18. Occasional Discord
Just because there was mutual respect doesn’t mean the partners were always on the same page. “Jamie and I might argue back and forth about how to execute something,” said Savage to BI, “but the simple fact is that I know by the end of the day that he’d get it done, even if I wasn’t there, and he knows the same about me.” That’s the trust part. Even if one doesn’t like his partner, in a successful partnership he knows there won’t be any dropped balls.
17. Not Similar
Historically, the greatest comedy duos and entertainers for that matter, succeeded because they were not the same. A classic example was the fictional pairing of Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison in the comedy, The Odd Couple. In entertainment terms, one of the two is always the straight role, Hyneman in this case. One is always the funny role, a la Savage. For the Mythbusters pair, these were not fictional roles but expressions of their true character.