We interrupt late roller derby posts for a timely entry about the season premier of MythBusters. This will be a weekly feature. We start this season of one of my favorite TV shows, with dog myths, specifically, myths about how to mess with a dog’s sense of smell.

We can train dogs to recognize the scent of cancer in people’s urine, to smell strokes and seizures before they happen. Why would we think coffee and citronella could trick them? Trying to trick the handler might work better (as in the bloodhound line-up, for which the handler wasn’t trained), but rarely.

We started watching Mythbusters back in late 2003. We came across a marathon on Discovery one day and just fell in love. I miss the early days when they actually had an expert on urban legends talk about where the myths they were busting came from.

Sometimes I’m afraid that they will run out of myths, or that the knock off shows will derail the genre to a point that the original can’t survive. But for now, its still going strong, and is definitely can’t miss TV in our house. So far, we haven’t tried any of it at home.