Was Adam Savage Scripted on MythBusters?

Did Adam REALLY want to be the "guy in the car" for the Underwater Car myth? Is meeting overly familiar fans creepy for Adam? In this livestream excerpt, Adam answers these questions from Tested members chasedavis1350 and Martin Hooker, whom we thank for their support! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions:

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[mnoxman]

Q: Was Adam Savage scripted on MB?
A: Adam Savage can hardly stay on topic in his own video cast.

[user]

Pretty cool to have a community of viewers that would gently redirect Dan in a friendly manner. Says a lot about the culture Adam helps develop and sustain.

[keithgiosa]

Adam, in 2006 my wife and I ran into you on the showroom floor of Macworld. She promptly and simultaneously grabbed my wrist and your shoulder and yelled in your face, “We love you, Adam!!” While true, I still silently apologize to this day. Thanks for what you do and for for keeping me infinitely inspired.

[keithmcauslan]

Adam, I recognize your desire to keep the kids names private to respect them and to honestly potentially keep them safe. The first time you called them thing 1 and thing 2 I chuckled.

[dailydiogenes]

I remember hearing how the car episode kinda saved someone as they saw the episode and later in life went into a semi frozen lake and remained calm and did what Adam had described on the show and made it out. And being in cold water is a different game. Imagine sinking in a car but you can't think or breathe even when your head is above water

[JT-hics]

It’s absurdly easy to remember Mythbusters episodes with just a few words “underwater car episode”. I suppose they were that interesting.

[HardwareLust]

I've always thought one of the big reasons Mythbusters was so successful was because everything was so genuine, and it wasn't some pre-scripted nonsense like a lot of reality TV is. The sincerity that you all displayed on camera was the magic sauce that made the show so compelling.

[morning]

Mythbusters was my absolute #1 "Must-Watch" TV show! I definitely miss it. It has so MANY good things going for it! The geek humor, the SCIENCE, testing and experimenting, building cool stuff, "seeing what happens when..." and the best parts were where the myth was busted, but then they went on to "duplicate the results"!! I really wish this show continued. As for naming Adam's kids! :( SHIELDS UP! RED ALERT!! Man, that is totally a NO-GO-ZONE! :(

[cphrpunk]

I swear you’re the most “regular” household name person I’ve ever seen. You didn’t have to script a reality show because you are real.

But, I suspect you drive your editing team bonkers. ;-)

[kellymoore]

This has probably been said before but I think you've remained relevant and popular is you're so damned personable and relatable and open. You set hard boundaries not aggressively. Thank you for existing and being a beacon of how to human.

[JK-zqvw]

I’ll never forget the episode where the insurance company told you no. You where very upset about it because it was an iconic sort of hero scenario from movies. The falling through canopies stunt. I wanna say that was also the plywood wind surfer/parachute and the jumping just before the falling elevator hits the bottom. I know you went through a lot of prep beforehand on some of your stunts, looking back similar to the falling through the canopy’s, is there a list of myth’s/stunts that you wish you got the chance to film? Do you think the way you sorta jumped into a stunt or myth, had a rip the bandage off fast so your brain had less time to try and get you to say no, situation led to a lot of your success with the show? I know the contrast between you and Jaimie was a big part of it, but I liked seeing the enthusiasm and even the failures sometimes because it wasn’t like the scripted perfect TV or pre manufactured reality tv drama crud. I could honestly enjoy watching a rerun of all seasons, with an extra adding of cameo’s of the characters reliving the shows and maybe a peppering of newer myth/recorded data from today.

[MichaelJ]

That underwater car episode carries some great significance with me. I got a job in the 90’s, a few weeks later I heard that I filled a job opening due to two employees dying in a car that accidentally drove into a pond and they got trapped inside. They required us to carry a window breaker on our keychain from that point onwards.

[fooman]

I can recall that water slide from 3/4 of the way up. And it wasn't until he mentioned it, going from flopping around like a live fish to tucking it in, and how much better he landed than I thought he was going to.

[PhiloYT]

"I guess I'm very much an outlier for the stress-inducing stuff."
Really, Adam? Well, knock me over with a feather!

[shadoube_likes_games]

I just started to watch Mythbusters from the beginning for the first time since highschool! Im 3 episodes in!

[motodiaries]

The underwater car story reminded me of learning to roll a kayak back upright after tipping over. In order to do this you have to get comfortable hanging upside down under water with your legs sealed inside the kayak, then organize your paddle and body position to sweep the paddle and right the kayak. When you are learning, you will fail to make it back upright many times. You are faced with the need to be submerged again with very little air and having to stay calm enough to reset your position and try again. It's incredibly unnerving and it's not an easy thing to learn. I remember many scary practice sessions alone on a lake, trying to learn this skill. There were some scary last minute escapes and it was always hard to return to trying again. I did eventually learn the skill and it became easy over time, but it was not easy to learn and the scary nature of learning is probably why most amateur kayakers can't roll their kayak back upright.

[lukehanson]

8:13 "People will quickly forget what you said. They will eventually forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

[Onlybadtakes]

Really cool that Adam acknowledges the wild feeling when meeting a celebrity or someone you really admire. I know I would stumble on my words if I met Adam at a fan meet n greet

[KerrikkiLurgan]

There is a YouTuber that does not appear on the shows anymore. They were shopping one day and someone they did not know came up to them and started talking to their kids like they were friends. It was a family YouTube channel and the kids were the third generation. This totally freaked them out, so they rarely show up on the family YouTube shows.