The Mythbusters Cast

Adam

Jamie

Myths Tested

• #897: You can achieve fame and fortune by making webcomics. Busted.
• #910: Smoking is bad for your health. Busted.
• #921, #927: Choking on a giant frog is fatal. Confirmed.
• #940: You will be rewarded for remaining loyal. Busted.
• #947: Death waits for no man. Confirmed. (see also #1790)
• #960: You see a white light during a near-death experience. Busted.
• #980: Nothing is certain but Death and Taxes. Busted.
• #983: Adding pineapple to gelatin dessert does something interesting. Busted.
• #1022: US Customs performs full strip and body cavity searches. Confirmed.
• #1028: There exist humourless government Men in Black. Plausible.
• #1058: Great white sharks are man-eaters. Not confirmed...
• #1093: Jumping a shark makes the quality of a TV series drop. No result.
• #1161: Webcomic artists switch comics on April Fool's Day. Confirmed.
• #1180: Biting a bullet dulls the pain of surgery. No result.
• #1188: A Nazi can catch a package falling from a zeppelin by jumping out after it. Busted.
• #1240: Working with traditional hatmaking chemicals can make you go mad. Busted.
• #1255: The dead cannot communicate with the living. Busted.
• #1273: The Infinite Featureless Plane of Death is featureless. Busted.
• #1280: The Infinite Featureless Plane of Death is infinite. Busted.
• #1312: You can avoid death by defeating Death at chess. Busted.
• #1326: Adam can't mythbust his way out of a paper bag. Busted.
• #1351: It's possible to contact the dead with a seance. No result.
• #1370: Everyone speaks English. Busted.
• #1375: You can keep a disembodied brain alive with Nazi technology. Confirmed.
• #1387: Dead men tell no tales. Busted.
• #1452: Kevin Bacon really appeared on Irregular Webomic! Confirmed.
• #1524: Martians exist. Confirmed.
• #1560: Martians have landed on Earth. Confirmed.
• #1607: Hollandaise has to contain egg yolks. No result.
• #1654: AK-47s are so reliable they will fire perfectly after a year submerged in a peat bog. Busted.
• #1666: There is life after death. Confirmed.
• #1677: The grass is always greener on The Other Side. Busted.
• #1694: AK-47s are so reliable they will fire perfectly after a year submerged in a peat bog. Busted again, for good measure.
• #1699: There is politics in Hell. Confirmed.
• #1706: Parallel lines meet at infinity. No result.
• #1714: You can't argue with Death. Busted.
• #1732: In an emergency, anyone can perform surgery by following written instructions. No result.
• #1754: AK-47s are so reliable they will fire perfectly after a year submerged in a peat bog. Redacted to plausible.
• #1774: You can remove a tooth safely with a string and a doorknob. No result.
• #1790: No man waits for Death. Busted. (see also #947)
• #1802: The Infinite Featureless Plane of Death is big enough to fit an IKEA store in. No result.
• #1812: Cogito ergo sum. Busted.
• #1848: It's "1, 2, 3, go," not "go on 3". Busted.
• #1869: Black as Hades. Busted.
• #1877: Charon, Ferryman of the Underworld, takes American Express. Busted.
• #1915: Drinking from the waters of the River Lethe erases all memories. Confirmed.
• #1953: Drinking from the waters of the River Mnemosyne restores all memories. Confirmed.
• #1953: Sirens lure sailors to their deaths. Confirmed.
• #1960: Drinking from the waters of the River Mnemosyne actually grants omniscience. Confirmed.
• #1960: The Riemann hypothesis is true. Confirmed.
• #2024: The world goes on without you. Confirmed.
• #2081: Time travel exists. Confirmed.
• #2081: Parallel universes exist. Confirmed.
• #2162: If you kill your past selves, you create a paradox that tears apart the very fabric of the universe. Confirmed.
• #2188: God created the Universe in 7 days. Busted.
• #2367: You can make a vow that if you ever get your hands on time machine plans, you can come back and put them somewhere can find them now. Confirmed.
• #2389: Time travel leads to paradoxes. Confirmed.
• #2433: An alien flying saucer crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Busted?
• #2441: The near future will have flying cars. Busted.
• #2523: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" is a good pick-up line. Busted.
• #2523: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" is a truly horrible pick-up line. Confirmed.
• #2528: Alcohol impairs judgement. Confirmed.
• #2537: You can become your own grandfather with time travel. Confirmed.
• #2597: You can become your own grandfather with time travel. Confirmed again for good measure.
• #2669: Greatness is often linked with insanity. Confirmed again for good measure.
• #2669: You can build a time machine using instructions off the Internet. Confirmed.
• #2698: There was a huge queue of inventors lined up to patent time machines on the day the US Patent Office first opened in 1790. No result.
• #2704: Greek mythology is true. Confirmed.
• #2745: You only die once. Busted.
• #2765: Mars is inhabited by aliens. Confirmed.
• #2765: Mars is inhabited by a dying race of aliens. Confirmed.
• #2765: Mars is inhabited by aliens of superior intellect. Busted.
• #2915: Time travel results in the Nazis winning World War II. Confirmed.
• #3108: The Rapture will occur some time soon. Busted, scientifically.
• #3129: It's possible to escape from a sealed, shark-infested tank of water while handcuffed and bound in chains. Confirmed.
• #3134: Cutting away and not showing the action scene really annoys the audience. Confirmed.
• #3381: All good things must come to an end. Busted.
• #3419: Atlantis really existed. Plausible. Plausible.
• #3428: Everyone knows metric is superior to Imperial units. Busted.
• #3448: Atlantis is to be found in the Atlantic Ocean. Confirmed.
• #3458: Atlantis was destroyed. Confirmed.
• #3458: Gods will smite those who curse them. Busted.
• #3480: The Mythbusters TV show has been cancelled. Busted.
• #3485: There is a parallel universe in which the Mythbusters TV show has been cancelled. Busted.
• #3492: The Loch Ness Monster exists. Confirmed... or is it? Plausible. Plausible.
• #3530: Websites that say "Cheapest Flights - Best Advance Bookings". Confirmed.
• #3544: Glaswegians are particularly angry and violent. Confirmed.
• #3609: People ride bicycles up and down hills for fun. Busted.
• #3626: Urquhart Castle is haunted. No result.
• #3626: Urquhart Castle is the best place to spot the Loch Ness Monster. No result.
• #3626: Urquhart Castle has any sort of plumbing. Busted.
• #3679: All Scots are engineers. Confirmed.
• #3755: Putting a steam engine in a submarine is a stupid thing to do. Confirmed.
• #3880: A method of writing dramatic escapes in fiction is to write yourself into a corner, to force yourself to come up with a solution. Busted.
• #3902: You can challenge Death to a contest for your life. Confirmed.
• #3933: Death is a one-way trip. Busted.
• #3952: You can cheat Death by exercising more and eating better. Busted.
• #3958: You can cheat Death by being in a TV show and having nobody find your body. Confirmed.
• #4090: You will get hypothermia very quickly swimming in Loch Ness. Confirmed.
• #4100: Alcohol warms you up if you're feeling cold. Busted.
• #4110: The Loch Ness Monster is attracted to whisky. No result.
• #4129: It's dangerous to be on open water in a thunderstorm. Confirmed.
• #4140: Wearing metal armour in a thunderstorm lets you survive a lightning strike. Busted.
• #4287: It's possible to get drunk from a blood transfusion from a drunk person. Confirmed.
• #4351: This needle won't hurt a bit. No result.
• #4386: Hangover cures: Hair of the dog. Busted.
• #4393: Hangover cures: Full Irish breakfast. Busted.
• #4400: Hangover cures: Jellied eels. Busted.
• #4411: Hangover cures: Menudo soup. Busted.
• #4411: Hangover cures: Pickled sheep's eyeballs. Busted.
• #4423: Hangover cures: Pickled herrings. Busted.
• #4423: Hangover cures: Sheep's lungs. Busted.
• #4435: Hangover cures: Time and rest. Plausible.
• #4681: Strigoi exist in Transylvania. Confirmed.
• #4945: Vampire bites can cause you to lose your memory. Confirmed.