# Time to Pit "Mythbusters".

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 8, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508 "2011-12-08T15:23:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 4

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/61 "2011-12-10T18:08:53Z")

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> [@marshmallow](#):
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> Bill Nye and Wizard’s World were appropriate shows for elementary school kids, but I was thinking of the general decline of all the edutainment networks – the Discovery and History Channels being chief among them. I suppose MythBusters is better than American Chopper or Ice Road Truckers but that’s damning them with faint praise.
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> So the mouth breathers are the ones who roll their eyes at a show consisting mostly of explosion porn being the go to science-y show on a network that used to put on shows on subjects from biology to cosmology.

So… you still haven’t mentioned any specific science-oriented shows that were so much greater and more science-y than Mythbusters. Put up or shut up, dude.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/62 "2011-12-10T21:23:38Z")

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> [@Lilacs](#):
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> Maybe the reaction is just for “show” or maybe not, but it certainly seems like no one has blown off what happened.

I don’t know about you but if I had just accidentally fired a cannonball through a populated suburb narrowly missing some people, the concern on my face would be rather real.

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**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/63 "2011-12-10T22:04:34Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> I don’t know about you but if I had just accidentally fired a cannonball through a populated suburb narrowly missing some people, the concern on my face would be rather real.

I said that because there is always someone who is incredibly cynical about everything. I think they’re sincere.

I agree with you.

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