On Mythbusters they had to cool some beer as fast as possible and Adam used a coil of copper tubing... I think he wanted a phase change unit but their ideas sucked, or at least they didn't tweak them to be optimal like they should have.
Yeah, it seemed like they each spent about 5-10 min coming up with their respective contraptions... and the results reflected this Still, great entertainment as always from the busters.
Yeah, great show still. Sometimes I feel like they slack on the myths though, but they are getting better now that the fan mail is complaining about it. I would love that job though Tinker with stuff all day...