AdamThe only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of 14 year-old pyromaniacs... is ballistic glass.
A character in MythBusters
Played by Adam Savage
MythBusters · 556 quotes
Most-quoted character in MythBusters: in 283 of its 556 quotes
Most scenes with: Jamie Hyneman (64), Rob Lee (25), Kari Byron (12)
AdamThe only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of 14 year-old pyromaniacs... is ballistic glass.
AdamPerfect. 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.
[Adam is holding two bottles, the labels of which have been obscured by the censor.]
AdamThis 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.
Adam[after a thermite square ignites without warning] Deuteronomy!
[The first test Hindenburg catches fire and nearly burns out in the shop.]
AdamThat would be the textbook definition of irony, kids...
AdamNext on Discovery, the world's deadliest piñata!
AdamShow me what you got, cheater.
AdamIf I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
Adam(To Jamie) Come, Silent Walrus, let us storm the castle! I will don my safety gear!
AdamOh, I am as stealthy as the night. Don't I look like silent death, bringing justice in the night?
Adam(In a hill-billy accent) Dude, give it more gas! Ah hell. That ain't a truck no more, that's a dynamometer!
AdamIt bleeds!
[Adam gives his assessment of what happens when an aerosol can is tossed in a campfire.]
AdamWhile 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.]
Adam(stepping out of the house they built) Hi everyone! Welcome to the Mythbusters Clubhouse!
AdamHouse? What house?
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