MythBusters
Alaska Special
TV Flash files “Alaska Special” as a desk essential hour — MythBusters (2003–2016) on Discovery, season 6, episode 1, aired 2008-04-23, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 107 of 273 in the MythBusters guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2008-04-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “MacGyver Myths” (S05E31). Next is “NASA Moon Landing” (S06E02).
Essential hour: “Alaska Special”. Alaska Special relocates the lab: season-six event hour, the build team vs. weather, MythBusters treating a state like a giant workbench.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Alaska Special sit in the MythBusters guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 107 of 273 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did MythBusters S06E01 air?
Alaska Special aired 2008-04-23 and is listed at 60 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…