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* You know that link up there, the external one? That is a [[Clip Show]] of the Top 25 [[
* The Mythbusters ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. [[Iron Man (
** Also, anytime something is utterly destroyed, Adam's line "Well ''there's'' your problem!"
** Anytime they utterly destroy something. Especially explosively.
* Jaime Vendera got his CMOA on Mythbusters by [[Make Me Wanna Shout|shattering a glass with just his voice]].
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*** [[Most Wonderful Sound|It's the sound,]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPprUxFap8&fmt=18 the cement truck explosion sounds awesome.]
* In the golf episode, Grant gets one just with what he ''says'':
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* Or building ''working versions'' of the two functions of Batman's grappling gun?
* Jamie Hyneman. Sitting ''inside'' a Tesla coil. ''And shooting million-volt bolts of lightning with a squirt gun.''
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**** Pfeh. We should send Kamina a few sets of Mythbusters glasses.
** Topping that, the build team tried to see if a snowplow can cut a car in half. After busting it at normal highway speeds, they built a ''rocket-powered superplow'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAFRCFu0Sk sent it down the track at over 500 mph], and managed to ''split the car in half!'' '''''Including the engine block!''''' Not only that, but the superplow '''disentegrated!'''
* They built a shark-punching robot. That's just so awesome, it singlehandedly justifies the entire medium of television.
** Indeed, the Discovery Channel picked a shot of that bot in action, as a part of a series of network promos based on [[It Makes Sense in Context]] moments.
* If building and driving a speedboat made of frozen newpaper doesn't qualify as awesome, what does?
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* The Build Team ''skipped a car across a lake''. And the car still ran afterward.
* Mythbusters + Ask a Ninja = pure awesomeness.
* How about when the Build Team recreated the ancient Korean ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQhSXA3AKh4 hwacha]'' arrow launcher? For those familiar with modern weaponry, it's like a 15th century [
** Also, the hwacha only missed because the fake army was ''too close'' and ''no big enough''. Against a force of a thousand, ti would be a massacre.
* In the Chinese Invasion Alarm experiment, Kari does better at hearing Jamie and Tory's digging than Adam... and Grant's fancy geoscopic technology.
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* Sawdust. Road flare. Air pressure. Large metal cylinder. That is all.
** Not quite, you forgot one part: non-dairy creamer. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc fireball] was so massive it freaked out the whole build team.
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* While testing whether it was possible to escape a car that had driven into a lake, the Mythbusters found that if you didn't open the car door immediately, then you had to equalize the pressure between the outside water, and the inside of the car, in other words, let water into the car through a window or otherwise, but discovering this wasn't the crowning moment of awesome. No, the crowning moment came several months later (as revealed on the Top 25 greatest Mythbusters moments) when Adam and Jamie received a letter from a fan. He said that he was a truck driver, who had a seizure while he was driving over a bridge. He came to in the middle of a lake, his cab slowly filling with water. Remembering what the Mythbusters said about escaping a sinking vehicle, he opened up his air vent, let the cab fill with water completely, opened the door, and swam out. The Mythbusters saved a person's life.
** ''Four other people'' wrote to them saying that what they showed saved their life.
* Dedicating an episode to not just busting moon landing hoax [[Conspiracy Theories]], but rhetorically stomping them flat, setting them on fire, [[To the Pain|and pissing on the ashes]]. They also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfYwdGSsQ evaporated a car]. Not with explosives, mind; that's what they did to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynZxVErTovg&fmt=18 that poor cement truck]. No, this vehicular vaporization was caused by a hunk of metal ''crashing into the car at transonic speeds.'' Awesome in a ''classical'' sense.
* "[[Understatement|The cement truck went away...]]" The ''true'' Crowning Moment of Awesome of the show, however, may be the end of the "Top 25 Mythbusters Moments" special, in which they show ''all'' of the best explosions (a few dozen of them), including the cement truck going away, in one massive montage set to [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture]]. It's breathtaking, to say the least.
** It must be seen to be believed, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msYHQOkrRHE enjoy!]
* Cutting a car in almost perfect halves with a rocket powered snow plow going 500 mph. The sled then disintegrated upon impact with the barrier.
* The Build Team and Adam and Jamie each have their favorite myths as their personal Crowning Moments. The Build Team's fav is "Racing Gravity," where they did [[Exactly What It Says
* Their appearance at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, where they tested to see the force of 150,000 people jumping at once, and tested to see if men or women did the wave faster.
* President Obama himself gave the Mythbusters another angle on the Archimedes Death Ray, saying that the thing that the Mythbusters missed was manpower; the Mythbusters gathered 500 students to help them pull off the myth. It was still busted, but seeing that many people out there was a CMOA.
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* Surviving on a desert island with only duct tape.
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