Mythbusters

Mythbusters

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Science Ended Adventure • Nature • DIY

20 Seasons · 273 Episodes · Premiered January 23, 2003 · Ended February 14, 2018

Hosted by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, with Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara, the Mythbusters mix scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create their own signature style of explosive experimentation. The team's combined backgrounds in animatronics, robotics, model building and prototyping arm them with the ability to create anything they need to test a myth.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

3 episodes
E01
JATO Car, Pop Rocks (Pilot 1)
Fri, Jan 24 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000 47 min
Episode 1- "Jet-Assisted Chevy" (Pilot #1)Myths tested:Can a 1967 Chevy take off with JATO rockets, like in the tale of the JATO Rocket Car?Can Pop Rocks and soda, when eaten simultaneously, cause the eater's stomach to rupture?The story of the jet-assisted Chevy goes like this. The Arizona Highway Patrol stumbled across a blackened crater in the side of a mountain at the end of a long stretch of desert road. After an investigation, they learned that an Air Force sergeant from a nearby military base had attached a rocket-assisted takeoff unit to the roof of a 1967 Chevy Impala. He got up to about 80 mph, and then fired the things off. Within seconds the car was traveling at 350 mph. The crater was found in the mountainside 100 feet off the ground. Who do you think will be the "dummy" to test this myth? The Pop Rocks and soda legend concerns a boy known as little Mikey, who was featured in commercials for Life cereal. Some years later, Mikey was challenged by his friends to eat six packs of Pop Rocks candy with six cans of soda. According to the myth, the carbon dioxide in the candy combined with the carbon dioxide in the soda to create so much pressure that Mikey's stomach exploded and he died. Our MythBusters risk their lives for you, the viewer, in these two death-defying experiments. 
E02
Stuck on You, Biscuit Bullet, Falling Lawyer (Pilot 2)
Fri, Jan 31 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000 47 min
Episode #2 - "Biscuit Bazooka" (Pilot #2)Myths tested:Can an airplane toilet create enough suction to cause a person to become stuck on it?Can a can of biscuit dough explode in a hot car?Can a person throw himself through a skyscraper window?In this episode, Jamie and Adam take on a few legends involving dubious behavior. First, they contemplate the one about an obese woman on a trans-Atlantic flight whose derriere is suctioned into the plane's toilet after flushing, forcing the plane to land before she can be removed. Will the bottom fall out of this myth? How about the one involving a friend of a friend who thought she was shot while sitting in her car in a supermarket parking lot on a very hot day? The story goes that when the paramedics arrived, they found her head splattered with a mass of raw biscuit dough. And then there's the leaping lawyer. Some guy (apparently a lawyer), kept bouncing off a plate-glass window on the 24th floor of a high-rise building. After one too many impacts, the window shattered and the guy fell 24 floors to the ground, where he promptly died. Another day, another deadly myth.
E03
Poppy-Seed Drug Test
Sat, Mar 8 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000 47 min
Episode #3 - "Poppy-Seed Drug Test" (Pilot #3)

Season 2

13 episodes

Season 3

27 episodes

Season 4

32 episodes

Season 5

31 episodes

Season 6

13 episodes

Season 7

24 episodes

Season 8

11 episodes

Season 9

12 episodes

Season 10

11 episodes

Season 11

10 episodes

Season 12

13 episodes

Season 13

8 episodes

Season 14

11 episodes

Season 15

8 episodes

Season 16

7 episodes

Season 17

6 episodes

Season 18

8 episodes

Season 19

11 episodes

Season 20

14 episodes

Cast

Robert Lee
Robert Lee as Narrator
Nikos Andronikos
Nikos Andronikos as Narrator
Robin Banks
Robin Banks as Narrator
Adam Savage
Adam Savage as Adam Savage
Jamie Hyneman
Jamie Hyneman as Jamie Hyneman
Heather Joseph-Witham
Heather Joseph-Witham as Folklorist
Kari Byron
Kari Byron as Kari Byron
Brian Louden
Brian Louden as Brian Louden
Jon Lung
Jon Lung as Jon Lung
Grant Masaru Imahara
Grant Masaru Imahara as Grant Masaru Imahara
Tory Belleci
Tory Belleci as Tory Belleci
Scottie Chapman as Builder

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