• Air date: 23 Jan '03 11 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (11)
    • 1. Jet-Assisted Chevy

      23 Jan '03
      Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?
    • 2. Biscuit Bazooka

      23 Jan '03
      Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?
    • 3. Poppy-Seed Drug Test

      07 Mar '03
      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?
    • 4. Exploding Toilet

      23 Sep '03
      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?
    • 5. Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

      03 Oct '03
      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?
    • 6. Barrel of Bricks

      10 Oct '03
      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?
    • 7. Penny Drop

      17 Oct '03
      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?
    • 8. Buried Alive

      24 Oct '03
      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?
    • 9. Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

      07 Nov '03
      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?
    • 10. Stinky Car

      05 Dec '03
      Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?
    • 11. Alcatraz Escape

      12 Dec '03
      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.