This is probably not a great surprise to many of you, but I thoroughly enjoy watching MythBusters. In many ways, it is a test engineer’s dream. You start with a premise, in our case the myth, and then you go through different means to try to either prove or disprove that myth. One of my favorite episodes is the one where they blow up a cement truck with a shocking, at least to me, outcome; I heard it’s one of the most popular clips.
The element that I find equally appealing about watching the show is the meticulous way by which they describe each scenario and what kinds of approaches they have to each problem. Some inevitably fail, as you might expect. Every great once in a while, they encounter an unexpected condition for which they did not account. The vast majority of the time, their approaches are meticulously well thought out.