Mythbusters Season 1 Episode 3 - Lawn Chair Balloon, Poppy Seed Drug Test, Goldfinger (Pilot 3)

Airdate: 2003-Mar-07

Episode summary:

Can a poppy-seed bagel tilt the results of a drug test? Can balloons carry a lawn chair? If you cover your body in gold paint, will you be able to breathe? Or could you die from it? In this episode, Adam and Jamie test: 1) If a guy called Larry Lawn attached some weather balloons to his chair and flew away! 2) if someone can really die if he/she is completely covered with golden paint. They also see if they can survive only because they left a small patch of skin unpainted. 3) if eating a Poppy-Seed bagel gives you a positive result in a drug test.

About Mythbusters series:

A weekly documentary in which two Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk urban legends by directly testing them. The Emmy-nominated se...Show more >