Adam Savage quotes from MythBusters

Adam

I think Jamie and I should drive around and pick people up.

Jamie

Yeah, with nobody in the front seat.

Adam

You wanna take your hood off and participate in this conversation?

Jamie

I kinda like it in here. It's private.

Adam

All those years spent as a political prisoner in South America and they never ONCE attached a battery to your nuts.

Jamie

Well why do you think I don't want to do it.

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.

Jamie

[Adam, after several tries, has finally hit the target] Good shot, Adam.

Adam

[little-boy voice] Thank you, Uncle Jamie.

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.

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!

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?

Adam removes 5 plywood sheets from the 12 available.

Adam

Screw.

Uhh - make that 11.

Adam

One tore, bringing it out...trying to get it out of the way of Jay the cameraman!

[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.

These rigs represent three days of skill, passion, and effort. Pity, really.

Adam

Well, a fat lot of good that did.

And that's why they don't make parachutes out of wood.

Adam

[to Jamie] I'm taking solace in the fact that your wing is going to fail so utterly spectacularly.

Jamie

You're probably right. But then you never know.

Adam

[nods] But then you never know.

Adam

[laughs] Whoooo!!!

Do you feel better now?

Adam

I do, I feel a lot better.

Next, In his quest to build the ultimate plywood parachute, Adam Savage...screws up.

Adam

[after ruining a part of plywood] Oh, *beep*!

Adam

Whoa...

Our friend here is...toast.

Adam

Oh yeah: 12 milliamps. Toasters—no good.

Adam

Now it's time for one of my personal favorites, [imitating Pee Wee Herman and making the curling iron look like it's talking] the curling iron! Let's go!

Jamie

What are you? Pee Wee Herman?