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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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Synopsis

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 13 episodes

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Episode 1

The Simpsons: D'oh!

43m9.0 / 10

Finally, the MythBusters meet the Simpsons! Will putting a cherry bomb in a toilet block cause all toilets to erupt with a violent fountain? Can an obese human (sorry, Homer) absorb the impact of a wrecking ball?

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Episode 2

The Busters of the Lost Myths

43m9.0 / 10

Adam LOVED this one, as you can imagine. Can a whip make your enemy drop his gun? Can you wrap a whip around a log and swing across a chasm? Could Indy have outrun a rolling boulder? Could Indy had survived a Mayan temple run through the various booby traps?

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Episode 3

A-Team Special

43m9.0 / 10

Jamie and Adam find out if it's really possible to build a working cannon out of stuff abandoned in a barn, then test whether a sewer explosion can really take out the bad guys without serious injury.

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Episode 4

Video Game Special

43m9.0 / 10

Jamie and Adam -- with the help of UFC fighter Brendan Schaub and the makers of DOOM -- test how many weapons you can really take with you and remain operational. And can you really chop fruit a la Fruit Ninja?

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Episode 5

Transformers

43m9.0 / 10

Adam and Jamie tackle two tall tales of mechanical metamorphosis: Is it possible to convert a 2CV into a motorbike? Can you use water bottles to create an amphibious bicycle?

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Episode 6

San Francisco Drift

43m8.5 / 10

Jamie and Adam tackled two tall tales from the world of street racing. Does drifting really get to your destination faster? And does drifting help you park faster?

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Episode 7

Blow It Out of the Water

42m8.5 / 10

Having come to represent the concept of 'overwhelming victory', this saying originally came from submarines in WW2 who were able to use torpedoes to literally blow an enemy ship up and out of the water. But is this really possible? And in the Breaking Bad season finale, Walter White took down every single bad guy with a simple crank shaft, remote control and M60. Potential reality or just fiction?

Episode credits

Guest stars Vince Gilligan

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Episode 8

Flights of Fantasy

43m8.5 / 10

Drone deliveries are on their way. But are those fast-spinning blades just an accident waiting to happen? And is the U-2 really the toughest aircraft in regular use to fly and land?

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Episode 9

Accidental Ammo

43m9.5 / 10

Jamie and Adam tackle another gruesome story about a pane of glass falling from a construction site and cutting an innocent bystander completely in half from head to toe. Then Jamie builds a Lawnmower From Hell also find out whether a stone shot from a mower can have the same power as a bullet shot from a .357.

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Episode 10

Dangerous Driving

43m9.5 / 10

Is it as dangerous to use hands free as it is to use a cell phone while driving? Is it really straightforward to drive at high speed in reverse?

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Episode 11

Supernatural Shooters

43m9.5 / 10

Adam and Jamie take aim at Hollywood's infallible hit men and their seemingly supernatural ability to take down a target. First up, can an armed assassin use a single well-placed shot to kill his victim on the other side of a wall? Do interior walls truly provide such little protection, and can you really track an unseen target this way?

Episode credits

Guest stars Jonathan Banks

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Episode 12

Unfinished Business

43m10.0 / 10

Can you hold onto a grenade for longer than two hours? Can you really change a magazine in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment? Can video games make you better at real-life tasks, like golf? And can you really stop a car by using hollow spikes?

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Episode 13

MythBusters vs. Jaws

43m10.0 / 10

Jamie and Adam revisit Jaws' final scene, which they'd taken on in 2005's Exploding Scuba Tank. Will the results be different with a giant anatomically accurate shark and a bigger gun? Then the duo test two repellents: the sound of orcas and essence of "dead shark."

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Episode 14

Star Wars (2) - The Myths Strike Back

43m10.0 / 10finale

Star Wars provides further fodder when Jamie and Adam see whether high ground really is important in a duel, and whether it's possible to dive out of the way of laser blaster bullets (well, a Stormtroopers', anyway).

Episode credits

Guest stars Colby Boothman-Shepard

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

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 - Host

Credits

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