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MythBusters: Season 8

Mythbusters

MythBusters: Season 8

Science Channel (2010)
TV Series | Documentary | Mystery
USA | English | Color | 20:07

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).


Episodes View details

1 Soda Cup Killer 51 min | Mar 24, 2010

Adam and Jamie talk trash and crash when they test whether a Styrofoam cup full of soda can be a lethal projectile when thrown from a car at high speeds. Does the cup penetrate the windshield of an oncoming car and seriously injure the driver? Jamie and Adam build a number of soda shooting cannons to see how deadly this myth really is, including a never-before-seen shoulder mounted cannon courtesy of Jamie. On a higher note, Grant, Tory and Jessi Combs (in her final episode with the team) test the classic silver screen cliché of the death defying hang. Are any of these actually viable? Using a helicopter and their wits, the team finds out if these hang times can happen.

2 Dive to Survive 51 min | Mar 31, 2010

Is it safer underwater when a boat on the surface explodes. Adam and Jamie intend to find out and it will take some major explosions to settle the question. Tory, Grant and Kari get to play with some high power guns to see if phone books work as a poor man's car armor.

3 Spy Car Escape 48 min | Apr 07, 2010

Adam and Jamie investigate the best way to lose a tail in Spy Car Escape. In Vector Vengeance, Kari, Grant and Tory take their myth from a fascinating physics "thought experiment."

4 Bottle Bash 51 min | Apr 14, 2010

Adam and Jamie test whether it's worse to get hit in the head with a full or an empty bottle, while the build team build various cannons made out of leather.

5 No Pain, No Gain 51 min | Apr 28, 2010

Rocketeers Tory, Kari and Grant try to launch a barbecue grill propane tank. Dr. Jamie and Mr. Adam torture their guests, co-workers and co-star to collect data on pain tolerance.

6 Mythssion Control 51 min | May 05, 2010

The Mythbusters respond to fan objections to their techniques in past episodes. Tory, Grant and Kari try again to knock some one out of his socks. Adam and Jamie test Jamie's assertion that a head on collision has the force of a collision with a wall at twice the speed.

7 Duct Tape Hour 2 51 min | May 12, 2010

Myth Busters reprises their duct tape episode. While the Daring Duo builds a duct tape bridge and risks a fifty foot fall, the Tenacious Trio crashes car after car to find out if duct tape can stop a speeding vehicle.

8 Waterslide Wipeout 51 min | May 19, 2010

Adam and Jamie try to recreate a You Tube video of a man sliding down a water slide, flying a hundred feet through the air and landing in a kiddie pool. The Trucker Trio checks out whether it is more efficient to forgo left turns even if right turns mean extra distance.

9 Fireball Stun Gun 51 min | Jun 02, 2010

The three rocketeers are back this time trying to launch a man into the air with an impressive battery of off the shelf sky rockets. Meanwhile, Adam and Jamie find out if pepper spray and a taser work in combination to act as a flame thrower.

10 Flu Fiction 49 min | Jun 09, 2010

Jamie, Adam, Kari, Grant and Tory take on snot, sneezes and decapitation by tornado.

11 Mythbusters Top 25 Moments 99 min | Jun 16, 2010

On this unique episode of MythBusters, Adam, Jamie, Kari, Tory and Grant get all nostalgic with a look back at their top 25 most celebrated MythBusters moments.

12 Hair of the Dog 51 min | Oct 06, 2010

On this episode of Mythbusters, we're testing two shaggy-dog tales that both put our crime-fighting canines to the ultimate test.

13 Storm Chasing Myths 51 min | Oct 13, 2010

Adam and Jamie use a 747 to simulate tornado force winds to test the Tornado Chasers armored vehicles and to design a personal tornado proof suit.

14 Cold Feet 51 min | Oct 20, 2010

The Mythbusters test whether being scared actually gives you cold feet, and find out what happens when the poop really does hit a fan.

15 Tablecloth Chaos 51 min | Oct 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?

16 Arrow Machine Gun 51 min | Nov 03, 2010

Is driving tired more dangerous than driving tipsy? Did the Ancient Greeks create an arrow "machine gun"?

17 Mini Myth Madness 51 min | Nov 10, 2010

Could your laptop save you from a speeding bullet? Is it easy to take candy from a baby?

18 Reverse Engineering 42 min | Nov 17, 2010

Jamie and Adam test whether a '70s sport car is as aerodynamic backward as forward, while Grant, Tory and Kari take a surfboard scene from Lethal Weapon 2 to task.

19 Inverted Underwater Car 51 min | Nov 24, 2010

Adams attempts to escape from an upside-down underwater car, while Kari, Grant and Tory take on "Kiss the Girls."

20 Bug Special 51 min | Dec 01, 2010

Can bees really lift a laptop? Does water repel flies? Can the impact with a bug kill a biker?

21 President's Challenge 51 min | Dec 08, 2010

President Obama challenges Jamie and Adam to retest the Archimedes Death Ray myth again, while Kari, Grant and Tory take on "Hellboy."

22 Green Hornet Special 51 min | Dec 15, 2010

Seth Rogen joins the MythBusters for two blockbusting stories from his film, The Green Hornet: Elevator Car Cut and Explosive Escape.

23 Operation Valkyrie 51 min | Dec 22, 2010

Adam and Jamie test the merits of a famous assassination attempt while Kari, Grant, and Tory face the pain to see if you really can 'slap some sense' into someone.

24 Hollywood Havoc | Jan 05, 2011

Cast View all

Grant Imahara Self - Host
Adam Savage Self - Host
Jamie Hyneman Self - Host
Robert Lee Self - Narrator
Kari Byron Self - Host
Tory Belleci Self - Host
Sean C. Casey Self - Storm Chaser
Reed Timmer Self - Storm Chaser
Ira Emsig Volunteer Guinea Pig
Jessi Combs Self - Host
Noah Diamond Volunteer Guinea Pig
Coda Gardner Volunteer Guinea Pig
Morgan Self - Scent expert
Morgan Freeman Alex Cross
Seth Rogen Self
Ashley Judd Kate Mctiernan
Barack Obama Self
Scottie Chapman Self - Builder
Jessie Nelson Self
Brady Ellison Self

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Nr Discs 1
Layers Single side, Single layer

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