That Home Depot is now known Cheyenne Mountain. He built the Stargate and explores other planets under the false name "Jack O'Neill". The more you know..
To all of you who have ever repaired something with Duct tape and a coat hanger, if it worked at least temporarily, the spirit of MacGyver is with you.
In a 1991 episode I just saw last week, an environmental activist has called for MacGyver's help. The man is living isolated out in a wasteland (destroyed by industrial pollution) and focused on showing that the big suburban development scheme by a local real estate tycoon will inevitably lead to the same kind of doom, destruction of groundwater deposits, turning the soil into a filthy mess and so on. As the guy is waiting for MacGyver to come around and meet him, following an elaborate plan (cassette tapes with instructions left in standby cars etc), he happens to step into a sinkhole in the useless soil, and when McGyver arrives he is at the point of drowning, MacGyver sees the danger and manages to pull both of them out by an autimatic haul-in steel wire attached to the front of his truck. So, when the guy has narrowly escaped being drowned in the oxic mud and they're both safe again, he comes up with this priceless line: "I knew you would come, MacGyver! I knew it when I was stuck in there...You're always on time!" :D
The original MacGyver, always the best. I love that line from the first episode of season 1 that they always use for the commercials for the show on the H&I cable channel... "Can you make a bomb out of chewing gum and a paper clip?" "Why? You got some?" I saw Richard Dean Anderson on GMA when MacGyver got going good. He said the LA cops liked the show because for a couple of hours every week there was peace on the streets. It turned out the LA gangs LOVED the show, so they'd stop all criminal activity to watch the show and then spend time talking about it. That's also where using the word "MacGyver" became street lingo. It meant doing the impossible thing or getting the impossible girl. It also later came to mean working out the typical MacGyver tricks. In fact, RDA also said that the term just barely missed out on being included in an English dictionary that came out only once every 10 years. I've even seen it used in Marvel comics to refer to ultra-secure prison cells meant to hold scientific geniuses like the Wizard. They were called "MacGyver-proof cells."
One trick I remember is MacGyver blowing up a light bulb with a squeeze water bottle thingy set to stream mode. I was AMAZED as a child and thought he was the coolest ever!
@@LOLSKU115 Yes. My mother-in-law was cooking when the pressure cook pot exploded, sending the hot food and the pot lid flying across the kitchen. Luckily I remembered my Yoga lessons and, in a split second, did a Bakasana pose to dodge the murderous contents and instantly get up like a champ. No one was hurt.
do you know the Outer limits TV series? That was a quite underrated series similar as the X-Files. In the outer limits the intro was quite amazing and they also had good background music like MacGyver.
Cool, it’s young Mundo from American Me. MacGyver (classic ) is and always will be my favorite show. I remember watching Mac in the late 80’s/early 90’s as a kid
1:49 His face says: "Great job! Now you'll use your newly-freed arms to break the binds around your ankles, then we -- hey, what are you doing that for?" 2:05 "Hey, what about MY ankles?!"
In regards to the realism, I can't remember if it was the producers, the directors, or Richard himself who said that they may have skipped a few steps to avoid people recreating the stunts.
Those who became engineers because of MacGyver have misunderstood the series. In one episode, MacGyver meets one of his ex-girlfriends, and they talk about why they couldn't stay together. They say that the reason was their different aspirations in life. The girl wanted to be a physicist, and MacGyver says that he didn't study physics in order to have a 9 to 5 job in an office. So, being an engineer is exactly what MacGyver didn't want to be. He wanted to be an adventurer. I often see comments of people saying "I became an engineer thanks to MacGyver". But apparently they completely missed the point of the series. The series would have boring if MacGyver had been an engineer and not an adventurer. And I say that as someone who wants to become an engineer.
I bust a tire on my bike. Turns out the vent was leaking. Nothing I tried worked, until I thought… what would MacGyver do? So I checked my pockets for everything I had and found a lollipop. The lollipop was covered in plastic, and I put the plastic on top of the vent and screwed the top on. The plastic from the lollipop successfully trapped the air inside the tire and I could roll home on my bike. Thank you MacGyver.
One of my favorite series when i was a kid. Along with the Knight Rider and Street Hawk :D An interesting thing though: Im a nostalgy freak so I sometimes watch these. The point of MacGyver was that he was supposed to be very rightgeous (spelling?), always for justice etc. However, name an 80s series that would be more prejudicial towards russians or east germans? It seems like half of the actors only went to acting school to learn the "evil voice", you know, where if they order a coffee its in a russian accent that just lets you know from the get--go they are going to try to blow up the town.
True but honestly, the whole world was portrayed in an unflattering way :south americans were always depicted as some corrupt revolutionary Zapatas, and asians as vicious vietcongs. I even remember an episode where French police were practicing torture in a vineyard..ahahah... you know, that was the world seen from Middle America... generally a local cute and selfless girl was there to keep the balance.
“Dude you want to turn the radiator off and clear out these coat hangers? What’s with this garbage chute conveniently under the window?” “No man, let’s get something to eat”.
Funny. I know Stark and Bruce Wayne are supposed to be crazy genius, but never got that vibes from them. But this guy... not less than 5 minutes, I know he's beyond SMART!
I have a SpEd student that loves this guy! I love that he turned the class on to it. Such amazing problem solving and calming of the mind in anxiety situations. THANK YOU MacGyver!!!!❤
