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All episodes Season 2 S02E01 2003-09-23 47 min 2000s Discovery

MythBusters

Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet

TV Flash files “Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet” as a desk essential hour — MythBusters (2003–2016) on Discovery, season 2, episode 1, aired 2003-09-23, 47 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 4 of 273 in the MythBusters guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 2003-09-23 (47 min). The listed hour before it is “Poppy-Seed Drug Test” (S01E03). Next is “Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs” (S02E02).

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet”. Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet is the triple-stack premiere: the show's grocery-list titles as the whole comic thesis.

MythBusters — Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet (S02E01)

Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Episode #4 – "Exploding Toilet" Myths tested: Can a person be propelled off a toilet seat by dropping a lit cigarette into a toilet bowl when filled with various combustible materials? Is running better than walking to keep dry in the rain? Is it possible to make a "magic bullet" out of ice? Tested myths include magic ice bullets, thought to kill without a clue and is it worth running in the rain, where Adam and Jamie see which gets you drier, running or walking in the rain. To test if you can explode a toilet, the Mythbusters get a crash-test dummy that they name Buster.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet sit in the MythBusters guide?

S02E01 is listed hour 4 of 273 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.

When did MythBusters S02E01 air?

Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet aired 2003-09-23 and is listed at 47 minutes.

Is MythBusters just explosions?

Explosions for the cheap seats after the hypothesis. Special-effects experts treating urban legends as lab assignments — confirmed or busted as the ritual.

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Why this series still plays

Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage treat urban legends like lab assignments, then detonate the hypothesis for the cheap seats. MythBusters made STEM mass entertainment: goggles, build-team chaos, and the confirmed-or-busted verdict ritual that turned method into a good time.

Someone on that lot said blow something up for the cheap seats, and then they did it with a hypothesis. Peter Rees's MythBusters (2003–2016) put Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage on Discovery as a global science-popularization hit: special-effects experts testing urban legends and movie physics, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara on the build team, goggles as the carpet look, confirmed-or-busted as the verdict ritual. Education as entertainment. STEM as mass-market catchphrase culture. Twenty seasons in this…

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