Season 1

Jan 23, 2003
11 Episodes
TMDB
81%

Episodes

1

Jet-Assisted Chevy

Jan 23, 2003
45 min
70%

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
80%

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
85%

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
80%

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?

5

Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

Oct 3, 2003
80%

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
83%

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?

7

Penny Drop

Oct 17, 2003
80%

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?

8

Buried Alive

Oct 24, 2003
85%

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?

9

Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

Nov 7, 2003
85%

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
80%

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
85%

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.