MythBusters

This is just wrong.

This is terrifying.

Come on, Jamie!

...the team feels the fear and doubles the danger

For two crazy commercial myths.

I'm going to need some psychotherapy after this.

First, Adam and Jamie are at the end of their tethers...

Are you kidding? This is a hobby?

Holy

...testing if you could bob for an apple...

He did it!

...in the midst of a 100-foot bungee jump.

What did I get myself into?

Then, Kari, Tory, and Grant get some serious air

Taking on an ad that serves up sky-high sport.

But can you play tennis...

A little scary. I'm not going to lie.

...on the wing of a plane in flight?

Whoo!

Who are the Mythbusters?

Adam Savage...

I got the chicken!

...and Jamie Hyneman.

I'm ready.

Between them, more than 30 years of special-effects experience.

Together with Grant Imahara...

Start the car!

...Kari Byron...

Fire!

...and Tory Belleci...

Let's chop this car up!

...they don't just tell the myths...

Bye-bye!

...they put them to the test.

There's a commercial out there

That shows a guy bungee jumping off of a platform 100 feet

Into a little barrel full of apples.

And when he comes up, he's got an apple in his teeth.

I see a lot of bungee jumping in our future.

Yep.

Because when the crazy commercial in question aired,

It took the harmless, age-old act of apple bobbing

And added a frightening 100-foot fall.

But can you really get the drop on a bungee apple bob...

And pull it off injury-free?

Well, with Jamie's famous fear of heights...

It really is quite hairy.

...this could be his worst nightmare.

That is absolutely awful.

To my mind, there's three things we've got to investigate

In this.

One is, can your depth of your drop of bungee jumping

Be made precise enough so that when you hit the water

You don't hit the bottom and kill yourself?

Two... Can you actually aim where you fall in bungee jumping

To hit a target as small as a barrel?

And three, if all of that works,

Can you actually come up with an apple in your teeth?

And we have to do all this?

I was thinking that we could start out with buster doing it.

Well, better buster than me.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

So, to test this bungee bob,

It's off to cunningham pool in vallejo, california.

To conduct this experiment,

We're going to need a few key ingredients.

First and foremost are apples and a barrel to put them in.

We've chosen a fairly large one.

A crane to do our dropping from and a bungee basket.

It is from this platform 100 feet in the air

That all of our bungee drops will happen from.

But before the Mythbusters start jumping,

Firstly, they're bringing in a fall guy.

We need a buster who can stand on his own,

A rigid buster who weighs as much as we do

But can actually stand up so he can drop consistently.

And so, meet buster's latest incarnation,

Bungee buster.

He's made out of pvc plumbing parts

That will be all glued together and filled with sand and water

To achieve the correct weight.

He'll serve as our analog for our initial testing.

Now that buster is rigid enough

To hold the correct fall posture...

Okay.

With the harness in hand, that's about 196.

That's our target weight for everything.

...he'll need to weigh exactly what Jamie does.

And there we go.

We're right at 195.

Everything is going just as planned.

So, with their fall guy complete,

It's time to test part one of this myth.

Excellent.

Can our bungee experts tune buster's fall

So that when he hits the water,

He won't hit the bottom of the barrel?

If I had to hazard a guess, i'd say Jamie is in the basket now

Probably complaining about the height.

He doesn't like them.

Oh, man.

I hate heights.

This is terrifying.

In three, two, one.

Yeah!

That was beautiful.

A perfect touch.

With a maximum depth of just 18 inches,

That was a perfect drop for a bob.

The question is, is it always that easy?

In three, two, one.

Come on, baby.

Aw, that was perfect!

Yeah!

Fantastic.

Two in a row absolutely the same.

We've got our mark.

Buster did really, really well.

And our bungee experts really can dial him in

So that he drops at the same spot every single time.

I... I really think it's time for us to jump.

And by us, I mean you first.

Ugh.

Don't get me wrong.

When I do it, i'm going to hate it just as much.

So, now that buster has proven

That the depth is repeatable and safe,

It's time to try it with a much more human analog.

You ever have people barf when they're at the very end

Because of all the food in their stomach

Just wants to come straight back out?

Had just about everything.

Well, I guess this is the whole rig.

I'm all trussed up like a pig

And ready to go to slaughter...

Uh or something like that.

This is one ride the beret can't come on.

And Jamie has the long trip to 100 feet

To contemplate what he's about to do.

How you feeling?

As good as I'll ever feel.

That's all we can ask, right?

Yeah, this is just one thing to do.

Now, you want to kind of stiffen that chest out a little bit.

There you go.

Hands behind you, and i've got you.

Okay. So, when you're ready.

There you go. Just put your hands on your butt.

This is -- This is just wrong.

Okay. I'm going to have you lean out just a little bit.

And then, we're going to do the countdown.

Are you ready? Yeah.

Okay. I'm going to have you lean out.

I got you.

Here we go!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Next, the team is on the ball

For a high-flying stunt.

So, like Adam and Jamie's myth,

Our next myth is also about flying.

But it's flying with a twist.

See, a top-ranked tennis pro plays a match with his wingman.

Oh, okay. I know what you're talking about. I've seen this video.

It's where they're playing tennis

On the wing of a plane while it's in flight.

Right. And they're both strapped to the wings. The plane takes off.

And then they start volleying the ball back and forth

Despite how fast the plane is going.

This commercial elevates the game of tennis

To 5,000 feet

As novak djokovic and his partner

Rally across a wing.

But is this just an advertising flight of fancy,

Or could you really play a high-altitude grand slam?

Okay. So, what this myth really boils down to is,

Can you actually have a tennis rally

On the wing of a plane in flight

With winds rushing past you at 35 miles an hour?

Wait, why only 35 miles an hour?

Well, I did a little research, and it turns out,

The plane in the clip is an antonov an-2,

Which is capable of flying at speeds as low as 35.

Wow.

All we need to do now is learn how to wing walk.

I mean, you guys have played tennis before, right?

No. Unh-unh.

Mm.

Looks like this one just got a little harder.

Tennis lessons?

So, before takeoff, first thing's first.

They've got to get the team match-ready.

So, we've come to u.C. Berkeley to get a couple tennis lessons

From their head coach, peter wright.

Because let's face it.

Just because you put us in these outfits

Does not mean we know how to play at all.

We are seriously going to need some help here.

Well, Kari and Grant may be tennis first-timers...

Okay, remember, firm wrist, out in front a little bit.

Firm wrist, out in front.