MythBusters (2003–2018)

Jamie Hyneman: Self - Host

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• Jamie : I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

• [discussing the lethality of paper-mache arrows] 

  Adam : Just thinkin' this one through from a mechanical standpoint... I'd be totally pleased with two inches of penetration.

  Jamie : Generally, I prefer a little bit more.

• Jamie : [Jamie is holding a duck]  Quack, damn you!

  Adam : He looks like he's trying to collect a loan from the duck. Duck loan collection agency!

  [in a mobster accent] 

  Adam : We want to talk to you about some outstanding feed!

• Jamie : Adam, the police officer says you need to drink more.

• [Adam gets upset with Jamie and walks away] 

  Jamie : Adam needs a cookie.

• Jamie : [in anticipation of a massive explosion]  Jamie wants big boom.

• Jamie : Adam doesn't know it yet but he's digging his own grave.

  Adam : What's that?

  Jamie : What?... Nothing!

• Jamie : It's a beautiful day at the bomb range. Birds are singing, rabbits are hopping about... and pretty soon there's gonna be a big explosion.

• Jamie : [over radio]  This is one of those "What the hell am I doing?" moments, over!

• Jamie : I always enjoy seeing Adam in pain.

• Jamie : [wearing a full-body fire-protection suit with tinted hood]  I kinda like it in here, it's private!

• Jamie : [fills a truck with vacuum cleaners]  Do we suck or what?

• [Jamie accidentally shoots a fluorescent light with a nail gun] 

  Jamie : Whoops! We should get out of here. That's mercury vapor.

• Jamie : [while pushing Adam into the quicksand]  Drown, you bastard!

• Jamie : [after spectacularly destroying two semi-trucks]  It wasn't quite right, but I don't think we can reset.

• Adam : [Drops a pastrami sandwich on the floor and picks it up again]  Whoop, I picked it up after like three seconds, would you eat it?

  Jamie : I wouldn't eat it just because you've handled it.

• Adam : Do you actually have moods?

  Jamie : No.

• Adam : [Holds a weather balloon]  For science!

  [Releases the weather balloon and it floats away] 

  Jamie : [Points to the weather balloon]  It's going that way!

  [Adam laughs] 

  Adam : You're a budding meteorologist Jamie!

  [Jamie laughs] 

• Jamie : I think that was one of the most destructive things I've ever done. That was cool!

• Jamie : I think this thing could hurt you. I think we're about to find out whether it will hurt you.

  Adam : All right, I'll go put on the suit.

  Narrator : What did I say about dressing up?

  Adam : [dancing in Redman suit]  Yeah! You can shake your booty in this!

• Jamie : So what's in these things?

  Adam : Supposed to be vinegar and water.

  [takes a sip of feminine hygiene products and spits it out] 

  Adam : Yeah, tastes like vinegar and water.

  [starts laughing] 

  Adam : I just took a taste test.

  [continues laughing] 

• Jamie : [while coffin is being closed in the Buried Alive myth]  Farewell cruel world!

• Jamie : [wearing a wetsuit]  I feel kinda sexy!

• Adam : [Holds up a pig's head in front of his face]  Jamie!

  Jamie : Yeah?

  Adam : Please don't fire bullets into my head!

  Jamie : Its only got one ear though.

  Adam : We don't need ears for testing lethality of bullets at terminal velocity man!

• Adam : Remember, don't try this at home.

  Jamie : We're what you call "experts".

• Kari : All right! Looks like it's time to pack Buster's bags for the Bahamas. What do you think he'd wear? Shorts or a little thong?

  Adam : I... I don't know if Buster has enough actual flesh down there for a thong, but a...

  Jamie : He's got no butt at all, in fact he doesn't even have any legs.

• Jamie : Good shot, Adam!

  Adam : Thank you, Uncle Jamie.

• Jamie : [Adam writes "Crash" Hyneman on Jamie's Helmet]  What the hell are you writing out there?

• Jamie : Well, as the myth suggests, William Thomson, aka Lord Kelvin, did indeed live during the Civil War era but he never claimed to have made liquid oxygen.

  Adam : And we're supposed to believe someone who was called Thomson but went around saying he was Lord Kelvin? "That's Lord Kelvin to you."

• Jamie : When will the fun ever stop?

• Adam : [Adam laughs]  We're escaping Alcatraz in Mach 1!

  Jamie : No wonder they couldn't find them. They're probably in Japan by now.

• Jamie : Aren't tracer rounds illegal?

• Jamie : What's the problem, you don't believe the math?

• Adam : [Fake arrow on his head]  Coming up, could a ninja snatch an arrow out of the air?

  Jamie : Sorry about that, man.

  Adam : That's okay.

• Jamie : And that was the end of Adam's Television career.

  Adam : No!

  [punches Jamie in the arm] 

• Adam : [while trying to calculate how many pingpong balls it takes to cancel out one pound]  Oh no, oh crap.

  Jamie : That's great Adam. I'll see you later.

  [Starts walking away] 

  Jamie : Let me know when you get that all worked out.

• Jamie : Ninety-two feet to the top of the pulleys!

  Kari : Ninety-two feet to the dead bird!

  [Jamie laughs] 

• Jamie : Well, that's a bright light you got going there, buddy!

• Jamie : Give it your best shot! Come on!