One of the longest-running shows on cable is taking its final bow. Entertainment Weekly reports that Mythbusters will end its 14-season run on Discovery this year.

Cohosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, occasional Popular Mechanics contributors, have been through 248 episodes, 25,000 filming hours, and 2,950 experiments, and knew the show was ending ahead of time. That means they crafted a final season knowing it would be their last. "It was my greatest fear that Mythbusters would just stop and we wouldn't be able to do proper final episodes," Savage said. But they were told at the beginning of this year, and had time to prepare a final send-off.

The cohosts say the final season will feature everything the show was known for. They'll be blowing up a cement truck with 10,000 pounds of ANFO and crushing a 60-ton tanker with steam implosion. "We felt like we've had really strong material for the whole run," Hyneman said. "It's been 14 years and it's just time. We want to go out on a strong point."

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Both Savage and Hyneman say they'll return to television post-Mythbusters, but it's likely they won't be doing so as a duo. They were never friends off-set, and Savage said he'd like to host more television, while Hyneman said he'd prefer to stay behind the scenes. "It has been an incredibly productive marriage, but I think this is plausibly the end of the line," Savage said. "Though you never say never."

Hopefully, Savage will devote more time to building bigger and better duck armies.

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