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.
@@bend8353 - Yeah, cute girl, gorgeous woman, but didn't live her life in a way that's conducive to old age. She certainly proved the old adage that speed kills.
Oh no most certainly the water skipping car myth is not busted because the car used by MB has the engine in the front where as the Lambo's engine is in the back, which is why it bounced different.
@@guarddog318 She died living life to the fullest though, we all meet our maker, but if your day comes doing what you love to the highest degree, that's not a bad way to go, early, but risks are what drive innovation.
Oh my not the 63yr old trying to tell the whippersnapper to EnJoY WhaT ThEY GeT. Bringing attention to the problem helps it get solved you muppet. @carlharrison1461
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.
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 👍
as shown in the show. fecal or any other mater lose their "contaminating properties" at some point.. Shit happens, but it doesn't necessarily kill you :D
@@reinmarandi6174 That's very true. But my point was that you're unaware of the last time a can was "contaminated". I'm not nessecarily talking about death, that's a bit extreme lol. You should still clean them as a precaution.
Never done it, never gotten any illness from a can. I am either only lucky when it comes to not drinking from a poop covered can, or this would be another one of those "theoretical" things that has very little real world impact.
@@Power5 I'd imagine it's pretty low risk, yeah. I'll put it this way though. I'm used to seeing moldy cans, dirty cans, cans with dead bugs on them etc. Some of these cans just get wiped down and put back up on the shelf depending on the store you go to. So you can't blame me for making it a habit to clean the tops and also recommending others to do the same lol Also, I'm sure if you saw me clean off any of the above mentioned things and then offered you that same can, I would think most people would decline because that's gross af😂
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
Also that was not CGI there is no myth. The car actually did the skip over the water in the movie. No idea how deep that water was in the movie, but that is a real car, with a real stunt driver.
@@Pagliacci_Rex It's possible they did call the SFX people and other people in the film crew. But if it were simple, it would never make very good reality TV.
indeed. They could literally test any thing. O wait, they could not. You can find the video where Adam is on stage in front of an audience explaining they were not allowed to touch certain myths.
@@Gatitasecsiiit may be mid engine but the way the countach is built its heavier in in the rear still yk what i mean? I just feel like they went about that myth wrong
@@Meatball856 43/57 for the fiero 41/59 for the countach Idk I think they did a good job honestly. And they did make it skip in the end, just not like in the movie They're not gonna crash a Countach. As much as it pains me that they ruined two Fieros...
Wait until you see the ladies gaslight Tori into bunny hopping over a red wagon on an old bicycle. Spoiler alert: He fails spectacularly. So many more injuries Tori accumulated… all for science.
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.
The first one looked a little crusty tbh. The second one may not have been a nice later one, but it looked absolutely mint. I guess the show was made when these things were worth absolutely nothing.
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
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.
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 TH-cam
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.
It's bad they didn't notice that,in the movie the car goes down a bit before jumping the pond so it means the ramp was kind of inverted sort of. Sort of like downhill with a bump but close to the water,that's why the car lands with the rear wheels on the water and it acts like a flat rock skipped
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.
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.
I unintentionally jumped one of my Fieros years ago. Misjudged the road conditions. Lol. Small jump, but it landed fine. Kept the throttle pegged. No major nose dive.
They need a lip to pop off of.... just enough to lift the front end just a hair. That would get it out further before coming in contact with the water and keep the nose up
@@krawdaddy33 use the long gradual ramp instead of a short kicker that forced the front up way too much. If it was a long, gradual ramp, the vehicle would eventually level off almost
The first episode I’ve watched in years and I hear Jessi “you know me and cars”… damn. She really was “bout that life”, as they say. Much respect for her. Although she didn’t do much for the stereotype of women drivers.
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!
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 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
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 . .
Yeah, it's annoying. To make it bearable you can switch to mono sound on your OS. On Windows: click the start button, start typing (search will automatically appear) "turn on mono audio", open the dialogue, and toggle it on On OSX: settings->accessibility->audio toggle "play stereo audio as mono" If you are on any other *nix you probably know how to do it. Don't forget to turn it off once you're finished.
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...
Yeah they totally fucked up that jump, and hearing him talk about the weight of the car and everything was ridiculous lol, like its their fault the car didn't skip yet they give any reason for it not working they can. I've seen side by sides hydroplane all the way across a huge pond/oasis in Glamis dunes, so I know for a fact this is possible!
Actually, the MB ramp was 3.4 degrees too high. Also, the color was wrong. It had to be red (obviously). Like the lambo in the movie. No wonder it didn't work!
Also I'm wondering about airfoil on the fiero, which the lambo SX crew may have also tweaked and optimized for the movie. That would not only weigh down the rear properly but keep it down after launch so it could touch down nicely at the rear. All told, there were many ways they could have better approximated the movie setup. That said, this episode really brought home to me what I never fully appreciated when I saw the originals: the mad skills of the MB team. Jessie's NOx mod was bordering on rocket-science.
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.
As a kid it looked cooled as hell. As an adult now, its painful to see the cars get ruined. Prayers the frame didn't get fucked and they could be rebuilt.
@@Thezaza054 It's a Pontiac Fiero - a first mass produced American mid-engine car. These two in the episode were the facelifted models produced between 1986 to 1988.
it's so sad. two thirds of the Mythbusters "B" team are gone. far too soon. rest in peace Jess and Grant. I pray your families have been able to comfort knowing Jess and Grant will live on forever for being a part of pop culture for positive reasons. also, for those unaware Grant played Sulu in the star trek fan film series Star Trek: Continues. his exuberance to play that role clearly shines through in his performances. it's the best Trek fan films I've ever seen.
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 car has to be on a plane to skim the water . Which means evenly distributing the transition from road to water as flat as possible . Of course it’s not gonna skim if it’s on a ramp whereas the car will nosedive and hit the water like concrete .
First of all, you can tell the scene with the Lamborghini is sped up after it exits the water. So, there's no way it skipped slower. Second of all, he put that swab in his mouth after swabbing the toilet!
What you really want is to put 2 concrete pads on an angle so you fall into it like dominoes or playing cards so go up a slight hill to pitch backward then fall onto one and bounce the whole vehicle to slightly load and unload the suspension
a better ramp definitely could’ve gotten the car flat without adjusting weight. yes they accounted for the height of the lip, but not the length on the transition. no matter what they hit that jump with, or how fast, it was flipping forward.
I like how all the comments are talking about the car myth because the other one is basically "apparently someone got a can and it had rat pee on it? is it a myth? well, we tested some cans and they didn't have any rat pee on them" lol
You might stay dry skipping a car over a lake, but it's highly unlikely your spine and neck will remain intact. One of the drivers for First Blood broke his back jumping railroad track for the move, and he only went about 10 feet in the air.
"It doesn't look fast enough!"
Proceeds to paint the car yellow
"That's a fast car!"
Orks approve.
😂 I would rather bless it with a hymn in glorious binary!
Wha!? Are yooz some sorta Bad Moonz luvin git? Get it roight - all da boyz know dat Red wunz go fasta!
*paints it purple why they sleep*
@@gkid64 😱
Now we can play CustoDEIs and Misters of Battle
All these experts in the comments made me realize why they had to make those revisit episodes.
R.i.p Jessi Fastest Woman on four Wheels. Pioneer Legend!
Very sad . She was just starting life
I had that same thought. Can't believe we lost both Jessie and Grant RIP
damn i didnt even know about both of them :(
I didn't know about her death.. RIP Jessi
I had no idea. What happened?
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.
Don’t think it is
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.
RIP
@@bend8353 - Yeah, cute girl, gorgeous woman, but didn't live her life in a way that's conducive to old age.
She certainly proved the old adage that speed kills.
Growing up before youtube I learned so much from Xtreme 4x4
Oh no most certainly the water skipping car myth is not busted because the car used by MB has the engine in the front where as the Lambo's engine is in the back, which is why it bounced different.
@@guarddog318 She died living life to the fullest though, we all meet our maker, but if your day comes doing what you love to the highest degree, that's not a bad way to go, early, but risks are what drive innovation.
I love having the narrator whispering in my left ear.
How dare the free content not be exactly to your liking.
This is a very valid point, advertising serve to pay channels if people aren't already paying not to see ads.
@@carlharrison1461 lol shut up, the original masters have proper audio.
@@martinsnow6641 so? It’s free content, put up with it or pay. Simple
Oh my not the 63yr old trying to tell the whippersnapper to EnJoY WhaT ThEY GeT.
Bringing attention to the problem helps it get solved you muppet.
@carlharrison1461
45:54 I can’t believe those cars still drove after all they put them through! THAT is the most amazing part 😂😂
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.
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
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 👍
as shown in the show. fecal or any other mater lose their "contaminating properties" at some point..
Shit happens, but it doesn't necessarily kill you :D
@@reinmarandi6174 That's very true.
But my point was that you're unaware of the last time a can was "contaminated". I'm not nessecarily talking about death, that's a bit extreme lol. You should still clean them as a precaution.
Never done it, never gotten any illness from a can. I am either only lucky when it comes to not drinking from a poop covered can, or this would be another one of those "theoretical" things that has very little real world impact.
@@Power5 I'd imagine it's pretty low risk, yeah. I'll put it this way though.
I'm used to seeing moldy cans, dirty cans, cans with dead bugs on them etc. Some of these cans just get wiped down and put back up on the shelf depending on the store you go to. So you can't blame me for making it a habit to clean the tops and also recommending others to do the same lol
Also, I'm sure if you saw me clean off any of the above mentioned things and then offered you that same can, I would think most people would decline because that's gross af😂
@@Power5 You've never gotten an illness, until you do.
Jessi was one of my favorite celebrities alive. What a awesome person she was
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
That ans the lambo is mid engine isn't it?.. the yellow car isn't
@@squad-wh4igbut it is a mid engine, they said its the same car as the second test car
One would think that certain movie myths could be as simple as calling the people who worked on the film and asking them.
Also that was not CGI there is no myth. The car actually did the skip over the water in the movie. No idea how deep that water was in the movie, but that is a real car, with a real stunt driver.
@@Pagliacci_Rex It's possible they did call the SFX people and other people in the film crew. But if it were simple, it would never make very good reality TV.
love this show they will literally test any thing they make dull subject fun by showing it in simple ways
indeed.
They could literally test any thing.
O wait, they could not.
You can find the video where Adam is on stage in front of an audience explaining they were not allowed to touch certain myths.
they cued with in resun
Love the 4d experience! It was like the narrator was sitting just left of me
FYI the stand in car is mid engine not front engine.
Poor fiero I had an 85 right out of high school
The countach is mid engine as well, what is your point?
@@Gatitasecsiifor the people who are saying the stand is front engine
@@Gatitasecsiiit may be mid engine but the way the countach is built its heavier in in the rear still yk what i mean? I just feel like they went about that myth wrong
@@Meatball856
43/57 for the fiero
41/59 for the countach
Idk I think they did a good job honestly. And they did make it skip in the end, just not like in the movie
They're not gonna crash a Countach. As much as it pains me that they ruined two Fieros...
OMG...another full episode! This just made my evening. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for these uploads guys 👍
No joke my first ever look at MythBusters😅
😮😮
Well you're in for a treat because there's a decade or so of episodes to catch up on, welcome
Wait until you see the ladies gaslight Tori into bunny hopping over a red wagon on an old bicycle. Spoiler alert: He fails spectacularly. So many more injuries Tori accumulated… all for science.
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.
Love how Adam mentioned reading something in a chain letter. Those were the times when E-Mail was our social media. 😂
Absolutely love the episodes with Jessi Combs. She'll always be a record holder.
"The car is armed!"
Yeah, it's Mythbusters.
That poor fiero😢 the first one was a rare late 80s car in very good condition
The first one looked a little crusty tbh. The second one may not have been a nice later one, but it looked absolutely mint. I guess the show was made when these things were worth absolutely nothing.
21:55 A particular sequence we've become familiar with in recent years. I makes my nose tickle just thinking about those swabs.
Thank friggin god this is on yt! Loved this growing up!
That was sick!!
Its sad jessi isn't with us any longer rest in peace died way to young
Grant also. I've never really liked how the show went right back to Kari without the hand-off they did to intro Jessi.
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
I can assure you, we are not.... but you might want to move that glass away from the table edge before it drops :/
He's behind you, talking to you personally lol
he is
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
the irony of trying to skip a car across a pond that orginally was known for catching fire.
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.
Me miss you Grant! RIP man
Edit: I had no idea Jessi passed too...this sucks man
and jessi!
How did she die
Going like 500mph doing a land speed record.@NeekSquad
@@smoke8715 wow that’s horrible. I will say though it’s best to go out doing something you love.
@NeekSquad apparently the vehicles wheel hit a rock and broke. Yeah sad but she went out being the fastest woman alive.
Nice job using the natural separation of the shelves for the Adam vs Adam bit.
This channel is about to blow up.
"Jaimie wants a bigger boom" - Adam Savage
45:06 Grant so much skills to function that electronics cervo so well, amazing dude!
Pontiac fiero is REAR engine....that's why they were used as kit cars with Lamborghini bodywork
What matters is that it's not front heavy
I love this🥇🚀
They could have made the ramp a little longer and that would have helped the launch. Waist of a perfectly good Fiero.
I learned Pontiac Fieros are built tougher than I thought.
22:42 Adam puts the potentially dirtiest swab in his mouth 😂😂
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.
R.I.P. Jessie
And Grant
Monk would be shock to hear the news that he has to bleach the house 🤣
Jessis in this one!!!!! She was my favorite host. RIP Jessi and Grant...
7:21 Horrifying to think 2/3rds of this segment have passed away... WAY too soon. RIP Jessi and Grant. 💜
Ive learned 2 things. Robert Lee likes my left ear, and whoever is uploading these has a crush on Jessi.
jessi died.
Jessi is dead she past in a car wreck have some respect
Yeah I know. You can still find someone who died attractive
@@jeffreymagyar3990 Can you explain how their comment was not respectful?
@@jeffreymagyar3990 All we can say is, her corpse is even more fuckable than she ever was alive
Wow, Jessee and Grant ❤
Double the pond length and I think it will make it across, great episode, thanks for the upload!
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 TH-cam
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.
narrator in left ear was nice touch
It's bad they didn't notice that,in the movie the car goes down a bit before jumping the pond so it means the ramp was kind of inverted sort of. Sort of like downhill with a bump but close to the water,that's why the car lands with the rear wheels on the water and it acts like a flat rock skipped
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.
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.
I unintentionally jumped one of my Fieros years ago. Misjudged the road conditions. Lol. Small jump, but it landed fine. Kept the throttle pegged. No major nose dive.
It’s better to run across water without a ramp. The smoother the transition the better
They need a lip to pop off of.... just enough to lift the front end just a hair. That would get it out further before coming in contact with the water and keep the nose up
@@krawdaddy33 use the long gradual ramp instead of a short kicker that forced the front up way too much. If it was a long, gradual ramp, the vehicle would eventually level off almost
I thought I was the only one who.m noticed that it was a kicker and not the correct ramp for the experiment.
my left ear loved the intro announcer lol
"It doesn't look fast enough"
Jessi Combs
Is this an attempt at humour? If so, distasteful.
@@MrValis169 It's just a quotation. Malice is in the eye of the beholder.
The first episode I’ve watched in years and I hear Jessi “you know me and cars”… damn. She really was “bout that life”, as they say. Much respect for her. Although she didn’t do much for the stereotype of women drivers.
@@MrValis169Bro why are you so grumpy?
@@jacywilson Age mainly, death stops being funny after you realise it's somebody's son or daughter.
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!
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 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
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 . .
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
Because these are just being uploaded here so they can take legal action against people uploading them. They don't actually care about the quality
Yeah, it's annoying. To make it bearable you can switch to mono sound on your OS.
On Windows: click the start button, start typing (search will automatically appear) "turn on mono audio", open the dialogue, and toggle it on
On OSX: settings->accessibility->audio toggle "play stereo audio as mono"
If you are on any other *nix you probably know how to do it.
Don't forget to turn it off once you're finished.
@@matoatlantis Thanks! is there any way to have a shortcut to turn it on and off quickly?
@@Floydka Just look for a browser extension to do the same thing
How do you scale gravity and air density?
R.I.P. Jessi Combs! 8/27/2019
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.
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...
Yeah they totally fucked up that jump, and hearing him talk about the weight of the car and everything was ridiculous lol, like its their fault the car didn't skip yet they give any reason for it not working they can. I've seen side by sides hydroplane all the way across a huge pond/oasis in Glamis dunes, so I know for a fact this is possible!
Doesn't the car they used also have the engine in the front while the Countach is mid engine?
Actually, the MB ramp was 3.4 degrees too high. Also, the color was wrong. It had to be red (obviously). Like the lambo in the movie. No wonder it didn't work!
@@jonasfermefors No
Also I'm wondering about airfoil on the fiero, which the lambo SX crew may have also tweaked and optimized for the movie. That would not only weigh down the rear properly but keep it down after launch so it could touch down nicely at the rear. All told, there were many ways they could have better approximated the movie setup.
That said, this episode really brought home to me what I never fully appreciated when I saw the originals: the mad skills of the MB team. Jessie's NOx mod was bordering on rocket-science.
I remember when you couldn’t even find a whole ep now their left and right everywhere
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.
Many countries have laws where there is a minimum allowed amount of insect matter in a specific amount of product. Gross as hell.
as a car enthusiast it really hurts to see that second fiero get waster like that. thing looked mint.
As a kid it looked cooled as hell. As an adult now, its painful to see the cars get ruined. Prayers the frame didn't get fucked and they could be rebuilt.
All Fieros were junk
What are the 2 used cars? Thanks in advance
@@Thezaza054 It's a Pontiac Fiero - a first mass produced American mid-engine car. These two in the episode were the facelifted models produced between 1986 to 1988.
4:25 - Damn, that grip on that rat was so fine that rat didn't even feel itself shitting.
Oh lord, I have to take my earbuds off and use phone speakers
it's so sad. two thirds of the Mythbusters "B" team are gone. far too soon.
rest in peace Jess and Grant. I pray your families have been able to comfort
knowing Jess and Grant will live on forever for being a part of pop culture
for positive reasons. also, for those unaware Grant played Sulu in the
star trek fan film series Star Trek: Continues. his exuberance to play that
role clearly shines through in his performances. it's the best Trek fan films
I've ever seen.
2 out of 5 B team members-- remember, Scottie and Kari are also MythBusters.
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
🤣
Mythbusters have their own TH-cam Channel; how did I not know this for years?
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 car has to be on a plane to skim the water . Which means evenly distributing the transition from road to water as flat as possible . Of course it’s not gonna skim if it’s on a ramp whereas the car will nosedive and hit the water like concrete .
My family has a long history of puddle jumping 🐸
First of all, you can tell the scene with the Lamborghini is sped up after it exits the water. So, there's no way it skipped slower. Second of all, he put that swab in his mouth after swabbing the toilet!
I hear Robert in that corner again^^
The no look at 7:02 is crazy.
Finding out Jessi died from the comments of this video is heartbreaking rip another legend
Soda cans? What a waste of aluminum on packing just a single glass of water, sugar water or whatever for a person to drink.
There is a actually a video up where a Su Chi Yu Pro brushless RC car skips right across a smooth lake at speed.
5:00 lmao
What you really want is to put 2 concrete pads on an angle so you fall into it like dominoes or playing cards so go up a slight hill to pitch backward then fall onto one and bounce the whole vehicle to slightly load and unload the suspension
The sheet metal plate would also reduce drag and slightly improve gas mileage
My left ear enjoyed the narration.
a better ramp definitely could’ve gotten the car flat without adjusting weight. yes they accounted for the height of the lip, but not the length on the transition. no matter what they hit that jump with, or how fast, it was flipping forward.
Did yall see that dinosaur cellphone? I miss those lol
If they didn’t increase the amount of fuel in the mix then the nitrous didn’t do squat to make more power
my left ear feels very appreciated, though the announcer is also quiet on top of that xD
Narrator teleports behind you. "nothing personal kid."
I like how all the comments are talking about the car myth because the other one is basically "apparently someone got a can and it had rat pee on it? is it a myth? well, we tested some cans and they didn't have any rat pee on them" lol
I don’t think they care because there’s plastic in between the metal and the liquid in the can so they likely thought it wouldn’t do anything anyway
pond probably cost more than the lambo, lol
I wonder if the car would have skipped a couple more times at those speeds and how far it would go before sinking
You might stay dry skipping a car over a lake, but it's highly unlikely your spine and neck will remain intact.
One of the drivers for First Blood broke his back jumping railroad track for the move, and he only went about 10 feet in the air.
I don’t know what Jesse was talking about, an 85 Pontiac fiero with a 3800 GM engine is pretty dang fast considering the car weighs nothing.
Ive been an electrician since i was 5 years old. I can program computers and motors. I wish i could meet that guy driving the car.