Tonight on Mythbusters YouTube Special

Back in October 2008 I joined along with the Mythbusters to ask viewers from the YouTube community to send in their favorite viral videos.

So you guys submitted your best YouTube myths and the MythBusters listened! Tune-in TONIGHT to find out if your submitted myths were BUSTED, PLAUSIBLE or CONFIRMED!

The MYTHBUSTERS special marks Discovery Channel’s first program partnership initiative with YouTube. Discovery aired a series of spots beginning in September 2008, hosted by MYTHBUSTERS’ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, that invited viewers to become a part of the myth-busting crew by posting their favorite viral videos to YouTube.

Over 200 videos were submitted along with several thousand comments to the MythBusters YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=290018A7BF3DC8FB).

For the MYTHBUSTERS YouTube Special, Adam and Jamie test if 30,000 match heads, a tin bucket and a slow burning fuse could create a huge fireball. Meanwhile, the Build Team take on an immensely popular viral video that features a giant ball of Lego rolling down the streets of San Francisco. In one of the team’s biggest builds ever, the Build Team attempt to replicate the Lego sphere — 7-feet in diameter and purportedly created from 5 million pieces — and roll it down a hill, Indiana Jones style, into a parked car without doing any damage to the car. Finally, Adam and Jamie use a series of tests with a flexed-up muscle car to test a YouTube posting that says you can make a car tire catch fire if you spin it fast enough and long enough.