MythBusters
MythBusters
2003
16 Seasons
7.8
Documentary

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
E1Jan 23, 200345m

Jet-Assisted Chevy

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
E2Jan 23, 2003

Biscuit Bazooka

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
E3Mar 7, 2003

Poppy-Seed Drug Test

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 from it?

Exploding Toilet
E4Sep 23, 2003

Exploding Toilet

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 leave evidence behind in its victim?

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station
E5Oct 3, 2003

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

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
E6Oct 10, 2003

Barrel of Bricks

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 holder?

Penny Drop
E7Oct 17, 2003

Penny Drop

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 fillings?

Buried Alive
E8Oct 24, 2003

Buried Alive

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 steak?

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
E9Nov 7, 2003

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

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
E10Dec 5, 2003

Stinky Car

Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?

Alcatraz Escape
E11Dec 12, 2003

Alcatraz Escape

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.

Top Cast

Brian Louden

Brian Louden

Self - Host

Jonathan Lung

Jonathan Lung

Self - Host

Robert Lee

Robert Lee

Self - Narrator (voice)