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MythBusters

MythBusters

S1 · E1

IMDB:

7.8
MythBusters

Released

1/23/2003

Duration

0h 42m

Genre

Documentary

Country

Australia

Cast

Brian Louden, Jonathan Lung, Robert Lee

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 ChevyEP 1Available

Jet-Assisted Chevy

45m7.0

Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?

Biscuit BazookaEP 2Available

Biscuit Bazooka

0m8.0

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 TestEP 3Available

Poppy-Seed Drug Test

0m8.5

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 ToiletEP 4Available

Exploding Toilet

0m8.0

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 leave evidence behind in its victim?

Cell Phone Destroys Gas StationEP 5Available

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

0m8.0

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 BricksEP 6Available

Barrel of Bricks

0m8.3

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 DropEP 7Available

Penny Drop

0m8.0

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 fillings?

Buried AliveEP 8Available

Buried Alive

0m8.5

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 PiercingEP 9Available

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

0m8.5

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 CarEP 10Available

Stinky Car

0m8.0

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

Alcatraz EscapeEP 11Available

Alcatraz Escape

0m8.5

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

Self - Host

Brian Louden

Jonathan Lung

Self - Host

Jonathan Lung

Robert Lee

Self - Narrator (voice)

Robert Lee

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