MythBusters Quotes

[Jamie rigs the taxi to be operated remotely.]
Adam: I think Jamie and I should drive around and pick people up.
Jamie: Yeah, with nobody in the front seat.

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[Jamie is wearing a thermal suit while they're testing a myth on exploding aerosols. He hasn't spoken since he put on the suit.]
Adam: You wanna take your hood off and participate in this conversation?
Jamie: I kinda like it in here. It's private.

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[Playing with Buster's face]
Adam: You guys have f***ed with me long enough. It's payback time and payback's a b****.
(Adam's cursing is censored with rifle gunshot sounds, and Grant is heard laughing in the background)

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[Talking to Tory after taking off Buster's face that he had on]
Adam: You know what's funny is that when you put this on you can smell, and you get all these scents and memories of blowing him up, dropping him off a cliff, a little salt water, a little rotting pig.... It's like a... It's like a trip down memory lane. You wanna try?
Tory: No thanks.

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Adam: Not only do we get to short out a battery, but we get to do it in a gasoline-rich environment! I can't think of a better way to spend a Monday afternoon.

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Rob Lee: And then suddenly...nothing happened.

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Adam: [referring to the safety glass the team uses] You told us all it was bulletproof, and, it's not!

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Jamie: [Adam, after several tries, has finally hit the target] Good shot, Adam.
Adam: [little-boy voice] Thank you, Uncle Jamie.

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[Adam and Jamie release a skunk into the women's room in an attempt to incite it to spray them.]
Christine: Thanks for putting it in the women's bathroom.

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[Adam is pouring beer onto the floor to try and get rid of skunk smell]
Jamie: What...you're doing it all wrong! It's spilling everywhere. You gotta start at the top and move down.
Adam: It's hard being Jamie sometimes.

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Adam: Finally! We smell foul!

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Adam: I can't help but notice that IT'S NOT ON FIRE YET!

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Jamie: Our death ray doesn't seem to be working right. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

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[After Busting the myth, Adam has the "death ray" flop to the concrete face-first, breaking every mirror in the array.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): And that's about 2,000 years bad luck right there.

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Adam: This is the show. It's like four minutes of science and then ten minutes of me hurting myself.

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Adam: COME OOOOON!!!!!!

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Rob Lee (U.S. Narrator): It's a very un-MythBusters-like moment. They've built an invention, and nothing has gone wrong... [Adam loses his balance and falls onto his back from a standing position as the machine is turned off.] Ah. That's more like it.

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[Jamie and Kari are scouting a derelict hotel as a location.]
Kari: Since we're here anyway, can we film a horror movie?

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[Jamie and Kari are measuring the height of the elevator shaft.]
Jamie: 92 feet, to the top of the pulleys.
Kari: Uh, 92 feet to the dead bird.
[Jamie laughs]

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[The crew cleans debris from the elevator car.]
Scottie: [Holds up a dead bird.] Two words — Naaas-tee. Ugh...

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): Elevators are designed not to fall. Fortunately, the MythBusters wrote the book on disabling safety features.

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[Adam is disabling the elevator's safety brake for the experiment.]
Adam: Anticlimactically enough, I believe I've disabled the entire mechanism by removing this simple pin.

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[After Buster falls down the elevator.]
Adam: I believe this is more damage than we've ever done to Buster in one myth before.

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Scottie: We'll never get pulled over for going six miles an hour!

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Rob Lee: A few of the guys from CHPs [California Highway Patrol] are on-hand to oversee the experiment. If anything does beat the radar, they wanna know about it.

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[Kari just fired off the fire-extinguisher chaff gun.]
Tory: [to police officer] Which is gonna be more expensive: the speeding ticket or the littering ticket?
CHP Officer: [laughs] The littering ticket.

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Tory: The only thing that gave us any result, but just barely, was my favorite—And I think you'll like this one, Adam...the Radar Wheel of Death! [The Build Team plonks it in front of Adam.]
Adam: [laughs] Oh my god!

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[Adam makes a miscalculation judging the necessary weight for a ten-inch-tall miniature Buster doll.]
Adam: 10 inches tall…25 pounds. I just did the math. I need him to weigh 25 pounds.
Jamie: So you're saying that he needs to be built out of depleted uranium.
Adam: [Laughs.] Do you have some? Is it under "D" or "U" over here?

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): Adam removes 5 plywood sheets from the 12 available.
[Adam breaks a sheet of wood veneer.]
Adam: Screw.
Rob Lee (US Narrator): Uhh - make that 11.
Adam: One tore, bringing it out...trying to get it out of the way of Jay the cameraman!

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[Buster is dropped 60 feet to the ground. He lands with a solid thud.]
Christine: [laughs] I was laying on the ground when he hit, and I felt the ground move a little bit.
Adam: I never get tired of doing that.

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