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jlechem
Nov 2, 2011

Fun Shoe
So apparently Mythbusters is filming its final season. It's going to be the biggest and best season ever. They already fired the hot chick so what else is left? Adam and the walrus dude apparently still hate each other. Should the band get back together?

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OMG JC a Bomb!
Jul 13, 2004

We are the Invisible Spatula. We are the Grilluminati. We eat before and after dinner. We eat forever. And eventually... eventually we will lead them into the dining room.
Today on Mythbusters: Can we make an explosion and film it in slow motion?

Spoiler: Yes

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Requesting some Mythbusters gossip because as someone who stopped watching it years ago it sounds like it's falling apart

Why would they fire Kari? She was a huge reason why people watched :confused:

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

final episode should end with them blowing each other up

Bamford Brownstone
Jul 21, 2010
Will they finally bust the myth about the show being good?

satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

symbolic posted:

final episode should end with them blowing each other

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Professor Shark posted:

Requesting some Mythbusters gossip because as someone who stopped watching it years ago it sounds like it's falling apart

Why would they fire Kari? She was a huge reason why people watched :confused:

I don't know maybe they hate prostrate health.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Professor Shark posted:

Requesting some Mythbusters gossip because as someone who stopped watching it years ago it sounds like it's falling apart

Why would they fire Kari? She was a huge reason why people watched :confused:

I haven't watched it in quite some time but i think I read in a thread somewhere that she asked for more money and they were like nope. They also wanted to move away from having like half the show done by the secondary crew because frankly they just never were as good.

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald

ArbitraryC posted:

I haven't watched it in quite some time but i think I read in a thread somewhere that she asked for more money and they were like nope. They also wanted to move away from having like half the show done by the secondary crew because frankly they just never were as good.

yeah sorry they sucked lol

now why they couldnt just use them for the main things is beyond me

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

etalian posted:

I don't know maybe they hate prostrate health.

I love this typo

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ArbitraryC posted:

I haven't watched it in quite some time but i think I read in a thread somewhere that she asked for more money and they were like nope.

Probably this reason or maybe they were gay.


FalloutGod
Dec 14, 2006
I enjoyed the show during its earlier seasons but they started to run out of proper myths and began to do really weird and obtuse poo poo. Maybe I was just fooled by its "newness" and there never really was any good science behind it all but it at least felt like it in the beginning. A recent episode I saw they did one where they "tested" if running in a zig zag pattern can help you get away from crocodiles wtf? Another was testing if a scene in a tv show where a woman had to hold a spring activated lever on a grenade or she would blow up was possible or not. Like seriously stretching for ideas.

naem
May 29, 2011

They could easily have gone to a "special guest appearance by" model where Kari pops in for a narration etc

welcome 2 Clown Town
Aug 1, 2006

GALAXY'S #2 SCULL*!

*scrunt skull
htey churn through extras and helpers like crazy also their show is dumb and maybe ishould be caleld specieal efects busters because thats what they really do they dont do mityns they just put togehter special evffects and WHAM there goes yourpregenancy and you had a 6 pund lump of flesh slikde out of yuour frontbutt

Tony Homo
Oct 30, 2014

by zen death robot

tomstuart posted:

htey churn through extras and helpers like crazy also their show is dumb and maybe ishould be caleld specieal efects busters because thats what they really do they dont do mityns they just put togehter special evffects and WHAM there goes yourpregenancy and you had a 6 pund lump of flesh slikde out of yuour frontbutt

Prehps yuor rihgt. I argree wit yuo comlpetyl.

TwoStepBoog
Apr 12, 2008

the last episode i watched, they were testing if Homer Simpson could really stop a wrecking ball from destroying a house if he was hanging on the side of it, so yea, they've been really reaching for ideas.

Roy
Sep 24, 2007

ArbitraryC posted:

I haven't watched it in quite some time but i think I read in a thread somewhere that she asked for more money and they were like nope. They also wanted to move away from having like half the show done by the secondary crew because frankly they just never were as good.

They were pretty good when they were allowed to be themselves and their real personalities showed through.

Which was like never. "Here read this forced script while acting in a really unaturally animated fashion"

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
people still watch mythbusters?

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger
Today on Mythbusters... Jamie stares at Adam with barely concealed contempt and tries to hurt him intentionally, which Adam brushes off by making funny faces at the camera. Meanwhile, Kari, Tory, and Grant hoot like degenerate loving apes after blowing up a block of C4 at the bomb range for like the 60th time.

Vastarien
Dec 20, 2012

Where I live is nightmare, thus a certain nonchalance.



Buglord

Professor Shark posted:

Why would they fire Kari? She was a huge reason why people watched :confused:

I don't think Jamie ever really liked her to begin with. I remember reading that before the show happened she used to hang around his shop all the time, trying to get him to hire her, and he was always like gently caress off. lol

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

etalian posted:

Probably this reason or maybe they were gay.




:prepop:

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

etalian posted:

prostrate health.

Sick band name

naem
May 29, 2011

There was the other girl who had actual welding skills and a streak of fake blonde hair who wasn't as bubbly on camera who they quietly got rid of when Kari showed up

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
Last couple of myths I saw:
Would the stormtroopers from star wars really miss as much as they do in the movies?
Can video game shoot mans really carry all those weapons?
Does the higher ground make a difference in a sword fight between two people with zero fencing experience?
Is it as easy to slice flying fruit as fruit ninjas would have you believe?

Yeah, they've been hurting for myths for a really long time.

Vastarien posted:

I don't think Jamie ever really liked her to begin with. I remember reading that before the show happened she used to hang around his shop all the time, trying to get him to hire her, and he was always like gently caress off. lol
I don't think Jamie really liked anyone to begin with.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
that lovely program is still on?

good for them i guess

Joust
Dec 7, 2007

No Ledges.
As someone who is pro-myth, I'm glad it is ending and I personally hope they get killed by bigfoot.

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
Adam is the kind of guy that's happy to do anything weird/interesting. Jamie is autistic and would rather have spent the last 10 years painstakingly making robot vending machines that fire coke cans at people so they can be seen for 4 seconds in a commercial.

The B-Team were never really as interesting outside of Kari who was there as spank bait for nerds.

Mythbusters ran out of poo poo to do to the point they literally did advertisement episodes; like dedicating an entire episode to the Green Hornet movie stuff. Like yes, that one. That you just remembered existed. That was like 3-4 years ago I think??

Also the B-team did advertisements for a VW Diesel car, "busting myths" about their smell/fuel economy/etc. They never tested the myth that they could pass california smog tests without cheating

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
The last one I watched they had Obama tell them their sun Lazer beam was wrong and do it again.

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
have they tested if jet fuel can melt steel beams?? :iamafag:

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
They should test the myth if one can ejaculate a gallon like porn stars do.

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Professor Shark posted:

Requesting some Mythbusters gossip because as someone who stopped watching it years ago it sounds like it's falling apart

Why would they fire Kari? She was a huge reason why people watched :confused:
Because the B team shot a cannon ball into a house accidentally.

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

for the finale they should test if god is real :catholic::dogbutton:

Ergo Propter Hog
Jul 21, 2014



zedprime posted:

Because the B team shot a cannon ball into a house accidentally.

Didn't the B team also almost kill Adam with electricity at some point?

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
0 ppl watch this dumb show

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




mythbusters is okay when its an interesting myth.. i kinda liked the one where they tried to build a motorbike out of a car.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

0 ppl watch this dumb show

It feels like a left over from the mid 2000's

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

also

Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms
Tell me about these accidental killings and Jamies hate for Adam

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Ahundredbux posted:

Tell me about these accidental killings and Jamies hate for Adam

they did an Indiana Jones episode and rigged their replica Ark of the Covenant to shock whoever touched it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OewF8lXDzFY

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gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
i saw the breaking bad episode and they tested a baggie of loose fulminated mercury to compare against walts 1 giant crystal of fulminated mercury as if it would produce the same result

look theyre really good at making giant water slides and know how to make ballistics gelatin but other than that...

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