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Mythbusters Re-edit

Hi, I really want to like mythbusters I keep trying and trying but the obnoxious recaps and commerical cuts just kick me out of enjoying it. Has anyone done a re-edit of the show without that stuff?

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2024/11/04
09:58 UTC

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My Jamie costume for halloween

Shown here is my excuse to run around publicly exclaiming "quack, damn you!". Gratuitous deathray and C4 comments may or may not have been uttered

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2024/11/04
04:08 UTC

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Everybody type what you want Jamie and Adam to do next in the comments!

type below in the comments of what you wish they could hear

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2024/11/04
02:12 UTC

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Is it just me or do you wish they didn’t do some myths

Let me know down in the comments

28 Comments
2024/11/03
23:10 UTC

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I always loved looking for the weird boxes in Jamie's workshop

Always wondered if some of them were purposely placed as Easter eggs or jokes. After all, why would you store Celery next to the Aprons?

13 Comments
2024/11/02
18:41 UTC

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Is this Adam’s long lost brother?

Does anyone watch Bargin Block on HGTV?

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2024/11/02
13:48 UTC

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Consider the Pigs

I love mythbusters. I consider Jamie and Adam and co. preeminent minds in materials science, engineering and science education.

I’m also a meat eater. An enjoyer of pork.

I also know we all love animals.

And I know we’re all smart people, and we know pigs are smart.

And even as tasty as they are, I bet we can come together and engineer a way to simulate our awesome experiments without hurting them!

Love you all and excited to hear what everyone comes up with!

19 Comments
2024/11/02
07:42 UTC

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1962 Halloween Massacre || Beware Who Is Behind The Mask !

0 Comments
2024/10/31
16:41 UTC

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[FRESH] Epic Rap Battles - Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters

1 Comment
2024/10/31
14:07 UTC

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Adam and Jamie finally release that tension.

No cookies were available

We made Adam and Jamie as Gang Beast characters and couldn't stop laughing! :)

7 Comments
2024/10/31
05:07 UTC

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look if your tv show makes it into the mythbusters you have essentialy written gold.

i was thinking about how hyped a lot of the tv dramas of the 2010s were and how i think if you take a step back and look at the story as a whole then you probably would find them to be pretty lackluster and not as compelling if the hype to see what happens next was not there, and then i thought about it and said "look if your tv show makes it into the MythBusters you have essentially written gold" i cant say breaking bad does not hold up today, especialy when there were a couple of episodes were they focused solely on breaking bad, and from my perspective if your writing is so good to the point where there are people actually trying certain things out to see if they would actually happen then id say you have written a pretty good show

5 Comments
2024/10/30
23:54 UTC

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What myth do you wish they did on myth busters

Let me know down in the comments

20 Comments
2024/10/30
20:25 UTC

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Happy birthday to Tory belleci!

What’s your favorite Tory moment from mythbusters?

8 Comments
2024/10/30
15:16 UTC

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Tide Commercial

I just saw Kari and Tori together in a Tide commercial with the “myth” that cold water cannot clean as well as warm water.

https://youtu.be/FFKup0FXyu8?feature=shared

8 Comments
2024/10/28
02:45 UTC

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Some dog myths about to get busted

found on r/animalsbeingfunny

8 Comments
2024/10/28
00:03 UTC

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Mythbusters has its own channel on freevee

24/7 mythbusters episodes on free-vee, it's a free TV service.

I've been trying to hold back on this post because idk if it shows all the seasons, or repeat few episode like some shows on other free TV apps but the episodes and seasons seem to be randomized.

9 Comments
2024/10/26
21:18 UTC

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What myths do you wish they'd tested better?

Any myths you wish they had tested differently that would've helped get a better result?

Mine: The Axe vs. Gun myth in the Zombie Special.

They came to the conclusion that the axe would be a better weapon, when Adam used an unweighted foam axe against a group of fans in zombie makeup. I get that guns can jam and have to be reloaded and whatever, but I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the amount of strength required to bash in a human skull with an actual axe, let alone doing so repeatedly while fighting for your life, would've lowered Adam's kill count significantly. Maybe you could make the argument that a zombie's partially rotted head would make the skull weaker, but still...

I'm sure there are others, I just wanted to vent about that one for a minute.

32 Comments
2024/10/25
06:07 UTC

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What myths did you know were BS as soon as they first discussed them?

Besides the “oogy boogy” stuff like Pyramid Power and buying perpetual motion machines from the internet (as Adam calls those types), which ones did you think were just nonsense immediately (and were right)?

Confederate Rocket was always ridiculous to me because as soon as they said “120 miles” I immediately knew it was crap. There’s just no way anything near that was possible until like 80 years later

Come to think of it, the “ancient Chinese astronaut” one too. Like come on he probably just instantly exploded and some idiot that couldn’t see through the dust cloud probably started telling people he went to space

82 Comments
2024/10/24
21:02 UTC

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Beatnik Adam?

Does anyone recall which episode Adam and Jamie were shopping for something, Adam had a beatnik hat on and said something like ‘peace to your mother’?

3 Comments
2024/10/24
16:43 UTC

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I don't know who wrote the Mythbusters theme, but they did not have to go so hard with it.

8 Comments
2024/10/24
02:06 UTC

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What's something that the Mythbusters has changed about your life?

47 Comments
2024/10/23
04:24 UTC

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Where can I download English subtitles for foreigners like me?

YouTube channels Banijay Science and Mythbusters upload the show regularly, with only one problem for me: no English subtitles. Yes, YouTube has auto-generated subtitles, the problem is too many mistakes. Is there a way to download the subtitles? I can't find it anywhere, and I searched this forum with no results.

16 Comments
2024/10/21
14:39 UTC

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Thank you, MythBusters.

It's just now dawning on my just how influential this show was with regard to the ways in which my mind and worldview developed though my adolescent years. I was born in '91, so i was around 11 or 12 when MythBusters first went on air, and I was an instant fan. Seriously couldn't get enough of the show. When I look back on my life and take an honest inventory of the things that shaped me and my mind into what they are today, I have to admit that this god damn television show was absolutely pivotal for me. Of course there are a million other people and things that I owe thanks to aside from Mythbusters, but I really don't think that I would have developed the critical thinking skills and distain for hand-wavey explanations that I have today, without this show.

So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone involved. You've undoubtedly made the world a better place than you found it. Bravo 👏👏👏

6 Comments
2024/10/17
17:14 UTC

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Sadness…

I just started watching MB on YouTube and it’s quickly become one of my favourite channels. Then I read that Grant died in 2020 and it’s made watching it very poignant. Such a shame.

14 Comments
2024/10/16
17:00 UTC

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Reuse of Citroen 2CV after filming the Desert Survival episode?

I know that the Mythbusters store things that they have built or acquired, but in this episode, what did they do with the resulting motorcycle? Did they leave it as a motorcycle?

If I remember correctly they had to do some cutting so restoring to its former state would be impossible.

5 Comments
2024/10/15
00:17 UTC

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Jerry (The Pyramid Man)

I am just curious if anyone else felt like I did....but is that pyramid believer just fucking creepy and gives off bad vibes? I would be scared to just hangout with him 1 on 1.

11 Comments
2024/10/14
20:59 UTC

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Don’t try this at home…!

"The difference between screwin' around and Science is writing it down... and DON'T try this at home!" Adam Savage, Mythbuster and Chief Geek

Came across these from the Mythbuster’s 2012 Tour at UCF. Wish they would do this again. The big kids had even more fun than the little kids.

0 Comments
2024/10/13
21:28 UTC

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Jamie's back at it again doing more tests with Pekka and Stalatube!

2 Comments
2024/10/10
07:47 UTC

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DVD rips on the 7 seas have 4-5 minutes more per episode.

January 2023 someone uploaded all the DVD rips of the Mythbusters DVDs they had. Each having the "Beyond Entertainment" intro.

The coolest part, each of these episodes are 3-5 minutes LONGER than the broadcast episodes that I had at time of airing. Literally, I had files from 2006 and 2007 that were original aired versions. The new ones were tons better quality, with footage I had never seen before.

Found at 1337X.

29 Comments
2024/10/08
11:36 UTC

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