MythBusters - Season 4

The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. The holiday special episode in this season was the first time MythBusters was broadcast in high definition.

28 Episodes

Paper Crossbow

Season 4 - Episode 1

Is it possible to make a deadly weapon out of nothing more dangerous than newspaper and underwear? Grant, Kari and Tory unscrew the cap on s...

Shredded Plane

Season 4 - Episode 2

Is the photo of a light plane, with precise, clean tears on the side, genuine? Was it the work of the jilted lover, who took to her ex's pla...

Archimedes Death Ray Revisited

Season 4 - Episode 3

Challenged from fan mailbags to retest the "Archimedes Death Ray," Adam and Jamie accept. In turn, fans and a M.I.T. team were invited to pe...

Helium Football

Season 4 - Episode 4

This time around, Adam and Jamie test a myth that footballs filled with helium will fly farther and hang longer than ones filled with regula...

Franklin's Kite

Season 4 - Episode 5

The build team attempts to discover electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. Do innocuous legumes really increase gas? Is it possible...

Cell Phones on Planes

Season 4 - Episode 6

If you fill a normal raft with helium can you fly? Tory and Kari tackle a conspiracy theory familiar to many frequent flyers. Can your cell ...

Bullets Fired Up

Season 4 - Episode 7

Can celebratory gunfire kill when the bullets fall back to Earth? Grant, Tory and Kari quench their thirst with another round of "Vodka Myth...

Myths Re-Opened

Season 4 - Episode 8

The team revisits myths explored from "Split Arrow," "Confederate Rocket," and "Bulletproof Water."

Mind Control

Season 4 - Episode 9

Adam and Jamie do a little painting and detonating when they try to blow open a home-improvement myth. Grant, Tory and Kari explore if it is...

Exploding Pants

Season 4 - Episode 10

Tory, Kari and Grant investigate the spontaneous trouser combustion. Do gas companies and car manufacturers deliberately conspire to make ga...

Crimes and Myth-Demeanors (1)

Season 4 - Episode 11

Are Hollywood break-ins complete hocus pocus? The team tries to tiptoe their way around a laser system before facing the mother of all safes...

Steam Cannon

Season 4 - Episode 12

Did Archimedes build the world's first "supergun," a cannon powered by steam? Adam's mom thinks a typical modern breakfast cereal has less n...

Whirlpool/Snowplow

Season 4 - Episode 13

Somewhere on Earth is there a massive whirlpool sucking whole ships and their hapless crews to a watery grave? Can a passing wintery road sw...

Mentos and Soda

Season 4 - Episode 14

Adam and Jamie try to figure out the theory behind the chaos when diet cola and Mentos mix. Can posting a postage stamp on the rotor blades ...

Shattering Subwoofer

Season 4 - Episode 15

The guys find out if the bass from a car stereo can destroy an automobile. Also, Grant, Kari and Tory hit the road to take on two tall tales...

Crimes and Myth-Demeanors (2)

Season 4 - Episode 16

It's "lights, camera, action!" time again for the MythBusters, as they test more Hollywood heists. This time, our cat burglars Adam and Jami...

Earthquake Machine

Season 4 - Episode 17

Adam and Jamie take on one of the greatest scientist/inventor and myth creator legends of all time: Nikolai Tesla and his Earthquake Machine...

Deadly Straw

Season 4 - Episode 18

Can the wind in a tropical hurricane get so strong that it can blow a piece of straw through a palm-tree trunk? Can a hurricane blow the fea...

Mega Movie Myths

Season 4 - Episode 19

Can you use awnings to cushion your fall? Is there really such a thing as a car ejector seat? Can you chop a sword with another sword Is it ...

Killer Cable Snaps

Season 4 - Episode 20

If a cable at high tension snaps, can it slice a person clean in two? Does ancient pottery contain sounds from the past that can be played b...

Air Cylinder Rocket

Season 4 - Episode 21

Can a ruptured cylinder -- carefully aimed --really cause the massive damage some people claim? Meanwhile, Tory, Grant and Kari go back in t...

More Myths Revisited

Season 4 - Episode 22

"Myths Revisited" offers Jamie and Adam the chance to clear their names. Watch as they repeat past experiments to see if their original answ...

Exploding Lighter

Season 4 - Episode 23

Jamie and Adam find out if a small, disposable butane lighter can suddenly ignite with the force of several sticks of dynamite. The "Magnifi...

Concrete Glider

Season 4 - Episode 24

Adam and Jamie test the old engineering challenge that you can't make a concrete glider fly. Kari, Grant and Tory find out just how dangerou...

Firearms Folklore

Season 4 - Episode 25

Could a criminal's bullet have hit and jammed the empty chamber of a policeman's revolver? Could two bullets colliding mid-air fuse together...

Anti-Gravity Device

Season 4 - Episode 26

Could leaving Christmas lights on your tree overnight cause it to burst into flames? Is Anti-gravity science or science fiction? Can vodka c...

Holiday Special

Season 4 - Episode 27

Can six reindeer run fast enough to launch an ultralite glider? Does one burn more calories jogging Naked in the snow or by putting on an Ai...

22,000-Foot Fall

Season 4 - Episode 28

Is it possible to survive a 22,000 foot fall using the blast from a 1,000 pound bomb to break the fall? Is electricity saved by switching of...