Episode 1
Jet-Assisted Chevy
45m7.0 / 10
Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?
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TV series
MythBusters
2003TV-PG16 seasons7.8 / 10
Failure is always an option.
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.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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.
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 2
Biscuit Bazooka
8.0 / 10
Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?
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Episode 3
Poppy-Seed Drug Test
8.5 / 10
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?
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Episode 4
Exploding Toilet
8.0 / 10
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?
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Episode 5
Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station
8.0 / 10
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?
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Episode 6
Barrel of Bricks
8.3 / 10
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?
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Episode 7
Penny Drop
8.0 / 10
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?
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Episode 8
Buried Alive
8.5 / 10
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?
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Episode 9
Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
8.5 / 10
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?
Episode credits
Guest stars John McLeod
Episode 10
Stinky Car
8.0 / 10
Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?
Episode credits
Guest stars John McLeod
Episode 11
Alcatraz Escape
8.5 / 10finale
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.
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More about MythBusters
Cast
Adam SavageSelf - Host
Brian LoudenSelf - Host
Jamie HynemanSelf - Host
Jonathan LungSelf - Host
Kari ByronSelf - Host
Tory BelleciSelf - Host
Grant ImaharaSelf - Host
Jessi CombsSelf - HostCredits
- Created by
- Peter Rees
- Written by
- Chris Williams
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 272
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
DiscoveryUnited States
SBSAustralia
Beyond ProductionsAustralia
Beyond EntertainmentAustralia
Themes
comfortingcrash test dummydebunkingengineeringexperimentexplosionmythresearch
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