Nobrainer’s Think Tank

Right now, we’re 20 minutes into the new Discovery Channel series Smash Lab. It’s obviously a take-off of Mythbusters, but it lacks the personality, light-heartedness, and humor. In other words, watching Smash Lab is like watching a college engineering lab except with a narrator makings things sound entirely too serious.

UPDATE: Summary of the concept of episode 1: can aerated concrete (not air-rated as I first thought they said) behave like gravel? More specifically, can aerated concrete slow down a car or bus in a way similar to what it can do with an airplane? The answer, narrated dramatically and demonstrated boringly, is “possibly.” Whereas Mythbusters tends to end every episode with an explosive and/or amusing climax, Smash Lab ended with a dramatic rendering of a bus not hitting anything. In other words, Smash Lab was as exciting as my sex life as a teenager.