Stuff Blowing Up/Quotes
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
—Sundance, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
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Explosions! MORE explosions! I got to have more explosions!
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Reno: Hey, partner. This thing... *holds up huge bundle of dynamite sticks taped together* It got any bite to it? |
"Shit be blowin' up!"
—Lita, Sailor Moon Abridged
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John: I guess when they say you can't fight City Hall, they really mean it. |
"Yar. Must be Exploding Tuesday."
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"A nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp."
—Urdnot Wrex, Mass Effect
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"Let's see: sixty seconds on the clock plus one 300kg bomb equals lots of little pieces of submarine. So now... the question is, what will you do, Kashim?"
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Stephen Colbert: Jon, um...Did you set fire to Dick Gephardt? —The Daily Show, Indecision 08: America's Choice
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"Jamie want big boom."
—Jamie Hyneman, Myth Busters
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"When in doubt... C4."
—Jamie Hyneman, Myth Busters
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"They explode! My life has taken on new meaning!"
—Elsa Bloodstone, Nextwave
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"Dude, you have a bazooka. Stop thinking Prague Police and start thinking Playstation. Blow shit up!"
—Xander, xXx
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"See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite... and gunpowder... and gasoline!"
—The Joker, The Dark Knight
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Joker: If we don't stop fighting, you're going to miss the fireworks. |
From Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
—From The Italian Job
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"DAY 12: ‘Pearl Harbor’ script hits by desktop and my imagination starts rolling. Things blew up at Pearl Harbor. Things blew up real good. I got it in my head to do a 2 ½ hour movie about things blowing up at Pearl Harbor."
—Micheal Bay's "Diary", from a review of Pearl Harbor by Greg Muskewitz.
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"BLOW THINGS UP! BLOW THINGS UP!"
—cry of the Jammers from Feng Shui
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"The Incredibles - no sequence unexploded." |
“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode”
—Teal'c, Stargate SG 1
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"The all time classic, Super Mario 64! NOW WITH FIVE THOUSAND PERCENT MORE EXPLOSIONS! |
When a chemical plant goes sour, you get The Fireball: large pieces of white-hot metal go flying everywhere at high speeds, and you can lose a hundred-million-dollar investment in four seconds. That's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, you get Bhopal. Chemical companies compensate ... by carefully watching the pot, using a technology that could be described as A Lot of Old People Who Know How to Make Teflon Without Wiping Out Wilmington. This is expensive, and wasteful, and often leaky.
—Michael Gruber, in Wired 2.10
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There are no problems which cannot be solved by judicious use of high explosives.
—British Commando saying, World War 2
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Explosions fix everything!
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I got to draw superfluous explosions, though! Those are my favorite kind!
—Awkward Zombie, from The Rant
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Michael Bay presents: Explosions! |
Tact has nothing to do with it. This is diplomacy.
—Tagon, Schlock Mercenary
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"I don't have to blow up everything I see. I just like to."
—Kell Tainer, Wraith Squadron
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Donos: Pretty. What do we blow up first? —Solo Command
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Mega Man: Let me guess. You're going to flood the cave with water. |
"In the Game Boy game where Mega Man uses it, I think Mirror Buster is just a shield that can bounce shots, but instead I made it this thing that absorbs attacks and fires them back as some kind of converted blast. Why? Because explosions."
—Disgruntled Ferret, regarding this comic.
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Caboose: Andy, calm down. Think of a happy place. Now, what makes you happy? |
Ben Vereen: I get a big charge out of being here.
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"And then... EVERYTHING EXPLODES"!
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"Oh, go on, Archchancellor. What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and —The Dean, Reaper Man
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<Insert Zeeky Boogy Doog here>
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"Art is a bang, un!"
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"He did 'Boom!'. No matter how many times you hear, it's always a good sound."
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Darklight: And most importantly... we must BLOW STUFF UP! |
"If in doubt, just start blowing shit up."
—James Grayson in Resistance Retribution, after blowing up a Chimera power core in the Construction Zone.
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"What's cooler than saying 'fuck'? Blowing something up!"
—Claire Hooper, The Sideshow With Paul McDermott
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Riff: Wood, mortar, plaster... various materials mundane materials that share one important quality. They all can be blown up. |
Torg: Don't you have more gadgets than just the bazooka? |
"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."
—Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick
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"Their songs followed the simple premise of boy being meets girl being under the silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason."
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"The goal is to create a piece of advertising that's original and exciting, if intelligent and provocative - in other words, lots of things blowing up!" |
"The first bomb is always the hardest."
—Parker, Leverage
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{{quote|JOKER unleashes an all-out barrage of missiles, like the biggest fucking missiles you will ever see. BATMAN shoots his own back, and they all collide together in the middle of a violent explosion, and then, an explosion within that explosion. Afterward: one last explosion, this time in slow motion, with tanks flying out of it.|Michael Bay's rejected [[http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994}}
"If they don't blow up at least ten national monuments, I'm leaving!"
—Chez Geek flavor text for the card "Summer Blockbuster"
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"If it's bombs they want... I'm happy to oblige."
—Skuld's response to being badly outnumbered by a brainwashed science class armed with grenades, Oh My Goddess!, Ch. 82
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"Explosions, people! In case you missed it!"
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"Shit fucking blows up everywhere forever."
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And the army is like: BLOW STUFF UP! BLOW STUFF UP!!!
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"*sniffs* Michael Bay would be proud."
—The Nostalgia Chick, on the train explosion scene in Anastasia
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"The latter half of the 19th century was filled with advances in man-exploding technology--particularly those advances that allowed you to blow up people who were not you, but that had angered you in some way and so deserved to die. Progress!"
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Captain Jack: I was gonna send for another [sonic blaster] but somebody blew up the factory! —Doctor Who, "The Doctor Dances"
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"Dynamite solves everything!"
—Peri, Spliced
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"My years with Mr. Tesla have taught me that there's one underlying scientific principle common to all existence. Everything explodes."
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"It's gonna go boom, it's Atari! It's gonna go boom! *Death Star in the video game he was playing explodes* BOOM!!!!"
—The Angry Video Game Nerd in the "Star Wars Games" episode.
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"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe ... oh, why not all of them?"
—Jaya Ballard about the Meteor Shower spell, Magic the Gathering
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"Sometimes, when I morph, I can't help but notice this gigantic explosion right behind me for no apparent reason." |
"Why does everything explode so easily?
—Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb, "Ask a Foolish Question"
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"Awesome barbecue!" [Boom!] "Awesome pool!" [Boom!] |
"Why isn't everything exploding?!"
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"Nothing gets a party goin' like a few pounds of chemical charges... hey, they've got mines too! Verry nice, we'll take 'em along as well."
—Michael Falkner, Earth 2160
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At last, all my powers restored! Speed! Invisibility! Astral projection! And my personal favorite...COMBUSTION!
—Shendu, Jackie Chan Adventures
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