Mythbusters Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Episode 1In Confederate Rocket Adam, Jamie and the build team join forces to find out if the Confederate Army had a secret deadly weapon. When the height of sophistication was the steam engine, could the Confederate army really have built the world's first long range missile?
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Episode 2 - Episode 2Take two tow trucks, two semi trailers, a small European car and five Mythbusters and what do you get? Well with any luck, a precision collision that beats any crash yet seen on the show. After the head on from hell, you'll be needing a stiff one, so settle back and sample some myths about one of America's favourite alcoholic drinks.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3In this episode, Adam and Jamie turn the Mythbusters shop into a boot camp, while the build team head off to their very own Cape Canaveral-San Francisco Bay-where they attempt to simulate a home made rocket powered flight, with Kari as the reluctant astronaut.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4In this new episode, the MythBusters help cure the sick, they find a way to save dollars for drivers and they even prolong human life by helping prevent cartoon copycat killings! Who else offers you so much?
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Episode 5 - Episode 5In this episode, Adam and Jamie unleash a deadly myth from a supermax prison, which sees them try to make a deadly weapon out of nothing more dangerous than newspaper and underwear. While they are being tested to their wits end, Grant, Kari and Tory unscrew the cap on some more vodka myths-the latest in an occasional series of tall tales about the popular Russian tipple.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6The Mystery of the Shredded Plane. Sounds like a Hardy Boys adventure and sure enough, those daring detectives Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman set out to solve an aviation riddle.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7In this episode, Adam and Jamie turn jock as they step outside their comfort zone to tackle a famous sporting myth and discover that just as White Men Can't Jump, the Mythbusters can't punt! While they try to kick some sense into their footballing conundrum, Kari, Tory and Grant test out if you can really catch a speeding bullet in your teeth.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8This episode of Mythbusters is, as the great football pundits would say, a game of two halves. On the one hand, there's the team investigating a world-famous myth that has become a cornerstone of American history. While on the other hand, Adam and Jamie probe some rather unpleasant facts about flatulence! As said up top, in this episode, there's ping and then there's pong, literally.
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Episode 9 - Episode 9In Helium Raft, get set for the biggest Mythbusters build ever. And yet it all starts so simply. The myth states that if you can fly if you fill a normal raft with helium, because helium is lighter than air.
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Episode 10 - Episode 10In this episode, Adam and Jamie investigate another trigger-happy myth, which takes them out to one of their favourite hunting grounds-the Mojave Desert.
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Episode 11 - Episode 11A Mythbusters episode without controversy is about as rare as a duck in a tree. But in this episode, there's more controversy than a year's worth of Jerry Springer, as the team returns to some of the most controversial myths - the myths that generated a truck load of angry fan mail - and puts them back under the microscope.
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Episode 12 - Episode 12In Exploding Paint Adam and Jamie do a little painting and detonating when they attempt to blow wide open a home improvement myth. The story, from the TV archives, shows a lazy British comedian using dynamite to decorate.
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Episode 13 - Episode 13These days, there are fashion disasters aplenty. Just pick up any celebrity magazine and you'll find who's dressing hot and who's not. Whether it be outrageous at the Oscars or minging it at MTV, fashion faux pas are an every day occurrence.
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Episode 14 - Episode 14Archimedes: to some he is the greatest mathematician the world has ever seen. To others, he is a philosophical inventor without parallel. But to the Mythbusters, he's proving to be one big pain in the neck.
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Episode 15 - Episode 15In Whirlpool of Death, Adam and Jamie get sucked into a major maritime mythtery. Are there whirlpools powerful enough to swallow entire ships?
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Episode 16 - Episode 16In Great Hollywood Heists, the whole team, Adam, Jamie, Tory, Grant and Kari put these movie myths to the test with extraordinary results.
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Episode 17 - Episode 17In Crimes and Myth-demeanours, the team is going up against the latest real-world alarm solutions to see whether they can live up to their claims.
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Episode 18 - Episode 18It's an episode of automotive madness as the Mythbusters rev up and get down when they test two car myths.
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Episode 19 - Episode 19The Mythbusters have a great respect for plant life but in this episode they turn into botanical bad-guys.
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Episode 20 - Episode 20Take one 19th century scientific savant. Two 21st century mythbusters add one incredible tale of an earthquake machine and watch the earth move!
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Episode 21 - Episode 21In Mentos & Soda Adam and Jamie are trying to figure out the theory behind the chaos when diet cola and mentos mix. Inspired by an internet phenomenon The Mythbusters take on the controversy surrounding these fizzy fountains.
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Episode 22 - Episode 22Jamie and Adam test a theory that if a cable at high tension snaps, it can slice a person clean in two.
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Episode 23 - Episode 23In Concrete Glider, Adam and Jamie test the old engineering challenge that 'like a lead balloon you can't make a concrete glider fly'. And there's nothing like a challenge to focus the Mythbusters massive minds!
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Episode 24 - Episode 24Put simply, this episode puts all our MythBusters 'U.E.P.'- under extreme pressure. Adam and Jamie have unfinished business from their 'Shark Week' special, where they shot and then exploded a SCUBA tank.
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Episode 25 - Episode 25Myths Revisited offers Jamie and Adam the chance to clear their name! Returning to the most controversial myths, they repeat them to see if their original answer was genuine or bogus. There's laughter, danger and attitude as the MythBusters fight for their rights!
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Episode 26 - Episode 26Jamie and Adam have a gas exploring the myth of the 'Exploding Lighter' - that a small, disposable lighter can suddenly ignite with the force of several sticks of dynamite.
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Episode 27 - Episode 27In Hand Grenade Hero, Adam and Jamie test a military myth of explosive proportions.
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Episode 28 - Episode 28Just when you think Adam and Jamie have tested every gun legend in history, they come up with three more myths. All have a real-life history, and some have since been adapted for the movies. Meantime, Kari, Grant and Tori go to great lengths to see whether mankind's first and simplest tool could be far more dangerous than you think.
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Episode 29 - Episode 29Jamie and Adam take the plunge on a myth that originated in WWll and detonate the biggest explosion in Mythbusters history!
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Episode 30 - Episode 30Not a show goes by without some disgruntled fan writing an angry email to say that Adam and Jamie messed something up, so the fans were asked to put their money where their mouths are in this MailBag Special.
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