8.5/10114 votesLoading...#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.
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8.2/10176 votesLoading...#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.
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8.1/10530 votesLoading...#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.
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8.1/10227 votesLoading...#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?
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8.1/10147 votesLoading...#5 - 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?
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8.1/10188 votesLoading...#6 - 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?
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8.1/10122 votesLoading...#7 - 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?
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8.0/10230 votesLoading...#8 - 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.
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8.0/10167 votesLoading...#9 - 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.
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8.0/10153 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
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8.0/10294 votesLoading...#11 - 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?
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8.0/10175 votesLoading...#12 - 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?
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7.9/10168 votesLoading...#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?
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7.9/10197 votesLoading...#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.
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7.9/1096 votesLoading...#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?
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7.8/10172 votesLoading...#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?
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7.8/10180 votesLoading...#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?
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7.8/10140 votesLoading...#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.
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7.8/10162 votesLoading...#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?
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7.8/10140 votesLoading...#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?
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7.8/10100 votesLoading...#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.
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7.7/10179 votesLoading...#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?
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7.7/10168 votesLoading...#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?
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7.7/10168 votesLoading...#24 - Quicksand
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/20/2004
Can you really murder someone by dropping an electrical appliance into a bathtub? Does a tattoo react with an MRI's rays? Will killer quicksand take down the MythBusters?
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7.7/10173 votesLoading...#25 - 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?
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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 114 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".