Spoiler alert for those looking for an answer: milk is the only one that worked. Tory hid himself under a barrel with wheels, which was amusing, albeit unsuccessful. Kari went America Gladiators on us with a giant hamster ball that almost worked.
Then, of course, Grant built a robot. Specifically, it was a freaky-looking, but ultimately awesome robotic cat. This one seems so simple, and so small, but it was one of the best things to come out of the show. The trio tested the myth of whether or not you can fold a piece of paper more than seven times. The guys took a gigantic piece of paper, and with a huge crew and a steamroller and a forklift folded it 11 times.
You might not believe that seeing a piece of paper getting folded eight times makes for great television. Some of us would beg to differ. This was the final big, spectacle of awesome that The Build Team performed on the show.
In this episode we bore witness to two people standing on airplane wings attached to a moving truck hitting a tennis ball back and forth. Tory and a pro tennis player were on a truck going 35 miles per hour, were able to complete over five hits standing 32 feet apart. Being on an actual plane is the only thing that would have made this more impressive—but the myth as is was good enough.
The team got to tackle three skydiving myths from the seminal surfing bank robber movie Point Break , which meant that Grant also got to play Keanu Reeves in some cheap dramatizations of the film. Basically, it involved a bunch of people jumping out of a plane. But it was very entertaining, even if it robbed Point Break of some of the verisimilitude on which it thrives. The Build Team went back to the snowplow to see if a certain kind of plow could split a car in half.
This one was more successful than their first snowplow test, and we got to see cars get almost split in half, though none ever went all the way. That is, until they revisited things with the rocket sled, of course. At that point, they did split a car in half with a flying wedge that went miles per hour, and then disintegrated.
This was the best build Grant, Kari, and Tory ever pulled off. They constructed a seven-foot ball out of Legos. They used millions of Lego bricks, and the ball, when finished, weighed 3, pounds. It was a sight to behold. Then they rolled it down hill towards a car, but the ball fell apart. It was too beautiful for this world. Also, the test proved that a similar video on the internet was fake —a shocking revelation for us all. Mythbusters often tackled movie myths, and this was the best of them all.
If it works, and the boat sinks, there's a whole salvage issue. So we ended up towing the boat on land, and we then had to anchor this giant pylon in the middle of the runway at Alameda. And to make matters worse, it started raining. So we're out there arc welding in torrential rain, occasionally getting shocked by the welding equipment. It was successful in that we got the boat to hit the pylon, but we did not get a full bifurcation.
It was probably one of the worst days I've ever had building something on location. We attempt to build a parachute made only out of materials you can find in a hotel room. Kari, Tory, and I each came up with and built our own design, but it was too dangerous for us to try out our own parachutes.
We discussed doing it out over water, but in the end, we thought it was best to put Buster up to the task. Then we did small-scale tests with a bunch of materials that you could find in the rooms—sheets, duvet covers, shower curtains—and found the best material.
Then we calculated, based on that data, what size parachute we had to make. And then we made a mega parachute. Son of a Gun was a myth that during the Civil War, a musket ball went through a guy's testicles and into a gal's womb and impregnated her.
It was when we were more unregulated, and probably didn't have as many children watching, so to test it, we had to come up with a large sample of This was before we could collect it from doctors, so everybody in the shop donated some of theirs and brought it in.
I've personally given vomit, blood, urine, flatulence. I've not had to donate any fecal matter—but I have given my dogs', if that counts. It's a pretty weird job. We've done a lot of big explosions, but for me, the craziest explosion was Creamer Cannon. It's from a YouTube video where guys put coffee creamer over a lighter, and it makes this big poof of flame. We super-sized it: Giant air cannons and pounds of coffee creamer with flares on top. And poof! It looked like Apocalypse Now.
I swear it growled. And then the wind changed, and it started coming at us. We're used to working with things like C4 and propane, explosives that are known to be excitable, but we were a little too close to the range of the coffee creamer.
I had so much fear in my heart, I just started running. It was like, napalm of sugar balls falling from the sky. The cleanup was disgusting. For our Halloween special, we tested the smell of fear. To do that, we had to scare the crap out of each other. We picked out some different creepy crawlies that would be covering us as we were lying in a locked glass coffin until we were shaking and produced fear sweat, which is supposed to smell different than exercise sweat.
At one point I had a scorpion on my face. It was terrifying. The craziest myth we've ever done was when we dropped a car from a helicopter and had another car racing across the desert to see if the car on the ground was faster than the car falling from the sky.
It was from a luxury car commercial. And the logistics—there was this 30, foot safety zone that we couldn't be in, because this car was dropping from feet in the air. Being able to coordinate having the helicopter dropping a car, and having a remote control car racing to meet it, was one of the craziest things we've ever pulled off. The myth was that two semi trucks got in a head-on collision and were so mangled that they had to be pulled apart by workers at a junkyard, who discovered a compact car with a family in it between the trucks.
You can experience a smoother ride on a rough road by driving faster. It is not easy to light a pool of gasoline using a cigarette. The area near a fireplace is colder than the rest of the room while a fire is burning. Idioms It is easy to punch out of a paper bag. People can easily recognize the backs of their own hands. Taking candy from a baby is not as easy as it sounds. If poop hits a fan it can indeed create a large mess. You can teach an old dog new tricks. With an enormous amount of force, it is possible to literally knock someone's socks off.
In a race, it is not literally better to hit the ground running. You can polish poop. Shooting fish in a barrel is fairly easy; the shock wave from a bullet can be enough to kill the fish. A bull in a china shop will actively avoid hitting the shelves.
A rolling stone truly gathers no moss. Finding a needle in a haystack is difficult, even with modern technology. Movie Myths Hollywood movies were a frequent source of myths for the MythBusters. The scene in Cliffhanger in which the hero leaps to safety from a collapsing rope bridge is not feasible.
In Titanic , Jack may have been able to survive by joining Rose on the floating debris. Jason Bourne blowing up a house with a gas leak and a magazine in Bourne Supremacy is not feasible.
Shooting at a scuba tank in a shark's mouth will not blow up the shark, as seen in Jaws. Water can quickly slow a bullet to non-lethal speeds, as seen in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Realistic face masks like those in the Mission Impossible series may be effective at fooling people. In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , the group of people in a suspended cage could not have swung to side of the ravine , but they may have been able to grab the vines and climb to the top.
The pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl could not have improvised a submarine by holding a rowboat upside down as they walked underwater. Using a system of mirrors to light an underground passage with sunlight , as seen in The Mummy , is extremely difficult.
It's not feasible for a group of cars to stir up enough dust to blind a surveillance drone , as seen in Body of Lies.
It is not possible to hold a bullet over a fire and discharge it toward an enemy, as seen in Shoot 'Em Up. A merry-go-round cannot be started spinning by shooting at it with a handgun , as seen in Shoot 'Em Up. A spear with a shotgun shell on its tip is not a feasible weapon, as seen in The Grey. A car halfway into an elevator won't be cut in half when the elevator moves, as seen in The Green Hornet. With some modifications, the front half of a car cut in two can be driven, as seen in The Green Hornet.
Explosives cannot be used to throw a bulldozer off a car without hurting passengers in the car, as seen in The Green Hornet. A superhuman punch to the hood of a moving SUV will not cause it to somersault, as seen in Hellboy. In a car crash, a surfboard on the roof of one car will not fly through the windshield of another car, as seen in Lethal Weapon 2.
A carton of milk will not contain the muzzle flash of a pistol, as seen in Kiss the Girls. A bus could not jump a foot gap and keep driving , as seen in Speed. The passengers in a city bus do not need to move to one side during a fast, sharp turn to prevent the bus from flipping over, as seen in Speed. A human head dipped in liquid nitrogen for five seconds will not shatter when hit, as seen in Jason X.
A laser can pop popcorn , but popcorn could not break open a house as seen in Real Genius. Bullets cannot be curved around an obstacle by swinging a gun, as seen in Wanted.
A C-4 explosion will not knock a golf ball into the hole as seen in Caddyshack. Liquid nitrogen can be used to cool a pressure-triggered bomb and delay its detonation , as seen in Lethal Weapon 2. Sea water will not conduct electricity from a car battery as seen in Deep Blue Sea , nor can a person survive an underwater explosion at close distances.
Having a conversation while skydiving is not feasible and the fall wouldn't last as long as depicted in Point Break. A car that jumps off a ramp will not land with little damage, as see in The Dukes of Hazard. Shooting a lock with handguns will not break it, as seen in Big Trouble in Little China , but shooting it with shotgun slugs or a high-power rifle could.
It is feasible to equip a car with a discreet seat ejector , as seen in Austin Powers in Goldmember. A person cannot escape through a floor by shooting a ring around themself, as seen in Underworld.
A sword cannot cut off the blade of another sword , as seen in The Count of Monte Cristo. A sports car at high speed can skip across a lake , as seen in Cannonball , but launching off a ramp is counterproductive. A urine-soaked silk shirt will not bend prison bars when wrapped around and twisted, as seen in Shanghai Noon. A cable attaching the rear axle of a car to a light post will not yank the rear axle out, as seen in American Graffiti.
A car cannot fire a grappling hook around a pole to make a sharp turn , as seen in Batman. Making a usable candle out of earwax , as seen in Shrek , is not possible. It is not possible for a person to punch out of a coffin as depicted in Kill Bill and it is only possible to dig out of a shallow grave with an open coffin. The shock wave from an explosion will not throw a person long distances through the air. A car's fuel tank will not explode if shot with a normal bullet , but it may explode if shot with a tracer round.
A person will not be thrown backwards when struck by a bullet. During a rooftop chase, jumping into a dumpster may allow survival. Falling or jumping through glass windows without injury is not realistic. Quicksand does not exist with the characteristics show in movies. Carrying a dead body is reasonably easy, but digging a shallow grave is not. An axe is a more effective weapon against zombies than a gun.
It would be difficult to outrun a large zombie horde , but a barricaded door could stop them. If a car crashes through a sheet of glass held by workers , the workers will likely be injured. A large truck cannot plow through two lanes of traffic and continue undeterred, but it can if it has a steel wedge attached to its front. Most movie sound effects for punches and explosions are not realistic, but the sound effects for rattle snakes and silenced guns are realistic.
It is not easy to drive a car and shoot a gun while the passenger steers. A driver and passenger in a car can switch seats while moving at speed , and the passenger can push out an incapacitated driver and continue driving.
A car cannot realistically be driven through a fruit stand or a camper trailer , but it could be driven through a chain link gate or under a semi-trailer. A person can hold onto the roof or hood of a car while it crashes through cardboard boxes or goes through a car wash , but not while it makes a big turn or zig-zags. If the windows are down, it is easier to hold on to the roof. During a sudden stop, the hood can be held onto but not the bare roof.
Movie gun fights are unrealistically long and running through gunfire does not protect a person from being hit. Neon signs will not explode in a shower of sparks if struck by a bullet. It is possible to quickly reload and fire a pistol , as seen in movies. A person can only hang on to a thin ledge briefly before falling, but it is possible for a single person to rescue someone hanging from a ledge.
A car in free fall will not stay upright. A person can hang off the landing skid of a helicopter and climb into it. Indiana Jones Throwing a wooden pole into the spokes of a motorcycle will not cause it to flip, as seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indiana Jones running through a corridor of dart launchers without getting injured in Raiders of the Lost Ark is plausible.
It is plausible to disarm a pistol-wielding opponent using a whip, as seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark. It may be possible to snag a branch with a whip and swing across a chasm, as seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A person may be able to survive falling through layers of awnings , as seen in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Jumping from a plane and floating to earth safely in an inflatable life raft , as seen in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , is not possible.
James Bond The ballpoint pen bomb seen in Golden Eye could be fatal, but not as powerful as depicted. Being completely covered in gold paint will not kill a person by skin asphyxiation, as seen in Goldfinger. A tuxedo worn under a dry suit can still be presentable after a scuba dive, as seen in Goldfinger. A metal-brimmed hat could not be thrown to knock the head off a statue , as seen in Goldfinger.
A person with metal teeth could not bite through a steel cable , as seen in Moonraker. Bond's wristwatch with electromagnets could not deflect bullets, as seen in Live and Let Die. Shooting at a propane tank will not cause it to explode, as seen in Casino Royale. In Live and Let Die , the speedboat jumping off a ramp and continuing on is feasible. In Die Another Day , Bond's rocket-powered seat ejector would not be able to right his upside-down car. Star Wars Dodging Stormtrooper blaster fire is not feasible.
Luke Skywalker swinging across a chasm using his grappling hook is feasible, as seen in A New Hope. Television A stick of dynamite dropped in a bucket of paint will not fully paint the room, as seen in Mr. A shotgun plugged by a finger will not backfire and injure the shooter, as seen in cartoons.
A line of black powder leaking from a barrel may be able to function like a fuse, as seen in cartoons. A banana peel on the ground is not guaranteed to make someone fall when they step on it, as seen in cartoons. A car can drive into a moving semi-trailer via a ramp , as seen in Knight Rider. The scene in The Simpsons where Homer blocks a wrecking ball with his body has some feasibility.
The crab pots used on Deadliest Catch are not indestructible. A manhole cover could potentially be launched by an explosion to disable a vehicle, as seen in The A-Team.
The improvised cannon made of a log in The A-Team is not feasible. A mattress floating on water is not effective at cushioning a three-story fall, as seen in Burn Notice. In Breaking Bad , Walt's machine gun booby trap could work as depicted, but hydrofluoric acid will not fully decompose a body and eat through a bathtub , and Mercury fulminate will not explode if thrown on the floor. MacGyver A burnt-out fuse can be repaired with tin foil , as shown in MacGyver.
MacGyver could have stopped an acid leak with a chocolate bar. A bomb in a truck filled with cement will damage the truck and injure bystanders, not be fully contained as shown in MacGyver. The makeshift ultralight airplane in MacGyver is not feasible. Spraying a light bulb with liquid from a spray bottle can break it, as shown in MacGyver.
It may be possible to blow open a lock with black powder from revolver cartridges, but it is not as easy as shown in MacGyver. Implausible Events A limousine balanced on the edge of a cliff will not topple if a bird lands on it. A soldier who strapped jet-assisted take-off JATO rockets to his car could not have soared over a mile through the air. A person in a lawn chair can be lifted by weather balloons and a child can be lifted by a huge number of party balloons. Transforming a broken-down car into a working motorcycle with only basic hand tools is not feasible.
A drum filled with methanol can't be fitted with wheels and ignited to propel itself at high speed. If a truck filled with bottled wine catches fire , the corks will blow out and sound like a machine gun.
An arrow with dynamite attached will not split a tree down the middle when it explodes. Sliding down a supersized water slide and launching large distances into a kiddie pool is not feasible. A stick of dynamite thrown under a car on a frozen lake will not cause the car to sink. If a person is dragged by a horse , their jeans will not catch fire. A person wearing jeans cannot be killed from the jeans shrinking excessively in a hot bath.
A car airbag cannot launch a toothpick into a person's skull. A trombonist could not have launched his mute with a firecracker , knocking over the conductor and blowing open his trombone.
A Corvette cannot act as a ramp enabling another car to do a barrel roll. It is not possible for a person to catch a bullet with their teeth. Illegal immigrants could not be launched over the U. A woman could not have been impregnated by a bullet which had also hit a man's groin during the American Civil War.
Overusing "bug bombs" can cause a house to explode. The Red Cross does not implant microchips in your bloodstream when you donate blood. Pyramid power , primary perception , and psionic helmets have no basis in science. These were the few paranormal topics to appear in the series; the MythBusters later avoided them. A scuba diver cannot be sucked up by a firefighting helicopter and dumped onto a fire. A certain series of Rube Goldberg-like accidents involving a barrel of bricks is not realistic.
Launching a human with water bottle rockets is not feasible. An umbrella that shoots poison capsules could be a lethal weapon. Surviving Falls Falling out of an airplane is not survivable if a bomb explodes below you. A person cannot survive a free-falling elevator by jumping at the last moment before it hits the ground.
A high fall over water cannot be survived by throwing a hammer to break the surface tension of the water. It is not feasible to improvise a parachute from materials in a hotel room. A person falling from a building cannot survive by holding a large sheet of plywood above their head or by opening an umbrella.
An inflatable Zorb ball is not effective at cushioning a fall. A person wrapped in bubble wrap will not survive a significant fall. A skydiver could not have fallen onto a seesaw and safely launched a child to the top of a seven-story building. A car door cannot be unlocked using a tennis ball to force air into the lock.
Some optical fingerprint readers can be fooled by a fingerprint etched in latex, a fingerprint in ballistics gel, and a paper copy that has been licked. A heat detector can be fooled using a sheet of glass or a fire proximity suit.
It will not be fooled by cooling one's body or heating the room, by being covered in mud, or by wearing a diving suit. A motion detector can be fooled by moving very slowing or by holding a bed sheet in front of you, but not by wearing heavily-padded clothing.
Laser beam detectors cannot be dodged using night vision goggles or cosmetic powder to reveal them, or by pointing another laser at the detector. A thief may be able to fill a safe with water and open it using an explosive, without damaging the contents. Climbing an air duct using magnets or suction cups is possible, but too noisy to be useful.
Suction cups could also be used to climb a building. Glass cannot be silently cut open by gently cutting a circle and removing it with a suction cup, but drilling a hole does work without too much noise. A pressure sensor under an item could be carefully squeezed with knife and then held down with tape while the item is taken.
A modern safe cannot be cracked using a stethoscope , but it could be cracked by drilling a hole and visually aligning the tumblers. Escaping Prison Escaping from Alcatraz using rafts made from rain ponchos is feasible. It could be possible, over years, to corrode prison bars using salsa. Steel prison bars can be cut using dental floss and toothpaste , but it takes a very long time.
Dissolving a stockpile of antacid tablets to generate pressure will not help someone bust out of jail. A prisoner could not have escaped alive by loading ball-and-chain into a cannon and firing himself over the prison wall. A horse could not pull the bars out a prison window. A stick of dynamite would more likely kill a prisoner than help the prisoner escape. A prison inmate may be able to make a lethal crossbow out of newspaper. Standing in a doorway is not the safest thing to do in an earthquake ; rather: "drop, cover, and hold on.
The equinoxes are not the only days you can balance an egg on its end. Specially built vehicles can withstand tornadoes and it is possible to build a portable tornado shelter. A tornado can propel window glass with enough speed to decapitate a person.
It is not best to leave windows open during a hurricane. Metal body piercings do not attract lighting , nor do metal-cleated shoes. An avalanche will not be caused by a person yodeling, the sound of whip cracking, or people firing small guns at the mountain. A piece of straw will not penetrate through a palm tree if propelled by hurricane-force winds. Wind alone cannot blow the feathers off a chicken.
A tidal whirlpool cannot sink a container ship or fishing trawler, but it could sink a person. During a lightning storm, a person can be electrocuted by talking on a corded phone and possibly by taking a shower.
Lightning striking a kite has fatal results; Benjamin Franklin may have experimented with a kite but he probably was not struck by lightning. A bullet fired into the surface of a frozen lake can spin like a top after impact. Swimming in bubbling water may be impossible. Folding a piece of paper in half more than seven times is possible.
A ball thrown backwards from a moving vehicle , at the same speed as the vehicle, will fall straight down. A lock becomes easier to break when frozen with liquid nitrogen. Objects of different mass fall at the same rate. A bullet fired horizontally will land at the same time as a bullet dropped from the same height.
Diamonds cannot be fabricated by combining chemicals in a pressure cooker, by putting charcoal and peanut butter in a microwave, or by cooling molten graphite and iron. Diamonds can be made , however, by compressing graphite with a huge amount of explosives.
Pykrete is stronger than ice and it can be used to make a functional, but impractical, boat. Dropping alkali metals into water will not create huge explosions, and sodium and water will not blow a hole in a wall. The tensioned strings in a burning piano will not pop.
A small car can be lifted into the air by fire hoses. Greenhouse gases do increase the amount of heat absorbed by air. Cows emit greenhouse gases and cow manure can be used to generate electricity. Sound waves can put out a flame , but an unamplified human voice cannot. Anti-gravity is not possible. A pool of dense gas can make a tin foil boat appear to float in the air. A compressed air cylinder can blast itself through a concrete wall, but a boat cannot be effectively powered by one.
A car sound system cannot quickly shatter all the windows ; when one window breaks the pressure has a path to escape. A black car will heat up faster than a white one. It is possible to get free energy using a coil of wire under a power line , but getting enough to power a house is not practical.
A train will not be derailed if coins are placed on the tracks. Metronomes will synchronize on a sliding platform , but an excessive number will not. Soldiers marching on a bridge could cause a harmonic oscillation resulting in a collapse, but it is very unlikely.
A frozen chicken penetrates aircraft and train windshields better than a thawed one. A glass of water can superheat in a microwave and boil over dangerously when removed. Walking over hot coals is possible because ash forms an insulating layer and because the contact time is brief.
If thrown into a fire, a fire extinguisher can explode and put the fire out , depending on the type of fire extinguisher. Making a stun gun that delivers a shock over a stream of water is possible but highly impractical. An oversized Newton's cradle using wrecking balls will not work. Fire can be started by a bullet fired from a musket, by polishing a soda can with chocolate, by rubbing two sticks together, by a car battery and steel wool, or by focusing light with ice.
Sounds cannot be recovered from the grooves of old pottery.
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