Premieres: September 28
Airs: Wednesdays, 9pm
Network: Discovery Channel
Featuring Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, Grant Imahara
Hosted By Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage
What to Expect: New episodes start up for the fall season as hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, along with Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara, use experimentation to prove or disprove popular myths, misconceptions or legends.
Fall 2011 myths will include:
* Is it impossible for humans (without a point of reference) to walk in a straight line?
* Are motorcycles better for the environment than cars?
* Can you supersize a Newton’s Cradle to epic proportions?
* If a pigeon lands on the roof of a car, which is hanging precariously over a cliff’s edge, could it provide enough force to send the car plunging over the side?
* In a standoff between a hero with a revolver and a villain with a rocket propelled grenade (as seen in the movie Red), could the bullet trigger the warhead? And would the villain be taken out by the blast?
* Was the “flying guillotine” a lethal ancient weapon — or kung-fu make believe?
* Can you use duct tape to fix a plane that has been mauled by a bear? (As odd as this one sounds, it’s a story that has inundated the MythBusters fan site message boards for years.)
* Could a methane blast inside a sewer, blow manhole covers tens of feet into the air?
* Some call it indestructible, but can truck bed liners stop an animal attack? Prevent a car from being damaged? Make it bomb-proof?
* A behind-the-scenes look at the special locations MythBusters use to in their myth-busting tests, from Alameda to Africa and from the desert to the deep blue sea.
Where We Left Off: In the last original episode, Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage and the team investigated whether a convertible can outrun raindrops and tried some unique methods of popping corn.
What to Expect: Per Discovery: “To determine the truth behind urban legends, the MythBusters mix scientific method with gleeful curiosity and old-fashioned ingenuity. This fall they test myths such as ‘bullet dropped vs. bullet fired,’ ‘knocking your socks off,’ a second look at the popular ‘snow plow split’ myth and ‘101 uses for duct tape.’ Called ‘the best science show on television,’ ‘MythBusters’ was recently nominated for its first Emmy Award for outstanding reality program.”
