MythBusters Quotes

Adam: Perfect. I'll tell you what. Um, all we need is to get him up to 120 mph. That's a human's terminal velocity; we know that from umpteen myths we've done about people falling.

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Tory: Well, OK, considering we're going to be blowing up a sheet of glass, it's probably a good idea to, uh, give ourselves a little bit of protection.

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Adam: Say it with me, "Jamie wants big boom!"

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Rob Lee: But first, they need to do some shopping, which will highlight another question: "How many MythBusters does it take to buy a lightbulb?"

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Kari: These will explode, these will melt, this will kill you—this is great.
Grant: Welcome to my world.

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[Adam is holding two bottles, the labels of which have been obscured by the censor.]
Adam: This ingredient is made of blur. Ha! And this has blur in it too. Blur is very dangerous. You don't wanna mix blur with blur.

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[Adam is about to demonstrate a thermite reaction.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): For this cooking lesson, Adam will need the fire suit, and it's safety masks all around. So - just like gumbo night at Adam's.

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Adam: [after a thermite square ignites without warning] Deuteronomy!

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[Adam has just lit a panel of cotton. It is burning extremely slowly in contrast to the rapid destruction of the Hindenburg.]
Adam: We don't need a high-speed on this, we need a time-lapse.
[Cue time-lapse of the panel burning.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): Anything you say, Adam.

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[The first test Hindenburg catches fire and nearly burns out in the shop.]
Adam: That would be the textbook definition of irony, kids...

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Adam: Next on Discovery, the world's deadliest piñata!

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[Adam had just ignited the hydrogen under a skin sample covering a wooden box, which explodes violently.]
Adam: WHOA! (in quiet, timid-ish voice) Ok... is everybody ok?
Rob Lee (US Narrator): Eh... fresh underwear for Mr. Savage, please...

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Adam: Show me what you got, cheater.

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Kari: High explosives and electricity - whoooo!!!

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Jamie: Now behave, or we're going to make you into a coat.

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Adam: So, can you clearly communicate what clever canine conundrum you're currently concocting?
Jamie: What?!?
Adam: What's the myth?

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Tory: [Holding shotgun] Boy, you'd better marry my daughter!

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Adam: If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

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Adam: (To Jamie) Come, Silent Walrus, let us storm the castle! I will don my safety gear!

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Adam: Oh, I am as stealthy as the night. Don't I look like silent death, bringing justice in the night?

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Adam: (In a hill-billy accent) Dude, give it more gas! Ah hell. That ain't a truck no more, that's a dynamometer!

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Adam: It bleeds!

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Jamie: One way to tell that Mythbusters has been in the area: look for shrapnel in the trees.

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[Jamie is about to shoot an oven door with a shotgun.]
Adam: (with British accent) All right, Jamie, here's your motivation: this oven door 'as run off with your wife, [Jamie laughs] and you've decided to gear up and get even. So go for it!
[Jamie shoots oven door couple of times. Adam starts laughing at the second shot.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): I guess the moral is: don't elope with Mrs. Hyneman.

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[Adam gives his assessment of what happens when an aerosol can is tossed in a campfire.]]
Adam: While I don't necessarily think it's lethal, it definitely took a while to happen. So you might think, "Oh well. I guess nothing's gonna happen." and come back over here... BOOM! All of a sudden, your head's in a fireball and you're missing an eyebrow - and I know what that's like.
[Cue flashback from Cell Phone Destruction.]

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): ...and our trio of tall-tale tacklers (are) speaking in bull.
Grant: Moooo!
Tory: Those are whales.

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): ...and Grant stunt-double requires an CPR.
[Grant is seen performing "CPR" on his dummy.]
Grant: Don't give up on me now!
Tory: Are you done playing with yourself?

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Grant: You know how they say Tory is like a bull in a china shop?
Tory: No.
Kari: Yes.

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Rob Lee (US Narrator): So the first guy has let the team down. They were expecting a bull in a china shop to be like... well, a bull in a china shop.

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Adam: It’s a key component on the belt of Nocturnal-Echo-Locating-Flying-Mammal-Man.
Jamie: Batman?
Adam: Yes. Shhh!

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