What if the myth they want to test is dangerous? “We don’t ever get anything rejected because it’s too dangerous,” said Kari. Apparently no myth is too disgusting either, but I’ll spare the graphic details that were shared about cleaning up the “rotting and decaying pig left in the hot car” myth (I still cringe over that one). Apparently, the smell does still linger on some of Jamie’s wrenches.
What are some future myths they want to try? Jamie has a steam-powered bicycle idea and he told us anything with steam is up his alley. “With a lot of the stuff we do also it’s become for at least me personally a recurring interest to trying to make these destructive things work. You don’t often see high explosives put to some specific non-destructive task. Steam is one of those things that can be either dangerous, destructive, or do very nice, very powerful, controllable things. That’s high on my list of things to play with.”
Are they scoping out any of the summer movies for myth ideas? No, explains Jamie. “The point is it’s all about the story. It’s about something we can sink our teeth into and explore. It’s not about a category… I prefer to go where my nose takes me and find something that is worthy of digging into. That’s what I want to do.”
Don’t look for a themed show on James Bond myths either. “It sounds like there’s a lot a material there,” said Adam, “but we’ve honestly found after looking at everything that’s ever been done in every Bond film that it’s so unrealistic and ridiculous, there’s a scientific term, not even wrong. Not even unfeasible.”
For the upcoming season though, the myths have yet to be determined. Their next stop after Comic-Con was back to San Francisco and the end of their three-week break. Tory explained it this way. “Most shows they will work for six months and have a hiatus. With the way we work we have to do all the work ourselves so there’s a lot of time building so we don’t really have a lot of time off. We work the entire year and we’ll have breaks in between.”
Article comments
1 - lucy2
Good recap, and the duct tape stuff is funny - I bet they hear a lot of those stories now! The duct tape episodes are some of the best.
But I'm going to be a MB nerd and give you two corrections - it should be 'don't look for any MORE James Bond themed shows' because they've already done 2 James Bond specials. I think Adam is saying that they're done with it, because everything else is too out there to be worth testing.
And it's Tory with a Y, not an i.
2 - Jay Woo
I REALLY should have gone to the comic con 2010. I didn't know the mythbusters crew were going to be there!
A couple of my friends went and took a bunch of pictures though.
3 - Alice Jester
Lucy2 - You're right, more would have been a proper word on the Bond ones. I was going off quotes and missed that. As far as Tori goes, the list of proper name spellings Discovery Channel gave us was Tori. It's also spelled that way on the bags handed out to everyone at Comic Con. Weird spelling for a man I know, but that is the proper way.
4 - Alice Jester
Lucy2 - Sorry, hit return too soon on the last comment. I've actually seen it spelled both ways. I'll look into what's proper. Maybe the copy was wrong.