Adam Savage quotes from MythBusters

Adam

My dignity and good television—they'll never meet.

At least not on this show.

Adam

This wins as the strangest position I've ever been in...on this show.

Kari

[looking directly at the camera] Don't you love how he qualifies it with "on this show"?

Adam

Jamie, please don't shoot bullets at my head.

Jamie

He's only got one ear.

Adam

We don't need ears to test the lethality of falling bullets.

Adam

So, guys, how did it go?

Tory

Psychic helmet totally works.

Adam

Really?!?

Tory

Actually, no, not really...

Jamie

The flower of death.

Adam

Los flores de los muertos! (The flowers of the dead)

Adam

I think Jamie's just going to be like [mimicking Jamie's impending crawl up an air duct with magnets] "CHUNG!" "CHUNG!" "CHUNG!" And I believe, in a security manual, the proper response to that sound coming from your duct is to just riddle your duct with bullets.

With Grant and Kari heading up security, bullet riddling is unlikely. But with Tory...you never know.

Adam

[laughing] Why, Thor, the god of thunder, is trying to enter my building!

Tory

Somebody needs to check that air conditioner!

[as Jamie continues] Here's some key phrases from the surreptitious entry heist manual: Be the breeze [clang] As light as a feather [clang] The foot fall of a kitten. [clang]

Jamie

Lets get cracking.

Adam

Um... cracking?

Jamie

What?

Adam

Do you care to explain what we're doing 60 feet above the ground, standing above 9000 gallons of swirling water and...I'm in a wetsuit?

Jamie

Sure!

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!

Not so much Yoda, but soda.

Adam, for reasons known only to himself, puts a bottle of cola on Jamie's lathe.

Adam

[to camera] Okay, this'll be our little secret.

Adam

And now we're going to see if we can shake this bridge apart.

Uh, hold on Adam...

Adam

[in a flashback clip] I promise that if this works, we'll use this power only for good.

Yeah, right Adam.

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.

Adam

(Referring to their lack of success in cutting the pig in half) Can we get a sword?

Jamie

(laughs) Meat cleaver?

Jamie

These tanks are actually filled with geese...and they're complaining.

Adam

(silence) Was that a joke? Fascinating...