MythBusters: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Jet-Assisted Chevy
Jan 23, 2003 · 45 min
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
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?
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
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 wil
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?
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 hi
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
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
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?
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?
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 experim