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{{quote|Do we want to talk about why I just got hit in the head with a thumb?}}
** Anything involving the [[Nightmare Fuel]]-ish ballistics gel dog is golden, especially Kari's bizarre [[Cuteness Proximity]] fondness for it.
* The Mythbusters also have a habit of overkill. The example that comes immediately to mind is shooting a fish in a barrel...''[[Gatling Good|with a gatling gun]]''. Because any confirmation involving guns needs [[More Dakka]].
** "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
* Testing the myth of a cell phone causing an explosion at a petrol station, Adam and Jamie quickly discover their small scale test isn't quite small enough when it produces a '''huge''' fireball.
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* Tory's infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBEmInSdsx4 cycling mishap].
** Made even funnier because while Tory was amusing himself out of earshot, Scotty suggested, "Let's egg him on until he hurts himself." She never expected he actually ''would.''
*** It's even better in [[
* Don't forget Adam getting shocked by the fake Ark of the Covenant after the build team wires it up to an electric fence.
{{quote|'''Kari:''' Did you feel God?}}
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*** It's even better because some of the soda drips land on the camera lens.
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab2rVT9qgjw this] "bloopers" feature, a close-up of flowers suddenly jumps to Adam giving a "viewer discretion is advised" warning. He then turns around and runs off into the background, showing that he's naked except for a large flowerpot held at groin level. Jamie just watches him go, and the camera crew can be heard cracking up when he hits his hip on the corner of the bench Jaime is standing behind. You can hear his "OW".
* In this troper's first episode, Kari, Grant, and Tory, are testing to see if soundwaves could be recorded on clay bottles. To test this, Tory screamed at a clay jar as they were etching into it with a needle.
{{quote|'''Anouncer:''' And Kari is about to say what every Forensic Scientists dreams of being able to say.
'''Kari:''' YOU CRAZY KILLER!! }}
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** [http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-epic-failures.html #22, a.k.a. Failure Is Always an Option], first opens with Adam, Tory and Kari [[Hilarious Outtakes|failing to introduce the next moment properly.]] It all culminates with Jamie saying this:
{{quote|'''Jamie:''' Can we just roll the [[Sound Effect Bleep|*honk honk*]] tape?}}
** The special opens with a mock [[Avengers Assemble]] introduction, with Adam dropping in from the ceiling in mountain climbing gear. He then proceeds to attempt to follow Kari, Tory and Grant as they walk off-screen to start compiling moments, only to get part way before he reaches [[A Worldwide Punomenon|the end of his rope]] and gets pulled back.
* In "Walking on Water," Adam puts on a pair of shoes that the narrator describes as looking like "container ships." As Adam tries to step off the edge of the pool into the water, he immediately loses his balance and falls face-first into the water. As Jamie looks on, Adam simply says; "If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating."
** And before that, when they were testing the mizugumo, we get this gem of a line.
{{quote|'''Adam:''' COME, SILENT WALRUS! Let us storm the castle! I will don my safety gear!
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{{quote|'''Tory:''' I hope they like sushi!
'''Grant:''' Oh, I hope they like Italian! }}
* The boys recently did the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vhZ24WKV4o cold open of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]. Adam was in his spacesuit get-up, and both had to hold up cue cards for their lines in the song. But Jamie is just... Jamie. And for the most part, stands there totally deadpan the whole time. Which makes it frackin' hilarious.
* Ordinarily, Jamie isn't much of a comedian, so it means a lot at that at the end of "Phone Book Friction," he's standing next to two phone books [[It Makes Sense in Context|that have been torn apart by tanks]] and says "I just wanted to make a phone call"...and the ''camera crew'' cracks up laughing.
* Then there was the [[Benjamin Franklin]] myth...
{{quote|'''Tory''': We just killed a dead president!
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** From the same myth, the torpedo flying into the sky. Test 1 was particularly hilarious, as it flew into the sky to a ridiculous height and did a few loops.
* During the "Blue Ice from a Plane" myth, when the (now red for visual ease) ice hits the ground, a nearby bird is visibly startled by the impact and starts flying away. It's subtle and very possible to miss completely, but it's hilarious.
* The Build Team has failed to make fire by rubbing two sticks together, so they put a stick into a power drill and spin it against ''gunpowder.'' That's the only way they could make fire with two sticks!
* Then there's the bit where ''three'' Adams sing "fire in the hole", prompting the Narrator to comment, "...Okay, Adam, now you're just really taking the barbershop thing too far. Just press the detonation button, will ya?"
* From the Pirate Myths, we have a tumbleweed inexplicably showing up as Adam is about to light a cannon, and Tory digging a hole as the others pretend they're in a nature documentary.
* In the Pottery Record myth, Tory has a ludicrous leadfoot... on a ''pottery wheel.'' Yes, his first instinct when he comes across a pedal-powered pottery wheel is to floor it. It sends clay ''flying'' across the workshop.
* Kari's [[Shout-Out|homage]] to [[Wonder Woman|Lynda Carter's]] spinning [[Transformation Sequence]] in the "Paper Armor" myth.
** Also in the "Paper Armor" myth, Tory nonchalantly flings one of the resin-laminated paper squares off to the side. It embeds itself in a piece of cardboard. Tory then just ''breaks down.'' His reaction is almost as funny as the unexpected landing!
* In the "Mirror Lights" myth, Jamie makes the darkened room the brightest it gets in the whole myth. How? By stepping into the beams of light cast by the mirrors... and letting it ''bounce off his white shirt.'' Jamie is literally ''glowing'' as the beams scatter off his starched white shirt. Adam loses it.
{{quote|'''Jamie:''' And you said I didn't know how to light up a room.
'''Adam:''' I stand corrected. }}
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* The beginning of the "[[James Bond]] Special." Within about one minute we see Jamie in a tuxedo; Kari doing an over-the-top Bond Girl voice; Adam wearing scar makeup (and looking like a genuine Bond villain); Grant trying (and failing) to look menacing; and Jamie introducing himself as "Hyneman. James Hyneman." before [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|shooting at the camera]] a la the ''007'' films.
* At the end of the small-scale test for the "Rocket Man" myth, Kari, Grant, and Tory are standing on a platform with several missiles as Grant lowers it into the ground. Realizing how much they look like supervillains, Grant starts ''[[Evil Laugh|laughing maniacally]]'' as they drop out of view, with Kari adding in a few of her own laughs. Tory's reaction to all of this: a simple shrug as he looks at the camera.
* "Robo-Turkey" in the Bird Car Tip myth. Grant rigs up a frozen turkey with robotics to make its tiny, featherless wings flap and its legs rumble. It's disturbing, but it's also a ''naked cybernetically enhanced turkey flopping around on the roof of a car.''
** Later, when they ''finally'' manage to make the car tip over, the 80+ frozen Cornish game hens Kari threw on the hood of the car go ''flying off'' at breakneck speed as the car tumbles down the ramp. It's so utterly ludicrous it must be seen to be believed.
* In the Confederate Rocket myth, Grant is attempting to talk about nitrous oxide gas...while in the presence of an apparatus that's slowly creating the stuff. Given that the common term for nitrous oxide is "laughing gas", [[Hilarious Outtakes|I think you]] [[Corpsing|can guess]] [[Hilarity Ensues|what ensues]].
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|They've clearly made laughing gas.]] But what is he trying to ''say''?}}
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