Editing MythBusters (section)

== Popularity and influence ==

Hyneman and Savage have appeared on numerous entertainment programs, such as ''[[Good Morning America]]'',<ref>{{cite episode|series=Good Morning America|title=(daily episode)|date=November 8, 2004|network=[[American Broadcasting Company]]}}</ref> the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/about/mythbusters-pop-culture.html|title=MythBusters in Pop Culture|work=MythBusters Official Website|publisher=Discovery Communications|access-date=October 18, 2010}}</ref> [[NPR]]'s news program ''[[All Things Considered]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10255528|title='MythBusters' Have Fun in the Name of Science|publisher=NPR|date=May 18, 2007}}</ref> the syndicated radio ''[[Bob and Tom Show]]'', and in the movie ''[[The Darwin Awards (film)|The Darwin Awards]]'' (as two military surplus vendors who sold a [[JATO]] rocket to the main character). ''[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|Skeptic]]'' magazine's [[Daniel Loxton]] interviewed the duo in a 2005 article titled "MythBusters Exposed".<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/archives/vol12n01.html|title=MythBusters Exposed|first=Daniel|last=Loxton|journal=[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|Skeptic Magazine]]|volume=12|issue=1|year=2005}}</ref> Hyneman and Savage spoke at the annual convention of the [[National Science Teachers Association]] in March 2006, and the California Science Teachers Association named them honorary lifetime members in October 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21myth.html|author=John Schwartz|title=The Best Science Show on Television?|work=[[The New York Times]] (requires registration)|date=November 21, 2006}}</ref> In 2009, they were the featured keynote speakers at [[RSA Conference]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://365.rsaconference.com/docs/DOC-2141|title=Keynote: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman|work=[[RSA Conference]]|date=October 9, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021215747/http://365.rsaconference.com/docs/DOC-2141|archive-date=October 21, 2013}}</ref> They also are occasionally interviewed for articles by ''[[Popular Mechanics]]'' and are featured in that magazine's September 2009 issue.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/marketing/covers/?fullSize=http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/covers/200909.jpg&caption=September,|title=MythBuster Secrets|date=September 2009|magazine=Popular Mechanics|access-date=November 17, 2009}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Hyneman and Savage occasionally appear at colleges around the United States to talk about what it is like to be a MythBuster; the show consists of an interview and discussion to give the audience the opportunity to ask the MythBusters questions. The Build Team members have sometimes made appearances in similar capacity. They hold lectures in both collegiate and corporate settings, though the technical colleges tend to be the most enthusiastic.<ref name="mit_sellout">{{cite web|url=http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/current/desc-mythbusters.shtml|title=MythBusters Lecture |work=[[Traditions and student activities at MIT#Lecture Series Committee|lsc.mit.edu]] |date=November 4, 2006|access-date=January 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061108185341/http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/current/desc-mythbusters.shtml|archive-date=November 8, 2006}}</ref><ref name="ga_tech_sellout">{{cite web|url=http://www.wolfmanproductions.com/myth.htm|title=Wolfman Productions|website=Wolfmanproductions.com|access-date=January 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230125837/http://www.wolfmanproductions.com/myth.htm|archive-date=December 30, 2006}}</ref> They have spoken at [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute|WPI]], [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute|RPI]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Michigan Technological University|Michigan Tech]], [[UC Berkeley]] and many others.<!--Please keep the list to five entries-->

[[File:Mythbusters2.jpg|thumb|At the [[Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge]] posing with [[Skulls Unlimited International]], Inc.'s [[Jay Villemarette]] and Joey Williams, 2004]]

Adam Savage has written a primer on mold-making for [[Make (magazine)|''Make'' magazine]], and has been featured guest at the [[San Mateo, California|San Mateo]] [[Maker Faire]] since 2008. Kari Byron was interviewed on ''The Late Show'', on January 16, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/wahoo/index/php/20060116.phtml|author=CBS|title=Late Show with David Letterman|website=[[CBS]]|date=January 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410195846/http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/wahoo/index/php/20060116.phtml|archive-date=April 10, 2008|access-date=December 9, 2010}}</ref>

People involved in survival stories reported in local newscasts have sometimes mentioned previous viewings of ''MythBusters'' as an influence to their actions. Twenty-three-year-old Theresa Booth of [[St. Martin, Minnesota|St. Martin]], Minnesota, credits a ''MythBusters'' episode for her infant child and her survival. On April 3, 2007, she skidded off the road into a drainage ditch, which had filled with flood water from the [[Sauk River (Minnesota)|Sauk River]]. Unable to open the door, Booth recalled [[MythBusters (2007 season)#Underwater Car|the "Underwater Car" myth]] and waited until the pressure equalized to open the door.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/television/How-Mythbusters-Experiment-Saved-Mother-Child-From-Drowning-122617.html |title=How A Mythbusters Experiment Saved A Mother And Child From Drowning|date=March 4, 2016|access-date=2018-11-20|publisher=Gateway Blend Entertainment}}</ref> On October 19, 2007, in Sydney, Australia, a teenager named Julian Shaw pulled a fainted middle-aged man off the railway tracks near a train station to safety below the platform. He pulled back as the train passed, citing that [[MythBusters (2006 season)#Train Suction|the "Train Suction" episode]] affected his response.<ref name="trainnews">{{Cite news|title=Schoolboy Julian's lifesaving MythBuster moment|newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=November 8, 2007|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/julians-mythbuster-moment/2007/11/08/1194329387281.html|first=Arjun|last=Ramachandran|access-date=November 9, 2007}}</ref>

The 3rd Annual Independent Investigative Group [[IIG]] Awards presented an award to ''MythBusters'' recognizing the promotion of science and critical thinking in popular media on May 18, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iigwest.com/iigawards/2009/20090929_pressrelease.html|title=IIG &#124; The IIG Awards|publisher=Iigwest.com|date=August 21, 2010|access-date=July 1, 2011}}</ref>

On the May 1, 2008, episode of ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|CSI]]'', "[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 8)#ep180|The Theory of Everything]]", Hyneman and Savage appeared in a cameo as observers taking notes during a test to determine whether a stun-gun bolt can set someone on fire under various circumstances (which was later tested on ''MythBusters'' itself).

During August 2008, Hyneman and Savage appeared on the stage of [[Nvision|NVISION 08]], an event sponsored by [[Nvidia]], having been asked by Nvidia's creative director, David Wright, to provide a visual demonstration of the power of the [[graphics processing unit]] vs a [[central processing unit]]. They did this by creating an image of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' with a giant [[Parallel computing|parallel processing]] [[paintball]] gun, setting a [[world record]] for largest paintball gun in the process.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dvice.com/archives/2008/08/myth_busted_mon.php|title=Myth Busted: Mona Lisa painted in 275 milliseconds with 1,100 paintballs|last=Hall|first=Kevin|work=DVICE|publisher=[[SyFy]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901203454/http://dvice.com/archives/2008/08/myth_busted_mon.php|archive-date=September 1, 2008 |date=August 29, 2008|access-date=October 18, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maclife.com/adamsavageextra?page=0,1|title=Adam Savage Interview – Have Mac, Will Bust Myths|first=Leslie|last=Ayers|work=MacLife|publisher=Future US, Inc.|date=August 13, 2009|access-date=October 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817230749/http://www.maclife.com/adamsavageextra?page=0%2C1|archive-date=August 17, 2009|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvision08_gpu_v_cpu.html |title=NVISION 08 Highlights: GPU vs CPU Demonstration |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=NVIDIA Corporation |access-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref> An encore of the demonstration was given at [[YouTube Live]] featuring Hyneman standing in the path of the paintballs wearing a suit of [[personal armor|armor]].<ref name="paintball_with_armour">{{YouTube|xrixWmMoNR0|Live MythBusters}}. Retrieved January 6, 2009.</ref>

On the April 17, 2012, episode of ''[[NCIS (TV series)|NCIS]]'', "[[Rekindled]]", the character [[Abby Sciuto]] demonstrates a thermite fire to her boss, [[Jethro Gibbs]], by playing a clip from the ''MythBusters'' episode [[MythBusters (2008 season)#Better to End with a Bang|"End with a Bang"]]. Gibbs asks if the men in the clip are [[pyromania]]cs, and she replies, "Scientists, Gibbs! Okay, yeah, they're kind of pyromaniacs too".<!-- I don't have a copy of the episode any more to check the exact wording.  I copied what I see here http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/mythbusters?before=1334845914 -->

Hyneman, Savage, and others from the ''MythBusters'' crew have appeared at [[The Amaz!ng Meeting]], and subsequently were interviewed by [[Steven Novella]] and the "skeptical rogues" for the podcast [[The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe]].<ref>{{cite interview|url=http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2009-11-11.mp3|work=The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe|title=Podcast 225|subject=Adam Savage|type=Interview: Audio/.MP3|date=November 11, 2009|access-date=October 18, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite interview|url=http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2007-02-07.mp3|work=The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe|title=Podcast 81|subject=Adam Savage and Tory Belleci|type=Interview: Audio/.MP3|date=February 7, 2007|access-date=October 18, 2010}}</ref> On April 16, 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy.<ref name="MythBusters to Receive Harvard Humanism Award">{{cite web|url=http://harvardhumanist.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102:drawing-inspiration-from-the-arts&catid=6:lastest-news&Itemid=38|title=MythBusters to Receive Harvard Humanism Award|publisher=Huminist Chaplaincy at Harvard|access-date=October 18, 2010|archive-date=May 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100519034006/http://harvardhumanist.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102:drawing-inspiration-from-the-arts&catid=6:lastest-news&Itemid=38|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:PH2010101803021 Mythbusters at the White House.jpg|right|thumb|At the White House]]
On October 18, 2010, President [[Barack Obama]], as part of the [[White House Science Fair]], announced he had taped a segment of ''MythBusters'' and would appear on December 8, 2010. Obama's segment covered the [[Archimedes]] solar ray myth.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://press.discovery.com/us/dsc/press-releases/2010/president-obama-announces-walk-role-discovery--940|title=President Obama Announces Walk-On Role on Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Which Premieres December 8 at 9 PM ET/PT|publisher=Discovery|date=October 18, 2010|access-date=October 19, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/10/obama-commands-mythbusters-crew-to-fire-ancient-death-ray|title=Obama Commands MythBusters Crew To Fire Ancient Death Ray|first=Sam|last=Biddle|website=Gizmodo|date=October 19, 2010|access-date=October 19, 2010|archive-date=October 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022143341/http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/10/obama-commands-mythbusters-crew-to-fire-ancient-death-ray/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Both men appeared at the [[Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear]] on October 30, 2010, in Washington, DC. They had an experiment with the crowd involving [[Wave (audience)|the wave]]. They had the audience make various noises (e.g. popping their cheeks or laughing) all at the same time. They also had everyone in the crowd jump up at the same time to see if it would register on a [[seismograph]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Seabrook|first=Andrea|title='Sanity/Fear' Rally A Protest Of The Absurd|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130952931|work=npr.org|access-date=July 17, 2013}}</ref>

Hyneman and Savage received [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorates]] from the [[University of Twente]] in the Netherlands for their role in popularizing science, on the occasion of the university's 50th anniversary, on November 25, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.at-aandrijftechniek.nl/nieuws/branche/4480/eredoctoraten-voor-mythbusters.html|title=Eredoctoraten voor MythBusters|publisher=Aandrijftechniek|date=July 1, 2011|access-date=July 1, 2011}}</ref>

As of November 2011, all five MythBusters have also appeared in new shows, segments, or specials for Discovery's [[Science (TV channel)|Science Channel]], including ''[[Head Rush (TV series)|Head Rush]]'' (Byron, 2010–present); ''[[Pumpkin chunking|Punkin Chunkin]] 2010'' (Hyneman and Savage); ''Flying Anvils 2011'' (Belleci); ''Road to Punkin Chunkin 2011'', and ''Punkin Chunkin 2011'' (Belleci, Byron, and Imahara); ''Large Dangerous Rocket Ships 2010'' and ''Large Dangerous Rocket Ships 2011'' (Byron); "Killer Robots: RoboGames 2010" (Imahara); ''[[Curiosity (TV series)|Curiosity]]'' (Savage); ''Punkin Chunkin 2012'' (Belleci, Byron and Imahara). Savage and Hyneman are judges on the game show ''[[Unchained Reaction]]'', which premiered in March 2012. Belleci and Byron are also hosts of the 2015 Science Channel show ''Thrill Factor''.

Aired on February 12, 2012, Hyneman and Savage lent their voices to ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[The Daughter Also Rises]]" to be featured on a show similar to ''MythBusters ''called ''Mythcrackers'' in which Hyneman and Savage take on the classic myth that a cat always lands on its feet. In the episode, they do not want to harm a real cat, so they took a [[Build A Bear]] carcass, stuffed it with ballistics gel, shot it with a 20-foot-barrel steam cannon, then made a scatter plot of the remains. By the end of the experiment, Hyneman asked, "What was it we were trying to prove again?", to which Savage replied, "Don't know, don't care." Clips from this show appeared in the ''MythBusters''' ''Simpsons'' Special that first aired in 2015.

On October 3, 2012, Byron and Belleci made a guest appearance on the Discovery series ''[[Sons of Guns]]''. They test-fired some of the weapons in the Red Jacket shop, then watched as the staff retested a myth busted by the Build Team in 2008, that a [[propane]] tank could explode when hit with a bullet.

[[File:Mythbusters (23353831281).jpg|thumb|The ''MythBusters'' at a 2015 performance in Iowa]]
In 2015, Hyneman and Savage appeared in a series of Australian television commercials for [[Dulux]] paint, depicting them testing the maker's claims of durability.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adnews.com.au/news/dulux-use-mythbuster-tv-duo-for-biggest-ad-campaign-in-almost-a-century|title=Dulux use Mythbuster TV duo for biggest ad campaign in almost a century - AdNews|website=Adnews.com.au|access-date=June 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0wYZ0X_F9s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/w0wYZ0X_F9s |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Dulux Mythbusters Markers Challenge|last=Bhold.watch|date=February 1, 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzT1yH9R68 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/TTzT1yH9R68 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Dulux Mythbusters Wine Challenge|last=Bhold.watch|date=February 1, 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2016, a ''[[New York Times]]'' study of the 50 television shows with the most [[Facebook like]]s found that ''MythBusters'' "has the second-highest share of 'likes' from men of any show in the data, after ''[[Fast N' Loud]]''".<ref name="katz20161227">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html |title='Duck Dynasty' vs. 'Modern Family': 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide |last=Katz |first=Josh |date=December 27, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>

=== Tours and exhibits ===
A traveling museum exhibit called "MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mythbusterstheexhibition.com/|title=Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition|publisher=Mythbusterstheexhibition.com|access-date=March 28, 2016|archive-date=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402161629/http://www.mythbusterstheexhibition.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> was developed over the course of about five years, premiering at the [[Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago]], in March 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/10/03/5821905.htm|title=Discovery Communications and Exhibits Development Group Debut MythBusters Traveling Exhibition|publisher=Tmcnet.com|access-date=November 2, 2013}}</ref>

In 2011, Savage and Hyneman created a live stage show called the ''MythBusters Behind the Myths'' Tour, in which they conduct experiments on-stage and discuss some background details of the show.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Margaret|title=Stage review: 'MythBusters: Behind the Myths' at Nokia Theatre|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/01/theater-review-mythbusters-nokia.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 16, 2012}}</ref>

In March 2014, they announced that the tour would be coming to Australia and New Zealand.{{Update inline|date=January 2019}}

The show and one particular episode (involving the myth of a cigarette being able to cause a fire when thrown into a pool of gasoline) was credited with helping to free a man from prison.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://innocenceproject.org/discovery-channel-mythbuster-john-galvan-wrongful-conviction-innocence/ | title=How Discovery Channel's 'MythBusters' Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence | date=October 5, 2022 }}</ref>