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MythBusters

“Failure is always an option.”

200343m / epDocumentary

First aired

January 23, 2003

7.8

TMDB Score

78% match · 665 votes

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S01 · E07

Penny Drop

Season 1 · Oct 17, 2003

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E01▶

Jet-Assisted Chevy

Jan 23, 2003 · 45m

E02▶

Biscuit Bazooka

Jan 23, 2003

E03▶

Poppy-Seed Drug Test

Mar 7, 2003

E04▶

Exploding Toilet

Sep 23, 2003

E05▶

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

Oct 3, 2003

E06▶

Barrel of Bricks

Oct 10, 2003

E07Playing

Penny Drop

Oct 17, 2003

E08▶

Buried Alive

Oct 24, 2003

E09▶

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

Nov 7, 2003

E10▶

Stinky Car

Dec 5, 2003

E11▶

Alcatraz Escape

Dec 12, 2003

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?

About the Series

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

CreatorPeter Rees