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Cell Phone Destruction, Silicone Breasts, CD-ROM Shattering

Season 1, Episode 2, Aired Oct 03, 2003

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Can using a cell phone at a gas station cause the pump to explode? Can changes in air pressure at high altitude cause silicone breast implants to explode? Can spinning a CD-ROM at too high a speed cause it to shatter?moreless

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Jamie Hyneman

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Heather Joseph-Witham

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Robert Lee (XXVI)

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Nikos Andronikos

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great episode

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By sfviewer, Aug 21, 2006

another great episode, adam and jamies comes up with another myth to solve. it's always exciting to watch what answers the experiments will yield. i had a great time again this week watching this episode, i'm always looking forward to the next one, there's always something interesting to watch in the show. it's always fun waiting for the answers, this is the reason why mythbusters is a good show. the producers really did a good job with this show, it's smart, fun, entertaining and definitely a 2 thumbs up. we learn something from it. it's exciting, i'm really having a blast watching this show.moreless
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This is the episode that hooked me on to the series.

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By aesgaard41, Jul 22, 2006

I started watching Mythbusters late, but this episode is my favorite for two reasons: one, it was the very first episode I ever saw, and, two, the pig in me is sort of fascinated by the concept of boobs getting bigger. I don't know why; I guess I grew up exposed to much Benny Hill. Anyway, this episode fetures the expansion and/or exploding of breast implants, a myth already busted on The Learning Channel's Urban Myths Revealed. Jamie and Adam also go off the deep end having fun spinning CDs into destruction and testing whether cell phones cause fires at the gas pump which isnt a myth because it does happen. They leave out too many variables out of the equation to prove it happens.moreless
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- Adam introduces the Leyden Jar in this episode. The Leyden Jar was invented in Leyden, Netherlands around 1750. By wrapping an insulator on both sides with conductors, it was capable of holding charges.
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- (Adam with Silicone breasts at 8000 feet) Adam: My breasts are getting bigger, repeat, my breasts are getting bigger.
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- Narrator: With the shocking garments in hand, they're off to the auto yard to find a suitable car seat. (Adam points out an old van) Adam: Do you think we could build some panty friction in the bed here? Jamie: Well that's what it's for, isn't it? Adam: Well we won't be the first.
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- (Adam comments on the results so far of the panty static generator) Adam: At this point it's just like a sea of rubbing and vinyl and wet car seats. It's like high school.
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- Adam: (To Jamie after a CD shatters) Oh, man, it's like a horror show. Look at this, it's like embedded two inches in his flesh. That's bad
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- Adam: (After a microwaved CD shatters) That just goes to show that you should not microwave your CD and then put it in the drive.
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- (After an experiment has burst into flames with Adam nearby) Adam: (feels his face) Am I missing... an eyebrow?
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- (Explaining to Adam how he's convinced that his router can handle the stress of spinning a CD at over 30,000 rpm) Jamie: It says heavy duty on it.
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- Adam: Don't you want to touch 'em!
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- Adam: (lieing on the floor) Ohhh..... Must test CD-rom
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- Jamie: Jamie want big boom!
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- This episode was released on Mythbusters: Collection 1.
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- Savage lost some hair during an explosion test in the "Cell Phone Destruction" myth, which invoked one of his more famous quotes: "Am I missing... an eyebrow?", used in subsequent opening scenes for the show, as well as a t-shirt Adam wears on the show.
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