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Out of the Wild season 3 must have been doing horribly in the ratings, it's now airing once a week, with new episodes premiering at 2 AM Fridays.
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Teek posted:Out of the Wild season 3 must have been doing horribly in the ratings, it's now airing once a week, with new episodes premiering at 2 AM Fridays. The taxidermy show that replaced it is terrible.
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Apr 1, 2011 17:18
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New Mythbusters this Wednesday at 10 PM They're doing that mask thing from Mission Impossible 2 for some reason or another.
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Apr 3, 2011 21:23
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Teek posted:Out of the Wild season 3 must have been doing horribly in the ratings, it's now airing once a week, with new episodes premiering at 2 AM Fridays. Oh is that what happened? My DVR didn't copy any episodes last week, instead giving me a rerun of DC labeled as Out of the Wild. Jesus Discovery, just show the damned thing, is it really worse than 2+ year old reruns of DC?
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Apr 6, 2011 01:59
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FlamingLiberal posted:New Mythbusters this Wednesday at 10 PM ugh guys please stop doing stupid movie poo poo, I loving beg of you TONIGHT ON MYTHBUSTERS: CAN YOU REALLY EXPLODE SOMEONE'S HEAD USING JUST YOUR MIND? *shot of Adam staring at Jamie, brow furrowed in concentration* AND LATER...WILL BEING BITTEN BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER GIVE YOU SUPERPOWERS? *shot of Grant's head inside glass box full of glowing spiders as he screams* *cue theme music* WHO ARE THE MYTHBUSTERS? Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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Apr 6, 2011 04:22
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I'm certainly no apologist for the show, but I can understand them doing this myth. They are, after all, in the business of special effects. If they can make someone up to look like someone else and fool, even for just a few minutes, people who know them, it could be entertaining. Add in a soundboard for extra fun. If they're just going to walk along the street, though, it'll be stupid. Considering all the freaks in San Fran, who'll notice?
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Apr 6, 2011 05:27
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As much as I love Mythbusters and the idea of the show, the last few seasons have been really weak. They obviously ran out of ideas a long time ago and it seems like almost every episode they do now is a movie myth, something that can be solved with basic physics in about 10 minutes, or absurd poo poo that gives them an excuse to blow something up. I can't even remember the last time they tested something I would consider a "myth" as opposed to "something someone thought of when they were stoned".
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Apr 6, 2011 06:25
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They're just leading up to another terrible MYTHS REVISITED show where they yet again manage to somehow pick the worst myths to revisit. This might be reaching back a few months, but did anyone catch that weird "science" spinoff that Byron did? They obviously thought nerdy tits would be enough to pull off what is essentially a Mythbusters clipshow. Needless to say it was atrocious. I only caught it once and haven't seen it on the air since, but I'm not really looking for it so whatever.
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Apr 6, 2011 07:34
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Martytoof posted:They're just leading up to another terrible MYTHS REVISITED show where they yet again manage to somehow pick the worst myths to revisit. Wasn't that show supposed to be a kids show at least? That makes it a bit better, I guess. I remember her pushing it on a radio show.
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Apr 6, 2011 07:42
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I caught it a few times on the Science Channel. It's basically an entire Mythbusters episode with Kari demonstrating middle school science in lieu of commercials. Kari's segments are basic "What do you think will happen when we put this balloon between two beds of nails?" trivia and an occasional clip of someone telling kids how science helps them in their job. The only thing that struck me as stupid was the fact that the Mythbusters bits were heavily censored. If there's a logo on screen, it's blurred. Same goes for words on shirts, pretty much anything. They also bleep out weird things like "hell". In the episode where they race a toy car and a Viper, they bleeped out "Viper" every single time someone said it, which was a lot. I don't know if the Science Channel is super strict, or if they do that to protect the precious children since it might be taped and re-aired in classes.
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Apr 6, 2011 11:15
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FlamingLiberal posted:New Mythbusters this Wednesday at 10 PM They should do that mask thing from Darkman. Or The Mask. Or Mask. Or M.A.S.K.
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Apr 6, 2011 12:38
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I don't know if the Science Channel is super strict, or if they do that to protect the precious children since it might be taped and re-aired in classes. I'm 95% sure this is due to the classroom use. And it's not about "precious children" so much as some places are extremely strict about advertising in classrooms. Yeah, the kids aren't going to run out and buy Vipers but the policies don't differentiate between that and saying, "McDonalds sure is delicious!" Edit: Also the logo and brand blurring started happening even on Discovery after a few seasons so it might just have been a policy carry over from there.
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Apr 6, 2011 14:35
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FogHelmut posted:They should do that mask thing from Darkman. Or The Mask. Or Mask. Or M.A.S.K. Oh gently caress yes! A M.A.S.K. episode would be insane. Okay, in the first part we're going make a motorcycle that turns into a helicopter. In the second, Grant builds that horrible loving robot that turns into a unicycle and Tori will ride it into a volcano.
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Apr 6, 2011 16:58
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New Mythbusters tonight - and yes, it's the Mission Impossible mask thing. I read an article today about how Jamie is branching out to military contracting and developing body armor for soldiers, and they mentioned the episode was about fooling a security system with them, so it won't be totally stupid hopefully. It should be entertaining at least. Plus Deadliest Catch starts next week!
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Apr 7, 2011 00:04
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LordOfThePants posted:Plus Deadliest Catch starts next week!  Finally, some good stuff.
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Apr 7, 2011 00:23
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Ugh, I can't believe they're doing something as stupid as the Shoot Em Up "myth." That's as bad as when they curved the bullet.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:06
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muscles like this? posted:Ugh, I can't believe they're doing something as stupid as the Shoot Em Up "myth." That's as bad as when they curved the bullet. Sometimes it's not about something being obviously false or true. Sometimes it's just an excuse to shoot poo poo up.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:15
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The eyes. They creep me the gently caress out.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:19
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Adam could definitely pass as Jamie from a distance or maybe someone meeting him who didn't quite know him but Jamie just looks weird. I guess the problem is that Adam is skinnier than Jamie so they can just bulk him up but Jamie can't really make his head skinnier.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:22
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The CIA already has the face mask disguise. The guy who created it even wrote a book about it: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article09.html It's also the same CIA guy who masterminded the rescue of the Americans from Iran.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:48
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DivisionPost posted:Sometimes it's not about something being obviously false or true. Sometimes it's just an excuse to shoot poo poo up. Its not that they're doing a goofy shooting myth, its that they're doing something that has appeared in exactly one movie and a not serious movie at that. Like, I'm fine with the shooting the gun across the floor thing because there's more history behind it. This one just feels like they needed something easy, flashy and time consuming.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:51
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I'm liking Tory more and more over time. "We get it Kari, you don't want us to ride on your merry-go-round  "
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Apr 7, 2011 02:55
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They must have filmed the segments at way different times cause Kari's boobs were changing sizes between myths.
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Apr 7, 2011 12:39
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Palleon posted:something that can be solved with basic physics in about 10 minutes, or absurd poo poo that gives them an excuse to blow something up. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Apr 7, 2011 |
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Apr 7, 2011 22:16
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MadScientistWorking posted:Dude if you thought that the older myths couldn't be solved with basic physics in 10 minutes you need a better education. The problem is that a lot of the myths that they do fall under the same category of physics so essentially if you seen them bust one myth you should be able to figure out why other variations won't work. Remember that merry go round myth is really no different from another myth they did a while back entailing the recoil effect of being shot by a gun. The number of myths they've ever done that produced results that wouldn't be intuitive to anyone who remembers high school physics could be counted on one hand. There's a larger subset of myths that produced results that were much more or less severe than you'd guess, but most of the time the show's entertainment value is from watching the scientific method being performed and seeing cool gimmicks and explosions, not from learning something new about how the world works.
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Apr 7, 2011 22:31
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MadScientistWorking posted:Dude if you thought that the older myths couldn't be solved with basic physics in 10 minutes you need a better education. The problem is that a lot of the myths that they do fall under the same category of physics so essentially if you seen them bust one myth you should be able to figure out why other variations won't work. Remember that merry go round myth is really no different from another myth they did a while back entailing the recoil effect of being shot by a gun. You knew exactly what I meant (as haveblue described), but thanks for acting like a total jackass.
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Apr 8, 2011 00:02
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Has anyone been able to find a place to see episode 7 "Hope Floats" of Out of the Wild season 3? Since Discovery poo poo all over the show, it seems like there's no place to see it unless you happened to be watching at 2 in the morning last Friday when they decided to change its scheduling. 2 AM tomorrow they air episode 8. Crappy rear end Discovery.  All I could find was a few clips from episode 7 on the official site.
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Apr 8, 2011 00:25
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Teek posted:Has anyone been able to find a place to see episode 7 "Hope Floats" of Out of the Wild season 3? Since Discovery poo poo all over the show, it seems like there's no place to see it unless you happened to be watching at 2 in the morning last Friday when they decided to change its scheduling. 2 AM tomorrow they air episode 8. Crappy rear end Discovery. Oh wait, so they did give it last week? gently caress! I thought they just didn't show it and were going to resume this week (in the morning.) Why try so hard to make me not watch a show? Just take it off the air, Jesus.
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Apr 8, 2011 00:49
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So how much does a professionally custom made top-of-the-line mask like that cost?
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Apr 8, 2011 02:40
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muscles like this? posted:Ugh, I can't believe they're doing something as stupid as the Shoot Em Up "myth." That's as bad as when they curved the bullet.
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Apr 8, 2011 06:20
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah...this feels like Jumping the Shark territory for this show. Seriously? These guys literally polished a turd to produce content for an episode, and this is where they jump the shark?
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Apr 8, 2011 07:12
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They've been doing bad "myths" from whatever movie they could get clips from for a few years now. I'd hardly say they jumped the shark with this. I'm more surprised that anyone saw Shoot 'Em Up.
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Apr 8, 2011 07:17
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Sankis posted:I'm more surprised that anyone saw Shoot 'Em Up. I have to say I'm intrigued after seeing Paul Giamatti trying to snipe a baby.
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Apr 8, 2011 08:35
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I have to say I'm intrigued after seeing Paul Giamatti trying to snipe a baby. Its a very very goofy movie, more like a cartoon than an action movie.
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Apr 8, 2011 13:37
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Think Crank, but less edgy. Cartoon is the best way to describe it. The hero literally munches on CARROTS.
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Apr 8, 2011 15:11
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Asmodai_00 posted:
Love the Deadliest Catch, so I was wondering if there was a specific thread, so I guess I'll be hanging out in here, plus Discovery channel rules anyway, so was nice to find this thread regardless! 
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Apr 8, 2011 16:36
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I dunno if I can watch Catch without Captain Phil anymore. 
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Apr 9, 2011 14:00
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I think DC will be alright. I just wonder if the drama between seasons will change the tone of the show. So I guess the end of Out of the Wild was ok. It's funny that they literally buried the show for like one or two episodes.
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Apr 10, 2011 05:24
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WHEEZY HIDE A EGG posted:Seriously? These guys literally polished a turd to produce content for an episode, and this is where they jump the shark? Does anyone else remember 'Diesel Diaries' where they had the build team do a commercial for some Volkswagen diesel car as it were part of the show, and they all have that gritted teeth "who farted?" expression as if they hated having to do it? I thought that was the "jump the shark" moment. Mid-2009. Seems about right. It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5P9WjKy68 I'm in love/hate with the movie myths. The most recent episode was a perfect example. The Mission Impossible myth was actually an interesting idea: "Can a good enough mask fool somebody who's known you for years?" But in the very same episode you have the transparent "Let's shoot stuff" myth. They even tried to spice it up by lighting it on fire. I guess the bomb range wasn't available that day. Edit: 
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Apr 11, 2011 19:03
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I guess here is where I'd also ask if any Canuck goons have been watching Junk Raiders. Really enjoying this season a lot.
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Apr 11, 2011 20:08
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