MythBusters (2012 season)

The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed).
On February 28, 2012, Discovery Channel announced that the 2012 season would commence airing on March 25, 2012. The season aired in a Sunday time slot, instead of its previous Wednesday time slot.
On December 6, 2011, while taping for the "Cannonball Chemistry" story, a home-made cannon test sent a cannonball through a residential neighborhood in Dublin, California. No one was injured, but the cannonball did considerable property damage, crashing through the walls of a family's house and landing in a car.
The Build Team does not appear in this episode.
Marooned on a tropical island (Oahu, Hawaii) with only a pallet of duct tape, Adam and Jamie had to use it to perform the tasks needed for survival. Their goals were to...
Inspired by a scene in the film Date Night, in which a taxicab and sports sedan stuck together by their front bumpers perform a series of maneuvers in city streets. The Build Team obtained two cars similar to those used in the scene, tore off their front bumpers, and built a hitch to hold them together nose-to-nose. Driving at 40 mph (64 km/h), with Tory in the cab and Grant and Kari in the sedan, they tested the cars' ability to...
Adam and Jamie attempted to re-create a scene in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. They set out to determine whether a group of six people in a suspended spherical cage could...
Adam, Jamie, and the Build Team explored five myths concerning the superiority of one gender or the other in various activities. For each myth, they chose 10 men and 10 women.
Adam, Jamie, and the Build Team explore four previously tested myths, using viewer suggestions for improvement or new tests.
A challenge from viewers to try new feats using excavators, based on "Excavator Exuberance" from 2011. Adam and Jamie attempted to...
The Build Team answers a series of randomly chosen letters sent in by viewers, answering questions and doing a series of short tests.
Adam, Jamie, Tory, Kari and Grant explored eight firearm-related movie scenarios.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, Adam and Jamie counted down their 25 favorite shark-related myths, including some that had not previously aired.
This episode was also called "Cliffhanger Bridge Boom" in Australia.
Adam and Jamie investigated two myths based on movie scenes involving the transportation and burial of dead bodies.
Adam, Jamie, and the Build Team tested five myths chosen at random from viewer submissions.
At the start of the episode, the Build Team apologized for the cannonball accident that occurred while they were testing this myth.
For their myths, Jamie and Adam were joined by celebrity chef Alton Brown, who is an enthusiast of incorporating science into cooking and had previously busted food myths on an episode of Good Eats reverentially titled Myth Smashers.
This episode was called "The A to Z of Explosions" in Australia.
The Build Team presents a series of 25 vignettes, one for each letter of the alphabet (except X and Y, which they combined), concerning the explosions that have been carried out in myth testing.