Can A Car Skip Across Water? | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 5 | Full Episode 

"It doesn't look fast enough!" Proceeds to paint the car yellow "That's a fast car!" Orks approve.

R.i.p Jessi Fastest Woman on four Wheels. Pioneer Legend!

All these experts in the comments made me realize why they had to make those revisit episodes.

I love having the narrator whispering in my left ear.

Literally just a few weeks ago I was struggling to watch full episodes of Mythbusters anywhere, I’m so happy to see they have their own place now for full videos, thank you for uploading.

All the mods to the car make me think that they chose this myth for this episode because they had Jessi and she was totally in her element with metal work and souping up a car.

45:54 I can’t believe those cars still drove after all they put them through! THAT is the most amazing part 😂😂

As a merchadiser for a certain beverage company that uses aluminum cans, I HIGHLY recommend wiping or rinsing the tops of your cans before drinking it Source: I seen some shit 👍

Jessi was one of my favorite celebrities alive. What a awesome person she was

love this show they will literally test any thing they make dull subject fun by showing it in simple ways

Thank you for this episode. Now I finally learned what happened to my first car that my parents sold on me when I went to college. Lol

Lol the rat nonchalantly poops as Jamie holds it 4:24. Thanks for the upload, minor audio flaws aside, at least the music isn't weirdly cranked up on this one.

OMG...another full episode! This just made my evening. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for these uploads guys 👍

FYI the stand in car is mid engine not front engine.

I had forgot just how bad mythbusters botched tests in early seasons like this. Like why would you test a myth that had a long gradual ramp by using a short kicker and then not realize that’s why the car endo’d

Absolutely love the episodes with Jessi Combs. She'll always be a record holder.

Love the 4d experience! It was like the narrator was sitting just left of me

No joke my first ever look at MythBusters😅

Thank friggin god this is on yt! Loved this growing up!

Love how Adam mentioned reading something in a chain letter. Those were the times when E-Mail was our social media. 😂

"The car is armed!" Yeah, it's Mythbusters.

Me miss you Grant! RIP man Edit: I had no idea Jessi passed too...this sucks man

That poor fiero😢 the first one was a rare late 80s car in very good condition

That was sick!!

Actually tried skipping a car when I was younger. Had a friend with me. The water was similar in length of more. I also llearned that 50 mph (was actually going around 60) wasn't quite enough to make it.

21:55 A particular sequence we've become familiar with in recent years. I makes my nose tickle just thinking about those swabs.

Its sad jessi isn't with us any longer rest in peace died way to young

This channel is about to blow up.

Ive learned 2 things. Robert Lee likes my left ear, and whoever is uploading these has a crush on Jessi.

R.I.P. Jessie

Nice job using the natural separation of the shelves for the Adam vs Adam bit.

I love this🥇🚀

45:06 Grant so much skills to function that electronics cervo so well, amazing dude!

Only the Mythbusters can make something like cataloging look interesting 😂... I learned more on this show than highschool I'm glad they are now on RU-vid

the irony of trying to skip a car across a pond that orginally was known for catching fire.

RIP Grant Imahara and RIP Jessi Combs…

bit of an audio issue, the narrator seems to be muted on the right channel. sounds like he's behind me and to the left lol

Double the pond length and I think it will make it across, great episode, thanks for the upload!

It’s better to run across water without a ramp. The smoother the transition the better

I learned Pontiac Fieros are built tougher than I thought.

I had a neighbor once who put Nox on a minivan. He forgot to purge the lines and ended up blowing the engine. Funny stuff.

Wow, Jessee and Grant ❤

Didn’t give that first fiero a long enough take off ramp. The suspension didn’t have any time to settle so as soon as the front wheels left the ramp the wheels were rebounding downward sending it forward as well the rear suspension doing the same as the weight transfers and pushing it even harder into a front flip. I think with a longer, less steep take off ramp it would be plausible without a submerged platform

Pontiac fiero is REAR engine....that's why they were used as kit cars with Lamborghini bodywork

7:21 Horrifying to think 2/3rds of this segment have passed away... WAY too soon. RIP Jessi and Grant. 💜

Jessis in this one!!!!! She was my favorite host. RIP Jessi and Grant...

"It doesn't look fast enough" Jessi Combs

narrator in left ear was nice touch

They could have made the ramp a little longer and that would have helped the launch. Waist of a perfectly good Fiero.

I'm super glad I've been habitually washing EVERY CAN, including food cans, with soap and very hot water for no less than 30 seconds for the last 20 years. It just always seemed like a good idea and never thought about rat contamination. Also, "we need this little engine to go as fast as we can make it go. So we gave it nitrous." Yup! That will definitely help!

How do you scale gravity and air density?

This and Psych were the only shows both my wife and kids would watch with me. My children must have seen 100 episodes of MB growing up. What an incredible way to have exposed their young minds to critical thinking, science, even what healthy work relationships look like.

This show is timeless and always relevant... well, right until "cellphone" and they pull out this ancient thing with actual physical buttons that was certainly modern for the time. Decades, and it still holds up. That's good TV.

my left ear loved the intro announcer lol

My left ear enjoyed the narration.

as a car enthusiast it really hurts to see that second fiero get waster like that. thing looked mint.

R.I.P. Jessi Combs! 8/27/2019

That car skip was awesome…still not as awesome as the Cement Mixer Truck Explosion or at the end of the penultimate episode when they strapped Buster to the rocket sled and disintegrated him xD

one of the many great things about this show was how often they went to the public to help on the myths . some of my germaphobe friends were a big creeped out on this one but oh well as for the skipping car loved it an from the looks on torie grant an jessi faces they did to rest in power sir Grant Imahara and RIP lady Jessi Combs . it would be great if mythbusters received a star on the hollywood walk of fame . i look forward to more full episode's an i posted this in the facebook groups . .

Mythbusters have their own RU-vid Channel; how did I not know this for years?

my left ear feels very appreciated, though the announcer is also quiet on top of that xD

Monk would be shock to hear the news that he has to bleach the house 🤣

Contrary to popular belief, rats are very clean animals. They clean themselves very often, just like raccoons. They can still carry diseases though. They also make very great pets.

I remember when you couldn’t even find a whole ep now their left and right everywhere

The no look at 7:02 is crazy.

regarding the sound level balance ... it could be corrected and would improve the experience ... is there a good reason why this hasn't been done

4:25 - Damn, that grip on that rat was so fine that rat didn't even feel itself shitting.

This is why we invented bottles with screw-on caps. The cap covers the place your mouth touches.

Narrator teleports behind you. "nothing personal kid."

22:42 Adam puts the potentially dirtiest swab in his mouth 😂😂

Oh lord, I have to take my earbuds off and use phone speakers

On the car slip it depends, every hydroplaning is infact a car skipping on water. Distance, speed and angles are key to if it will work.

They didn't prove the lambo was 'staged' - it lands completely different. The yellow FIERO is rotating and higher when it leaves the ramp. The rotation can be from the rear shocks and the ramp. Even if there was no water it would not have worked. They don't take a scientific approach they just slap together ideas and think it's accurate enough.

A chain-letter???? Wow, how far have we come, LOL

it actually makes a ton of sense that the toilet seat is technically the cleanest household object. it's sort of like survivorship bias. since people would tend to think of their toilet seat as being the dirtiest thing in the house, it likely gets cleaned a lot more often than other objects which people don't actually consider dirty, or don't touch often enough or long enough to consider that they'd pick up many germs. that being said, i always wash my hands after touching money, regularly clean my keyboards and device screens, and i hope everyone else does too!

They probably cut off the throttle at the first jump of the car.. If they'd watched Colin McRae Rally Lectures, they'd know that to let the car not nose-dive, you gotta use throttle for the wheels to keep rotating in order to use gyroscopic effect.

5:00 lmao

10:33 Jessie arrives just in her red top 10:37 she walks over to the guys in a grey hoodie jacket 10:44 jacket is gone again 🤣

43:12 Oooooh, really bad thing to do! If that remote controlled steering happens to move, that right arm is not going to like it! In fact, it could easily break it, depending on the torque of the motor.

The sheet metal plate would also reduce drag and slightly improve gas mileage

I hear Robert in that corner again^^

I just want 10 hours of rats walking on cans sounds. RIP Jessi.

Aren’t Lamborghini undercarriages way flatter than this car?

Jessy you are a gem 💎 ❤️💚💚

I never drink straight from a can, I always use a straw.

Nos completely unnecessary. Well done guys. Keeping it Mythbuster

Did yall see that dinosaur cellphone? I miss those lol

My family has a long history of puddle jumping 🐸

A late uncle of mine worked in a biscuit/cookie factory, he worked nights on maintenance of the factories machinery. He turned me off biscuit/cookie for life after he informed me the factory was plagued by both rats and mice in large numbers. Their droppings of solid waste was just brushed of the biscuit/cookie but he never mentioned their water wate production. Many food factories are plagued by rodents and flies when there's no staff on site and we get to consume these products daily.

I still have a Pontiac Fiero. I have this episode saved for.... reasons.

They completely blew over the fact that they rigged a whole car to drive remotely, Donut did this maybe a year ago? and had a hell of a tough time getting it right. And Jessi said the NOS gave the engine a 100 HP boost, so they must have dyno tuned it to make it work. They put a LOT of unseen effort into making that car skip

RIP Grant and Jessi

MB ramp was about 3 degrees too high that's why the nose of the fiero pointed at a sharper angle than the lambo in the movie. There are tons of videos on how that scene was filmed...

pond probably cost more than the lambo, lol

I dont like how when the guy with the hat picked up the rat, the rat poops

my right ear really enjoyed the narrator

Poor Fiero GT, you will be missed.

If they didn’t increase the amount of fuel in the mix then the nitrous didn’t do squat to make more power

It's uncountable, the number it is hasn't been invented yet.