History Awesome / MYTHBUSTERS

* A recent show showcased the Mythbusters top 12 favorite locations. Number one was the bomb range, so during the credit sequence at the end they had a montage of all the explosions that have taken place there. It's BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.

* Their appearance at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, where they tested to see the force of 150,000 people jumping at once. and tested to see if men or women did the wave faster.

* The Build Team making a ''functioning airplane'' out of [[DuctTapeForEverything ductape]]!

* The Mythbusters ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. With a BOX of SCRA[=*=] ...Ahem. Sorry.

* In their holiday special, the Myth Busters spend the entire episode building a huge Rube Goldberg machine. It's difficult to describe in words, so a video is necessary: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCYg_gz4fDo]]

* Yeah, basically the whole show.

*** Yes those explosions were ''bigger'' in raw tonnage, but in this tropers opinion, they weren't visualy as cool. Blown up a cement truck? ''[[YourBlankIsBroken What cement truck?]]''

* They built a shark-punching robot. That's just so awesome, I believe it singlehandedly justifies the entire medium of television.

* In the Chinese Invasion Alarm experiment, Kari does better at hearing Jamie and Tory's digging than Adam... and Grant's fancy geoscopic technology. If that doesn't prove she belongs with the team, I don't know what does.

* The Youtube special, where Adam and Jamie not only confirmed that lighting 30000 match heads at the same time creates a large fireball, but they also ''[[BeyondTheImpossible lit a million match heads]]'' and created an even bigger fireball. Then they used 60000 match heads as gunpowder for a cannon. ''And it worked.''

* If building and driving a speedboat made of frozen newpaper doesn't qualify as a Awesome, this troper honestly doesn't know what does.

*** Hey, don't forget the duct-tape ''cannon.'' That's right. They made a working cannon, completely out of duct tape.

* Mythbusters+ Ask a Ninja= pure awesomeness

** Also featuring the most masculine Tory countdown, a CrowningMomentOfFunny from the Mythbusters' reactions and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming as the Adam radios the people above him; "Tell me everybody's okay." and high-fives only begin after it's confirmed that everyone's fine.

* It turns out that [[http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/govt_side_job_WAcDqqg5ntw9y4CVywXxPO in his spare time Jaime has been helping the military!]] He's making them armor and robotic dummies.

* The Mythbusters ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. With a BOX of SCRA[=*=] ...Ahem. Sorry.

*** Yes those explosions were ''bigger'' in raw tonnage, but in this tropers opinion, they weren't visualy as cool. Blown up a cement truck? ''[[YourTropeIsBroken What cement truck?]]''

-->'''Grant:''' We should destroy this, because it's too dangerous to have in our shop!

* Their appearance at the Rally to Restore Anity and/or Fear, where they tested to see the force of 150,000 people jumping at once. and tested to see if men or women did the wave faster.

* It turns out that in his spare time Jaime has been helping the military! He's making them armor and robotic dummies. http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/govt_side_job_WAcDqqg5ntw9y4CVywXxPO

* Yeah, basically the whole show.

** CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
** Not just one one of them emntion in the inverted underwater car myth that 4 people had written to them that what they showed saved their life.

* Creating fire by using a power drill to spin a stick, with the hole in the board below surrounded by gunpowder. It's breaking every single rule involved in the process, but their sheer audacity has to be applauded.

* President Obama himself gave the Mythbusters another angle on the Archimedes Death Ray, saying that the thing that the Mythbusters missed was manpower; the Mythbusters gathered 500 students to help them pull off the myth. It was still busted, but seeing that many people out there was a CMOA.

* The Mythbusters ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. With a BOX of SCRA[=* =] ...Ahem. Sorry.

** I wonder if [[TeamFortress2 it costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire that minigun for twelve seconds]]?

* Their appearance at the Rally to Restore Anity and/or Fear, where they tested to see the force of 150,000 people jumping at once. and tested to see if men or women did the wave faster.

* The Build Team and Adam and Jamie each have their favorite myths as their personal Crowning Moments. The Build Team's fav is "Racing Gravity," where they did ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, dropping a car from a helicopter and then racing it to the impact point with a sportscar from the same distance away from the drop point horizontally as the falling car was vertically. Adam and Jamie's favorite is "Lead Balloon," where they were able to disprove the old idiom about the topic by constructing and floating a balloon made out of lead foil.

* Kari Byron, sawing a tree in half with a [[{{BFG}} chain gun]]. A CMOA ''and'' [[FetishFuel sexy as hell]], too.

** CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.