I watched the whole episode; the bit with the eggs playing Russian Roulette was right at the end, and the psychic plant stuff was alternating with a gripping investigation into shooting bits of straw into the trunk of a palm tree. They usually have at least two parallel storylines going, one with the two principals, and one with Kari Byron and a couple of annoying guys who occasionally obscure my view of Kari Byron.
I watched the whole thing because Mythbusters has historically been a frequently enjoyable and occasionally worthwhile show, so I was willing to cut it some slack, and I have an irrational aversion to giving up on things partway even if I'm not enjoying them.
Usually they do a passable imitation of the scientific method, varying one variable at a time -- first they shoot straw at a pal tree, then they shoot straw at a different species of palm tree, then they shoot stiffer thatch at a palm tree, then they shoot straw at a bent palm tree, etc. The psychic plant project made a mockery of that, starting with hooking up a philodendron to a polygraph and spraying it with a fire extinguisher, and rapidly moving through hooking a philodendron to an EEG and thinking angry thoughts at it, into hooking up a polygraph to some yogurt and pouring boiling water on some other yogurt within line of sight, and then having a guy wash out his mouth with salt water and monitoring the salt water for emotional responses to zapping the guy with a stun gun.
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Date: 2011-10-09 03:08 pm (UTC)I watched the whole thing because Mythbusters has historically been a frequently enjoyable and occasionally worthwhile show, so I was willing to cut it some slack, and I have an irrational aversion to giving up on things partway even if I'm not enjoying them.
Usually they do a passable imitation of the scientific method, varying one variable at a time -- first they shoot straw at a pal tree, then they shoot straw at a different species of palm tree, then they shoot stiffer thatch at a palm tree, then they shoot straw at a bent palm tree, etc. The psychic plant project made a mockery of that, starting with hooking up a philodendron to a polygraph and spraying it with a fire extinguisher, and rapidly moving through hooking a philodendron to an EEG and thinking angry thoughts at it, into hooking up a polygraph to some yogurt and pouring boiling water on some other yogurt within line of sight, and then having a guy wash out his mouth with salt water and monitoring the salt water for emotional responses to zapping the guy with a stun gun.