'Mythbusters' Hits 'Breaking Bad'

Combining “MythBusters” and the AMC hit, “Breaking Bad?” What could go wrong?

In an upcoming episode, the "Mythbusters" boys will be taking on some of the many  questions raised by the popular show.

Adam Savage said, on doing the “Breaking Bad”-based episode, "We've been wanting to do a Breaking Bad episode for awhile. Obviously there's a lot of fertile material to play with, so things that happen on the show have been ending up on our list of stories to tackle for a couple years now. And when Vince said in an interview that he'd love to see a Mythbusters/Breaking Bad crossover, we reached out to him directly and the response was overwhelming positive."

So what can we expect? For example, Jamie Hyneman will be checking out what happens when a body is placed in a bathtub with hydrofluoric acid, based on an episode from season one where Jesse Pinkman fails to listen to advice and the tub goes through the floor.

“Hydrofluoric acid is terrifying stuff,” says Savage. “It’s not quite like alien blood, which is what a lot of people think when they think of powerful acids. It’s poisonous in a way that is completely unique and very disturbing.”

Some of the issues around the episode involved keeping it family friendly.

“A lot of people watch it with their kids, and yet we’re doing with a collaboration with pretty much the least family-oriented show on television right now, about a science teacher turned drug manufacturer who kills people. At the same time, they’re very committed to getting the scene right on that show. The fact that those guys love science and they want us to test their stuff — and they don’t care whether we bust it or not, they want to actually know the answer — that’s our favorite kind of collaboration.”

But the best news? “There’s easily one more if not a couple more ‘Breaking Bad’ episodes,” says Savage. “Those guys have been so much fun with technology and science that there’s a lot that we could do with them.”