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MythBusters ''MythBusters'' is a science entertainment television program, developed by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. It was broadcast internation ...
'' perform experiments to verify or debunk
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s,
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s, and the like. This is a list of the myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). On March 16, 2011,
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announced that the 2011 season would commence airing on April 6, 2011.


Episode overview


Episode 160 – "Mission Impossible Mask"

* Original air date: April 6, 2011


Mission Impossible Face Off


Firearms Force


Episode 161 – "Blue Ice"

* Original air date: April 13, 2011


Bourne Magazine


Blue Ice


Episode 162 – "Running on Water"

* Original air date: April 20, 2011


Running on Water


What Is Bombproof?

The Build Team investigated the ability of everyday objects to reduce the likelihood of injury or death from an explosion. They began by detonating a charge of C-4, with rupture disks at various distances set to burst at (injury) and (instant death). Distances of were found to be the thresholds of the death and injury zones, respectively, due to the blast shock wave. For each object tested, they placed it at 10 and 20 feet, with rupture disks and a foam-cutout figure (to gauge shrapnel injuries) protected by it. They evaluated the question of surviving the shock wave by taking cover behind...


Episode 163 – "Bubble Trouble"

* Original air date: April 27, 2011


Bubble Trouble


Dynamite Axe


Episode 164 – "Torpedo Tastic"

* Original air date: May 4, 2011


Torpedo-Tastic


Exploding Wine


Episode 165 – "Blow Your Own Sail"

* Original air date: May 11, 2011


Sounds Bogus

Adam and Jamie compared movie sound effects to their real-world counterparts by recording samples of both. They looked into the realistic nature of...


Blow Your Own Sail


Episode 166 – "Spy Car 2"

* Original air date: May 18, 2011


Spy Car: The Revenge

A twist on " Spy Car Escape", with the focus on offensive rather than defensive methods to disable an enemy car. Adam and Jamie tested the use of...


Spinning Ice Bullets


Episode 167 – "Dodge a Bullet"

* Original air date: June 1, 2011


Dodge a Bullet


Water = Pavement


Episode 168 – "Fixing a Flat"

* Original air date: June 8, 2011


Fixin’ a Flat

Adam and Jamie tested three impromptu remedies for a flat tire in the wilderness, without a spare being available. At a 2-mile off-road hazard course, they set up a typical highway vehicle and cut into one tire. They tried to drive using... Next they investigated ways to remedy a flat tire in an urban setting, setting up a road obstacle course. They tested...


Flaming Reel


Episode SP15 – "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"

* Original air date: June 15, 2011 A countdown of the cast's 12 favorite myths involving forms of transportation.


Episode 169 – "Let There Be Light"

* Original air date: June 22, 2011


Let There Be Light


Bumper Cars


Episode 170 – "Paper Armor"

* Original air date: June 29, 2011


Depth Charge Disaster


Paper Armor


Episode 171 – "Bikes and Bazookas"

* Original air date: September 28, 2011 Starting this episode, the theme music is "rearranged and performed" by
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.


Bike vs. Car


Red Bazooka


Episode 172 – "Newton's Crane Cradle"

* Original air date: October 5, 2011


Wrecking Ball Baloney


Bird Balance


Episode 173 – "Walk a Straight Line"

* Original air date: October 12, 2011


Walking Straight


Binary Fender Bender


Episode 174 – "Duct Tape Plane"

* Original air date: October 19, 2011


Excavator Exuberance

Adam and Jamie investigated three viral videos involving
excavator Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural progression fr ...
s. They tested the machine's ability to...


Duct Tape Plane


Episode 175 – "Flying Guillotine"

* Original air date: October 26, 2011


C4 Cook-Off


The Flying Guillotine


Episode 176 – "Drain Disaster"

* Original air date: November 2, 2011


Drain Disaster


Bedlam-Proof Bedliner

The Build Team tested viewers’ claims concerning the toughness of spray-on truck
bedliner A truck bed liner, or simply a bed liner, is a protector applied or installed into a truck. It can be used to protect the bed of the truck from impact damage and abrasive damage. There are two broad classifications of bed liners: "Drop-in" and ...
resin. They investigated its ability to withstand...


Episode SP16 – "Location, Location, Location"

* Original air date: November 9, 2011 A countdown of the cast's 12 favourite locations for testing myths, with an emphasis on one myth that was tested at the location.


Episode SP17 – "Wet and Wild"

* Original air date: November 16, 2011 A countdown of the cast's 12 favorite myths involving water.


Episode 177 – "Wheel of Mythfortune"

* Original air date: November 23, 2011 Adam, Jamie, and the Build Team test four myths chosen at random from viewer submissions.


Pick a Door

Adam and Jamie tested the myths that when people were presented with the
Monty Hall problem The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based on the American television game show ''Let's Make a Deal'' and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) ...
, they would...


Grenade Shrapnel


Firearm Fashion

Adam and Jamie examined the effectiveness of handgun firing stances often used in movies to find out if they allow a handgun user to shoot faster and more accurately than the standard two-handed stance. They set up targets at and each took a turn firing 8 rounds from a .45 caliber pistol (16 rounds for the two-gun trials), evaluating their performance on a combination of speed and accuracy. The techniques they tested were... There was one more technique tested in the 2012 season that proved more effective than the control.


Flaming Tire


Episode 178 – "Toilet Bomb"

* Original air date: November 30, 2011


Toilet Bomb


Flock Formation


References

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External links


MythBusters Official site
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