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Episode 18 — Drain Disaster

Season 9 • MythBusters

Released: 2011-11-02 • Documentary

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Find out whether a sewer drain full of combustible gas, when ignited, will turn an innocent manhole cover into a missile, and whether truck bedliners are truly bite, crash, and bomb proof.

Episodes

Episode 1
Mission Impossible Mask
2011-04-06

Episode 2
Blue Ice
2011-04-13

Episode 3
Running on Water
2011-04-20

Episode 4
Bubble Trouble
2011-04-27

Episode 5
Torpedo Tastic
2011-05-04

Episode 6
Blow Your Own Sail
2011-05-11

Episode 7
Spy Car (2)
2011-05-18

Episode 8
Dodge a Bullet
2011-06-01

Episode 9
Fixing a Flat
2011-06-08

Episode 10
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
2011-06-15

Episode 11
Let There be Light
2011-06-22

Episode 12
Paper Armor
2011-06-29

Episode 13
Bikes and Bazookas
2011-09-28

Episode 14
Newton's Crane Cradle
2011-10-05

Episode 15
Walk a Straight Line
2011-10-12

Episode 16
Duct Tape Plane
2011-10-19

Episode 17
Flying Guillotine
2011-10-26

Episode 18
Drain Disaster
2011-11-02

Episode 19
Wet and Wild
2011-11-16

Episode 20
Wheel of Mythfortune
2011-11-23

Episode 21
Toilet Bomb
2011-11-30

Information

Episode air date	02.11.2011
Episode runtime	—
Episode rating	9.00
Genres	Documentary
TMDB series rating	7.8
IMDb series rating	8.3
Series status	Ended
Age rating	6+
Country	US

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Cast

Robert Lee
Self - Narrator (voice)

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