Monday 2 May 2011

The Green Hornet Special (Original Airdate Dec. 13 2010)

To celebrate the impending release of the Green Hornet film, Seth Rogen visited the Mythbusters to test out some stunts from the movie.

The myth was that a bullet-filled car could drive off of an ascending elevator, get cut in half, and keep going. Kari, Grant, and Tory built a device to simulate the elevator using a forklift, but the car just got stuck. Seth Rogen then stepped in and claimed that in the movie, the car was designed to split in half. After cutting another car in half, they managed to drive the car straight into a wall. Eventually, after even more modification, they were able to drive the car 20 laps at 40 mph. The myth wound up plausible, but you would have to make major modifications ahead of time.