← MythBusters

Season 1

18 episodes · 2003

  1. 1

    Jet-Assisted Chevy

    Jan 23, 200345 min★ 7.3

    Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?

  2. 2

    Biscuit Bazooka

    Jan 23, 200350 min★ 7.2

    Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?

  3. 3

    Poppy-Seed Drug Test

    Mar 7, 200350 min★ 7.5

    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. 4

    Exploding Toilet

    Sep 23, 200349 min★ 7.4

    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. 5

    Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

    Oct 3, 200350 min★ 7.4

    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. 6

    Barrel of Bricks

    Oct 10, 200350 min★ 7.4

    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. 7

    Penny Drop

    Oct 17, 200350 min★ 7.4

    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. 8

    Buried Alive

    Oct 24, 200350 min★ 7.5

    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. 9

    Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

    Nov 7, 200350 min★ 7.6

    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. 10

    Stinky Car

    Dec 5, 200350 min★ 7.4

    Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?

  11. 11

    Alcatraz Escape

    Dec 12, 200348 min★ 8.0

    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.

  12. 12

    Explosive Decompression/Frog Giggin'/Rear Axle

    50 min★ 7.5

  13. 13

    Chicken Gun/Octopus Pregnancy/Killer Washing Machine

    50 min★ 7.4

  14. 14

    Break Step Bridge/Toothbrush Surprise/Rowing Water Skier

    50 min★ 7.2

  15. 15

    Sinking Titanic/Goldfish Memory/Trombone Explosion

    50 min★ 7.3

  16. 16

    Buried in Concrete/Daddy Longlegs/Jet Taxi

    50 min★ 7.2

  17. 17

    Best Animal Myths

    ★ 7.0

  18. 18

    Best Electric Myths

    ★ 7.0