Fan Favourites Revisited! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 7 | Full Episode

Every so often the Mythbusters draw conclusions that leave the fans seething. Well, once again, it's
time for the MythBusters to put some of their most contentious outcomes under the microscope!
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.
#MythBusters #FactOrFiction

[@hughjanus2066]

Can confirm the blacksmith's story, I had a small chunk of a hammerhead break-off after striking it with another while working in a pallet factory, the chunk cut through my shirt and cut my abdomen quite badly. I wouldn't call it an "explosion" but it definitely flew off fast enough to do some serious damage.

[@T80Delta]

I bet liquid nitrogen (ergo super cooling the metal) would've made for an explosion. Temperature is the only variable they didn't consider! Metal is more brittle when it's cold...

[@TheDIRTBIKER10]

Same. Working in a shop my coworker was using another hammer as an anvil and missed, it sent a shard into my arm from quite a few feet away.

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Tory hitting himself in the head with the spinning metal arm, in an extremely Tory manner, is every bit the episode highlight.

[@projectdelta50]

Textbook definition of what goes around, comes around 😅

[@athena8794]

Mythbusters: 30 minutes of science, 30 minutes of Adam and Tori hurting themselves

[@TrickiVicBB71]

KZbin recommending me yesterday the channel. I'm excited to watch the old episodes. Never got to see many of the episodes after their "Behind The Myths" tour

[@PaulRudd1941]

I can't believe some of the things KZbin has on here for free. I really do think it's a great educational tool.

[@nickyoung9108]

Only now I notice Adam's shirt in the Trombone retest has the famous quote of the show: "I object your reality and substitute my own"

[@amusik7]

"Hold it hold it hold it... ! At this point there are so many one liners my brains about to explode!"

[@damonullerick6572]

31:51: One of the best Grant quotes in the show's history. And Herb's reply of, "it'll toast your waffles to almost 3000 degrees" ain't too shabby, either. 😆

[@swilleh_]

23:08 "First firearm factories USSR In Tula 1928"

[@Rando_Shyte]

The narrator had fun on this one lol

[@ourkeving]

9:06 the firearm expert's body language and voice as almost visibly winces at Tory's mistake lol 😅

[@Kr-nv5fo]

A slug is a bullet.

[@BabyMakR]

You know. The number of times they're "I can't see where the bullet went" when they're shooting into ballistics material, I'm surprised they didn't get an x-ray machine to x-ray these heads. That would have been awesome.

[@SusanPearce_H]

OK. I suggest that you supply them one. Your move.

[@BabyMakR]

@@SusanPearce_H do you believe that Discovery would be unable to supply access to one?

[@iLaCore]

@@SusanPearce_Hyou‘re aware they aren’t doing the show anymore, right?

[@whitetiana3022]

they want to prove that the myth could be plausible and then intentionally use over pressured ammo that no hunter would ever load their shotgun with....

[@TrickiVicBB71]

They could have never done this myth. But guess viewers wanted them to test cartoon physics

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

Unfortunately people do inherit or purchase antique firearms, including shotguns, without realizing the inability to withstand the force of modern ammunition.

[@marybdrake1472]

This is one of the really great things about this show. The to retest, and see if the first test's results were accurate.

[@demonicravergaming.4766]

Grateful for a different video 😊

[@maddmatty]

13:56 - 66Samus would like to have a talk with Jamie on the Tuba in the bathroom scenario lmao

[@apawhite]

I get wanting to avoid rabid fan backlash, but calling Plausible on the bore sighter barrel split is a bit dubious to me. We've seen all over Mythbusters that if a small piece of a compressed chamber fails, it can entirely defuse the rest of it as the compressed gas escapes out of the split. In order to have that 100% banana split, it would need to be such a huge amount of pressure that it would probably have to explode the rest of the gun too. Much more likely that a split like shown could have a 90-degree bend or something at the end of the barrel and the rest stays intact. The originals are definitely still faked.

[@apawhite]

@@evespirit I'm sorry, are you new to this channel? Discussing in retrospect what the Mythbusters did well or not is half the fun of these uploads. Go post that under someone asking them to revisit a myth as if the show was still ongoing.

[@grejsancoprative]

Do we need to go through what "plausible" mean? Lel.

[@apawhite]

@@grejsancoprative Sure thing. "Seeming likely to be true or believable." In this instance, the question isn't "Can part of the barrel fail if blocked?", it's "Is it plausible that a blocked barrel will cause the entire thing to split into multiple parts like a banana?" No, this is not plausible, because the most extreme result they got was a single piece splitting in a way that allowed the pressure to escape. There is no reason to believe that there's enough catastrophic pressure from a single shot to split any more than that. And besides, the pictures they were shown looked like clean metal was exposed between the strips, completely unlike experimental data.

[@kenk7875]

100% agree, very well said.

[@jjay2771]

I think part of the issue is the next step would be to test really poorly maintained guns and that insurance just wouldn't let them test those conditions. Barrel splits definitely do happen and your not wrong with a properly maintained gun it would be a ton of force; people can be really dumb with what they will try to shoot though, myself as a kid included i tried to shoot an antique shotgun and the barrel couldn't hold up. I think the original pic from the myth is fake unless someone happened to clean it up; other pics i have seen of split barrels that looked right not as sure.

[@jackmagnium6115]

11:02 u HAD to pick your nose🤣🤣 14:33 ok someone took a DUMP

[@smilinbrian9659]

Lips blowing and lower explosion than yall did wouldve been perfect reaults

[@Liltightlaceddragon]

Hammers will split into shards no matter what but it takes hrs of hitting it off center. I hit my stamps one side and the other so they print properly. I have to replace my hammers every few years because they shard

[@Lil_Warrior_Princess]

I have had only had one forge hammer explode on me because I was sending it really hard and missed my work piece. Thing sent shrapnel everywhere, sounded like a grenade went off.

[@ouch1011]

I know that nobody related to Mythbusters is probably watching this channel’s comments (or the channel would certainly be taken down by now) but the most damning thing about the trombone mute myth is that the trombones don’t use a mute during the 1812 Overture. Beyond that, there is so much air space around the mute and the bell of the trombone (to allow the sounds/air to come out of the instrument) that there is no way an explosion would send the entire mute flying forward with any real speed.

[@jacobpettes335]

The scope shot could incapacitate the victim and cause him to retreat even if the actual bullet doesn't hit him.

[@rogercoulombe3613]

the story comes from a specific claim made by a real American sniper. He shot at the reflection of a scope. when he and his buddy investigated the location he shot at, they found a dead enemy sniper and a scope with a hole clean through it. the actual scope was lost at some point, which is why there is no surviving physical evidence.

[@MadSodaz]

Im glad Hathcocks myth was recently proven real

[@ESMOKER1980]

Alw3ays hat a problem with the Trombone myth. It´s not about the force that hits the conductor... if a metal object hits you in the face you automatically stumble backwards. There is not that much force needed.

[@jackmagnium6115]

thats also true. plus the explosion would startle anyone into falling backwards

[@Stephen29471]

i have a piece of hammer head next to my collar bone that would like to disagree with the hammer section. it felt like i got shot it was a wild experience.

[@StonerDeer]

26:30. I get not wanting to miss.. but getting that much closer adds tremendous amounts of penetration power. (For those who might not love gun channels like me, this might not seem obvious) That alone would make this myth ruined (again) because it's a "sniper shot" not point blank lol 😅

[@sonicrose8430]

Still annoyed they did that to that shotgun. Should’ve just got a cheap Remington or something

[@harmless3449]

The narrator went extra hard for this episode

[@marktadlock5428]

Snipers go for head shots

[@Mnisz3K1]

Regarding the hammer exploding - they tested solid hit once or twice. While the old, used hammers were already pushed to the extreme point, one or two hits would not likely shatter them. They should have built a machine that repeatedly swings a hammer against the anvil and set for example 100 hits. They would increase the chances of seeing actual hammer explosion.

[@SusanPearce_H]

Why? Why would the magic number be 150,000 + 10?

[@gengarisnotinsmash...]

The hammer myth makes no sense to me. A hammer is EXPLICITLY made to transfer energy into (usually) hard objects. Newton's third law states that every action must have an equal and opposite reaction, so the hammer MUST be able to handle the amount of force it's putting into the object is hitting. To say that two of them hitting each other would somehow cause them to explode makes no sense. The only way it could work is if the hammer was in a state of disrepair so great that it could no longer be used for it's intended purpose. It's like being afraid that two fencers in a duel could cause an explosion if their swords hit each other too hard- one, it won't happen because swords are designed to not do that, they will dull and dent long before that would happen, and two, if it did happen, that's an issue with the state of the swords, and in that state they wouldn't be using them in the first place.

[@XavierBetoN]

45:45 Here's your problem

[@smilinbrian9659]

$4200 shotgun they used

[@daemonburns-waight2421]

44:21 I thought he was smoking a bowl 😂😂

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

Haha I wish 😂

[@TerrafiedMoss]

They are doing what to a mosin…?

[@zanecairns9596]

😂 1:42

[@rocketamadeus3730]

There must have been more missed shots from Jamie for Adam to be that cranky.

[@Gowerrr]

The sniper would absolutely be dead, bleeding out from massive head trauma and glass and metal fragments in his brain from his eye cavity. Even with a miss it would cause a serious concussion and make him ineffective.

[@gorgha3988]

Lol. That banana peel barrel one was so completely, and obviously, busted. They just wanted to shut people up.

[@rickyspanish492]

What happened? Why did they just start reposting already uploaded videos?

[@gingertimelord5]

A trombonist would be blowing into through the mouth peice......adding pressure

[@CDRaff]

22:10 Well that's just not true at all... In fact if you talk to anyone in vehicle maintenance in Vietnam they'll tell you that the ammunition the Vietnamese were using was really trashy surplus Soviet ammo and would often break up as soon as it hit anything even mildly hard which is why there were so many "I was shot but my lighter/bible/cross necklace/watch/yada yada yada stopped the bullet" stories from Vietnam.

[@T____K]

why is this the same as Season 5 Episode 7?

[@proteusnexus1428]

It's episode 6th from season 5th, year 2007. Whoevever uploads it, thanks, but pay attention to the details.

[@stephenkamenar]

well we tried hitting a hammer 10 times and it didn't explode. it must be impossible.

[@Skeptic2006]

Yeah but If you order a hammer from Temu, without hitting with it, it will explode in hand. They didn't have today's stuff.

[@JetstreamKage]

I still can't get over how badly MythBusters fumbled the scope myth, when fat electrician was able to get it right in 1 go with a fraction of the budget if you don't believe it you can got watch his video on white feature, or on pew view, who is the one that took the shot

[@DARTHMARC0720]

Seeing how the Fat Electrician proved the Carlos Hathcock shot in one go...I lost a lot of respect for Mythbusters testing after that.

[@kevinhorrell4144]

Your typo kind of confirms that people make mistakes.

[@DARTHMARC0720]

@ I made a grammar mistake, they tested this myth 2 or 3 times and didn’t simply use the period materials. This is not equivalent.

[@triggercrysisjames142]

It's absolutely amazing that the Mythbusters couldn't recreate the Carlos Hathcock sniper shot with the massive budget and man power with all the resources they had available to them. Yet, two KZbinrs (Tha Fat Electrician & Pew View) did it on the first shot with literally a fraction of the budget and limited resources. Just goes to show you, just because you're "on tv" doesn't mean you're an expert nor correct! "Just because you have Tang in your cupboard, doesn't make you an astronaut!"

[@michaelmayhem350]

Uploaded 10 seconds ago and no views this channel has fallen off 😂😂😂

[@kutilsima5584]

I think the worst episode was that one with the Moon landing. That episode is terrible. I can't believe they pretend that to be science.

[@Khaos768]

480p? Like, really?? (Edit:I see some guys say that it was recorded in lower resolution or something to similar effect, but they are wrong. Pretty much every other season 4 episode on this channel is in 1080p).

[@michaelmayhem350]

It's almost like it was filmed before HD was a thing 😂🤣

[@laurencepetervonstudzinski7507]

Bro it's free , go buy it then

[@SephirArena]

Pure flatscreener

[@TestTest-eb8jr]

@Khaos768 Yes, 480p, so what???

[@michaelmayhem350]

​@@laurencepetervonstudzinski7507 if you can buy these I'm shocked this channel hasn't gotten DMCA yet

[@grofodsumadije3952]

Mix of old episode's.