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 2009
Episode 9: Prison Escape
Air Date: June 3rd, 2009
Summary: Adam and Jamie see if it's possible to cling to the roof of a speeding and swerving car like it's done in action movies.
Kari, Tory and Grant try to break out of jail by cutting their way through steel cell bars -- using only dental floss.
Did an 18th century prisoner once put his ball and chain -- shackled to his ankle -- in the prison cannon and fire himself over the prison wall to freedom. Is it possible?
Episode 10: Curving Bullets
Air Date: June 10th, 2009
Summary: Adam and Jamie get the Blue Angels to find out if a sonic shock wave can shatter glass. Tory, Grant and Kari take on this season's most requested myth - Can you really bend bullets around obstacles with a side arm flick, as it was done in the movie 'Wanted?'
Episode 12: Knock Your Socks Off
Air Date: October 7th, 2009
Summary: If one bullet is fired and the other is dropped simultaneously from the same height, which will hit the ground first? Or will they hit at the same time, owing to gravity? Meanwhile, Kari, Grant and Tory test an old saying - can you really knock someone out of their socks? In true MYTHBUSTERS fashion, their tests involve Buster, a boxing ring, a nitrogen cannon, a battering ram and, of course, explosives.
Episode 14: Dirty vs. Clean Car
Air Date: October 21st, 2009
Summary: Adam and Jamie get down and dirty with the myth that a muddy motorcar gets better gas mileage than its clean cousin. Meanwhile Kari, Grant and Tory are hitting the sauce and comparing hangovers to test an age old adage about beer and liquor.
Episode 15: Greased Lightning
Air Date: October 28th, 2009
Summary: Adam and Jamie stroll into hell's kitchen to investigate a pair of frightening potential kitchen catastrophes. Meanwhile, Kari, Grant and Tory find out whether microwaving C4 will make it explode - plus a well-aged myth which maybe right on the nose - using cheese as cannon ammo.
Episode 16: Hurricane Windows
Air Date: November 4th, 2009
Summary: On this cold and blustery episode, Adam and Jamie bet the house on a highly contentious hurricane survival tale in "Hurricane Windows" open or closed? Meanwhile, Kari, Grant, and Tory tackle two frigid fables involving liquid nitrogen.
Episode 21: Unarmed and Unharmed
Air Date: December 9th, 2009
Summary: On this episode of MythBusters Adam and Jamie return to the Old Wild West for a quick draw gun-slinging story, while Grant, Tory and Jessi hop on board the Mythbus for another manic myth from the movie Speed. Hang onto your ten-gallon hats!
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