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01-03-14, 12:18 PM

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Mythbusters 2014 Season

Mythbusters is kicking off a new season January 4th, 2014 with a 1 hr Star Wars special.

Some of the promo pics look fun, let's hope they do better than the walking dead special, where it was more costumes than any real thought or effort put into testing any myths.

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01-03-14, 12:46 PM

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Mythbusters is kicking off a new season January 4th, 2014 with a 1 hr Star Wars special.

Double check your DVRs though, it runs a little longer than an hour.

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01-04-14, 09:27 PM

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Reminder, it's on tonight 8-9:15 and again at 11:15-12:30.

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01-05-14, 12:46 AM

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Is there any myths even left to do?

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01-05-14, 09:00 PM

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Re: Mythbusters 2014 Season

Better question, is the show on its last legs? Why would Discovery move it to Saturday nights? It went from Sundays to Wednesdays (or was the other way around?) and now Saturdays.

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01-05-14, 10:12 PM

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Wiki shows that they aired two Sydney special shows, car chase chaos/animal avoidance and traffic tricks at the end of 2013 season. Any idea why they were Sydney shows only and how do I see them?

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01-05-14, 10:53 PM

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The Star Wars episode was fun as hell. The sneak peek at the end looked great too.

Never seen Sophia Bush before. She's a cutie.

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Better question, is the show on its last legs?

The cast got 7 year contract extensions in 2010.

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01-06-14, 07:37 AM

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i think this show is immune to ratings. it's pretty much the staple for Discovery and it'll get seen no matter where they put the show.

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01-06-14, 01:21 PM

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i think this show is immune to ratings. it's pretty much the staple for Discovery and it'll get seen no matter where they put the show.

Yeah this is a show they run in marathons, DVR'd, etc.

I thought it was a fun show - but thought that the logs used for the test could have been smaller.

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01-06-14, 02:21 PM

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I'd like to see these guys do a serious one-off special debunking holocaust denial. That shit kinda needs busted.

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01-06-14, 02:43 PM

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I'd like to see these guys do a serious one-off special debunking holocaust denial. That shit kinda needs busted.

That wouldn't make any difference to the deniers. They believe what they want to believe.

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01-06-14, 05:05 PM

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I cannot get Sophia Bush out of my mind since I watched this episode.

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01-06-14, 05:32 PM

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Re: Mythbusters 2014 Season

liked Jamie's joke about having the hots for your sister

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01-06-14, 06:08 PM

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I cannot get Sophia Bush out of my mind since I watched this episode.

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01-06-14, 07:15 PM

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to Sophia Bush. No idea who she is but she's a cutie. Kinda looks like Kristen Bell.

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That wouldn't make any difference to the deniers. They believe what they want to believe.

Just like the moon landing episode.

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01-06-14, 10:37 PM

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I'm watching this now and I'm disappointed that they tried to hide the obvious harness that Sophia was wearing during the swing stunt. They should have more respect for the audience.

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01-07-14, 09:37 AM

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I'm watching this now and I'm disappointed that they tried to hide the obvious harness that Sophia was wearing during the swing stunt. They should have more respect for the audience.

Yeah, I'm not really sure what they were "busting" in that aspect...maybe that a pendulum actually works? Otherwise all it was really about was the coolness of recreating that scene full scale.

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01-07-14, 09:56 AM

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Yeah, I'm not really sure what they were "busting" in that aspect...maybe that a pendulum actually works? Otherwise all it was really about was the coolness of recreating that scene full scale.

I agree. She was swinging with her legs out, like she was sitting on a swing.

To me the myth was if a grappling hook would be able to catch around the pipe / thing and if it would support 2 people swinging across. The rest of the myth was more for the 'look'

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01-07-14, 10:03 AM

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I thought it was a fun show. I've been getting a little tired of some of the "myths" they've been using of late, but I've always enjoyed their movie based shows. Oh, and this:

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01-07-14, 10:18 AM

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Yeah, some seem to think that sexy nerd is the new sexy librarian. But truthfully in the Venn Diagram of sexiness, the librarian is a subset of the nerd superset, thus:

Sexy Nerds ⊃ Sexy Librarians

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Re: Mythbusters 2014 Season

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This was one of those where obviously it was possible because the stunt people did it in the movie. But they did it with harnesses. So they basically showed that it was plausible (but difficult) to do it for real, and then had to harness up to actually do the stunt.

To me it was interesting because I never thought of that scene as being particularly amazing or notable. He throws the hook, grabs the girl and swings. I never thought about the strain that would put on the belt and your ribs, how hard that throw would be, etc.

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01-07-14, 01:34 PM

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Re: Mythbusters 2014 Season

One-off Jamie and Adam special after this Saturday's (Jan. 11) episode:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/07/my...angerous-toys/

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Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have fabricated a new TV concept. The Mythbusters guys are partnering for a new Discovery special that takes their talent for building awesomely destructive gadgets and crosses it with kids’ playtime. The result: Dangerous Toys, a one-hour special produced by Hyneman and Savage.

The special takes a kids’ fort-battle game and blows it up with adult-sized concoctions. Hyneman and Savage will interview teens for ideas and build giant versions of child-play favorites — such as a 25-foot couch fort and explosive robotic armies — in an attempt to bring each other down. “It does mean we’re going to have to interact with children though,” Hyneman points out.

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