On Jamie’s Occasional Aggressivity Towards Adam from Season 1 Onwards…
Posted by SerenityEnforcer@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 26 comments
I grew up watching OG mythbusters (in fact I remember when it first aired in Discovery in 2003)… and recently found out there are full episodes of almost all seasons for free on YouTube.
I already know Adam and Jamie aren’t friends, but rather just colleagues. However I watched the three pilot episodes, there’s one instance in the 3rd pilot where Adam calls Jamie “a friend”.
I didn’t see any “butting of heads” between them on the pilot episodes… however after season 1 proper begins… I noticed Jamie’s behavior changed. From S1 onwards he becomes clearly aggressive towards Adam, complaining about him on many occasions… why the sudden change?
Stevespim@reddit
I have to admit that once I found out that the two of them weren't friends and just work colleagues that tolerated each other, all their little jibes seemed to become a lot more personal. That was probably me just reading more into it but some of Jamie's comments about Adam were just rude, but he tried to make them seem like funny quirks.
Mae-River-2017@reddit
I may be forgetting but the only one that got me was when Jamie said to Adam 'Wah wah wah, quit whining you big baby' in the Ping Pong Rescue episode when Adam wanted to have an alternative plan if Jamie's idea didn't work.
dillGherkin@reddit
That was from years of being co-workers and Adam would often get on Jamie's case about how to do something correctly.
Mae-River-2017@reddit
I always felt that Adam's definition of a friend was about how often they hung out for fun but Jamie's was more like can I trust you with my life.
annachie@reddit
Friendly rather than friends.
But, in professional circles that can count as friends.
Fearless_Locality@reddit
The thing is they work together for years before the show actually takes place
There is no real bad tension between the two. Anything you saw in this show is just hyped up. They both have a huge admiration for each other we must be 20 and you can clearly see that if you watch Adam Savage's current Channel on YouTube
beheadedstraw@reddit
One producer up until Season 4 I believe manufactured drama between them (or would intentionally rile them up). He's the same one that allowed Scotty to wire up the electric fence machine to shock Adam during the Baghdad battery episode.
They both were fired shortly thereafter. Surprisingly enough Adam was mad but Jamie was absolutely livid that not only the producer pushed them to do it but Scotty allowed it to happen since she was the designated safety coordinator for the build team. Something Jamie takes extremely seriously is safety as he's the main safety coordinator for the show and you see it after both of the above are fired.
As for the rest of the side remarks in later seasons, that's just the result of working together for years so you become almost like siblings at that point. Military folks rip into each other constantly but at the end of the day when shit needs to get done everyone comes together and makes it happen.
SerenityEnforcer@reddit (OP)
Wow didnt know Scotty was fired. She is one of my favorite co-hosts.
beheadedstraw@reddit
Yea, from what I've heard around the grapevine Jamie was royally pissed and flipped out on them, and rightfully so. That much voltage through the chest can kill someone.
Wulfraptor@reddit
the rage of the Hyneman scares me. Jaimie only ever got particularly annoyed on the show he never really flipped out
beheadedstraw@reddit
When it comes to life or death actions, I would flip out too honestly. A lot of that was through shear ignorance though and what "sparked" a the myths about electricity and death from it.
CyberpunkVendMachine@reddit
I don't know if she was fired, and I don't think anyone has ever used that specific phrase in interviews.
She comes back for an episode or two in later seasons when they need help welding big stuff, and she's in the publicity photos and social media posts for the informal reunions as well as the formal grand finale party.
beheadedstraw@reddit
Most of them use "personal reasons". I'm sure there was no resounding hatred or anything, especially since it was mostly the producers fault, but I'm willing to say it was more of a "we gotta let you go because you failed your job, no hard feelings and we'll just publicly say it was for personal reasons and leave it at that".
98TheCiaran98@reddit
They wanted it to be more like American choppers I guess
Phndrummer@reddit
They tried to make fake tension in the early years for drama
jaysedai@reddit
That was a fad in "reality" shows of the time. I'm glad they eventually stood up to that crap.
WoodyMellow@reddit
Aggressivity. That's a new one.
shanejayell@reddit
Well, there was a producer in the early season's who tried to deliberately get them fighting for added drama. He's also the one who had the Build Team electric shock Adam. He got fired....
ExcaliburZSH@reddit
This
jsabo@reddit
You can edit the same footage to tell two entirely opposite stories.
Season one, they played the reality TV angle. That got quickly dropped.
Offtherailspcast@reddit
Which is such a shame because it's so much better than the scripted blueprint scenes and the overreaction of the tiniest result from the Build team
erikleorgav2@reddit
At a certain point Savage and Hyneman sat Discovery down and said: "Stop putting our arguments in the show."
hdean667@reddit
They made statements about some producers wanting fiction and manufacturing it. They didn't go for it.
MasterFubar@reddit
The show was scripted to some degree. When I watched those episodes, I had the feeling that they acted that way because the production wanted to show tension between them.
SerenityEnforcer@reddit (OP)
That explains it. The pilots felt more “natural”.
woahdude12321@reddit
That’s like saying “every episode before the last one” lol