Anyone ever wonder why Kari Byron was constantly messing with Grant and Tori buy NEVER got messed with herself?
Posted by Jeri_Shea@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 29 comments
I remember watching Mythbusters and White Rabbit Project and Kari seemed to love to tease Grant and Tori. During the buried in sand myth, she kept saying that weird rhyme while Tori admitted it freaked him out. During the driving angry segment, she tortured them and laughed, while she didn't have to go through any of it. In W.R.P. she kept making them throw food and wine all over themselves and thought it was hilarious. Yet in every episode I ever watched, not ALL of them admittedly but most, was she ever in a position for Grant of Tori to mess with her. Anyone know why, or think it's sorta weird?
Dapper-Control-3976@reddit
In the fainting goats episode, do you think Kari REALLY flashed Tori, or was she wearing something under her jacket?
Jeri_Shea@reddit (OP)
I'd guess she had something on, Honestly. To do it for real would be tricky in terms of legality and she's kind of more like a sister to him then anything. It might have been weird for him if they did that for real.
disinterested_a-hole@reddit
I don't know about that. I always got a big flirtatious vibe between her and Tori, especially before Grant joined the show.
Jeri_Shea@reddit (OP)
Well, THAT'S a blast from the past.
White Rabbit Project made it even worse. It's worth watching if you haven't seen it.
disinterested_a-hole@reddit
Oh I watched it at the time. I'm just in the middle of a Mythbusters rewatch and stumbled across your post.
Jeri_Shea@reddit (OP)
Well, thank's for the fun reminder!
HyperSloth79@reddit
For anyone in this comment thread, Kari and Tori now have their own podcast style show on YouTube where they answer questions from fans and talk about lots of things that happened during making the show.
The fainting goats episode is a good example. They confirmed that she was not naked, she actually was fully clothed, they just rolled up her pant legs and sleeves, etc. on the spot to make it look that way.
Tori was a notorious prankster. Kari got the brunt of MANY pranks during filming, but most of them didn't make it into the show. A lot of the things she did to Tori and Grant were just tit-for-tat for their teasing and pranks, but we only saw one side of most of it due to to editing for viewers. Basically, she rarely got to get one over on them behind the scenes because she wasn't good at pranks, so the setups in the show where she got to torture or tease them was not even balancing the scales overall. ....and most importantly, Grant and Tori knew they deserved it and had a good attitude about the whole thing.
I recommend checking out their show. It's called Mythfits and answers pretty much anything and everything you ever wanted to know, plus Kari and Tori are just as entertaining and charming as ever.
Leather-Complaint308@reddit
So, in the Fainting Goats myth, Kari supposedly flashed Tory with her birthday suit? When I watched that episode, neither Kari nor the narrator made any inference that that’s what she was doing. The question is why didn’t they? If she really did do that, Tory is one very lucky guy!
JaguarOk9693@reddit
They did mess with her there's many times she had to go get the meat and she used vegetarian Tori also made a replica of the spit tube and drink out of it making her think it was all the crew spit when they did the tongue on the Frozen pole myth from a Christmas story
juggalojedi@reddit
I mean they did make her eat bugs that one time
Idk. A lot of it is probably due to the way the show was cut. Like all reality TV I'm sure Mythbusters was edited or scripted in such a way as to create or enhance certain narratives. There is, to some extent, gender politics to consider in the boys ganging up on the only girl on the show vs the only girl on the show giving the boys what-for. You'll notice that, before Grant came on the show, the Kari/Scottie/Tori dynamic was a lot more even in terms of taking the piss out of one another.
I don't know what Kari is like in real life but her character on the show was definitely the "abrasive wisecracker" (with Tori playing the lovable oaf and Grant playing the geeky know-it-all). Whatever the politics behind that decision, that's probably why she seems to give more than she gets.
Laboofanita@reddit
They didn't make her eat bugs. She's a stupid vegan and thought it was more acceptable to eat live bugs than dead animal meat.
allthecoffeesDP@reddit
Stupid vegan.
It's incredible the things people will judge others for. You eat differently than me. Therefore I will judge you to make myself feel better about other things in my life.
Laboofanita@reddit
Yes, I think vegans are stupid. It has nothing to do with other things in my life, very original by the way. I have money, have a good job, I enjoy golfing in my leisure time and I don't have to worry about anyone other than myself. Go eat some soy beans and shut up. Is that better? Is that the response you wanted? Bye.
CuteKinkyCow@reddit
So you chase a rock around in the grass, smacking it with a stick and counting to 5 over and over again. Wow such a big boy! Good work!
Excellent_Stomach_51@reddit
Being vegan=wanting kids to get gender affirming surgeries. Or still wearing a mask. Very twisted individuals. Also they all have the same destiny haircut and sickly physique.
Cambodia2330@reddit
Stupid golfer. I hate you.
ItsJustMeAdam@reddit
Example -"I think golfers who brag about their life stances are complete idiots." See how that works? I don't like vegan food cuisine aside from the normal veggies most if us eat, but I'm not going to call a vegan stupid because their food intake doesn't align with mine. Thats just asinine to even make that sterotypical assumption.
FragrantAd4141@reddit
Loves money, golf, and self. Arrogant, hostile, malevolent. Troll? Small penis? Pitiable?
Laboofanita@reddit
Sounds like a you problem.
Jeri_Shea@reddit (OP)
I'll admit, I never saw the eating bugs episode. Still, not a bad explanation and not something I thought of. Thank you.
agent_uno@reddit
Once the show realized that they had become a science show that kids watched I think they all realized that they were becoming influential to the next generation. I won’t guess as to their reasons, but I am glad that they didn’t allow themselves to make the lone woman the butt of any jokes (except the plane/toilet ep where her butt was literally used for the tests), and instead emphasized that she was just as capable on anything as the men!
CuteKinkyCow@reddit
Just as capable on anything as men, except for practical jokes and a little harmless teasing? Just as capable of dishing it, but less capable of receiving it?
What are you trying to say here? Because you have said she is just as capable with your words, but the result of your sentence is that she is obviously less capable..
You are wrong anyways, Kari herself admitted that she instigated a lot of the fun on the show because Tori was easily pranked, had great over the top reactions and she enjoys banter.
You are ripping Kari off, she was not often pranked on the show because she just didn't react when they tried.
The thing I love the most about my answer is that it came directly from her own mouth, not some idiot on the internet who just makes stuff up and presents it as fact.
Lopsided_Chemical862@reddit
"Remember kids, it`s not bad when it happens to MEN"
emu314159@reddit
I just watched the cooling a six pack/baghdad battery ep, where they shock adam. they hook the ark up to a electric fence transformer, and scottie and tori try it, and run halfway across the room in pain. tori says, "we can not do this to adam." kari does not try it, but asks tori scale of 1-10, and he says 211. then tori and kari end up lying directly to adam's face about it.
after he gets shocked and is clearly unhappy, kari actually has the gall to ask "did you feel god?." she and scottie still have big smiles, at least tori is human and looks chagrined.
yeah, i get the asshole creator Peter Rees is the one that's said to have put them up to it, but they could avoid looking so goddamn happy once it's clear no one is having fun. It's hard to watch, and changed my opinion of Kari. At one point she has a throwaway about one of the key skills required of her as kissing ass, and yeah, she seems kinda fake, esp as the one with the least experience before the show.
lolatFudgeEatingLibs@reddit
They became crisis actors.
Jeri_Shea@reddit (OP)
They did what now? I'm not sure what you're saying or how that answers my really old question.
Gloomy-Positive-7821@reddit
I am more wondering why she even was on the show with pigtails hair, a little bit to short shirts, big eyes and smile, and stands always bend backwards with her breast pushing forward
Physical-Bug-725@reddit
…Because she was a qualified professional and charismatic. You’re just sexualizing completely normal things and it sounds perverted.
Jeri_Shea@reddit (OP)
She was working for Jamie for free because no one else would hire a girl engineer at the time, and constantly helped out behind the scenes and got paid almost nothing.
Once Jamie made that copy of her ass for air plane toilet in season 1, everyone wanted to know more about her so she was the first pick for the B team.
As for why she looked the way she looked? Apparently that's just what she was like and is probably most of the reason she was picked for the B team.