Comments on: A day with the 'MythBusters'

A day with some of TV's craziest characters means coming face-to-face with shark bait, extreme steak, and some of the most interesting people on the boob tube.

[Len Bullard]

Ahm Jealous

The subject line sez it.

Not just a chance to watch the dynamic duo play in the lab, but an afternoon watching Kari do ... anything... that will turn a geek's head.

[bencole]

Jealous!

That would be so cool... but just a heads up, it's "Bahamian" not "Bahaman" (para 7).

[Info_Max]

This is the most boring & stupid show.

How in gods name they can get funding for this stupidity is simply amazing.
I mean there are great companies & ideas that are going bust because
they cannot get financing and these 2 bozos get multi Million Dollars per
month in capital to create this Junk!

[skrubol]

The airwaves would be pretty dead if stupid shows weren't allowed

Disclaimer: I am a fan of the show.

I'm not sure where boring factors into this show. All of the characters are quite charismatic, the science content is quite interesting (and usually correct,) and there are lots of crashes and explosions. I'm not sure what person in Discovery's demographic would find the above boring.
As for stupid.. well, maybe it is, but it's less stupid than 90% of the other crap that's on TV. Yeah, Adam and Tori often act stupid (generally followed by a minor injury,) but I'm not sure how it could possibly be more stupid than some moron guessing which briefcase has a bunch of money in it and pretending that there's a strategy.
Sure, the budget of the show could probably be better used to help humanity by financing some great ideas, but there's money in entertainment. And this show has a little bonus that there's actually a bit of educational value in it.
Do you just like complain about everything?

[wildbilz69]

Most boring???

Maybe Info_Max needs to leave his remote set to Cinemax and let silly science have its day. If one kid learns from this and advances his future, well welcome to the silly stuff that made this country great!

[Batotahell]

Change your channel.

MythBusters is an oasis of intelligence in the vast desert of brainless pablum that is television. The people in the show use logic and personal experience to plan their experiments and keep themselves safe. Great companies and ideas out there? You mean like "Joey", "Joe Millionaire", "Cop Rock" "Tila Tequila", or the biggest mistake ever perpetrated on the viewing public: "Jackass". For every good show like Mythbusters, 100 abominable pieces of crap are flung at our TV screens to see what will stick. Please just change your channel back to whatever you consider "good" and let us continue our explosive contemplations.

[dba7]

not intelligent

@Info_Max
Dude you obviously lack the intelligence to appreciate the show.

[dcase99]

Ummm

So that means, American Idol, My Dad is Better than Your Dad, Deal or no Deal, Oprah, Dr. Phil, Tyra is better???? No thanks, gimme Mythbusters over these any day!!!

[canberra_photographer]

Sounds like somone got their own idea knocked back because no one would watch it and now they hate the world. Crawl back into your dark cave.

[Hans131]

Mythbusters

If any myth remains unbusted, please leave it that way. Hans H Mueller

[BuddhaKat]

Kari is hot

I just watch because Kari is HOT. Well, that and blowing things up. And cause Kari is hot.

[boracay11]

Mythbusters rocks and Kari is hot!!!

For those of you who do not care for Mythbusters please keep in mind that the experiments and myths shown on the program are generated from research and more specifically viewer requests, so when you put down the show your also putting down the viewers.

[geognerd]

A dig at Smash Lab?

From the article: "There's a lot of shows where you can see that the hosts show up, and it's all been set up for them," said Hyneman. "What you see here, we do it ourselves."

I wonder if Jamie's talking about Smash Lab or if I'm just reading too much into his statement. Hardly any of the prep work is shown for the tests done on Smash Lab. That leads me to believe the presenters just show up to find everything already put together.

I have more respect for Jamie and Adam's work. They know exactly what is going into the experiments because they build the rigs and are more hands-on.

[baldguy61]

Mythtrusters

I haven't watched this show since they drove a pickup truck behing a running turbine engine to prove that it wouldn't blow over. That was a few years ago. They used a small turbine, not a typical high-bypass engine such as one would find on a 747, MD11, airbus A300, etc. I have witnessed vehicles being blown over by driving behind large turbofans at idle and recognize that that particular segment was rigged, which makes me wonder what other "myths" they've rigged. Besides, what's with that stupid beret?

[geognerd]

They addressed this

You are right, that wasn't a good test. However, they re-did the test last year with a 747 cargo jet outside Detroit. They went beyond blowing away a taxi this time, blowing away an old school bus and a small Cessna-type propeller plane.