Putting Idioms to the Test | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 12 | Full Episode

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"It is better to hit the ground running" , " better to end with a bang" and "you can't polish a turd" - all these well known idioms will be tested to see if they are more than just the phrases.
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.
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[@eoinokeeffe7014]

You can't say "turd" but you can say "This bird refuses to take Adam's banana." 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BassFlapper]

That was hilarious!

[@Jex2112]

The narrator even added “and I’m not surprised” 😂

[@Angry84YouTube]

"This girl"... not bird....

[@AeonLibertas]

Ironically, if they did the 'end with a bang' test in the middle, everybody would have complained that they should, obviously, put it at the end - thus proving that it is in fact better to end with a bang. Alternatively, imagine them edging the viewers. Setting up all the explosives, the gasoline, really hyping it up! Only to then say "wow, wouldn't that be cool?" and just go home. Not a single explosion in full MB episode. That would absolutely prove it too! :D

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Them ending it without blowing anything up would have been one of the greatest blue balls in television history. Damn I wish they did that 😅

[@XavierBetoN]

38:01 Jamie holding a shit and saying "i can see myself on it" will never get old

[@NitroZox]

*"in it", even better 🤣

[@jacquesburger4103]

Is it just for me that the narrator is panned hard left? Everything else sounds fine. 😂

[@holobump5446]

yeah some tomfoolery must have occurred in the audio channels, was probably converted from a DVD made for home cinema

[@ankitsonariya918]

I checked my audio settings after starting this video lol

[@xcoder1122]

Actually the narrator is panned harned left and everything is panned to the right, just not as hard.

[@curtisbingham3735]

I watched a video the other day where the whole audio was purely on my left headphone and nothing came through the right. I’ve had a few where some speech comes left and some comes right which is a pain when only having one headphone in

[@montgomerytrackydacks2616]

he is so far to my left

[@rondaleamcleod5263]

In a tested interview adam admits he still has his polished doo doo

[@alf3071]

:)))

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

How Adam and Jamie tested the ‘polishing poop’ myth is oddly metaphorical for overcoming the problem that the idiom implies. The idiom is that you can’t polish a turd, I.e. you can’t take something which has no value and improve it. BUT sometimes you’re looking at it from the wrong perspective. Sometimes you need to seek outside help and maybe even apply wisdom from sources outside the field you’re working in, just as Adam did by using Dorodango. And suddenly, the myth went from Adam and Jamie squabbling over what it means to ‘polish’ something, to the both of them producing some genuinely beautiful pieces (if still kind of gross).

[@tylerwestman5258]

That’s wrong… ppl do that every day. Make something not worth anything to stuff worth thousands… I do it too… take a tree and make a table… so that proves you wrong

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

@@tylerwestman5258 what point do you think I was making? I think you got something mixed up

[@kbg6070]

I love Jamie talking to animals.

[@MilliRecaps]

3:22, "This girl refuses to take Adam's banana, no surprises there😏"

[@emptyforrest]

i am with adam on this. polishing a poop means making the poop shine. not cover it with something shiny.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

But you know... SCIENCE™!

[@sleepingkirby]

While I agree with you (and Adam), I still think it was worth exploring. Because there are things you can't part artificial polish to. And also, they would have got there anyways. There were several times where Adam will do something not completely inline with the myth but, because someone will ask, they did it anyways.

[@Mikael404]

Fun fact about that "you can't polish a turd" idiom there is actually multiple variations of it like "you can polish a turd but it's still a turd" and "better polish that turd because it ain't getting better" type of variations. All of them means same thing shiny shit is still shit.

[@aussiefirestorm]

The concrete truck BANG can never be topped.

[@Druguaer12345]

They did a bigger one than that. But the time they sent a cannon ball through someone's house potentially killing people was probly better😂

[@kim98677]

​@@Druguaer12345 I LOVE when they do dumb stuff but I'm fairly sure that cannonball not only almost killed someone but it probably almost ended the show as well 😬

[@frizzlethecat2084]

It's not even the size of the bang. It's that SOUND that gets me. The pheewwwWHOOOOOOMP is just untopable.

[@Fruitcupper]

​@@frizzlethecat2084 That explosion is my spirit animal 😎

[@able_archer01]

@@frizzlethecat2084 That sound is actually the explosion being so loud that it overloaded the microphone. Just imagine how loud it must have been in person.

[@ikemkrueger]

The cement truck was the best bang for the buck.

[@dawnmcauley6411]

When J.D. giggles, you know you have something good.

[@Myrddraalfade]

It is easy to polish a turd, as an amateur lepidopterist I have polished several for jewellery, only these turds are 3 Million years old and called coprolite.

[@melbapeach162]

Wait what does being a lepidopterist have to do with polishing poop or making coprolite jewellery lol

[@Myrddraalfade]

@@melbapeach162 Well I opologise for the stupid spelling mistake i made I meant to type Lapidarist ( the practice of shaping stone, minerals, or gemstones) not lepidopterist (a person who studies or collects butterflies and moths).

[@TheStygian]

I really enjoy the fact that dinosaur poop also is able to be fosilized. It's the perfect stupid gift of history.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@TheStygian history is indeed a bit of a shit show.

[@MeHighLo]

Have you ever burned lion hair out of your poop ball, eh? Good damn, Mythbusters, you had the best job in the world, EVER!!!

[@brandongrose17]

"No surprises there"😂

[@robertdora7026]

12:04 I've watched this on loop about 5 times...gets funnier each time 😂😂

[@Xenoxion]

Would have been great TV if they tested: "don't poke the sleeping bear".

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

That one’s fairly self explanatory

[@meinesongs2833]

I mean... they were already the Zoo :P

[@narfeyfjola]

Controversially, I think the bangs translate better on camera, at least in this case. I've seen some beautiful footage of a car being melted with thermite, but there was kind of just a lot of smoke and not the best angles. A bang is one, big, satisfying thing that you can show off in sexy slow-mo. Bang for the win

[@tylerwestman5258]

Cameras don’t show what being in person can show… 😂

[@caltravels9454]

I love the Boom like everyone else but nothing tops rocket sled bification in my book.

[@benjaminbotley]

At 35:45 they let “crap” slip through. Also, I’ve never heard “You can’t polish a turd” the only turd and polish saying I’ve heard was “If you polish a turd it’s still a turd”

[@WorldRevolution-ln9rw]

lol la manière de dire " mobylette " , bravo Adam.

[@a_921]

"wait wait wait!" I realize this was a planned take, but still. Imagine being about to make an explosion go off and somebody shouts that. ::p

[@gormur81]

They got the "Hit the ground running" completely backwards. The idiom is about how to jump of a moving train and safely come to a standstill, without instantly falling and hurting yourself. That is why trains are shown at the beginning as the origin of the idiom in the 1800s. It's not about getting up to speed from a standstill, like when they try dropping from a harness or on the bike. They _almost_ got it right with the zipline: They might have been _unstable_ as they hit the ground "while running", but they crucially did not fall. Had they tried the zipline with stiff legs they would have faceplanted.

[@jesseschoonveld7706]

Source? All I can find about the origin is that it is either about the military having to run to not get shot, stowaways on trains having to jump off running to not get caught or pony express riders doing it to save time. In either of these the way they approached the idiom correctly. This is also what 99% of the population would assume you mean when hearing this idiom.

[@mrrogerwilco5453]

I agree - I would have assumed it meant to land and not fall too

[@slovnicurling9808]

Then you didn't get the point of the episode. Polishing turd doesn't mean literally polishing turd either. But that was the point of this episode. Take theese idioms literally and test the literal interpretation. In your case you hit the ground and then start running. But the idiom iplies that you are already running before you hit the ground.

[@-danR]

It had nothing to do with trains, and a _literal_ example can be found illustrating the phrase in "Forest and Stream", Feb. 16 1895, p. 133, where the writer recounts having a captured fox and his friends speculating they should just throw it to the hounds. Which they did, and he said the animal "hit the ground running". That fox had every intention of getting a jump on the dogs and high-tailed it out of there.

[@kim98677]

Well, jumping off something at speed and jogging or rolling off the momentum is possible. That's just a natural reaction, ofc stiff legging any landing ends up worse than not. We already know this. But the way they interpreted it is more akin to the usual wile e coyote type stuff they usually test.

[@tejasmate9726]

I love it when the narrator whispers in my left ear😬

[@insignificunt5637]

Genuinely shocked they didn't wear respirators when they were polishing shit

[@jamesphillips2285]

I noticed he finally put a respirator on when trying the grinding wheel.

[@kim98677]

Lmao, I love when Jamie is just as excited as Adam is about just blowing stuff up cuz they can.

[@rickcb82]

I would love to be that up close and personal with the giraffes. 😮

[@FracturedPixel]

Why do I feel like the narrator is standing over my left shoulder

[@jaykay5369]

3:22 "This girl refuses to take Adam's Banana" 💀

[@MassivePonyFan]

People in the comments complaining as if they can redo these on a show that is off the air.

[@The_Butler_Did_It]

I wish I hadn't watched this while eating my dinner.

[@TheAmericanDane]

I ain’t sanding sh*t without a mask 🤢😷

[@Fruitcupper]

I still hear that concrete truck exploding in my dreams. I'll never forget sitting with my family around the TV and watching that truck get deleted. Ah memories....

[@ferez1985]

hate to be that guy, but Adam didn't wash his hands before touching the computer :D 36:17

[@tomhatch870]

Hey guys, awesome!! For me it was the thermite cutting through steel with it was impressive, not that blowing stuff up is awesome too . Love you guys and your team. 😊

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Hey look, its another comment about how *i* wluld have done it better. But anyway, I feel like if they had moved the bike rig first, then dropped it (like the hanging trapeze compaired to swinging) they would have got way better results.

[@AskanHelstroem]

25:00 I want the bike experiment re-done, with a flywheel for the bikes rear wheel... So that peddling only powers the flywheel, and the bike wheel get's it's power via the flywheel. That way the mechanical translation of power can continue, and u still have the flywheel for balance...

[@maxinehardy9411]

i mean, a bikes wheels *are* flywheels, plus using a weird modified bike wouldnt have been congruent with the myth

[@AskanHelstroem]

@@maxinehardy9411 well, but they stop, when u stop... And _not congruent with the myth_ ? U mean like every finishing 'experiment'? going totally nuts, to make a myth work? ;P

[@maxinehardy9411]

@@AskanHelstroem bike wheels stop when they run out of momentum or you apply the brakes. if you pedal them up to speed and stop pedaling, they will still spin. im not sure what youre trying to say.

[@JesperElsberg]

i liked the bang... because it was a "puch" moped that got destroyed🤣👍

[@PuchMaxi]

I noticed that too...

[@temp5782]

F Puch, buy Honda.

[@wildandbarefoot]

Never got over top trumps eh?

[@tezy0193]

they rather should've taken this pos segway mr adderal savage rides around on

[@tristandunn4628]

I thought the issue with the poo polish, was not that you can't polish one, just that it's futile to do so. You're putting a lot of effort into making something worthless/useless look good.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

It is... But you know... SCIENCE™!

[@H2Oredfirefox]

I can't believe there was destroy such a lovely little moped it's such a waste😮😮😮😮😮

[@michaelripley4528]

Yeah and masking the exploting Detcord with gasoline🫣

[@lootsorrow]

During the intro when they said they're testing idioms and showed a bear and some poop, I thought they were gonna test whether or not bears poop in the woods. Finally, answering the important questions.

[@jamesphillips2285]

I think "Do bears shit in the woods?" is usually used as a rhetorical question (implying yes).

[@jerondiovis6128]

Good for them it was about english idioms. In russian they say "to make a candy from sh*t". Imagine "testing" that.

[@bathbomber]

This one slipped by "we just need to polish shit up"

[@markc6714]

Surely you can say turd

[@jamesphillips2285]

11:00 if there was ANYTHING I would want to wear a mask for while sanding... I suppose asbestos is worse due to the potential for long-term damage.

[@OrigMaelstrom]

Love these episodes with the Narrator on the left channel. Easy to turn it off ;)

[@r3stl3sstoo]

i can smell this episode☹

[@basildaoust2821]

Bang no bang, I know this doesn't count. The thermite was cool but it failed so I say I go with the bang.

[@jaymcbakerk]

Is it just me or did the thermite car that wasn’t supposed to go bang went BANG FOOOOM an awful lot

[@slovnicurling9808]

Just you.

[@alsternerd]

"Hit the ground running" is pretty much just the Knight Rider parking in a moving truck from behind thing. Going from moving to stable, pretty much the same thing. The ramp behind the truck takes up the energy the car puts into moving the wheels. The reason is that that car and truck have the same speed, but the tires don't.

[@Quadcoreful]

m0n0 s0unD problemmmmm

[@Floki255]

I hate that.

[@TheTyisawesome]

User error...

[@aurimasb1732]

​@@TheTyisawesomenah 😂

[@TheTyisawesome]

The thermite was way more intresting and the "bang" was rather weak compared to some other MB classics

[@mortenhansen3455]

If you can resist these eyes. You are heartless. 3:54

[@brettwalker2723]

I know the difference between sit and shinola. And THAT is both.

[@Archer690Channel]

5:17 they forgot to censor "we just have to pull this sh*t up"

[@benjaminbotley]

The phoney accent made “polish it up” sound like that. However later on “crap” did slip through

[@3fast5you]

There is just absolutely no way thermite will auto ignite in a cement blender lmao, what are they talking about?

[@FrostMonolith]

Of course the Japanese technique busts the myth of polishing turd.

[@wmg3614]

What if they tested a plane at a stand still, compared to a plane coming in for a landing?

[@giedmich]

Nice episode to watch during my lunch break.

[@jameshorsted5489]

BANG BANG!

[@KeaneMaloney]

Yo your sound levels are way off when you digitized this stuff @Discovery.. please fix, the noises and music are so overblown

[@wolvie90]

Are we not talking about them touching dung with their bare hands for hours all while handling a laptop? That's one stanky touchpad.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

They baked it so it's sterilized.

[@lloydsumpter7735]

Love those FWD burnouts! :)

[@Tinjek17]

27:20 in. I watched it 30 times

[@IIIAnchani]

convert the sound file to mono then convert it back to stereo. this is torture.

[@JonnyvanderHoeven]

Kinda like the narrator being muted

[@Marblestream]

how to turn a moped into a bicycle.🤯

Why oh why can't they say Turd?😮 that's so stupid.

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

And I was surprised that, while they censored the sound, their mouths were uncovered (which they usually do cover in the edit). So it was clear they said ‘turd’, ‘crap’ and ‘shit’.

[@charisanna4914]

Yeah it's weird that turd wasn't allowed, and then Jamie said crap later in the episode and it wasn't censored

[@iofthefox2723]

Craziest 5h1t i've ever seen

[@brianwgDK]

42:00 i just today 2024 heard a youtuber say it is so stable that you can buy it! already mixed and get it shipped in the mail, first thought that is just dumb, second i am not entirely sure he was not joking, but if right it debunks this 🤣😂🤣

[@andersvandegevel8355]

You can polish a turd, you just need to let it age properly first (coprolite)

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

They didn't need to fondle so much crap! They should've just bought an ancient coprolite, it's already done the hard work of turning to stone!

[@BassFlapper]

Not the best episode to eat over...

[@matthewbrummer8691]

In South Africa we use poop to polish our floors. Not all floors, but on our farm our stoep is concrete and we put manure on and with elbow grease those floors are shiny and very waterproof. And the smell goes away in a week.

[@TheStygian]

Haha stoep! I love seeing those Dutch words in our sister language Afrikaans.

[@mocko69]

please just have mono audio, stereo done like this is awful.

[@RandomYorkshireGaming]

I've found that my computer speakers have the option to switch to mono audio in the sound settings. Not entirely sure about how well it works with headphones though.

[@smatt566]

Goat or sheep eating in a not very grassy terrain it will have a lot of dirt in it.

[@tylerwestman5258]

😂😂 no it won’t… they don’t eat dirt… they are fed hay and straw as a substitute

[@smatt566]

@@tylerwestman5258 i have been raised among sheep and cows and have seen and used their manure for smoke and heat. I know what i am talking about.

[@tylerwestman5258]

@@smatt566 🤣🤣 animals don’t eat dirt… you don’t know what you’re talking about, sounds like you were probably raised by a cow

[@trebell885]

25. 3. 2024. Just watching the last episode of mith Buster's. Thanx guy's for the wealth of knowledge . Love you guy's.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

The knowledge you gain from a mythbusters episode is pretty much the same as a polished turd... It's still a turd.

[@p24hrsmith]

Ok so I have a lump of my own 💩 and I'm starting to roll it and 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@cianvorster2745]

This kicks like a mule's balls wrapped in ducktape

[@medianoob9010]

They were faster hitting the ground running though :S

[@henkneijer77]

Oldtimer Moped puch maxi 3-4.000.- euro. ???????

[@abe-danger]

mono again, dammit

[@Kifford]

4:10 CUUUUUUTE

[@brettfleiner4906]

Why is the narrator under my table?

[@WPope]

Damn I started watching this one before the 1080p was even processed. And I was wondering why it's only 480p

[@bennu547]

All cats are 100% carnivores. Not “mostly.” Cats will become incredibly sick if you don’t give them meet. Some problems include blindness, motor functions and heart issues. Anyone who refuses to give their cat meat is an animal abuser and be thrown in jail. And needs to have all their animals taken away. Cats are built to eat meat and nothing else. There may be foods that won’t harm them if given once in a while. But definitely not part of a diet

[@jamesphillips2285]

They are obligate carnivores, but they can still supplement with plant matter.

[@Devil_Inside_LV]

Too much thermite and wrong delivery mechanism. It cuts way better when dripping down on stuff.

[@drazenradosevic7467]

Fine Puch moped destroyed like this... A real shame 😞

[@ottobosser1321]

Oh Shit 😏 😨😨😨 🤣🤣🤣

[@vlad_o_sh]

I always asked myself how they manage to get off those huge Sandworms in Dune ..

[@prof.bizzarro]

This is poop-ular culture indeed!

[@KoalaEater]

They needed to lock it in 1st and pump the tires up

[@Puffycheeks]

4:43 Why is there only one head?

[@sepphuaba2641]

This got to be the video with the most commercials in it I have ever seen on KZbin

[@jesseschoonveld7706]

Adblockers, have you heard of them.

[@Likeapsychotic]

@@jesseschoonveld7706this is a comment nearly as old as KZbin itself.

[@slovnicurling9808]

@@jesseschoonveld7706 Jesus I hate smartasses like you. Yeah we have heard about adblock. We just chose not to use them because we understand that free things aren't actually free and we are not thiefs.

[@erebostd]

I consider KZbin unusable with ads, like the internet itself. Went pro and didn’t look back…

[@dariushajnala5562]

@@Likeapsychotic Are you an idiot?

[@ArnfinnRian]

When you put these up on KZbin, can you please state witch myths you are testing? I live in Norway and entire seasons ran on reruns and repeat episodes, so what season and episode does not help. Please make it easier to find witch myth you are taking on. Thank you, rant over.

[@motelghost477]

There should be a British version of Mythbusters starring Colin Furze.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Hay cool, a new mythbusters. I'll just grab some dessert and watch it.......! Oh great, it's the poop episode. Thank goodness it's vanilla ice cream and not chocolate!!?!

[@charisanna4914]

Weak! You should've gone out and gotten chocolate to test your stomach 💪 😜🤮💩 (I joke)

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

@@charisanna4914 .......! You're a monster!!!?!

[@charisanna4914]

@@MadHax-wt5tl mwahahahaaaa

[@Zukohi]

I have chosen a terrible episode to eat during.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

What I find more fascinating than the polish is that the network has a _list_ of words for feces that are permitted to be spoken on TV. I don't understand why "turd" is more offensive than "poop", though.