On this episode of "MythBusters"...
Am I really that ugly?
Adam and Jamie face a freaky face off fable.
Can a pull-over mask...
It's party time.
...be used to pull off a "Mission Impossible" style identity theft?
That is weird.
Meanwhile, Kari, Grant, and Tori
take aim at two ballistic myths.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
First, can a trick shot shoot a gun along the ground?
Second, would a Hollywood bullet
really blast a merry-go-round...
Make my day.
...into a spin?
Now, it's the scary-go-round.
Who are the MythBusters?
Adam Savage...
Big boom! Big boom!
...and Jamie Hyneman.
Surrender your candy.
Between them, more than 30 years of special effects experience.
Joining them,
Grant Imahara...
Decapitation hazard, everybody!
Kari Byron...
and Tory Belleci.
They're going to fry my brain.
They don't just tell the myths,
they put them to the test.
MythBusters 9x01 - Mission Impossible Mask Original air date April 6, 2011
Corrected by atrn97g www.addic7ed.com
That man there wondered who we are.
We're the stories.
Allow me to demonstrate.
Remember in "Mission Impossible",
when the characters would wear
these heads sculpted full
pull-over head masks in order to
pretend to be a completely
different character in order to breach security?
That's what we're gonna test.
Yeah.
In the iconic 60's TV show "Mission Impossible",
a number of storylines depended upon
handmade masks to perpetrate identity theft activities.
On screen the pliable realistically colored material
is supposedly enough to fool security guards
and even colleagues.
But Adam and Jamie want to know if it's possible in real life.
You want to hear my methodology?
Shoot.
All right. The masks we were just wearing
are made by SPFX Masks,
and they make the "creme de la creme" of silicone
super realistic full pull-over head masks,
and they work old-school.
They will make us a pair of masks,
working solely from photographs,
exactly the technique used by the agents in "Mission Impossible".
Well, you know, there's more to this than just the masks.
We not only have to look like each other.
We have to be able to act like each other.
Are you suggesting we get acting lessons?
Isn't it about time?
I think it is.
That's perfect.
Let's do it.
So first stop, let's meet the ugly mug maestro,
who will be helping Adam and Jamie
pull off this mythical face-off.
Now line up and give me 20.
Their hands-on techniques do match
the old school methods of the "Mission Impossible" myth.
But making an out-of-this-world monster mask is one thing.
Recreating a human face accurately enough
to fool a security guard is a different beast altogether.
These are pointy.
This is very attractive feature.
To make sure Adam and Jamie's masks don't end up
with freaky pointy features...
Turn to your left.
...step one is gathering accurate data to work from.
Jamie, we are going to measure your cheek bones.
And with those numbers and pictures as reference,
it's over to special effects artist Jim,
who sculpts an anatomically accurate clay bust
as the foundation for each mask.
Next, they create fiber glass molds around those clay forms,
which, when hardened, look like this.
This is my mold.
Pretty soon they're gonna put this together,
and pour silicone in it, and you'll have a duplicate Jamie.
Once the silicone is set and
popped from the mold,
the basic canvas for each mask is complete.
Now it's time for the texture,
detail, and color.
Everybody thinks of skin as just one crayon in the box
when in fact, it's composed of a whole bunch of colors,
and it's one of the most difficult paint jobs.
This guy will take between six and ten hours to get right.
It's weird.
This is my half-finished mask.
Doesn't look like me much at the moment,
but put some hair on it and a beret,
you're gonna be surprised.
And what's more surprising is
how much effort goes into making our who-is-your-who suit
because the follication is done hair by painstaking hair.
The hair on my mask is actually real human hair,
and it's punched into the silicone one follicle at a time.
It's very time consuming.
Just the front, the beard and eyebrows takes three days.
The whole head?
A week.
You're gonna shave me, right?
- Aha. - Okay. Good.
While Adam and Jamie's faces are being finished,
Adam and Jamie head back to the shop to
learn to be Jamie and Adam.
And to do that they're in the hands of a legend.
Our acting coach is Terry McGovern.
He's been acting for 40 years,
and he's been teaching acting himself for 15 years.
Film buffs might recognize him
as the teacher in "American Graffiti."
He was also the voice of the sand-trooper in "Star Wars"
who said "These aren't the droids we're looking for".
His job today is to teach us the art of impersonation.
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Judging from the title "Firearms Force",
and the fact that you guys are packing heat that'll blow off the room,
I'm guessing we have some shooting in our future.
Yep, and a lot of it.
We are testing two myths about bullets doing work.
Like killing bad guys?
No.
What we're talking about is bullets doing physical work,
something moving when you shoot it.
Like what?
Well, the first one is a classic gun myth,
where two guys are in a duel.
One drops his gun and reaches for it,
and the other guy shoots it across the floor just out of reach.
But can a bullet really impart that much force?
Exactly.
The second myth comes from the movie "Shoot'em Up"
where Clive Owen shoots Charles' merry-go-round
to get it to spin.
I think we should start with that one.
I've always wondered if that was true.
In this "Shoot'em Up" scene, our hero stainies a sniper
by firing a round into a merry-go-round.
And supposedly the force of the bullet spins
the target out of harm's way.
But is the propulsion down to physics,
or is it just cinema spin?
When we test these myths,
I think it's gonna be important for us to duplicate
the circumstances exactly as they appear in the movie,
which means distance to shooter and type of gun.
Then we go for it.
If that doesn't work,
let's step up the firepower.
Well then, we should definitely ramp down the friction
of the merry-go-round by using some lube.
So to complete the scene, we need some props.
A gun from the movie, a Glock,
a merry-go-round, and shooting range.
Let's go.
For our firearms force myth
we've come out to the Richmond Rod and Gun Club,
so we can find out
if a handgun has enough force to spin a merry-go-round.
And speaking of merry-go-rounds,
they've brought their own.
Okay.
Lubrication might help some of the friction,
so that we can get a little better spin on this.
With the carousel lubed and leveled...
- Perfect. - Real nice.
...and the safety railings in place,
it's play time.
All right. That's it.
Let's see if it works.
But before their round-about becomes
the most dangerous play equipment in history...
Oh, it's just like childhood,
it's super dangerous and I feel like I wanna throw up.
...first, some science of spin.
The challenge of this experiment
is that the energy from the bullet's impact
has to overcome the merry-go-round's inertia,
inertia being the resistance to movement.
And that is based on the math.
This thing weighs over 500 pounds.
That's a lot to overcome.
So, it's over to Grant using the force gauge
to find out exactly how much resistance
the bullet needs to overcome.
Okay, 8.6 pounds.
I don't know.
We'll see.
To monitor the merry-go-round,
Grant adds a gauge,
so if the gun gets any spin, they'll know.
And speaking of firepower...
To test this myth,
we're gonna start out with the gun from the movie,
the 9-mill, and if that doesn't work,
we're going to tap into the
entire MythBusters arsenal with
more and more powerful fire arms.
That's the plan,
but, first, it's down to the movie weapon of choice.
The Glock.
Now, it's got a muzzle energy of 383 foot pounds
and a muzzle velocity of 1300 feet per second.
Remember, the more mass,
the more inertia an object has, so at 500 pounds,
the merry-go-round has a lot of inertia.
And although the bullet has 383 foot pounds of muzzle energy,
as it flies through the air,
some of that energy dissipates.
So by the point of impact,
will it have enough remaining kinetic energy
to overcome the inertia and the friction of the bearings?
Shouldn't it be spinning by now?
- Oh, that was a good shot too. - Yeah!
That was a direct hit,
and I don't see the merry-go-round moving at all.
So with our first test with the
9 millimeter hollow point in the Glock,
we had enough energy
to punch through the steel railing,
and move the merry-go-round about one-eighth of an inch,
but it certainly wasn't the spinning around
that you see in the movie.
Unlike the movie,
it seems the Glock doesn't have the power for a push,
so they're switching guns.
So this is the Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum.
It has 1,100 foot pounds of muzzle energy,
more than twice that of the Glock...
I got just one question.
Are you feeling lucky, punk?
I don't even know if you need to take a second shot.
Even with the more powerful handgun,
we were not able to get the merry-go-round to spin.
We got it to move significantly more than the 9 millimeter.
About three-quarters of an inch,
but that is not spinning like you see in the movie.
Now we have one more handgun in our arsenal.
The 45 caliber has four times the muzzle energy of the Glock,
but will that extra kinetic energy
overcome the merry-go-round's inertia?
- Good shot. - I don't see it spinning.
Not yet.
Not spinning yet.
Nope.
Yeap, it seems that getting this carousel to spin is anything
but the child's play of the movie.
So just like the movie,
we started out testing this myth with handguns.
We tried 9 millimeter,
45 caliber, and 44 magnum.
And so far nothing has been able to
move this merry-go-round very far.
Certainly not like the spinning you see in the film.
But you know what? We're not giving up here.
We've got plenty of other guns.
Up next on "MythBusters"...
You know...
Adam and Jamie get into character
and each other's faces.
Another transformation is complete.
Adam an Jamie are facing off against the myth
that wearing pull-over face masks
and altering your body language is
enough to fool a security guard.
And so far they've had their mugs immortalized in silicone.
But the masks won't be enough on their own.
Very still.
Cue, acting 101.
Cerebral.
First up, how to be Jamie.
Gestures.
A lot of work with the mustache and the beard.
Now the voice. Okay?
Very monotone, very low pitch,
very authoritative.
I'm excited.
This is really thrilling.
I used to collect molds and spores.
It's pretty good.
Are we done?
Now we all know Adam enjoys mimicking Jamie
for comic effect.
When I was riding the rails towards
the end of the Great Depression,
I learned several things from my humble mentor.
But when it comes to professionally putting the voice...
Fine.
physical gestures, and posture together into
a believable performance...
Well, he is positioned so you can't knock him over.
...it's a much tougher assignment.
But after a few hours of hard work
with our professional thespian...
He uses vocal gestures, by that I mean
sometimes instead of words he will make sounds.
Jamie slowly but surely emerges.
I'm just trying to get a word in edgewise.
Yeah, not bad.
Adam's almost there.
And while he keeps practicing,
it's on to Jamie.
First of all, Adam moves a lot.
With all of Adam's garrulous and
expressive character traits demonstrated,
Jamie enters his own personal Room 101.
You know what, I'm... I've had enou...
No, I can't do this.
His innate modesty
and discomfort in the spotlight
makes the whole process a real challenge.
Let's see.
But in a testament to his sense of humor and perseverance,
and Terry's teaching skills...
To do that, you have to break the Jamie stands.
...they get through it. - Thinks a lot with his hair.
The recipe for being Adam is pretty simple really.
There's a lot of random movement
from the waist up, including his arms.
You know, I think you might be right.
He is constantly adjusting his glasses,
smoothing his hair, and stroking his beard.
And he laughs often and readily,
and generally covers his mouth
with his hands right after. - Can I stop now?
You may stop and put your ballet back on.
My work here is done.
Best of luck to you.
After the curtain comes down and Terry bows out,
the newly-minted thesps have their
handmade masks hand delivered.
And get a bit of a shock.
Am I really that ugly?
Oh, man.
That is fricking creepy.
Creepy, most definitely,
but this isn't a Halloween special.
The goal here is security breach realism.
And to achieve that
they've got to put together the complete package.
Are you ready?
You know, becoming Jamie is
more than just being a century and a half old
and having a taste for fast cars and hard cider. Oh no.
There's many moving pieces to the puzzle
that is James Franklin Hyneman.
It starts with the shoes.
Then there's the gray pants.
The trademark white shirt,
for which clearly I need some bigger shoulders.
Add shoulder pads,
the all-important mask, beret, and glasses.
And then the transformation is complete.
And fake face to fake face,
the comparison is impressive.
I have to say, the clothes make the man, don't they?
They seriously... they seriously do.
But is it good enough?
After all, there are some obvious flaws in this face-off.
The technique that was used to make this mask involves
sculpting it over a generic inner mold.
That means that every time a different person wears it,
it's gonna look slightly different.
In my case, Adam's head here is a bit larger
and fatter than it is in real life,
so the masks aren't perfect.
The question here is how far can we
actually go towards fooling a mark.
We can do things like wear the clothes of the original person.
We can act like the original person.
Really loose.
We can even distract the mark.
So all of those things accumulatively
may well have the effect of
completing the illusion much better
than any individual technique would by itself.
That's perfect, you nailed it.
That's good.
Later, our gun-totting trio get into character
for another ballistic movie history.
But next...
It's party time.
Adam and Jamie get excited.
I'm a picture of unconstrained joy.
In "Shoot 'em Up",
the hero shoots first and asks questions later.
But could a bullet really blast
a merry-go-round into a spin?
So far the handguns fail to spin the wheel.
So now for something a little bigger...
What I have here is our good old standby 12 gauge shotgun.
We're gonna be firing a deer slug.
Now, the deer slug has 2,500 foot pounds of energy.
That's more energy than any of our handguns so far.
Plus, the deer slug has more mass than any of the bullets.
With added mass and that extra energy,
it will hopefully get this merry-go-round to spin.
Okay, so not only is it not spinning,
but you blew a hole clean through it.
Yeah, it's not working.
But maybe a bit of bullet-proofing will help.
So, what's happening right now
is our bullets are flying so fast,
they're just punching right through the merry-go-round,
and we're losing all that energy.
So, we added these plates, hopefully
that'll capture that energy and make this thing spin.
All right.
This is 12 gauge shotgun with
deer slug reinforced merry-go-round.
It moved a little.
The bullet proofing absorbs more of the bullet's energy.
Keep it going, yeah
And withstands Tory's shotgun barrage.
But this is about a single impact,
and one deer slug only scored 1.5 inches of nut,
which means it's time to bring out the big, big guns.
This is an AR-50.
It fires 50 caliber rounds.
They have 13,000 foot pounds of energy.
They travel over 2,900 feet per second,
25 times more powerful than the gun in the movie.
If this doesn't spin our merry-go-round,
nothing will.
Despite an impact
that's separated the half inch steel plates,
the merry-go-round still isn't spinning.
We got it to move, and it moved eight inches,
and that was with one shot.
Yeah, but we're using a 50 caliber
with a reinforced merry-go-round,
and eight inches is really not that impressive.
- All right, so this one is busted. - Totally busted.
Busted, but there's still more twists and turns to come.
That is some of ...
Yeap, this is one crazy bleeping double taking myth,
so where to next?
Well, these guys are done,
and they look pretty darn good.
So how do you want to start testing?
Well, what say we bring in some members of the general public,
people who are familiar with our faces,
but don't know us
and see if these can fool them.
To simulate a guard watching a building's entrance,
our volunteers who know Jamie and Adam,
but not personally, will be told
their task is to focus a laser on a target.
This is gonna be cool.
However, we'll really be
testing their powers of observation.
Will the fake mask-wearing myth-buster
in their peripheral vision pass muster?
Here's how it's gonna go for our contestants.
They'll start in this room here
where shop general Don is gonna hand them a laser.
Then they'll proceed to this line.
90 feet from the target,
and on command they will point their laser
at the target and then
they'll stop pointing at the target
and then they'll proceed to the 70 foot mark.
At the 70 foot mark, they'll do the same thing again.
Laser on, laser off.
And so on.
Now, clearly, this is their last stop.
They'll point the laser at the target one last time
and then they'll turn at the end of the test
and see Jamie dressed as me.
I'll be watching everything from
behind this curtain.
Go.
So with Jamie in costume in character...
It's party-time!
...and in position,
the first excited fan is wheeled in,
given their instructions and shown
through to the test area.
Here comes our first test subject.
Okay. Start.
She sees Jamie.
She looks confused.
Next.
She looks suspicious, but she's not saying anything.
Aside from that brief look of confusion,
our laser wielding volunteer with
just the occasional glance
across a fake Adam completes the test
without giving anything away.
Stop. Thank you.
But as the real Adam suspected,
she was on to them from the get go.
Just wondering at what point
in the walk down that you felt like
something was suspicious about him.
- Ah... immediately. - Really?
Yes.
Subject number two is equally quick on the uptake.
- Hello. - Hi.
He looks really suspicious right there.
Even though the fans seem focused on the fake test...
Thank you.
Thanks.
Thanks very much.
Hello.
...Jamie's not fooling them at all.
Go.
And the third contestant
not only confirms the conclusion,
she pinpoints the "why".
When you first said go,
'cause you sounded kind of strange.
Oh, my voice?
Yeah.
Yeap, despite the voice coaching,
Jamie still sounds like Jamie.
Go.
And as soon as he opens his silicone covered mouth...
Stop.
...he gives the game away.
The question is, can Adam do any better?
Can someone please can clean up
all this crap from the shop?
Seeing as Adam frequently mimics Jamie,
he is confident,
but are his Hyneman vocal stylings
as good as he thinks they are?
Knock them dead.
Hello.
The next three contestants are taken through the test.
Go.
He is focused on that target.
But as before,
they keep any suspicions they have to themselves...
Next.
...until confronted by the real Jamie and asked directly.
What tipped you off?
The voice difference.
So it's confirmed, the voice is the give-away,
but the team haven't yet plummed the depths of this myth.
They're picking the suspect
variable and removing it.
Awesome.
So far, Kari, Grant and Tory have busted
Hollywood for playing fast and loose with physics.
Totally busted.
But before they get back on the merry-go-round
to replicate the results,
the team is gunning for a golden oldie.
It's the Good,
the Bad,
and the Purty?
In the movies, a gun slinger manages to nonchalantly blast
the gun out of the reach of his opponent.
But could this trick shot really do the trick?
So, we are back at the range to
test the myth that you could shoot a gun and move it
and we're going to test on three different surfaces.
The first one is a dirt road,
like you would find in a western.
The next one is a paved surface,
like you would find in an urban setting
and, finally, a tile floor,
something you might find in a public building.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna place
the gun on each of the surfaces,
fire at them, and see
if we can get them to move.
This is our target gun.
Just your basic 9 millimeter handgun.
Now, we're going to start using the glock
and we're gonna see if we shoot at the gun
how far we can skid it across the surface.
It's handgun versus handgun.
But before they get shooting,
Grant wants to check the friction
of our three floor coverings.
I'm gonna take a quick measurement of the force
required to drag them across the surfaces.
So, dirt is 1.54 pounds.
Okay, asphalt is 1.46 pounds.
Okay. Tiles' half a pound.
Unsurprisingly,
the tiled surface provides the least resistance.
So that's where the team will start.
This handgun is pretty heavy, I mean it's a couple of pounds.
I don't think there's any way a
handgun has enough muzzle energy
to actually get this thing moving across any surface.
Yeap, after the fake physics on film failed to
spin the merry-go-round in real life,
it's no surprise they're skeptical of making a gun skip.
Go on, grab that gun. Get it.
Shoot the gun away from the bad guy.
This is handgun vs handgun,
tile floor.
Oh, my God, no way!
That is just like in the movie.
Incredibly, completely confounding the team's predictions,
and just like in the movies,
Tory gets the gun to skid across 16 feet of tile.
Well out of reach of Buster the kid.
Three shots.
Dude, that works really well on the tile.
That is crazy.
With the 9 millimeter making quick work of the tile,
it's on to surface number two.
But with a higher friction rating,
perhaps the asphalt will put up more resistance.
Nice.
Three hits. You're almost out.
That's it. Four hits.
Totally works on asphalt.
That was great. That was like, four feet per bullet.
Asphalt confirmed.
Yep, so far the MythBusters'
predictions have been shot to pieces,
but there's one more dirty surface to try.
Here we go.
Dude.
Oh, my God.
That works so well in the dirt!
So dirt's confirmed.
Yes. Westerns don't lie.
Well, in this case they don't.
Even on the most resistant surface, the dirt,
it still only took six shots
to shoot the gun clear out of reach.
What we're talking about here
is transfer of kinetic energy.
Now, the bullet has a certain kinetic energy based on its mass and its speed.
It hits the gun and transfers
some or all of that.
Now, based on the friction of the surface,
that might require more or less.
Bottom line, it's the bullet hits the gun,
and it moves.
Confirmed.
Cowboy movie is actually all real.
I told you they don't lie.
Yep, in this case,
the force of a firearm on film
is, in fact, fact.
Unlike the merry-go-round.
but the team hasn't given up on
making that myth move.
Next up, they're going to find out exactly
what it would take to
put the merry-go-round into a spin.
In "Mission Impossible: Face-Off",
it seems you can't fool any of the people any of the time.
Kind of tell in the voice a little bit.
Well, all of them said the voice is
what tipped them off.
Next.
We're going to eliminate the voice from the next three tests.
Cause Jamie really talks just like this. Nobody knows that.
So, the next batch
of test subjects will be subjected
to the "silent treatment".
Okay. She's got a very mobile face,
let's see if she's got any tells.
As before, fake Jamie
will be standing near the target, pretending to note
the results from the fake laser test.
But the instructions will come from camera man Ben.
So far so good.
Our smiley pink top testee
seems intent on the target.
Move to next marker.
She hasn't found out anything yet.
She doesn't have a clue.
But fake Jamie is in clear view
and she can't help but see him.
So, as the guard to this building,
will our volunteer note our masked intruder
is not who he's pretending to be?
- Hello. - Hi.
That is awesome.
You are a dead ringer.
That's amazing.
At what point did you finally feel like
something was wrong with the disguise?
The first moment I looked at your face.
- Which was? - Straight on?
Yes. Which was when I was right here. Yeah.
Up until then I thought you were Jamie.
Excellent.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you, Jamie.
- Thank you. - And thank you, Not Jamie.
You're very welcome.
That's a result in favor of the myth.
Despite in being in plain view for
the whole 90 feet, it wasn't
until fake Jamie directly confronted her
that she realized it wasn't really him.
This experiment is working exactly as planned.
All of our test subjects are
totally focused on holding
that laser beam on the target.
Now, they can't help but see us
because we're right next to it,
but they're not looking directly at us.
And, so, they're going all the
way up until they're right in front of us
and they don't know
what's up until they turn around
and look directly at us.
Throughout the test you thought this person was me?
Yes.
- That went well. - I think so.
With three from three,
the results are cut and dried.
And all that remains is to check
if Adam's mask is similarly successful.
When did you notice that something was wrong?
When I turned to shake his hand
after the final tests. It didn't look quite right.
Excellent.
This's great.
Without the voice for people to cue off of,
they're going all the way from 90 feet to 5
feet believing that the mythbuster
that they're in the room with is me,
right up until the point at which they turn and see his big old head.
So in this scenario,
similar to a security guard
monitoring the entrance to a building,
if you keep your mouth shut,
the myth is looking great.
That went so much better
than I thought it would,
I want to do a little dance.
But now, Adam and Jamie
have a much tougher test in mind.
If we leave the voice out of the equation,
the masks are actually proving to be quite effective
up until the point that
the mark is point blank in front of the impostor,
but that is with fans,
people that know us,
but don't really know us.
Now the question is, what happens
if we bring somebody in that
deals with us every day?
That's weird.
Coming right up...
It's the scary-go-round.
Kari, Grant and Tory lock and load
to replicate the results.
So watching that gun fly backwards was amazing.
Yeah, that result was so surprising,
that I think maybe we should go back and retest the merry-go-round.
What do you mean?
What if we re-engineer it?
We have it so it absorbs the bullet's energy
and it spins a lot easier than it did.
Yeah, because if we can overcome the inertia,
we might be able to get it to spin
and keep it spinning,
especially if you use something that repeat fires.
Hey, this is "MythBusters". If it's worth doing,
it's worth overdoing.
And first on the list for a little overdoing
is the merry-go-round.
Lower down.
Starting at the bottom,
Tory over-engineers the bearing system
to give it the smoothest spin.
Now, one problem we were having with getting this merry-go-round to spin
was there was too much friction in the bearing system
that came with the merry-go-round.
So, I've switched that out for a couple of flange bearings.
Hopefully these will cut down that friction
and allow this to spin once we start shooting it.
Meanwhile, Grant and Kari add some armor plating.
Not only will these provide targets,
they should insure the optimum absorption of kinetic energy.
And with school out on the renovating,
it's back to the playground.
The most dangerous playground ever.
And with a new improved merry-go-round in place,
they can check just how improved it is.
So it took 8.6 pounds of force last time,
what do we have now?
Drum roll, please.
Okay, here we go.
0.4.
We've taken off 8 pounds of force.
This thing might actually spin.
And to give this recreation their best shot,
they're pulling out three big guns.
Kari will be providing the Entree.
The main course cooked up by Tory and Grant.
So this is the firepower
we're going to be using to try and spin
our super merry-go-round.
There are two semi-automatic shotguns.
We'll be firing deer slugs
which have an energy of over 5,000 foot pounds.
But to kick things off we thought we'd start out
with something just a little bit more powerful.
Now, check this out.
We have a Barrett 416.
Now with 9,000 foot pounds of muzzle energy,
we should be able to get pass that initial inertia
and actually replicate the results of this myth.
Yep, and if it wasn't already
the most perilous playground ever,
Kari has some last minute set dressing
that will really light up proceedings.
Well, it's not like this merry-go-round isn't dangerous enough,
we're at the shooting range firing rounds at it,
but Kari's decided to put barbwire
and a rope soaked in gasoline,
that she's gonna light before we start shooting.
We get it, Kari.
You don't want us to ride your merry-go-round.
Now it's the scary-go-round.
Scary, for sure.
But will their excess lead to success?
Will the amped up armory
replicate the results seen in the movie?
It's over to Kari to get the ball rolling.
Or, spinning.
And unsurprisingly, 9,000 foot pounds of energy
does finally overcome the inertia of the merry-go-round.
Then Grant and Tory provide backup,
with the steady stream of ammo to
keep the vicious circle spinning.
That is the most terrifying playground.
All right, who's going for a ride?
- We replicated the results. - That's awesome.
Awesome, but still busted.
Only by going completely and utterly "MythBusters"
did they get the money shot.
We took everything we learned
during the early stages of this myth,
and applied it to the scary-go-round.
We reduced the friction of spinning, we added plates
to capture all of that energy,
and, you know what, it works.
Now about the death cord swing set...
Yeah, how about the land mined sandbox?
- C4 seesaw? - Love it.
Up next: while wearing Jamie's head,
Adam messes with Kari and Grant.
After the show, check out the after show.
Log on to discovery.com/mythbustersaftershow.
I think it's time to move
from people who are familiar with us
to people who really know us.
I think it's time to bring in Kari and Grant.
You know I've got an idea.
What if we invite them over for
what we're calling an observation test,
and we expose them to you dressed as me,
but every time we do that,
we introduce a subtle wardrobe change,
and maybe that will
distract them enough to pull this off.
I think that's great.
Here's how this test is gonna work.
Grant and Kari will be told
they're here to participate in a spot the difference test
from five distances.
90 feet, 70 feet, 50 feet,
30 feet, and 5 feet.
From each of these distances,
a curtain will rise exposing me dressed
as Jamie on a turn tale spinning,
except each time the curtain goes up,
I'll have something different about my wardrobe.
Curtain down.
I think we're ready.
Cue a confident,
perhaps overconfident Kari.
I feel like I should be able to pick differences.
I mean I think I know Jamie pretty well.
Okay.
Raise the curtain.
At 90 feet with no actual changes to Jamie's wardrobe...
Oh, 90 feet is far.
Kari doesn't notice anything untoward.
But at 70 feet, she takes the bait.
Well, obviously the orange belt is different.
That's kind of Crazy Town.
I don't think I've ever seen
Jamie in a different color before.
But before Kari moves to the 50 feet marker,
a thought occurs, and she pauses.
Is that really Jamie or
is that a wax statue of Jamie?
OK. So Kari is aware something is not quite right.
Oh, yeah, different shoes.
But other than the obvious wardrobe changes...
There is a blue hanky in his pocket.
...it's not until she's at five feet
that she's willing to elaborate.
That doesn't look like Jamie.
And there's some sort of prosthetics
or something going on.
And even then it takes a moment
before she's ready to commit.
There's not one thing changing.
There is a complete difference,
that I didn't see at 90,
and I thought I saw at 70,
but I doubted myself, but at five,
yeah, unless he ate some shell fish and he is allergic,
there's something going on.
I knew there was some trickery.
How early did you catch on?
- 70. - Really?
I thought, I was like, "is that a wax statue of Jamie"?
Just doesn't look right.
At 70 feet I felt like there was
something a little weird about the Jamie I was looking at.
But I thought maybe he was, uh,
swollen from a bee sting or something,
so I didn't say anything as to not embarrass him.
Thank you, Kari.
Okay, I'm totally horrified by this mask.
I mean, it's just, first of all,
holding Jamie's skin freaks me out,
but wow, this was the weirdest test.
Weird, but very interesting.
Despite the distraction of the wardrobe changes,
Kari noticed something was off from quite a distance.
But she's known Jamie for eight years,
and it wasn't until she was five feet away
that she was sure.
The question now is will Grant
give us a more definitive result?
I've known Jamie for approximately 12 years,
and I am intimately familiar with how he looks.
And the reason is that
he always wears exactly the same thing.
Man, from this distance, that looks like everyday Jamie.
For the entire time that I've known Jamie,
he has always had the mustache and the beret.
And the rest of his wardrobe
hasn't changed in probably eight years.
All right. Well, that's easy.
He's got a florescent orange belt on.
As the test progresses,
despite Grant's close relationship with Jamie...
Those would be the wrong shoes.
...he appears to be completely oblivious
he is looking at Adam.
How close will he get before he realizes?
OK. Five feet.
Jamie, are you ready?
- I'm ready. - All right.
Raise the curtain.
That's strange.
It looks like a wax figure of Jamie.
I know it sounds weird,
I don't think that's real Jamie up there.
Yep, incredibly, until you get up close,
the mask really does work.
You.
Doctor.
Can you hold this for a second?
- Jamie, hold this. - Oh, my goodness.
I feel so embarrassed.
I've known Jamie for over ten years,
and it took me up until
the five foot mark to realize
that this is not Jamie.
Now, that was actually you...
The whole time.
...that was you the whole time.
That was me the whole time.
I must say I'm quite surprised.
We were able to fool both Grant and Kari.
I'm getting the distinct impression
that this deception business is all about the circumstances.
If you get the right combination
of distractions and distance and that kind of thing,
you can get away with murder.
So how do we wanna call this?
Is it possible to impersonate
somebody with a full pull-over head mask?
Well, obviously at this range, you're not you.
But given enough distance and distraction,
I think we're gonna have to call this one plausible.
And creepy.
Plausible it is.
Got to file this one under
"Mission possible."
Nice.
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