MythBusters — Season 9
Failure is always an option.
About this season
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 Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
Episodes (21)
1. Mission Impossible Mask
8.3Aired 6 April 2011 • 60 min
Can realistic facial masks be used to bypass security measures as shown in the Mission: Impossible? Is it possible to start a merry-go-round spinning by shooting bullets at it, as depicted in Shoot 'Em Up? Is it possible to knock a dropped gun out of reach by hitting it with bullets fired from another one?
2. Blue Ice
8.5Aired 13 April 2011
Can a magazine and toaster be used to blow up a room full of flammable gas, as depicted in The Bourne Supremacy? Can the contents of an airplane toilet leak out mid-flight and freeze into a lethal projectile?
3. Running on Water
8.7Aired 20 April 2011
Adam and Jamie take on a viral video, while Kari, Grant, and Tory explore which common items can be bombproof.
4. Bubble Trouble
8.0Aired 27 April 2011
The MythBusters see whether it's possible to stay afloat in bubbly water, and whether an arrow packed with explosives can split a tree in two.
5. Torpedo Tastic
9.0Aired 4 May 2011
Did the world's first torpedo really strike a boat with a deadly payload at 800 feet? Can corks in wine bottles be turned into projectiles if exposed to enough pressure?
6. Blow Your Own Sail
9.0Aired 11 May 2011
Adam and Jamie put Hollywood sound effects up against reality, and Kari, Grant and Tory find out if you are adrift on a sailboat with no wind, can you propel your boat with a fan?
7. Spy Car (2)
9.0Aired 18 May 2011
Can you really shoot accurately with guns mounted on the hood of a car? Will a bullet just spin if shot at a frozen lake?
8. Dodge a Bullet
8.5Aired 1 June 2011
Adam and Jamie test if you can jump out of the way of a bullet, while Kari, Grant and Tory find out if hitting the water is just like hitting pavement after a fall.
9. Fixing a Flat
9.0Aired 8 June 2011
How do you fix a flat when you don't have a spare tire? Can a fast fish cause your reel to catch fire?
10. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
10.0Aired 15 June 2011
The MythBusters count down -- and give you insight into -- their favorite transportation moments.
11. Let There be Light
8.5Aired 22 June 2011
Jamie and Adam take on The Mummy, while Kari, Grant and Tory try to stop an out-of-control car without another car.
12. Paper Armor
8.0Aired 29 June 2011
Adam and Jamie explore the physics of shock waves in water, while Kari, Grant and Tory find out if paper battle armor can compare to steel.
13. Bikes and Bazookas
9.0Aired 28 September 2011
Adam and Jamie test the myth that a motorcycle is a greener and cleaner machine than a car, while Kari, Tory, and Grant unleash the first RPG in MythBusters history to see if a bullet could take out a bazooka.
14. Newton's Crane Cradle
9.0Aired 5 October 2011
Jamie and Adam test a viral video that supersizes Newton's cradle using wrecking balls, while Kari, Grant, and Tory tackle whether a bird landing on your hood is enough to tip your car off a cliff.
15. Walk a Straight Line
9.0Aired 12 October 2011
Is it impossible for humans (without a point of reference) to walk in a straight line, such as when they're blindfolded? Will binary explosives, well, explode in the case of a fender bender? The MythBusters are on the case.
16. Duct Tape Plane
9.0Aired 19 October 2011 • 60 min
Adam and Jamie test three viral videos featuring the extraordinary excavator: Can it really row a barge? Be used to go wakeboarding? Perform seemingly impossible feats of acrobatics? Then -- using only duct tape -- Kari, Grant, and Tory attempt to patch up a plane that's had an unfortunate encounter with a bear.
17. Flying Guillotine
9.0Aired 26 October 2011
Jamie and Adam explore whether it's safe to use the explosive C4 as a cooking fuel as long as you don't drop anything on it, while Kari, Grant, and Tory put a Chinese martial-arts myth to the test.
18. Drain Disaster
9.0Aired 2 November 2011
Find out whether a sewer drain full of combustible gas, when ignited, will turn an innocent manhole cover into a missile, and whether truck bedliners are truly bite, crash, and bomb proof.
19. Wet and Wild
10.0Aired 16 November 2011
When it comes to H2O, the MythBusters are never shy about putting their bodies on the line, riding the world's biggest waterslide, deep-sea diving in a suit of armor and swimming in syrup. Go behind the scenes of the 12 wettest myths of all time.
20. Wheel of Mythfortune
9.0Aired 23 November 2011
By spinning the Wheel of Mythfortune, the MythBusters find themselves taking on five random viewer-suggested myths with titles like the "Monty Hall Paradox," "Lumber Car," "Firearm Fashion," "Hit the Deck" and "Flaming Tire." Keep those ideas coming!
21. Toilet Bomb
9.0Aired 30 November 2011
Adam and Jamie tackle a blockbuster bathroom bomb (from Lethal Weapon), while Kari, Tory, and Grant take to the skies to find out if flying in V-formation works for airplanes as well as it does for birds.