Mythbusters

I don't remember who told me that Mythbusters was Jackass for geeks, but it's really really true. When I first started watching, they seemed to be competent people who took calculated risks (for science!). Now, having seen about twenty eps, many from early on through Netflix, I've seen them intentionally drop themselves from five feet onto concrete to simulate a plane crash, zap each other with a cattle prod, get fully painted with aluminum paint to see if it will put them in the hospital like the Tin Man, attempt to shrink jeans they were wearing enough to cut off blood flow, and dip their unprotected hands in molten lead. And those were experiments. That doesn't even include the accidentally firing a penny gun into a fluorescent light, standing right next to the chamber of gasoline fumes when they ignited it, tripping and falling over various things, and getting their lips sucked into a vacuum.

I mean, it's good television, but dear god. They let these people play with explosives?