The BEST episodes of MythBusters season 2010
Every episode of MythBusters season 2010, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MythBusters season 2010!
So exactly how hard is it to find a needle in a haystack, anyway? And can water dripping on your forehead really drive you nuts? Those are the kinds of questions, myths and urban legends that are put to the test in this humorous series to find out which ones hold water (and keep it from dripping on your forehead and driving you insane).
#1 - Inverted Underwater Car
Season 2010 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/24/2010
In a twist on a previous myth, Jamie and Adam test whether you can escape from a car that goes belly-up underwater. Kari, Grant, and Tory test whether you can keep a gunshot from igniting a gas-filled room by shooting through a carton of milk.
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#2 - Green Hornet Special
Season 2010 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/15/2010
Seth Rogen, star and writer of the superhero blockbuster 'The Green Hornet,' joins the team for two blockbusting stories.
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#3 - Duct Tape Hour 2
Season 2010 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/2010
In this second Duct Tape stick-tacular, Adam and Jamie set up a challenge that will take the tape's strength, adhesion and load-bearing capability to the absolute limit. Meanwhile Kari, Grant and Tory are all wrapped up busting duct tape automotive myths.
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#4 - Bug Special
Season 2010 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/8/2010
On this episode of MythBusters, it's revenge of the creepy crawlies as the team tests if bees can lift a laptop, if water repels flies, and if hitting a bug while riding a motorcycle can be deadly.
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#5 - Cold Feet
Season 2010 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/20/2010
If the “poop hits the fan,” does everyone get covered in the ensuing chaos? When you “get cold feet,” do your feet really get cold?
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#6 - President's Challenge
Season 2010 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/8/2010
President Obama challenges the Mythbusters to revisit the Ancient Death Ray myth (Ancient Death Ray) originally aired September 29, 2004.
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#7 - Mythssion Control
Season 2010 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/2010
On this Episode of MythBusters the fans take command in Mythssion Control. First up it's Hyneman vs Newton. Then - Kari, Grant and Tory are back in the school of hard knocks, as they retest knock your socks off.
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#8 - Fireball Stun Gun
Season 2010 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/2/2010
Jamie and Adam investigate if pepper spray plus a stun gun can cause a fireball. Also the team attempt to discover if a man launched himself 150 feet with fireworks?
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#9 - Table Cloth Chaos
Season 2010 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/27/2010
Can a motorcycle pull a tablecloth out from under a setting for a banquet? Do humans really only use 10% of their brain?
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#10 - Spy Car Escape
Season 2010 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/7/2010
On this episode of MythBusters, it's spy vs. spy as Adam and Jamie investigate the best way to lose a tail in a car chase. These intrepid investigators test three of the all-time movie classics: tacks, smoke, and oil all launched from the trunk of a moving car. Jamie and Adam not only design and install the weapon systems, they take turns as 'pursued' and 'pursuer.' In a fascinating physics 'thought experiment,' Kari, Grant and Tory explore whether an object fired backwards from a vehicle moving forwards assuming both speeds are exactly the same will simply fall straight to the ground. Common sense says it should, but science is not as straightforward.
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#11 - Reverse Engineering
Season 2010 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/17/2010
Stay in your lane for this episode of MythBusters, because Jaime and Adam are putting the pedal to the metal - backwards. And if that wasn't enough for you then Kari, Grant and Tory turf some surf-boards... with a little help from an SUV.
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#12 - Waterslide Wipeout
Season 2010 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/19/2010
On this wet and wild episode, Adam and Jamie tackle the biggest, dirtiest, most vertigo inducing build in MythBusters history while Kari, Tory and Grant deliver the goods, to find out if taking only right turns can save you gas.
#13 - Arrow Machine Gun
Season 2010 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/3/2010
Did the Greeks create an arrow machine gun that offered the speed, distance and precision that modern machine guns do? Is driving while tired is as bad as — or worse than — driving while tipsy?
#14 - Hair of the Dog
Season 2010 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/6/2010
The gang test two shaggy-dog tales that both put our crime-fighting canines to the ultimate test.
#15 - Operation Valkyrie
Season 2010 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/22/2010
Adam and Jamie weigh in on a famous assassination attempt; Kari, Grant and Tory try to determine if one can really can “slap some sense” into someone.
#16 - Boomerang Bullet
Season 2010 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2010
Can ricochets of a bullet fired by you kill you in a closed space? And a Monty Python myth with a bouncing castle.
#17 - No Pain No Gain, Propane Tank Rocket
Season 2010 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/2010
On this episode of MythBusters, Adam and Jamie both become "lab rats" for science. In "No Pain, No Gain", they test a myth that touches us all: are some types of people really more tolerant to pain?
#18 - Storm Chasing Myths
Season 2010 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/13/2010
This special episode of MythBusters is quite literally a perfect storm. That's because Adam and Jamie are putting tornadoes to the test, and joining them for this special episode are none other than The Storm Chasers - Reed Timmer and Sean Casey.
#19 - Soda Cup Killer
Season 2010 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/2010
This episode of MYTHBUSTERS mixes a killer cocktail of lethal littering and high-flying action movie action. In cup vs. car, Adam and Jamie tackle a tall tale of trash and crash. Can a Styrofoam cup of soda, thrown from a car at highway speeds, penetrate the windshield of an oncoming car and seriously injure the unfortunate driver? It sounds far-fetched, but Adam and Jamie discover how much damage a drink can really do. Tory, Grant and Jessi find out if film ‘fall guys’ can really hang on to the side of a building, Hollywood-style. Just about every action movie has a variation on the death-defying cling, but is it actually viable? The team tests their limits using their wits and a fake chopper.
#20 - Flu Fiction
Season 2010 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/9/2010
Jamie, Adam, Kari, Grant and Tory take on snot, sneezes and decapitation by tornado.
#21 - Mini Myth Madness
Season 2010 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/10/2010
The viewer ideas just keep on coming and in this Request Fest special the team randomly select six bite sized mini myths to test.
#22 - Bottle Bash
Season 2010 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/2010
Adam and Jamie get feisty with a bar fight fable while Kari, Grant and Tory investigate a ballistic material mystery from history. Forensic scientists have supposedly discovered that you'd be worse off having an empty beer bottle smashed over your head as opposed to a full one. Sounds counter intuitive, no? To get to the bottom of the bottle mystery, Adam and Jamie begin the brawl by bashing Buster, a pig, Mr. Jell-O Head and something they dreamed up called Meat Head. Meanwhile, Kari, Grant and Tory challenge the concept of a leather cannon. According to historical documents, ancient Swedish and Irish armies used animal hides to build their cannons. There is no written record of how successful these leather cannons really were, so the testing was rather explosive.
#23 - Dive to Survive
Season 2010 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/2010
More Hollywood hi-jinks are explored in this episode of MythBusters. First up, Adam and Jamie plunge head first into a climactic cinema cliché: to survive a blast by the bad guys, the good guys dive underwater and resurface unscathed. Can a deep dive really save you from imminent annihilation? Kari Byron returns from maternity leave with a vengeance when she, Grant and Tory call for directory assistance. According to on-screen espionage scenarios, lining the inside of a car’s doors with a layer of phonebooks will bulletproof the car. But can you believe everything you see?