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Myths: G – I
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| MYTH: Goldfish Memory |
| EPISODE(S): Episode 11: Sinking Titanic, Goldfish Memory, Trombone Explosion STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Gas Stations and Cell Phones |
| EPISODE(S): Episode 14: Myths Revisited STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Son of a Gun |
| EPISODE(S): Episode 30: Son of a Gun STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Breaking Glass |
| EPISODE(S): Episode 31: Breaking Glass STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Finger in a Barrel, Finger in a Barrel Revisited |
| EPISODE(S): Episode 43: Seasickness — Kill or Cure Episode 75: More Myths Revisited STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Great Gas Conspiracy |
| DESCRIPTION: Meanwhile, Adam and Jamie try to save viewers some hard-earned cash in the Great Gas Conspiracy. When the motor car was born, the great gas conspiracy was the afterbirth. According to conspiracy theorists, gas companies and car manufacturers deliberately make cars so that they guzzle fuel. Then, behind closed doors, the two groups share the profits. EPISODE(S): Episode 53: Exploding Pants,Great Gas Conspiracy STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Gun Scope Shot, Sniper Scope Revisited |
| DESCRIPTION: Saving Private Ryan might have been based on fact but what about the scene where one sniper kills another by shooting straight down the enemy's gun scope? EPISODE(S):Episode 67: Firearms Folklore, The Hammer Episode 75: More Myths Revisited STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Grenades and Guts |
| DESCRIPTION: If a person sacrifices his own life by jumping on a live grenade, will he actually save his buddies? EPISODE(S):Episode 81: Grenades and Guts STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Grenade on Ice |
| DESCRIPTION: Will submerging a grenade in water or putting it in a refrigerator prevent an explosion? EPISODE(S): Episode 81: Grenades and Guts STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Goldfinger |
| DESCRIPTION:In the 1964 James Bond classic, Goldfinger, the villain's secretary is murdered with the dreaded gold body paint, causing death by skin suffocation. If the producers would have left a small patch of skin unpainted at the base of her spine, would she have been saved? EPISODE(S): Pilot 3: Larry's Lawn-Chair Balloon, Goldfinger, Poppy-Seed Drug Test STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
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| MYTH: Hammer Bridge Drop |
| DESCRIPTION: Can a person really survive a leap from a bridge by throwing a hammer in the water first? EPISODE(S): Episode 5: Hammer Bridge Drop, Buried Alive, Cola STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Hollywood Gunfights |
| DESCRIPTION: Adam and Jamie test legendary Hollywood gunfights. EPISODE(S): Episode 25: Brown Note STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Explosive Hair Cream |
| DESCRIPTION: The MythBusters test the decapitation potential of hair cream. EPISODE(S): Episode 37: Escape Slide Parachute STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Helium Raft |
| DESCRIPTION: If you fill a normal raft with helium,can you fly? EPISODE(S): Episode 49: Cell Phones on Planes, Helium Raft STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Hollywood Break-Ins |
| DESCRIPTION: Are Hollywood break-ins complete hocus pocus, or can you really crack the tightest security systems in the world with nothing more than tight-fitting black clothes and a great soundtrack? EPISODE(S): Episode 54: Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 1 STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Stamp Tailspin |
| DESCRIPTION: Can posting a postage stamp on the rotor blades send a helicopter into a tailspin? EPISODE(S): Episode 57: Mentos and Soda, Stamp Tailspin STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Hurricane and Chicken Feathers |
| DESCRIPTION: Can a hurricane blow the feathers off a chicken? EPISODE(S): Episode 61: Deadly Straw, Hurricane and Chicken Feathers, Horticultural House of Horrors STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: Horticultural House of Horrors |
| DESCRIPTION: Tory and Kari embrace their sadistic sides and turn the workshop into a horticultural house of horrors. EPISODE(S): Episode 61: Deadly Straw, Hurricane and Chicken Feathers, Horticultural House of Horrors STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
| MYTH: The Hammer |
| DESCRIPTION: Kari, Grant and Tori go to great lengths to see whether humankind's first and simplest tool — the hammer — could be far more dangerous than you think. EPISODE(S): Episode 67: Firearms Folklore, The Hammer STATUS: ---- RELATED MYTHS: ---- |
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