Please, do not try any of the experiment you're about to see us do at home.
You heard him.
Don't to it!
On this episode of "Mythbusters"
we're taking a trip down memory Lane.
In a countdown of the host's ultimate highlights.
This is hands down by favorite episode.
We'll go behind the scenes.
It is the beating heart behind why we love doing this show.
To salute and celebrate the greatest hit,
most spectacular misses, trickiest builds and weirdest, wackiest,
most exciting experiments.
It was hilarious.
So buckle up,
count down and hold onto your stomachs
because this is the Mythbusters top 25 special.
Holy crap, I'm gonna die.
Who are the Mythbusters?
Adam Savage.
It's scientific!
And Jamie Hyneman.
I call him my Little Pop Gun.
Between them, more than 30 years of special effects experience.
Joining them, Tory Belleci.
And touchdown.
Kari Byron...
- I was starting to get a little crazy. - And Grant Imahara.
That was awesome!
They don't just tell the myths.
They put them to the test.
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Mythbusters.
Okay.
I'll assemble the team.
I got the call.
What's the emergency?
I don't know.
Where's the walrus?
Good morning, team.
Thanks for assembling.
The network has asked to us make a two hour special,
the top 25 Mythbuster moments.
I'm sorry, this is distracting me.
Seriously, we're compiling
our all-time favorite "Mythbusters" episodes.
I've got a few.
This is going to be totally awesome.
What are you guys standing around for?
Let's get started.
Narrator: So we're all set to launch the top 25 countdown.
And it's going to be a wild ride full of spectacles,
science and intrigue,
insight into the hosts' personal highlights.
Not to mention all those fan favorites you love
to see again and again and again.
So where do we begin?
What do we ge?
In at 25, the first most
memorable Mythbusters moment, in fact, the first-ever myth.
Yep, way back when Adam looked 16 and Jamie looked like Janie,
our dynamic duo took on the myth of the jato rocket car.
And to test it they built their own
jet assisted takeoff rocket, attached them to a car.
Yee haw!
And hit the desert with mayhem in mind.
I'm going to have to have a cranectomy.
It's funny that after all these episodes
the jato rocket car is still a fan favorite
and a high point for me and Jamie.
Brakes are coming off.
We are go.
Sitting in that chopper watching the rocket car take off
red line, coming out of full throttle.
Coming off of the electronics.
It was just, it was just extraordinary.
Go ahead, set him off!
Firing in three, two, one, fire!
Three, two, one, firing.
We got them all.
I mean the closest example I can give to it is
that it was like watching some sort of African animal
take off really quickly across the Savanah.
Except this was a car with a rocket on it.
I mean it was beautiful.
It was gorgeous.
And a classic Mythbuster moment.
That was hysterical.
That was absolutely outrageous.
A hit of the absurd,
dash of engineering and a side salad of busted urban myth.
That was beautiful.
From a single soaring moment in the mojave
to a whole lot of locking and loading, responsibly, of course.
Do it.
Guns are a part of our standard stock in trade on this show.
I've got to say I have some reservations
about that because, well,
they kill people and that's to be avoided.
But that being said,
they're often fascinating elegantly engineered machines
that in our hands, where we use materials and tools
in ways for which they were never intended.
I call it my Little Pop Gun.
Things get real interesting real fast.
It's a lot of fun.
You're looking at a vegetarian.
Hey, nice shot.
From California.
Let her have at it, Kari.
I never expected I would be a gun person.
Until I joined Mythbusters.
Narrator: Guns and ammo are part of the Mythbuster tradition,
but that relationship is built on respect
and an ultra safe environment created
by expert armorers and law enforcement officials.
If you see anything unsafe, please report it to the rangemaster.
But the moment that fires guns
and ammo number number 24 is from the viewer
requested myth that it was
possible to cut down a tree with a machine gun.
After Tory and grant failed with the small arms,
our vegetarian, tree hugging hippie stepped it up to ramp it up.
One of my favorite moments
was shooting a gatling gun to mow down a tree.
We're going hot.
I had never shot anything this crazy before.
In three, two, one.
We're talking 30 caliber bullets.
3,000 rounds per minute.
Just ach, ach, ach.
It was powerful.
I think a lot of people
would have liked to be in my shoes that day.
From guns and ammo to a weapon of mass.. deduction.
Wake up, time for science.
I know that a lot of our viewers tune
in because we blow a lot of crap up.
And make no mistake, that is fun,
but for us what's kept it fun,
the show entertaining for all these years is the science.
Gravity, man, it's not just a good idea, it's the law.
It is the beating heart behind why we love doing this show.
It's scientific.
And the tall tale
that provides the fondest memory of solid scientific methodology
and makes it in at number 23 is the time the team fired up.
The myth was that a bullet fired straight into the air will
kill when you it comes back into the ground.
All we did was found a lake bed that was pretty pristine.
Fire the bullets up, see where they land.
Simple, right?
Sometimes the best science is simple.
The U.S. Military had actually done a fair amount of research into it
in between the two wars,
they wanted to know what happened with falling bullets.
There she blows, that's a 9 millimeter round.
We found it.
We looked at all their research and by the end of our episode,
we effectively tripled,
I think, the amount of real practical knowledge
there is about bullets, how they fall,
what speed they fall at
and what they'll do to you once they hit you.
About two inches.
I would say that's probably one of the few episodes we could
publish the results from and I'm really proud of that.
This is science in action.
The next most memorable... most memorable.
The next most memorable mythbudgeter.
This doesn't happen to me.
Usually happens to Jamie.
Am I actually failing as trying to say failure is always an option,
Can we just roll the tape.
To say that things go wrong on the show is an understatement.
Fire in the hole.
And fabulous failures stick in the memory include...
Go!
This bunker test of the myth of the confederate rocket
which put an end to shot-bound tests with rockets.
I heard that go...
then there was compact compact.
And the revisit,
whether the run away trucks...
They're going to go in the water.
Let to some subtextual brainstorming.
The weakest link in this chain was breakaway ropes.
And that's what we wanted it to be.
But to get in the top 25 most memorable moments'
list, it's got to be an epic.
I think the most epic failure of all time was the jato rocket
revisit when there was so much planning and so much work going
into getting this car to go up a ramp
using jato rockets and it blew up on the ramp.
Three, two, one, go!
Good it's on the hook.
It's moving well.
Here it goes.
Go heading toward the ramp.
Or not!
There's no reset.
You can't reset for a jato rocket car launch because
blowing up is your last chance.
Boom, done.
No reset.
What was that?
That was one thing I didn't expect.
Total explosion upon ignition.
But what's really interesting about the mythbusting motto.
Failure is always an option.
Isn't the accidents, mishaps and chaos,
it's the science.
Failure is always an option I came up with and put on early
crew hats as a Christmas gift early in the show.
It's not just a joke.
It's actually really the cornerstone of our approach to
the scientific method.
Any result's a result.
That's for sure.
We screw things up all the time on this show.
And we have no pretense that we don't screw up.
Whoops.
In fact, when we fail, we learn things.
So we actually kind of respect it.
That was the scariest thing I've ever done on this show.
That was terrifying.
The car is going. The car is going! There it goes.
Cultural idea of the scientific is someone
who sets an experiment and when it
doesn't happen the way it
happened they say oh my experiment is a failure.
No scientist actually thinks like that.
Any experiment that yields data is a viable experiment.
Is information.
Therefore any kind of failure of
what we perceive might happen is an option.
Up next on the Mythbusters top 25 special,
nothing beats your first "world first. "
I had a nightmare like this once.
The glass break episode is our first "world first"
and it's a real high point for us.
I did it!
Going into that episode,
everyone heard the myth that an opera singer
could shatter a glass with their voice
and we thought that that was totally possible.
But our research started to turn
it over and show that it was maybe not possible.
That nobody had ever filmed anybody doing it.
That there were films of a speaker doing it,
but never someone solely with their voice.
Dude!
That is a first on television!
Honestly, this is one of my favorite high speed shots.
Seeing there, watching the glass vibrate back
and forth and watching his voice and watching
the glass shatter catastrophically as it totally
fails watching Jamie about six years later,
pulling his lips away from the shattering glass,
showing the real difference between action
and reaction when you slow things down
it doesn't get much better than that.
But apparently some viewers weren't as happy as our hosts.
After the story aired we got a lot of feedback
from people indicating we weren't able to actually
able to break that glass with a human voice.
Yep, some of you thought this microphone boom
is a sonic gun and that this lens flair is a fishing line.
Both theory suggesting that the glass break was fake.
We like controversial results
from our testing, we also like
it when people criticize what
we've done on the show because
it means that they're thinking
about what we've done and you know, that's where it's all at.
If you're thinking about the show, then you're being engaged
and we're doing our job.
Next up is not so much a single moment
but a medley of mean machines.
Over the year, the team
has collected plenty of crazy contraptions,
mad models and rad robots.
This is exactly what's going to happen.
That's what's going to happen.
These beastly builds have provided
many of the team's all-time highs.
Watch out!
And although this moment is a monumental to them all...
pretty sexy, huh.
The hosts do have a few cherished examples.
For both Adam and I building crazy machines...
well, it's what we live for.
Like that.
Just a godly torrent of water.
But out of all of them,
what would be my favorite or the craziest?
Working on these machines is great for my skin!
I would say that would have to be the steam machine gun.
Nice! Very pleased. And terrified.
I mean this thing was just so out of control,
we had these pressure vessels that are hissing
that you turn the thing on and all these steam motors start
to spin things at high speeds.
Three, two, one.
It was terrifying to even be close to it.
It was insane.
As for master modeler Tory,
whenever he gets to bring his special effects experience
to the party, he couldn't be happier.
I mean who gets to build a 20-foot rubber shark?
Or a batmobile our a trans am?
What do you think of the car?
Cool.
I'm like the luckiest guy in the world.
And grant, that's easy.
He's the one with the army of robot minions.
He's alive, alive!
I think that building these machines
is one of my favorite things on the show.
Decapitation happens, everybody.
One of my hobbies before
starting Mythbusters was fighting robots.
That if you build a robot,
it fights other robots inside this arena.
The machines I built for Mythbusters are an extension of that.
I didn't train him to do that.
Grant always says he knows
when he's built a really, really good robot.
When just before you set it off.
Even though everybody is behind blast shields,
in a bunker, far, far away.
Everyone on the crew,
including yourself takes a little half step back.
All right, here we go.
In three, two one?
In the serious business of solving crimes of science...
cue dramatic music.
Sometimes you need a little borough text.
Yeah, I can shake a booty in this.
Come on, let's go.
I feel like I'm ready to go out clubbing.
It's not dissimilar to how Jamie was dressed
when he first came to earth.
You want to take off your
hood and participate in this conversation.
I kind of like it in here.
It's private.
Hail people of earth, I come in peace.
Yep the team often put on protective clothing.
In their line of work it would be foolish not to.
Oh, dude.
But over the years at your urging,
they have also worn costumes that are not strictly necessary.
And this fan requested costume comedy
and creative use of safety gear
has provided a host audience highlights.
So let's take a moment to remember all those moments
when the team took one
for the team and got dressed up like idiots.
James, I'm frightened.
You have right to be afraid, my lovely.
How do you feel?
I feel kind of sexy.
We're definitely firmer at 8,000 feet but not by much.
Do you want to go all the way?
Yes, yes!
Let's get out of here.
Are you ready?
This is as disturbing as I think it is.
It's even more disturbing than you think it is.
- I like it. - Sir, yes, sir!
I predict they'll all be dancing on Jamie's intestines in minutes.
- Are you okay? - I think so.
Good job, dude.
Once again, making my family proud.
Number 18 is a watery fable that proves science saves lives.
While we've tested stories that range the gamut,
everything from the purely abstract physics experiments,
conceptual ideas to Hollywood misconceptions about physics.
Golly.
Every now and then,
we get our hands on something
that has real world consequence and for me,
the high point for that is the underwater car.
The myth being that if this happened,
you wouldn't be able to open the door to escape
until the interior filled with water.
So cue the car.
I had to remove the engine
from the car to clean the car up so I did.
- The water... - Don't pee in the pool.
Offered Adam the opportunity of a lifetime.
This is something I've always wanted to do.
This is my story from the get-go,
Ok, it's coming faster my way. Now I can start seeing the end of the water.
That being said, being in in that car while it was sinking, being buckled in,
feeling the cabin of the car pressurizing,
all of those things are totally wrong.
And you know, you're clear
that if you ever felt these in real life,
things would have been going very, very badly.
All of that being said it was still a super high point for me.
I always wanted to be the hero of my own action movie
and this is one of the chances.
This is confirmed.
I could not open that door until the cab
seemed to be full of water for a while.
So Adam got to live out his stuntman dreams.
But what make this myth
remarkable is that they didn't stop there.
Adam and Jamie went on to test variable
escape techniques that would work.
Freedom!
One of which made Adam and Jamie real-life lifesavers.
About six months after our water car aired, I got an e-mail
from a fan who was a truck driver,
had been driving, had a seizure,
passed out, woke up having driven his truck in the water.
He woke up with his cab under water
and he tried opening the door and it wouldn't open.
Remembered our episode and he...
I still can't believe he did this,
he reached up to the roof's cabin and opened the air vent on the roof
and let his truck fill up with water. This is nighttime, he can't see anything.
He held his breath, then he opened the door and swam to safety.
My hat is off to him.
That blew all of our minds.
Incredibly, the hosts' stomach churning antics
have worked their way into your affections.
Is anybody ready for diving?
Well, that's great.
Smells like pizza.
I'm done with science for today.
So once again for your viewing pleasure,
we bring you green grant, queasy Kari, and seasick Adam.
I've been seasick all over the world,
I've been seasick in Africa.
Adam is doing his best to
help us attract more sharks.
I've been seasick in the pacific.
I've even been seasick on a plane.
Adam, you got it.
You got it come on, stay with us, stay with us.
We got it, come back.
Are you with me?
I'm with you.
I passed out for a few seconds.
I had will say of all the times
I have been sick, the blue
angels flight was the only time
being sick did not film diminish
in any way from what I was experiencing.
I'm starting to feel a little nauseous.
I may throw up.
All right, you got the bags back there? I do.
Hold on.
I mean I threw up, I think I filled seven barf bags on those
three flights that I took.
And I still had a fantastic time
and I would do it again tomorrow, if I could.
There we go.
Do you know what this is?
Of course you know what this is.
It's a vomit bucket given to me by the producers.
Just think when you vomit, the test is over.
The reason you know what it is
is because they enjoy showing that footage over and over again.
All right, let's stop.
You want to like smash out a big...
You see that's how it works in the show.
They find out what your weakness is... that sucked.
If and they keep exploiting it.
They push it like a little button.
There's a bucket in front of you.
You don't like meat...
come on.
Never leave your position, Kari.
Guess what?
You're going to be getting the meat.
Of course I'm the one they pick up
when there's anything nasty to pick up.
You get seasick, you get motion sick, guess what?
You're going to be the one throwing up on camera.
Attaboy.
That's what they do.
Totally puked.
I think I could throw up my lunch right now.
Up next, the team celebrates,
collects and pontificates on results that defy expectation.
My favorite part of the show is
when you expect one thing
to happen and then the exact opposite happens.
His stomach is inside his helmet.
It never ceases to amaze me we start on a story
that we think is going to turn out one way
and we get a totally unexpected result.
Take the mice versus elephant story.
Amazing the elephant totally avoids the mouse.
The tire of death.
You tr just goes to show you should never assume something,
you need to actually test it.
There is a golf-ball like effect.
That's the coolest thing ever.
I can't even describe how thrilling it is,
but the best work for it honestly
and this is is going to sound I can a trope,
it it's scientific.
You can in fact Polish a poop.
That's what science about
and we it also all the time on the show.
The perfect example was a bull in a China shop.
You've heard this expression
your whole life, a bull in a kline show.
It means a really glumsy person breaking things.
Did it hurt the bull?
We set up this rickety shelved China shop
with all these dishes in this bull pen.
This one looks like it's ready to go without the bull.
We let one bull n for us, it was just a laugh.
Here comes the bull.
Look, he's totally avoiding all the China.
It was the most graceful thing I he had ever seen
and it was running fast
t wasn't just walking, it was moving quick.
Weaving in and out of these shelves not even touching it.
Getting rite through the shelves
without knocking over a single piece.
- That was cool. - Okay.
That's strange.
Let's let two bulls in.
One follows the other one and they just go around the China shop.
Look at.
That they're very careful of breaking China.
I was elated when I found out the bulls
weren't going to break anything.
It was just so counterintuitive.
They're big giant lump berg beast, but no,
they're ballet dancers, they're the ballet dancers of the wild.
We have to admit it, it's a stupid thing,
I'm never going use it again.
Bull in the China shop busted.
It's busted.
After the break,
the countdown continues with another trio of hard hitting
nice work, Buster.
Absurdly satisfying, weird and wonderful host highlights.
This part might be a little gross.
We should call him Buster.
Buster sounds pretty good.
Yep, rocketing into the countdown,
it's the dummy who who's taken not just one,
but dozens for the team.
Thing about Buster, you do really think of him as a person.
I mean as a character.
His head's gone.
The most fun thing working about Buster is watching him bounce.
It's watching Buster hit
something and then bounce off of that thing.
You really get the potential injury personified for you.
Why didn't does everybody think it's so mean
that I like watching Buster get beat up,
you guys do realize it's a doll.
The best part about Buster is he will
take tons of abuse and never complain.
Nice work, Buster! Nice work.
Mayhem, mischief,
e and abuse he's suffered in silence for science.
I have to give a name to Buster's primary skill on the show,
I'd say it's first person data acquisition.
Or last person data acquisition.
But if Buster thought his career
in data acquisition a bit rough,
his most memorable moment really was pants.
We order some exploding pants.
Exploding pants, I mean it was right up our alley.
The story is these formers were using this herbicide
that was getting into this pants and made them super flammable.
We're going to blow your pants offer.
To the point where that friction
or heat source alone would set their pants on fire.
I loved the pants exploding episode
because to me it was quintessential myth busters.
We had great small experiments,
we had an historical myth and in the end,
we got to blow Buster's pants up.
So you want to ramp up the results.
I want to see a pair of pants explode.
This is a high velocity explosive that we're using here.
A specialty explosive,
we expect bust tore get a pretty interesting ride.
- Three, two, one. - Yeah!
That's what I'm talking, those are exploding pants.
It was like he had been vaporized.
After something like that happens, you do feel bad for the guy.
That's all that's left of his pants.
As for Buster, he was worse off than his pants.
I found a finger or it was a burnt up hot dog
from an old barbecue but I kept it
because I think it might have been a part of Buster.
This is truly the f time I could not put him back together.
In at number 14 is a household material
that stuck in Adam and Jamie's absurd as.
Relax, this won't hurt a bit.
I take a certain glee in using tools
and materials in ways for which they were never intended.
Fun for the whole family.
Take the duct tape sailboat,
it's such a common material but look
what you can do with it
if you set your mind to it. It's such an adventure.
That's right.
You can keep your duct take prom tux we've got a boat.
It's a totally absurd object.
Who would want a sailboat made out of duct tape.
Yee haw!
This is actually working.
I know that there are art movements like the dadists,
and the futurists, and the cubists, and the impressionists.
I think there should have been some absurdist.
Well, it's true that failure is always an option, success is sweet.
In the absurdist art movement,
Jamie and I would be card carrying members.
All right, this part might be a little gross.
This next memorable moment is a monumental to all those
what the hell are we doing moments?
I've made this ballistic gel zombie doll to illustrate our point.
Oh, yeah.
It squeak when had I walked.
Okay.
I can answer that.
I'm tying a pig's stomach into a skeleton. Clamp.
We are continuing having these moment
where is we all just stop and say what the hell are we doing?
This is insane that's not tendon.
- What is that? - Penis.
For me, it's like things
that we do on this show are so outrageous.
You're so in the moment,
you're so focused on having it work
that there's a split second where you stop and go,
this is one of the craziest things I've ever done.
What the in the hell are we doing?
I climbed down a rope of human hair to try to break out of jail.
I see split ends.
How is have used conditioner.
There's split ends.
That was so scary.
For meet once that stand out are the ones
I never imagined I would get to do.
Like hand feeding an okay puce okay toe puce
that fell in love with me.
Yeah, he's very exciting.
Swimming in syrup.
How cool is that.
Who ever has tried that.
One of the grossest ones for me is when I was building beet man.
I present to you.
My creation.
Beet man.
Oh, I almost threw up.
This goes on and on.
And yet it all started right here.
With my rear.
Yep, way back in episode 2
I come from the planet butthead,
the team their h their first ever
and most memorable what the hell
are we doing moment while tackling a tall tale of toilet mishap.
Apparently while prone on the airplane throne,
a lady of large proportions hit the flush
and the resulting suction meant she couldn't get up.
To test it safely in the shop, Kari donated her model butt.
How did you have this done?
That's actually Kari's butt.
This was my first real entrance into television.
I'm going take a shot.
Try to hold it.
In my mind I thought, some little cable show.
Come on, "Mythbusters" nobody will see this.
Now if you Google my name, the first thing that comes up, my butt.
With Kari's artificially enlarged posterior in position,
the section was suped up, and the myth, busted.
She would have one big hickey.
Big butt hickey.
That's going to be hard to explain.
And to prove the voracity of the results,
Jamie was ready to stake Adam's butt on it.
Are you ready to try the real zeal?
Sure.
With friends like that who needs enemas.
All right, that's significant.
Oh, my God. Oh, wow.
That was really significant.
Next up, on the countdown.
Ignition sequence start.
The team shot for the moon
while shooting down the conspiracy theorists.
Eagle has landed.
On this episode of "Mythbusters," was the moon landing a hoax?
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
What's that Neil?
We really went to the moon.
It's absolutely unreal.
- Say hoax. - Hoax!
When I hear statistics like 20% of Americans say
they think the moon landing was faked.
That's wacky right there.
I'm glad we're on the air.
It tells me we're doing something more than
just making an entertainment show,
that we're actually promoting critical thinking
and that's a very valuable things,
it makes us feel quite useful, honestly.
What got me excited an doing this
was building the miniatures and models.
That's perfect.
Because keep in mind that for something like 20 years
before I started on "Mythbusters" that was mainly
what I was doing so it was a real joy
to be able to practice my craft again.
He's standing full-on in the shadow,
you would think you wouldn't be able to see him,
but he's bright as day.
The cool thing is we got to work with NASA. Oh my God.
When do you get that opportunity
to actually go to NASA's testing facility.
It's a portable... use their equipment.
In order to find out whether or not we landed on the moon.
It's just a rare opportunity and a very memorable one.
In your face, conspiracy theorists!
Over the year,
fishy fables have netted a heap of highlights for the hosts.
Coming up, whoa! Let's give him a little bait.
We're going to need a bigger boat.
And mark number 11 in the countdown,
the hosts have dived into the archives
to select their favorite shark infested adventures.
Dude, I'm jumping into shark infested waters for science.
In the realm of doing things you can't believe
are actually being called your job,
diving with 11 sharks on tiger beach in the Bahamas,
has to top the list.
It was crazy great, really difficult, really tiring,
but insanely great.
This is really fun.
You know how in science fiction movies,
there's a time port walk through
to get to another world or a closet that opens
that to magic Cal land, the ocean is another world.
The surface of the ocean is the portal to that world.
We need protective gear just to go there and when we get there,
we're not at the top of the food chain.
And for humans it's a very freaky and scary thing
to not be the top of the food chain.
I'm going to come serenade him in my wet suit, okay?
Relieved that Adam's highlight is out of the way,
next is a myth masterminded by Kari
while marooned in shark
infested waters is it better to play dead?
Here's the plan.
We chum the heck out of the water,
attracted as many sharks as possible and then you two jump in.
That's a bad idea.
Who came up with that plan?
Appetizers! I hope they like Sushi.
Oh, I hope they like Italian.
Oh, man, I got to give you credit, I would never do this.
This place is freaking scary.
Good stuff.
This sucks so bad.
This sucks a lot.
I don't want to do this.
Why the hell are we doing this?
Every fiber of your body is saying, no,
this is the worst idea ever.
You want a piece of me!
You just overcome it and get in the water.
First I'm trashing around, he's playing dead.
Oh my God!
Then he starts trashing around and I'm playing dead.
Help!
During the shark special where I'm trying to play dead,
while sharks are circling us.
Help!
It's really realistic, it's almost like you're scared.
This particular myth combines two things I'm really afraid of.
One being out in open water.
And two, fish touching me.
Something just touched me!
I think that was a shark.
Come on!
Help!
He was squealing like a girl.
He was terrified, it was hilarious.
Especially since I was on the boat watching.
Help!
It was like the most primal scream, it was like help!
Help!
Help.
Help!
They're just hungry.
All right.
Come back in, I think we might have confirmed this one.
That was really intense.
At number 18 is the exclusive broadcast premiere
of a much loved viral video.
Back when the team tackled facts about flatulence.
Hey, we got one.
In the interest of good taste,
we left out an incendiary mini myth.
I mind it amazing that one of the most famous moments
from your show has never actually appeared on the air until now.
It says something about the net sensation that is "Mythbusters".
Yet, the myth that you can light your own flatus
where you, yes, you,
logged in in your millions to watch it again and again.
Oh, yeah.
So sit back and hold your nose.
Get that gas moving.
Because in a world first,
here is Adam's attempt to eject hot air on air.
I've got lighter, it works, I've got position.
And any minute now,
hopefully we're going to make television history.
And it wasn't long before he piped up
with a brief tune on the buttock bassoon.
Got it.
Big one.
Finally.
The high-speed camera is the most important tool
we've used on the show.
We've used it to do things like illuminate things
happening in explosions far faster than the human eye can see.
We've also used it for recording me lighting my own flatus.
From the sublime to the totally trivial.
Oh, God it.
Except for the fact that we also know
that no one else has ever filmed a flatus being lit
on fire on high-speed camera
and we love being the first at anything on this show.
Coming up, the countdown hots up as we close in on the top spot.
When in doubt, c-4.
This is the Mythbusters top 25 special as chosen
by the team and you the fans.
Something just touched me!
We've already seen a heap of highlights,
but now that we're into the top ten,
we're counting down to the biggest bangs and best of the tests.
And in at number 9 is a collection of those moments
the team strap in, buckle up and jump off for science.
We do all our own stunt,
the only stunt double you'll ever see on "Mythbusters" is Buster.
The concept of human Guinea pigs is something
more than just what we have printed our shirts,
it's a central idea of "mythbudgeters".
I always wanted to about stuntman as a kid
so this job on "Mythbusters" is kind of like a dream job.
Yes, every single time the team gets an opportunity
to live out their stuntman dream,
they make a deposit in a the personal highlights bank.
Water skiing behind a row boat, that was exciting.
We were curious to see
whether it was actually possible and it was.
Never one to miss a chance to wrap it up.
I can't believe we're going do this.
Our resident action man Tory
took the towing tale to the next level.
That was probably one of the coolest moments
on the show for me,
to be able to say you wake-boarded behind a cruise ship.
Yeah!
I can't even describe to you the feeling.
I mean it was just like oh!
But it's not always as free and easy as the guys make it look.
Some of these adrenaline fueled highlights are hard won.
You do a lot of stunts,
you would think you would get used to it, but for me,
that's not the case.
It's like starting over every single time.
You ever to psyche yourself
into it to actually go through with it.
Oftentimes what happens with a stunt
is I will anticipate it with excitement
until just before I'm about to do it
then I'll realize how scary it is.
And then get that fear under control to do the thing.
And slowly get better and better as I go
and that is a really interesting process,
overcoming that fear reflex to be able to do something.
Let's go for it.
Because one of the things about the stunts
that's fascinating is all
the work happens before you do the stunt.
There's no correcting in the middle of the stunt
which is something I've learned the hard way.
You have to be just mentally prepared
so that once you take the jump or dive or slide,
it all happens right.
And attaining that sensitivity to it is really awesome.
This next moment Marx the myth
where iconic high-speed images met science, mystery and history.
Oh the humanity.
The Hindenberg is one of the those episodes
in the category of I can't
believe we hadn't thought of that before.
You don't want to mix blur with blur.
Because once we started to dive into it,
there's so much rich material,
so many pieces that you can start to tease out of
and get a great episode out of it.
These things are always camping on fire.
That is textbook definition of irony kids.
The thing I enjoyed most about this,
was the actual process, building these large minute chu,
playing around with the material that was doped with termite.
Now we're going two to blow up some zeppelins.
It was just such a joy to work on these things
and fact that they lined up so perfectly
with the actual original footage, it was wonderful.
This is my favorite scale experiment we've ever done, full stop.
I reject your t-shirt slogan and substitute my own.
Well, as Adam would say, there's your problem.
In at number 7,
we are compiling and celebrating the one-line wonders
an recurring themes you love the most.
Because people watch "Mythbusters"
and over and over and over sometimes things we say, off the cuff.
Crack, damn you.
Become memorable lines that are repeat and put on t-shirts.
Reject your reality and substitute my own.
Give me one big boom.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
Am I missing an eyebrow?
Actually for me,
the funniest part about that clip isn't the am I
missing the eyebrow line it's when Jamie goes yeah
are and most of your hair.
I am missing an a eyebrow, aren't I?
Yeah and some of your hair.
I lose all of my sense of humor in a nano second.
You're all right it won't look weird
- after a day or two. - One of my favorites is...
Holy crap, run! Run, run!
Because we really, really use it a lot.
Unintentionally.
Here comes chaos.
My toast always lands butter side up.
There's your problem.
Pillage.
I don't know if that's legal in California.
Go get 'erm, boy.
That is messed up.
I wouldn't say Jamie is an evil genius.
Say hello to our little friends.
This is going to kill you.
High explosives and electricity, Whoo!
That's why we can never have anything nice.
It's like a wet t-shirt contest really.
This is the kind of thing I do on the weekends.
It's starting to feel like a bad idea.
Almost too exciting.
As fast as I can.
I'm making a rocket out of me.
Our death ray doesn't seem to be working.
I'm stand right in it and I'm not dead yet.
That was intense, that was heavy.
But it's not just the one liners that top the fan charts.
There are a few much loved scenes and motifs as well.
There's the dark side.
I am your father.
Never!
You're not my father.
The light side.
What makes my voice sound much higher.
The slippery side.
Jamie has built entire special effects set out of lard.
Sometimes you just need extra lubrication.
And then there's Jamie.
Who wrote this crap.
Come silent walrus, let us storm the castle,
I will don my safety gear.
Jamie, under water.
The funny thing about Jamie,
the longer the show is on, the more kind of iconic he becomes.
Does this remind you of when you used to count money for the mob?
I was a hit man, not a money counter.
He's like a superhero figure now.
How are we going to test this one.
But he's just a normal guy,
he puts his beret on the same way any other guy
who chooses to wear a beret.
Jaimie pensive.
over my shoulder is a wild Hyneman
in his natural environment and he seems,
if I'm correct, to be dung hunting.
So little is known about his elusive an match.
There's this tenuous existence at the very edges of society.
Shad.
Stay very quiet, they are deadly if provoked.
Scared.
Let's see what he does.
He's gone into hiding.
Is he doing his David Attenborough thing again?
See, you can't use that.
He will kill me.
The Alcatraz escape is such a classic "Mythbusters" story,
there's such mystery surrounding is it
and we may never know what happen that night.
The spoon is mightier than the bars.
And supposedly escape proof Alcatraz prison.
That's one of the episodes I'm still most proud of
and most astonished that we got to do.
Who else has actually gotten into the water off
of Alcatraz and paddled their way to safety in a boat?
And it was that kind of commitment to the cause
that squeezes this myth into the top ten.
And it began when armed with the precise details
of the legendary getaway, the prevailing conditions,
the convicts' materials and plans,
Adam and Jamie embarked on an ingenious build.
I think one of the funniest things
I've seen us do on the show is Adam banging
away on the raft on the table in the shop
while we were building this thing.
And then stopping and saying... wait, was that a guard?
No.
With the stealth and subtlety of a prison riot,
Adam and Jamie completed their flimsy rubber raincoat
raft and headed for the rock where they faced the cold,
dark, turbulent waters of
frisco bay in obligatory convict costumes.
You look funny.
You don't?
Here we were I the middle of the night in this rough waters
and we just built this raft out of raincoats
and we have do dive into it and see what happens.
We spent 25 hours putting together
all the components of the Alcatraz escape boat.
And yet, even after all that work... Jamie, you're the man, baby.
We kind of expected it to disintegrate
and honestly sitting in the little row boat
watching Jamie do his caterpillar dance out
on the Alcatraz raft,
I couldn't believe it was holding up to that kind of abuse.
Despite the team's fears
and the sheer unlikelihood of the being successful.
All of a sudden, astonishingly the Mythbusters were break out of Alcatraz.
We're escaping!
The other most astonishing thing
about the escape is how crappy Jamie's rowing is.
I have no idea where we are.
if you look carefully, you'll see that I'm doing all the work.
I'm up there at the tip of the boat,
shoveling the water, shoveling the water, pushing it across.
Look at Jamie's oar, he's not like even doing anything.
I still yet to hear a suitable
explanation for why he's doing so little.
This is so cool.
It seemed like for the entire voyage
that the things were about ready to sink.
But sooner or later,
the opposite side of the shore came into view and we were out.
It actually worked.
It was amazing.
We made it!
Demolition derby was my favorite episode ever
because we got to do the car drop.
The car drop was logistically, technically.
All those years of video games are going to pay off now.
Emotionally, the hardest thing we've ever ever achieved.
Here it comes.
Now, to explain what the myth is,
it's luxury car commercial and they suspend a luxury car
from a helicopter and they start another luxury car
at starting line on the ground.
And both are racing towards this giant x drawn out
in the middle of the desert. In the end,
of course the luxury car on the ground
is faster than gravity and it zooms past the x
just before the other car drops and shatters into a million pieces.
This is quiet.
Too quiet, like the calm before the storm.
Look ma, no hands!
This is going to be nuts!
So in my career, I've agreed to control a lot of things,
vehicles big and small, robots.
Oh, okay, I'm going to take it down here.
But I think this one in particular was one of the hardest things
that I've ever done.
How you feeling?
All right.
Really? Because you look like you're freaking out.
But despite that stress and pressure,
everyone geared up for the grandest of grand finales.
All right, here we go.
When we actually executed this myth,
it's one of those things where 100 things
have to go right but only one thing can go wrong
and it will ruin everything.
It's very true for this.
It was so complicated.
You're all buckled in, good job.
I'm all buckled in and ready to go.
There it goes.
Here we go.
This is crazy.
There was a giant cargo helicopter
with a quick release, holding up a real car.
There was a radio controlled luxury car on the ground
that I'm controlling from a helicopter.
All right, car is being lifted off the ground.
Oh, man.
It's like juggling a dozen different balls,
having them all up in the air and not dropping a single one.
We're at a thousand feet.
Being in a helicopter that size and watching from above,
I got to watch the car drop slowly become tiny,
hit the ground, poof.
In your own time, start driving.
Okay.
Here we go, three, two, one!
Car is away.
What's the speed, grant?
45.
45 miles an hour.
60 miles an hour.
Looking great.
80.
Car is looking good.
We're going straight for the x.
We're at 95 miles an hour.
Stay on target.
Looking good, Grant, looking good.
Standby.
Coming up to the mark soon.
Okay.
500 feet.
Stay on target.
Dropping. In three, two, one!
Release the car!
Here it comes.
Holding 105.
Here comes the car.
Holding 105!
The car is coming up.
Mission accomplished.
Myth busted and in terms of team
effort, our intrepid trio's most
memorable myth yet.
I felt I could, you know...
I had so much adrenaline,
I felt like I could lift the car myself!
Just the amount of work
and things that could go wrong in this experiment,
the fact that everything came together
and it all worked.
It still, it blows my mind.
I till can't get my mind around it.
I mean it was beautiful.
On a personal note, I was pregnant that whole time,
I had no idea,
so I think maybe it was a little more emotional for me
than it should have been.
I was less excited after my first kiss.
At the top of most fans' memorable moment lists
are the trials and tribulations of Adam and Tory.
I'm scared.
I see injuries in my future.
So here at number 4,
we' celebrating all of the eye watering...
I'm okay.
Wince inducing incidents.
Our pair of bleep happy pain partners
have produced for your viewing pleasure.
And one interesting aspect of the pain game
I got bit.
Is how it's developed in the early days
of calamity and chaos.
To a more refined science.
Early on in the show I said
this is a show.
That's like four minutes of science
and ten minutes of me hurting myself.
100 episodes later, I think the ratio is totally reversed.
We've got more complex with our story telling
so there's more science in that regard
and I've got more precise and surgical
about inflicting pain on myself.
I don't know if I'm closer to being sober
but I'm closer to being dead.
So I'm able to boil it down to key moments
that really deliver.
Okay. I'm totally cool.
A lot of competition,
but that might be the worst thing
I've ever had to do on the show.
Yep by mixing his drinks and the high speed camera,
Adam is at the cutting edge of accidental entertainment
and of course Jamie lends a helping hand.
Holy bleeping bleepty bleep.
Can I do that again? That was kind of fun.
No that made my head ring.
That was a good size slap there.
Let's look at it again.
It's like your whole head is rubber.
That's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Speaking of a helping hand from hyneman.
Oh, you baby.
Do I enjoy seeing Adam in pain?
Shoot me in the ass.
Well, Adam gives great reaction so that make for good tv.
Look, some of Jamie's supposed entertainment
at my getting hurt
is the editor's creatively telling a story
that isn't quite there.
Some of it.
Adam is a pain in the ass.
So I don't mind if I see him suffer once in a while.
The rest of is that Jamie a sadistic and cruel man.
Oh, God that hurt.
It's time to go to bed.
Next up is Tory, our man of action.
And accidents.
A man first to volunteer for the tough test,
fearless man and a man who occasionally fails
to think things through.
Oh, Tory, are we ever gonna have an episode
where you don't hurt yourself?
A man who combine all these attributes
to bring us moments of leg crossing comedy gold.
If I had a nickel for every time I got hit
in the nuts on this show,
I could retire.
Oh, dude.
I hope I can still have kids.
They're like a magnet to flying thin.
Hey!
Maybe I should wear a cup.
Got to stretch it out a little.
Aside from his magnetic charisma.
That's not nor science, is it?
That's just for you.
Tory has a tendency to trust his fellow hosts.
I just saw you punch your several in the head.
A trust that has, on occasion,
been taken advantage of it.
Do you smell that?
What's that?
Bad things.
Let's egg him on until he hurts himself.
The one accident I had that
I get a lot of questions about is the like jump
it seemed like an easy enough thing to do.
Kari and scottie told me
I could make it I did a couple of tests next to it,
it looked like you totally got it.
It looked like you cleared it, go for it.
You wonder why you see him getting hurt.
He took me seriously.
Tried to jump the little red wagon
and flew through the air like superman,
skidded on his face and got up,
not hurt.
Not a scratch.
Totally fine.
Now that is really fun to watch.
I'm okay.
Why do I always laugh when you get hurt?
That looked so bad.
I can't believe you did that.
I thought I was going to make it.
Coming up,
the top three most memorable "mythbuster" moment,
find out who will be number one.
In at number 3
is an explosive pairs of revisits with rockets.
The revisits are by far the most scientific thing
I think we achieve on "Mythbusters. "
I don't know any other show
that goes back over old broadcasts of theirs to say
we got it wrong as part of the structure of the show.
Hey, look at that.
Well, gee, that looks le a bullet
and I'm proud of the fact that we are doing them.
Because what you're ceiling on the show is the real deal.
Mistake and all.
And we fully acknowledge
that sometimes we get it wrong,
that means we have to revisit it to do the job right.
That thing was going so fast
that it was in and out of the range of the camera
before it knew what was going on.
And of all the great mythbusting moments the two
that make to number three involve result replication
with rocket sleds.
First they proved that to compact a compact,
you needed a whole lot more than two trucks traveling
at highway speeds.
Let me spell out exactly how this is going to break down.
When we put the launch button,
this back sled fires down to here.
Where the front sled's rockets kick into gear
and carry it the rest of the way down the track.
By the time our sled reaches the end of the track here,
it ought to be going 700 miles an hour.
It will then leave the track across 20 feet of open space,
it will eventually hit our car back on the nose.
Now the car is backed up against that steel plate
and concrete block and
that should simulate our two truck impact
at the speed of sound.
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Do you mind if I flip the switch?
Go for it.
This is compact compact rocket sled
in three, two, one!
That doesn't mess around.
Oh, no.
That second stage was a hell of a thing.
It was like whoomm and it just disappeared.
I've seen things so supersonic and fired cannons
but that there is something about that rocket sled
Watching the sled reach 400 miles an hour
and the second set of rockets kick in
and watching it break 700 miles an hour
hitting the supposedly immoveable objects
it was like a visceral experience of something
that makes me feel good to be alive
and not in this way.
The rocket sled test
has to be one of the most spectacular things
we've ever done but having been there
and seen it live it almost too much
to absorb it all happened so quickly.
Holy crap.
The only way we get a chance
to absorb is by looking at the footage afterwards.
And that's where this moment comes into its own
because the high speed footage
is nothing short of spectacular.
And it's a high point our intrepid trio
also got to experience
when they had a result replication request.
We tested a myth that a car
gets in a head-on collision
with a snow plow and gets split in half,
we could not replicate the results,
we got it to split halfway
but not the completely down the middle.
Cue the car,
the rockets,
their sled and bunker.
In five,
four,
three,
two,
one.
That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
That was so much faster than I thought it was going to be.
That was great.
It was like here one second and then gone.
I really didn't think we were going to be able
to split a car in half.
I thought the rocket sled was just going to obliterate it.
But it cut the car clean in two.
We found two distinct halves,
I mean it took so much force to make that happen
and the rocket sled delivered.
I cannot believe we split the car in half.
Look, it went right down the tape line.
We have two perfect halves of the car.
S like I can't help but smile
and watching that high speed footage is just like,
we did it.
Even though I was there.
I can't believe we did it.
For me,
using the rocket sled is one of the closest things
we get to being wile e. Coyote in the cartoon.
In second place is an idiom,
an interesting insight into just
what makes Adam and Jamie tick.
Ta-da.
Something tells me balloon myth.
My favorite myth is lead balloon.
Even though it doesn't involve any spectacular crashes
or explosions, this is hands down my favorite episode.
The myth is it is totally impossible
make a balloon like this one out of lead.
So we're going to build one.
That's the only way to test it is to try.
That's what we do.
We've blown up cement truck,
virtually gone to the moon
and back on this show
and still lead balloon holds the top spot for me.
No explosions, no rockets and no Hollywood style stunts.
So why exactly does this story top Adam
and Jamie's personal memorable moment list?
Nice.
It's the episode that most clearly demonstrates
how much fun the internal process of problem solving is
to me and Jamie.
We had to go into our heads
and walk through every last step
and detail with absolutely no room for error.
The problem is this,
it just kind of falls apart.
It's almost like wet toilet paper.
And that it actually worked,
it was just thrilling.
And cornerstone of that success
was ingenious design from our swami of origami.
The biggest problem the lead is giving us, is that it's delicate.
We have to build our three-dimensional shape
flat and inflate it.
So with their elegant design in mind
and incredibly delicate material in hand,
the team went to work with military-like precision
to build the supposedly oxymoronic lead balloon.
This whole build depends on
how carefully we do this.
It has to be pristine,
we're going lay down paper,
we're going to be wearing booties,
this is going to be like a medical procedure.
My flat pack cube design is something I thought about
for weeks and weeks
before we implemented it
I was thinking it had to be a simple shape
and I settled upon a cube as probably easy
to make in the conditions
we had to make it which was flat
and you couldn't move the lead
once it was laid down it had to be built in place.
It's all working out quite well right now,
makes me nervous
one of the other reasons I love lead balloon
is its total pointlessness.
To do something so pointless and so successfully.
Nobody needs to know how to make a balloon
out of lead but now we do know.
And I find that strangely thrilling.
Hey, Adam.
Yeah.
Congratulations on the design
it unfolded and twisted out
just the way it was supposed.
Whether it flies or not I don't know
but your plan works.
I'm really psyched about this one.
He was psyched already, but also frantic.
Opening tank three.
Narrator: Because in the closing stage,
the pace picked up,
Rips and tears appeared as fast as they could hear
but the lead balloon...
like Adam's voice, kept rising.
I got to tell you
I'm pretty happy about this thing right now.
I'm pretty excited.
It's a lead balloon, oh, my God,
I'm getting dizzy.
It's a balloon made out of lead and it's up there.
It's floating.
It worked.
Dude.
That is the lead balloon.
I am reallied.
We might have been able to get away with a smaller balloon,
but this is the lead balloon.
We did it.
So here it is.
The number one "Mythbusters" most memorable moment
and appropriately the top 25 countdown concludes
with a countdown.
Jamie wants big boom.
Big boom, big boom!
In three.
Two.
One!
Narrator: Explosions,
combustions,
conflagrations.
??
And plain old big booms.
Everybody say it with me,
Jamie wants big boom!
Are all part of the fabric of the show.
That's what we do on "Mythbusters,"
we blow crap up.
So here at number one,
we celebrate the biggest booms,
the moste defining detonations
and the scariest fire balls.
But first to start the end with a bang,
the all-time fan favorite explosion,
the truck that disappeared in the light.
The cement truck is by far the fan favorite explosion full stop.
Well, we're going to use 850 pounds of
commercial blasting agent.
Isn't this like the biggest explosion we've done.
This is the biggest by like a 1,000%.
I think cement truck became a fan favorite
because it's like your first kiss.
It's something that you're going to remember.
Well, that's what we do on "Mythbusters,"
we take large objects and make them into small ones.
But it wasn't explosion itself
that gets people going about it.
Fire in the hole, fire in the hole.
It was the simple elegance of the thing.
First it was there and then it was just gone
it blows people away.
Five,
four,
three,
two,
one.
Piece of junk coming down, man.
There's aspects of it
that I really wish could be communicated
that isn't there in the episode,
we were standing a mile and a half from
where that truck blew up,
which meant that the shock wave
and the sound took two different periods of time to reach us.
We stood there and watched a silent explosion.
And literally a second later
a shock wave hit us which nobody was expecting
and it felt like somebody just hit me in the chest.
It seemed so peaceful.
And we just like...
If you have a chance
to watch the cement truck get filled
with 850 pounds of fuel and blown up,
I highly recommend it.
Well, there's your problem.
Where'd it go?
It's all gone.
There's no more truck.
I theft right here.
One cement truck.
This has got nothing to do with the myth.
This is just a big boom.
But that was just the start
of a beautiful big boom relationship.
Over the years,
the team has had the opportunity to savor
and appreciate a wide variety of explosions
and conflagrations.
Because the show has been on the air for so long
and because we've been able to work with
so many different types of explosions.
Every explosion has its own taste,
it's own feel.
Bye-bye.
When in doubt, c4.
The high speed explosives like the plastic explosive, c4,
those tend to be really snappy.
Those tend to have a really sharp crack.
They don't last very long.
Three, two, one.
Like exploding microwave.
Low speed explosives like dynamite and amfo,
they have a much throatier thud you really feel them
in your solar plexus, they're awesome.
But big is not always best.
Kari for one prefers a little bloom in her booms,
a visual flourish that requires additional ingredients.
My favorite explosions always involve some sort of fuel.
I love when you add gasoline.
I love when you add propane.
I love when you add coffee creamer.
Three, two, one!
It was like armageddon.
We had this huge 50 foot wall of
flames coming down on us
and it was like holy crap, I'm going to die.
That was frightening!
Quite honestly though my favorite explosions of all
aren't even technically from a physics standpoint explosion,
it's like watching hot water heaters fail.
Normally as an explosion,
you ever control over it,
you have a prime,
you have your finger on the button
and it goes off,
but when you're waiting for a pressure investigate toll
explode, you have no idea when it's gonna go off
you have no idea how big it's going to be.
Just you and me.
Those moments are probably the most exciting.
Now another thing
that people don't realize on the show
is that we often end up exploding things
that aren't specifically explosives.
For example, co 2.
Two words.
Sounds like.
Sometimes people ask us
if we're acting when an explosion goes off
and we're screaming and yelling and high fiving.
It's an explosion, are you kidding me?
There's something about that release of energy.
You feel it.
And feel a little scare and a little excited.
Is everybody okay?
Explosions are sort of a cathartic release.
You get this amazing, beautiful
dirt throwing flame throwing plume
that throws a shock wave ought that you can just feel.
Why are explosions such an integral part of the show?
No more car!
It's not only because we love to blow stuff up.
One way that you can tell that "Mythbusters"
has been in the area is to look for shrapnel in the trees.
It really seems to be that
most of the best stories end with something
being destroyed in some spectacular fashion.
And when you wanted to destroy something
in a spectacular fashion,
well, we've dried most things
and few work better than explosions.
Which gives us the opportunity to reconfirm the myth
that it's better to end with a bang.
We made something blow up!
So sit back, relax
and enjoy the chart topping most memorable "Mythbusters"
greatest hits.
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