MythBusters — Season 1
01 Jet-Assisted Chevy
Jan 23, 200345m★ 7.0
Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?
02 Biscuit Bazooka
Jan 23, 2003★ 8.0
Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?
03 Poppy-Seed Drug Test
Mar 7, 2003★ 8.5
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?
04 Exploding Toilet
Sep 23, 2003★ 8.0
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 will not leave evidence behind in its victim?
05 Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station
Oct 3, 2003★ 8.0
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?
06 Barrel of Bricks
Oct 10, 2003★ 8.3
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 hit the pulley holder?
07 Penny Drop
Oct 17, 2003★ 8.0
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 tooth fillings?
08 Buried Alive
Oct 24, 2003★ 8.5
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 cook a steak?
09 Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
Nov 7, 2003★ 8.5
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?
10 Stinky Car
Dec 5, 2003★ 8.0
Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?
11 Alcatraz Escape
Dec 12, 2003★ 8.5
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 experiments.