Was MythBusters Intended to Be Educational? 

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Mythbusters saved my life at age 8 I was a child of a hard working and studying single mother, so i was home alone a lot. It was my mothers birthday and I wanted to make her a nice dinner before she came back home, as a surprise. So I put frozen fish fillet in a skillet full of hot oil and in a few seconds, BOOM a 3 feet tall oil fire. I was ready to put it out with water but then, because i was raised by the TV, I remembered a Mythbusters episode about oil fires and that putting it out with water would only make it WORSE. Fortunately there was a chemical extinguisher right outside my apartment and I maneged to rush to it and not have a single burn. EIGHT YEARS OLD, MAN

Mythbusters is a large part of why i got into engineering! It had such a large impact on my childhood

Remember kids, the only difference between doing science and screwing around is writing it down.

I absolutely love it when Adam stops mid-thought, runs through the Cave, and grabs something to show us!

“Don’t talk down to children; treat them as peers” is exactly what Mister F. Rodgers believed and was the driving force of why Mister Rodgers’ Neighborhood was so successful.

There were some funny Jamie moments, but the one that I always remember is him yelling at the duck “Quack, Damn You!!”

Adam talking about dating and that moment "am I missing an eyebrow?" comes to mind

When you say "the five of us" my heart is just breaking ...

“Was mythbusters intended to be educational?” *Yes’nt*

Mythbusters: Never thinking of the children

In the vain of being educational as well as Adam and Jamie's relationship I remember re-watching the first season not long ago and being super impressed with one situation. Adam had disagreed with Jamie over part of his plan, later in the episode he apologized not for disagreeing with Jamie but for the disrespectful way he expressed himself. He felt he had implied Jamie was stupid. I thought that would be a pretty great lesson for any kids watching seeing somebody with the maturity to recognise, admit to and apologise for doing something wrong

Having Tested is such a privilege! Imagine not having a way to hear this man

As i was a kid during the early days of mythbusters i must say, thank you for "not thinking of the children". The moment anything started to treat me like an imbecile i stopped reading/watching/engaging with it.

Adam has the most genuine, thoughtful and respectful way of speaking that I wish was more common. You can clearly see him thinking as he speaks. He never talks negatively of others even when you can tell he has thoughts maybe he could not or should not say, but doesn’t shy away, he finds a common ground or another way to explain and get his real thoughts across in the most positive way. I just love that

I never thought of Mythbusters as reality TV. That's strange to me.

When I was about 7 years old my dad showed me an episode of Mythbusters that his mate had recorded onto a VHS tape. It's fair to say it sparked a life long interest in working out how things work and a fascination with taking things apart :)

Can confirm, Mythbusters undeniably helped keep me interested in science (and made me hate math a little less) as a kid. It also really reinforced the scientific method to me, and the idea of your original idea or belief (aka hypothesis) can be wrong simply because you don't know until you try (or test) it. And so until you test and know, you can't be mad at yourself for being wrong. Might be a weird analogy or parallel teenage me created, but the reinforcement of the concept actually helped me just as a kid dealing with growing up. Shoutout to you, and everyone who helped make Mythbusters what it was.

I would buy a DVD of Mythbusters extras that was just Savage and Hyneman telling each other to go f*@$ off.

I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

“The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down”

I would describe Mythbusters as "Jackass for smart people" when trying to turn people on to it. I think 3rd season everyone already knew them

To this day, Mythbusters is still my favorite tv show, of all time. My kids will be watching your show when they're old enough.

Mythbusters constructed a big part of my passion for science. I even got a tattoo in honor of the show!

I always loved seeing Jamie get ticked at Adam making a mess. Leaving his lathe covered in salami. "God love him but that's a 30,000 dollar lathe, _sigh whiskers whiskers whiskers"_

One of my favorite Jamie lines was "When in doubt, C4." My favorite Adam line was "I reject you're reality and substitute my own!" There are a lot of other lines I loved but those are the 2 standouts for me.

As a viewer, I would say that the "loving work atmosphere" contributed to the show's appeal more than any sort dramatic conflict between the cast members. The onscreen chemistry of the team was a big part of why it worked. We tuned in to watch seasoned professionals using their skills to solve interesting problems, and It always felt like we were watching people who genuinely enjoyed their work. And the fact that you responded to viewer requests and queries made it feel like the show really had a special connection to the audience.

Mythbusters caused my fascination with science, and I could not be happier at what Mythbusters caused for me as a young girl going into the STEM fields🤍

"I stopped dating. I cleared that part of my head away" Why do I just think of the moment when a good portion of your hair burned off...

Adam's statement that kids don't like be spoken down to I absolutely agree with. So much so that it's hw I brought my kids up, and my two daughters are fabulous not just from my say so, but I'm continually complimented on them. It makes one HELL of a difference. It's not difficult really - kids are people too. I've never understood this buillshit of"speak when you're spoken to" or "why must you do something? Because I say" all that sort of nonsense helps nobody.

Love Mythbusters, I still watch the show. I wish there were still new episodes.

One of my absolute favorite Jamie quotes is when he held up the duck and said to it, so calmly, "Quack, damn you."

Favorite Mythbusters memory: in college, a bunch of my friends met up to go out for the night. One of the guys was watching Mythbusters while waiting for someone else to finish something. They blew up a cement truck, and it was such an amazing explosion that everyone got sucked in and we stayed in and watched Mythbusters for the entire night.

I think the graphic artists and the narrator is the unsung hero of the show. They make things more clearer than just watching and listening to Adam and Jaime's explanations and experimemts

Mythbusters is like Shawshank Redemption, you always stop to watch it.

I LOVED myth busters growing up. It was something we could all agree on to watch in my house growing up ❤

To me Mythbuster's most memorable part was "Gentlemen, THAW your chickens". :)

Thanks for taking my question! Also, I hope you have an appreciation for the number of people you have positively affected with the show and other projects. Intentional or not, your enthusiasm makes the leaning process feel much more exciting and interesting.

"pissing in your ear"... Never heard that before and I'm British...

Mythbusters was a HUGE part of my childhood, taco Tuesday at my grandfathers house we would all huddle around and watch a recorded episode after. Each of us young and old fascinated with it. Some of my best memories.

I never would have imagined that Adam Savage would become a RU-vidr. 🤔

I always enjoy listening to his stories and one day builds.

I remember the earlier episodes when the two of you would get snippy with each other. I never liked it, it gave me anxiety. My season 2 you guys had a much more symbiotic relationship which I enjoyed much more.

When he said "drinking from the firehose", I'm sorry, my brain went straight to the movie UHF.

This just brought up a whole sad feeling that I had when I first heard that Mythbusters was having its last episode. I was so sad. Thanks for continuing filming your process for anything and everything you make. You changed my life with the content you made and are making. Thanks.

I wouldn't be a design engineer if it wasn't for mythbusters. Watching you guys trying to figure things out inspired me, so thank you so much

Adam strikes me as the guy who everyone thinks. Will be the one at a party telling dirty jokes. But actually blushes when he hears one. Whereas Jamie strikes me as the guy everyone thinks is prudish. But tells jokes so filthy they'd make the Devil blush. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Also Adam's statement about not dumbing down things to children reminded me of an incident that happened many years ago with my Goddaughter. My best friend & I took her daughter (my Goddaughter) to the Australian museum here in Sydney Australia. For her 5th birthday because she was dinosaurs mad she knew just about. Everything about them including their scientific names. While we were looking at the dinosaurs her mother had to run off to the loo & she left her with me. A lot of people think she's my daughter when she's not with her Mum because she looks similar to me. While we were looking at a realistic recreation of a Velociraptor complete with feathers. An elderly museum guide came up to us & said to her. "Isn't it a pretty birdy." My Goddaughter turned to her & with all the distain that only a 5 year old can muster said: "It is *NOT* a birdy it is a Velociraptor. Although they are related to birds that's why they have feathers." She then proceeded to tell the attendant in great & graphic detail when & where Velociraptors lived. & more specifically how they killed & ate their prey. All the while she's doing this the poor woman (who had to be somewhere in her 80's) is getting this horrified look on her face. She turns to look at me & I just smiled at her & oh so sweetly said. "Isn't it amazing what they get off of the Discovery Channel these days." The poor womans jaw just hit the floor & before I burst out laughing at her. I redirected my Goddaughter over to another exhibit. When her Mum came back & I told her what had happened she burst out laughing & said "Yes! That's *MY* child!" & the moral of this story is *NEVER EVER* dumb things down to a child because they *WILL* inevitably call you out for it.

Adam, the way you and the rest of the cast of Mythbusters spoke to the camera, and to those of us watching reminds me, looking back at things, of how Fred Rogers spoke to us when we were kids. You treated us as if we were your equals, as if we were as knowledgeable as you were about the things you knew, which is what I appreciated about the show. Well, that and all the cool experiments and everything you did.

It really touched my heart to hear you say "the five of us". I grew up watching Mythbusters and it's probably the main reason I fell in love with science and went on to study space science and astrophysics at university 💓

Grew up watching Mythbusters weekly, really learnt a lot! Thanks :)

I'm going through some stuff in my life right now so I don't expect anyone to share my experience, but the answer to that question was beautiful. I have the video paused just before 6mins and am sitting here with tears in my eyes. Thank you for sharing yourself with the world, I don't think I could do it even if I was graced with the conditions to allow it.

I am from germany, here we had Mythbusters in TV, too. Adam, i miss this series. It was the best show for 15 years in TV.

Mythbusters forged and enforced my personality. When I was about 11, I was the only one I knew who spent all day building, disassembling, testings, soldering and experimenting with everything. Whatching you two doing all those amazing projects , I learned that it wasnt' just me being a child... but a mindset that makes who I am still to the present day. I now work in IT, building and testing networks, video-audio etc... fulfilling very specific solutions that doesn't exist... yet! I owe you for my job, and my happiness. Thank you Adam

Most Chad moment: “So I stopped dating and cleared that part of my brain.”

I can’t even begin to thank you, Adam. I don’t know if you’ll read this, but I’m sure I am not alone. I am so glad I still get to have you in my life through Tested. You taught me the joy and wonder of making since I was a child. And now you’re still here reminding me of it. So thank you for sharing it with us. Your time. Your jokes and your stories. They’re all are so important in my life. I am a biomedical engineer and a product manager, and more rare for the field, I am a woman. I am an engineer first, because of you and Jamie and the entire team that made Mythbusters. I am from the Bay Area and work here now too. It’s a crazy place to live and work in tech, but you remind me of its humble roots every day. And because of you I still enjoy the process of designing, creating and telling wonderful stories . Thank you for helping me find what I love in life. And inspiring me to keep doing it in small ways. Fixing my bike, searching up model making, being a nerd in general. I can’t wait for the day to tell you in person! Kept missing you at the Maker Fairs. But I’m sure someday it’ll happen!

Mythbusters is the reason why I'm going to school to be a machinst. Why I learned how to sew, how to work with metal, plastic and wood. Why I'm branching out into as many making areas as possible. All I can say is thanks for being a part of the show that shaped my childhood.

But Adam, What about the children?! Adam: "What children?!"

Adam can you find the dustyest tool in your cave and tell us why you dont use it :D

As a child growing up mythbusters was my favorite show, it was always my go to if it was on all the way till it was 16 when the series ended, it helped define who I was and how I thought. I got to thank you for the work you all did,and still do today. Thank you.

Science respects no man, woman, or child but is available to all who seek to plumb the depths of its mysteries. I used Mythbusters to teach my daughter trial and error. That it was on to fail and just as ok to try it again. Failure is not shameful, it's just one way that doesn't work. Love you all. Rest in peace Grant. You are deeply missed.

Adam i think I'm one of your biggest fans!!! I was so pleased to come across your RU-vid channel and have watched everything. You're intelligence and you camera presence is uncanny! Thank you for everything you are a true American talent i so many ways!!!

I love that thought, “kids can tell when you’re talking down to them.” When I was a kid I always felt talked-down to in church, and one of the first things that hooked me into ministry was when I decided to help at my current church’s kids program and saw how they (1-5th graders) were actually learning, being talked to like actual thinking humans and not just drooling babies. Of course we had rowdy kids, but I’ve never seen another place with 50+ kids that age that paid attention and seemed to actually remember what was taught.

Amazing. I’m close to the end of the mythbusters series’s on prime! Still finding episodes I haven’t watched. Thank you Adam (and Jamie) for years of entertainment and recently months of back to back entertainment. Much love from the U.K.

adam always gives such fantastic answers to every question. i went to his panel at nycc last year and it was absolutely phenomenal. such pure passion and genuine care in everything he talks about and says

Intented or otherwise, tge show taught me that the "traditional" way of doing something isn't the only way. Big help throughout life

I love this man more than anything in the world including cement trucks going pewwwmmmmm!

I know it had to have been crazy. the workload, the requirements - but you all did such a great job. I think that's why the success of it hasn't quite been repeated. You were all perfect for it. Even on tough days, and maybe days when people didn't get along - there was still the combined intelligence. and viewers will still so enamored with the teaching that was being done, and the crafting that was being done. So many episodes left me in awe of what you and Jaime could build from seeming nothing, but a workshop of parts in drawers everywhere. Again. I know it was crazy. but i hope you know how much we appreciated it, and enjoyed it. and learned from it.

Mythbusters and How it's made were the best two shows from Discovery. They came out when I was 11-13 and it changed my perspective on, what was previously skewed by a bad teacher, physics an chemistry.

I love mythbusters. One of the best shows ever, truly. “When in doubt, C4”

Watching Mythbusters and Monster Garage helped me become the Weld Scientist. Thank you❤️

Mythbusters and how it's made were two shows I used to love watching with my millwright dad growing up. Fascinating shows that to me made understanding processes of creating something out of an idea possible and easier to comprehend. Still hold onto some of those memories to keep me moving forward in expressing my creative sense as a millwright myself. Thank you for being apart of that. My question to you if I may is: who helped you most along the way help you express your creative side?

Adam answering questions with stories, anecdotes, and humor is simply the best thing I’ve heard in quite sometime. Please do more of this. We all came because we love Mythbusters but there is much more here than that. Adam taking a question and running with it feels like a silk blanket over my anxious thoughts.

There will never be another show as good as Mythbusters and it really was you who made the entire show great Adam. You're a hero of mine and things I saw and learned on Mythbusters I carry to this day. Thank you. Jamie and the rest of the cast (RIP Jessi Combs & Grant Imahara) were good and all but but it was you who made that show memorable.

when you talked about the 'exceptions' due to personnel issues my mind immediately went to the time the then-director pressured the build team into shocking you with an electric fence. I don't know if that actually was the "low point" of the Mythbusters work environment but most everyone who's talked about it seems to sort of view it as such.

My son introduced me to myth busters; he must have been around 8/9 years old. It was such a highlight for both of us as he grew up. Thank you! Thank you!

My dad and I watched every episode of Mythbusters together when I was young. I would be lying if I told you it didn't help inspire me to pursue mechanical engineering. Thank you Adam and Jamie!! You two have inspired so many of us to create, engineer, and think in new ways

"Jaimie is the greatest straight man" - Adam

they tested AND AIRED the "myth" that pretty girls don't fart. if that isn't a nail in the "this is entertainment, not educational" coffin...idk what is.

Adam’s enthusiasm I think is the key to why Mythbusters was enthralling to watch and why kids got excited to learn. My daughter said her science teacher was amazed that she answered “terminal velocity” as the answer to his question, he wasn’t used to kids knowing what that was!

It was always really difficult to get Dad interested in any tv. But he was always the most excited to turn on Mythbusters when it came on. Heaps of great memories watching you guys.

I wonder if one of the personnel issues that Adam was referring to involved that producer that was fired because of the idol/cattle prod prank thing they did to Adam

What a thumbnail 👀

I learned so much from mythbusters, binge-watching all the seasons in my late 30s with my son, little bits and pieces of it come up in conversation for me all the time.

Mythbusters was a significant formative part of my childhood. My parents came from low-education backgrounds and had low-skill jobs, they didn't get me interested in science. It was watching Mythbusters on Discovery that really captured my interest in the process of testing ideas, brainstorming solutions to problems and all that fun science and engineering stuff. It was really cool, but also really educational. The show you guys made helped spark my interest in science as a kid. Today I'm an Astrophysicist soon to get my PhD. I'm not sure I'd be who I am if I hadn't spent all that time watching Mythbusters as a kid.

First! Aha!! Adam you’re an inspiration! A man with a good heart and a sense of fun coupled with ingenuity and creativity!

Was Jamie’s “I don’t want to talk about it” his, or the producers?

I just want to say the energy and dedication Adam has. It's very refreshing and makes me feel happy that there is a place I can go to see amazing things!!

Mythbusters is still one of my favorite shows. The hole team inspired me to be critical and creative thinker. It was you guys the help me to follow my natural love of Sciences, engineering, and model making. The impact you and the team had on me can not be understated, and I don't think I'll be able to ever pay that back. What I can do however, is say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Covid-19 has made me wonder if you can instantly sanitize a room using explosives.

I wonder who/what he means by personnel issues prior to season four/five? Who do you think it was?

Great memories. Always start with people. All the people you meet on your travels through life. Mythbusters made that happen for you and Jamie. Made for a great show for so many years.

Mythbusters formed a big part of who I am as a person and moulded the way I think of, and look at things in the world and problems in my life. I can’t thank you enough

Adam, you were thinking about the couch didn't you?

Fact: People saying first have not watched the whole video.

There was and is so much to love about Mythbusters and certainly one thing I appreciated is watching two people approach a task in different ways, discuss the merits of each, not agree on the optimal approach but respect each other enough to find a middle ground. The world could learn a lot from that and for all the horrible, destructive detritus on TV, this show's legacy will be one of inspiring others and lifting each other up to achieve a joint goal. Everyone involved should be justifiably proud.

I just want you to know that I’m one of the men (guess I’m an adult now) that grew up watching you in tv. You were always the one person on tv who I looked upto, always asking the questions I wanted to know the answer too. Never being afraid to be judged as ridiculous, never afraid to try that one other thing even when it was obvious it wouldn’t work. You gave me courage as a kid to go out at try things, whatever it was to just try and see what happens. Now these RU-vid videos make me feel genuinely loved, like I have a dad who cares and wants me to succeed. Thank you for being amazing, for being so special and loving and accepting of us. ❤️

"intended to be educational" That's something I don't think Discovery has been accused of before.

Designing shows for children only limits how deep the subject matter can go. Children are smart enough to understand complex subjects if you give them the opportunity to learn about it. We should be taking full advantage of the plasticity of children's brains to expand the potential of future adults.

One of the best Ask Adam episodes yet. You're such an inspiration on so many levels, Adam.

Earlier this year I looked back on how important Mythbusters has been to me, and how I felt I should reach out and thank them, particularly Grant. This year has been a shock.