Aww, this is Kari's last episode before maternity leave. And we get to meet the new girl!
Dumpster diving: Wow, all this jumping onto stuff. In the tests where Adam was jumping onto their candidate materials, I'm kind of surprised he stayed on his feet all four times. He's usually clumsier than that.
This is a lot like the car/cliff myth from the other week in that it's predicated on the idea that this always works. I think the idea of a scene like this, taken individually, is that it's a very risky thing to do and the hero is lucky to survive; it's meant to be a long shot. However, I guess the point here is that the trope is used so often, with the hero almost always surviving, that it conveys the impression that this is a reliable technique.
Ahh, they turned Buster into a Borg! Poor guy had a cable stuck in his ear!
Adam's long coat was a nice touch. Very cinematic. Is that what they call a duster? But even with training, I wouldn't have wanted to do that jump without a helmet, just in case my aim was off.
I'm a bit surprised the insurance company let Adam do this, considering that they refused to let him do the Indiana Jones awning drop a couple of years back.
Okay, so they found the result plausible for jumping from a 2-story height. I would've liked to see how Buster, at least, fared from a greater height. Twenty feet is nowhere near enough to reach terminal velocity, so the impact could've been at a much higher speed.
Diving suit squeeze: Whoa, I'm glad for Kari that she didn't have to be there to witness Meat Man. Dang, the way that thing looked, it's like Tim Burton directed this episode. Well, it could've been worse; at least there weren't actual guts and blood and stuff. EDIT: Oh, wait, I spoke too soon. Ughh...
And man, that's one lucky dolphin.
I like Jessi Combs okay so far. She seems competent and fairly likeable, and is moderately cute. Her voice has a borderline-annoying quality, but nothing I can't get used to.
Great googly-moogly, that result was gruesome. Pressure can be a scary thing sometimes. I'm wondering why that doesn't happen with modern diving suits. I suspect the rigid helmet is itself the main problem, because when the compressor shuts off, that would be a big empty space at far lower pressure than its surroundings, creating a vacuum effect. In a scuba suit, without the rigid helmet, you don't get the vacuum effect. The pressure is steady across the entire body, head included.