Poll: MythBusters: 23/01/2003 - 11/11/2015

[Idsertian]

We all know it, we all love it, but the intrepid duo of Adam Savage and Jaime "The Hyneman" Hyneman are packing it in. MythBusters just got done with its last day of filming. This is not the decision of Discovery, but that of Adam and Jaime themselves, who wish the show to go out on a high.

It's been twelve, long, glorious and explosion-laden years. Eyebrows were singed, bicycles were fallen off of, cannonballs landed in houses, and one high-speed camera failed to catch an awesome explosion.

Adam, Jaime, Tori, Kari and Grant: Thank you for many years of entertainment, and for teaching us that the only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.

Saucy sauce: http://imgur.com/gallery/6ErKZ
More pictures for the picture god: http://imgur.com/gallery/esKy4

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I thought they quit years ago.... thus i have no sads

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Though i did like the show


captcha: pyrrhic victory

 

[Barbas]

So why did they decide to leave? Do they just feel like it's run its course and it's a good time to move on to other things? Feels like a little bit of a shame; that was a fun show.

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't know, semi-science and explosions didn't do much for me then, and does less for me now.

 

[9tailedflame]

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I loved the hell out of this show, but yea, there's only so many workable myths, and i do respect that they decided to end it on a good note. Still, I'm gonna miss the show, and i hope they go on to do other things together, Adam and Jamie have great chemistry.

 

[Lieju]

I stopped watching it years ago.

It was fun enough, although the science (especially when they ventured away from pure physics) was not that good lot of the time.

 

[FPLOON]

Why do all the answers on the poll sound like they would come out of Starfire's mouth?

OT: I find it weird that I didn't end up liking Mythbusters until during the Kari-Grant-Tori era of the show... Beforehand, I thought the show's editing was boring as well as overshadowing the potential awesomeness of the myths being busted... Then again, at the time, I thought The Wild Thornberrys was the best nature show on television, so there's that...

With that said, the last episode I saw from Mythbusters was the one that featured Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead, so I am glad (more than sad) that the show's ending on the main duo's terms... Still can't believe that they're just good co-workers and nothing else outside of general respect, I guess... Talk about busting the myth about Adam and Jamie being friends off-camera/work...

 

[Saltyk]

Not having cable, I have never really watched the show. However, I watched it with friends a few times. I can say that I enjoyed it. They certainly took some things to the extreme (chilling beer with liquid nitrogen) but that was half the fun. I hear people say the science was questionable, but I'm not about to call BS on anything they did. Half the point of the show was to entertain people.

I wish the crew the best.

 

[RJ 17]

Eh, it was a fun enough show. Though their methodology wasn't always as accurate as it could have been.

Favorite bits:

Hot Water Tank Rocket

Powdered Creamer Fire-Bomb

 

[LordLundar]

So why did they decide to leave? Do they just feel like it's run its course and it's a good time to move on to other things? Feels like a little bit of a shame; that was a fun show.

According to Adam they wanted to end it before it faded out.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I mostly liked the show when it dealt with common stuff you see in movies (especially action movies) and whether it would work in real life. Things like "can you shoot a padlock off?", "shooting a gun underwater", "can a sword cut through another sword?", "can you really shoot a guy through his rifle scope?" etc. It was getting to the point where they were really reaching for 'myths'. Like "really? Has anyone ever given this a thought?".

I'll also openly admit that I hated one aspect of the show which is probably the stupidest reason imaginable: Jaime's beret. Seriously, every time I see that stupid thing I want to throw it in a fire.

 

[sky pies]

I am reminded of a line from Frasier:

"You're firing Nannette from Pet Chat? She's been at the station for thirteen years!"
"Yes but she's been floating at the top of the bowl for seven."

I may have the numbers and script a bit wrong there, but the point remains, to be honest I'm surprised these guys stretched it out that far. I loved the show for the first three or so seasons, I think, but to think that it was still going a few days ago is quite a shock to me. I mean how many bloody myths are there? They must have recycled or reworded things at least a few times~

Anyways, I liked them, but I think it's good that they get a chance to move on with their lives.

 

[flying_whimsy]

They should have never let the insurance company fire the build team. Never.

To rub salt in the wound, the show afterwards was filled with big-budget sets and celebrity appearances: makes that whole "oh, we can't afford them" ring a little false. Also, I had the distinct impression that adam and jamie were treated more as performers than scientists; couldn't have been fun getting bossed around that much by the producers.

I'm sad to see mythbusters go, but for me it kind of died when the build team 'left.'

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

I stopped watching TV a few years ago, so I have missed nearly half of the episodes and periodically forget Mythbusters was still running. I never knew the build team was canned until a few weeks ago, either. There's is a lot of catching up to do. I did enjoy the show when I watched it. Mythbusters was one of the few good things left on cable.

It's good they are finishing on their own terms. Too many shows, both fiction and non-fiction, get dragged out?

I stopped watching it years ago.

It was fun enough, although the science (especially when they ventured away from pure physics) was not that good lot of the time.

I still remember the older episode where the build team tests "pyramid power" and other obvious superstitious myths. When Jamie said to them "no more hocus pocus myths," it felt like he was talking to some producers that forced everyone to film that segment as padding.

There were a few other segments like that, where barely any science was involved. I was never a fan of those.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

They've been fizzling out since before the Build Team left. I'd still have conversations about people like "Did you see the myth where they did this?" And we'd talk all about the shit involved. I feel like it was just one those shows that everybody watched and enjoyed, from all ages, because it had all this good stuff keeping it propelled. The presentation, the characters, the execution, the overblown and pure stupidity, and it was all built on everyone's interest in the weird stuff they were testing that you really couldn't find anywhere else and grounded in reality and practicality. Discovery Channel wasn't Discovery Channel, it was that channel with Mythbusters on it.

I think it's for the better they hang up their Plausible placards. Adam and Jamie can only carry the series so far when the audience has been used the extra personalities on the Build Team. Now the show is fairly dry and clear-cut and there's no... "competition" with the myths. (You know what I mean? "I'm bored with Jamie-Adam's myth, I wish they'd cut to the Build Team myth already" and vice-versa). Jamie's dryness was funny in the presence of four other colorful characters, and just the way how the cast interacted with each other was often times the best part of the process. The Build Team said they regularly enjoyed the company of one another, whereas Adam and Jamie treated each other as business partners and barely interacted outside the show, and boy does it show.

Right now it's getting stale and is held back by the good old argument that nobody's watching TV much anymore. Discovery has really taken a hit in popularity, and with Mythbusters being reduced to reruns I doubt it'll ever be able to recover.

I'll definitely miss that show. I grew up with that show, it was the only reliable thing on TV I liked, and I still like it. But it's going to be easy to cope without it, because I haven't watched it in years, because I just don't watch TV much anymore. Makes me sad that science isn't being done even when I wasn't watching.

Also this image will always be posted on discussions involving Mythbusters.

 

[happyninja42]

So why did they decide to leave? Do they just feel like it's run its course and it's a good time to move on to other things? Feels like a little bit of a shame; that was a fun show.

I would say it's partly just "We've been doing this for 15 years." As well as probably diminishing ratings. That's always a factor for a tv show.

And also partly (I guess, I don't know for certain), that Adam and Jamie aren't what you would consider close friends? I recall hearing Adam on several skeptical podcasts, make comments to the effect of saying that they are two very different people, and that their relationship is mostly professional. Perhaps after 15 years of working with someone you don't really get along with much, that they've had their fill of each other? Again everything in this paragraph is pure speculation on my part, based on snippets of stuff I've heard one of them say a few times. For all I know they had since become bosom buddies, but I suspect not.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Well they probably ended because the ratings went down, but the show was getting kinda stale. Tori, Kari, and Grant all moved on to new things. I'm sad only because I don't get to see Tori and Kari devise new ways to make Grant freak out, and/or throw up.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Shame, but it had to happen sometime. And since the show hasn't been the same since the Build Team left, maybe it's for the best. At least we'll always have reruns...

Favorite Moment: Blowing up a cement truck. Best TV explosion ever!