Scientific Fun

Mythbusters is a great show for everyone! The hosts, along with their team, crack myths and urban legends using science. This DVD Set is a great value for the money. 4 Discs for $20. I also found it was much cheaper than the Boxed versions sold on the discovery channel site which retailed for $50 each. The show is funny and you will learn from it whether you realize at the time or not. Great for kids, teenagers and adults. I feel like it is a parallel to the fun science shows of my youth like "Bill Nye the Science Guy".

Loved it!!

My son loved this dvd. He is 11 and he watched it over and over. He wants them all now!

Offensive

The format of this show is as follows: on some flimsy pretext, the hosts will "test" whether or not some phenomenon can really happen. Once the experiment is performed - usually resulting in a loud, irritating noise - the hosts will begin capering around like monkeys. For example: can water stop bullets? Lets find out! One host fires a rifle into a pool, the other host loiters purposelessly behind plexiglass, "observing". The gun goes bang, the water splashes, and the host doing nothing behind the plexiglass reveals his true purpose: to caper around like a monkey. This happens with virtually every "experiment", often featuring the younger, smarmily fresh-faced, hosts, an asian male and a red-haired female. In one episode the "test" is to see whether you can move slowly enough not to disturb a motion detector alarm. (it should be obvious the answer is "yes" - house plants grow without setting off motion-senstive alarms) The red-haired female walks very slowly through a room, not setting off the alarm. Then, because this is not resulting in loud, irritating noises, she "tests" the alarm by suddenly moving quickly. The alarm goes off and she starts capering around like a sub-human. This is the format of the show. Lots of primitve capering around, lots of needless experimentation. Very irritating and philisitine hosts, two of whom are twin brothers, one of whom styles himself by wearing a handlebar moustache and a beret as his "look." If you're a phan of philistinism, this one is for you! Bang! (picture me capering around now)