Is it just me or do you wish they didn’t do some myths

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sir_thatguy@reddit

Curving a bullet, not the bent barrel version.

It goes against the simplest of physics.

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Sweaty_Influence2303@reddit

Yeah but that's why they test them. Because people are stupid enough to believe that shit and they need to show them how incredibly stupid it is.

Now at the very least if somebody says it somebody else can go "well the mythbusters busted that one"

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redundantlyreduntant@reddit

Yeah that was so stupid, and downright bloody dangerous even the way they did it

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DangerousBus7202@reddit

Chinese Water Torture was a Bad idea from the get go, and by the end, it's was obvious in the emotions

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Sweaty_Influence2303@reddit

The extra damning thing is in the deleted scenes episode it shows that all three of them subjected themselves to the same experiment and they all winded up almost as bad as Kari did.

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Sabre3001@reddit

Yeah, that has too much actual real world info to be fun TV. It would be like testing water boarding or something.

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Personally it's not that I don't think they shouldn't have done some (though personally I think they were going through the motions on stuff like pyramid power at least try one covered and sealed) it's that there is a bunch of stuff out there that needs tested. Like the psychology of 8 big slices of pizza sating your hunger Vs ten small slices feeling like a chore when it's the same meal

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Burning_Wreck@reddit

About the size of the plate making you think you have enough on it - Food Network did their version of that once years ago. I think Alton Brown hosted that show, which went into food myths and other stuff. Can't remember the name right now.

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Funkytadualexhaust@reddit

Lol, thats specific

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lastraven85@reddit

Got into many an argument about it 😂 people just don't take into account things like effort and bite size

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Evan64m@reddit

Ancient Chinese Astronaut was incredibly stupid. Just felt like an excuse to set off a bunch of rockets

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EmperorsChamberMaid_@reddit

Or rocket surfer. Or Confederate rocket. Or rocket swingset.

Pretty much any myth with rockets!

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Evan64m@reddit

Even JATO car was pretty stupid but at least when they started the point was testing urban legends and stuff more like that

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Burning_Wreck@reddit

But the JATO was a good hook to demonstrate what the show was about, in the first episode. I mean, you always suspected it was stupid, but getting to see HOW it was stupid was fun.

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Zxspecs@reddit

Killing bees

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TropicalKing@reddit

That myth of the cannon shooting a shrimp and then it's cooked was stupid. There is an equation you can use to measure how much time it takes to heat water. If you heat water for a microsecond by shooting it through a cannon, then you can measure how much the water temperature changes.

The entire myth should have been ignored because you can solve it using the equation. And what makes it worse was this was on the final season- the go home season where Adam and Jaimie tested the myths they always wanted to test but never had the opportunity.

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computalgleech@reddit

Tbf probably 50% of the myths on the show could be solved with simple equations. The popularity of the show came from showing people examples of the myths working or not working, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

A perfect example is the airplane on a treadmill myth. One of the most infamous examples of a myth that didn’t need tested because it obviously wouldn’t work. Yet when I was talking about it at work, a coworker of mine refused to believe everyone that was telling them it wouldn’t work. Mythbusters took away that disbelief in those that wouldn’t believe it if you just told them, and usually taught them the science behind why it did/didn’t work, along the way.

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TropicalKing@reddit

Plane on a treadmill ended up flying, it was one of the best myths they tested because it settled a lot of debates.

A cannon shooting a shrimp and then it's cooked made no sense to why they would even test it. It wasn't even a real myth, it was just something from a Japanese commercial.

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ktr83@reddit

I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say they were scraping the bottom of the barrel towards the end there. Happens to nearly all shows after a certain point.

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NASTYH0USEWIFE@reddit

Adam talked about those on Tested, and according to him, a lot of those were crossover episodes that the network wanted them to do and they didn’t have much say in it. Duck tape canyon might have been the worst of them but others such as Deadliest Catch and The Simpsons myths, the network signed the crossover contracts and Adam and Jamie could only just do the best they could with them.

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N4BFR@reddit

In the same sense, the Breaking Bad crossovers were some of the best.

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soulreaverdan@reddit

I can still at least appreciate some of the builds even if the myths at the end were suspect.

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Soggy_Rent1619@reddit

Yup, that's what did it in for me. It was getting too boring for me

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ImpressionLeft7280@reddit

They did the most commonly known myths and movie myths. Many were flawed by how they tested them. The two bullets colliding was a flawed myth because they removed half the human factor. Plus it didn't take in account the size of Armies in the Civil War and how many muskets were fired at each other

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Ginger_Grumpybunny@reddit

The cereal being less nutritious than the box it comes in thing. To begin with I'm not convinced it was ever a real "myth", more just a figure of speech. I saw a video of Adam talking about the "cannibal mouse" footage before I saw the episode which understandly didn't include that part, and I was horrified. I had thought the standard "no animals were harmed" thing was a policy which applied to any experiments they did involving live animals, but apparently not: they decided to test the cereal vs box in a cruel experiment involving laboratory rodents. The Discovery Channel was not amused and omitted that experiment from the finished episode, but not the entire "myth", so what we end up seeing is some basic high school science lab tests establishing the entirely unsurprising fact that the cereal has more calories, fat, sugar and protein than the box in which it's packaged, and Adam and Jamie discussing the idea of each of them eating only cereal or cardboard box for a week, but deciding against it on the grounds that they would probably cheat and they weren't sufficiently confident that the box (with its various inks etc) was non-toxic. To those who didn't know about the animal experiment that would just look really half-arsed and disappointing, while I, knowing what was meant to come next but didn't make the final cut, found the whole thing a bit disturbing. If Adam and Jamie actually had used themselves as the experiment subjects, and (after doing some research to be reasonably sure the box didn't contain any significant toxins) eaten nothing but sugary cereal or box for a few days, that would have been pretty badass.

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Sovreignry@reddit

Which myths do you think they shouldn’t have done?

I do think the pyramid power and the Ark of the Covenant thing were ill-advised at best.

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Ginger_Grumpybunny@reddit

I think the Ark of the Covenant thing would be fine if they'd done it properly, like incrementally increasingly the number of batteries you'd need for someone touching it to feel a tingle, but the producer ruined it by turning into a nasty prank instead, and that was indefensible.

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