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November 6, 2007
iPhone "Busted" on TV (Updated)
The iPhone wasn't actually busted, as disassembled or broken, but was used on the popular Discovery Channel program MythBusters where cohost Adam Savage used an iPhone's stopwatch feature (part of Apple's "Clock" app) to "bust" or "confirm" urban or popular myths (original idea Macenstein) (10/31/07 Trail Blazers episode).
(Update) It appears as if CBS currently has the corner on iPhone sightings. Do they only have one in the prop room or is each show allocated their own iPhone?
Sightings were also "Confirmed" on CBS's NCIS ("Leap of Faith" 10/23/07) where Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) used an iPhone to take the picture of a Navy officer threatening to jump off a 10-story building and then e-mails the photo to Abbey (Pauley Perrette) in the lab for photo comparison and identification [on screen 3:39-4:09].
A not-so-"Probable" scenerio was also on CBS's Numb3rs (Episode 403 10/12/07) when Charlie Epps' (David Krumholtz) girlfriend Amita (Navi Rawat) is "busted" after she dropped her iPhone and had it returned by Charlie's dad Alan (Judd Hirsch) during a chess game on the University Campus with Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) [on screen at ~16min].
Thanks to:
Reader dchoy
"Barney (Neil Partick Harris) on How I met Your Mother regularly uses an iPhone on the show." (CBS)
Reader Stefan
"I've seen Charlie (Charlie Sheen) using one in "Two and a half man" S05 E04 at a coffee shop to receive a call from his girl friend." (CBS)
Reader "Unregistered"
"Dan (Kevin McKidd), the main character in Journeyman, carries and uses an iPhone when he's in this time. When he's in the wayback, he uses an old Motorola flip phone that always seems to have an active account no matter when he shows up." (NBC)
Any other sightings "confirmed" or "busted", let us know what you think over in the comments and forums.
Posted by kennmsr at November 6, 2007 5:11 PM
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Comments
Anyone who is mainly interested in the phone in that third shot has serious issues. LOL
Posted by: charlie irish at November 7, 2007 8:44 AM
Barney on How I met Your Mother regularly uses an iPhone on the show.
Posted by: dchoy at November 7, 2007 10:02 AM
I've seen Charlie Sheen using one in "Two and a half man" S05 E04 at a coffee shop to receive a call from his girl friend.
Posted by: Stefan at November 7, 2007 10:25 AM
Dan, the main character in Journeyman, carries and uses an iPhone when he's in this time. When he's in the wayback, he uses an old Motorola flip phone that always seems to have an active account no matter when he shows up.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 7, 2007 10:26 AM
It's also on NBC "Moonlight"
Posted by: John Brooks II at November 7, 2007 2:46 PM
Why would you write a headline like "iPhone "Busted" on TV," and then in the first sentence explain that it wasn't busted. Couldn't you think of something better?
Posted by: Anonymous at November 7, 2007 10:58 PM
Because it was used on Mythbusters in which myths are "busted". The title of the article has busted in quotes to emphasize they don't mean literally.
Posted by: Brad at November 8, 2007 9:37 AM
Also just on Without A Trace
Posted by: dfiant at November 9, 2007 9:42 AM










