Mythbusters
Normally the German TV station RTL2 is known for serving the dim but tonight I discoverd a very fun show called Mythbusters. It is like the Knoff-Hoff-Show taken on a new level. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman test urban legends with spleeny and funny experiments.
Tonight the tested the urban legend that if you throw a penny of the Empire State building it will blow someones head down in the street. They constructed penny gun out of a stapler and shot the penny on their own hands to test it. And they did some crazy stuff with microwaves.
If you like wacky experiments and tinker with stuff you will enjoy this show. The only downer is that RTL2 shows a dubbed version as always on German TV. 
In the US it runs on the Discovery Channel.
October 31st, 2005 at 09:01
This show has been my favorite for years. Discovery and History Channel both have another small set of good series and I hope that they’ll make it to Germany in their undubbed glory sometime.
With the advent of HDTV and multi channel audio this should not be a problem in theory but as long as the german market is big enough (aka ROI is large) they’ll just dub everything
October 31st, 2005 at 11:47
Yeah it is a real shame. I think that one of the main reasons why for example the majority of the Dutch and the Danish speak a very fluent and an accent free English is actually because of the un-dubbed TV programs. Well, maybe we just have to feel lucky that these “one-audio-track-only” DVDs didn’t catch on.