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MythBusters

2003–2018Discovery ChannelDocumentary

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Two special-effects builders testing folklore with explosives, introduced by a montage of the explosives.

MythBusters opens with a main title sequence of 41 seconds.

It arrived on Discovery Channel in 2003, when Wheeler Dealers was also on the network.

1 sequence69th most looked up of 479 in the 2000sIMDb ↗
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The opening titles

Season 1

41s

Fan upload of the original opening, the one that asks who the MythBusters are and answers with a ballistics gel dummy.

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