top gear - no successors

[@ToTheGAMES]

Grand Tour

[@darianthescorpion1132]

Well we had Top Gear: Grand Tour and they tried to reboot Mythbusters with a new crew but it just didn’t go anywhere. You have a very valid point there though. 👍

[@MarijnStevens]

Uploading full episodes is a huge win back

[@imarchello]

you forgot mcgyver

[@Xfade81]

@@imarchello that had a reboot in 2016 tho. Never watched it so i dunno if it was good.

[@matheusfiorelli8829]

the amount of fun they had filming the chalenge always brings a smile to my face :V

[@JackMacLupus]

The 30 seconds from 32:00 on are just priceless! XD And did i get that right, that Adam and Jamie where completely searched, EXCEPT Jamies Beret? XD

[@22floki]

The Moment you realize mythbusters invented escape rooms

[@King_Stranger]

no. they didnt

[@ktosktos1312]

Nostalgia hits hard on this show... I miss those times

[@badouplus1304]

You got that right... And everytime I see Grant, I feed sadness, he left us too soon. He was born the same year as me, so, it hits me hard.

[@andrewince8824]

Bamboo is surprisingly strong. It behaves very well under tension and handles compression fairly well provided the forces are distributed along the length. It's tougher than wood for the same mass due to a longitudinal laminate construction whereas wood is a bunch of fibres bound by Lignin. Bamboo is basically loads of tough grass leaves tightly wrapped around each other, way more structure in all directions.

[@MrMarinus18]

In terms of structural behavior bamboo is more similar to steel than wood. With the ultra light the wings still weren't air foil shaped. Wings aren't just assymetrical vertically but also horizontally with a blunt front and a tapered rear. It's a very complicated shape that took engineers a long time to figure out. Modern wings are even more complicated with a very subtle bulge on top and an even more subtle concave botttom with a super tapered rear.

[@freewayross4736]

That’s why bamboo is still used for scaffolding in China.

[@MeepChangeling]

Yes. But sadly it looks way worse in most use cases.

[@andrewince8824]

@@MeepChangeling depending on the application, the aesthetic should be a lesser concern. I've dealt with many beautiful pieces of engineering which have failed because the drive for beauty compromised integrity. I'll take ugly but functional any day.

[@ryanbuckley3314]

My Great Grandma was born in 1908, and when I was a kid she HAD to watch MacGyver when she came to visit. She would hold the TV guide for an hour before so everyone knew it was almost MacGyver time. It was hilarious, she was the best.

[@bontrom8]

So Sweet! :)

[@VinylPanda-NaturallyClean]

Watching it carefully you can see that it was airborne just the drop wasn't sudden enough to have enough space for the tale of the plane. It was clearly on the way to find its balance. They've made a mistake there.

[@Zeuseus6609]

Yeah, a more vertical cliff might have actually worked

[@m2heavyindustries378]

Controlling the 'drop' of the cliff is even more impossible than building a whole damn plane out of bags and bamboo, so no it wasn't a mistake.

[@VinylPanda-NaturallyClean]

@@m2heavyindustries378 First of all, why would be? Second of all, yes made because it would be airborne otherwise.

[@AerospaceMatt]

As an RC airplane designer/builder/pilot I wonder if they had the center of gravity in the right place. The angle of incidence would also need to be taken into consideration. A longer takeoff roll might’ve resulted in more forward velocity to clear the cliff.

[@haydenfrost2692]

So what you're saying is i can build it myself?

[@klm20079]

when tv was tv and enjoyable mis these times

[@weldeddaydreams]

There was a missed opportunity here to try a bamboo and plastic bag ultralight with an actual ultralight engine, to see if it could fly if actually given enough power for flight.

[@SunjunKim]

I miss Grant...

[@aeriumsoft]

same..... too soon

[@ElisbertoOliveira]

Every time I watch this show I fell sad for him.

[@massmtman]

You need some space for the H2 gas to accumulate, the explosion is much like a miniature hydrogen bomb. It is not the amount of sodium, it is the amount of H2 gas. More gas stored=bigger boom.

[@MatecaCorp]

Man that ending sequence with the challenges was so cool! Those challenges took real knowledge and skill.

[@morgaen]

There was once a very good 'Mac Gyver' episode... 2 young gang members used violence to communicate.Mac Gyver had the best improvisation to end this argument....He simply called the teenagers' parents...brilliant.

[@andrewince8824]

The compass thing works especially well if combined with some common sense. Cross reference the position of the sun with the needle, it'll determine which end is which if there are no markings to denote north.

[@MrMarinus18]

They don't have a watch though so they don't know what time it is.

[@andrewince8824]

@@MrMarinus18 the only thing one requires to know is whether they are in the Northern or southern hemisphere. The sun will always south in the northern hemisphere, it may rise in the East and set in the west but it'll always be slightly offset to the south. It's all one needs to determine which end of a needle compass is north, kind of essential information.

[@jamesphillips2285]

@@andrewince8824 Closer to the poles the sun rises in the North East, and sets in the north west. In July I can look North and see the glow of the sun on the horizon at around midnight.

[@Bacon-ys2xi]

​@@andrewince8824 That's very cool

[@hrodga]

@@MrMarinus18 They do though. You can see Adam's watch several times through the series of challenges, but I'll use 41:23 as a specific timestamp because it shows his watch as he's actually making the magnet. If you didn't have a watch, though, and you somehow don't know if the sun is rising or setting, you can use your hand to measure how far off of the horizon it is, wait a little bit, and then measure it again. If it's closer to the ground, that's west; further away, and it's east. You can also time things in a very rough way like this; the sun takes about 15 minutes to move across the space in the sky that your hand covers at arm's distance. (This is particularly useful in a survival situation to get an idea of how much daylight you have left.) I personally would have forgone the whole bit with the magnet altogether, if I had been in the same situation. If you have an accurate watch and an idea of where the sun is, that's all you really need. If you don't have the sun, it's probably night time, and you can use the stars.

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

I had forgotten how much their "plane" had bothered me as a kid, yeah obviously the main fuselage was going to start cracking, the entire weight of both wing assemblies was hanging off of it unsupported, even the ultralights they flew around in had struts that met the wings about 1/4 of the way down from the root which gives the wings more rigidity and disperses the load evenly throughout the fuselage... considering they went to go fly around in similar planes to "get a solid understanding of how these things work" they paid zero attention to anything other than the rough geometry of an airframe and what a wing should look like, that being said even with their on the spot modifications it seems to me like if they played around with different props and maybe add another motor and a decent head wind they could've got it airborne, not that I'd ever actually want to fly the thing though lmao.

[@br.m]

They needed a steeper and higher cliff too.

[@stratocactus]

For the film development part, they could have made a caffenol developer with coffee + orange juice (for the ascorbic acid) + washing soda. Then fix in ammonia. Also it looked like kodak color film, but it can be cross processed in B&W chemistry (and get B&W negatives of course). Edit: they actually had baking soda, which would have required heating it to get washing soda.

[@1SaG]

If there's ever a Mythbusters-reunion, they really need to do a MacGruber episode.

[@Godsrocker1970]

Is just me or does explosions and crashes brings out your inner child. At 54 I get giddy and excited.

[@Herkan]

Third. Mythbusters+Macgyver=eternal love ❤️ Thanks for all knowledge, I had alot of use of it

[@RobR386]

Maybe using sodium was done purposefully because it was a TV show and they didn’t want viewers destroying walls 🤣

[@warrensteel9954]

Exactly.

[@Q36BN]

The producers of MacGyver did just that. They purposefully used worse ingredients, or straight up omitted them in the final formula (so it would be incomplete) to prevent people from recreating the trick and probably injuring themself. Many tricks in MacGyver have a basis in science, but the results might be less impressive than it is on the show. Just like with the sodium in the water.

[@goghvonjohann2924]

No shit.

[@kkloikok]

Yeah because all of Richard Dean Anderson's anti-gun rhetoric on the show definitely reduced gun violence. Moron.

[@Jebu911]

@@Q36BN Explain the science behind macgyver being locked in a coffin, it being tossed off the bridge and him managing to build it into a working jetski. I think its a great show for sure but that was hilariously dumb.

[@Lagbeard]

Pretty much all of what MacGyver does generally works and obeys the laws of physics... But sometimes they did exaggerate the effects for the sake of TV.

[@mho...]

one does not simply mess with MacGyver!

[@zaucethesaucebauce527]

That last challenge sounds like an epic escape room to do with your friend.

[@borntoclimb7116]

I like the mc gyver escape room. The blue kite is a awesome Idea.

[@rage9715]

Mythbusters; We want a hole in the wall JD: How big comical yet true

[@majormalfunction1313]

as a kid watching this i had never even heard of macguyver, except as a synonym for juryrigging lol

[@torspomedia5861]

Thank you for uplpading these full episodes :)

[@haydenfrost2692]

First time I saw MacGyver it started with him making teargas to stop a robbery at a gas station. I would love to see that recreated

[@ashleyobrien4937]

How dare they besmirch the good name of MacGyver ! Jack O'Neil would be devastated...

[@nananakeson]

23:00 I like to imagine that this is the exact way Jamie lost his hair

[@kamicokrolock]

I love how their last solution was a kite because that was my first instinct too! I learned to make really simple but highly effective kites as a kid (An octagon shape is so much better than a diamond shape). I would make them on windy days for myself and my siblings out of brown paper grocery bags, some Kenex, a couple of my hair ribbons and the spool of twine my dad kept in the garage for yard waste bundling.

[@antonsund7170]

For the sodium to have a best chance of working, the reaction has to proceed as fast as possible. Therefore, removing the mineraloil with a solvent eg. petroleum ether and then melting it would have had a better chance. Although it seems, the water isn´t boiling in the macgyver clip, which would solidify the sodium again. However, 1g just seems to little for destroying a brick wall.

[@kevinbelcher8490]

When in doubt C4 is my absolutely favorite line in the show

[@667mumble]

Got to give them credit for trying to sneak a variety of items in the prison

[@martinkuliza]

3:12 and because McGyver is so awesome he blew a hole in the wall that was a perfect square with the corners rounded off so no one would get injured LMFAO

[@carlborneke8641]

Remember everyone. When in doubt, C4.

[@HenryTroup]

The Canadian Air and Space Museum has a flown replica of the 1910 Silver Dart. Also bamboo and fabric but the engine is over 300 hp

[@danklank9724]

Ive been saying, I memorized every lyric from every song of a decade and theres no more room, for years as a joke and I forgot it came from me watching this episode

[@bevis226]

The engine that MacGyver took off of the cement mixer was a 2 cylinder snowmobile engine. Most likely an Arctic Cat 340 which was used in Alot of snowmobiles from the late 60s clear up until 1995.

[@ZeHoSmusician]

11:57 "Kari's concerned that MacGyver's wings look too flat, not the classic aerofoil shape that makes powered flight possible." I'm surprised you guys didn't "myth-bust" that statement because that's not why wings provide lift... Don't take it from me - watch this MIT course: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ3JYpJ6hdure6M

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

47:49 - 47:59 *"And for once, in this our 100th episode, we can safely say you CAN try this at home. Just be real careful with the helicopter."* 😂

[@jayluck8047]

I watched (twice) all of Stargate SG-1, it’s companion movies, and sister series before I ever saw an episode of MacGyver. When you grew up watching The A-Team, it wasn’t appealing to watch a show cut down to just one guy.

[@guidohavelton6280]

32:31 how every high school coach pronounces "amateurs"

[@JohanlastZa]

I can see why stuff being shown/used in scenes in MacGyver does not work. No parent would want their 12-year-old boy running amok blowing stuff up because as a young boy once upon a time, I would def try these things

[@quinntaylor1170]

This is the episode where he says “when in doubt, C4!”

[@carmium]

The "New" MacGyver came on and I just let it play. He and a couple of other men were being flown somewhere in a helicopter when a Stinger-type missile was launched at them. Absurdity 1: They *saw* it and that's how they knew. Absurdity 2: Missile chases them at helicopter speed as the pilot hinks and jinks. Absurdity 3: MacG takes everyone's gum packets (they all had some!) and proceeds to unwrap all the foil from each piece and rip it up. A Stinger goes 1300 mph but this one still has not caught up with them. Absurdity 4: MacG flings the foil out the chopper door and it is not immediately scattered by the downdraft. Absurdity 5: Missile is baffled by by a handful of gum wrappers and flies into a mountainside. I figured I was done and found something else to watch.

[@Amtcboy]

Like their other challenges, they should have tried a stronger engine for the ultralight after the first failed try.

[@zhabiboss]

“Stopping just short of a cavity search” ow man

[@Dallinz]

I love how they fully suit up and are all super prepared for just sodium metal. I bought 2 pounds of it off amazing lol. It’s really not that bad, just a pair a gloves is all you’ll need

[@By.3.]

For the potassium and water to brick the wall if you make the “mortar” smaller and the exit hole smaller the pressure probably make the wall break

[@afjer]

I want to see LPL attempt the lock with those tools.

[@AerospaceMatt]

They hooked the kite string up on the opposite side. That’s why it wasn’t working. The string is supposed to attach in the center of the cross spars on the opposite side. Tying a rope to the top and bottom of the diamond “planform” would create the necessary attachment point. From there tying the string at the cross spar intersection would make it fly.

[@juangringo3906]

Maybe if they used a actual cliff rather than a slope the plane would have glided. Guess we'll never know now though.

[@Funkyent]

Tori and adam have great chemistry

[@wherethetatosat]

Well hold on. Sodium may not have been enough to blow a hole in a wall, but the metals get more explosive the farther than the column you go. I don't think Potassium would have worked either, but what about Rubidium or Cessium?

[@atrem7942]

Why they didn't calculate how much speed they needed to get enough lift is beyond me.

[@wilfred8326]

😂 on the A Team they built a plane too

[@CryptoTonight9393]

Should get the sodium into pieces as small as you can to increase surface area exposed to water.

[@ProgNoizesB]

you guys made mcguyver a perfect lookalike xD 100% crash rate???? xD Well, I'll take it. At least you're honest about it xD

[@bathbomber]

I'd love to see the ultralight rebuilt exactly the same, but with a larger engine

[@calamfischer7009]

Coolest job in the world!!

[@markc6714]

Just starting to watch..... Hoping there will be a cameo appearance by Richard Dean Andersen Edit : what a bummer

[@Laura_B__]

Oh my gosh, that would have been so cool.

[@kimrok1]

When they tested the motor and prop on the go cart, I have to say that was pretty dumb and extremely dangerous. Grant was lucky he did not get decapacitated.

[@afjer]

To be fair, the show operates under the premise that he knows how to develop film, while Mythbusters withheld that knowledge to see if they could figure it out.

[@petitio_principii]

I thought they got their wing aerodynamics upside-down, but it was me misremembering how it works. I thought the bottom surface would be the one that's more or less rounded, and the top face flat, pushing the air downards on the bottom side, while not obstructing it on the top side, thus generating pressure on the bottom. But it's rather low pressure generated on the up side, apparently. I'm glad I never had to improvise an ultralight to save my life and that of someone with a broken leg.

[@brentbeacham9691]

I don’t remember this one. I must not have seen it because it’s so good as to not be forgettable. 🎉🎉🎉

[@mistermigraine2779]

The moment she altered the design, the ultralight experiment became useless as far as proving anything.

[@jesselambert6663]

32:00 i imagine this is what they both have on them at all times🤣

[@MeepChangeling]

"You're going to have to make a compass." Not for directions that simple. Sun rises in the east, sets in the west. if you know the rough time of day you can get a "north enough" for simple paced out directions.

[@remuskiljunen6570]

Am I the only who thinks Breaking Bad in 4:10

[@brianmcgill1290]

more surprised they didn't use NaK. NaK is highly reactive with water (like its constituent elements) and may catch fire when exposed to air.

[@tymz-r-achangin]

I was wondering why they didnt get Macgyver to make any type of appearance on the show.

[@MrSuckeragi]

OK, considering my weight, I am no longer overweight, I am ULTRA LIGHT

[@skyborne80]

I love orange juice! Assuming I knew how to develop film, I'd have failed because there'd be no OJ left to help develop it!

[@kathyputman5160]

In all fairness MacGyvers wall was concrete and was spider web cracked.

[@Luka1180]

Why does Jamie look so much taller than Adam in the beginning of this? Adam is actually the taller person irl.

[@ConLustig]

I really think if they had a better propeller engine that thing could’ve really flown

[@jacquesdupontd]

The link to your channel under the title of the video is wrong. You should tell YT. Thanks for the episodes

[@Dan-bv8ne]

Are the vids still proccessing to be available in hd or will they neber be in HD?

[@KoiMan_]

Unfortunately they were not originally filmed in hd

[@DrRBTNK]

How long do you think the room would take the covert instruments guy?

[@H2Oredfirefox]

From the looks of the clip with the microlight the guy built of bits and bobs if you look at the engine you'll see there's actually a pulley is actually attached to some sort of pulley with a belt down to a smaller Pulley which I believe is what's attached to the engine output shaft🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@shred_meister]

The engine might make it worse lol

[@Kiwi_As]

Potassium nitrate is awesome

[@nicholascrow8133]

They should've had the "mortar" hard up against the wall, the way they did it there was plenty of room for the gasses to escape before applying their energy to the wall. That said, I'm not sure it would've made much of a difference to the end result. I would've liked if they continued with alkaline metals to replicate the results, thought my chemistry knowledge isn't that strong, I'm not sure if they would encounter the same limits as they found with popcorn or alka selztas under pressure (i.e a situation where the pressure limits the potential of the reaction) Any chemists out there that are able to answer this question (I.e when under pressure, is there a "ceiling limit" to the reaction, or would more stuff indeed mean more push?)

[@nicholascrow8133]

On the topic of replicating the results, I imagine it would be possible to construct at least a (somewhat) working ultralight framework from bamboo, duct tape and garbage bags, the motor probably wouldn't work, simply not designed for the job, too low on power and too high on weight...

[@RakNeubienniy]

The factor for solid substance speed of reaction is not a pressure, but surface area. So for explosive reaction they should made ideally fine-grained potassium, which is I don't know possible or not. But they could use very thin slices, not the solid bricks they used. But even that presents problems with conservation. Another problem I see is mineral oil or kerosene, which is used in conservation and by covering the surface area of metal limits the reaction speed. In the end, the explosion of gunpowder or c-4 creates a shockwave, which triggers a chain reaction and rapid detonation of the reaction material with high energy. That is not the case with alkaline metals. Their explosion is more like scatter of material from reaction area ( you can see it in their laboratory test). In conclusion i think they could get better results, if used more sliced pieces and large fire under mortar for water boiling, but in my opinion the wall will still hold it.

[@shellghost5]

"even by mythbuster standards this is the thrill of a lifetime" dude they never tried drugs or what?

[@danielgonzalez4690]

Deberian poner el audio en español también, hay una generación entera de niños queriendo volver a ver los episodios

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

What she says in 14:24 ?

[@dotConcept]

MacGyver was just much better. Myth busted

[@danielk9316]

[@gomman.yamaya]

Hey that sodium experiment is wrong... 1) the capsule dissolves gradually. So the whole amount of Sodium is not exposed to water at once, making the reaction less explosive. 2) the bottle used originally is much bigger, thus the air pressure produced is much higher than this