MythBusters Quotes

Kari: I don't know but this feels very dangerous, I have a bad feeling about this, something is going to go wrong.
Grant: And that is different from the other times how...?

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[Adam has made a nozzle on the lathe that looks remarkably like a lightsaber handle.]
Adam: ...I did what any boy would make—uh, what am I allowed to call it, a plasma sword?—except, instead of a limited beam of pure plasma, it's soda!
[Adam pretends he is fighting with the nozzle as if it is a lightsaber.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): Not so much Yoda, but soda.

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): Adam, for reasons known only to himself, puts a bottle of cola on Jamie's lathe.
[The bottle unscrews and comes out of the lathe, spilling everywhere. Adam laughs.]
Adam: [to camera] Okay, this'll be our little secret.

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Adam: (in French accent) I have been a bubble sculptor for about 20 years. The Bubbles are very fine way to sculpt.

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[Adam and Jamie light a ten-foot tower of methane bubbles on fire; the bubbles erupt in a massive fireball.]
Adam: That was like the beast dying at the end of the movie! "WRRROOOOOEEEAAAGH!"

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Adam: This is one I've known about for a long time, it's called "Dry Ice Bomb." Years ago I went to an ice company to pick up some stuff for Jamie, this was like 20 years ago, 15 years ago, and it said: "You cannot buy dry ice unless you are 18", and I thought: "Why would that be?" so I said "Hey, how come you can't buy dry ice unless you are over 18", and the guy goes: (assumes a "surfer dude" voice) "Oh, 'cause you can stick it in a 2-liter bottle and make a huge bomb out of it; it blows up, it'll, like, set car alarms off across the street; it's really cool! (normal voice): and I thought, "You're new here, aren't you?" Since then I've always wanted to try it.

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Tory[talking on two-way radio to Grant] Okay, Grant... ready for your 45 mile an hour run? Paramedics are... nowhere to be found. [to camera crew] This may be the last time we see Grant.

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Jamie: [camera shows a shot of Jamie's shirt] This better work... my shirt's all dirty.

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Adam: Inexplicably, Adam is wearing chainmail.

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Adam: We're 100 feet away, and I can still feel it moving the bridge... it's eerie.

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Adam: And now we're going to see if we can shake this bridge apart.
Rob Lee: Uh, hold on Adam...
Adam: [in a flashback clip] I promise that if this works, we'll use this power only for good.
Rob Lee: Yeah, right Adam.

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Rob Lee: Keen-eyed observers will note that the guys are actually standing on the bridge they're trying to destroy. Confidence in Tesla's machine isn't exactly sky high.
Adam: Neither Jamie or I give a high percentage of anything actually occurring out here, nonetheless MythBusters is nothing if not a compendium of ways in which Jamie and I have been wrong.

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Tory: I'll do the lava lamps.
Kari: I'll do the stove.
Grant: [pauses] ...I'll do the math.
Rob Lee: While Grant calculates with what to do with his day off...

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Grant: A theory is that the shock of cold water will— [lava lamp suddenly explodes]
Tory: [Laughs] You should have seen the look on your face, it was priceless.

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Jamie: [commenting on the penetrating power of piano wire on the palm tree] Hey, what do you think? You think we can get that [piano] wire to go all the way through an engine block?

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Tory: Cool, we get to torture yogurt!

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Adam: I love hearing big sounds in the next room.

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Adam: [being whacked repetitively on the shoulder by the cable] Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow.

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Adam: Oh please, please, let there be a pig cut in half in there!

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Adam: (Referring to their lack of success in cutting the pig in half) Can we get a sword?
Jamie: (laughs) Meat cleaver?

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): The voice of an angel rings out...
Kari: (yells at full volume) TORY!
Rob Lee: ...or maybe, make that the devil.
Tory: That was a good one, Kari. Now I know what it would be like to be married to you.

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Jamie: It was the lard that did it!

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[A strange noise sounds when Jamie opens an air cylinder]:
Jamie: These tanks are actually filled with geese...and they're complaining.
Adam: (silence) Was that a joke? Fascinating...

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Tory: Alright, Grant. I'm ready to start breaking windows with rocks, but before I stick you in that car to shoot it, I wanna make sure we can actually break a windshield with a rock.

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Adam: The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of 14 year-old pyromaniacs... is ballistic glass.

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): ...there's a chance that maybe Adam will let [Jamie] forget about it.
Adam: [imitating Jamie] It's not about winning or losing, it's about proving the concept. [normal voice, slightly giddy]But I won!!!
Rob Lee: ...But unlikely.

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[Tory has swung a hammer at a nail, but missed.]
Tory: I was inches away from hitting it.
Kari: Inches?
Grant: "I was just inches away!"
[Tory swings again and misses again.]
Tory: I hit the same spot as before.
Grant: Then why don't you put the nail there? (laughs)
Rob Lee: It's worth noting that a smart remark rarely goes unpunished.
[Tory swings again, but the hammer slips out of his hand and hits Grant]

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Kari: You see that hole where it blasted off?
Tory: No.
Kari: Nope, neither do I.

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Adam: So, we need you guys's help. Um, we wanna focus on the large-scale experiment, and we want you guys to do the bench tests for us; the small-scale experiments.
Kari: Aye, aye, captain! Whatcha need?

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Rob Lee: With a plan as concrete as that, what could possibly go wrong?

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