MythBusters - Season 1

Run Time: 43 mins
Air Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.82 (571 votes)
Discovery SBS11 Episodes

Jet-Assisted Chevy
Season 1 - Episode 1
Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?

Biscuit Bazooka
Season 1 - Episode 2
Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?

Poppy-Seed Drug Test
Season 1 - Episode 3
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 a...

Exploding Toilet
Season 1 - Episode 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 y...

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station
Season 1 - Episode 5
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...

Barrel of Bricks
Season 1 - Episode 6
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? Ca...

Penny Drop
Season 1 - Episode 7
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...

Buried Alive
Season 1 - Episode 8
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 ...

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
Season 1 - Episode 9
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 th...

Stinky Car
Season 1 - Episode 10
Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?

Alcatraz Escape
Season 1 - Episode 11
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 ...