# Mythbusters production schedule **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305 "2006-12-15T16:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305/21 "2006-12-18T06:47:42Z")
I am currently watching a rerun of the episode. You can clearly see on the initial takes that the slate is dated “2/10/06”. At around take 5, you can see that the “2” has been overwritten with “3”. Now, they could have waited a month between takes, but the simpler explanation is that the date is indeed written in “day/month/year” convention. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305/22 "2006-12-21T17:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Yes, they did. Once. It was at the end of that segment, after they showed clips of various failures. You can watch it on YouTube [here](http://youtube.com/watch?v=V1z7fFBrjmA). [/QUOTE] See, that looks edited to me. The beginning parts of it look exactly like the attempt that almost made it but failed(when the robot got lost). So I thought they spliced it together to show the whole thing for the credits, but never had it go all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305/23 "2006-12-21T18:16:36Z")
You can now view completely uncut and unedited footage of the Rube Goldberg device on the Discovery channel website: [http://www.discovery.com/mythbusters](http://www.discovery.com/mythbusters) ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305/24 "2006-12-21T19:14:19Z")
The clip also clearly shows them cheating at the beginning by using a stick to hit the things after they don’t fall down right. Around the 0:35 mark. The rest looks fair though. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305/25 "2006-12-21T19:22:16Z")
Well, like they said in the show, they usually have weeks, if not months, to plan, construct and execute one of these things. So if they gotta nudge it a bit on a section that had previously worked fine), I’ll cut them some slack. So **Q.E.D.** , how’s the job with them? Everything you expected? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305/26 "2006-12-22T21:37:37Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense] They could scale it down to the size of the model airplane they use. I’d like to see this one done. [/QUOTE] Would it be a 1920’s-style airplane? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-production-schedule/384305.md?page=1)