The Mythbusters vs the Ghostbusters AND Tolkien versus Martin were both gold!!!
But Bruce Jenner vs Bruce Banner was a dud. I admit its hard to maintain the standards but they really scraped the bottom of the barrel while also having to make sure to not offend the mentally ill with that one. But they have shown to have a lot of talent so here's to hoping they will have many more good ones in the future.
Yeah, they have MANY garbage 'episodes', but there are some really good and touching ones.
There's also an interesting phenomenon; I don't like rap, I don't care about it, I prefer melodic music, etc.
Whenever I watch the better episodes of this show, though, my spine tingles and my body fills with some kind of weird, inspirational energy, and now I want to make some rap songs, too (just for fun and humor, though, not seriously).
These people are not only talented, they are hard-working, practice a lot, have mastered their craft almost to a genius level, are surprisingly good with research and honest in telling the truth about tragic things of history that people SHOULD know, but usually don't (Edison vs. Tesla could only have been better if it had been made longer, other than that, it's the best this type of thing I have ever seen - it's truthful, exciting, atmospheric, tells us a shocking truth about what ACTUALLY happened, while bringing amazing visuals and humor into the mix (the way Tesla says "Teslaaahhh, impeccably dressed" is SO hilarious).
Some other of my favorites are the Eastern Philosophers vs. Western Philosophers (it's a COMPLEX episode with so many characters, but it works so well together and they make such subtle jokes, it probably flies over many people's heads, like Tao of Pooh, which is an ACTUAL BOOK about Winnie the Pooh, and the hemlock and sandal on the door are really tragic references, but they go past so quickly, people might not realize or notice the deep signifigance of them) and Kirk vs. Columbus (someone SHOULD tell the horrible truth about that bastard columbus).
The Rasputing vs. Stalin-episode was also amazing.
These people are way better at imitating people than the audience deserves, I can't believe how brilliant their manifestations of characters are.
Oh, the Rhett+Link-episodes are somehow very deep in atmosperic, inspirative energy (I wish I could describe it, it just fills you with some kind of energy), too!