So tonight I was making a second attempt to choke down Discovery Channel's new show, Smash Lab. Ok, what's the worst thing about 99% of movie sequels? They take the most popular elements of the original, and totally saturate the follow up with them, and nothing else, thus inducing a chocolate birthday cake reaction. Good, but ultimately chokingly rich with nothing to dilute it. Not good.

I've been a fan of Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" since it first aired. To this day I still maintain that Mythbusters is the most fun you can have on television. Well, long ago, in a galaxy far far away, in a post from 2004. (back when I used to leave myself comments) I formed a fascination with one of the cast members, Kari Byron.

It's the red hair.

To make a long story short... she's part of the "Build Team", and alongside two geeky nerdy dorky guys, she provides the eye candy in the threesome that serves as a Greek Chorus to the main hosts of the show. Their role is to function as a separate unit and build things that occasionally explode or otherwise destruct in a violent fashion.

The Mythbusters Build Team... two nerds and a cute girl.

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So then, in sickeningly typical sequel format, this season Discovery rolls out "Smash Lab". It's a show where a team of four people, three geeky nerdy dorky guys and a hot eye candy girl build things that almost exclusively explode or otherwise destruct in a violent fashion.

It's like chocolate birthday cake with chocolate frosting with chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup... and nary a glass of milk in sight to provide relief. It's enough to make you gag.

Make it go away.