the current one isn’t the first Teller.
This must be a whoosh. Teller and Penn Jillette have been performing together for 40 years, since they were part of a trio called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society.
Their last conversation:
PENN: We never talk anymore!
TELLER: Shut up, shut up, shut up!
A Simpsons reference.
Ah, OK. I am indeed whooshed. * reaches in pocket for comb.
I tried a quick google and no luck - what did she say? (paraphrases are totally ok)
Thanks!
Uhm … isn’t the order reversed here? :dubious:
It’s in the linked article in the OP.
Mythbusters is one the very few shows I missed after giving up cable tv, but really, at this point it’s one of those “zombie shows” that’s still limping along years after it stopped being interesting. (Saturday Night Live is probably the archetypal example of this.) I guess you should put me in the camp that’s surprised they’re still making new episodes.
Exactly. One of my favorite moments was in the “lawn chair balloonist” episode, where we see Adam fretting over the cost of the balloons. In recent years, they magically come up with anything and everything they need.
I fondly remember Jamie calling Adam a “big baby” during an argument and Adam storming off camera in a huff. I’m hoping we’ll see more stuff like that. 
I’m going to miss them. I didn’t care about any of their “things crashing into things” myths. What I liked were the episodes where they were human guinea pigs. Any episode where the goal was to make Grant miserable are my favorites.
Are they hiring? I have technical degree and a bit of creativity.
I haven’t seen the show in a few years because I’ve been cable deficient.
I think if I was watching regularly I’d hate to see Grant gone. He was pretty awesome.
I don’t mind Kari and Tory, but I do think they would make good hosts for a reboot of “That’s Incredible!”
Having a B-team busting B-myths was not that great of an idea. Seems like it should be more time spent with Jamie and Adam working with assistants and various shops.
I wonder if they will tackle the myth of a pool crashing through a fraternity house floor without collapsing the building.
I think the idea is that Teller is beyond tired of listening to Penn run his mouth - and these would be the first words out of his mouth.
ETA : See? It’s just as funny when explained.
I never really understood why they split the teams up in the first place. It was great to watch everyone interact and work together in the early episodes. Now it’s like the two teams have been living in separate houses and not spoken to each other for years. except for the occasional family get-together. How was that supposed to make a better show?
Someone said that it lets them work on twice as many myths, but, um, more myths does not equal a more interesting show. If anything, the opposite is true. I’d much rather see more of the building and problem solving that goes into each myth, rather than watch them rush through a dozen myth in ten minutes, overlaid with a bunch of dumb cartoon graphics and boing-boing sound effects.
I thought about doing it both ways but I think it’s funnier if Penn says they don’t talk anymore and Teller is screaming at him. The other way around it’s just sort of an observation about their status quo.
I assume it was largely a scheduling thing. In the early days Kari and Grant and Tory weren’t as well known and they probably felt viewers wouldn’t follow along unless they met up with Adam and Jamie at the end. As they became more established that probably didn’t seem necessary, and that meant it probably wasn’t worth the effort it took to get all five of them off of their various myths and in the studio at the same time. Although they did sometimes team up for special events.
“Something just touched my FOOOOOT!”
They sort of answered this at their live show last weekend. Their main workshop is smaller than you’d think. As they expanded they couldn’t or wouldn’t move, so they rented a second location for the build team.
My guess would be that either:
- Because myths can’t be guaranteed to complete in a week or a month (some have taken them 6 months or more to test), there’s always the risk that you’ll end up short of content, because of some mis-step. More myths by more teams allows you greater security.
- They figured that the A-plot/B-plot style of storytelling would help to retain viewers through commercials better. With only a single start-to-finish story, there’s always the risk that people won’t stick through for the money shot. By providing smaller payoffs throughout the episode, they’re able to keep people entertained, while showing previews of later payoffs. (Or so goes the theory.) Once they started down that path, I guess they were just locked into it.
I always felt that Grant’s considerable talents were wasted in the “let’s blow shit up in the desert” myths. I’d really like to see something where he designs and builds something, perhaps in tandem with Adam and Jamie’s more empirical brilliance. If Mythbusters was a band, Kari and Tori are just the bass player and the drummer: they’re amusing enough, but pretty replaceable.
Ah, my misunderstanding. The way I read it, I thought he was referring to additional things she had said.
Thanks.