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 2008
Episode 3: Airplane on a Conveyor Belt
Air Date: January 30th, 2008
Summary: Can cockroaches survive a nuclear war? It has long been claimed, but Adam and Jamie decide to finally see whether or not this common claim is true. Later, they see whether or not an airplane could get the speed to take off by rolling on a conveyor belt. Finally, they test whether or not cans of shaving cream can explode if a common prank goes awry.
Episode 5: Viewers Special 2
Air Date: February 13rd, 2008
Summary: Its finally here, Part 2 of your Viewer Suggested Myths!
Can you slide down a steel cable with your jeans?
Does eye black help athletes see?
Can a spark follow a trail of gunpowder leaking from a barrel, catch up with it, and explode?
Can you cut down a tree with a machine gun?
Episode 8: Shark Week 2008
Air Date: July 27th, 2008
Summary: Can sharks detect a struggling fish? Do dogs attract sharks? Does chili powder repel sharks? If you play dead in the middle of a bunch of sharks, will they leave you alone? Do Spots of light attract Sharks? Could you find a shark's eye when it's splashing you around in his mouth? Mythbusters Shark Week Special 2008.
Episode 10: NASA Moon Landing
Air Date: August 27th, 2008
Summary: The Marshall Space Flight Center hosted the Mythbusters television show. The Mythbusters chose Marshall as one of several NASA locations for an episode to debunk the notion that NASA never landed on the moon. The cast conducted tests involving a feather, a weight, a lunar soil boot print, and a flag in a vacuum. A team of Marshall scientists helped with the tests.
Episode 11: Viral Hour
Air Date: September 3rd, 2008
Summary: On this infectious episode of Mythbusters, we give internet 'viral videos' a timely check-up. They're exciting, funny, and sometimes barely credible. We can't wait to pass them on to our ten best friends, but can we truly believe everything we see?
Episode 15: Ninjas 2
Air Date: October 15th, 2008
Summary: Ninjas and Mythbusters go together like matches and gunpowder - a marriage made in heaven. Ninjas are steeped in mythology that they've been only too happy to circulate. It's time to separate fact from fiction in the Mythbusters Ninja special 2.
Episode 16: Alcohol Myths
Air Date: October 22nd, 2008
Summary: On this episode of Mythbusters, Jamie, Adam and Kari apply some science to the theory that the more you drink, the more attractive you find the opposite sex.
Does drinking alcohol make people look more attractive?
Do alleged ways of sobering up really work?
Could the ancient Korean Hwacha actually do what is claimed?
Episode 20: Viewer Special Threequel
Air Date: November 19th, 2008
Summary: Could a torture technique consisting of growing a bamboo through a victim's body have worked?
Does dropping alkali metals in a water-filled bathtub result in a huge explosion?
Does brandy, such as carried by Saint Bernards, really prevent hypothermia?
Does lighting a piano on fire make it explode?
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