Testing Hollywood's Crash Clichés - Mythbusters - Science Documentary
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- Mythbusters - S08 E19
Join the Mythbusters as they tackle Hollywood's wildest crash clichés! From smashing through glass panes to flipping SUVs with RPGs and slicing through traffic jams, find out what's real and what's just movie magic. Buckle up for an explosive episode!
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They tested while the glass carriers were BLOODY NAKED!
It's rare to see Jamey as happy as he was at the end of this episode. During both tests you can see him shaking, and that laugh. He's so happy, it's so wholesome
Jamie likes big boom
I was thinking the exact same thing. His pride was beaming!
So true
Shaking hand at 28:28 😅
Let's be honest, if such carnage was legal. Jamie would have done that big rig ages ago 😂
This is a Classic Mythbusters Episode ❤❤❤
As a Glazier I could’ve told you that would happen. I’ve got the stitches to prove how sharp those little pieces of tempered glass are!
I'm curious why they decided to target the SUV, usually the flip is depicted as a result of the rpg detonation inti the ground just missing a direct hit.
Exactly, hitting straight on there is no way to impart upwards momentum.
Probably due to risk mitigation? Runaway RPG, sharpnel if hitting the steel part, etc. The engine block is thick and heavy enough to prevent that.
@@romeocharliegolfdoubt it. they were in the bunker or something like that. It's just their usuall shit of not thinking when making an episode. They got paid and they don't care. Pretty much sums up Karry or how that shitty name is pronounced, she was filmed in a scammy commercial recently.
44:54 there's something quite beautiful but funny AF about that. The way that the cars are being flipped aside looks like a snow plough pushing snow 😆🙂
Im gonna make a note when it comes to RPGs, they have 2 main warheads on the RPG-7, the PG-07 which is the Armour Piercing warhead I believe, and an OG-07 Warhead which is High Explosive. Against an SUV, and a group of terrorists may have more access to the High Explosive warhead than a Tandem Charge PG-07
But even then, wouldnt the mass of the warhead be way to less to flip a 2-3 ton SUV? I'm just guessing here as I remember the size of the german RPG and that thing wasn't that massive. I'd compare that to maybe 3 handgrenades and I'd be pretty sure an SUV wouldnt flip from that. But could be wrong as well ^^ and its also 20 years since military^^
@maxm1645 oh its definitely plausible, however to prove the myth they probably should have tested the OG-07 warhead hitting beneath the car for it.
Although I do expect this to be mostly Hollywood.
All that protection on the windscreen then they leave the door window open
Now I know where GTA Online got their idea for the "Phantom Wedge", I would never imagine that this thing could be real !
Truly one of the best things I've ever saw on a TV Show !!!
came here to find this comment :D thanks mate :D
RPG on SUV, reminds me of Clear and Present Danger, but they should fire the RPG underneath the SUV if it can flip it.
Right? I never understood that choice for testing this myth. It’s basic momentum, you want to push it up then you apply the force to the underside, not the front. Even the example Hollywood clip showed the RPG going down and exploding underneath the car to flip it.
You can see from how little the car moves from a frontal impact that even if they fired it under and it wasn't a shaped charge, it wouldn't have lifted it at all. Being it's a shaped charge though most of the force would go into the ground, not lifting the car. Not worth even testing honestly.
25:13 The shot of Kari, Tori and Grant on top of the mobile bunker, with the sun behind them, is one of my favourite Mythbusters images.
That's a crew that's had a fun day.
Kinda had a Mad Max vibe
@@Bartman954 Exactly.
44:03 Never seen Jamie fit a background so nice!
Watching this right after the traffic-myths episode where Jamie mentions ooonce or twice (or dozen times) how much he hates traffic .. yeah, no wonder he enjoyed that one :D
25:00
Jato 3 was the most expensive myth they ever did. They had to go to the management of Discovery itself to get the funding for it which normally they didn't do. Normally they just did what they could with a regular budget but this one they had to make a deal for. That's also why they had so many powerful rockets, the dump truck, 2 prestine shevy impala's and so much other stuff. They managed to get a big budget for that myth and they made sure to use it.
Good grief, learn to spell if you want to be
taken seriously !
@@petermacinnes5313 What spelling mistakes did I make?
It's a great day when I see one episode I never got to catch on TV ❤
The glass with a car shape hole in it looks like a cartoon I love it ahahhaha
This is the best thing I've seen them do. Awesome!
One of the best episodes they did... It's hard to pick a favourite, but this one's up there.
The flipping of a car is one of Hollywood's favorite cliches. It looks good on camera and is fairly easy to do using a ramp. Has anyone counted all the movies in which the stunt is used? The clip at the beginning with the impact, explosion, and flipping- that is typical 1990's action-thriller dreck. Some CIA conspiracy nonsense that required the flipping of a SUV. Watch that scene, and the countless other movie scenes just like it, and feel the mindlessness get pushed into your mind. Real physics is more interesting.
When Mythbusters fired a RPG into the big heavy engine block of a big heavy SUV, it looked as if much of the energy of the explosion was absorbed by the engine block. The million-dollar question is what would happen to the occupants of the SUV. If bad guys wanted to kill the occupants, they might not aim for the engine.
Real crashes don't look spectacular on camera, for the regular viewer. Same with explosions. Nothing to do with CIA nonsense. Hollywood just figured out a very repeatable method of making a car chase look spectacular. Shooting a scene like that is very expensive and takes forever to set up. You want a sure-fire way of getting it done in as few takes as possible. If a stunt team made it work on one movie, they likely get hired to repeat the same trick. Just how the industry works.
@@Yvolve The guy was talking about the plot of the movie (90s b-movie, probably some cia action stuff or whatever), not that the CIA is sponsoring car flipping antics for whatever reason :D
I hope they didn't base the RPG vs SUV one on Fast Five. Because the fired the rpg's directly at the vehicles, while in Fast Five, the rpg's hit the ground beneath the vehicles. If they didn't notice that, they must be blind.
The truck is like the origin of the Phantom Wedge in GTA Online.
Oooooh the OG phantom wedge!!
The entire point of the rpg is that it blows up underneath the vehicle, causing the flip.
They didn’t test it even remotely right
true, but I still dont think that would've worked. the RPG works by using the explosives in the warhead to collapse a bronze sheet into a plasma penetrator, which is directed into the target in front of it at incredible speeds. The explosion you see isnt actually whats doing the damage nor punching through the target
@@spEAMerNation Thats true and all, but he/she's got a point, I would have loved to see an explosion the size that an RPG could produce being detonated under the car, bronze/copper cone penetrator or not. What kind of lift it could achieve on the car (doubtfull it would be big), just for the sake of thoroughness.
@@SmokingAgathon I assume It would be very underwhelming considering that in the first test, it didnt even have enough power to push the car back even just a little.
25:30
I'm pretty sure those are from the earthquake shake table.
My predictions (been a long time since I saw this):
Laminated glass - it is does not break, it will be violently ripped from your hands resulting in possible cuts and broken bones.
The tempered glass will not cause huge lacerations, but many small pinpricks.
The standard glass is a bunch of flying daggers and you are likely to lose a finger or a thumb.
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A car shaped hole in the glass, that is a "plausible" slap stick staple?
The tempered glass is probably going way more than 30 miles per hour, the shattering will make some of the pieces fly off much faster. Without a frame to keep it secure, it will go everywhere all at once.
Adam Savage really appropriate name for this episode and his laugh , should be Manic Adam Savage.
"steal it and put in the movie"...man they making new Mad Max franchise out of it. 2 movies are just big trucks flipping cars.
Barbeque sausages are yummy. Barbequed Coral Trout is also yummy!
That wedge should be installed in all emergency-vehicles so people would finally learn to leave a rescue-lane on the autobahn!
That glass shattering test always bothered me. Any workers carrying glass would be clothed and that would have provided a modicum of protection.
you obviously dont undestand juat how sharp shattered glass is.
@@cameronliddell9533 Personally I'm not understanding how very thin easily cut/ torn plastic is the same as squishy skin. Never mind how fabric tends to be the social convention when out in public.
But since when did Mythbusters care about nailing the variables when making "good TV"
@@cameronliddell9533 - I'm well aware of how sharp shattered glass is. I have a two inch scar on my arm from a broken window. I was wearing a t-shirt at the time. I also know that the pair of jeans I was wearing, when I dropped said pane of glass after I cut my arm, probably saved my legs from also getting cut even though they themselves were cut.
@@TrailRat2000 seriouly you cant see the difference between DROPPING glass and having it literally explode in your hand due to a car driving through it? You think you could survive well i dare you to put it to the test then and let me know how you turn out.
@@cameronliddell9533 - I mean I've not had a piece of glass explode in my hand because of a car, but the glass that cut my arm did explode because someone accidentally hit it with a hammer.
Well it was not a movie that stole their idea...
Did they get into consideration the glass movers cloths.
On the glass myth, the plate glass only caused injuries at leg level. Chances are the workers would be working jeans or canvas work pants, which would probably prevent the injury shown. I would imagine that holding the glass would create a much higher risk to arms though, almost too bad they didn't have jelly arms as well.
I'd say in the whole situation the cuts wouldn't even be the main injury. My guess is that broken wrists or Arms would be much more "common" in that situation.
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I don't know if actual workmen would have been injured. Usually you wear jeans which I would would give a certain level of protection. Cloth is actually quite resistant to cutting.
29:06 better than cybertruck
The Rpgs go under the cars in the movies
GTA has the duckbill truck and wedge car
So you’re really trying to tell me that they don’t just tell the myths?
What if the truck had a cowcatcher?
I spoke too soon
They should’ve filled the box with gravel.
Meh there are different types of munitions for RPGs. Specifically theres a HE (high explosive) option. Firing that under the motor might just be able to flip the car. (looking at the movie scene they showed, it seems possible to achieve that shot)
43:40 What is this thing they put on the small cylindrical nose of the track? I thought it is a camera, but they didn't show any footage from it.
Did not use the footage from it. @47:12 The footage from the camera mounted higher up lasted 1 second.
Its like Moses crossing the Jordan river.
I am scared... yesterday this joke happend in the new Helluva Boss, now this...
Scared of what?
I think they are a young person scared by the coincidence of having the same joke appear in two places in short succession.
@@Yvolve Timing, 2 new released videos I watched both have the Joke and the Test for the Joke in it, despite those 2 videos having nothing todo with one another.
@@trollsneedhugs What joke? This episode is 10 years old as well. So this person is only seeing them close together.
More likely similar to when you learn a new word and you start seeing it everywhere all of the sudden. It was already there before, your brain just didn't register it.
@@Luzarioth Again, what joke? And what are you scared of? Coincidences happen all the time. I can't remember the amount of times I've watched a video and I saw something similar in another video I watched. With the amount of content being made nowadays, this is only going to happen more often.
I never watched Mythbusters on TV, just now on YT. And like in this RPG story, I'm always amazed how often they do not really care for details or do not research enough about the myths they are going to test. I would definitely not think an RPG could flip an SUV, but I would have tried it totally different.
Like using a fragmentation/thermobaric warhead rather than a HEAT one
It is clear you didn't watch the show. The whole point is to test a myth as it is. In this case, the myth an RPG can flip a car, regardless of how realistic it is. Obviously this won't work, but they test it and explain why it doesn't work. They almost always set up an experiment to replicate the myth.
@@ladyhavoc1281 That is pointless. No RPG is going to flip a vehicle. It has nowhere near enough explosives in there. They're meant to penetrate armour, with a shaped charge. Fragmentation is just to injure troops. Thermobaric melts stuff.
To flip an SUV you need a lot of explosives, below it, to force it up. This is why movies use a huge pneumatic cannon to flip cars. It blasts a big metal piston into the road, flipping the car.
@@Yvolve As I said, I do not believe it could flip an SUV, but as you said: test a myth as it is. But in the movie clip they showed, nobody said it was an armour piercing warhead. There are high explosive warheads as well. Then in the movie clip they did not shoot in the front of the car, but on the underside in the street. Would that flip an SUV? Most likely not. But would it be a better test of the myth? Definitely yes.
@@gordonbrinkmann To get into the explosive side in this comment:
It still won't matter, except it will be harder to get a high explosive RPG, and/or more expensive. It changes so little for the test they're doing, it is not worth it. There is also 0 chance it flips. Genuinely impossible. In the Deadliest Catch episode, they put 4 pounds of C4 under a crab cage. Made from solid steel bar, bent and welded. Weighs 800 pounds or something ridiculous. The explosive sits under two corners and it only just flips. This SUV 6500 pounds, the RPG has at best 2 kg's of thermobaric explosives. Regular HEAT is 730 grams (26 oz), tandem is 1,43 kg (3.2lbs). That is not going to flip 6500 pounds of steel and metal. Frag version is only 210 gr (7.4 oz). Just there to injure troops. An injured soldier takes up resources, a dead one takes up a casket, if you want to look at it from the bleak perspective of weapons design.
As I said in the other comment: they shot through the car. 9:24. The first angle show it going through the bottom of the windshield and through the car. The second angle it goes through the bonnet and engine. Poor continuity in post production.
You also have to realise the vast majority of people have no idea what the difference even means. You have to explain this in the episode, taking away time from showing big boom. In making TV, there are choices and not everything can be as perfect as you want it.
16:03 Did they really drive with open-side windows?
Why? Is cooler air more important than flying glass? Lol
Did anyone else miss the part where they said the glass holding guys in the original myth, were in-fact naked?
I loved this show when I was 12/13.. Re-watching 20 years later has me picking up on a lot of basic flawed experimental practices.
They never tried to create the best circumstances to confirm any of these myths. Either the production budget/time was out, or it was badly written...
With the glass, they did: the laminated glass. It didn't cut the carriers.
@@Yvolve Even there they didn't - workers would wear clothes for one, extend their arms at the very least or outright jump from surprise/shock. Going by the episode where they test the glass in a tornado myth, glass going at just 30 mph would likely have a hard time doing much against cloth (esp robust work clothes) and skin.
@@AeonLibertas You do not take into account the size of the shard. The bigger the piece, the more energy it has. You also have eyes, which are very sensitive. You breathe powdered glass. The floor is covered in it and if you fall in the mayhem, you're going to have a bad time.
Imagine a 30 mph car crash but your windshield is regular, single pane glass. Like it used to be. You're not going to enjoy this.
Going by the fact laminated glass is mandatory in hurricane/tornado zones, there's enough risk to mandate special windows.
the rpg hit the car underneath,that they didnt notice that makes their tests dodgy...not the first time those 3 messed up....
Wait, wasn't the purpose to flip the vehicle, not obliterate it? It makes sense if it was aimed under.
@@ichiroutakashima4503 Right, it makes sense to aim under and that's what is shown in the movie clip. But they did not aim under the car, which is why Tommy said they messed it up. And as another commenter pointed out, there are different types of warheads, armour piercing ones and high explosive ones. So to flip a car I would not have tried it with the armour piercing warhead. Or at least not only with that.
@@gordonbrinkmann It wouldn't matter. No RPG has the explosive payload to flip an SUV, ever. You're looking at massive tank round for that to happen.
@@Yvolve As I wrote under your other comment: it wouldn't matter, but it would be a better test of the shown myth. If someone in a movie showed to crack a bowling ball with a steel hammer, it would probably not matter for the result (I have no idea actually) if they tested it with a wood hammer, but you could argue that they did not perform the test correctly.
@@gordonbrinkmann In the clip, it is shot from a roof, goes through the bonnet and the entire engine, and blows up when hitting the ground. No way to replicate that.
The issue with aiming below the car is the setup. It is difficult hitting a spot below the engine, without clipping the ground, the bumper or have it bounce off the ground. Especially when you're comparing a stationary target with a moving one. Timing it right on the rolling target is going to be a challenge. Those RPG rockets are not cheap.
From a production standpoint, it is not feasible to aim at the ground. Simply too much risk. Aiming dead ahead, at a flat surface is a lot safer.
I'm also doubting the bomb range would be ok with aiming at the ground. The RPG rocket is designed to detonate when the front hits something. If it glances and bounces out from underneath the car, you are in trouble.
Practicality and safety trumps reality in these cases.
but regular window glass is laminated.
It doesn't matter, it was also tested
@@LastGoatKnight its still incorrect information
Not in the early 20th century when slapstick movies were made.
No, it's double-glazed. There is a space in between the two panes. This is why they have a metal strip along the edges. it acts as a spacer.
Some windows might have a UV blocking filter installed, but that won't stop it from breaking, or shattering.
@@Yvolve maybe where you are but those 2 are still laminated here
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Not that annoying of a comment though, is it?
Leaving out the . at the end could potentially ruin the day of someone obsessed with those things, but I really don't see it as an actually annoying comment.
Do better (or maybe worse? I don't know), next time!
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