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Mythbusters Ending After Next Season (ew.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Entertainment Weekly is just one of many reporting that next season will be the last for the long-running show Mythbusters. EW reports: "The pioneering reality series, one of cable's longest-running shows, will stage its final gonzo experiment during next year's 14th season after 248 episodes and 2,950 experiments. But there is some upside: Stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have secretly known the end was coming all year and have been crafting an explosive final run for the seven-time Emmy-nominated series. 'It was my greatest fear that Mythbusters would just stop and we wouldn't be able to do proper final episodes,' Savage tells EW. 'So whether it's myths about human behavior or car stories or explosion stories, we tried to find the most awesome example of each category and build on our past history.'"
Hope they bring them back for the finale.
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Wow, I had no idea it was still going. I saw there was some kind of Epic Rap Battle thing with MythBusters and some crappy new cast and I'd figured whatever they'd tried to pull with that had killed it.
That's what they get after firing Kari and company.
With Pawn Stars, the latest Nazi Alien Time Traveling Hitler and Top Gear's Stig.
Nuke Trump's hair, see what's left.
I guess the cut-back-on-staff-to-improve-profitibility(ratings) experiment didn't work.
I would have moved the other three into a different field, maybe a travelling show, visiting schools to do cool science stuff - fewer explosions, sure, but maybe some rocketry +GoPro, or weather balloons. Lots of room for building stuff out of silicone/gelatine, dropping buster onto various surfaces with sensor experiments designed by the students.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Any show that taught science to the masses through a clever delivery venue would be missed dearly,
but these folks really delivered, often in an entertaining enough fashion that people might forget they were learning something, too.
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I loved the concept of the show and found it very entertaining. I enjoyed how they demonstrated the testing of myths from hypotheses to conclusion, how the revisited myths based on viewer input, and how they did stuff that was just plain too expensive or too dangerous for the typical person to do. Yet I stopped watching it for one simple reason: they seemed to over emphasize the dangerous stuff and that just got plain boring after a time. So thank you for everything you did, and yes thank you for moving on.
personnel cutbacks didn't do the trick.
The last few seasons have been pretty terrible.
After they shot that cannon ball into that house.....
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Obviously they've run out of myths to bust!
Can't help myself: Die Dummen werden nicht alle. [German] There's a sucker born every minute.
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Show how to invent a digital alarm clock that looks like a bomb... in 20 minutes.
...they cut Kari Bryon.
All the explosions in the world didn't fix the lack of girl-next-door fun-n-curvy hotness that was Kerri. She was hot even when prego.
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Will it be busted or confirmed?
Mtyhbusters was a really entertaining show to watch in the beginning. A little science, but mostly fun, And that was really refreshing
...it's best to find something else to watch.
I stopped watching when the time spent watching the actually program was less than will happen/has happened runs.
(it felt like it, I haven't actually timed it)
My rule of thumb is this. If a show contains reoccurring:
1) Annoying laugh track
2) Will happen / has happened
3) Two characters facing the same camera in a lengthy drama dialog (strong soap opera indicator)
I wish they would create a condensed version of Mythbusters with just the actual program and not any fluff.
That show was dominated by cisgender white males promoting their privileged and aggressive toxic behavior. I am glad it is dead. Top Gear needs to go too!
Used to love that show. Then they fired Grant, Kari, and Tory and started doing nothing but shameless promo episodes for movies and TV shows. It's sad to see a once-great show having sunk so low. Now if we can just find someone with a time machine to go back to 1999 and kill Matt Groening, all will be right in the universe.
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When Discovery gutted the show last year it was the writing on the wall...
I'm betting the last shows and next "season" are simply contract fulfillment for Jamie and Adam.
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I'm going to miss Mythbusters. My biggest complaint is that I can never find the show on TV. It seemed to be on all of the time when it first started. Now it airs during some secret time slot that moves constantly. That usually indicates a series will soon end.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
The Mythbusters have gotten to play with (or use in their experiments) some cool stuff over the years. Things like a Boeing 747. And guns of every shape and size from tiny little pocket pistols through to massive mini-guns that wouldn't look out of place on a helicopter gunship. Oh and they had some of the best F/A-18 Hornet pilots in the world fly as low and fast as the military (and FAA) would let them in order to test if a sonic boom could break glass.
Not to mention that they have probably used every kind of explosive known to man short of a nuclear bomb (and I am sure if it was possible they would have used one of those too...)
"girl(s) with (bf) guns"
Seriously. The show is jumping the shark big time. Mostly because, well, because it's done. There simply isn't much left anymore to test, demystify and debunk. At least nothing really interesting. What it has come down to is finding out whether something that was done in a movie actually works out, or whether you can build X out of duct tape.
They're simply out of material to work with.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Have they already done this? I'm afraid to Google it.
My greatest fear isn't "Busted" or "Confirmed". It's "Plausible".
Was ok for the first few years, but they pissed off a LOT OF PEOPLE when they got rid of 3 of the people on that show. Good riddance!
at least a couple epis were super-multi-experiements-in-one - i don't remember, ten or twelve "minis" in one. so, there's that... and the above exp's about multiple projects completed that weren't part of the final epi.
and no, i don't think "cutting cast" made this decision (although the decision, some ways, to "cutting cast" was the same as down the road - or that, cast decided it was best to cut off and explore other dimensions of work/exposure, via net/radio/podcast/videocast/etc/etc!)
TV ain't where the satisfaction is anymore; can make enough if you become enough celeb to rank that kind of net-advertising dollar. it's going on. but that's no fault of the celebrities... good for them!
maybe the "myths" have done all they can for a regular TV season, but i can foresee a future where it's almost like "christmas special" - or "pumpkin chunkin'", though that got cancelled too! - where once a year or so, they get all back together and blow up somethin' once, just for the sake of it. it'd be their ticket to our ever-appreciative fandom for them.
no doubt the loss of tori, kari and grant had some effect with the regular viewer watching - although the constant switching of premiere nights did things up bad too; moving to weekends for TV premieres is -always- bad - no, i think they were running the end of the stream. coming to the end of the river, and reaching the sea... had to happen sometime. (but again, there can be little grottos they encounter along the way that could make a great every one-or-two--year gettogether special.)
sorry ahead of time for such simplistic geek-gushing, but jamie, adam, tori, grant, kari, everyone along the way there... they're heroes. new heroes. no sht!
They made science fun.
They made science accessible.
It's sad to see the end of an era but they had a good run.
LK
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Another huge issue is their close ties to law enforcement and the resulting biased conclusions.
Drug dogs
Or polygraphs...
Or traffic/speed cameras...
if you watched the current session most of the team is gone the format has been ruined and the jokes are unfunny it seems there just going threw the paces now. when i saw the last season i knew the show was done.
We now live in an era when myths are more popular than reality.
Beyond Productions has kicked this show around for years. Too expensive to make, too many people, too many everything. And Discovery whined and complained and cheapened it to death all the while getting eternal reruns out of older episodes.
Then they kept moving the show from one day to another and then from network to network to network so nobody knows where the new episodes are even running. It's Saturday nights, you know, the science night of the week. Well ok, Friday nights are worse. And it's on Science channel which is watched by approximately one dog with a TV set in Ohio, and only because he ate the remote and can't change the channel.
The second team got axed last year and went back to making money the normal way. And no shocker, the main cast will do the same now. Actually, they have all been doing "other jobs" all the while anyway because the show never exactly paid a lot and it only filmed a few weeks a year anyway. They HAD to have real jobs.
Extended Super Basic Cable shows don't pay well.
Sig for hire.
I will miss the show for sure. My only complaint with it (other than this last season missing half the cast) was not being able to find it streaming.
Funny how the wheel turns, no?
The show had been steadily declining for years, anyway. Shortly after the early seasons the amount of scripted content went waaaaay up and the assumed viewer competence dropped waaaaaaaaaay down.
I realize that calculations don't make for sexy television in the same way that explosions do, but really, so many of the myths could be busted on paper before ever reaching a test (and clearly were, since the science knowledge required was often little more than freshman physics and since the team were so seldom actually thrown for a loop by their results) that they did their viewers a disservice by pretending that they were contentious and that their tests were a reasonable method of determining the outcome. There's nothing wrong with running a test when you already know what's going to happen because it's fun and makes for good viewing, but it is important to be honest about the fact that you already know what's going to happen. Feigning ignorance for the camera doesn't make for a better story, it just insults your audience and misrepresents the science.
The main message the show has sent about science for a long time now is something along the lines of "science has nothing to do with making predictions or having consistent models of reality, but rather is about doing crude, naive direct tests of every question that comes your way." For all the fuss they make about popularizing science, I daresay this is a poor way to do it.
If you just love the actors, like me, they are also on the Tested youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channe... though i haven't seen either of them lately.
I'm sure that's fun for them, and if someone offered me a wad of money for doing it I'd bite their arm off.
But that doesn't necessarily translate into great viewing.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Anyone remember the HHO episode? I ran the same experiments at home on multiple vehicles with amazing results. These phonies have a vested interest in not showing that this can work. However, even with the same directions tweedle dee and dumb were unable to produce more than a few bubbles in their vehicle. What a turn-off. . Happy to see them go.
Seriously, it is still better than most of the crap out there: https://xkcd.com/397/
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They have about a dozen special DVD's but I would like to get the complete series, every episode, every season.
If they stopped repeating the same content before/after commercials and in interstitials it would be *much* more watchable
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A confidential source of mine close to the production company told me the final myth they're going to test is that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
I remember the first season, when it was just the two guys doing experiments. I guess they ran out of things to do pretty quickly, and brought on additional people. Kari was hot in a "you could probably talk me into anything eventually" sort of way... which kept me interested for a few episodes, I guess. For whatever reason, I got bored with it. It sort of turned into "The blowin' shit up show", which wears thin after 60 or so explosions.
Maybe Adam and Jamie will be snapped up by Amazon for Prime TV, like the three presenters were from Top Gear once the BBC mucked it up and sacked Clarkson.
I hope so.
.... this show jumped the shark years ago, and has been running on fumes since, however maybe, just maybe, the final season will bring back the early glory years.