Star Wars Myths! | MythBusters | Season 9 Episode 28 | Full Episode

[@Hammermongo]

in rememberance of grant and james earl jones, you both will be sorely missed

[@jsuewrs135]

To right! I had no idea about Grant. Way to young! So sad

[@ZoonCrypticon]

@@jsuewrs135 Jessie as well, unfortunately.

[@michaelripley4528]

Same! ❤️‍🩹 James Earl Jones voice Will live forever! Thanks to AI - Not a fan of AI But un this case… IA…m 😎 AI needs the 3 laws like in iRobot💯 To me Worst voice of like a smackhead??? In KZbin videos🫣🫣🫣 Horrible!!!

[@bovinleephann]

Fuck off with your AI bullshit. Let the man rest in peace.

[@KandiKlover]

@@jsuewrs135 What about Jess tho?

[@FDCPElmo]

I’ve never seen Jamie as happy as when Sophia introduced herself as the princess.

[@aldunlop4622]

That wig was pretty disturbing though!

[@originaldarkwater]

Fun fact: In the novelization of the movie, Luke misses hooking the grapple on anything on his first try and has to pull it back up and try again. But as far as pacing goes, it makes total sense that you'd cut that from the movie. We can always assume that Luke was unconsciously using the Force the way Anakin was pod racing in The Phantom Menace.

[@squidcaps4308]

Luke is not the nice guy you think he is. He used the Force to edit the movie and remove all of those parts. Then he added Jar Jar Binks to the universe. Hashtag nevaforget. I reject your reality and substitute my own.

[@crazyguy32100]

Sweet fragments of Alderaan! I never saw this episode on first viewing or syndication, now here it is.

[@Lorrdd]

It's a shit episode, and show. They never disproved anything, they never used the scientific method. What is the LAST step of the method? Repeat. When have you ever seen them repeat.

[@rahat2345]

Didn't see this one growing up. Thanks MythBusters YT for the upload. Edit: after finishing this episode, this is why I fell in love with the show in the first place. Them being so genuine with their personalities. Plus it made me enjoy Science when I was growing up.

[@Azzameen99AZ]

Something I have to add about Jamie's throw with the grappling hook: He came at it from the front, but that's not what we saw in the movie. Luke tossed it from quite a bit to the side, so he only had to throw over the bar with enough force (no pun intended) for the grappling hook to swing back and hook onto the rope. And that makes it a much easier task.

[@HippoNird]

and he could use the force

[@JeremyVerburg]

@@HippoNird Technically he couldn't. not yet.

[@LemonLicker]

​@@JeremyVerburgtechnically anakin couldn't either but he still did

[@marksaunders3055]

@@JeremyVerburg Still could have been using it subconsciously.

[@alanmichael5619]

I think there's there additional thing that Luke didn't need to get a specific bar - just anything that the hook could latch onto.

[@Blackberry-Stardust]

"Not much just his name: Skywalrus"

[@Marblestream]

this is by far the best episode out there. here in the netherlands mitbusters has not been on the standard tv program discovery for 10 years. it was worth the wait. 😆

[@josefu_velen]

Luke unknowingly was using the Force to help him make the grappling hook throw.

[@Vor-n1o]

Yesss! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

I'm an actor. Luke had professional stunt performers either double for him and the princess, or set up the whole thing for them.

[@robo3007]

"Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it." - The Simpsons

[@Cancun771]

God that was a good show. We need them now more than ever in the BS age of "alternative facts."

[@DrakeAurum]

The ewoks' two-log system was effective and visually pleasing, but it seems like they'd have been just as well-off with a single log to knock the walker over. I don't think those things have much of a srimech.

[@Star_Jewel_Realm]

Love the opening. Even after all these years. They are still fun to watch. 😆😆 May the 4th be with you.

[@pinnsvein]

I thought the inside of a tauntaun was lukewarm…

[@SusanPearce_H]

Groan....

[@adam346]

BOO THIS MAN!!!

[@Faltooactor]

😅😅😂😂

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

dad jokes are strong with this one...

[@powderslinger5968]

Ooofff! That hurt.

[@shyamlynn243]

As a kid R2-D2 was my favorite robot from the series. Kari has made me see R2 in a different light. This MythBusters episode is epic imo

[@JC130676]

That's DEFINITELY the droid I'm looking for.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

This MythBusters episode alone is better than the Sequel Trilogy.

[@CalciumChief]

Low bar.

[@jerryfox143]

low bar

[@kwichzwellbreck697]

Including the prequel ^^ (except Darth Maul)

[@PeGeProd]

Not even the Mythbusters comment section is free from these braindead troll takes, smh

[@288theabe]

My bowel movement is better than the sequel trilogy

[@greedokenobi3855]

Only Imperial Mythbusters are so precise.

[@Lorrdd]

lmao, and that line made no sense considering how Stormtroopers were pretty lame. Their aim was average. Whereas the mythbusters were horrifically inaccurate as they NEVER once followed the last step of the scientific method. Repeat. The repeat never ends. It's quite literally on an infinite loop until enough data point are gathered, which requires thousands of repeats. You want precision? What purpose was Luke's hook designed for? Exactly what he used it for, it was the ascension cable out of an E-11 Blaster. What's the gravity on Endor? Was an AT-ST designed to take what an armoured humvee can? They don't factor the first one, and the second one is a direct contradiciton, as the humvee is built to withstand RPGs, whereas the AT-ST is not, so they used a MORE armoured vehicle. Much precision. Do you know the internal temperature of a tauntaun, or how quickly an advanced survival tent could go up in that Galaxy, or how hard Luke was drawing on the Force in the moment? No, no, and no. We know tauntauns run hotter than us, and we know they're adapted to cold climates. It was only due to the fact they were out in a storm that made it too cold for the tauntaun. We know their tech is better than ours, and we can presume it goes up faster. And we know Luke was unconscious but reaching out to Obi-Wan, which means he was reaching out in the Force, which provides natural protection and healing.

[@Pecet0wiec]

It is insane that probably Lucas himself let them use Star Wars music in this episode.

[@markedis5902]

Or they paid to license it

[@theghostintheruins]

I’d say Star Wars paid them for this episode as advertising for a new film

[@Pecet0wiec]

​@@theghostintheruins Nope, Mythbusters never sold out. Adam said it on his channel.

[@theghostintheruins]

I’m not an expert on mythbusters but one I watched recently was basically an entire episode advertising Doom 3. So it wouldn’t surprise me.

[@MrBattlehunter]

@@Pecet0wiec they did have some short car advertisements where kari talks about how green it is and then tori or grant is like "no way!" and then they promote the car even more though i dont remember which episodes that was but it was very obvious who sponsored the episode

[@leatherman6328]

27:09 “Monsters are such interesting people “ a quote from Bugs Bunny while he acts as a manicurist with a big red monster.

[@somerandomgamer8504]

Was that the Spaceballs helmet at the beginning??

[@Sir.SpeedWagon]

Indeed it was. :D

[@scbtripwire]

5:03 I love how Princess Leia here has a big ol' mustache!

[@The_Butler_Did_It]

I can't help thinking that Jamie is considerably heavier than Mark Hamill was at the time, probably as much as Hamill and Carrie Fisher put together.

[@photonwerewolf9740]

5:04 the artist was having fun with that one lol

[@jomirife]

this is one of the best episodes!!!

[@tedted6029]

looks like old luke with the beard growing... hahaha pretty spot on lols

[@thewolfchild]

@37:31Adam: "Oh, I've had mornings like this..." 😅

[@unclequack5445]

They should have scaled down the log build that was a lot of work. You know Adam Savage is loving this cosplay stuff.

[@leoa4c]

I would like to thank the BBC for airing these episodes.

[@pontusandersen2823]

Wow great video! I think you are gonna make it big one day if u guys keep it up! ❤😍

[@HalNordmann]

For the tauntaun, I think they should've continued the test for a while longer, just out of curiosity

[@DrakeAurum]

Given all the trouble they were having with that shoot, I doubt they wanted to continue it one second longer than necessary.

[@timecircuits88]

I finally watched A Town Called Eureka all the way through, to have an emotional moment as Grant pops up in the final season. ❤

[@fanitram]

35:40 you could actually go to Hoth, it's Norway, and I live there

[@monmothma3358]

Finse ftw! 🎉 Jeg er også norsk

[@PeGeProd]

That's what makes the original movies so much better than the prequels: all that stuff that the heroes did is somewhat plausible. You don't need Jedi superhuman powers like in the prequels to pull off their greatest stunts. Just determination and good luck.

[@Zathaghil]

Big issue with the Hoth experiment. The hoses with blood and whatnot were NOT insulated and snaked across a very cold room into an even cooler box... Guess if that changes the liquid temperature?

[@thecatalyst78]

Came to say the same, absolutely it does. That's the reason so many pipes and tubes are wrapped with insulation in real world applications.

[@adam346]

they didn't round the front of the logs... it would have imparted more impact to a smaller location possibly causing more damage.

[@MolnarG007]

Yeah i have just noticed that the movie version had rounded half sphere ends, that makes them even deadlier. But even without that these smack hard, so was enough.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Really amazing to see that cameo by Oliver Reed in this episode.

[@SoloPilot6]

When Jamie is throwing the hook close to target, is that Luke warm . . ? 10:00 -- Is that BustHer?

[@connorgraham6063]

That was the helmet from spaceballs how did they get that

[@harryfyhr4010]

It's a replica.

[@killburndeluxe]

Adam is also a nerd collector/maker who either buys props or builds it himself

[@suicidalbanananana]

Adam was an enthusiastic movie prop collector & maker even back then, its 50/50 if it was his own recreation or the real thing.

[@jimdraven2432]

I'm guessing they had like 6 of them in the back alongside an entire warehouse of science fiction/fantasy props they've all been collecting for years lol

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

They could have made it, just like Jamie made the grappling hook 🪝🙂

[@markedis5902]

Damn Kari looks good in an R2 dress

[@VistasSrinagarun]

She only did that for the fans

[@LaraCroftCP]

Damn, found again a dress i want

[@derrickstorm6976]

​@@VistasSrinagarun obviously

[@aldunlop4622]

Artoo never looked so good! I had a bit of a crush Kari, gotta admit. Cute, smart, nerdy, yummy.

[@mark703]

So called Leia had her own harness on, jamie didnt carry her across.

[@broccolee6035]

Luke is probably quite a bit stronger than Jamie, who is of age. Therefore Luke could probably carry Leia, while Jamie can't

[@pedronalesso1464]

Made 10 years ago, still awesome!

[@mikekersten7692]

Seeing how challenging it is to set-up these stunts today makes the original films even more impressive. Wow!

[@mrwog82]

31:51 Now THAT'S the droid I'm looking for!

[@phandomyahoo]

28:22 I like that there is splatter on the camera (bottom right). They really gutted it!

[@SajidAbubakarDomingo]

Ambuh kalasahan ku ❤ i love mythbusters

[@lucyabduhalim6445]

❤❤❤ ayahku kalasahan

[@lucyabduhalim6445]

@@SajidAbubakarDomingo I love u too muaaah

[@SajidAbubakarDomingo]

@@lucyabduhalim6445 ayiiiee 🤭❤️❤️🥹

[@lucyabduhalim6445]

@@SajidAbubakarDomingototoo ayah maka learn kita sin techniques

[@GorianDray]

aaahw, Christmas came early. I've never seen this one on TV. THX!

[@CP-28]

Very elaborate and much effort setup

[@Abudzin]

Best episode of Master Chef so far

[@Marriagison]

Pretty sure with regards to hoths temp they say in the movie it's below 30 out there, or am i misremembering? Also Han Solo had a shelter in his survival kit he didn't have to make a snow shelter. Also the body within the tauntaun would be generating it's own heat, did they account for this? I'm honestly amazed how many plausible results were achieved here. Great episode guys 😊👍

[@1D991]

Literally just finally started Jedi Survivor. Perfect timing

[@lanzhimself]

Heh I can't believe they convinced Jamie to put on a costume.

[@thedangerzone9399]

RIP Grant, never forgotten.

[@Teiscream]

This episode feels like an excuse for Adam to show of his immaculate costumes

I remember watching this in TV almost 10 years ago

[@alphatenproductions]

Remember, they're in space! The Death Star chasm had an updraft? Lol😅. Great episode! RIP Grant.

[@theaikidoka]

An updraft or downdraft would be from temperature differences in the air in different parts of the Death Star, not from air coming from outside the station. It happens everywhere, even in a car, so it's perfectly reasonable in an industrial setting.

[@Excanda]

About Luke and throwing the grappling hook. They are going at it like Luke wasn't sorta trained in the use of a hook. He totally was. He is 18 at the time and in the movie he says he often hangs out with Biggs and trains for the Empire Academy shooting and other stuff. So it is highly plausible Luke had already experience throwing the hook. With the swinging logs it was also that the Ewok logs were not flat like they tested it with, but slightly pointed adding to the penetrating power.

[@thomasmikalishen6515]

The way Jamie swung the lightsaber in the opening, I had doubts he was a Star Wars fan...

[@thomasmikalishen6515]

The grappling hook throw is only "plausible but unlikely"? Luke was the son of Anakin 'The Chosen One' Skywalker - he had the Force on his side, even when he didn't know it.

[@Satsujinki1973]

With the log crusher, the uneven weight on the left side log causes it to drop and bounce when it is released and it kind of creates a natural braking effect slowing it down.

[@yotu9670]

Love the intro 😂😂

[@Sirfinchyyy]

A rock climbing harness would fit the situation fairly well and its not overly uncomfortable when you're suspended in it.

[@cherrystarscollide]

my fav star wars master chef episode is the xmas special

[@fromchomleystreet]

Why the pretense that Sophia didn’t have her own harness? She clearly does.

[@stokermeister3]

That’s right nerf herder 😁🤣 may the force be with you obi one day 😁👍

[@ScarysReviews]

well, the Batman utility belt states it's a TOY and not for real use. but, 1 of many best things about Mythbusters, they make em to be used.

[@whitefangoftheleaf9744]

Adam definitely chose this to flex his costumes 😂

[@gordonbrinkmann]

I'm wondering how they do their calculations... the logs smashing the AT-ST in the movie were definitely not 10 feet long and 5 feet in diameter. Even if one of those dimensions were correct, that is a length to diameter ratio of 2:1, and the logs in the movie are either significantly longer or they are thinner.

[@ThreadBomb]

Yeah, as soon as they said it I knew it was wrong. I don't know how they didn't spot the problem.

[@RhettegettBorshow]

Yeah but it seems that in the movie the logs are swinging from farther away, so maybe they decided to use thicker ones for their rig so they could have a similar amount of kinetic energy with a shorter distance to keep the size and cost reasonable

[@DrakeAurum]

Also, the Ewoks' logs had somewhat-sharpened ends, which would have concentrated the force of impact on a smaller area, making them even more effective.

[@gordonbrinkmann]

@@RhettegettBorshow If they decided on that, this would have been an explanation. But they say the logs in the movie are 10 by 5 feet, which is definitely wrong.

[@gordonbrinkmann]

@@DrakeAurum Yes, I thought of that as well... although I'm not sure this was meant to be deliberately sharpened ends or if they just should look as if they were cut with some more rudimentary tool like an axe or something (I think they look a bit as if a beaver helped them 😆). But no matter what the reason is, surely that would focus the force of impact.

[@JonFoxx]

Jamie with hair, that cracked me up

[@chrism7395]

The Tauntaun may be inspired by a myth of Childe The Hunter from Dartmoor, UK. Childe was a local landowner in the middle ages who loved hunting on horseback and so he went hunting on his own in the middle of winter (a grade A* stupid idea); his horse got injured and Childe ended up lost in the middle of a snowstorm on the moor. In the hopes of surviving long enough to be rescued, he cut open his horse and climbed inside to stay warm. Unfortunately for Childe, the snowstorm lasted several days and so he died of exposure. As he had no children, he'd left a clause in his will that would bequeath his extensive lands to whomever buried his body. This covenant sparked a race between the townspeople of Tavistock to the west and the monks of Plympton Priory to the east. Not knowing that area of Dartmoor very well, the townspeople thought the only way the monks could reach the body was via an ancient clapper bridge, so they set up an ambush for them. The monks, having made numerous pilgrimages across the moor, were tipped off and snuck past the ambush using a fordable area upstream. This allowed them to recover the body and claim Childe's land for Plympton.

[@THE-R-A-V-E-N]

It's the will of the force guiding the unlikely. All doubts covered 100%

[@Lightning-p4l]

15:33, Not to mention the fact that the logs were also sharpened and that the trees on Endor are really strong.

[@sl3102]

Star Wars + Kari Byron? Backflips my inner nerd is doing.

[@SethiozProject]

that long swing setup was all wrong btw, they didn't even talk about the fact that logs in a movie are swinging from much higher distance, which means logs will be travelling at much higher speeds! but they still proved that even at slow speeds those logs would be devastating

[@countys32]

Sophia "can we do it again" now that's my kind of woman.

[@syamsuladdenno6715]

kari in r2d2 dress do something to me back then and now

[@jesthomgo1908]

mood

[@plysmeister]

Gotta love the Walrus in a "Bieber" wig XD

[@krokodil191]

Jesus, in this episode both Sophia and Kari looks incredible handsome.

[@DeCode343]

It's mind numbing how much Jamie in costume looks like Like in the sequels 😂

[@PeekTravelTeam]

12:22 tbh he looks like mark hamill

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Of course one thing Jamie kinda misquoted, he asks Adam if he should use the force, for small reminder, Luke never uses the force at any time in the Death Star, mostly due to his, as Ben points out, “first step into understanding the force” , so even for him it was all strictly manual

[@draconis3606]

The hook experiment proved: The force was definetly with Luke.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

3:34 There's no way that Stormtroopers are supposed to be 5' 6". 😤 Mark Hamill is taller than that. And Harrison Ford fit nicely into the armour, and he's 6' 1". A quick google search suggested that stormtroopers were usually about 5' 11".

[@Wintermute909]

I kinda wish they would explain why the damage from the swinging logs didn't look anything like their examples of what 1 million joules does.

[@user-ix7iu4wf8o]

i am sure the top of the list of legendary weapon most people would want one is none other than the lightsaber !! it's such simplicity yet functional oh and also so myth-tical !

[@elliotreid7401]

Alright, that was awesome.

[@Druguaer12345]

Jamie as Luke Skywalker is one of the saddest things I've ever seen 😂

[@br.m]

He probably didn't need to take Leia with him, he alone looks about twice as heavy as young Luke was.

[@MarkSkanes]

Should have been Adam

[@PhilDrury]

"I can't breathe in this thing!"

[@hawkeyepierce67]

Of course this chasm swing works! Wanna know why? 'cause right before the swing, Luke had himself a nice and ice cold... CERVEZA CRYSTAL :)! Just couldn't resist, my appologies :D.

[@lauraeyre9780]

Star Wars and mythbusters??? What’s not to like!! 😁

[@oneMeVz]

You know, in the Tauntaun experiment, they assumed a freshly dead Tauntaun would be it's regulated body temperature. However, the Tauntaun froze to death, so the body should've been at the temperature cold enough to kill it.

[@broccolee6035]

When someone or something freezes to death it doesn't mean that their insides are cold, lots of times its actually the exact opposite

[@aldunlop4622]

I thought the whole idea of the Tauntaun was that Han removed the guts so Luke could go inside to use the beast's thermal properties, like it's fat and fur, not to use the guts to warm him. The idea was to stop the wind chill and Luke's body would actually the warmth. Basically, using the animal as a blanket.

[@LiliaArmoury]

finally i can actually share this with people in warhammer spaces when they think that a guard sentinel would survive taking a meter wide log to it's cockpit. a dreadnaught i might be able to believe but not the walking tin cans that are sentinels

[@losarpettystrakos7687]

This is not surprising that the tautaun guts method is working. This is what Arctic indigenous people actually have done, when someone had extreme hypothermia.

[@dwayneslifecoachingexperience]

Damn, I miss this show.

[@MakotoAtava]

Luke wasn't the hole night in the Taun taun, only so long Han needs to build up the emergency tent.

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

No Sofia Keri in a Slave Leia suit?? Worst disapointment in my life!

[@ronlaverdiere]

The grappling hook throw - 1) Luke did have the force, even if it was rudimentary it still did help and 2) nobody said he actually hit his target with the hook - he happened to hit something and that is all that mattered. For the Taun Taun- Luke’s body temperature was LOWER to start since he was already close to hypothermia when Han found him. Luke also only needed to be in the Taun Taun briefly, since Han quickly built an emergency shelter where they were found the next morning.

[@Logetastic]

For the swing, Luke & Leia are 19 and both hanging on. Jamie is mid-40s, though Sophia was a little older than 20.

[@RaymondLiu-u3w]

Hall of Fame episode, right up there with the ballistic rounds into the swimming pool.

[@awegahn]

I hope they insulated the cables with fluid going out and in, otherwise that would work as an effective coolant to the incapacitated "Luke".

[@birddog117]

12:20 Wouls have been funnier if he had walked in dressed as Luke, but still wearing the beret.