MythBusters (2003 season)
| MythBusters (2003 season) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Australia United States |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Discovery Channel |
| Original release | September 23 – December 12, 2003 |
| Season chronology | |
The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed).
The show's first season used "True" instead of "Confirmed"; for the sake of consistency, "Confirmed" will be used on this page.
This myth tested the feasibility of that can be used to assassinate without leaving evidence, used as a plot device or otherwise mentioned in many movies, such as Most Wanted or Three Days of the Condor. A request for information to the Central Intelligence Agency was declined. Due to the myth's inclusion in many Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, they chose to use a Carcano rifle similar to the assassination weapon for testing.
This experiment formally introduced Buster the crash test dummy.
Inspired by e-mails leading to some gas stations discouraging cell phone use during refueling, and also because at the time of the episode, there were 150 gas station fires annually in America.
This is also known as the myth that birthed two memorable MythBusters one-liners - Jamie's "Jamie wants big boom" and Adam's "Am I missing an eyebrow?"
However, the first test was a failure on both counts, so the two of them scaled back down to find the right mixture. It was during one of these tests that confirmed that static electricity combined with a potent fuel-air mixture could cause an explosion that Adam singed off his eyebrow - and, according to Jamie, a chunk of his hair.
With renewed vigor and knowledge of proper fuel-air mixtures, they returned to the Stoke Gas Museum, but found that neither the cell phone nor the panty-static generator caused explosions even with large amounts of the ideal fuel-air mixture inside the chamber, thus busting the myth. They did finally get an explosion when they added a neon transformer to the chamber, which blew the chamber into two halves and left the car seat on fire (Adam and Jamie had wired the chamber with a fail point so that it would be a safe failure and not cause shrapnel in case of a large explosion.)
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