MythBusters
Season 13
201514 episodes
Episode 1
The Simpsons: D'oh!
Jan 10, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.7TMDB
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?
Episode 2
The Busters of the Lost Myths
Jan 17, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.7TMDB
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?
Episode 3
A-Team Special
Jan 24, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.3TMDB
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.
Episode 4
Video Game Special
Jan 31, 201543m
TMDB rating 9.0TMDB
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?
Episode 5
Transformers
Feb 7, 201543m
TMDB rating 9.0TMDB
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?
Episode 6
San Francisco Drift
Feb 14, 201543m
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB
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?
Episode 7
Blow It Out of the Water
Jul 18, 201542m
TMDB rating 8.0TMDB
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?
Episode 8
Flights of Fantasy
Jul 25, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.0TMDB
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?
Episode 9
Accidental Ammo
Aug 1, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.3TMDB
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.
Episode 10
Dangerous Driving
Aug 8, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.3TMDB
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?
Episode 11
Supernatural Shooters
Aug 15, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.7TMDB
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?
Episode 12
Unfinished Business
Aug 22, 201543m
TMDB rating 8.0TMDB
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?
Episode 13
MythBusters vs. Jaws
Aug 29, 201543m
TMDB rating 10.0TMDB
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."
Episode 14
Star Wars (2) - The Myths Strike Back
Sep 5, 201543m
TMDB rating 9.0TMDB
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).