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All episodes Season 2 S02E04 2003-10-17 47 min 2000s Discovery

MythBusters

Penny Drop, Microwave Madness!, Radio Fillings

TV Flash files “Penny Drop, Microwave Madness!, Radio Fillings” as hour 7 of 273 in the TV Flash guide — MythBusters (2003–2016) on Discovery, season 2, episode 4, aired 2003-10-17, 47 min.

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This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 7 of 273 in the MythBusters guide, hour 4 of 13 in season 2. It aired 2003-10-17 (47 min). The listed hour before it is “Barrel of Bricks, Peeing on the Third Rail, EEL Skin Wallet” (S02E03). Next is “Buried Alive!!!, 101 Uses for Cola, Hammer Jump” (S02E05).

MythBusters — Penny Drop, Microwave Madness!, Radio Fillings (S02E04)

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Episode #7 – "Penny Drop" Myths tested: Will a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building kill a person or penetrate the ground? Can a person's internal organs be cooked by a tanning booth? Can tooth fillings receive radio waves? Jamie and Adam test whether a penny dropped from a skyscraper will embed in concrete and whether it is possible to pick up radio signals through tooth fillings. The team finds out the terminal velocity of a penny and make a penny cannon, then shot it at a pigs scull. This showed if a penny being dropping at terminal velocity can kill someone. Can you be baked to death on a tanning bed They also examine several myths surrounding microwave ovens.

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Where does Penny Drop, Microwave Madness!, Radio Fillings sit in the MythBusters guide?

S02E04 is listed hour 7 of 273 — hour 4 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.

When did MythBusters S02E04 air?

Penny Drop, Microwave Madness!, Radio Fillings aired 2003-10-17 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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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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