--- title: MythBusters Proves Breaking Bad Final Scene Possible description: Could Walter White really rig a machine gun up like that? canonical: https://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-27T17:10:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:56.268Z og:title: MythBusters Puts 'Breaking Bad' Final Scene to the Test og:description: Could Walter White really rig a machine gun up like that? og:url: https://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: MythBusters Puts 'Breaking Bad' Final Scene to the Test twitter:description: Could Walter White really rig a machine gun up like that? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _MythBusters_ Puts _Breaking Bad_ Final Scene to the Test by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Aug 27, 2015 5:10 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Aug 27, 2015 5:10 PM UTC Leave it to the team at _MythBusters_ to put _Breaking Bad_ protagonist Walter White’s last act of desperation under the microscope. The Discovery Channel show recreated the machine gun booby trap that Walter White hides in the trunk of his car to take out a house of white supremacists in the series finale. Using supplies that could be found in any small town — and with help from series creator Vince Gilligan — hosts Adam and Jamie proved that the _Breaking Bad_ ending is entirely possible. The gun trick was Breaking Bad’s third “myth” to be busted. The hosts earlier proved that acid eating through a dead body and disintegrating parts of a bathtub and ceiling don’t work out as well in real life. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/"},"headline":"MythBusters Puts Breaking Bad Final Scene to the Test","datePublished":"2015-08-27T17:10:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:56.268Z","description":"Could Walter White really rig a machine gun up like that?","url":"https://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","walter white","breaking bad"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/","name":"MythBusters Puts Breaking Bad Final Scene to the Test"}}]}] ```