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MythBusters Season 4 Episode 14

Diet Coke and Mentos

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AIRED: 8/9/06

Inspired by an internet story, The Mythbusters take on the controversy surrounding these fizzy fountains. Then they try and find new household-product tricks that could be the "new craze". Meanwhile, the Mythterns tackle the myth that a single postage stamp on a helicopter blade disrupts the system enough to take it down.moreless

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this is a fun episode.

9.3

By JLU51306, Apr 05, 2011

this myth is that you drop some mentos in a 2-liter diet coke it spews uncontrolably and this is a very fun and cool episode, this is why I watch the show and is one of the coolest episodes that's aired on national television, it's a cool fun episode, it's great.
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That is one of my favourite episodes.

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By sweetysmart0505, Jul 12, 2007

Ok, first I have got to say that my favourite part, or one of them, from this episode was when Jamie stuck the Doke in his mouth and then the mentos and he was like spitting it all out then he did it again. I laughed at that. then I loved how they created the tower of foam soap stuff and lit it all on fire. Then I lofe tht exploding supecake thing and the fire extinguisher wouldn't even put it out. i laughed so hard on this epuside and I fonally learned what it was that caused the things to react the way they do. Awesome episode.moreless
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Diet Coke and Mentos fountains---what's not to love?

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By hahawhat, Feb 27, 2007

This is such a great episode--or should I say, epi-SODA (sorry, I couldn't help myself)! Okay, you can stop laughing at me now. I really couldn't believe how high Adam and Jamie got their soda fountains to go... I mean, they got it up to about thirty-two feet! That's pretty amazing, compared to my poor excuse for a soda fountain (it only got about ten feet high). This episode is absolutely hilarious. Adam and Jamie get into a little competition on who can make the best soda fountain; and of course, there's my favorite quote: "Instead of a limited beam of pure plasma---it's soda! Yeah!" Oh, and the big bubble explosion they had was great too (it wouldn't be MythBusters without an explosion!). This is my favorite MythBusters episode (right next to the holiday special, that is). Oh, and my apologies to anyone who read my stupid 'epi-SODA' pun.moreless
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Definitely funny episode...what was it again? Like 40 ft. in the air!? That was definitely one of the better episodes.

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By r0kuavatar, Aug 21, 2006

Definitely awesome this episode was, yet the stamp-on-a-heli-roter thing was pretty boring. Though the Diet and the mentos...beautiful! Sugary soda spraying everywhere. The only episodes I know of that came anywhere close to that was the cement truck (BOOM) and the decibal cars...those we're loud... my ears still hurt, and well... I hope I'll never have a car like that. Far too loud for me. (It ripped paper up with sound, now that's what I call completely insane !!!) Anyways, this is one of the better episodes and if you haven't watched any of these, keep an eye out. Sure, most of the myths shown on this won't really help you, but it's always fun to watch them!moreless
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awesome. the helicopter one was stupid but the mentos was cool

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By kdot1985, Aug 19, 2006

loved the mentos and diet coke. that was awesome. everyone is going out buying diet coke and mentos and doing that experiment now. cuz i know i def. did. loved how they tried all the ingredients to see which was causing the diet coke to blow. oh ya. so you don't need to use just diet coke too. regular coke does the trick just as well. don't know why they settled with the diet though instead of telling us that regular coke works too.moreless
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Adam Savage	Host
Grant Imahara	Mythbuilder
Jamie Hyneman	Host
Kari Byron	Mythbuilder
Nikos Andronikos	Narrator (Australian Version)
Robert Lee (XXVI)	Narrator

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- Jamie: Thats not doing anything more then the wall of the plastic bottle itself.
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- Adam: Total bupkis in terms of reaction.
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- Narrator: The four mentos are dropped in and as reliably as old faithful, the geyser erupts.
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- Adam: Instead of a limited beam of pure plasma---it's soda! Yeah!
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- Jamie: It's kind of like watching the grass grow with an explosion at the end of it.
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- Adam[after catching fire to his home-made smoke bomb]: "So thats what can happen. Thats why you dont try this at home."
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- Jamie:I don't see anything on fire up there.
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- Adam: We've done it. Now you don't have to.
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- Adam: Cue dramatic music!
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- Tory: Are we nuts? We got stamps on the main rotor and the tail rotor.
  Kari: Well, here's the thing. If we're wrong about this we're gonna have a really bad day
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- Jamie: I hate competitions.
  Adam: Yeah, when you lose!
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- Adam: You know, I think we can take this a step farther and try to make a rocket out of this reaction.
  Jamie: Rockets are always fun, let's do it.
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- Tory: (about the model helicopter) I say we destroy it.
  Grant: This is why we can't have anything nice.
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- Tory: (after Adam throws in the smoke bomb cupcake) What is that? Is that a hockey puck? It's a flaming hockey puck!
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- This episode was released on Mythbusters: Collection 2.
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- This episode was about a very old fun thing to do with some mentos and coke. In this episode Adam and Jamie go at it again in one of there competitions. And proved that not only that mentos in soda is cool, its also fun and safe.
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- Jamie apparently hates competitions
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- In this episode, Kari mentions her photo shoot with FHM Magazine while telling Adam and Jamie about the Diet Coke and Mentos theories
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