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The Best Episodes of MythBusters

Every episode of MythBusters ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of MythBusters!

MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Grand Finale" is the best rated episode of "MythBusters". It scored 8.5/10 based on 113 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/5/2016. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Exploding Water Heater".

  • Grand Finale
    8.5/10113 votes
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    #1 - Grand Finale

    Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2016

    Since 2002, Adam and Jamie have used science to separate fact from fiction in spectacular style! But, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end and MythBusters is no exception. Luckily, the guys are going out with a bang and then some: an RV gets blown to kingdom come, Buster goes supersonic, Adam takes the most wild ride imaginable and ... well, Cement Truck. It all boils down to a cement truck filled with 5,000 pounds of ANFO as the MythBusters sign off in style.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Exploding Water Heater
    8.2/10176 votes
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    #2 - Exploding Water Heater

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 11/7/2007

    Can an ordinary water heater build up so much pressure that it rockets through the roof and into the atmosphere? Meanwhile, Tory, Grant, and Kari try on some all-American myths about blue jeans.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vodka Myths
    8.1/10529 votes
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    #3 - Vodka Myths

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 11/2/2005

    Can a pair of trucks in a high-speed, head-on collision be fused together sealing the drivers between them? Also, Kari hosts some urban legends about Russia's national drink, vodka.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Viral Hour
    8.1/10227 votes
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    #4 - Viral Hour

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 9/3/2008

    Can a car be blasted 15 feet in the air with the water pressure from 10 fire hoses? Can ordinary sawdust when airblasted through a flame explode into a catastrophic fireball? Do goats really faint?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Duct Tape Island
    8.1/10191 votes
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    #5 - Duct Tape Island

    Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/2012

    Abandoned on a Hawaiian island, Jamie and Adam find themselves armed with nothing but the sticky silver adhesive. Can they use it to source water, find food, build shelter, and even escape?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Flights of Fantasy
    8.1/10122 votes
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    #6 - Flights of Fantasy

    Season 13 Episode 8 - Aired 7/25/2015

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Alcatraz Escape
    8.0/10229 votes
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    #7 - Alcatraz Escape

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2003

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crimes and Myth-Demeanors (1)
    8.0/10166 votes
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    #8 - Crimes and Myth-Demeanors (1)

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 7/12/2006

    Are Hollywood break-ins complete hocus pocus? The team tries to tiptoe their way around a laser system before facing the mother of all safes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crimes and Myth-Demeanors (2)
    8.0/10152 votes
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    #9 - Crimes and Myth-Demeanors (2)

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 8/23/2006

    It's "lights, camera, action!" time again for the MythBusters, as they test more Hollywood heists. This time, our cat burglars Adam and Jamie go cold as they try to beat a heat-detecting alarm sensor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mega Movie Myths
    8.0/10293 votes
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    #10 - Mega Movie Myths

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 9/13/2006

    Can you use awnings to cushion your fall? Is there really such a thing as a car ejector seat? Can you chop a sword with another sword Is it possible to shoot through a door lock?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Underwater Car
    8.0/10175 votes
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    #11 - Underwater Car

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2007

    Can you escape a submerged car? Is it possible to fold an 8"x11" piece of paper in half more than seven times? On the flip side, can the team create a piece of paper that's the size of a football field?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Demolition Derby
    8.0/10147 votes
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    #12 - Demolition Derby

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 4/8/2009

    Is the movie Speed just fake film physics? Will a car dropped from 4,000 feet fall faster than a speeding car? Is the compact conundrum of a two-truck head-on collision a myth?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mentos and Soda
    7.9/10168 votes
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    #13 - Mentos and Soda

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 8/9/2006

    Adam and Jamie try to figure out the theory behind the chaos when diet cola and Mentos mix. Can posting a postage stamp on the rotor blades send a helicopter into a tailspin?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • MacGyver Myths
    7.9/10197 votes
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    #14 - MacGyver Myths

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2008

    Jamie and Adam try to blow a hole in a wall using pure sodium metal dropped in a water bottle. The build team tries building an ultralight airplane with raw bamboo, a small stolen engine, and duct tape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Explosion Special
    7.9/1095 votes
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    #15 - The Explosion Special

    Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2016

    The MythBusters celebrate their explosive history with two spectacular big bangs. In MacGyver Cement Truck, our mullet-wearing hero discovers a mail truck full of TNT. Thinking quickly (as he does), MacGyver has a nearby cement truck dump its load onto the truck to smother the bomb. But would it work in real life? Then in Hovercraft Hijinks the guys tackle the one explosive technology they've yet to come across: landmines. Can a minefield really be safely traversed in a hovercraft?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Holiday Special
    7.8/10172 votes
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    #16 - Holiday Special

    Season 4 Episode 27 - Aired 12/6/2006

    Can six reindeer run fast enough to launch an ultralite glider? Does one burn more calories jogging Naked in the snow or by putting on an Airtight jogging suit and running in a hot desert?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pirate Special (1)
    7.8/10180 votes
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    #17 - Pirate Special (1)

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2007

    Are cannonballs more deadly than the splinters sprayed from a mighty broadside blast? Why would a pirate wear a patch over a perfectly good eye?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Airplane Hour
    7.8/10141 votes
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    #18 - Airplane Hour

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 12/12/2007

    Jamie and Adam take wing to test if a person with no flight training can safely land an airplane. Tory, Grant, and Kari jump on some Hollywood-inspired skydiving myths.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lead Balloon
    7.8/10162 votes
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    #19 - Lead Balloon

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2008

    Can Adam and Jamie get a lead balloon to fly? Is it possible to drop a couple sticks of dynamite into a lake and create ideal surfing conditions?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Busters of the Lost Myths
    7.8/10141 votes
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    #20 - The Busters of the Lost Myths

    Season 13 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2015

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Reddit Special
    7.8/1099 votes
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    #21 - Reddit Special

    Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/2016

    Adam and Jamie put MythBusters in the hands of redditors, choosing from several thousand of their suggestions. In Farting on FLIR Jamie and Adam address the reddit community's request to know if a viral video purporting to show a flatus show up on an infrared camera is real or fake. Then in Ball Fall, Buster has a tough day at the office, testing whether a person would survive a 1,000-foot drop inside an inflatable ball. Paper Bag Punch sees Adam explore how easy it really is to punch your way out of a aper bag. And finally the most popular request was a gratuitous spectacular explosion. So in Snoo Boom the MythBusters oblige by blowing up reddit's mascot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Buried in Concrete
    7.7/10179 votes
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    #22 - Buried in Concrete

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/2004

    Will Jamie and Adam find Jimmy Hoffa, who is allegedly buried in concrete? Can the power and force of a 737 launch a taxicab 75 feet in the air? Is the daddy longlegs the most venomous spider?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Elevator of Death, Levitation Machine
    7.7/10168 votes
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    #23 - Elevator of Death, Levitation Machine

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/6/2004

    If an elevator suddenly falls, can you save yourself in the nick of time by jumping just before it hits bottom? Will the MythBusters be able to create a homemade levitation machine?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Salsa Escape
    7.7/10172 votes
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    #24 - Salsa Escape

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/2005

    Adam and Jamie go head to head in a madcap Mexican jailbreak as they taste-test the theory of the Salsa Escape. Can you use dynamite to remove cement build-up from a mixer's barrel?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Killer Brace Position
    7.7/10142 votes
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    #25 - Killer Brace Position

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2005

    Is talking on your cell phone while driving more dangerous than driving drunk? The MythBusters test the efficacy of that familiar brace position that airlines outline in their safety procedures.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A