Name: MythBusters
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Description: Two special effects experts with over 30 years of experience set out to methodically bust three urban legends in each episode. They test theories to prove or disprove what is real and what is truly urban myth.

Two special effects experts with over 30 years of experience set out to methodically bust three urban legends in each episode. They test theories to prove or disprove what is real and what is truly urban myth.

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Jamie and Adam investigate whether canned biscuits can become a bazooka and then test the strength of plate glass in a high-rise building. They also find out if it's possible to get stuck to an airline toilet.

Biscuit Bazooka

Jamie and Adam find out if poppy seeds can really affect a drug test and if balloons can lift a lawn chair into the air. Also, Jamie learns first-hand if being covered in gold paint is truly a glamorous way to die.

Poppy Seed Drug Test

Adam and Jamie find out if a scuba diver could be sucked out of the water by a helicopter and land in the middle of a forest fire. Also, from a banana in the tailpipe to sugar in the gas tank, movie motor myths are tested.

Scuba Diver and Car Capers

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage investigate the legend of Archimedes setting fire to a Roman fleet using only mirrors and sunlight. Then they try to remove the stink of a skunk and also test a direct hit on a bullet-proof shield.

Ancient Death Ray

Jamie and Adam find out if a regular playing card can be thrown fast enough to kill and if a heated jawbreaker can turn into an explosive situation. They also invent a static cannon to evaluate the truth of an urban legend.

Exploding Jawbreaker

Adam and Jamie find out what it takes to turn a 30,000-pound boom lift into a medieval catapult. Then it's air conditioning vs. open windows as they investigate the most fuel-efficient way to keep cool in the car.

Boom Lift Catapult

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate the Ming dynasty astronaut myth by launching a dummy in the desert. Then they go on a quest for free energy while the MythBuster build team creates a killer ceiling fan.

Ming Dynasty Astronaut

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman try to bust out of jail using only salsa and then team up with the FBI to test a massive number of explosives on a truck filled with hardened cement.

Salsa Escape

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate whether a broken drive shaft can cause a car to pole-vault from a pothole. Then they find out how explosive it can be to light a cigarette in a port-a-potty.

Exploding Port-a-Potty

Adam and Jamie find out if toast really does fall buttered side down while Kari, Scottie and Tory investigate if yawning is truly contagious. Then the whole team tests a toy car vs. a Dodge Viper in a gravity slope race.

Is Yawning Contagious?

Adam and Jamie rebuild a crash test dummy and give him a baptism of destruction, then they explore the fastest way to cool a six-pack of beer. Meanwhile, the crew investigates a crude form of battery that existed in ancient times.

Cooling a Six-Pack

Adam and Jamie find out how dangerous it is to use the phone or shower during a thunderstorm while Scottie and Kari recreate a boating myth. Then the whole crew takes on a story that involves a ricocheted bullet and a pregnancy.

Son of a Gun

Adam and Jamie find out if a singing voice can really break glass while Tory takes on the challenge of building an explosive jet engine from vacuum parts. Then the crew explores the idea that a rolling stone gathers no moss.

Breaking Glass

Adam and Jamie investigate the myth that the brace position is designed to kill passengers in an airplane crash. Then Kari joins Adam at the track to find out if it's more dangerous to drive while talking on a cellphone or drunk.

Killer Brace Position

Adam and Jamie find out exactly how deep one must dive to survive various types of gunshot. Then the crew joins forces in some playground pandemonium to see if a swing can make it 360 degrees, up and over the bar.

Bulletproof Water

Adam and Jamie test the myth of a human-sized slingshot firing immigrants 200 yards over the border. The slingshot is rumored to be so accurate that it can safely land the human projectile on a carefully placed mattress.

Border Slingshot

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman revisit some favorite myths to silence the critics. They take another shot at experiments with exploding soda in a hot car, running in the rain and getting blown away by gunfire.

MythBusters Revisited

Adam and Jamie investigate an ancient Chinese subterranean sonar system that detected an invasion from below. Then they test related bacteria myths such as a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's and the classic five-second rule.

Chinese Invasion Alarm

From Jamie's flubbed lines to Adam's remarkable talent for injury, the MythBusters reveal the funny moments, misadventures and mayhem that happen as they test the truth of modern myths.

MythBusters Revealed

Adam and Jamie investigate the Civil War myth of a Confederate Army long-range missile, rumored to have been launched from Richmond, Virginia, and aimed at The White House over 100 miles away.

Confederate Rocket

Adam and Jamie test steel toe boots to find out if a toe amputation myth has any footing. Then Tory, Grant and Kari build a soda bottle rocket pack and explore Newton's third law -- every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Steel Toe Amputation

Adam and Jamie hit the road to test the fuel efficiency of driving with the tailgate down on a truck. Then the whole team takes on the challenge of seasickness remedies and the life-saving myth of shoving a finger into a shotgun.

Seasickness: Kill or Cure

Adam and Jamie explore a prison myth and try to make a deadly weapon with only newspaper and underwear. Then Grant, Kari and Tory hit the bottle to investigate more vodka myths.

Paper Crossbow

Adam and Jamie investigate the cause of a shredded airplane while Grant, Tory and Kari test their survival skills trying to start a fire without matches.

Shredded Plane

Adam and Jamie test a myth that helium-filled footballs fly farther and hang longer than regulation balls, while Grant, Tory and Kari investigate if teeth are strong enough to withstand the force of a bullet.

Helium Football

The team investigates electricity and flying a kite, following Ben Franklin's specifications, while Adam and Jamie tastefully test the two most requested flatulent myths.

Franklin's Kite

Adam and Jamie cook up a DIY nightmare as they mix paint and dynamite for a home improvement myth, while Grant, Tory and Kari find out if it's possible to manipulate someone's mind remotely. The mission is to remove Jamie's beret.

Mind Control

Adam and Jamie investigate the theory that gas and car companies conspire to deliberately make cars that guzzle fuel. Meanwhile, Tory, Grant and Kari look into the myth of the spontaneous combustion of farmers' trousers.

Exploding Pants

With a little help from the Coast Guard, Adam and Jamie investigate the maritime myth of whirlpools powerful enough to swallow entire ships. Meanwhile, Grant, Tory and Kari find out if a snowplow can blow a car off the road.

Killer Whirlpool

Adam, Jamie and the team test the latest in security technology, from thermal sensors to fingerprint scanners. Then the guys move on to something more explosive as they take safe-cracking to the next level.

Crimes and Myth-demeanors 2

Adam and Jamie pump up the bass to find out if a stereo can be loud enough to destroy a car, while Grant, Tory and Kari test the theory that you get a smoother ride by driving faster over a rough road.

Shattering Subwoofer

Adam and Jamie find out if hurricane winds can get strong enough to blow a piece of straw through a tree trunk or the feathers off a chicken. Meanwhile, Grant, Tory and Kari use a polygraph to find out if plants have feelings.

Deadly Straw

Adam and Jamie build an earthquake machine following the method of Nikola Tesla and test it out on both a building and a bridge. Meanwhile, Grant, Tory and Kari investigate the story of a lava lamp exploding on top of a stove.

Earthquake Machine

Adam and Jamie explore the theory that if a high-tension cable snaps it can slice a person in two. Then, Grant, Tory and Kari investigate the myth that ancient pottery contains sounds from the past that can be heard today.

Killer Cable Snaps

Adam and Jamie delve into aerodynamics and construction in a competition to build a glider from concrete. Meanwhile, Grant, Tory and Kari find out just how dangerous it is to stand too close to the edge of a train platform.

Concrete Glider

Adam and Jamie find out if a compressed-air cylinder with a cracked valve can blast through a cinderblock wall. Meanwhile, Grant, Tory and Kari have a blast exploring if it's possible to get an engine running with gunpowder.

Air Cylinder Rocket

Adam, Jamie and the team return to some of the most controversial myths and answer the complaints of armchair MythBusters. The revisited myths include the salami rocket, ancient pottery acoustics and sword vs. gun barrel.

More Myths Revisited

Adam and Jamie turn up the heat to test the explosive nature of a disposable lighter near sparks or in a hot car. Meanwhile, Grant, Tory and Kari don their cowboy hats to try and shoot down some popular gunslinger myths.

Exploding Lighter

Adam and Jamie test the flammability of Christmas tree lights, while Grant, Tory and Kari investigate the claims of several antigravity devices. Then Kari takes one more shot at the myth of vodka curing a jellyfish sting.

Antigravity Device

Adam and Jamie test three gun legends, including two bullets colliding midair in a Civil War battle. Then Grant, Tory and Kari look into the rumor that striking two hammers together results in a dangerous spray of steel shrapnel.

Firearms Folklore

Jamie and Adam test a myth that a man survived a 22,000-foot fall cushioned by an explosion. Meanwhile, the team finds out if it's energy efficient to leave a light on to avoid the surge in electricity from being turned off.

22,000 Foot Fall

The MythBusters team investigates whether reindeer really could help Santa fly, what's the best way to keep all the needles on your Christmas tree and how much yodeling it actually takes to start an avalanche.

Holiday Special

Every so often, the MythBusters draw conclusions that leave the fans seething. Well, once again, it's time for the MythBusters to put some of their most contentious outcomes under the microscope.

More Myths Reopened

It's Yeehaa and Hiyo Silver as Adam and Jamie saddle up for some western myths -- and that is not all. Kari, Tory, and Grant test the modern marvel of airbags. It's all here -- past, present, horses, cars and guns.

Western Myths

Adam and Jamie try to find out if an exploding truck tire can kill. Meanwhile, Kari, Tory and Grant investigate another fuel efficiency fable.

Big Rig Myths

Jamie and Adam investigate the cliche that a quick-thinking action hero can protect his fellow cast members from a grenade blast. Meanwhile, the intrepid trio tests an Internet video with an outrageous claim about soda and candy.

Grenades and Guts

In this episode of Mythbusters, the whole team is piste off and that's snow joke. They are snowed under with movie myths and living legends as they put snow myths to the test in this Snow Special.

Snow Special

The Mythbusters have been putting out the call for new myths to bust and now, they put a new batch of viewer suggestions to the test.

Viewer Special

The team tests the legend that the color red can drive a bull toward psychopathy. Fresh from bull jousting, the team tests the saying "bull in a china shop."

Red Rag to a Bull

The Mythbusters are wearing their underpants on the outside, as the Marvel comic maestros are put under the MythBusters microscope.

Superhero Hour

Kari, Tory and Grant puts the latest covert surveillance conspiracy theories to the test. Meanwhile, Adam and Jamie are testing a myth about weapons.

Myth Revolution

Jamie and Adam get steamed testing if a water heater can rocket through the roof and into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, Tory, Grant and Kari try on some all-American myths about blue jeans.

Exploding Water Heater

The MythBusters test the truth behind some time-honored sayings and conventional wisdom -- like shooting fish in a barrel, the best cure for a chile burn and whether or not elephants are really scared of mice.

Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Jamie and Adam take on a mythical confederate weapon: a steam-powered machine gun rumored to fire 400 rounds a minute at a 300-yard range. Meanwhile, the team puts their lying skills on the line to try to beat a lie detector.

Confederate Steam Gun

t's tuxedos and martinis as the Mythbusters take on 007 in this James Bond special one-hour episode. Our stealthy secret agents are on a mission to explode the myths about Bond's gadgets, getaways and guns.

James Bond Special- Part 1

Surf's up dude! The team tests whether a couple of sticks of dynamite can create ideal surfing conditions and then test the proverbial lead balloon.

Lead Balloon

The Mythbusters dedicate this one-hour special to the ultimate action hero: James Bond. They put the gadgets and stunts to the test leaving them shaken, not stirred.

James Bond Special- Part 2

On the first Viewer's Special we tested a bunch of myths from the Mythbusters fan site, and it was a blast-literally. So in our second Viewer's Special we once again open up Adam and Jamie's inbox for ideas.

Viewer Special 2

Alaska is one of the most extreme places on earth. For the Mythbusters, it provides an ideal habitat to test some Alaskan anecdotes.

Alaska Special

The team tackles the tallest tale of all in Moon Landing Hoax Hour. They investigate whether or not NASA pulled off the greatest cover-up in human history.

NASA Moon Landing

The team test two fan-suggested myths -- if meat can be tenderized with explosives and the if driving angry can burn fuel. We push the limits of what people are willing to try, and what they simply can't avoid.

Exploding Steak

In this special, Jamie and Adam revisit some old ninja myths and tackle some new ones. And the world's foremost arrow-catching ninja, Anthony Kelly, will settle the dispute of whether it's possible to catch an arrow midair.

Ninjas 2

Viral videos get a timely checkup as Jamie and Adam try to blast a full-sized car with fire hoses and to float a tinfoil boat in an empty fish tank, while Tory, Kari and Grant investigate the mystery of the fainting goats.

Viral Hour

Jamie and Adam set out to see if they can turn a conventional electric stun gun into a water-powered electric stun gun. Meanwhile, Kari, Tory and Grant are playing with fire, literally.

Water Stun Gun

Half the team sets out to test the phenomenon of "beer goggles," as well as various sobering up techniques, such as running on a treadmill and face slapping, while the other half investigates a legendary medieval Korean weapon.

Alcohol Myths

Adam and Jamie take on an Indiana Jones movie stunt, while Kari, Grant and Troy try to break out of jail using ropes made of nothing but bed sheets, hair and toilet paper.

Motorcycle Flip

The whole team gets together to test myths about survival, including what constitutes bulletproof and whether it's possible to escape once buried alive.

Coffin Punch

The team joins forces, placing popular sayings under the microscope to determine whether it really is "impossible to polish a turd," possible to "hit the ground running" or advisable to "end with a bang."

End With a Bang

In this viewer special sequel, sequel, the team tackles four of their favorites including a gruesome myth from World War II, a cure for hypothermia, exploding toilets and musical mushroom clouds.

Viewer Special Threequel

In Alaska, the team recreates Pykrete, a composite material known for being bullet proof and tougher than concrete. They put their heads together to discover whether or not its defensive properties are in fact a myth.

Alaska Special 2

Adam and Jamie lurch from one small disaster to another as they find a myth that tests their skills, and ends with a spectacle that graphically proves that you have every reason to be very, very afraid of your hatchback.

Exploding Bumper

The team works together to design, build and test out a giant seesaw. As the plan is in action, they are determined to tackle this massive and improbable myth.

Seesaw Saga

Adam and Jamie reveal the exciting reaction that happens as they experiment with Thermite. Then. Kari, Tory and Grant put their stereo's bass to the test and Adam and Jamie return to demonstrate the heat behind a powerful handgun.

Thermite vs. Ice

The crew is challenged when they set out to determine whether a person can survive car stunts performed in action movies, then they try and solve more outlandish jailbreak myths.

Prison Escape

Adam and Jamie are challenged when they try to create a shock wave with glass shattering capabilities. Then Adam creates a sonic boom and Kari, Grant and Tory attempt to bend bullets.

Curving Bullets

Adam and Jamie take on the classic urban myth about driving in the rain that says if you're out for a spin in your convertible and it starts raining you can stay dry by simply driving faster.

Car vs. Rain

Adam and Jamie experiment with the Bullet Dropped vs. Bullet Fire Theory. Then Kari, Grant and Tory put a test dummy in a boxing ring to see if they can knock its socks off, and the team comes together to play with explosives.

Knock Your Socks Off

The team explores the capabilities of duct tape, from lifting a car to repairing boats. Kari, Grant and Tory experiment with ballistics and joins the forces between duct tape and PVC cement.

Duct Tape Hour

Adam and Jamie get down and dirty with the myth that a muddy motorcar gets better gas mileage than it's clean cousin. Later, the team is hitting the sauce and comparing hangovers to test an age old adage about beer and liquor.

Dirty vs. Clean Car

Adam and Jamie attempt to determine whether having windows opened or closed is key to survival during a hurricane. Meanwhile, Kari, Grant and Tory experiment with liquid nitrogen and investigate the myth behind "Frozen Tree".

Hurricane Windows

Adam and Jamie test a classic myth that's been around in tinsel-town since the motorcar was invented: does an out-of-control car really crash and burn every time? Kari, Tory and Grant test a story about the first rocketeer.

Crash and Burn

Adam and Jamie experiment with water heaters in the household. Then, they hold on for dear life and test out whether one could survive holding on to a moving car. Later, they discover whether or not a car can be split in half.

Myth Evolution

Adam and Jamie test whether diving into a dumpster is a valid way to get off a roof quickly. Meanwhile Kari, Grant and Tory take on an deep-sea diving myth.

Dumpster Diving

The team explores how prisoners use antacid tablets as explosion. Then, Grant, Jessi and Tory discover how modern day smugglers successfully cross borders in dark, remote locations.

Antacid Jail Break

The duo engrave a coconut and attempt to send it through the mail. Then, they attempt to light a match with a bullet. Later, they try and debunk the myth of ways that induce bed-wetting and the rest of the team makes earwax.

Mini Myth Mayhem

Grant, Tory and Jessi test the elastic properties of real trees as they were used to catapult diseased bodies during medieval Europe. Then, they confirm if a bullet can bounce off three steel surfaces and injure the enemy.

Boomerang Bullet

Adam and Jamie test the strength of power a Styrofoam cup filled with soda has against a car windshield. Then, Tory, Grant and Jessi replicate the scene from Fall Guys and investigate if they can hang on by their fingertips.

Soda Cup Killer

Adam and Jamie explore the myth of the classic stunt "dive to survive". Then, they experiment with the big bang theory and head to a lake with bomb shields and dynamite, and discover if phone books are bulletproof.

Dive to Survive

Adam and Jamie investigate the perfect car weaponry of tacks, smoke and oil, all launched from the trunk of a vehicle. Then, Kari, Grant and Tory attempt to debunk the myth of a fascinating physics "thought experiment".

Spy Car Escape

Adam and Jamie get feisty with a bar fight fable while Kari, Grant and Tory investigate a ballistic material mystery from history.

Bottle Bash

Adam and Jamie become lab rats for science and test the myth that some types of people are more tolerant to pain than others. Kari, Grant and Tory attempt to launch a backyard propane tank like a rocket.

No Pain, No Gain

The MythBusters revisit two myths armed with fan feedback and suggestions. First up, it's Hyneman vs. Newton and a cacophony of car carnage. Then Kari, Grant and Tory retest knock your socks off.

Mythssion Control

Adam and Jamie set up a challenge that will take duct tape's strength, adhesion and load-bearing capability to the absolute limit. Meanwhile, Kari, Grant and Tory are all wrapped up busting duct tape automotive myths.

Duct Tape Hour 2

Adam and Jamie tackle the biggest, dirtiest and most vertigo-inducing build in MythBusters history while Kari, Tory and Grant deliver the goods to find out if taking only right turns can save gas.

Waterslide Wipeout

The whole team gets hot under the collar of what is no doubt a pyromaniac's dream. While Adam and Jamie literally play with fire, Kari, Grant and Tory get into some fireworks.

Fireball Stun Gun

Adam and Jamie get grossed out as they investigate colds, flu, sneezing and contamination. Meanwhile, Kari, Tory and Grant take on the myth that tornadoes can transform everyday items into lethal projectiles.

Flu Fiction

Adam and Jamie revisit the myth that an escaped convict can outsmart and outrun his pursuers. Kari, Grant and Tory do their best to bamboozle sniffer dogs that are specifically trained to find a particular substance.

Hair of the Dog

It's a perfect storm as Reed Timmer and Sean Casey of Storm Chasers join Adam and Jamie to put tornadoes to the test.

Storm-Chasing Myths

When you get cold feet, do you really get cold feet? When the poop hits the fan, does everyone get covered in the ensuing chaos?

Cold Feet

Adam and Jamie are on an archery odyssey, but there's no rest for Kari, Grant and Tory as they take a ride on the wild side for a dangerous driving myth.

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