History Awesome / MYTHBUSTERS

** They shot a high-speed film of the impact, showing it in super-slow-motion. The car hit the wall so fast that the chassis didn't even have time to ''crumple''. It basically ''disintegrated'' from front to back. As awesome as the impact looked at normal speed, the super-slow-mo shot was awesomeness on steroids. Steroids that enhance ''awesomeness!''

* Putting a wedge on the front of a dump truck and plowing through two lines of cars in 'Hollywood Crash Cliches'. The truck barely slows down, there's cars flying everywhere (several doing full rolls), and Adam and Jamie are left in adrenaline-fueled hysterics.

* Movie and TV-based myths are usually pretty unrealistic, but all of the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' myths they tested got at ''least'' a "plasuable". Adam finally managing using a whip to swing over a chasm was especially epic.

* Movie and TV-based myths are usually pretty unrealistic, but all of the IndianaJones myths they tested got at ''least'' a "plasuable". Adam finally managing using a whip to swing over a chasm was especially epic.

* The [=MythBusters=] ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. [[Film/IronMan With a BOX]] [[MemeticMutation of SCRA-]] ...Ahem. Sorry. Wrong franchise.

*** Adam later confessed that when you see him bring his hand to his mouth in the reaction shot, he was[[PervertedDrooling wiping drool from his chin]].

* In the show's final episode, the Mythbusters decide to give Buster the Mythbusters equivalent of a VikingFuneral: Dress him up as a super hero, put him on a rocket sled, and fire him into a wall at 800 miles per hour. The highspeed footage shows Buster disintegrating on impact. Or rather, ascending into Valhalla.

* In the show's final episode, the Mythbusters decide to give Buster the Mythbusters equivalent of a VikingFuneral: Dress him up as a super hero, put him on a rocket sled, and fire him into a wall at 800 miles per hour. The highspeed footage shows Buster disintegrating on impact. Or rather, ascending into Valhalla.

** Managing to get within 800 feet of a standard rocket fuel's altitude of 4,133 feet with gummy bears as their rocket fuel.

* Adam, after going through a week-long Air Force training program, got to fly in a ''U2 plane 70,000 ft above the earth''. (Jamie also qualified, but let Adam go because he wanted it more.) The only people higher than them at that point are on the Space Station. Additionally, the view from the plane was absolutely ''stunning''; they were high enough for the curvature of the Earth to be easily visible, and the sky above was extremely dark because so much of the atmosphere was below them.

** This troper's personal pick for the most awe-inspiring thing they've ever done, Non-Explosion Division. The gargantuan nature of the build, the simplicity of the concept, the utter totality of the experiment's effectiveness... as the boys themselves point out, it's absolutely stunning that we haven't seen it used before or since (to my knowledge, anyway) in a Hollywood action movie, or even in ''[[NightmareFuel real life]]''.

** The only thing missing from the Cement Truck explosion? A high-speed shot, because the camera malfunctioned at the worst possible time. Did that stop our heroes? [[spoiler:Heck no! Coming in the final season: ''[[MadeofExplodium Cement Truck 2]]''.]]

* The Cement Truck incident is their Crowning Moment of Explodiness. Oh noes! You can't dislodge the dried concrete with a cherry bomb? How about an M-80? How about a ''pound'' of black powder (which, as it turns out, is effective at removing the normal slag that builds up over time)? How about ''packing the cement truck to the brim with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO ANFO]], clearing the area within a 5-mile radius, and '''frakking VAPORIZING it?!''''' WIN!

* The [=MythBusters=] ''built a lead balloon'' and made it float. The made a ''rocket'' out of ''meat''. In ''two days''. [[Film/IronMan With a BOX of SCRA-]] ...Ahem. Sorry.

** This troper's personal pick for the most awe-inspiring thing they've ever done, Non-Explosion Division. The gargantuan nature of the build, the simplicity of the concept, the utter totality of the experiment's effectiveness... as the boys themselves point out, it's absolutely stunning that we haven't seen it used before or since (to my knowledge, anyway) in a Hollywood action movie, or even in ''[NightmareFuel real life]]''.

** This troper's personal pick for the most awe-inspiring thing they've ever done, Non-Explosion Division. The gargantuan nature of the build, the simplicity of the concept, the utter totality of the experiment's effectiveness... as the boys themselves point out, it's absolutely stunning that we haven't seen it used before or since (to my knowledge, anyway) in a Hollywood action movie!

** The only thing missing from the Cement Truck explosion? A high-speed shot, because the camera malfunctioned at the worst possible time. Did that stop our heroes? [[spoiler:Heck no! Coming in the final season: '''[[MadeofExplodium Cement Truck 2]]'''.

* Kari Byron, sawing a tree in half with a [[{{BFG}} minigun]].

* Adam finally beating Jamie for a change in the Concrete Glider episode.

** Arguably even more awesome is Vince being so devoted to accuracy that he was as irritated about the spread of bullets in the show not matching the test precisely as he was ecstatic that his work finally natched a Plausible from the MythBusters.