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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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House of Popcorn Angle 3

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During the MythBusters Comic Con 2009 panel, Adam Savage addresses why the team won't debunk myths like Big Foot, UFOs and crop circles.

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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House of Popcorn Angle 6

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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House of Popcorn Reaction Shot

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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House of Popcorn High Speed

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The MythBusters take on a scene from the '80s classic Real Genius: What happens when you fill a house with popcorn ... then make it all pop (with explosives, in this case)?

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House of Popcorn Angle 1

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Grant Imahara explains to Kari Byron why the MythBusters won't take on the viral video in which a series of cell phones cause popcorn to pop.

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Cell Phone FAIL

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When tempers flare during a particularly complicated myth, Jamie offers up a simple solution.

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Kalahari Survivors

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Find out Jamie's idea of a great name for a baby, as well as his preferred title for a romance novel (should he write one).

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Baby Names and Romance Novels

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A viewer asks Jamie for a nerdy pick-up line, while another seeks advice on the best way to teach a teenager to drive.

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Pick-Up Lines and Teenagers

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Jamie offers an unorthodox strategy to a viewer preparing for a first date, then provides advice on how to train a destructive pup.

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First Date and Chewed Shoes

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See just what made Adam Unflappable Savage say, I dont want to DO this anymore. This is TERRIFYING!

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Lawnmower vs. Rocks

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Master remixer melodysheep turns his talents to making our MythBusters masterfully sing about science. (Yes, Jamie too.)

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Find out how a pig's tongue, vomit and tarantula poop figure into Kari Byron and Tory Belleci's funniest MythBusters moments.

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Duck poop. Weight lifting. High-pressure air pockets. "Not super ridiculous." See how these all figure into Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage's discussion of "Running on Water."

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How did the MythBusters choose which "bombproof" items to test? Why did they use C-4? And, if faced with a bomb, would they dive or run like heck? Kari, Grant and Tory reveal all.

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See in spectacular slow motion just what happens when an arrow packed with explosives is fired into a tree.

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Because just one isn't enough, watch the climax of the Dynamite Ax test from every angle.

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Clearly, from these deleted scenes, Tory Belleci is a Shining fan, and Adam Savage loves mobster movies and ... synchronized swimming.

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That familiar "kkssht!" sound of a character racking the slide on his pistol ... is it real? Jamie and Adam solve the mystery, then Adam ... well, watch and see.

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You'll have to watch "Blow Your Own Sail" to find out whether this big bang sounded like a typical Hollywood explosion. But isn't this high-speed of an unflinching Jamie Hyneman awesome?

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What do you think? Does this real-life explosion sound like the ones you hear in the movies?

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Warranty violations, bricks, R2D2, Uncle Jamie ... See what all these things and more have to do with the MythBusters' testing of a scene from the Bourne Supremacy.

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Can your washing machine kill you? Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage and Buster reveal whether this myth is a laundry load of ... you know what.

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Jamie and Adam shoot a bullet hole into the shell of a DC9 to see if that single shot will cause explosive decompression, destroying the aircraft.

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Witness -- in all its high-speed glory -- a cinder-block wall meet 3 POUNDS of plastic explosives.

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Is a cinder-block wall bombproof? Our cameras show that 3 pounds of explosives will reduce a wall to rubble, but leave the "burst disks" -- the measure of survivability -- intact.

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What Is Bombproof Multiangles

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Why wasn't "real toilet matter" used? How impressed -- or not -- was NASA with the MythBusters' results? Kari, Grant and Tory take you inside "Blue Ice" (thankfully, not literally).

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A true Adam Savage nightmare? Or a set-up of the Sounds Bogus myth? You decide.

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