MythBusters

Overview

MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.

Episodes

Jet-Assisted Chevy

S01E01 Jet-Assisted Chevy

January 23, 2003 7.0 45 min
Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?
Biscuit Bazooka

S01E02 Biscuit Bazooka

January 23, 2003 6.0
Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?
Poppy-Seed Drug Test

S01E03 Poppy-Seed Drug Test

March 7, 2003 7.0
Can a poppy-seed bagel tilt the results of a drug test? Can balloons carry a lawn chair? If you cover your body in gold paint, will you be able to breathe? Or could you die...
Exploding Toilet

S01E04 Exploding Toilet

September 23, 2003 7.0
Can you explode a toilet by flushing flammables down the bowl then lighting a match? Do you get wetter running or walking in the rain? Can you really make a "magic bullet" that will not...
Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

S01E05 Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

October 3, 2003 7.0
Can chatting on a cell phone while pumping gas cause the pump to blow up? Will silicone breast implants burst under pressure? Can high-speed CD-ROM players really shatter a CD?
Barrel of Bricks

S01E06 Barrel of Bricks

October 10, 2003 7.5
Is it dangerous to pee on the electrified third rail of a train track? Can an eel-skin wallet erase the information on your credit cards? Can a 500-pound barrel of bricks really hit the pulley...
Penny Drop

S01E07 Penny Drop

October 17, 2003 6.0
Can a penny dropped from a skyscraper kill a person below? Is it possible to "bake yourself" on a tanning bed? Did Lucille Ball expose a spy ring by hearing radio signals from her tooth...
Buried Alive

S01E08 Buried Alive

October 24, 2003 7.0
Could a person survive a leap from a bridge by throwing a hammer in the water first? Is it possible to survive being buried alive? Can cola really remove bloodstains, clean rust or cook a...
Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

S01E09 Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

November 7, 2003 7.0
Is it possible to make a cannon out of a tree? Could a drunk person really fool a Breathalyzer test? Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?
Stinky Car

S01E10 Stinky Car

December 5, 2003 6.0
Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?
Alcatraz Escape

S01E11 Alcatraz Escape

December 12, 2003 7.0
Could prisoners really have escaped Alcatraz without a trace? Does a duck's quack echo? Can a stud finder really prove if human beings have been guinea pigs in mind-control experiments.

Cast

Brian Louden
Brian Louden
Self - Host
Jonathan Lung
Jonathan Lung
Self - Host
Robert Lee
Robert Lee
Self - Narrator (voice)

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