Season 13 (2015)
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Episodes 14
The Simpsons: D'oh!
Finally, the MythBusters meet the Simpsons! Will putting a cherry bomb in a toilet block cause all toilets to erupt with a violent fountain? Can an obese human (sorry, Homer) absorb the impact of a wrecking ball?
Read MoreThe Busters of the Lost Myths
Adam LOVED this one, as you can imagine. Can a whip make your enemy drop his gun? Can you wrap a whip around a log and swing across a chasm? Could Indy have outrun a rolling boulder? Could Indy had survived a Mayan temple run through the various booby traps?
Read MoreA-Team Special
Jamie and Adam find out if it's really possible to build a working cannon out of stuff abandoned in a barn, then test whether a sewer explosion can really take out the bad guys without serious injury.
Read MoreVideo Game Special
Jamie and Adam -- with the help of UFC fighter Brendan Schaub and the makers of DOOM -- test how many weapons you can really take with you and remain operational. And can you really chop fruit a la Fruit Ninja?
Read MoreTransformers
Adam and Jamie tackle two tall tales of mechanical metamorphosis: Is it possible to convert a 2CV into a motorbike? Can you use water bottles to create an amphibious bicycle?
Read MoreSan Francisco Drift
Jamie and Adam tackled two tall tales from the world of street racing. Does drifting really get to your destination faster? And does drifting help you park faster?
Read MoreBlow It Out of the Water
Having come to represent the concept of 'overwhelming victory', this saying originally came from submarines in WW2 who were able to use torpedoes to literally blow an enemy ship up and out of the water. But is this really possible? And in the Breaking Bad season finale, Walter White took down every single bad guy with a simple crank shaft, remote control and M60. Potential reality or just fiction?
Read MoreFlights of Fantasy
Drone deliveries are on their way. But are those fast-spinning blades just an accident waiting to happen? And is the U-2 really the toughest aircraft in regular use to fly and land?
Read MoreAccidental Ammo
Jamie and Adam tackle another gruesome story about a pane of glass falling from a construction site and cutting an innocent bystander completely in half from head to toe. Then Jamie builds a Lawnmower From Hell also find out whether a stone shot from a mower can have the same power as a bullet shot from a .357.
Read MoreDangerous Driving
Is it as dangerous to use hands free as it is to use a cell phone while driving? Is it really straightforward to drive at high speed in reverse?
Read MoreSupernatural Shooters
Adam and Jamie take aim at Hollywood's infallible hit men and their seemingly supernatural ability to take down a target. First up, can an armed assassin use a single well-placed shot to kill his victim on the other side of a wall? Do interior walls truly provide such little protection, and can you really track an unseen target this way?
Read MoreUnfinished Business
Can you hold onto a grenade for longer than two hours? Can you really change a magazine in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment? Can video games make you better at real-life tasks, like golf? And can you really stop a car by using hollow spikes?
Read MoreMythBusters vs. Jaws
Jamie and Adam revisit Jaws' final scene, which they'd taken on in 2005's Exploding Scuba Tank. Will the results be different with a giant anatomically accurate shark and a bigger gun? Then the duo test two repellents: the sound of orcas and essence of "dead shark."
Read MoreStar Wars (2) - The Myths Strike Back
Star Wars provides further fodder when Jamie and Adam see whether high ground really is important in a duel, and whether it's possible to dive out of the way of laser blaster bullets (well, a Stormtroopers', anyway).
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