Like the Lawn-Chair Balloon, Goldfinger, Poppy-Seed Drug Test episode, this one came along before there really were epsiodes of the show, and is typically referred to as “Pilot 2″. Still, it has some of the best myths ever seen on the show.
Stuck on You. The first myth shown in this episode was one that we all have worried about, and that’s the vacuum toilet, whereby a woman apparently was in the lavatory of a descending plane, and as the pressure increased, she found herself sucked to the seat. This one is notable primarily because the backside mold used for the myth is that of Kari Byron (supersized to fit the myth, I’m sure – it doesn’t seem to be quite her size). The myth? It looks like a total hoax. Though Adam had a bit of a strange experience with that vacuum toilet, the big problem is getting a solid seal over the top. Busted.
Biscuit Bullet. The second myth refers to the classic email chain letter that tells of a lady who thinks she’s been held up in a grocery store parking lot, only to find out hours later that a biscuit canister has exploded and it’s not her brains she is holding against her head – it’s a batch of dough! After testing in a baking car, the team finds out that it might be plausible that it could happen – a heated car could really result in an exploding batch of biscuits flying onto the back of the driver’s head! Plausible.
Falling Lawyer. The final myth in this episode is the leaping lawyer, where a lawyer is so distraught that he throws himself – repeatedly – against a plate-glass window in a high-rise building. This one is confirmed, as the team demonstrated by creating a 160-pound rolling trolley to ram against a plexiglass enclosure, and they managed to break the pane just as described. Confirmed.
I love this show, and especially these earlier episodes.
