Mythbusters: Bull In A China Shop

[RightingOTWall]

Perhaps the testers lack the life experience to know that bulls spend ALOT of time running down shoots. The set is not a china shop replica. IRL the bull would get spooked by the crashing from isles being too narrow and no where to turn around that they would start to panic, become defensive. The saying means the person is being clumsy and cannot help it, when they SHOULD BE CAREFUL. The loss of Jamie and Admas thoughfulness in segments like this is why I stopped watching the show.

[daveashe]

The bulls have more brains than the idiots who had this idea

[DealWithIt421]

I imagine the "bull in a china shop" saying originated with a picture of a bull being goaded by a toreador or ridden by a cowboy, and not an idle bull wondering what the hell is going on.

[Phathagmas]

What did they expect, for the bulls to just start running into things for no reason? haha

[seadragon36]

Completely unexpected!

[Aquariousi]

Lol, if 'a bull in a china shop' is ever to be used still, i think its meaning actually needs to be reversed to 'careful,' 'graceful,' and 'nimble'

[KingOfKatamari]

Bull in a china shop: pretty safe, other than that one shelf from when he turned around.

Tory in a china shop: no. Just... NO.

[tipamariful]

2.55

Ummmmmm lol

[TheMrbum]

When you stop to consider, it makes great sense, the bull won't want to touch those things because it does not want to hurt it's self. On an other matter, I hope that was cheap china and nothing special or unique

[robinnmarian]

omg! cant belie ve that happened- i was completely gobsmaked! x

[bond1011]

I guess thats what u can expect from a lamborghini

[commander672]

The idium will now henceforth be "A mythbuster in a china shop."

[beefchops2011]

I've never been into a china shop with shelves placed as wide as those bulls are. Though it really comes as no surprise to me that they are agile enough to simply go around them as they did in this video. They wouldn't have survived very long in the wild if they didn't have good eye hoof cordination.

[Silentgeargrandia]

@rufonzo38

Exactly. Keep the foam shelves, but get an actual shop sized room indoors. This myth needs rebusting without the halfassery.

[lominero5]

At the end the bulls most be looking at them like wild animals destroying everything lol

[kristycyw]

Tori is more bull than the actual animals

[plokko1]

the bulls are simply shopping,lol!

[Cranequill]

Instead, just replace "Bull" with "Tory" :)

[reptilehunter7]

they should get johnney knoxville and the other jackass guys in there, then the bulls will go crazy!lol

[Grady01]

@reptilehunter7 yeah they could get Ryan Dunn in there.

[SketchLegit]

Grant's look of confused heartbreak when Tori smashes his chickens head... priceless

[WeSwiss]

1:10 i Love this!!!!!!

[luxioification]

i have a copy on a recorded vhs tape

[SpiritTwilight]

"He's browsing!" LOL

[Muenni]

In Germany we have the same saying with elephants

/watch?v=aqc-Hxoy_vw

bigger is better ;)

[falchard]

So the saying is now, you are like a Tori in a China Shop?

[Thewickedjunglist]

I know what is worse: hedgehog in a Durex factory.

[RyushuSuperCat]

@Thewickedjunglist

Sonic the Hedgehog in a Durex factory :P

[Winwood13]

Ha ha - how can you not love the pseudo science?

[apuesto6666]

jajajaja un ballet de toros jajjaaaja

[wowsux97]

3:25 somehow Kari's kick looks extremely badass.

[Dryndal]

1:10 FTW :D

[221wet]

3:25-3:35 is what it shouldve looked like

[221wet]

1:10

mad funny!

[cimerax]

Read the story behind this idiom back in elementary. A guy lost a bet or something and had to walk a bull through a china shop, and pay for any damages.

The bull didn't break anything, but the failure walking it through the shop managed to push over a shelf.

[wetterdew]

That's no china shop

[BestNameEvar]

those last 20 seconds looks like the funnest thing to do ever.

[F4thomTheInfamous]

could be that these bulls are so used to being confined that they cease to fight against barriers. I mean I highly doubt they aknowledge that china is breakable. They simply see a man made barrier and avoid it. What if you get a truely wild bull that isn't domesticated?

[Zephyr705]

"He's browsing!!!"

[1324celewis]

OMG YOU KILLED TYHE BREYER HORSE!!! :O

[TyroneTasty]

Damn, who would have thought.

[nubnub]

seems like this myth has been BULL dozed! heh...eheh...ehhhhhhhhh

[kramxel13]

They also didn't take into account how a 1 ton bull would perform on smooth tile flooring.

[MechanicallyDriven]

the bull would need to be enraged, or running in fear/ panic, then he wouldn't care what he ran into

[metieval]

Question, Are they willing to up the ante and put the bull in a real china shop? narrow isles, confined spaces, low roof, no exit in site for the bull, and watch him panic?

[randomdude7272]

bullshit!

[imarblooper]

Well that was unexpected. Hahah!

[GamingGenius]

3:30 Kari headbutts the stand!!!!

[ipavc1]

All china shops is red colors!!!!

[Trund27]

Tory, Grant and Kari are an awesome trio

[LordHighnessMigz]

@1:19-1:21, Tori's 'bulls', HAHAHAHA

[macarthur19]

Can you believe Tory is 39!

[icevaporeon]

@macarthur19 Yes, and Grant is 39 too (one week older than Tory)

[Polaris431]

Maybe it's because I'm not from the US but I never heard it said "like a bull" in a china shop but rather "like an elephant in a porcelain shop". So if you try this stunt with elephants instead, I wonder what the result would be.

[Trund27]

@Polaris431 That's a great version of the saying!

[EGarrett01]

Ah, I get it. The shelves look just like the rails that the bulls see everyday around the edges of their pins. They know by now that they can't move those things and instinctively avoid them.

[cougher989]

@EGarrett01

Hmm.. well then, they should try this experiment on a purely wild bull.

[AnistonAnarchist]

That's it. From now, I'm gonna say a like a Tory in china shop.

[kimmycub758]

i wont use bull in a china shop but i willsay youre like the mythbusters in a china shop

[rufonzo38]

I envision a china shop to be a lot more cramped and certainly more foreign to the bull than his normal pen with some shelves in it.

[Casshyr]

@rufonzo38 yea, but even then, I imagine the bull would still try to avoid crashing into things to the best of his ability. Obviously, if you spook him hard enough and put him in a cramp space such that his massive body has a hard time maneuvering, that's different. Given that situation, I can do the same thing with a really fat guy.

[392redienhcs]

@Casshyr The bull would at most break half the china in the shop. A deliberate teen on high wouldn't leave anything in one piece.

[FabisPlaysGames]

@rufonzo38 Well if you put any big animal inside a cramped space, its obvious that everything is going to break. The idea was that a bull would go nuts and destroy everything intentionally.

[HanbeiTakenakaSama]

@rufonzo38 That would be too easy. Of course the bulls will knock over everything, considering their width.

[rufonzo38]

@HanbeiTakenakaSama So what's the point then? What myth are they supposed to be busting? The entire point of the saying is what happens when there is an active violent force in a cramped space full of breakables.

I didn't know distantly spaced shelves in a bull's familiar pen was a myth that needed busting.

[mongoosetick]

@rufonzo38 The point is that bulls are not so clumzy and violent as we can think )

[Rush2201]

@mongoosetick I think the real point is they're running out of ideas for the show.

[HanbeiTakenakaSama]

@HanbeiTakenakaSama Bull in a china shop = utterly clumsy, not the literal "bull in a china shop" I think you're talking about. It was explained at the beginning of the video. If that bull is really a bull in a china shop (the idiom), it'd just bash on everything, no matter how spaced the shelves are.

[scottykal12]

@rufonzo38 Animals won't touch thing if they don't have to. Meaning this be the same in the store.

[ThreeEyedGod]

Wait..but what about that black and white video showing a bull in a china shop trashing shit around?

[ebutuoyebutuoy]

@ThreeEyedGod It was a COW. ...I think.

[BadIdeas101]

1:10 ROFL shelf ownage

[cadkins90]

LOL

Tori is such a goofy guy.

[ojibajo]

I think they needed angrier bulls. Or PBR bulls!

[cyberyanmar]

i think they shoulnt have used a tamed bull

[browntown72]

@cyberyanmar bulls are actually very timid by nature, in rodeo's and whatnot the only reason they buck is because people cruelly put metal clamps on their testicles that make them buck in pain.

[cyberyanmar]

@browntown72 here in brazil we use to say a rhino or an elephant in a china shop

[Trund27]

@browntown72 Well said.

[jigglysinger]

Grant: You know how they say Tori is like a bull in a china shop?

Kari: Yeah

Tori: no

XD

[raeviliss3]

@jigglysinger cunt

[atomicmrpelly]

lol Cary rubbed her head after headbutting that shelf at the end!

[djFrog11]

1:09 LOL

[DarkAngelKisses13th]

Eh heh, Tory. *whoosh!* *crash* "...to make sure they don't get harmed."

Damn, I was not expecting Kari to turn around and kick the shit out of the shelves away so suddenly.

[RogueAndroid]

I just saw this episode... hilarious :)

[changling21]

bull ballet,, hah

[tellyisrubbish]

now try it in a conventional shop with flashing red lights :)

[nintendork64]

Weird. Though I'd expect a bit more china carnage in a real china shop, because of the added people, longer shelves, and more slippery flooring.

[filmidioten]

The crappy picture quality makes it impossible to see Grant's reaction when Tory broke his china hen at the end. I just saw this episode on television and laughed my ass off. It's apparent that Grant wanted to keep that thing which is why he kept carrying it around, and then suddenly Tory - like the ADHD kid he is - suddenly attacks the hen and breaks it. Grant gave off this shocked, sad face of disbelief which was hilarious. Too bad it isn't showing here.

[teencomment]

Grandma? XD

[xomfgxitsxaquax]

lmaol those are some smart bulls

[19KillerPuma]

Wow. No idea that this was gonna happen. hahaha

[frizzylexi]

haha 1:49 tori's like ohhh dang here comes the bul-oh look.

[DemonicWolfie]

Haha, that's awesome.

[namdor11]

Headbutt fail @ 3:29

[junkmailboy1000]

an old lady in a china shop is more dangerous

[PaleoRAS]

havent you alwats wanted to just wreck havoc in a china shop?

[serlolol]

lol kari headbut

[Y0uTubeLicksMyBalls]

bulls were confused with all the colorful crap in their pen

[SWEBoy77]

this is an word which is often named in mythbusters which we dont like

Dont try this at home

XD

[jamaicanbadboy1]

that myth is bull

[coolstuff902]

it was so cool!!!!!! on tv but on youtube it was rubish.

[IAmElectrospecter]

Critical thinking skills people! China shops aren't set up like this. They missed the whole point of the expression. Even the calmest bull in the world (hell, an inanimate object the size of a bull) would still knock stuff over the moment it moved.

The expression refers to the fact that the bulls are too big to fit in a china shop, not that they would actively destroy china. Come on.

I'm calling bullcrap. =]

[b4igetu]

So how are china shops set up. If your talking about how close each shelf is, well they set them apart the average distance of any shop. Look at the shop they went to, the shelves in the store and the shelves in the pen were about the same distance apart.

The saying comes from being very destructive of something, like someone pushing over a shelf in a grocery store, people linked destruction to bulls. Its a saying there are no rules around it.

[TacticusPrime]

no, when you say someone is like a bull in a china shop, you aren't calling them too large to fit into something. you're calling them clumsy and prone to random destruction. the mythbusters prove that bulls, even in a china shop, are neither clumsy nor prone to destruction. so Myth Busted.

[IAmElectrospecter]

If a bull is too large to fit in a china shop to be able to move around without knocking stuff over, I would call the bull "clumsy and prone to destruction". You really didn't prove anything, you just touched on a facet of my statement that was sort of implied when I made it.

What I'm saying is that you can't set up shelves in a wide open pen and expect the bulls to even think about ramming them. I don't really think they disproved the myth.

[PlanesofExistence]

@IAmElectrospecter agree completely. this is a VERY pisspoor example.

[paulssx79]

Those bulls are like "bitch, I ain't no stereotype".

[SexyBuilder1888]

no china shop in history has ever been layed out like the one in this video.

Epic FAIL!

[mcteeth]

those are some very conscientious(sp?) bulls.

[cabaniss01]

I never saw a china shop with shelves spaced so widely apart! One of the reasons a bull wouldn't get by so easily in a china shop is that the shelves are very closely spaced.

[novaro0296]

maybe they're so widely spaced apart because they're using ummm BULLS? ifu look very closely u can see that they're not very small ;)

[cabaniss01]

But that's the whole point. A bull wouldn't have it so easy in a real china shop. The saying came up to illustrate what happens when you have an animal that's too big to get around in a china shop, that is to say, because the bull is so big, it's going to break a lot of china while it's moving about in the china shop; it's too big to move gracefully in the shop and not break any china.

[novaro0296]

well obviously if the space isnt big enough for you you're gonna break somethings

[nebente]

yeah and to confirm that the idea of the expression is just about big uncautious animal in a place with fragile stuff and not a lot of space, know that in french this expression involves an elephant and not a bull : "un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine" :)

[cabaniss01]

Now you get it!

[KratosxD]

so...i don't need a bull insurance for my shop!? xD

[Mitchmedic911]

I wouldn't invite one over

[noodlechild666]

Its obviously dependant on the spacing between the shelving units. Why would an animal hit something, and risk injury to itself, when it can go around it?

Maybe if they used a Spanish bull, the results would vary, as they are bred and encourage to be very aggressive, and readily attack.

[crackowacko87]

how do you know these bulls are NOT taken from Spain? (not basing them on their looks)

[noodlechild666]

Because they are the wrong breed, and quite obviously American. Judging by the number of bulls in one place, i'd guess that they are from a rodeo.

I also meant the Spanish fighting bulls as a breed, not because of the country they are from.

[Protocall13o2]

And the shelves were foam!!! So its really safe to say that wooden shelves would really hold well against bulls. XD

my friend to me that if you stand still b4 a herd heads your way, it would avoid you. Im not going to risk doing it though...

oh look his totally avoiding the china!

[GUEROMEXICANO831]

amazing

[Dracantra91]

0:51 and 1:12 just crack me up xD

[SWEBoy77]

grandma? XD

[LordZero666]

In fact years ago this same experiment was made with a elephant... same result.

[gregvs3]

Though this does make sense, I would like to see if they are more violent when they are agitated.

[ChEvApEr]

OMFG NICE TESTING AT 1:12 HAHAAHHA

[MetallicRoses1]

lol 1:13

[PryorLineBacker]

paint some red then we will see =)

[2Scribble]

Bulls aren't set off by the color red - they go nuts for the motion of the cape

[ShallowThoughts]

Yeah, what Scribble2 said.

They proved that bulls aren't set off by the color red in another episode of MythBusters

[lowellwilson123]

i hear bulls are color blind.

[dapanzy]

they are, but the flashy colors and the movement tend to piss them off

[ShallowThoughts]

Not quite. I forget the technical term, but they have two types of color receptor cells in their eyes. (This is as opposed to people, which have three: red, green, and blue). Bulls can see red, technically, but not in the same way we do.

[MelodyOfFlutes]

It was actually earlier this episode, since it was mentioned "now that we have a herd of bulls..."

[frogger1243]

actually it was in the same episode lol so epic fail on pryor's part xD

[DDScameron]

lol its browzing

[MissingSirius]

Thrift Town! w00t! I love it when they go to places I know :-P

[pokeloverz]

does anyone know how 2 submit myths?

[Ctrustbank]

type in

"offcial mythbuster site" on google, go to the

discovery site, make an account, make a spear email, and blah blah blah.

[dunanygirl]

that's hilarous

I too will never use that saying again

[SexyBuilder1888]

'hilarious' what does this term mean? I have not been speaking English for long

[jjws]

hilarious = very funny

[undershot1]

It means extremely funny.

[amorbid]

lmao i love this!! "..i am really surprised at how nimble they are. they're almost daintily avoiding the shelves that we've set up."

[AK47Chenkov]

no more bull in a chna shop now you must say mythbuster in a china shop LOOOOL :D

[GTriste]

Can anyone get me the one on how bulls don't go for red and how the lady explains the colors they see and the test itself, I need it urgently! I've been searching under bull red mythbusters

[Sparisi1122]

Haha, I just saw this on tv 2 minutes ago. The bulls are awesome! They only knocked down like 2 plates.

[andrueiii]

amazing!

[rockpride321]

Yea. but what are the odds that a person has never knocked over or broke anything in a china shop.

[NaStRaDaMuS2006]

wow that is quality

[trooperman4]

The foam bored may not hurt the bulls, but the falling glass might....

[Gibix]

dude, there freakin bulls!!

[SWEBoy77]

01:13 XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

[DavidMunyan]

lol thats great