Penny Drop

1Jet-Assisted Chevy

45 minJan 23, 2003

Can a '67 Chevy turn into a 350-mile-per-hour road warrior? Are Pop Rocks candy and soda a recipe for disaster?

2Biscuit Bazooka

Jan 23, 2003

Can a person get stuck to an airline toilet while it's in flight? Is there such a thing as a biscuit bazooka?

3Poppy-Seed Drug Test

Mar 7, 2003

Can a poppy-seed bagel tilt the results of a drug test? Can balloons carry a lawn chair? If you cover your body in gold paint, will you be able to breathe? Or could you die from it?

4Exploding Toilet

Sep 23, 2003

Can you explode a toilet by flushing flammables down the bowl then lighting a match? Do you get wetter running or walking in the rain? Can you really make a "magic bullet" that will not leave evidence behind in its victim?

5Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station

Oct 3, 2003

Can chatting on a cell phone while pumping gas cause the pump to blow up? Will silicone breast implants burst under pressure? Can high-speed CD-ROM players really shatter a CD?

6Barrel of Bricks

Oct 10, 2003

Is it dangerous to pee on the electrified third rail of a train track? Can an eel-skin wallet erase the information on your credit cards? Can a 500-pound barrel of bricks really hit the pulley holder?

7Penny Drop

Oct 17, 2003Now viewing

Can a penny dropped from a skyscraper kill a person below? Is it possible to "bake yourself" on a tanning bed? Did Lucille Ball expose a spy ring by hearing radio signals from her tooth fillings?

8Buried Alive

Oct 24, 2003

Could a person survive a leap from a bridge by throwing a hammer in the water first? Is it possible to survive being buried alive? Can cola really remove bloodstains, clean rust or cook a steak?

9Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing

Nov 7, 2003

Is it possible to make a cannon out of a tree? Could a drunk person really fool a Breathalyzer test? Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?

10Stinky Car

Dec 5, 2003

Is the myth of the stinky car true? Is the "raccoon in the drain" myth true? Will our MythBusters become human cannonballs?

11Alcatraz Escape

Dec 12, 2003

Could prisoners really have escaped Alcatraz without a trace? Does a duck's quack echo? Can a stud finder really prove if human beings have been guinea pigs in mind-control experiments.