- Dirty Jobs: This guy finds the grossest jobs possible and joins in on the fun:
- First, he retrieved golf balls out of disgusting, smelly lakes with alligators lurking.
- Then he retrieved road kill. That was really gross. They showed all these mangled deer that got hit by cars, and they had to lift them onto a truck. Then they take them to this "dump" where they cover them with sawdust, and they decompose and turn into compost.
- Then he went to a place where they breed prize horses, and he got to clean off a horse penis and put a fake horse vagina on it while it humped a big pommel-horse type thing while looking at a mare standing behind a fence. Its sperm was worth $25,000. Then he got to clean off the backside of a mare with his bare knuckles, and put on a plastic sleeve so he could stick his entire arm up the horse's vagina to deposit the sperm. Then they showed the chick who was teaching him this stuff stick her whole arm up one of the horse's rectums to pull crap out of it and dump it in a bucket. This was so they could get her all cleaned out and ready to have her embryo taken out and put in another horse that would become the new mother. That was pretty gross, I must say.
- A special on the Bermuda Triangle. They figured out that all the airplanes and ships may have gone down because of gas bubbles. Some areas of the Bermuda Triangle have a steady stream of methane gas bubbles pouring out. Every now and then a huge bubble bursts out, caused by a slide or a build up of bubbles that are blocked. Some of these huge bubble explosions can cause a huge ship to go down very quickly. They also showed how some of the old-style airplanes could go down with a surprising 1% methane in the air, which happens quite easily in the Triangle.
- Mythbusters. They proved that:
- You can die if you drop an old-style appliance in the bathtub while you're taking a bath. I thought that was a given, but I guess there were some doubts. Although, they did show how the likelyhood of death is less if the appliance falls close to the drain, because the current doesn't have to travel as far. So that "myth" was supported.
- They busted the myth that a tattoo can explode when you get an MRI. I thought that one was sort of silly, but it can actually cause a burning sensation or some redness on some people. It's caused by the iron oxide in the tattoo ink. An MRI uses really strong magnets, and the iron oxide is very strongly attracted to it.
- They busted the myth of killer quicksand, like the kind in movies. Quicksand actually makes you more buoyant, so you float higher on top of it. The best thing to do in quicksand is to lie on your back, and your extra buoyancy will keep you afloat. People have actually died in quicksand, but because of the elements. If the water dries up while you're stuck in the quicksand, it's extremely difficult to get out, and you can basically die of thirst or of the elements. If you float on your back, it's much easier to get out.
- American Chopper: always an entertaining show.
Another great show is Pimp My Ride on MTV. I usually hate the fact that MTV doesn't play music videos anymore, but I must say that I love Pimp My Ride. It's awesome, and I would love to take my car there.
