Many people have criticized the block for damaging the channel's all cartoon image, and having shows that were rip-offs of popular shows such as Cash Cab, Survivor, MythBusters and Ghost Hunters, to name a few.
MythBusters concluded that the potassium benzoate, aspartame, and CO2 gas contained in the Diet Coke, in combination with the gelatin and gum arabic ingredients of the Mentos, all contribute to the formation of the foam.
The MythBusters TV show ran tests to see if it was really possible to cover an entire room with paint by exploding a firework in a paint can.
An experiment carried out by MythBusters revealed they are able to survive 1000 gray (100,000 rad), 100 times the immediate lethal dose of radiation for humans, in 10% of the cases.
Hoy's experience was recreated by MythBusters in the episode "Vacuum Toilet, Biscuit Bazooka, Leaping Lawyer".
In the 2003 season of the television show MythBusters, the episode "Peeing on the Third Rail" was filmed at this location.
Television series such as MythBusters and Time Warp often use high-speed cameras to show their tests in slow motion.
On July 31, 2009, Discovery Channel announced the addition of Combs to the cast of MythBusters while co-host Kari Byron went on maternity leave after giving birth to her first child.
The school's woodworking department made an appearance in the "Alaska Special 2" episode of MythBusters, where Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman used the shop as the build site for their pykrete boat.
In episode 141 of the American TV show MythBusters, the Build Team constructed and tested the leather cannon.
Their facilities are now mostly used for the production of the television show MythBusters.
During July 2008, the MythBusters aired a segment on Discovery Channel Shark Week showing the repulsive effects of C8 ferrite magnets on captive juvenile sharks.
Meyer Sound Laboratories has participated and been featured in several episodes of the Discovery Channel series “MythBusters” involving sound.
A clip of the scene where Mr. Bean puts the balloons on the pram was shown to illustrate the expected result of a myth in MythBusters; the myth that a large number of balloons could lift a small child into the sky.
Discovery Channel's MythBusters reported that more than US$200 million have gone into the development of the Skycar.
The Regal Empress was featured in a late-2007 episode of the TV show MythBusters, where it was used to demonstrate that it is possible to waterski from the back of a cruise ship.
Adrian appeared in episode 5 of the 2009 season of the Discovery Channel series, MythBusters, to assist hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in testing the myth that it is possible to swim as fast in syrup as in water.
An episode of the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters used one these smaller hangars to disprove the myth that it is not possible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.
As on the Discovery Channel series MythBusters, this show practices a degree of self-censorship and safety-consciousness.
Tory Belleci; a filmmaker and model maker, is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters.
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MythBusters TV Show tested the existence of cabin fever in the episode 101 and deemed it plausible.
In 2004, the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters tested the myth that a ceiling fan is capable of decapitation if an unwary individual was to step headfirst into the path of the blades.
Deadblow has been used on MythBusters several times, most notably in the myth that you can smuggle things across the Canadian Border by turning off your headlights, in which he was temporarily renamed Blinky (after Jessi Combs asked the robot's name), where he played the role of an oncoming car's headlights.
Jamie Hyneman (born 1956), an American special effects expert, best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters
The experiments were repeated on television in episodes of MythBusters and Fry's Planet Word, both seeming to confirm the findings.
An episode of the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters used one of the smaller hangars to disprove the myth that it is not possible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.
In "Birds in a Truck", an episode of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters, Jamie Hyneman constructs a jury-rigged net gun using PVC, an air tank, a fishing net, and some tennis balls in an attempt to capture pigeons.
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, of MythBusters fame, demonstrated how GPUs solve specific tasks faster in parallel than they can be executed on general purpose CPUs by painting a Mona Lisa with a massively parallel paint gun.
In 2004, Skulls Unlimited was invited to participate in the Discovery Channel's Young Scientists Challenge in Washington D.C. This televised event was hosted by the Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.