On occasion an episode summary for this series will come along and one will look at the myths to be tested and think the Mythbusters are running out of ideas in their several years now of doing this. Then episodes like last week's come along and show something really kind of nifty, like the "golf-ball effect" tested full-scale with a clay covered Taurus. This episode is the former.
There's really not much to say about this episode.
Cheese Cannon: Really kind of a waste of time. Neat-ish, I guess that it "worked" but I think say that it worked is stretching things. I wouldn't call a tiny hole on the sail a victory.
The microwave myth was silly too, but I guess neat in a "proving a known fact" sort-of way. Knowing how plastic explosives work it should've no surprise the C4 with the genuine detonator/firing cap worked and that the movie set-up didn't work (nor the explosive by itself.)
The "central myth" concerned grease fires and while it's always neat to see Adam and Jamie work, at the same time this myth was kind of light-weight. Again, it's one of those things that we all assume or know is true so them testing it is really more of a "proving it on camera." But it also showed how pedantic they can be sometimes -though, I guess, their message-boards can be blamed for that.
They were testing to see if the fireball could reach 30 feet and their initial tests only got it to 20-some feet, well that's myth busted, right? Yeah, if you're going to be pedantic, I guess. First of all, in a home you won't even know if you have a
20-foot fire as most home ceilings aren't that tall, but whatever. I'd also assume "30 feet" is more of an "extreme average example." Their tests were done outside were I assume the wind is going to shave off some of the height their second round of tests on ratios was done in a short room where I think it'd be impossible to tell how much "higher" one fire over another went.
Lastly, at the end Adam "proved" one
can put out a grease-fire, by dumping a bambi-bucket of water on the fire from a helicopter. I would've liked to have seen this concept tested in reasonable scale a bit more, if using a ratio of more water than oil could prove useful in a grease fire.
An OK episode, it's a fun show and I'm pressed to think of an episode I don't like, but this is one of the "meh" filler episodes.
