Season 1

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  7.3/10312 votes

  Jet-Assisted Chevy

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2003

  Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?

  Director: Unknown

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  7.2/10262 votes

  Biscuit Bazooka

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2003

  Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?

  Director: Unknown

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  7.5/10239 votes

  Poppy-Seed Drug Test

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/2003

  Can a poppy-seed bagel tilt the results of a drug test? Can balloons carry a lawn chair? If you cover your body in gold paint, will you be able to breathe? Or could you die from it?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10277 votes

  Exploding Toilet

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/2003

  Can you explode a toilet by flushing flammables down the bowl then lighting a match? Do you get wetter running or walking in the rain? Can you really make a "magic bullet" that will not leave evidence behind in its victim?

  Director: Unknown

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  7.4/10268 votes

  Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/2003

  Can chatting on a cell phone while pumping gas cause the pump to blow up? Will silicone breast implants burst under pressure? Can high-speed CD-ROM players really shatter a CD?

  Director: Unknown

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  7.4/10266 votes

  Barrel of Bricks

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/2003

  Is it dangerous to pee on the electrified third rail of a train track? Can an eel-skin wallet erase the information on your credit cards? Can a 500-pound barrel of bricks really hit the pulley holder?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10239 votes

  Penny Drop

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/2003

  Can a penny dropped from a skyscraper kill a person below? Is it possible to "bake yourself" on a tanning bed? Did Lucille Ball expose a spy ring by hearing radio signals from her tooth fillings?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/10236 votes

  Buried Alive

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/2003

  Could a person survive a leap from a bridge by throwing a hammer in the water first? Is it possible to survive being buried alive? Can cola really remove bloodstains, clean rust or cook a steak?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/10224 votes

  Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/2003

  Is it possible to make a cannon out of a tree? Could a drunk person really fool a Breathalyzer test? Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?

  Director: Unknown

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  7.4/10225 votes

  Stinky Car

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2003

  Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/10241 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown