Season 14, Episode 8 (Duct Tape Canyon)

In the end, they used a lot more duct tape & bubble wrap than they took out of the car...

I've got 4-5 nieces visiting for the week - so maybe I'll get to see the episode Saturday night.

Although I thoroughly enjoyed the acutal builds & tests, I really disliked the whole mock storyline. And I especially disliked the plugs for Wallenda. I'd hoped they learned their lesson with the Storm Chasers episode/commercial, but I guess not. Perhaps Discovery forced it on them.

I would have prefered their usual "So what if you were stuck in the desert?" way of going about it, rather than "We ARE stuck in the desert?"

But to each his own.

I must have missed Sons of Guns myths. And Deadliest Catch didn't really bother me so much since they weren't nearly as blantant with the plugs as they were last night. Skywire Live had absolutely nothing to do with any part of last nights episode aside from the canyon setting. None of the myths tested had anything to do with tightrope walking.

Ah, right. I remember the episode, but for whatever reason never associated it with another show.

The only thing that gave me pause danger-wise was that they did not wear hard hats for the river run, and even that, I think, looks a lot more dangerous than it probably was. Adam going under - He did have reliable flotation, so was bound to surface after a few seconds, long before any rescue could have got to him. Anyway, as near as I can tell, wild river rescues mostly consist of waiting till the body, alive or dead, floats out of the rapid or hangs up on a rock.

All the equipment they "improvised" was obviously thought out carefully and, in the case of the ropes, tested ahead of time - very different from the usual Mythbusters method of pulling an idea out of a dark smelly place, building it, and seeing what happens.

The rope descents didn't look like much fun, but didn't involve any real danger. Both the MBs climbed/were lowered down (They did not rappel) and as such were belayed from above at all times. Real rappelling, with a proper rope and harness, is actually pretty fun, though not as much as free climbing on an exposed face. I can understand the trepidation of a couple of guys with almost no climbing experience. But real climbers, such as I was long ago, who don't much like unprotected heights, have no trouble with them, given proper equipment and technique. The locations they descended appear to have been selected to be free of the potentially rotten rock that desert sandstone is notorious for.

P.S. PK, you are no longer a minion. I don't see how you are entitled to that avatar.

{PK is a moderator, and therefore MY minion Which reminds me, PK where is my toasted cheese and coffee? - CM}

Adam and Jamie have been on CSI, have used at least two myths from that show* with footage and have been name-checked on CSI Vegas at least once that I'm aware of. The latter was during an episode where someone was planning to use water to crack open a safe as MB had done on the show. The CSI's tested the method themselves - even saying that they were testing it 'Mythbusters style'.
The former was one of the home-made diamond myths they tested which was from CSI Miami (I think).

(*Footage was from an episode of CSI Vegas and CSI Miami respectively. Given the problems MB can have in securing the rights to show footage from films and TV shows at the best of times, and the popularity of CSI - at least at that time - it is rather clear that the peeps at CSI are fans of the show.)

Also from the aftershow (and I recall in one of the other episode thread someone mentioned looking up filming locations):

If you’re interested, you can find the tunnel they rafted through by pointing Google Earth to Lat 39.006933, Long -120.763160 (Middle Fork of the American River).

The rapids where Adam got tossed out are at Lat 38.799701, Long -120.883489 on the South Fork of the American (I went down that one a few times as a kid).

NOT on the same branches of the river, BTW. You can't raft directly from one to the other.

Utah; it explicitly said that at a few points.