The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is busted, plausible, or confirmed).
Adam and Jamie probe a potentially fatal three-way ricochet, while the Build Team tries to re-create medieval germ warfare by turning trees into catapults.
This episode was Jessi Combs's final appearance as a member of the Build Team.
Kari Byron returns to the series as of this episode.
These myths are based on countless car chase scenes from spy movies. The MythBusters try to test whether a pursuing car can be stopped or eluded using...
The MythBusters then built their own car-stopping devices. They then attempted to see if a pursuer could be stopped with...
Adam and Jamie subjected themselves to four painful stimuli—heat and electric current for Jamie, capsaicin (injected under the skin) and cold for Adam—and chose to use cold for their investigations. They then built a chair for test subjects to sit in, with an ice bath at 1 °C (34 °F) into which they would immerse one hand for as long as they could endure it, and imposed a 3-minute maximum. The following four myths were tested.
Jamie and Adam revisited the Compact Compact myth after fans complained about a claim Jamie made in the earlier episode. During the investigation, he had said that two cars hitting each other at 50 mph (80 km/h) is "equivalent to a single impact going into a solid wall at 100 miles an hour". This was disputed by fans claiming that according to Newton's third law, two cars hitting each other at 50 mph is the same as one car crashing into a wall at 50 mph.
The fans put forward a number of arguments, citing that the Build Team did not have a proper human analogue and that they used elastic socks instead of non-elastic ones. The Build Team also decided to see whether hairy or hairless legs would be a factor in the myth.
The MythBusters and the Build Team investigate whether the "handyman's secret weapon" can be used to...
Based on a viral video that can be found on YouTube, this myth was done by the MythBusters by fan request.
This myth was based on claims that delivery companies use programs that calculate routes using as few left turns as possible to maximize fuel efficiency.
Adam and Jamie explore three myths associated with the common cold.
This episode is a countdown of the cast's 25 favorite myths and moments to date, with comments from Adam, Jamie, and the Build Team. This was an 86-minute-long special.
This was a revisit of the Fool the Bloodhound myth from 2007. Adam and Jamie investigated new suggestions for evading detection by a scent hound, using the same dog (Morgan) and handler from that earlier episode. Given a five-minute head start, Jamie fled while using...
Adam and Jamie also explored a bloodhound's ability to single out a suspect from a group.
Four contraband-detecting dogs—Buck, Rex, Gypsy, Max—and their handlers took part in a series of tests arranged by the Build Team. They investigated the possibility of fooling the dogs by...
Adam and Jamie team up with Sean Casey and Reed Timmer (from the series Storm Chasers) to investigate myths related to the power of tornadoes. The Build Team does not take part in this episode.
The episode includes a memorial to Sanjay Singh, an EMT and "Honorary MythBuster" who died in 2010.
This myth is based on the popular saying "getting cold feet".
Adam and Jamie explore a large-scale version of an old magic trick, while the Build Team investigates a popular belief about brain activity.
As a tribute to their fans, the MythBusters randomly drew six fan-submitted letters and tested the myths and questions in them. One letter contained three separate myths, bringing the total number of tests in this episode to eight.
The MythBusters take a crack at a bee-related myth based on a viral video.
According to the Build Team, this was one of the most demanded myths from the fans. The popular theory is that since water refracts light, it would confuse flies' compound eyes.
President Obama challenges Adam and Jamie to revisit the Ancient Death Ray myth originally aired September 29, 2004, and subsequently followed up in a 2006 revisit.
Seth Rogen, star of the 2011 film The Green Hornet, gives the cast two myths to test concerning the Green Hornet's car, Black Beauty.
