by gillianren » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:14 pm
oh, yes, let's talk about the one episode I've never--will never!--seen twice! ick ick ick ick!
okay, now that I've got that out of my system . . . .
so the original (well, no; it goes back so far that the original's a carriage! but the one everyone knows) is that there's this Corvette, see, and this guy, like, dies in it. (mob hit, OD, suicide--the variations are endless, really.) only it's back in the woods, right, and nobody knows he's there for, like, a really long time. and they find the car, and they clean the guy out, right, and so, like, they don't want the car--tragic reminder, etc.--so they try to sell it. only it smells like death, and no matter how much they scrub and scrub, they can't get the smell out. they try selling it a bunch of times, but the people buying it always return it, so it's, like, totally worthless.
did I get the style right? of course I did!
so the MythBusters go to test this. now, obviously, they can't just wait for a convenient mob hit/OD/suicide, so they acquire a couple of pigs that died of natural causes. (presumably to avoid waste, but the reason they had to die of natural causes was, I thought, never adequately explained.) turns out to be the hard part. that and convincing the guy who sold them the 'Vette to let them keep it even after they told him what they were going to do to it.
now, here's where I think they made it harder on themselves than they had to--they sealed the car. airtight. like, duct tape around all the cracks and everything. then, they put it in one of those giant metal storage thingies and put it in the back lot. (much speculation has gone into what their neighbors must think of all this.)
meanwhile, during the (I don't remember how long) that the pigs were merrily rotting away, they took lessons from a guy whose job it is to clean crime scenes. (and doesn't that sound like a fun job!) so when they unseal the car, he supervises them.
well, the older one--the one with the enormous moustache--nearly died from ammonia fumes, first off. like I said, sealing the car made it worse. and in the end, they had to rip up every shred of upholstery, because those pigs liquefied in there. (yay, anaerobic bacteria!) it was really, really, really gross.
they did sell the car afterward, though. sure, for parts, but the legend holds that the car couldn't be sold after, and they managed it. (and, yes, it did still kinda smell, by all accounts.)
Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
--Maskerade