MythBusters Quotes

Adam: So clearly the second spike was Buster twisting to get out of the way of the deadly tissue box!

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Adam: That the tissue box is the only thing in the car that's completely undamaged might just prove the myth!

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Grant: Well, I like danger.

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): With the hard work done... Adam arrives.

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Adam: We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

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[Shortly after Buster hits the ground from 400 feet.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): Small crash-test dummies, friends and family of Buster may find the following pictures disturbing.
Adam: [seeing Buster's remains] Oh no! Oh, my God! Oh, crime-iny!
Rob Lee: "Criminy"? So shocked he makes up a new word.
Adam: I think I'm calling the local fire department and seeing if they have any Simulaids.

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[Kari, Tory, and Grant are borrowing Adam and Jamie's jet pack to retest a myth.]
Kari: If there is one scratch, one out of place bolt on this jet pack, Jamie and Adam will lock us in a closet for the rest of the season.

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[Jamie has just suggested getting an RPG to blow up a car.]
Adam: That's the next revisit; someone's gonna write in and say, "you guys should have used an RPG, 'cause that would definitely have blown up the car!" and then we'll go get one of those, and then we'll blow up the car, and then there will be some other problem.
Jamie: And we're fine with that!

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Adam: I love having bacteriological... test stuff!

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): Adam's as happy as a kid with a new chemistry set. Come to think of it, Adam is a kid with a new chemistry set.

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Jamie: It's a shop... whaddya want?
Adam: I wanna be able to eat off the damn floor.

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[Adam drops and then picks up a sandwich.]
Adam: Whoops! I picked it up within 3 seconds... would you eat it?
Jamie: I wouldn't eat it just because you handled it.

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Adam: So, no french-kissing dogs I think is our conclusion here.
Jamie: I would be more inclined to say, no french-kissing Adam! I don't eat my own poo!

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[Adam is playing with aluminum pans]
Adam: For some reason...I have the desire to smash them on my head.

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[Jamie has explained their use of 'beef broth' to simulate a dirty floor, but stumbled over the words.]
Adam: Bleef bloth? Wlhat bleef bloth? Thlis bleef bloth?

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Tory: So, Jamie? If we, uh, find gold, are you gonna share it with me?

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[Grant and Kari are making a drum.]
Kari: Y'know my people come from a long line of goat shavers, so I feel it's in my blood.

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Grant: Apologies to everyone who actually makes their own drums... we have no idea what we're doing.

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[Following a near-disaster with a semi]
Adam: What was your plan for stopping these things?
Tory: Well, there wasn't really a plan...

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Rob Lee: While the Boxer makes progress, the Hale is out for the count—because Jamie's made an error of schoolboy proportions, and, to avoid public humiliation...
Jamie: You know, if I don't talk, you don't get any good TV.
Rob Lee: ...he's run away from the cameraman.
Adam[of Jamie's welding slip-up]: What happened?
Jamie: ...Nothing.
Rob Lee: 'De Nile (denial) is a river in Africa.
Adam: C'mon, what happened? Did you accidentally weld the thing at the end of your pipe that was supposed to be a screw fitting?
Rob Lee: Overzealous welding has sealed his rocket shut - and he's not happy.
Jamie: [censored]

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Adam: I've got a Boxer rocket, and I'm gonna fire it!

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Jamie: I don't know, but I think that's one of the rockets, and, judging by the size of the hole, I - I think it's mine.
[He gestures toward a large hole in the dirt.]
Jamie: I don't know, I'll see if I can feel the end of it…
[He reaches a full arm's length in the hole.]
Jamie: [giggling] I'm still not touching anything!

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Adam: This is where the danger zone happens. When nothing happens for a while, everyone's like "well, let's get closer... let's get closer... let's get closer..." and BOOM! everyone's dead.

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[Adam and Jamie have just test-fired a rocket inside the workshop. The most obvious result is a lot of smoke.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): We clearly have ignition... but what the hell's going on in there?
[Inside, there is lots of smoke and several small fires.]
Rob Lee: Not so much "fire in the hole" as fire in the whole shop!

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[Adam]: Hey, that WORKED!!

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[Kari mixes two ingredients to gun cotton, with the ingredients replaced by a donkey bray and a rooster cackle respectively (to conceal just what those ingredients are)].
Rob Lee (US Narrator): So when you add "donkey" to "rooster", you got a violent reaction.

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Kari: A lot of things would have to go right for that plan to work...

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): We've got ourselves a runaway (semi). Uhhh... Run away!

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Adam: I'm a little sad because it didn't go exactly as planned. We may have to revisit this one - but WOW!!! (They did revisit it several seasons later)

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Kari: Did you actually think we were going to confirm this one?

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