History Awesome / TheSlowMoGuys

* Gav & Dan are in [=YouTube=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jtC8vjXw8 2013 "rewind" video.]] Their part consists of riding on the back of a truck with [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] in the background and them jumping around -- in slow motion, of course.

* The butane rocket, a bit of (rough) science revealed the canister was travelling at over 220+ MPH, about as fast as an exotic super-car. Also the fact that the video opened with Gavin counting down when it would explode. He was mostly on the money: it exploded as he said one.
* [[{{CuteKitten}} Lloyd]], both showing a jump in slow-motion of how she absorbs the shock with her front legs and how she runs, not climbs, ''runs'' up a fence, making it look like she's defying gravity.

* For Battlefield 4's release, EA sponsored the Slow Mo Guys blowing up an entire building.

* Gav & Dan are in [=YouTube=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jtC8vjXw8 2013 "rewind" video]]. Their part consists of riding on the back of a truck with [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] in the background and them jumping around - in slow motion, of course.

* After many trials, Gav was finally able to complete [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vk3tlSJzqc the Jackie Chan coin challenge]]. Words cannot express the joy on his face.
* So, after the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQ37OfknJA 10,000f/s video]], Gav said that because of how the camera works, they couldn't get any slower footage without doing a lower quality. Well, times change, and so have their cameras, these ones capable of capturing up to about 170,000f/s. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7x1Hu29Wc Amazing how technology marches on, isn't it?]]
** The numbers are rather impressive, at a rate of 170,600 FPS, the camera records footage 6824 times slower than real time and just four seconds of footage takes seven and a half hours to play back at 25 FPS and takes up 96 gigabytes of space.

** All these are exceeded by orders of magnitude in episode ten of ''Planet Slow-Mo'', in which the duo visits [=CalTech=] to film light at ''ten trillion'' frames per second. It's so fast that the light moves across the screen at a visible pace. One experiment at a mere one-hundred billion frames per second makes a femtosecond-long laser pulse bouncing around a mirrored cavity look like a DVD screensaver. And while the camera they used is currently the fastest in the world, [=CalTech=] is working on a camera that can film [[BeyondTheImpossible even faster]].

* Dan maintaining his badass pose during the "[[http://i.imgur.com/TtEUTU5.gif Deal With It]]" meme recreation.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UyyKkKvqpI Shattering a mirror with a hammer]] lets the duo discover that it creates a visible shockwave in the glass! Gav and Dan discuss how looks the scene in Film/TheMatrix when the helicopter crashes into a building, wondering if [[ShownTheirWork the directors actually]] [[AluminiumChristmasTrees knew about this]] or [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting if they got it right by chance]].

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewGAmiLuYCw Diving into 1000 Mousetraps in 4k Slow Motion]]. They spent four hours placing 1000 mousetraps on a trampoline with Daniel jumping in them, without any protection as he forgot to put on the goggles. The best part? He wasn't harmed, ''at all!''

* One for an object, during the katana video one of the bottles Dan cuts through is cut so cleanly that it actually catches the water inside it when it lands on the table.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfQYGGUS4U Massive Explosive Chain Reaction at 200,000 FPS]] has the duo play with various explosions, but the last explosion takes the friggin' cake. They use an Avalancher (what is used to trigger man-made avalanches) to fire a blast into a barrel full of ammonia nitrate fuel with two five-pound boosters strapped to the barrel. The explosion is ''so massive'' that the walls of the testing ground are caked with mud and one of the windows to the explosion-proof room is literally pulled out of its screws, knocking down one of the cameras.

* Come 2019, ''The Super Slow Show'' is being completely blown out of the water. This time, [=YouTube=] have funded a new series called ''Planet Slow-Mo'', in which Gav and Dan travel the world to film things in slow motion they've never seen before. It gets off to a running start - the very first episode features ''a Phantom mounted on a drone pointed straight into the mouth of an Icelandic geyser''.
** While the whole premise is awesome in and of itself, for that shot the camera and drone tanked a direct hit from the geyser's spray and didn't break.
* Episode six of ''Planet Slow-Mo'' almost literally blows all of their previous firearms videos out of the water - since they're firing a shell from a [[TankGoodness Sherman M-8 tank.]] And just when that's over, they then move on to firing a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Russian D-20 anti-vehicle gun]] with a 152mm barrel that is the [[{{BFG}} largest gun in private ownership in the world]].

* Teaming up with Rhett and Link of Good Mythical Morning, Gav and Dan try their hand at breaking champagne bottles with sabres. Dan's is a bit messy, Rhett's is pretty good, and Gavin's is almost perfect, as is Link's (eventually). Then, for extra effect, they decide that Dan's going to have another go and show how ''not'' to do it, i.e. shattering the bottle. Dan promptly ''takes the cork out and'' '''''nothing else'''''.
* Gavin decides to 'borrow' a slow motion idea from Corridor Digital - slicing an arrow in motion with a katana, only at higher framerates. He and Dan arrived really early and only brought six arrows, anticipating many missed shots before Dan actually hit them. Dan then continues his trend of developing ImprobableAimingSkills and slices every arrow on the first try. A distance/time measurement shows that he's only ''0.009 milliseconds'' off hitting them directly in the middle.

* Dan breaks out the firearms again to shoot some Newton's Cradles in slowmo. After a few shots to get his eye in - mostly hitting the base of the cradles - he nails the first ball ''and the bullet simply explodes''.

** Dan gets better at using the katana with every slice; he only fails the 16-bottle slice because [[spoiler: his swing clipped the table.]]

* Episode six of ''Planet Slow-Mo'' almost literally blows all of their previous firearms videos out of the water - since they're firing a shell from a [[TankGoodness Sherman M-8 tank.]] And just when that's over, [[spoiler:they then move on to firing a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Russian D-20 anti-vehicle gun]] with a 152mm barrel that is the [[{{BFG}} largest gun in private ownership in the world]].]]
** And while filming for the second, two moments. Funny: Dan whiffs the first shot. Awesome: [[spoiler:The watermelons they had in the line of fire ''[[ShockingMoments deflected the second round]]''.]] The boys have come a very long way from firing air rifles in Gavin's back yard.

** And while filming for the second, two moments. Funny: Dan whiffs the first shot. Awesome: [[spoiler:The watermelons they had in the line of fire ''[[HolyShitQuotient deflected the second round]]''.]] The boys have come a very long way from firing air rifles in Gavin's back yard.

** It's beaten by an impressive 343,000 FPS used to record glass fractures visibly travelling. Five-point-one seconds is enough to generate 1,749,300 individual images of footage that takes ''nineteen-and-a-half hours'' to play back. To quote Dan: "I'm gonna be sick!"
*** To add to it, the speed at which the tempered glass handle fractures is 451 times faster than you can blink.

* Come 2019, ''The Super Slow Show'' is being completely blown out of the water. This time, [=YouTube=] have funded a new series called ''Slow-Mo World'', in which Gav and Dan travel the world to film things in slow motion they've never seen before. It gets off to a running start - the very first episode features ''a Phantom mounted on a drone pointed straight into the mouth of an Icelandic geyser''.

* It turns out that the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rGFZWQfzk Underwater Explosions]]" video is a direct inspiration for a [[https://twitter.com/GavinFree/status/1081698488038158342 mountain explosion sequence]] in ''Film/{{Solo}}''

* Gav & Dan are in YouTube's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jtC8vjXw8 2013 "rewind" video]]. Their part consists of riding on the back of a truck with [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] in the background and them jumping around - in slow motion, of course.

* The existence of the Super Slow Show. Tired of having to stick with mostly small-scale slow-mo videos filmed in the confines of Gavin's back garden, Gavin and Dan convinced Youtube to fund a series of 48 videos over 16 weeks in a purpose built staging area. That's more than double the amount of videos they released in 2017.

* The video Gavin made about how screens work. At high enough frame rates, you can clearly see screens, both CRT and LCD, updating line-by-line. He even went further with a segment not relating to slow mo by getting a high-power macro lens and showing what each individual pixel (LCD) or phosphor (CRT) is made up of segments of red, green and blue.

* [[{{CuteKitten}} Lloyd]], both showing a jump in slow-motion of how she absorbs the shock with her front legs and how she runs, not climbs, ''runs'' up a fence in a way that would impress Gravity Cat.

* The video of them firing the [[{{BFG}} M82 .50 BMG]] rifle, filmed at such a high speed that you can clearly see the bullet exit the barrel, both spinning and etched from the rifling. ''You can even see the sonic boom emanating from the bullet travelling faster than sound'' (because of the way sonic booms compress the air as it travels, changing the way light is viewed through it).

* The video of them firing the [[{{BFG}} M82 .50 BMG]] rifle, filmed at such a high speed that you can clearly see the bullet exit the barrel, both spinning and etched from the rifling. ''You can even see the shockwave emanating from the barrel as it fires and from the bullet travelling faster than sound''.

* The video of them firing the [[{{BFG}} M82 .50 BMG]] rifle, filmed at such a high speed that you can clearly see the bullet exit the barrel, both spinning and etched from the rifling.

** Props to the first thing they smash, or rather ''[[NoSell fail to smash]]'': a block of ballistic gel. The gel block just goes "lol nope" and bounces the bowling ball away with minimal damage!

** Dan gets better at using the katana with every slice; he only fails the 116-bottle slice because [[spoiler: his swing clipped the table.]]