Friday, October 18, 2013

Zombies invade Mythbusters


Last night's episode of Mythbusters was pretty interesting.  Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the shows hosts, wanted to see if three myths they selected from zombie lore were true or not.  The first one was whether an axe or a shotgun can kill more zombies.  The second one was whether you can outrun zombies.  The last one was whether a horde of zombies can push through a barricade.  To help them with this they brought on Michael Rooker who plays Merle Dixon on the Walking Dead.

Testing the first myth was the most fun to watch.  They had acquired about a thousand extras to dress up like zombies and come at them like a horde.  Adam had a foam axe with dye in it so he knew which zombies he had killed.  He looked like he was having fun trying to hit all of those zombies.  The most interesting thing to watch was Jamie with his paintball shotgun.  They had made masks for the zombies to wear so they could shoot them in the face.  It looked a lot like those zombie shoots I see all the time.  I don't want to say who won but it was kind of obvious before they even began testing.  

The second myth was not as exciting.  They just had Tori, Kari, and Grant, who are the other people on the show who help test the myths, running past the zombies.  The only thing interesting during that was when they had to come up with ideas to distract the zombies.

The third myth was fun to watch mainly because Michael Rooker was getting back into being Merle.  Throughout the whole show he acted normal but when he stood behind that barricade he just changed.  He even flipped the bird at the zombies through the barricade which was pretty funny.

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