I can understand why Jamie or others might get frustrated with Adam
Posted by mazzicc@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 8 comments
I just watched pirates part 2, and right after it was steam power machine gun. After the entire pirate episode of Adam going over the top with his pirate accent, when pitching machine gun he started doing an over-exaggerated nerd accent and partway through I thought “good lord just talk like a f*ing adult.”
But it also reminded me of friends I have that are perfectly normal but sometimes do things they think are hilarious and everyone else just gets annoyed. So it’s perfectly reasonable to be annoyed at someone’s behavior while still being great friends. It just makes them annoying at times.
Also similarly though, Adam seems to have mellowed with age, and I feel like his personality on the show is not the personality he uses anymore. Especially the characters and accents.
DmSurfingReddit@reddit
Producers told them to do all the things they did in the show. So it’s not really Adam himself.
DangerSwan33@reddit
I disagree with the premise.
The first time Adam does the accent for a blueprint, he actually has Jamie in stitches, to the point where Jamie starts turning red trying to hold in his laughter.
It was one of the earlier examples of Adam dressing up and doing a ridiculous voice, so I kinda feel like it was one of those things where he probably did it here and there off-camera, and ramped it up to 11 the first time he did it for the camera, and everyone realized how stupidly funny it was for him to full-commit like that.
I also think that it played extremely well for the show, as it really separated their dynamic.
The show really catapulted in popularity around the time that all 5 hosts really got comfortable playing a character in front of the camera, and that was Adam's character.
Adam has talked about how he and Jamie had worked together on numerous projects for years before MB, and that Jamie hand picked Adam to be brought on for the show, both because he knew how well they worked together, and because Jamie knew that Adam had the charisma that Jamie didn't have in order to make a TV show.
I honestly believe that for all of Adam's talk about them not getting along, and all of Adam's stories about their relationship, and how Jamie is with people, that Jamie wouldn't have brought him on, and wouldn't have kept going for so long if he truly didn't like Adam.
mazzicc@reddit (OP)
My whole point was that you can work great with someone and still be annoyed with their antics from time to time.
I get that Adam dialed it up for the camera and in small doses it was fine. In fact, I didn’t even notice it until I watched too many episodes at once and so I got the overdose.
People seem to be reading this and thinking “omg, he hates Adam” and not what was laid out in the post: I can understand how working with a person like Adam could get annoying at times, because I have friends like him who I get along with, but sometimes get annoyed with.
Moakmeister@reddit
Why does this post have upvotes
mazzicc@reddit (OP)
Why not?
floyd_the_barbarian@reddit
You gotta also think about the fact that they spent hours doing these experiments and we only see minutes of it.
I doubt Adam talked like that the entire time. He only did the accent on camera because it was a TV show.
mazzicc@reddit (OP)
I don’t think he did it the entire time for sure, but he’s also talked about how he realized early on that he could play his humor up for the camera, so there’s an aspect of it that is him in real life too.
backalleywillie@reddit
He's talked many times about this. He knew that his goofiness and humor played well for the camera, and so he ramped it up for that purpose. It IS his humor, but he's playing a big, exaggerated version of himself. A TV version.