Season 1

Season 1

2003-01-23
11 Episodes

Episodes

Jet-Assisted Chevy

1. Jet-Assisted Chevy

2003-01-23

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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

2. Biscuit Bazooka

2003-01-23

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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

3. Poppy-Seed Drug Test

2003-03-07

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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?

Exploding Toilet

4. Exploding Toilet

2003-09-23

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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?

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

5. Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

2003-10-03

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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?

Barrel of Bricks

6. Barrel of Bricks

2003-10-10

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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?

Penny Drop

7. Penny Drop

2003-10-17

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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?

Buried Alive

8. Buried Alive

2003-10-24

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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?

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

9. Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

2003-11-07

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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?

Stinky Car

10. Stinky Car

2003-12-05

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

Alcatraz Escape

11. Alcatraz Escape

2003-12-12

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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.