Mythbusters

Adam and Jamie address a historical "what if" about the Operation Valkyrie Hitler assassination attempt, while Kari, Grant, and Tory explore the veracity of the saying that you can "slap some sense" into someone. Read More

It seems that Jamie Hyneman and Seth Rogen are friends, so Jamie brought him along for a whole MythBusters episode devoted to two myths about the souped-up, mid-1960s Chrysler Imperial nicknamed Black Beauty, from Seth's upcoming new movie, The Green Hornet. Read More

In this episode, President Obama presents the MythBusters with a challenge: revisit the Archimedes Death Ray myth one more time. Meanwhile, Kari, Grant, and Tory take on a scene from Hellboy where a punch to the hood of a car makes it somersault over Read More

One thing the MythBusters are known for is collecting myths that are somehow related to each other and presenting them in a theme show, which is what they did in this episode, the "Bug Special." Can honeybees really lift a laptop? Does plain old water Read More

The 2007 episode "Underwater Car" is credited with giving several people that we know of the knowledge necessary to be able to escape from a sinking car. The fans are not satisfied, however, so in this episode Adam once again puts his life on the line Read More

In this fast-paced episode, the team tackles a rumored sports car design flaw — that it's more aerodynamic going backwards than forwards — and a movie myth involving a surfboard as a lethal weapon in a highway pile-up. What will get your heart racing Read More

This week, the Mythbusters picked six fan-submitted myths that they could test quickly and packed them all into a single episode. It made for lots of excitement, a few surprises, and three times the usual number of confirmed/plausible/busted pronouncements! Read More

Adam and Jamie tackle the question of whether or not the ancient Greeks could have had a machine that fires arrows rapidly and accurately while Kari, Grant and Tory find out the extent to which sleep deprivation impairs a person's driving compared to Read More

You've probably seen the "magic trick" where someone pulls the tablecloth off of a table, leaving the things on it undisturbed. You've probably also been told at some point in your life that humans only use 10% of their brains. Mythbusters tackled both Read More

The Mythbusters are well-known for taking common idioms and adages and putting them to the test. In this episode, they've chosen two more sayings to investigate. If you enjoyed previous episodes of idiom-busting, then this episode is definitely for you. Read More

This week, the Mythbusters didn't bust any myths. Instead, Adam and Jamie teamed up with Sean Casey and Reed Timmer from Discovery's Storm Chasers to see if the vehicles they use when getting up close and personal with tornadoes are really up to the job. Read More

Mythbusters has once again gone to the dogs! While Adam and Jamie revisit ways to elude the nose of a bloodhound hot on the escaped convict's trail, Kari, Grant, and Tory try to figure out the best way to disguise the presence of illicit substances from Read More