MythBusters

Season 1 • Episode 9• Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing• ★ 7.8

Is it possible to make a cannon out of a tree? Could a drunk person really fool a Breathalyzer test? Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?

Documentary
1
Jet-Assisted Chevy
1/23/2003
2
Biscuit Bazooka
1/23/2003
3
Poppy-Seed Drug Test
3/7/2003
4
Exploding Toilet
9/23/2003
5
Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station
10/3/2003
6
Barrel of Bricks
10/10/2003
7
Penny Drop
10/17/2003
8
Buried Alive
10/24/2003
9
Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
11/7/2003
10
Stinky Car
12/5/2003
11
Alcatraz Escape
12/12/2003

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