MythBusters
Escape from Alcatraz, Does a Duck's Quack Echo?, Mind Control Chips
TV Flash files “Escape from Alcatraz, Does a Duck's Quack Echo?, Mind Control Chips” as hour 11 of 273 in the TV Flash guide — MythBusters (2003–2016) on Discovery, season 2, episode 8, aired 2003-12-12, 47 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E08: listed hour 11 of 273 in the MythBusters guide, hour 8 of 13 in season 2. It aired 2003-12-12 (47 min). The listed hour before it is “Stinky Car, Raccoon Rocket” (S02E07). Next is “Explosive Decompression, Frog Giggin', Rear Axle” (S02E09).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jamie and Adam try to escape from Alcatraz using a raft made from raincoats. In between, they test to see if duck quacks can echo and if Red Cross has mind control chips for their patients.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Escape from Alcatraz, Does a Duck's Quack Echo?, Mind Control Chips sit in the MythBusters guide?
S02E08 is listed hour 11 of 273 — hour 8 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 8.
When did MythBusters S02E08 air?
Escape from Alcatraz, Does a Duck's Quack Echo?, Mind Control Chips aired 2003-12-12 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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…
Filed against
- Jamie Hyneman as Host
Jamie Hyneman hosted MythBusters like a lab assignment with a blast radius — urban legends detonated for the cheap seats, STEM as mass entertainment, goggles and a confirmed-or-busted verdict ritual. 2000s method as a good time. TV Flash…
- Adam Savage as Host
Adam Savage co-hosted MythBusters as if urban legends were lab assignments — then detonated the hypothesis for the cheap seats. Jamie Hyneman’s opposite number, goggles, build-team chaos, confirmed-or-busted as a ritual that turned method…
- Kari Byron as Build Team
Kari Byron’s MythBusters Build Team turned urban legends into lab assignments — Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage detonating the hypothesis for the cheap seats, STEM as mass entertainment, goggles, chaos, confirmed-or-busted as ritual. Method…
- Tory Belleci as Build Team
Tory Belleci was MythBusters Build Team — goggles, chaos, and the confirmed-or-busted ritual that turned urban legends into lab assignments you could detonate for the cheap seats. Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage owned the hypothesis; the…
- Grant Imahara as Build Team
Grant Imahara built the chaos on MythBusters as Build Team — Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage detonating urban legends for the cheap seats, STEM as mass entertainment, goggles and a confirmed-or-busted verdict ritual. TV Flash files him as…
Also in season 2
- S02E01 Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet
- S02E02 Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs
- S02E03 Barrel of Bricks, Peeing on the Third Rail, EEL Skin Wallet
- S02E04 Penny Drop, Microwave Madness!, Radio Fillings
- S02E05 Buried Alive!!!, 101 Uses for Cola, Hammer Jump
- S02E06 Tongue Stud Lightning Rod, Tree Cannon, You Can't Beat the Breath Test!