MythBusters

Season 162003

MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.

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11 Episodes

E01 Jet-Assisted Chevy

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

January 23, 2003

E02 Biscuit Bazooka

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

January 23, 2003

E03 Poppy-Seed Drug Test

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?

March 7, 2003

E04 Exploding Toilet

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?

September 23, 2003

E05 Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

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?

October 3, 2003

E06 Barrel of Bricks

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?

October 10, 2003

E07 Penny Drop

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?

October 17, 2003

E08 Buried Alive

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?

October 24, 2003

E09 Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

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?

November 7, 2003

E10 Stinky Car

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

December 5, 2003

E11 Alcatraz Escape

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.

December 12, 2003

MythBusters

E01 Jet-Assisted Chevy

E02 Biscuit Bazooka

E03 Poppy-Seed Drug Test

E04 Exploding Toilet

E05 Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

E06 Barrel of Bricks

E07 Penny Drop

E08 Buried Alive

E09 Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

E10 Stinky Car

E11 Alcatraz Escape

American Restoration

Drugs, Inc.

Tosh.0

Lucky Luke

Good Eats

Familie Braun

Far from Las Vegas

Savage Builds

Maury

Prime Suspect 1973

Mountain Monsters

Big, Bigger, Biggest

Studio C

Naked and Marooned with Ed Stafford

Nitro Circus Live

Oklahoma Passage

House Arrest

Storage Wars

America's Next Top Model

Deadliest Catch

E01 Jet-Assisted Chevy

E02 Biscuit Bazooka

E03 Poppy-Seed Drug Test

E04 Exploding Toilet

E05 Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

E06 Barrel of Bricks

E07 Penny Drop

E08 Buried Alive

E09 Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

E10 Stinky Car

E11 Alcatraz Escape