Episode guide
MythBusters: Season 1
11 episodes · first aired Jan 23, 2003
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- 1 Jet-Assisted Chevy Jan 23, 2003 · 45m Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?
- 2 Biscuit Bazooka Jan 23, 2003 Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?
- 3 Poppy-Seed Drug Test Mar 7, 2003 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?
- 4 Exploding Toilet Sep 23, 2003 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…
- 5 Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station Oct 3, 2003 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?
- 6 Barrel of Bricks Oct 10, 2003 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…
- 7 Penny Drop Oct 17, 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…
- 8 Buried Alive Oct 24, 2003 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…
- 9 Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing Nov 7, 2003 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?
- 10 Stinky Car Dec 5, 2003 Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?
- 11 Alcatraz Escape Dec 12, 2003 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.