I do watch Mythbusters, but I didn't happen to see that episode.
Nonetheless, whether it is actually possible or not, the idea that everything nearby would be sucked out into space has, I think, already traveled into the realm of common belief - whether it is scientifically true or not. So for your average reader, like me, we're just not going to have a WTF moment when we read about it happening in a story. We all have vacuum cleaners. We see what happens when something comes too close to the nozzle when the vacuum is turned on. We are told space is a complete vacuum, so therefore anything exposed to space must be sucked out into it. We're not concerned with degrees of "sucktivity".
Then again, I'm sure that there are things in stories that cause WTF moments for me that some of you would totally gloss over. It all depends upon our areas of expertise, I suppose. Don't know how many times I've read books with references to historical events in which I've screamed, "Noooo, it didn't happen that way!".
