In Recognition of the Amazing MythBusters Crew
What made me most sad about MythBusters coming to an end? The realization that I wouldn't be making this show with our crew anymore.
What made me most sad about MythBusters coming to an end? The realization that I wouldn’t be making this show with our crew anymore.
MythBusters had the best working reality television crew in the business. I’m not exaggerating, and I won’t even qualify it. Those guys are incredible. They’re my family, and we all effectively grew up together. Many of the crew started off as researchers and runners and then moved up the ladder to become producers and directors of photography. And they became the best in the business at those jobs. Our own farm team.
Our crew had to do everything from resist flinching while filming an explosion with a handheld camera to source a train tanker for us to destroy. They could anticipate where I’d run to next in the shop to do one of my fast builds. They learned how to film in virtual reality and how to get maximal production value with unmanned arial vehicles.
Working on MythBusters was no easy feat; the budgets and timelines were tight and the stakes were high. As an example, by the series’ end, we’d gone through 22.5 TONS of explosives.
No matter how cool that explosion is, one can NEVER forget to hit the high-speed camera button. And I can’t remember them ever missing the shot in at least 12 years.
On our last MythBusters shoot day in November 2015, I looked around and realized that this was the last time that I was going to be showing up on set every day, figuring out — along with this amazing group of people — how to make this show. That’s the part that I found the most difficult and the saddest. Don’t get me wrong: I will hire them all at the earliest convenience. I would love to put the band back together.
When I saw this San Francisco Chronicle article, I was thrilled to see my MythBusters crew get recognition for their (incredibly) hard work and (prodigious) talent. We couldn’t have done the show without them. Miss you guys!
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Thank-you Adam for sharing and thank-you the whole crew for the last 14 years. I’m going to miss the Mythbusters.
Thank you to Adam and all of the Myth-busters Crew. You brought science to the real world for me and for that I am eternally grateful. I do have one question though. Adam can you talk about the extended crew, people like JD and other contacts that you worked will on a irregular basis?
Its so sad to see it all come to an inevitable end, but I think the legacy that the Mythbusters team have created in the past 14 years will continue to live on and spark both the Creative and Scientific minds of this generation and the next.
Thank you Adam and all the Mythbusters team for all your hard work.
Here’s hoping for a ‘complete’ box set some time soon!
Thanks for the whole crew to give us so many years some pretty great television, and making science great fun.
I have watched the final episode as a giddy school boy 🙂
I’ll be re-watching Mythbusters for many years to come.
Much thanks to Adam, Jamie, Tory, Kari and Grant and the whole crew. You guys made science come alive and brought it back ‘en vogue’. And certainly brought many memorable scenes to tv, that we wouldn’t have had the chance to see or watch. And sadly. being in Oztralia we won’t see the final season for months. 🙁
You did awesome.
Thanks you!
Article seems to be behind a paywall though, and I can’t say I’m really interested in the San Fransico Chronicle, living in Sweden and all.
Perhaps you could get permission and repost it at tested? As you’ve done with other articles (from the Wirecutter for example)
A thousand thank yous to the Mythbusters!
Sad to see it go but it’s the way it goes!
Try this link: http://tinyurl.com/zmjwqrt
It seems to work 😀
Call yourself lucky! Being in Latin America, we only get reruns from season 1 through like 4. And Netflix only has up to season 5.
Thank you!
Even though I knew the end was coming I actually grew misty eyed as the finale came to its conclusion, feeling an overwhelming sense of loss. Many thanks to you, the Hynemann and everyone else from Mythbusters.
Im going to miss this show
so much! I’m so glad we have Tested I hope you may even turn it into a mini
Mythbusters. The show was so amazing and the crew was the best. For me it
really was one of the last best things on TV. Now the “education”
channels are full of what redneck in what climate living in what way. I just
dont get it. Ill miss the show, “Myth Busted” for the last time.
A very sad and thankful fan,
Dustin
My 12 year old son has grown up watching Mythbusters with his dad. Sorry to see the show go, it was a great ride.
Such a fantastic show on many levels. I think it’s my single “most watched” TV show ever actually. 🙂 Will really miss it and surely I’m not the only one to get the quivvers as the final moments rolled. Love it all …so much thanks from me, for so much given to us all from the broader team.
In all the thank yous and goodbyes, the one person I haven’t seen mentioned is Robert Lee, the announcer. He was such an important part of the show. I’ve seen a few of the British episodes, which have a different announcer saying the same lines, and it’s just not the same. So, if no one else is going to say it, I will. Thanks, Bob, for 14 years.
Thanks to the whole crew!
I remember you had a malfunction with the high speed with the cement truck. May not have missed the button but still missed the shot so to speak. Either way, growing up with Mythbusters has been amazing and I watch the show all the time still and I don’t think that will ever change.
End of an era.
Adam, thanks for co-hosting an amazing and entertaining show. I look forward to your next projects, which of course includes the Tested videos.
My bad. Should have known there are places out there who are further behind than Australia. No offense intended.
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Haha no offense taken! It just sucks that there is a dedicated Discovery Network for Latin America and all we get is naked people in the forest.
You’re welcome!
When these episodes is to be realase in Brazil?
My school told me I couldn’t become an engineer. They didn’t even let me enroll in to one of the many engineering studies. But because of mythbusters I kept being motivated and I became an engineer by starting at the assembly line and working my way up. THANK YOU