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Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in MythBusters (2003)

Quotes

MythBusters

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  • Jamie: I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.
  • Adam: I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
  • Adam: I think this is the strangest position I've ever been in on this show.
  • Kari: [quietly] Notice how he qualifies it with "on this show".
  • [discussing the lethality of paper-mache arrows]
  • Adam: Just thinkin' this one through from a mechanical standpoint... I'd be totally pleased with two inches of penetration.
  • Jamie: Generally, I prefer a little bit more.
  • Salvatore: [mixing explosive chemicals in order to explode pants] Frank, why are you standing so far away?
  • Frank Hausman: Because I want to live.
  • Salvatore: I guess the second question is, why am I standing so close?
  • Jamie: [Jamie is holding a duck] Quack, damn you!
  • Adam: He looks like he's trying to collect a loan from the duck. Duck loan collection agency!
  • [in a mobster accent]
  • Adam: We want to talk to you about some outstanding feed!
  • Jamie: Adam, the police officer says you need to drink more.
  • [Adam gets upset with Jamie and walks away]
  • Jamie: Adam needs a cookie.
  • Kari: You know, I promised my mom and dad I wouldn't do anything stupid after I got out of college.
  • [whispers]
  • Kari: Sorry, Mom.
  • Adam: If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating
  • Scottie: Maybe it's a myth that methane is flammable.
  • Adam: It's not a myth. We're just idiots.
  • Adam: When a cameraman gives you a pat on the shoulder it must be really bad.
  • Jamie: [in anticipation of a massive explosion] Jamie wants big boom.
  • Jamie: Adam doesn't know it yet but he's digging his own grave.
  • Adam: What's that?
  • Jamie: What?... Nothing!
  • Jamie: It's a beautiful day at the bomb range. Birds are singing, rabbits are hopping about... and pretty soon there's gonna be a big explosion.
  • Jamie: [over radio] This is one of those "What the hell am I doing?" moments, over!
  • Jamie: I always enjoy seeing Adam in pain.
  • Salvatore: [after frying balistics gel Ben Franklin] Well, we killed a dead president.
  • Grant: He was never president.
  • Salvatore: He wasn't President? Damn it.
  • Jamie: [wearing a full-body fire-protection suit with tinted hood] I kinda like it in here, it's private!
  • Adam: Well, hopefully that's our job, to strap rockets onto everything!
  • Adam: [holding a floatation barrel] The only thing we're told we can't do is burn them, blow them up, or lose them!
  • Salvatore: Has he watched the show?
  • [Jamie accidentally shoots a fluorescent light with a nail gun]
  • Jamie: Whoops! We should get out of here. That's mercury vapor.
  • Jamie: [while pushing Adam into the quicksand] Drown, you bastard!
  • Jamie: [after spectacularly destroying two semi-trucks] It wasn't quite right, but I don't think we can reset.
  • Adam: [Drops a pastrami sandwich on the floor and picks it up again] Whoop, I picked it up after like three seconds, would you eat it?
  • Jamie: I wouldn't eat it just because you've handled it.
  • Kari: [Kari makes the gun cotton for the confederate rocket myth] Ok, we're gonna add a half ounce of
  • [Donkey sound]
  • Kari: to ounce of
  • [Rooster sound]
  • Kari: slowly!
  • Narrator: When you add donkey to rooster you get a violent reaction.
  • Adam: Am I missing an eyebrow?
  • Adam: [operating shark-punching Buster] Oh, my God! This is more fun than should be allowed.
  • Adam: How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?
  • Salvatore: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing, right?
  • Adam: Do you actually have moods?
  • Jamie: No.
  • Adam: [in cockney accent to a shotgun toting Jamie facing an oven door] Alright Jamie, here's your motivation: This oven door has run off with your wife, so you decide to gear-up and get even.
  • Adam: [Holds a weather balloon] For science!
  • [Releases the weather balloon and it floats away]
  • Jamie: [Points to the weather balloon] It's going that way!
  • [Adam laughs]
  • Adam: You're a budding meteorologist Jamie!
  • [Jamie laughs]
  • Adam: We got a robot in the water, he's stuffed with tuna and it's just another day here at Mythbusters.
  • Jamie: I think that was one of the most destructive things I've ever done. That was cool!
  • Narrator: [Adam extinguishes the bunker after a successful rocket test] Not so much as fire in the hole as fire in the whole shop!
  • Kari: [testing vodka as a poison oak remedy] I hope you don't have a date tonight. Showing up smelling like liquor with poison oak.
  • Salvatore: [laughs] Works every time!
  • Salvatore: [being massaged for an episode on the effects of stress levels on driving] This is the best damn Mythbusters *ever*.
  • Jamie: [fills a truck with vacuum cleaners] Do we suck or what?
  • Adam: This kills you!
  • [points to a .30-06 bullet]
  • Adam: This kills you and everyone else in the room!
  • [points to a .50cal bullet]
  • Jamie: I think this thing could hurt you. I think we're about to find out whether it will hurt you.
  • Adam: All right, I'll go put on the suit.
  • Narrator: What did I say about dressing up?
  • Adam: [dancing in Redman suit] Yeah! You can shake your booty in this!
  • Jamie: So what's in these things?
  • Adam: Supposed to be vinegar and water.
  • [takes a sip of feminine hygiene products and spits it out]
  • Adam: Yeah, tastes like vinegar and water.
  • [starts laughing]
  • Adam: I just took a taste test.
  • [continues laughing]
  • Salvatore: He's gonna die... but it's gonna look great.
  • Kari: [after Adam gets shocked by the ark] Do you feel God?
  • Adam: [Christine and Tory tape pizza boxes to Adam's arms] We're at the Icarus part of the evening. I think you know what happened to Icarus!
  • Jamie: [while coffin is being closed in the Buried Alive myth] Farewell cruel world!
  • Adam: Hell or high water we are gonna get him back out! We leave no man behind on MythBusters man!
  • Jamie: [wearing a wetsuit] I feel kinda sexy!
  • Adam: This is your head!
  • [Touches ballistics gel]
  • Adam: This is your head with an axe in it! Are we clear?
  • Adam: [Holds up a pig's head in front of his face] Jamie!
  • Jamie: Yeah?
  • Adam: Please don't fire bullets into my head!
  • Jamie: Its only got one ear though.
  • Adam: We don't need ears for testing lethality of bullets at terminal velocity man!

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