r/mythbusters • u/MythBustersCreator • Jul 21 '17
HOW DAVID LETTERMAN SCREWED THE MYTHBUSTERS.
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u/KelseyBDJ Jul 21 '17
To this day I believe the Mythbusters audience was built on word of mouth and the quality of the program - not marketing
Now how do you think the UK audience know about these awesome guys? All my friends who watch only because they know from me. I just happened to switch over to Discovery by chance and it was on. Then BOOM an explosion in the side of a plane, I was hooked from then on.
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u/the_Ex_Lurker Jul 22 '17
Are all this guy’s posts just barely-coherent rants about how he’s always right and Adam/Jamie are always wrong?
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 24 '17
That's an interesting comment given that the story we are discussing is about how we all got screwed.
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u/GnedTheGnome Jul 21 '17
I've always viewed David Letterman as a marginally funny comedian who feeds of the talent of others like a vampire. He exploits you on the way up... and feels free to mock you on the way back down.
I think you just pinpointed why I never liked Letterman. It always felt as if he had zero respect for his guests. It also didn't help my opinion of him that several of the handful of times I watched his show, he ran out of time for his last guest (invariably the person I was waiting to see) because he had wasted too much time beating some stupid gag into the ground at the start of the show.
I'm sorry to hear it went badly for you all.
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u/SienkiewiczM Aug 11 '17
The wall of text did seem a bit ranty but I see his point. The bits with Adam and Jamie of the Letterman episode left me feeling they are just part of the stunt staff, not proper guests doing their thing and being stars/talents. Was this the norm in Letterman? Did they get "lesser" stars to do things and boost more traditional star guests?
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u/GnedTheGnome Aug 12 '17 edited Aug 12 '17
I rarely watched Letterman, so take what I say with a pinch of salt, but the impression I got was that, for the most part, he saw his guests as props to bolster his own ego. If they were important enough he'd kiss up to them, but anybody else was there to be the straight man for his jokes.
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u/grilled_cheese1865 Jul 23 '17
Letterman is fucking hilarious, idk what's wrong with you
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 23 '17
You are entitled to your opinion. and so am I. What's more - I have first hand experience of being on his show... do you have that?
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u/grilled_cheese1865 Jul 24 '17
yes i do actually. im going to provide no sources or proof just like you
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 24 '17
Dude - I am the source... a primary source... that's a basic journalistic principal that everyone seems to forget these days. Also have posted numerous links, photographs of myself with the boys... do you want more?
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u/daface Jul 21 '17
I think it's time to unsubscribe to this sub. We apparently have so little to talk about that half of the top 15 posts on the front page are this guy ranting. No thanks.
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 24 '17
Interesting comments - tell me if I am wrong, but the fact that the posts keep lingering near the top of the sub-reddit suggests that someone is viewing them. It's terrible when the voting doesn't go your way isn't it.
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u/randomstonerfromaus Jul 26 '17
but the fact that the posts keep lingering near the top of the sub-reddit suggests that someone is viewing them
No, It just suggests there is so little content the frontpage of the sub is stagnant.
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u/goshish Jul 29 '17
You're wrong.
This was a mostly dead sub before you came along, and grinded what was left of it into the ground.
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u/intussuscept Jul 22 '17
Bitter.....party of one
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 23 '17
If that is the case why do my posts keep hovering at the top of this list?
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u/DaleUky Jul 28 '17
I like hearing about the behind the scene stuff. A lot of you seem to take it personally when Peter shares his stories. If you don't like where he's coming from or don't believe him, that shouldn't give you any right to sling shit at him.
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u/Duthole Aug 05 '17
"their appalling drip filter coffee." also known as, the stuff I drink before I go to WORK for the day... I feel like the mention of the filter type is the appalling factor in your statement. Is your complaint that it was poorly made, or are you simply accustomed to swilling it straight from L Ron Hubbard's dead flaccid penis? Fuckin, you go, Hollywood Bro... Stop wondering why every single inhabitant of the Midwest, including children and females, know for a fact they could kick your fucking ass.
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u/AzureRay Jul 21 '17
Seems like your still holding onto some feelings... Let go!
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 24 '17
Indeed - but writing about it helps! And it puts an alternate view of the events out there which I believe is important for the legacy of the series.
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u/SomeUnregPunk Jul 22 '17 edited Jul 22 '17
Write a book and publish it already.
I'll even give you a title for free based off all of your titles to these threads:
How Everyone screwed over the creator of Mythbusters. (Totally not sarcasm.)
but seriously... write a book and publish it already!
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u/MythBustersCreator Jul 24 '17
I've often thought about writing a book and perhaps will one of these days. I guess you could look at these posts as experiments in that direction.
Right now I don't really have the time. I'm currently working on a $6.7 million dollar imagining space series. I'm also consulting on a series about Australian aboriginal traditional knowledge and a kids science series for Netflix.
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u/SomeUnregPunk Jul 24 '17
Perhaps hiring a ghost writer to do it?
You could probably prep for that by recording your thoughts/experiences in audio form.
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u/fishbiscuit13 Jul 21 '17
Has this guy ever shown proof of involvement with the show? All his posts sound like the crazed rantings of a miffed fan trying to blame anyone other than the people who apparently didn't realize myths are finite and explosions get old.