The "Pointless" Myth That Most Perfectly Defined MythBusters

[@tested]

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[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

Now that's a question. If you could go back to any point while making Mythbusters and safely interact with you past self, without destroying the space time fabric of the universe 😂 And bring you and Jamie information or a tool of modern day related to a myth what would it be? Besides but bitcoin 😉

[@Zeaiclies]

To be clear the band was told that their future in music would go as well as, if the Hindenburg was made of Lead. The Hindenburg was made by Zeppelin and ahh ha moment "a lead balloon" 😂❤. " That's it lads, we're Led Zeppelin"!

[@kevinhurley6919]

It needs to come back!!!

[@Zeaiclies]

@kevinhurley6919 Mythbusters 2.0 Come on Discovery channel

[@maighstir3003]

Only nine years ago? Feels like it was a lot longer.

[@Coastfog]

Sometimes, when people talk about their old shows, it feels like they're just trying to stay relevant. When Adam does it, I feel privileged to learn more about one of the greatest shows in TV history and the brilliant minds that made it happen. Thank you, Adam!

[@tested]

We appreciate this because we do receive comments telling Adam to get over himself and MythBusters, when he’s just answering viewer questions and finding some joy in looking back on that time of his life. Really, thank you.

[@underdweller]

I'm seconding this -- I've been watching tested for about a decade now and never tire of Adam's Mythbusters stories (or other personal stories, for that matter). he has such a wide and rich array of life experiences that he's never left without something interesting to say.

[@Coastfog]

@tested how can one look at that genuine passion, listen to interesting bts stories and think "get over yourself"...? 🤷 Kinda sad to imagine that mindset. MythBusters is one of the reasons I worked in science communication for a long time. I, for one, will never get tired of it.

[@lucaspatenaude7319]

It's the best director's cut/behind the scenes we could ever hope for! Even if it's years later, thank you!

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

​​Yes!! 🍺🥹 Also: *definitely* ignore those comments, ​​@@tested

[@HKlink]

I adore the thought of you telling an executive "this'll go down like a lead balloon" and them being excited for it to be a success.

[@SimuLord]

That whole idiom needs a re-evaluation the same way "bull in a china shop" got rendered obsolete by the M7 team.

[@Wythaneye]

Oddly, the thing I remember most about the lead balloon episode was Adam's amazing skill at folding the lead sheet. It had to unfold in exactly the right way or it would become tangled or torn, and somehow Adam intuitively knew how to fold it so it would just expand. The final product looked nearly flawless, almost like a flower blooming. I don't know HOW you figured that out, Adam, but very well done.

[@tiladx]

If I recall correctly, Adam spent hours folding squares of paper, possibly origami paper, before finding a way to have the balloon "unfold" properly while filling. This was shown in the episode.

[@alexcrouse]

Lead Balloon was absolutely a masterpiece of engineering, but Cement Truck was the single best noise in history. "I swear i parked it RIGHT HERE" will never leave my mind.

[@GregoryGlessnerViolin]

Single best explosion ever!

[@GoldenPerception]

I watched this episode recently, and the part that sticks with me is how genuinely impressed Jamie was when Adam’s construction method worked flawlessly. It’s one of his more effusive moments of approval (which of course, being Jamie, would seem completely mild and offhanded from anyone else) on the show, and it made me smile to see both him and Adam clearly so thrilled with the result.

[@mattturner6017]

Maybe making the lead balloon didn't "accomplish" anything in the grand scheme of things, but that project did do two important things. First, it visually demonstrated a concept in physics that anybody can understand. Yes, although lead is very dense, it is still possible to make it float if you can get the proper ratio of surface area to lighter-than-air gas. The episode made lead float, but demonstrated scientifically why anything floats. Second, the episode demonstrated your mastery of both theory and practice. Yes, the practice part had some help from outside manufacturers, but it was your team that took the idea seriously, correctly identified the principles that would make it work, and then actually made a working model. In short, you all were flexing your brains in front of everyone.

[@Veritas-invenitur]

Oh, but it did accomplish something far greater than anyone could have hoped. It ended the common use of lead balloon.

[@mikefochtman7164]

I still remember the shock and surprise of everyone when you pulled the 'string' to uncover a mouse right in front of an elephant and the elephant's reaction. I mean, in the overall meaning of the universe, why care about an elephant (the largest land animal) being 'afraid' and backing away from a mouse.!?!?! Seems those bugs-bunny cartoons were right afterall. lol

[@RHCole]

Yeah, that was genuinely so surprising.

[@ricksgamemisc10]

I literally came down here to post about that episode - and moment - exactly. I watched it 'live' back in the day and I *still* remember my own shock at seeing that, and my jaw dropping open.

[@gmm5550]

Elephants are very intelligent, they know they are big and stepping on smaller animals are not their thing. Logical. Seen elephants react same over a small Kitten in Thailand.

[@mikefochtman7164]

@@gmm5550 Yes, and your kitten information is interesting. But it was always a trope of children's cartoons here in the US that a huge creature like the elephant being 'afraid' of a teeny, tiny mouse and kids would laugh and laugh at the juxtaposition of that.

[@UndeadFleshgod]

IIRC Adam pointed out in a Q&A episode, some girl wrote to them saying the mouse they brought was not local to the area the elephant was in. It's possible the different color of it threw it off since it was like a new creature

[@dmillz5501]

Im so glad you’re doing this channel. Mythbusters inspired so many kids and teens to develop a love for science and engineering. Myself included in that.

[@tested]

Thank you for the kind comment - we will pass on to Adam!

[@justinahole336]

I got my kid (and myself) a 3D printer a few years ago. I am green with envy at the things he can do that I only dreamed of at his age with that thing. Getting him that printer and introducing him to a proper CAD package are a couple of the best things I've been able to do as a parent. He's really run with it. Very fun to watch (and, live vicariously, if I'm being candid).

[@thecloneguyz]

MAKE A 'STABILA' LEVEL 'ENDCAP' SO WE CAN PUT ANY 2 'STABILA' LEVELS TOGETHER!? Can't believe Noone has done this yet!? They are made with such Precision I don't understand why you can't make a double-sided one

Dont forget the lathe & bridgeport.

[@gyvren]

Adam, Mythbusters is my happy place. I’ll have you know that I marathon your program while I’m doing anything around the house. It’s the absolute best background noise. 😉

[@tested]

That’s lovely - thank you. We will pass along to Adam.

[@CrassSpektakel]

Fun fact, the thin lead foil came from Germany if I remember right. After the show was broadcasted a buddy working for the same company came with a slightly different foil, even thinner and lighter, made from a composite material but still 90% lead. We were able to build and build a couple of lead air balloons the size of normal toy balloons. They later sold it to space companies for deep space probes to protect electronics.

[@photografiq_presents]

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[@gradientLX701]

@@photografiq_presents Assuming that it takes about 1 minute to write a comment of that length, somewhere around 0.0000019013 years

[@TonyTylerDraws]

One of my favorite myths was the soccer ball shooting backwards. The physics was all there. There was no “myth” to bust. But seeing something IRL versus a series of math equations was very satisfying

[@PinochleIsALie]

I can't imagine how many high school classrooms have shown that clip to demonstrate the equations

[@TonyTylerDraws]

@@PinochleIsALiethere’s also a Redbull video of all things that shows relative speed. It has a BMXer on a train pedaling the opposite direction on a course mounted on the top of the train. From his POV it looks like he’s going forward but from a stationary view he’s standing still

[@billbucktube]

This is THE show that illustrates my youth. A friend wanted to make small rockets (think bottle rockets) and I found a homemade small rocket fuel. I made a six foot tall Jacob’s Ladder. I modified with a huge capacitor bank. It obliterated AM radio reception for a mile around my house. Hearing these stories about the show lets me enjoy it so much more. I relish looking up and rewatching episodes mentioned on here. Keep it going‼️

[@wendysparkman1580]

As a longtime Alaskan resident, I really enjoyed the episode where the effects of hitting a moose with a vehicle were explored as this is a very real & constant hazard throughout the state. I have only had that misfortune once & was lucky enough that the moose that darted out right in front of me was yearling, so lacked the bulk cause the normal total destruction of the front end of a vehicle in the size range of mine. While the hood & driver’s door were badly dented, I could get the door open & my vehicle still ran. I also managed to turn just enough to make it a sideswipe instead of head on. The young moose bounced off & was stunned for a moment but was able to get to his feet & run off (his lack of bulk helped him as well).

[@austinwagner3231]

Adam's description of a whip as a waveform modifying machine has meaningfully changed my life

[@danorviel]

While I wasn't a kid during Mythbusters' run, it is definitely a happy place for me. I suscribed to a streaming service (Discovery+) so that i could watch whenever I want to do so. I am disabled and the show brings me so much joy. Please thank Mr. Savage for his passion and for bringing happiness to people.

[@draven999]

Lead Balloon Cement Truck: What a litmus scale.

[@cooljammer00]

As somebody who didn't care for many of the Cement Truck style myths and how the show seemed to lean harder into random explosions for the sake of them in later seasons, this spectrum works for me.

[@woodfur00]

I've always considered Lead Balloon a perfect episode to introduce someone to MythBusters with. With Surfing with Dynamite as the B story, it's the perfect showcase of both the elements of an average episode and the breathtaking feats that come out of it at its best.

[@sebastiendaigle7214]

Just found this channel and I missed Adam since the show got canceled, it's nice to see him

[@tested]

Oh, lovely! Welcome!

[@Dragonited]

As far as I remember Mythbuster did not get cancelled but they decided to end it because they wanted to end when they were still at the peak but saw that the show had already begunn to loose it's audience since they had harder and harder to find new cool myths to test.

[@alex_and_er_g]

I'll suggest my theory for why (a) I found Lead Balloon to be such a top-tier stand-out wonder for a lifelong fan like me, and (b) why I think Adam feels/appreciates/knows this too. This was the first time I'd seen such an 'utterly impossible' task on this scale converted into such a perfect technical solution. One constructed in concept, then 'unfolded' (heh) on paper, then taken all the way from a fabulous theory to a full-scale success. That type of narrative isn't feasible in even the most optimistic superhero movies! But in this case it was all so adorably real.

[@markjames8603]

I attended a comic con in London in 2008, i cosplayed as Batman ( ive got shorts featuring my home-spun efforts on my channel) and there was a guy dressed in a great Indiana Jones costume, and at Earl's Court the cosplay area neighbours the vip area, and stars mingling through was common place, Tom Savini spotted the Indy guy in the crowd asking if he was carrying a real bull-whip, the Indy guy didn't know, Tom asked if he could see if it was a genuine article, so clearing a space he proceeds to wind the whip,doing all sorts of tricks with it to the crowd of cosplayers and the confirms to the Indy guy "yes its a real bull-whip"🤩

[@SiejeCraft]

3D printers are cool and interesting and all, but I for one am glad they were not a bigger part of the production of the show. I loved all the elements of Mythbusters, but my favorite part was the hands-on, on-screen building done on the spot by fun, talented engineers/makers. So any extra little bracket or do-dad or whatever that needed to be made in the moment was my bonus reel content! Maybe making better to-scale detail elements for small-scale tests would have been valuable and non-disruptive to the show's ambience, but even then I seem to remember at least one time that the awkward size to weight ratio of repurposed action figure prototypes figured into the development of the build and thus the story arc. Serendipity led to ingenuity, and on-demand bespoke manufacturing would have, in my opinion, undermined that to some degree and changed the flavor of the show. I've said his before, but lead balloon, by the way, was one of my very favorite episodes! That unfolding origami box was a spectacular piece of engineering and performance art! So well done!

[@erincarter1469]

Thank you Adam for telling us more about the background of the show, interactions with coworkers, and taking me back to a great show.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

We binged the entire show seasons a couple of years ago. It maybe time to do that again. 😉

[@jakemathis]

I don’t think Adam really understands how grandiose his reach is/was. What a beautiful example of what humans should be

[@jessemckeown5628]

OK, the deal with the "Watched Pot Never Boils" is that iron pots are heavy, a manageable fire usually isn't as hot as modern stove-tops, and glass pot covers are relatively newfangled. You don't want to "watch" the pot (i.e., *keep* the lid off to see if it's boiling yet) because even though it may reach boiling eventually, you have to get supper cooked before everyone falls asleep. So you keep the lid on, and *listen* to it instead, while you chop the cabbage and onions.

[@dielaughing73]

Oh. I totally thought it was just a weird superstition or a metaphor for not obsessing over things.

[@michaelbobic7135]

I think the most interesting thing about this episode was that Jamie was so impressed with Adam and his ability to create the origami structure to make the balloon work.

[@isabellebettin1652]

There is a kind, humorous tone to these videos. It's delightful to hear Adam go over these stories and it's crazy that he's still educating us today :)

[@MarkCMG]

Thanks for the video! Loved MythBusters and your KZbin channel, too!

[@merkuloid]

Still my favorite myth, and one that I knew was true but y'all helped me wrap my head around it, was an airplane taking off on a treadmill. They way you explained it made so much sense.

[@Intabih]

So did lead ballon and cement truck turn into their own idioms within the Mythbusters vernacular? XD

[@DuaineM]

I recall being in a confined space in an indoor beer garden in Garmisch-Partenkirchen watching their entertainment while partaking of the local beer. It was a variety show of music, magic and comedy. My German wasn’t very good so I missed the meaning of an introduction. Suddenly, a demonstration of enhanced whipmanship started with a gentleman and family. They did a bit with the German band playing Bavarian music with the family providing percussion with whip cracks. It was amazing! I saw people in the front tables keeping their heads low.

[@AG-ur1lj]

My wife and I just rewatched the last season-before deciding to circle around and watch the whole show (different streaming services.) Adam and Jamie will always be legends.

[@nathano176]

“more like lead balloon than cement truck” - We now have a new scale for measuring/defining things on the Adam scale 🙂❤

[@carsonmcdonnell1536]

In elementary school I was really into origami so I remember when I saw the lead balloon episode I was amazed by how this giant balloon unfolded into a cube. Needless to say I immediately needed to make a paper version myself to play with. And of course show off to my parents that this is how you can make a lead balloon lol

[@xenaretos]

Hm. My favorite "linguistic" myth was "you can't polish a turd" which you were forced to never say on TV. But I guess that's because, as a software engineer by trade and a theoretical physicist by education, I'm more triggered by the metaphysical, and that just tickled me in a "ridiculous but surprisingly impressive" way.

[@gomjabbar6246]

I thought you were going to say that your profession as a software engineer is to polish metaphorical turds

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

@@gomjabbar6246 I thought this too.

[@AaronSmith-kr5yf]

1:53, "A watched pot never boils" Glad they didn't test that one, Mr Data had already done that myth a few years earlier. Anytime I'm making tea I think of that scene.

[@Outsideville]

When my wife asks me to give her an explanation for something dumb I've done, the only logical response is "lead balloon."

[@katt-the-pig]

Wow, Mythbusters aired before 3D printers were commonplace. It's like from a whole other era!

[@Zerbey]

Lead balloon was immediate first thought too, I knew you were gonna say it before you even did. Break Step Bridge is another one that perfectly encapsulates what the show is about and also Talking to Plants (which I still do!).

[@Sayrden]

It's interesting to hear Adam describe why he likes Lead Balloon so much. The episode I would've picked as quintessential Mythbusters is Water Heater Rocket, and for very different reasons. Water Heater Rocket sounds absolutely impossible at first. However, many of us have seen a water heater and have a basic understanding of what they do. The Mythbusters then go through some fairly simple steps to show how the safeties on a water heater can fail - rare, but totally believable. After that, we get to see the amazing event happen, both directly and inside a house. Finally, they close with a couple of reports of this actually happening. As weird as it sounds, Myth: Confirmed.

[@PetrolJunkie]

Sometimes you learn amazing things from doing things that seem pointless to do. Then it’s no longer pointless. That’s why you do everything like it’s the most important thing you’ll ever do.

[@kurtlindner]

3d printing while Mythbusters was in production would've meant selling your' first born and an eye to have someone do it for you, or building a RepRap machine, or _maybe_ the Anet a8 was around near the end of production, but that couldn't really produce functional parts -and likely would've burned Jamie's shop down. *Edit, I forgot, Makerbot was available by 2009.

[@smittyvanjagermanjenson182]

I've been watching Mythbusters episodes recently and I'm so glad I'm hearing thoughts on 3D printers since I had the same question!

[@zackmarkham4240]

3D printers would have TOTALLY made small-scales way more convenient for you and less hectic for the viewers, 100%. BUT! The show would have lost a ton of charm. It was SO FUN to watch you guys build small scale, find solutions for sizing issues, and let your personal build style show through even in the small scales.

[@jeremygirouard9680]

I love the idea of taking a pointless exercise and learning things from it

[@johnathansaegal3156]

Adam... when you said, "Yet" in regard to time machines I was both thrilled at the possibility of you having access to a time machine and then simultaneously scared. You might not try to make an animatronic dinosaur to run a myth on, you might go get one!

[@kylaina]

My favorite episode was cement truck but lead balloon is definitely in the top 10.

[@j3i2i2yl7]

The unexpected results were my favorites: Elephant and mouse and bull in a chinashop.

[@russellstyles5381]

I liked lead balloon as well. Really good work designing it, far harder than it would seem.

[@AlexBourque-zj1ny]

Lead balloon is one of my favorite episodes. Just a fun myth, fun design and execution.

[@hububa]

We don't have a time machine...Yet! I love it

[@chrisblake4198]

You may say lead balloon wasn't anything close to practical or have a real world application, but I'd be willing to bet the thinking and engineering you used to get that thing to unfold and inflate was inspiration for folks at NASA and JPL and other places when it came to parachutes for Mars landers or the heat shields for JWST and the like.

[@mattcraig4601]

Lead Balloon was such a great episode - great problem solving

[@lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561]

Lead Ballon = Led Zeppelin Band members were told the group would go over like a ... Sometimes trying to discover something, other discoveries are found on the way, like the Microwave Oven.

[@VoidKami]

Lead balloon is one of my favorites, and probably my favorite episode without explosions or any real destruction.

[@marklackman1864]

I remember the lead Ballon being on of the first shows I watched and when I saw it I was hooked on the show

[@russellstyles5381]

Gives an entirely new twist to "It'll go over like lead balloon". The missing "a" reverses it totally.

[@RabidWombatz]

I think the mobile phone at fuel bowser one, because it was about a “rule” that service stations brought in based on a false premise. But it would be hard to disprove mathematically. Practically, it disproved the reason for the rule.

[@cynicalrabbit915]

Bull Whips My neighbor who was a year younger than me. In the 5th grade he would stand out in his back yard and crack a 20 foot bull whip. A 10 year old boy had been playing with whips for years. It sounded like a gun going off. At.10 he was stronger than any 2 or 3 other boys. He was also a very gentle person.

[@notice_fpv]

I hope that, should a time machine ever be invented, Myth Busters remains unchanged.

[@kryczech]

I think it's amusing and somewhat appropriate that "Lead Balloon" is somewhat of your albatross.

[@BastrdGod]

Every time you roll the subscription blurb and you say "the tested family" it reminds me of that boss that buys pizza instead of giving a raise and calls work "family".

[@TheDementation]

Underwater car escape defines it. The episode even saved lives.

[@imacmill]

I'm watching this while designing and 3D-printing my own shower curtain hooks that only require two hands to operate, unlike the three-hands-needed ones that came with the curtain rod. And I'm using tiny magnets, because, well, magnets.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Strong magnets make the world a better place. 😂😂 We have had a fascination with neodymium magnets since my husband started dismantling discarded hard drives nearly 20 years ago. We had a cylindrical rare earth (neodymium) magnet, about 1/2" diameter by 2" long, that could hold my largest 10" stainless steel skillet to a shelf bracket. Chef Alton Brown would mount neodymium magnets inside his cabinet doors to hold small skillets.

[@imacmill]

@@user-mv9tt4st9k Awesome! And Alton could hang all his weapons from them, too. 😁

[@CHARrrrrrrrr]

This guy still so interesting to watch

[@MartianHomebody]

The phrase "we don't have a time machine... yet" is very profound to my very tired brain right now. Like a statement that answers itself in how it will always be true, simply because it's a sentence that is true right now.

[@ScottLahteine]

It is true that the original product pitch for the lead balloon did not go over well. The toy company pointed out that a product for children being made primarily of lead is a very bad idea and they rejected it outright. Fortunately for posterity, the following pitch -for Lawn Darts- was a great success.

[@illini4ever88]

Ha. Thanks for the heads-up that Mythbusters is all on Max. Just started watching from the beginning. It his hilarious how much penny pinching you guys were doing in the beginning. It totally makes sense. You didn't know the success you would have, and none of the people you were calling for things had any idea what you were doing. My how much things changed in future seasons.

[@thecloneguyz]

WHICH myth prepared you for another project you never saw coning?

[@frankgulla2335]

Great tales from Adam. Thank you

[@CyBirr]

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[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Yes! 😂😂 I thought the same thing.

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

Mentions the cement truck, in this video. That was one of my favorites. Like in the movie, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, they used a tad too much explosives !

[@Mythbustersfan101]

Lead balloon was a pointless myth that defines Mythbusters, and yet Mythbusters proved it was feasible at eny cost possible. The lead balloon was a earlier episode in the Mythbusters series that the Mythbusters hosts released that they were filming a science reality TV show.

[@kennethelwell8574]

I see not having 3d printing a lot like the “prison myths” where the methods and materials are relevant to the story, not ‘confirmed’ by some modern technology unavailable in the original myths. Certainly from a production standpoint, the 3d printing process could save hours of cobbling together bits to test a myth.

[@davect01]

What was the most expensive Myth you guys pulled off and was there ever a Myth the studio shut down because of expense?

[@IndianaJoe3]

It's interesting that this episode has become iconic, because I don't think Mythbusters were the first to successfully build and fly a lead balloon. I remember an article in _Smithsonian_ magazine quite a number of years (45?) ago, called, "From the People Who Bought You the Lead Balloon." It was about an engineering school, but I don't remember which one. Anyway, the article featured a full-page photo of the students flying an actual lead balloon.

[@shiddy.]

lead balloon episode is a great example of how sometimes when people fart only air comes out

[@luthiermatt]

3D printing would have ruined the show. I loved the old school craftsmanship.

[@drivecam101]

What is called '3D printing' today has been widely available since the 1990s as rapid prototyping. The range of materials and machine types has increased over time but even in 2003 I was having rapid prototypes made out of very durable materials. They weren't cheap and likely that may prevented their use for the show, but even a four figure rapid prototype could save far more then having to modify or even redo tooling.

[@who2999]

I think the lack of 3d printers added a bit of the charm to the show and it's moment in time. Blowing up a dozen perfect 3d printed models wouldn't have had the same charm as Carrie and Grant looking through flea markets and cobbling something together with duct tape. Of course if you made the show today you'd use them but the show made today would be a different kind of thing. I have this mental exercise I go through when I hear people talk about the idea of making myth busters today where I actually try to picture a way to make that good, and I think maybe in today's world it would have to be more of a teaching show, like where the core crew of mythbusters guide a group of fans through making a myth, because you need the high level of just figuring it out and some of the tools have just gotten more sophisticated.

[@Racingboom]

Does Adam happen to be going to any events on the east coast this year?

[@tested]

Yes - he’s in Orlando in two weeks for example. We will be updating our tested.com/events page as we’re allowed, but lots of conventions this year.

[@eriksax9489]

I realized much later in life than I'd like to admit, that "a watched pot never boils" is not about perception of time. It NEVER boils. Because you decide that the water is "hot enough" and use the hot water before the kettle would whistle, which is what would happen if you went and did something else. It's about what aspect of your time management scheme you currently value. Don't wait until the water boils, at some point it's good enough.

[@oledennis6918]

The 5 second rule changed my life forever. And the dirty restroom issues taken to heart. Haven't used hot air to dry my hands since. And I use the first stall all the time.

[@JustinWillhoit]

I LITERALLY SAID LEAD BALLOON also, folding paper in half 7 times

[@iceguy9723]

LOL; my two immediate picks

[@markraciborski4289]

"Hook, line, and .... "lead" .... sinker. "

[@JamesTM]

"We don't have a time machine... yet." Technically, once a time machine is invented at any point in time, it becomes available (at least theoretically) at all other points in time.

[@Rembrant65]

Do reruns count as time travel?

[@moonshoes11]

Maybe, if they’re somehow a prequel. ;)

[@PianoUniverse]

The hot water heater rocket episodes were my favorite.

[@Pippy626]

The bathroom episode totally changed my life and my bathroom habits lol

[@paulandnicoledukich696]

I say (or my husband said and I absolutely agree) I think "Bull in a China Shop" defined the show. I would have never believed the outcome until Mythbusters covered it.

[@AlbertaTrailCams]

I still want to know how a bed sheet didn't set off a motion detector.

[@philopharynx7910]

But I do assure you that the Mythbusters episode where you do build a time machine will have been the most amazing episode of all. Obviously it will have not been possible until atomic-scale printing is going to have been an established technology.

[@shanejayell]

Lead balloon was really fun...

[@BahWeepGranahWeepNiniBong]

I'm alwys proud that there was an Australian connection to the show 🇦🇺

[@dharmasworld]

I’m so curious to know what the smallest / cheapest / easiest myth busting project was that got the biggest ratings / reaction. And conversely what myth took the most effort and resources but fell flat in response with audiences. There must be some real surprises in there. 😊

[@Djslackx]

Once you have a time machine, don't you have it at every "yet"? It's just a matter of bringing it there.

[@davidmcsween]

Discovery like lead balloon and cement truck because they both blew up practically and figuratively 😅

[@nathkrupa3463]

Great video sir ❤

[@deepthought9267]

"Everyone from... " names the only two actors to use a whip on screen in the last 30(?) years

[@FuzzieWazHe]

cement truck is hands down my all time favorite show. plow truck is my second.