Senator Robert Kinsey: Colonel. I swear, O’Neill. There’s gonna be an investigation into this.
Colonel Jack O’Neill: [yelling after Kinsey ] That’d be fine. O’Neill [holding up 3 fingers] two l’s.
I love those hockey mom’s.
You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull… lipstick.
–Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska
Life… it’s terminal.
When is dead not dead?
When you are on a science fiction show.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
–Confucius
Adam Savage: [holding an original floatation barrel from the movie Jaws] The only thing we’re told we can’t do is burn them, blow them up, or lose them!
Salvatore “Tory” Belleci: Has he watched the show?
Jamie Hyneman: Good shot, Adam!
Adam Savage: Thank you, Uncle Jamie.
Talk’s cheap. Whiskey costs money.
–Hugh ‘Polar Bear’ Roland various episodes
Adam Savage: [Fake arrow on his head] Coming up, could a ninja snatch an arrow out of the air?
Jamie Hyneman: Sorry about that, man.
Adam: That’s okay.
Scottie Chapman: Maybe it’s a myth that methane is flammable.
Adam Savage: It’s not a myth. We’re just idiots.