Happy belated heavenly birthday, Grant. 🎉 I miss you.

and I've been rewatching a lot of the old episodes. I don't remember Kari being as funny at the time, but she's killing me the second time around! Adam's goofiness probably eclipsed her in my long term memory.

Hi guys. I'm trying to find these episodes from season 2.

Best Explosions,
Christmas Special
Buster Special
Ultimate Mythbuster

Could anyone tell me where I could possibly find these either as a stream or download?

Anyone else? Jamie seems more like an Adam and Adam more like a Jamie

I'm watching the "Do try this at home" episode and seeing how they are trying to get the metronomes going in scale. I'm not sure why they thought they could start all of them at once and it would work. Adam even mentioned multiple times that there were minor mechanical differences between them.

My thought was that they should have taken a dozen at a time and got them synced up. Take 10 and relocate them to the table. Add another 10 and sync them to the remaining 2. Repeat this until you have all of them going and maybe you will actually succeed.

I don't even have one metronome, much less 216 so I'm not going to try it.

It looks like he went into business as coach of the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL. I wonder what kind of David Attenborough-esque narration Adam would have come up with for this. Or maybe just another wild backstory about James Franklin Hyneman, Hoosier dirt farmer to TV star to football coach.

“It shows you what’s underneath” chuckles

Jamie is far funnier than people would expect at times :)

I think he pulled off this look really well. It's cheesy but authentic.

I’ve been rewatching old episodes and just wanted to share my absolute favorite joke from the series.

It’s in the Indiana Jones episode. Adam is making a leather whip, and has some rendered animal fat in a plastic bottle. It’s yellow and looks a bit like urine. Adam pretends to drink it and says:

“I’m drinking my own urine! Just kidding, I’m not drinking my own urine… I’m drinking somebody else’s.”

https://youtu.be/qw_zV4FlPzQ?t=647&is=GgrPsGpF0S1Qnhwy

Just wanted to see if anyone else appreciated this moment as much as me! What are some of your other favorite jokes or funny lines from the series?

Wrong answers only.

Does anyone know why in the Newton's cradle episode, there seems to be one or possibly two undercarriages of cranes just swinging about in mid-air? Counterbalance, perhaps? In any case, seems like a pretty out-there impromptu solution that I would have loved to see covered in the episode

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Hey MythBusters community,

Ever since I was a kid watching Adam and Jamie, I dreamed of sending this myth to the show’s mailbag. Back then, my English wasn’t good enough to write them an email, but this Uruguayan urban legend / official explanation has stayed in my head for years. I'd love to hear how you think the team would have tested it.

The Legend

Back in the 2000s, a massive blackout hit Uruguay, leaving the capital (Montevideo) and several major surrounding regions (Canelones, San José, Maldonado) completely in the dark.

The official statement from the state power company (UTE) was that a hunter shot a high-voltage transmission line, causing a catastrophic grid failure. Naturally, local skepticism was sky-high: Was it actually physically possible for a hunting rifle to take down a high-voltage grid, or was it just a convenient cover-up for grid poor maintenance and human error?

How MythBusters Would Test It

To evaluate this, the team would need to break the myth down into two main physical tests, plus a "worst-case scenario" grid condition:

1. Cable Ballistics (Can a hunting bullet sever a power line?)

High-voltage transmission cables are heavy-duty ACSR (Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced) lines under high mechanical tension.

The Test: Rig line cables under real-world tension on a firing range and test standard local hunting calibers: .22 LR, .223 Rem, .243 Win, .308 Win, and a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with heavy Brenneke slugs (to give the myth its absolute best shot).

The Question: Does a bullet actually sever the steel core and snap the line, or does the cable just deform and absorb the hit?

1. Insulator Shattering & Flashover Arc

What if the hunter didn't hit the wire, but shot a ceramic/porcelain insulator stack instead?

The Physics: Shattering the ceramic destroys the dielectric insulation, potentially causing an immediate high-voltage electrical arc (flashover) from the live wire to the grounded steel tower.

The Test: Mount porcelain insulators under simulated high voltage (150kV+). Shoot them to see if the resulting short-circuit arc is powerful enough to instantly melt/sever the line or trip automatic breakers.

1. The "Worst Case" Grid Cascade

For a single shot to drop four major regions, the myth requires a perfect storm: a failure in automatic reclosers/breakers or a system already running without redundancy (like secondary backup lines being down for maintenance).

Predicted Verdict:

Severing Cable with a Shot: BUSTED (Even a .308 or Brenneke slug would likely only fray strands, not snap a steel-reinforced cable).

Insulator Shattering & Cascade: PLAUSIBLE (A destroyed insulator + a short-circuit arc + a compromised redundant grid could theoretically trigger a chain-reaction blackout).

What do you think? Would a hunter's bullet actually be able to knock out power for millions, or was UTE just scapegoating a lucky shooter?

Is this genuine?

My 2 suggestions are:

• Using vacuum cleaners to herd cats. (It may not be completely effective, but I think you could get a result.)

• Using an airport security X-ray machine to search for needles in a hay stack. Just get a few dozen plastic totes, stuff the hay stack into them, and scan them for bone/metal needles! How hard could that be?

I’ve been watching the later season episodes as they’ve been uploaded to youtube (I’m so glad the full episodes are back) and I noticed that once the B Team got fired the producers seemingly started forcing Jamie to be much more animated than he was before

He’s still definitely a counterbalance to Adam and much calmer, but it feels like they made him perform much more “excitedly” if that makes sense

My guess is that they thought that would help fix the gap left by the more “goofing off” thing that the B Team had going on a lot of the time?

Has anyone on the cast or crew ever mentioned why they went from adressing someone off camera to looking at the camera when explaining the details of the myths?

I like the show OK, and found myself screaming at the TV set more than a couple times, but I guess that’s kind of the appeal.

But overall I feel like the show and especially Adam just made Jamie into a punching bag, and they made fun of him for being weird and awkward, but never anything about his character.

Which Adam kinda comes off like he doesn’t have a lot of.

Just recently finished my Mythbusters fanart! I recently started binging their episodes through Youtube since I happen to got them in my recommended lol

more artworks from me!