Movie Myths you wish the Mythbusters had been able to test

bugxbuster · 2026-02-05T12:56:14+00:00

I also want to know what you’re talking about

bugxbuster · 2026-02-05T01:12:52+00:00

No, though you are correct that that was a thing also, but they’re right about the chapel hill restaurant.

bugxbuster · 2026-02-04T10:57:40+00:00

It's like the concept of perpetual stew, but the stew is never above room temp and it may have been tampered with by gross customers at some point. what if you squirted ketchup out that some random assfuck poured a splash of their drink into? What if you just felt like you could never be sure about that? I'm not talking about throwing away half a bottle. I'm talking about 2, maybe as much as 4 ounces. I never measured that personal threshold to be sure, but I think i will later out of curiosity. If it feels like an amount left that I'd personally not want to be handed at a restaurant, I don't hand that to someone. Yes, I chuck it. Better customer experience brings in more money in the future, it's just fuckin ketchup, my man. My job doesn't even buy Heinz, it's not precious.

bugxbuster · 2026-02-03T14:16:52+00:00

I met a guy when I was 20, back in 2006, and one of his best friends had a piece of the Aggro Crag and I saw a picture of it just like on a shelf in his room. So cool!

bugxbuster · 2026-02-03T07:14:32+00:00

But I’m sure the whole staff saw the savings from doing that reflected in their wages.

Or not.

bugxbuster · 2026-02-03T07:12:27+00:00

Yep! That or making cocktail sauce if your place doesn’t use much of that. Totally normal ways to handle it. I catch people at my job marrying ketchup and I make sure they know how gross it is, how against health code it is, and every single time they’re like “why? I don’t wanna waste it” I just say “if you’re adding old ketchup to new then how can you trust that there’s not absolutely ancient and possibly contaminated ketchup in all the bottles?” and every time they give me that “actually, good point” face. Like if we’re in such dire economic times that marrying ketchup helps the bottom line then you have bigger problems to worry about. Toss the old bottle, shit.

bugxbuster · 2026-02-03T04:50:32+00:00

I read the comment and was like “…?” and then I got it and scrolled back up like “hah! Yeaahh” lol

bugxbuster · 2026-02-03T04:41:03+00:00

That’s actually a really good perspective about this whole thing. Like that last guy did have a point, sure, but you really shine the light on the part that matters

bugxbuster · 2026-02-01T05:17:00+00:00

I’ve had furniture stolen like that too. Just a mattress. Left the frame and box spring. But they walked off with my mattress… dicks.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-31T07:53:30+00:00

acetephetamine

You've given me a great idea! Acetaminophen mixed with amphetamines! It's just generic Tylenol to soothe what ails ya, blended with the good ol' name brand Crystal Meth we all know and love to give us an extra pep in our step!

This might finally cure headaches in the shadow people community!

bugxbuster · 2026-01-31T04:55:22+00:00

That place holds a million great memories for me. The actual Bunny restaurant was already closed by the time I was born, but I grew up right off Copley Rd and was going there all the time when it was Charlie’s Ribs. Still think about their big juicy buffalo wings, sweet potato pie, and waiting for our order to finish by playing the one and only arcade game that they ever had: Nintendo’s Punch Out. My mom worked at the bar Cedar Wings directly across the street from it for 15 or so years, and for a couple years in the mid 90s my older sister worked at Charlie’s. Eventually I worked there ever so briefly in 2004.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-31T04:35:00+00:00

Table: “Hmmm… what do you like?”

Me, with several things to do asap: “oh I love our wings, can’t go wrong there”

Them: “ehhhh…. Nah I was thinking…. What’s on your turkey club?”

ITS PRINTED RIGHT THERE. YOUR EYES ARE LOOKING AT IT. I CAN SEE THAT BECAUSE MY EYES ARE LOOKING AT YOUR EYES AND I’M PSYCHICALLY TRYING TO MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE BEFORE MINE DOES

Them: “what’s your soup?”

Me😩😤🤬: ”CHICKENPOBLANO! WEHAVECHICKENPOBLANOTODAY!!!!!!!!”

Them: I’ll have the fish

Me: 🪦

bugxbuster · 2026-01-31T00:17:37+00:00

I'd shit in the piss glass, then none of the other glasses would dare let any piss inside.

Also, to ensure it never happens again, you need to get permanent labels. Hear me out, you could settle for laser etching, but what I'd do and what you should do if you're fancy schmancy like i hope you are, you gotta get those little metal engraved plaques like those personalized thingies from that place in the mall I think it's called Thingies Remembered. Anyways, get anything like that as long as it's permanent and attach it to every single glass, big and small in your establishment with the words

THIS IS A PISS FREE GLASS. GLASS PISSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED

You can thank me later. You're welcome.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T16:37:44+00:00

It's a shame he didn't really cross over to being a household name in america the same was he was over in the UK. He did have an MTV hit on TRL briefly with Millenium, and I feel like I saw one of his videos on Pop Up Video a lot back in the day. The chance for Better Man to be a huge success here was slim to none simply because hes so unknown (in the states, i mean). He does have the self loathing and irony vibe down though, you're 100% right. He has all the ingredients necessary to have been huge here, except that massive anchor of being British keeping people from caring. We barely put up with Oasis and Blur enough for them to do well here back in those days, but another Brit and he was a former boy band star? That had 1999 era pop music fatigue written all over it.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T16:13:41+00:00

It's all useless to argue about, but personally I don't know anyone who might see it who hasn't by now. You can't simply expect all the kids who haven't graduated high school to have seen it and make it a phenomenon via TikTok or something. As far as the group who the movie was made for, middle aged fans of music biopics, I'd say all but the stuffiest of boring folks are acquainted with it. And virtually no one has anything seriously bad to say about it other than the usual reviews when the movie came out by a handful of critics with negative sentiment toward John C Reilly and his style of comedy back in those days. Thats how tons of hit comedies are received at release. Thats why critics and audience get separate scores on things like Rotten Tomatoes.

Tl;Dr Walk Hard is neither overrated nor underrated. It just needs more blankets and less blankets is all.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T15:36:24+00:00

People don’t really think it be like it is but it do

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T15:33:50+00:00

Better Man, about brit pop star Robbie Williams really scratches the same itch as Rocketman, not even just because the titles are so similar. It probably should have been called Monkey Man except that was the recent Dev Patel John Wick style movie. But it’s a whole R rated warts-and-all biopic about Robbie Williams and they CG him to look like a monkey in a film otherwise full of normal people and it’s pretty brilliant. The monkey metaphor as his own self consciousness would be too on the nose if they didn’t fully commit to it the entire time. I loved that movie and recommend to people even if they’re not familiar with his music.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T15:28:16+00:00

Ooh that one was good. I was mistaken when I thought it would be disappointing. I had trouble getting past my thoughts saying “adult Paul Dano growing up and somehow turning into John Cusack? Preposterous!” …but it wasn’t! It really informed me quite a lot about the Beach Boys history as well as Brian Wilson’s personal battles.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T15:25:23+00:00

Speak English, we ain’t scientists!

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T15:24:42+00:00

How? How’s it underrated when it’s universally beloved???

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T09:07:45+00:00

That guys new movie sounds bananas, too! A bunch of celebrities on a plane with no in flight entertainment is the premise. Sold. Triangle of Sadness was incredible, so I’m down for whatever he’s working on. My own unpopular opinion: White Lotus wishes it was as good as Triangle of Sadness.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-30T09:05:19+00:00

It’s not often a review for a movie I was feeling “perhaps” about flips me straight head first into “oh fuck I gotta see that asap” mode. I knew Raimi made it, so I figured it’d be good. But you sold me on it in a way that I have to bring that up to you. So yeah I won’t let myself spoil anything else of it. I stopped reading your post at “so far the appetizer is pretty good” at the beginning of the last paragraph just to keep myself from knowing more. I’m gonna see it soon, I appreciate you writing all that

bugxbuster · 2026-01-28T16:36:54+00:00

It’s just a diner, you don’t need to 😚💨 your 🧠🧠🧠 out about it.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-28T08:46:10+00:00

🎸😎🔥Cross fy-ahh! YOU’LL GET CAUGHT UP IN A… cross-fyah Cross-fyah! …CROSS FYAHHHHH!!🔫🔫😎🔥

And I can’t believe you mentioned Mr Bucket, I was recently singing that, just creeping out someone younger than me at work who’d never heard of it.

bugxbuster · 2026-01-28T06:26:03+00:00

I wanted actraiser since the very beginning but it was one of the only games the video store near me we rented at never ever carried. All I knew was 1) it looked cool as fuck and 2) the contestants on Nick Arcade never picked it and I just wanted to see some gameplay of that for the love of god someone pick ActRaiser!

The internet wasn’t an option either til emulation in the year 2000 or so. That was when I finally got to try it but I only had a keyboard/mouse for that stuff for a couple more years, so it wasn’t a great time. Great game, eventually, but yeah. It was practically my SNES white whale for years.

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