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Registered: 05-19-09 | Dear Mythbusters,
I'd like to propose some Myths from one of the most successful animated TV-Shows ever: the Simpsons.
1: In Episode 18x01 "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and her Homer" Fat Toni uses a ringbinder to slash the tires of a car chasing him. Are those little "spikes" really strong enough to penetrate tires?
2: In Episode 18x12 "Little big girl" Bart builds a kind of rocket car by attaching six fire extinguishers to a cart. Does this really produce enough propulsion to push a ten year old driver forward and extinguish nearby fires as well?
3: In Episode 18x15 "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" Bart and Lisa build a castle out of cardboard-boxes and get attacked by an army of delivery service men. Is it possible to build such a castle and shoot cardboard-arrows from cardboard-bows into the cardboard-castle? Maybe some of it is possible with pykrete.
P.S.: sorry for my bad english - I am from germany |
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Registered: 04-28-09 | Are you kidding! Your english is better than a lot of the new posters who come here, in fact I don't see any mistakes.
As for your idea, I was also thinking the mythbusters should do some Simpsons myths, so they'd have a reason to do a couch gag. |
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Registered: 06-21-09 | It's been a while since I watched an episode of The Simpsons, but I would like to see if some of the things they do on that show are possible in real life. I think Adam would have a blast. |
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Registered: 06-21-09 | I would make for a good show........jamie kinda looks like groundskeeper willy |
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Registered: 05-24-09 | What about the sun blocker from the "Who Killed Mr. Burns" cliffhanger episode? Could one really be built? |
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Registered: 06-22-09 | Also when Bart dropped a cherry bomb in the toilet at his school and it made a big fountain of water in the toilets. |
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Registered: 06-22-09 | When homer put a bug zapper in a lake and killed all the fish. Is it possible and if it is would you get zapped and die too. |
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Registered: 06-01-09 | I also wanna know about the bug zapper. I wanted to try it on my own, but that is just too crule to the fish. I think people would be a little mad if i did it too.  |
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Registered: 06-21-09 | are we looking over the obvious......jumping Springfield gorge on a skate board!!!! |
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Registered: 11-22-07 | quote: Originally posted by dbtanner76:
are we looking over the obvious......jumping Springfield gorge on a skate board!!!!
If you were paying attention, Homer didn't make it. The ramp did not give him enough velocity to make it over the gorge. |
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Registered: 06-21-09 | but bart was going to do it.could he make it? |
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Registered: 11-22-07 | It's possible, since Bart weighed less than Homer, but there are some variables to this. |
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Registered: 11-12-04 | Real physics has to explain the world around us. Cartoon physics just has to be funny. |
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Registered: 06-22-09 | quote: Originally posted by srmarti:
Real physics has to explain the world around us. Cartoon physics just has to be funny.
yes but those are good myths to be tested. It would be a good episode. |
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Registered: 06-20-09 | holy cow that would be an awsome show the simpson's are clasic and to all you denyers "EAT MY SHORTS" |
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Registered: 06-22-09 | quote: Originally posted by XanderDorn:
Dear Mythbusters,
I'd like to propose some Myths from one of the most successful animated TV-Shows ever: the Simpsons.
1: In Episode 18x01 "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and her Homer" Fat Toni uses a ringbinder to slash the tires of a car chasing him. Are those little "spikes" really strong enough to penetrate tires?
2: In Episode 18x12 "Little big girl" Bart builds a kind of rocket car by attaching six fire extinguishers to a cart. Does this really produce enough propulsion to push a ten year old driver forward and extinguish nearby fires as well?
3: In Episode 18x15 "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" Bart and Lisa build a castle out of cardboard-boxes and get attacked by an army of delivery service men. Is it possible to build such a castle and shoot cardboard-arrows from cardboard-bows into the cardboard-castle? Maybe some of it is possible with pykrete.
P.S.: sorry for my bad english - I am from germany
the secong myth would be very interesting to test. for starters, it would depend of what the cart is made of to be light enough. this would make a fine episode |
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Registered: 06-20-09 | quote: Originally posted by XanderDorn:
Dear Mythbusters,
I'd like to propose some Myths from one of the most successful animated TV-Shows ever: the Simpsons.
1: In Episode 18x01 "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and her Homer" Fat Toni uses a ringbinder to slash the tires of a car chasing him. Are those little "spikes" really strong enough to penetrate tires?
2: In Episode 18x12 "Little big girl" Bart builds a kind of rocket car by attaching six fire extinguishers to a cart. Does this really produce enough propulsion to push a ten year old driver forward and extinguish nearby fires as well?
3: In Episode 18x15 "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" Bart and Lisa build a castle out of cardboard-boxes and get attacked by an army of delivery service men. Is it possible to build such a castle and shoot cardboard-arrows from cardboard-bows into the cardboard-castle? Maybe some of it is possible with pykrete.
P.S.: sorry for my bad english - I am from germany
How do you know the numbers of these episodes? Anyway, that first idea is cool, but the rings seam to close together and the gap is too small to bite into the tires. |
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Registered: 06-20-09 | quote:
As for your idea, I was also thinking the mythbusters should do some Simpsons myths, so they'd have a reason to do a couch gag.
C'mon Adam and Jamie. You know you want to! |
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Registered: 06-17-09 | and what about when bart puts all those bull horns together to amplify his voice and it shatters glass? That would be a great test! |
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Registered: 06-21-09 | Hey i say the mythbusters should try it, great episode idea and all kinds of myths to test. Someone shoud have thought of this a long time ago. |
