MacGyver

[Iryssa]

Okay, someone tell me I'm not alone; I am totally addicted to MacGyver!! My boyfriend owns the first two seasons on DVD, and though I was skeptical at first, I am now officially a fan.
It could be the special contraptions (dubbed "MacGyver-isms"), his charming casualness, his upright character, the fact that he's a fan of my hometown hockey team...whatever it is, I love it!!

[Avatar]

Weird man. I haven't even thought of that show for years. I loved it as a kid, but I don't know how it would come across now though.

--A

[Warmark]

Perhaps i am being stupid, is this the same show Patty and Selma are addicted to on the Simpsons?

[[Syl]]

I'm with Av. Loved it as a kid (I sooo wanted a swiss army knife), but the last time I saw an ep... eh.

[Cail]

Same one from the Simpsons.

I remember watching him prevent a major chemical spill with a chocolate bar and a book of matches and thinking, "This isn't the show for me".

[wayfriend]

Aren't MacGuyver fans the same sort of folks who also went for Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder? The 40+ female saturday-night-tv-watcher?

[The Leper Fairy]

[Iryssa]

Weird man. I haven't even thought of that show for years. I loved it as a kid, but I don't know how it would come across now though.

--A

Well, you definitely have to watch it with the fact that it was made in the 80's in mind but I think that's part of the charm for me...it's cheesy, the special effects can be pretty bad, and the acting isn't always what you'd call spectacular. It's kinda like how I love the first generation of Star Trek and Highlander

Cail, that was the pilot episode you saw (okay, wow, I really am a geek)

Aren't MacGuyver fans the same sort of folks who also went for Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder? The 40+ female saturday-night-tv-watcher?

Bah! I can't stand Murder She Wrote...and anyway, I'm only 20

Claire...I love that image!

[CovenantJr]

I too loved MacGuyver as a kid, it was great. I haven't seen it in probably 15 years or so though...

[Cheval]

Aren't MacGuyver fans the same sort of folks who also went for Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder? The 40+ female saturday-night-tv-watcher?

Murder She Wrote???
Diagnosis Murder???
Did anyone actually watch those shows? (not I)
MacGuyver? I always enjoyed that show.
As moronic (is that a real word?) as the stuff that he came up with,
some of those little tricks actually work!
(Like saltwater in the dollar slot in older soda vending machines and bubble-gum for a seal or gasket. Seen those things in real life.)

MacGuyver was cool.

BTW - I may be over 40, but I'm all male.

[Nav]

I'm in the 'loved it as a kid' camp too. For years I was convinced that you could make cars explode by throwing pine cones under them (I don't think I fully understood MacG's logic there), and an episode in which there was a chemical spill in an underground research facility terrified me.

I actually saw an ep last week though and I have to agree with Syl...eh. They used stock footage. The horror.

[matrixman]

It could be the special contraptions (dubbed "MacGyver-isms"), his charming casualness, his upright character, the fact that he's a fan of my hometown hockey team...whatever it is, I love it!!

Yes, Iryssa, it was all of those things for me as well. MacGyver's casual charm, his sincerity and his good-hearted nature were--and remain-- rare and wonderful qualities for a TV character. He was a good role model, and I aspired to him to some degree. What would MacGyver do? - I'd say to myself in difficult situations with people. Of course, I fail more often than MacGyver, because he's a fictional person who always knows the right things to say, while I'm merely real and human.

As for the hockey thing...yeah, it was a cool feeling when I first saw MacGyver wearing a cap with the famous emblazoned "C" of the Flames on it.

...even though the Flames were, um, the sworn enemy of our Winnipeg Jets! (Back in the days when we still had an NHL team, before it deserted us for the warmer pastures of Phoenix, ahem...)

[dlbpharmd]

What would MacGyver do?

I would say this to myself as well - but for some reason, I couldn't get the matchstick, rubber band and nickel to open my locked car door, so I just called the locksmith instead.

[matrixman]

What would MacGyver do?

I would say this to myself as well - but for some reason, I couldn't get the matchstick, rubber band and nickel to open my locked car door, so I just called the locksmith instead.

[Reisheiruhime]

*sniff of disdain* I only watch it because RDA is unbelievably hot. Don't pay much attention to anything they're doing, I just like watching him. (I think they may have a name for me: reverse pedofile.)

And drat it all, I like Diagnosis Murder and Murder She Wrote. (Then again, am only 14 and mildly psychotic. )

[Menolly]

*sniff of disdain* I only watch it because RDA is unbelievably hot.

There ya go! That's the only reason why I watched it!

[Reisheiruhime]

Yah, high-five for a sister in the RDA hotness cult. Although, I like his hair better now. The "silver fox" look suits him perfectly, I think.

[taraswizard]

Does everyone know McGyver's given name is Angus!

[Cheval]

I think his name was mentioned in one episode.
"Agnus"? That sounds like the name.

[Sorus]

MacGyver's given name was not revealed until near the end of the show in the episode "Good Knight MacGyver: Part 2". Before that when someone asked, "Do you have a name?" he answered, "Yes," but did not reveal it. MacGyver's name was originally Stace MacGyver (according to the script for the pilot). Nobody used the name during the pilot; when it slipped out and became general knowledge to the fans, they decided to just call him "Mac" or Macgyver" for the duration. The name Angus was chosen because they felt it was unusual and something with an "ick" factor (although, not according to any Scots in the audience). The name was "suggested" from a poster for a charity event in Canada, where the series was being filmed at that time.