It is a sad, sad time for fans of the long-running "Mythbusters" series now that the show will bow out next year after 14 successful seasons, 248 episodes, and 2,950 experiments.
Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (who happen to dislike each other off-screen) have actually known for a long time that the show will be coming to an end, and that is why they have saved the best experiments for last.
"It was my greatest fear that 'Mythbusters' would just stop and we wouldn't be able to do proper final episodes," Savage told Entertainment Weekly. "So whether it's myths about human behavior or car stories or explosion stories, we tried to find the most awesome example of each category and build on our past history."
Savage added that they knew about the show's end at the beginning of 2015, and that is why they have been filming the last season episodes all year long.
"I can tell you I've been going through all the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross stages of grief - anger, acceptance, denial - it's all been happening," he added.
His on-screen partner Hyneman, on the other hand, likes to focus on all the good things they've done in the show and try as much as possible to end it with a bang.
He said that the personal growth he has gone through while making the show is astounding, as well as the impact "Mythbusters" has on people's lives, and these two things are definitely something that he will treasure moving on in life.
"Other than embracing how much I've learned and grown in this process, the main thing I value is the show has had an impact on popular culture and science," said Hyneman. "We've seen thousands of people across the country and abroad. The kind of appreciation that's been expressed by people all over the place for what we've done, for encouraging them or their family or kids to be interested in science, is absolutely wonderful. I can't think of anything that would be more important than that."
Savage feels the same way, and he is very proud of the fact that they were able to tell "compelling stories" that actually have real information in them.
"When people say, 'I'm a physics teacher and your show has helped me do my job,' or, 'I have a kid with ADHD and he really responds to the show,' every time I hear one of those things it moves me and humbles me. We were even scientists when we started. Making this show has fundamentally changed the way I think and act in the world," he said.
