Mythbusters used to be a very interesting show, up until Discovery Channel turned into a shill for Warner Brothers... which means that a lot of the 'myths' were thinly-disguised advertisements for WB movies and projects, and this was one of them. Another thing that was starting to become apparent was how adamant the producers were to not provide any advertisement or recognition to anything they did not have direct control of, and a prime example occurs in this episode when the Mythbusters build crew (Kari, Tory, and Grant) took the half-car to a dirt track, and the production crew did a half-hearted job of masking a race car painted to look like Dale Earnhardt's old #3 Chevy Monte Carlo ... using black tape to mask off part of the ersatz sponsor logo and identifying mark on the front air dam, as well as using WHITE tape to do a sloppy job of changing the original '3' on the door and roof to an '8'.
If there was ever an episode to which you can point and say, "Here's where they jumped the shark", this is probably as good an example as any.
If there was ever an episode to which you can point and say, "Here's where they jumped the shark", this is probably as good an example as any.
