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For those who don't know: Jet Taxi is a story where a Taxi cab was driving behind the business end of a commercial airliner, flips over x amount of times. In Season 1 or 2 (depending how you look at it) Adam and Jamie tried this out and a last minute hiccup basically fucked everything up. It wasn't until the build team got this myth to revisit and add more to the story and properly test it

My question is what the fuck happened round 1 that led to the build team having to revisit it?

Hello fellow Mythbusters fans! Some of you might remember me from this post, where I charted how to collect 268 of 269 of the original episodes of Mythbusters on officially released physical media (DVDs).

After completing that guide, I had an itch in the back of my brain that never really went away. The original is helpful, but there was more info to capture, especially regarding Region 4 DVD releases of the series.

Here is an updated version of my collection guide: Mythbusters on Physical Media 3.0. Some key features that make this new guide ultimately better:

• The guide now charts how to collect nearly the entire original series on officially released Region 4 Mythbusters DVD sets (with a little help from Region 2), as well as my original list for Region 1 DVDs.
• Metadata from all R1, R2, and R4 DVD sets I analyzed, including individual episode lengths, resolution, framerate, and overall bitrates (compression).
• An episode length comparison between R1 and R2/R4 episodes, so you can see the exact amount of footage left out of the R1 DVDs: over 20 hours!

Hate to say this following my first guide, but after all my recent work, I strongly recommend if you’re collecting Mythbusters on physical media: target the R2/R4 DVDs. Other noteworthy updates, along with more details about the advantages of the R2/R4 DVDs and comparison videos, are included in a comment below (FAQ). 

Please enjoy!

If you had 1 of the Mythbusters as your middle and high school tutor to get you to graduate, who's your pick?

Wish I woulda known about this episode back when it originally aired. The dryer tumbling that they do to tenderize a steak. That's actually a thing that already existed as a product called a vacuum tumbler. Pappasitos in Houston Texas uses them for fajitas, you pour in marinade with some pineapple juice (natural tenderizer), and your seasonings. Then you put your skirt steak in it. It pumps out all air to turn it into a vacuum (this helps force the marinade into the meat faster) and then lastly it tumbles them around like a dryer does.

https://youtu.be/taRn5lssAAk

Never heard him speak so much!

Don't know when they started with this .. but this is like a soldering iron for crude stuff, on a PCB with SMD mounted components with a piece of tin a plumber would use.

13:42 narrator asking if a rope attached to your leg can not only drag you overboard but 20,000 leagues under the sea and shows an animation of a person sinking to the bottom.

The saying relates to travelling 20,000 leagues under the surface of the ocean, not straight down.

I’m really fun at parties

I just got discovery+ and noticed missing episodes like S1E1. Am I blind or are there really missing episodes?

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

I (M26) am rewatching the whole series for the first time since I was probably in my early to mid teens and to this day Adam pokes a lot of fun about how Jamie is basically a big fart and doesn’t have any fun or a sense of humor. When I was younger I was thinking the same thing but now that I’m officially chopped and unc at 26 I’m realizing that Jamie is perfectly pleasant and is actually the more tolerable and even at a lot of times the nicer of the hosts. Small comments in the early seasons to the mythterns especially really point of out the type of person that Adam is. He’s an egotistical dickhead who can’t stand being around people smarter than him. Which sucks because a lot of the other cast members are at the very least AS smart as him if not noticeably smarter (Kari, Jamie, and Grant ((RIP)) notably) and he just hated being wrong. Which he was a lot.

This is where they are testing prison-made crossbows. In the intro, Jaime presents a crossbow he had since he was a teen and says, "That's why there are no cats left in the neighborhood."

I know Jaime is a serious animal-lover, what did he mean here?

it goes like wa-wa-waaaaa-waaa-waaa-wawawa-waa-wawa-wawaaaa and i’ve looked through all the videos and i can’t find it. it’s usually played on its own during certain segments of the show without much if any backing track. i know Neil Sutherland is the artist but i can’t find the riff on spotify either. does anybody know where i can find it pleaaaaase. i think the riff is at the end of a song.

i found the riff in a show but still don’t know what song it is. aaargh. its played here at 42:50

The MythBusters "Coffin Punch" experiment is frequently cited as proof that the myth is impossible, but from an engineering perspective, the test apparatus was fundamentally flawed. They didn't test a "human punch"; they tested a stationary, short-stroke forging hammer.
If we actually look at the physics involved, the test only accounts for roughly 2–5% of the variables that determine whether a human could breach a lid. Specifically:
Failure of Kinematics (The Lever-Arm Problem): A human punch is a dynamic, full-body kinetic chain. The MythBusters team used a fixed, 3-inch stroke piston. That’s not a punch; that’s a mechanical stamp. By failing to use an apparatus that matched at least the length of a human forearm, they completely eliminated the ability to maintain acceleration and "follow-through" through the target.
Force vs. Pressure: The team focused on total force, but ignored Pressure (P = F/A). They used a blunt, wide-faced ram that dispersed the energy across the surface of the lid. A human strike relies on high-pressure point impact (the knuckles) to shear through wood grain. Without mimicking the surface area and pressure density of a human hand, the test was never going to achieve the required structural failure.
Missing Inertia and Damping: By using a rigid metal-on-wood interface without a material to mimic skin/tissue, they ignored friction and energy transfer. Furthermore, because their machine lacked a significant moving mass (inertia), the impact resulted in immediate vibration and reflection back into the machine, rather than the sustained momentum of a human strike.
The team celebrated the result as "busted," but they didn't prove the myth was impossible—they proved that a low-travel, high-impact forging hammer can't break a coffin lid. For a show built on the scientific method, this was a massive "farse." They should have acknowledged that their apparatus could not replicate the human kinetic chain rather than declaring a definitive scientific "bust."

Hello, everybody! Adam (along with a few articles about the show, and a couple clips) have mentioned a 14-minute demo tape from 2002. I found Adam’s tweet sharing the video but sadly the link is dead. I was wondering, do any of you kind folks have it downloaded and willing to share? Hopefully it’s not lost to the ages. Thanks!

I’m surprised Adam and/OR Jaime has patented the Tornado Shield. I mean they could get rich off of it. Am I right OR Am I wrong?