MythBusters
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 9/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 9/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 7/10
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Peter Rees
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Peter Rees
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MythBusters Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | ||
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| S1 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.0 | |||||||||||
| S2 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 7.4 | ||||||||||||||
| S3 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.3 | |||||
| S4 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.6 | |
| S5 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.7 | ||||
| S6 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.2 | ||||||||
| S7 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.2 | |||||
| S8 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 7.9 | |||||
| S9 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.4 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.1 | |||||||
| S10 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.5 | ||||||||
| S11 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 6.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| S12 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.3 | ||||||||||||||
| S13 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 6.5 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.9 | |||||||||||||||
| S14 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 8.4 | 7.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| S15 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
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About
"Curiosity, explosions, and rigorous homemade science"
A team of special-effects experts and engineers tests popular myths, urban legends, movie stunts, and viral claims using science, homemade rigs, and a lot of controlled explosions. The setup is simple, but the joy is in the process: hypothesis, jury-rigged experiments, cheerful trial and error, and a genuine curiosity that never talks down to the audience. It is breezy, funny, and oddly educational without feeling like homework. The hosts' chemistry and willingness to blow things up in the name of science carry it, making even mundane myths feel like an event.
Watch it for
the giddy spectacle of smart people testing absurd claims with real experiments and bigger explosions than necessary.
Maybe skip if
you want tight narrative arcs rather than standalone, loosely connected experiments each episode.
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All Seasons
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Season 12003
7.44K1813h 12m
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Season 22004
7.33K1512h 23m
Tory Belleci, Scottie Chapman and Mythtern Christine Chamberlain make their first appearances this season. Folklorist Heather Joseph-Witham makes her final appearance this season.
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Season 32005
7.44K2420h 24m
Scottie Chapman and Mythtern Christine Chamberlain leave the series this season. Grant Imahara joins the cast.
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Season 42006
7.55K2822h 27m
The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. The holiday special episode in this season was the first time MythBusters was broadcast in high definition.
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Season 52007
7.54K2520h 14m
In another exciting season, Jamie and Adam test the stuff of nightmares in an underwater car, and seek to prove if you can fold paper more than seven times. The team also goes out of this world to put four classic hypnosis hypotheses under the microscope. They even tackle classic western myths: historical and current, horse and car, guns and explosions. What more could you possibly want?
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Season 62008
7.53K2114h 12m
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Season 72009
7.43K2419h 22m
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Season 82010
7.23K2420h 7m
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Season 92011
7.03K2217h 52m
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Season 102012
7.03K2116h 10m
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Season 112013
7.01K118h 26m
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Season 122014
7.32K1511h 41m
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Season 132015
7.32K1410h 7m
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Season 142016
7.61K128h 24m
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Season 152017
4.5926149h 11m
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Robert Lee Self - Narrator
Jamie Hyneman Self - Host
Adam Savage Self - Host
Kari Byron Self - Host, Self - Builder, Self
Tory Belleci Self - Host, Self - Builder
Grant Imahara Self - Host, Self - Builder
Scottie Chapman Self - Builder, Self, Self - Guest Builder
Heather Joseph-Witham Self - Folklorist
Christine Chamberlain Self - Shop Assistant
Frank Doyle Self, Self - Retired FBI Agent
Crew
Peter Rees
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