We like to talk about those “locos lindos” or “cool crazy people”. This has to be one of my favorite shows on TV. It is fun, entertaining and you learn!
Basically is two guys Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman that try to bust urban myths. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are the original MythBusters, and initially explored all the myths on the show using their common background in special effects. The two work at Hyneman’s effects workshop, M5 Industries; they make use of his staff, though they often work off-screen, with Hyneman and Savage usually shown doing most of the work at the shop. One of the show’s gimmicks is the interaction between Savage and Hyneman, which is similar to a double act, wherein Hyneman plays the straight man and Savage is the comic relief.
The MythBusters typically set out to test myths following a two-step process. In early episodes, the steps were described as “replicate the circumstances, then duplicate the results” by Savage.[9] This means that first the team attempts to recreate the circumstances that the myth alleges to see whether the alleged result occurs; if that fails, they attempt to expand the circumstances to the point that will cause the described result. Occasionally the team (usually Savage and Hyneman) will hold a friendly competition between themselves to see which of them can come up with a more successful solution to recreating the results. This is most common with myths involving building an object that can accomplish a goal (for example, rapidly cooling a beer, or finding a needle in a haystack).
By the end of each episode, each myth is rated Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed.
Busted
The myth’s results cannot be replicated via either the described parameters nor reasonably exaggerated ones. Often, when a myth is declared Busted, the team will try to see what would be required to replicate the result of the myth, regardless of the facts within the myth itself. This is commonly referred to in the show as “the MythBusters way.”
Some of these myths are revisited if the viewers are unsatisfied with the results.
Plausible
Plausible is given under two circumstances:
The myth’s results can only be replicated by expanding some parameters of the myth by a realistic and reasonable margin. This may have been due to facts within the myth having been altered slightly over time by it being told and re-told by the time it was tested by the MythBusters. Also, certain materials may had to have been substituted for others in some cases as a matter of necessity during the course of the myth being tested, but the new materials are almost always very similar to the materials specified and usually are readily available, so as to prevent it from being prohibitively costly or impractical.
If there is no documentation of the myth occurring, yet the MythBusters were still able to duplicate it very closely to how the myth was described (such as the myth that states that pirates wore eye patches for enhanced night vision, or a civilian being talked into landing an airplane, in which the Mythbusters both succeeded, but there was never a documented case of it actually happening).
Confirmed
The MythBusters are able to recreate or closely recreate the myth’s purported outcome with the described circumstances. A Confirmed myth is usually corroborated with documented evidence of actual occurrences. The term “True” was used in the first season.
Here are some examples
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