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MythBusters: Season 13

14 episodes Premiered Jan 10, 2015 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on MythBusters

Season 13 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MythBusters Season 12.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 13 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 13: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (11): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S13·E1 Mytharc

The Simpsons: D'oh!

Jan 10, 2015 · 43 min

Finally, the MythBusters meet the Simpsons! Will putting a cherry bomb in a toilet block cause all toilets to erupt with a violent fountain? Can an obese human (sorry, Homer) absor

S13·E2 Core

The Busters of the Lost Myths

Jan 17, 2015 · 43 min

Adam LOVED this one, as you can imagine. Can a whip make your enemy drop his gun? Can you wrap a whip around a log and swing across a chasm? Could Indy have outrun a rolling boulde

S13·E3 Core

A-Team Special

Jan 24, 2015 · 43 min

Jamie and Adam find out if it's really possible to build a working cannon out of stuff abandoned in a barn, then test whether a sewer explosion can really take out the bad guys wit

S13·E4 Core

Video Game Special

Jan 31, 2015 · 43 min

Jamie and Adam -- with the help of UFC fighter Brendan Schaub and the makers of DOOM -- test how many weapons you can really take with you and remain operational. And can you reall

S13·E5 Core

Transformers

Feb 7, 2015 · 43 min

Adam and Jamie tackle two tall tales of mechanical metamorphosis: Is it possible to convert a 2CV into a motorbike? Can you use water bottles to create an amphibious bicycle?

S13·E6 Core

San Francisco Drift

Feb 14, 2015 · 43 min

Jamie and Adam tackled two tall tales from the world of street racing. Does drifting really get to your destination faster? And does drifting help you park faster?

S13·E7 Core

Blow It Out of the Water

Jul 18, 2015 · 42 min

Having come to represent the concept of 'overwhelming victory', this saying originally came from submarines in WW2 who were able to use torpedoes to literally blow an enemy ship up

S13·E8 Core

Flights of Fantasy

Jul 25, 2015 · 43 min

Drone deliveries are on their way. But are those fast-spinning blades just an accident waiting to happen? And is the U-2 really the toughest aircraft in regular use to fly and land

S13·E9 Core

Accidental Ammo

Aug 1, 2015 · 43 min

Jamie and Adam tackle another gruesome story about a pane of glass falling from a construction site and cutting an innocent bystander completely in half from head to toe. Then Jami

S13·E10 Core

Dangerous Driving

Aug 8, 2015 · 43 min

Is it as dangerous to use hands free as it is to use a cell phone while driving? Is it really straightforward to drive at high speed in reverse?

S13·E11 Core

Supernatural Shooters

Aug 15, 2015 · 43 min

Adam and Jamie take aim at Hollywood's infallible hit men and their seemingly supernatural ability to take down a target. First up, can an armed assassin use a single well-placed s

S13·E12 Core

Unfinished Business

Aug 22, 2015 · 43 min

Can you hold onto a grenade for longer than two hours? Can you really change a magazine in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment? Can video games make you better at real-life tasks, like

S13·E13 Mytharc

MythBusters vs. Jaws

Aug 29, 2015 · 43 min

Jamie and Adam revisit Jaws' final scene, which they'd taken on in 2005's Exploding Scuba Tank. Will the results be different with a giant anatomically accurate shark and a bigger

S13·E14 Mytharc

Star Wars (2) - The Myths Strike Back

Sep 5, 2015 · 43 min

Star Wars provides further fodder when Jamie and Adam see whether high ground really is important in a duel, and whether it's possible to dive out of the way of laser blaster bulle

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