MythBusters: Season 11, Episode 5

Flying Guillotine (26 Oct. 2011)

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Adam and Jamie test a myth that C4 can be used as a cooking fuel, but if you drop something on it while it's burning, it will explode. Tory, Kari, and Grant attempt to re-create a mythical flying guillotine.

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Adam and Jamie test a myth that C4 can be used as a cooking fuel, but if you drop something on it while it's burning, it will explode. Tory, Kari, and Grant attempt to re-create a mythical flying guillotine.

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Kari Byron: [the knives of Grant's flying guillotine have just buried themselves in the test dummy] Now that's a pain in the neck!
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