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Mythbusters Ending After Next Season (ew.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

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.'"

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  1. no wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's what they get after firing Kari and company.

    1. Re:no wonder by hambone142 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They've run out of material. Additionally, they seem to pick the outcome prior to conducting their experiments. Cases in point: Women vs. men throwing a baseball (forced men to throw with opposite hand) and recently, blowing a boat out of water and not checking to see what really happened to it.

      The worst was whether or not a stone kicked by a lawnmower would have the same power as a .357 magnum pistol round. They replaced the 5 HP lawnmower engine with an electric motor that was over 20 HP and completely ignored the difference in horsepower.

      Quasi scientific buffoons.

  2. People need more science by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

    1. Re:People need more science by Ogive17 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They were not doing experiences in order to submit papers to academic journals. It was a television show meant to entertain an audience.

      No, it was not perfect science. It has been a few years since I have watched but from what I remember, each episode would have one main myth they were testing. If it was statistics based, they would almost always have a baseline to compare results to. If it was event based, they would do their best to replicate the conditions of the myth before they switched gears and simply tried to figure out how to replicate the results.

      Trial and error is science.

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      "Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
  3. Re:Still going, eh? by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Be glad you missed the last few seasons.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  4. Will Be Missed by Thelasko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
  5. Re:The Entrie Crew by mspohr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The entire series was: How many ways can you blow up something?

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    I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
  6. Re:Mythbusters Died When... by gangien · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She also had zero scientific background

    I think that's part of the point of the show. That you don't need to have a fancy degree and spend years in college to think critically and figure something out.