Mythbusters narrator series#

Then we also decided to take a circumstantial approach to the story, which is looking at the situation they were in. We tried everything we could to make it work. When we watched the episode, the device was so removed from reality that we felt like we might be able to do it better. The standard way Mythbusters would do that would be to just build the weapon that we see in the show and see what it’s efficacy is. We chose one in which they’re stranded in a lumber yard and make a weapon with what they have in the lumber yard to defeat the bad guys. The A-Team was always getting stranded in places, and then building elaborate Rube Goldberg ways to get out of those places. We also delve into an episode about The A-Team, which was one of my favorites.

I can’t describe it any other way than that. But the weirdness of standing next to a 5’11’’ tall Homer Simpson proportioned correctly to the cartoon in real life, it’s really peculiar. It’s a very elaborate process that we went through using three or four different technologies that we’ve used over the years in special effects. Then, of course, we had to make a Homer-this was the first time we made a non-human crash-test dummy because Homer is human, but he’s also a cartoon character, which means his proportions are totally not human. We built two replicas of the Springfield house. We ended up building our two houses out at a landfill. It’s very difficult to find things that are about to be destroyed. In all of California, and we expanded our search to Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada, and really couldn’t. We put Eric on finding us a house in which we could say take a wrecking ball to two of its sides, a house that was about to be destroyed, and we could not find one. When we needed 60,000 ping pong balls to raise a boat from the bottom of Monterey Bay, he found us 60,000 for free. We have a researcher, Eric, who is just a genius at finding things that should be impossible to find.

But I really feel like when they see what we’ve been producing this year, they’ll see a program that we still love to make. When we were looking down the barrel, as it were, of Kari, Grant, and Tory leaving, Jamie and I totally expected a vigorous response. You’re totally right-any change, even a change in the narrator, was something that they considered totally not okay. The fans were so protective about the structure. We thought that would be hilarious-and it was hilariou-but I made the mistake of introducing the segment by being faux-serious, saying, “We’re toying with a new narrator for Mythbusters,” and the crowd watched the whole trailer angry! There was not a lot of applause and I had to say that was a joke. At Comic-Con a couple of years ago we thought it would be really great to cut a trailer for the new season of Mythbusters, but get Randall to narrate it. Do you remember that viral video about the honey badger? The guy who narrated that, Randall, he’s a friend of Mythbusters. The show ran for one 10-episode season in 2016.I wasn’t.

Mythbusters narrator series#

It’s a series that had the trio investigating topics like jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists, and World War II weapons through scientific experiments and builds. I’ll miss my friend.”Īfter leaving “MythBusters,” Imahara went on to host “White Rabbit Project” with Byron and Belleci. Grant was a truly brilliant engineer, artist and performer, but also just such a generous, easygoing, and gentle PERSON. I’ve been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years. He joined the show after an invitation from host Jamie Hyneman and was a part of the Build Team with Kari Byron and Tory Belleci.įormer “MythBusters” co-star Adam Savage said on Twitter, “I’m at a loss. On “MythBusters,” Imahara appeared in more than 200 episodes, beginning with Season 3 in 2005 through 2014. The network said he was one of the few trained operators for the famed R2-D2 droid from the Star Wars franchise and engineered the Energizer Bunny’s popular rhythmic beat. On its website, Discovery noted that Imahara dedicated his life to using his skills to make people smile.