First Aired: January 23rd, 2003
Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary, Reality
Network: Discovery
Summary: 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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Season 2005
Episode 1: Buster Special
Air Date: February 2nd, 2005
Summary: Buster is the Mythbuster's dummy. Buster is remembered in this hour long special depicting his brave outing testing multiple myths for the guys, as well as an inside, and in depth, look into the creation of our fallen hero's replacement. The team also builds a new Buster because the old one was so trashed up from recent experiences.
Episode 2: Ultimate MythBusters
Air Date: February 9th, 2005
Summary: Adam and Jamie go head-to-head in a series of challenges to see who has the guts and "gusto" to be the Ultimate Mythbuster!
Test 1 - Engineering; create a device to launch a tortilla as far as possible without destroying it.
Test 2 - Estimation; estimate the weight of 3 different objects looking at them and then taking them with their hands.
Test 3 - Fear; they have to hold creepy creatures without getting scared.
Test 4 - Creative Thinking. They have to build the classic "Egg Drop Device" to protect the egg from the fall.
Test 5 - Pain. They'll have to stand the pain caused by paint balls.
Test 6 - Memory. They have to test each other with a 6-question quiz about the myths they've tested.
Episode 4: Salsa Escape
Air Date: February 23rd, 2005
Summary: Adam and Jamie go head to head in a madcap Mexican jailbreak as they taste-test the theory of the Salsa Escape. And take one cement truck, add 850 pounds of dynamite, and what's left? Absolutely nothing, apparently. Adam and Jamie join forces with the FBI to find out if you can remove cement build-up from a mixer's barrel using dynamite.
Episode 5: Exploding Port-a-Potty
Air Date: March 2nd, 2005
Summary: Can a person receive third-degree burns if he or she lights a cigarette while inside a port-a-potty? Armed with Adam's "special sample," the build team explores whether human waste can create enough methane to produce an explosive result. Then the MythBusters test whether a broken drive shaft on the front joint of a car vault can cause a car to pole vault after it hits a pothole. Just how high can this car fly?
Episode 6: Is Yawning Contagious?
Air Date: March 9th, 2005
Summary: Using a specially fabricated chamber complete with two-way mirror and a hidden camera, Kari, Scottie and Tory set out to see whether a yawn, like a cold, truly can be caught. Next on the docket - Does toast really fall buttered-side down? Jamie and Adam are on the case, each building a rig to simulate toast being dropped from the dining room table. Finally, the whole team tests the myth that a toy car can beat a real car (in this case, a Dodge Viper) in a gravity slope race.
Episode 8: Cooling a Six-Pack
Air Date: March 23rd, 2005
Summary: The mystery is finally over! Watch as the MythBusters use ice, water, refrigerators, freezers and fire to test the fastest way to cool a six-pack. Then the team builds a new crash-test dummy ... and drops it 60 feet from a crane. The result is baptism by destruction for Buster 2.0, and a high-speed, high-impact crash the likes of which ... well, see for yourself. And finally, they may not have had iPods or remote controls to use them in, but did ancient peoples have batteries? Learn whether a crude form was invented more than 2,000 years ago.
Episode 9: Son of a Gun
Air Date: March 30th, 2005
Summary: Was a woman in the Civil War impregnated by a bullet that went through a man's region before striking her? The Mythbusters build a life size working bathroom to see if being in the tub during a lightning storm is safe and what happens if you forget to detach your trailer from your boat.
Episode 14: Jet Pack
Air Date: June 8th, 2005
Summary: With $10,000, can they build a hover craft?
The team finds all of the possibilities of a hover craft or really a Jet Pack. Did pyramid shape help preserve mummies and current day pyramids preserve food items? In this myth the team make a metal bronze pyramid and puts an apple and a glass of milk under the pyramid. They leave the apple and the milk under the pyramid for 3 months.
Episode 15: Killer Brace Position
Air Date: June 22nd, 2005
Summary: Adam and Kari go to a local raceway and drive a skills course, while being distracted on the cell phone, and then after knocking back some beers, to find out which is more dangerous. And, in their own homemade mock airplane they test "the brace position."
Episode 16: Bullet Proof Water
Air Date: July 13rd, 2005
Summary: Adam and Jamie test two urban legends; in 'Bullet Proof Water' find out exactly how deep one must dive to survive a gunshot, and in '360 Degree Swing' find out if it is possible to get a swinger to go all the way around a swing set, up and over the bar.
Episode 17: MythBusters Jaws Special
Air Date: July 17th, 2005
Summary: Mythbusters are going to put the bite on some fascinating shark myths. Find out if real sharks are capable of performing the way the great white shark in the movie "JAWS" did, and uncover the strength and stamina of these off-screen giants. Including do sharks lose interest in attacking if punched on the nose or jabbed in the eyes and gills? Adam and Jamie put it to the test. Jamie goes overboard to tussle with some fearsome fish. And a scuba tank experiment so dangerous, the FBI are brought in!
Episode 19: Killer Tissue Box
Air Date: August 3rd, 2005
Summary: 'Killer Tissue Box' is an investigation into whether a tissue box can become a lethal missile in a car crash. In 'Split Arrow' the build team tests whether an archer can split one arrow straight down the middle with another, as the legendary Robin Hood was said to have done.
Episode 20: Escape Slide Parachute
Air Date: August 10th, 2005
Summary: Join the MythBusters as they test three tall tales of high flying and free falling. The first pits them against Hollywood logic with Buster doing his best Indiana Jones impression, the second tests the explosive properties and decapitation potential of hair cream, and the third addresses surviving a fall from 33,000 feet without a parachute. So, basically, it's business as usual at the "Mythbusters Flying Circus"!
Episode 21: MythBusters Revisited
Air Date: October 12nd, 2005
Summary: Time to take down the non believers!
Mythbusters will go revisit
Blown Away, Running in the Rain, Plywood Flyer, Exploding Soda, Explosive Decompression, AC vs Windows Down, and Exploding Gas Tank
to end the you did it wrong crowd for the last time!
Episode 22: Chinese Invasion Alarm
Air Date: October 19th, 2005
Summary: Join the MythBusters as they head to a California mine to test an ancient Chinese military myth – a subterranean sonar system that could allegedly detect and intercept an invasion from below. Then, armed with an incubator, agar plates and boundless enthusiasm, the guys aim to cook up the truth about a popular food fable. If food has been on the floor for less than five seconds, is it still safe to eat?
Episode 23: Confederate Rocket
Air Date: October 26th, 2005
Summary: The American Civil War was fought with polished bayonets, unreliable muskets and bulky cannons. But was that all? Not according to the Mythbusters - Adam, Jamie and the build team join forces to find out if the Confederate Army had a secret deadly weapon.
Episode 24: Vodka Myths
Air Date: November 2nd, 2005
Summary: In COMPACT COMPACT, trucks fused together upon impact, sealing the unfortunate car and driver between them. The team needs a traffic-free stretch of freeway to test this.Kari hosts some urban legends about Vodka and its impact on personal hygiene. The team takes vodka and puts it up against the normal oder persperant and tries to get rid of the oder on Kari's feet. They also put it up against the normal mouth wash and smell Kari
Episode 26: Seasickness - Kill or Cure
Air Date: November 16th, 2005
Summary: The MythBusters take on the myth that electric shock therapy or homeopathic tongue tinglers cure seasickness. Also does driving your pickup with the tailgate down save money and can shoving your fingers into a gun barrel save life?
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