MythBusters

2003

MythBusters

8.3 | TV-PG | en | Documentary

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP8 Dropping a Bomb

Feb. 21,2018

Can dropping molten salt into a toilet unblock it? Is 3rd-person perspective better than 1st-person in a real world video game obstacle course?

EP7 Electrified Escape

Feb. 14,2018

It is possible to escape from a burning car crashed into a power pole, without getting electrocuted? Is it better for a pedestrian to jump up when a car is about to hit them, or stand still?

EP6 Backseat Getaway Driver

Feb. 07,2018

The MythBusters test if a fugitive could actually outrun the law while driving from the back seat, and whether it's really possible to knock someone over with a feather.

EP5 Dynamite Deposit

Jan. 31,2018

The MythBusters tackle more myths using their own signature style of explosive experimentation.

EP4 Spike In The Road

Jan. 24,2018

The MythBusters test ways to beat police road spikes using DIY ingenuity and Hollywood driving skills. Secondly, they investigate if a high-powered fountain can actually lift and suspend a human being.

EP3 Wild Wild West

Jan. 17,2018

The MythBusters tackle more myths in a wild west themed episode.

EP2 Pane In The Glass

Jan. 10,2018

The MythBusters take on a glass-shattering movie myth, and search for cure to stop crying while chopping onions.

EP1 Fire Arrow vs. Gas Tank

Jan. 03,2018

The MythBusters investigate two arrow-themed myths: Will a flaming arrow fired into a car's gas tank cause it to explode, and is a deadly-looking tribal initiation really is as dangerous as it seems.

8.3 | TV-PG | en | Documentary | More Info

Released: 2003-01-23 | Released Producted By: Beyond Entertainment , Beyond Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters

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Cast

Brian Louden , Jonathan Lung , Robert Lee

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Beyond Entertainment , Beyond Productions

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Reviews

RNMorton The right show with the right hosts and the right ideas at the right time. So for everyone who ever said, gee I wonder if it's true that you could (fill in the blank), Hyneman and Savage came along to help out. The general format was excellent, on many levels - the bar room-type discussion and research, the preliminary explorations and commentary by the stars along the way, the excellent if under-appreciated narration by Lee, all the way to the full scale resolution. Occasionally the pacing was off, so that you got to the finale without a lot of time to fully appreciate the event but whatever. Hyneman and Savage are effective if somewhat different personalities with some fun interplay, in retrospect the inclusion of B Team members Imahara, Belleci and a very attractive Byron probably extended the life of the series for several years and gave a needed break from the two leads. All the work on this was so professionally done, the biggest issue was coming up with enough myths to explore. Sometimes the cupboard seemed a little bare (a postage stamp on a helicopter wing causing an accident, c'mon). But one of the best science shows ever and tops for background television watching.

Morbius Fitzgerald I am completely against the popular vote here when I say this but this show is crap.Let me outline for you an episode - Take one of the most ridiculous things you've seen through another form of medium (eg. A bamboo cannon from Star Trek) and these idiots go "lets see if it works" err...to make a cannon you'll need a back to make sure that it doesn't blow out the other side(and I'm no scientist). No surprise on that episode - it didn't work. The show started out with a GREAT premise - finding folklore such as being buried alive and putting that to the test was a MUCH more interesting premise. Now its "Lets see if a car can blow up - after being buried by a bulldozer - with enough force to take the bulldozer out and keep the people in the car alive. Its worth a shot." (From The Green Hornet...) RIIGHT. Okay, whatever you say, Bro.To watch more than one episode in one sitting is a chore for me. I easily get sick of it after just one episode. My father is a fan and his reasoning - "you get to see them blow stuff up with science." If I had known that a selling point like that is what gets people into shows on the Discovery Channel than its a channel I can no longer be bothered with - especially if its educational.Overall I'm not going to judge if you are a fan - particularly if you're a fan of their later episodes but for me I just can't be bothered.

jamest1994 What a great show. One of the very few which have managed to make science and education fun.Jamie and Adam are hilarious, and the myths (and the lengths they'll go to), are very entertaining. Watching someone blow up a cement truck with 400 pounds of C4, and trying to make diamonds with 5000 pounds of C4, how can you go wrong?! But, of course, the whole show isn't about blowing stuff up (although there wouldn't be anything wrong with that), it's about busting or confirming myths, and the results are usually very surprising.Overall, I give this show a 10 out of 10. It couldn't get much better.

vranger The premise of the show is well documented. Two special effects experts and their staff take on common myths (and many not so common) and subject them to the scientific method.The principals are all personable and obviously enjoy this work. That is important to the success of the show. Without their enthusiasm some of the things they film could be quite dry.Whether exploring household myths such as whether it is safe to eat a piece of food that drops on the floor, or exploring tactics used in movies, you'll learn a lot and have fun doing it.Highly recommended show.