# How much of Mythbusters is staged? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805 "2010-01-13T17:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805/41 "2010-01-16T01:47:21Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Plus, the show is Myth_busters._ If they went to trying figure out how to make it work and just said “we know the myth isn’t true,” it kinda defeats the purpose of the show. That’s been my major criticism of the show for the more recent series that I’ve seen- they’ve obviously run out of “plausible” myths to test and are now IMHO just trying things that are unlikely at best but _might_ work, and will look good on camera. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805/42 "2010-01-16T18:51:14Z")
> [@](#): > > You can join in the fun and argue about it yourself, either at the Mythbuster’s forums (359 pages(!) of fun!) or here, a mere 8 pages recently, or the historic meta thread. (Hint: A plane with it’s brakes on can’t take off, but that’s both not very interesting, and can’t be simulated with treadmill.) But what if Monty offered to let you switch to a different plane and try to take off in that? Would that improve your odds? ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805/43 "2010-01-16T20:17:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > But what if Monty offered to let you switch to a different plane and try to take off in that? Would that improve your odds? I don’t know. Was there a goat in the first one? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805/44 "2010-01-17T19:11:00Z")
Yes, but the goat was dehoofed for its own good. ---
**Author:** ![Budista](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Budista](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budista)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805/45 "2010-01-18T07:08:52Z")
> [@yoyodyne](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UujfnEa5jLY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UujfnEa5jLY) I’m not refuting anything, because I haven’t seen the episode in question. I’m just going to say that, if you really do watch the hat sort of _slide_ off the guys head in this video, it really does look fake. It doesn’t even look like the guy’s wearing a hat in the first place, much less a bright red one. I don’t know; maybe I’m just too skeptical for real life. - Budista ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805/46 "2010-01-19T01:41:56Z")
Only the front of the hat is red, the back of it, that is facing the camera at the start, is brown like his hair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-mythbusters-is-staged/524805.md?page=2)