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MacGyver

Sel Appa
10-02-2006, 01:02
Anyone else like this hit 80s show? For those who don't know, MacGyver works for the Phoenix Foundation and usually ends up getting others or himself out of trouble. His creative mind will set up any number of ideas. He could get you out of prison with a piece of cheese (in effect). Best of all, he never uses guns to kill people(occaisionally as part of a diversion). I watched it a few years ago on TV Land and loved it. I now have seasons 1-4 on DVD and have seen all of those episodes except for 4 of them in season 2 (my sis lost the disc). My favorites are the ones that involve Communist nations. ;) Season 5 will be out 14 March. So anyone else?

PS: The people who played Pete and Harry(grandpa) have died. :(
Tekim
10-02-2006, 01:11
Yes...I love it! I have a seasons 1-4 too...i was so happy when they came out last year.
Super-power
10-02-2006, 01:12
MacGyver!!! Greatest show ever, and the only man to sport a successful mullet other than Solid Snake
Zagat
10-02-2006, 01:13
If you dont like McGyver, you're probably broken....but dont worry, McGyver can fix you, just hand him a roll of duct tape, half a carrot, a stick of gum and an old matchbox and he'll have ya' better than new in no time...;)
The South Islands
10-02-2006, 01:13
He was awesome!

He could create a timebomb with bubblegum andf colby-jack cheese.
Sel Appa
10-02-2006, 01:13
I'm so impatient. I can't wait for season 5. Except for the music, which isn't as bad as most 80s music, it's wonderful. They should air it on a major channel like ABC again.
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 01:15
McGuyver was aweseome in the 80s. But he was no Chuck Norris
Teh_pantless_hero
10-02-2006, 01:23
I watch it every weekday on Spike TV, or whatever that channel is.
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 01:27
http://www.exclaim.ca/images/macguyver.jpg


macguyver is the other lord of kickass.
Layarteb
10-02-2006, 01:30
That was a great show. Coupled with other great '80s shows (Knight Rider, Air Wolf, A-Team, Baywatch [started in '89, still counts], Saved by the Bell [also '89]). The guy who played MacGuyver does a bang up job as O'Neill on Stargate SG-1.
Quaon
10-02-2006, 01:31
They still air it on TV Channel (or whatever that oldies TV channel is called). Love that show.
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 01:34
macguyver is the other lord of kickass.
"MacGuyver"... pheh! You understand he'd build a bazooka out of your rectum for insulting him (MacGyver) like that, right?... if he was a violent person, that is..

...spelling the name wrong is just... wrong...
Layarteb
10-02-2006, 01:36
Chuck Norris > MacGuyver
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 01:40
MacGuyver would have to construct something to stop the molecule-shattering roundhouses of his
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 01:41
Chuck Norris > MacGuyver
ARRGHH! Not only is the spelling wrong in that equation!
Layarteb
10-02-2006, 01:42
ARRGHH! Not only is the spelling wrong in that equation!

Chuck Norris > MacGyver

Happy? Either way Chuck Norris is greater than MacGyver. That's among the decrees of Chuckianity.
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 01:43
Chuck Norris > MacGyver

Happy? Either way Chuck Norris is greater than MacGyver. That's among the decrees of Chuckianity.


someone hasn't read the 3 gospels according to Chuck
Layarteb
10-02-2006, 01:44
someone hasn't read the 3 gospels according to Chuck

LOL!
Jewish Media Control
10-02-2006, 01:44
MacGyver.. one of my first crushes. :) However, how can you beat Knight Rider? *you can't*
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 01:46
Chuck Norris > MacGyver

Happy? Either way Chuck Norris is greater than MacGyver. That's among the decrees of Chuckianity.
Well, Chuck and Mac are equal prophets in here. Green Hornet is the only God... But whatever.

Edit: no blasbhemous cartoons, please.
Layarteb
10-02-2006, 01:47
Well, Chuck and Mac are equal prophets in here. Green Hornet is the only God... But whatever.

MacGyver may be a profit for Chuckianity and the Green Hornet is nothing in Chuckianity, the only true religion.

David Hasselhoff = Patron Saint of Germany (they love the guy)
Lt_Cody
10-02-2006, 01:48
Chuck Norris > MacGuyver
Please, MacGyver could defeat Norris using only a paper clip, a piece of chewed-up gum, a shoe box and two outlet plugs
Undomesticated Equines
10-02-2006, 01:49
Sorry, Richard Dean Anderson has the upper hand in this bout.
Layarteb
10-02-2006, 01:49
Please, MacGyver could defeat Norris using only a paper clip, a piece of chewed-up gum, a shoe box and two outlet plugs

All things which Chuck Norris created. MacGyver would not last to Chuck's powerful roundhouse kick, which would negate the nuclear device MacGyver built from those items.
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 01:51
Sorry, Richard Dean Anderson has the upper hand in this bout.
Please, do not say the God's name in vain!
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 01:51
All things which Chuck Norris created. MacGyver would not last to Chuck's powerful roundhouse kick, which would negate the nuclear device MacGyver built from those items.


nothing gets past the roundhouse......nothing
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 01:53
All things which Chuck Norris created. MacGyver would not last to Chuck's powerful roundhouse kick, which would negate the nuclear device MacGyver built from those items.
The most holy Mac would try to speak himself out of that situation, for sure... or, indeed, make an atom bomb out of shoelace and 20 grams of turd and a pencil... and some spit... (can't remember...)
Fahnytum
10-02-2006, 01:59
MacGyver.. one of my first crushes. :) However, how can you beat Knight Rider? *you can't*

I mean no offense, but as cool as Kit was, David Hasslehoff (SP?) just wasn't as spiffy as Richard Dean Anderson. I mean, Hasslehoff had that faux-fro thing going on for most of the time, whereas Mac made the almost-mullet look good. o_o
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 02:03
I mean no offense, but as cool as Kit was, David Hasslehoff (SP?) just wasn't as spiffy as Richard Dean Anderson. I mean, Hasslehoff had that faux-fro thing going on for most of the time, whereas Mac made the almost-mullet look good. o_o
I quess spanking the twerp out of town is not a thing we can do here...
This is WAY worse than the Danish cartoons... and you know it!
Sel Appa
10-02-2006, 02:05
nothing gets past the roundhouse......nothing
MacGyver.
Bunnyducks
10-02-2006, 02:07
Fahnytym... I's sure you know there is a direct relation between Hasselhoff's hairstylist and global warming..?
Anti-Social Darwinism
10-02-2006, 05:14
Chuck Norris > MacGyver

Happy? Either way Chuck Norris is greater than MacGyver. That's among the decrees of Chuckianity.

Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) is sexier, smarter and better looking than Chuck Norris. And the older he gets the better he gets. Yum.
Zanato
10-02-2006, 06:02
MacGyver's ingenuity is ingratiatingly annoying.
UpwardThrust
10-02-2006, 06:07
He went to my collage lol
Boonytopia
10-02-2006, 10:49
MacGyver's a dead-set legend. Had a good mullett too.
JuNii
10-02-2006, 11:09
Anyone else like this hit 80s show? For those who don't know, MacGyver works for the Phoenix Foundation and usually ends up getting others or himself out of trouble. His creative mind will set up any number of ideas. He could get you out of prison with a piece of cheese (in effect). Best of all, he never uses guns to kill people(occaisionally as part of a diversion). I watched it a few years ago on TV Land and loved it. I now have seasons 1-4 on DVD and have seen all of those episodes except for 4 of them in season 2 (my sis lost the disc). My favorites are the ones that involve Communist nations. ;) Season 5 will be out 14 March. So anyone else?

PS: The people who played Pete and Harry(grandpa) have died. :(Bit of Trivia. The Series SG-1 reuites two actors who starred in MacGyver. Richard Dean Anderson and Don Davis (who was in a couple of episodes and I believe he was also Dana Elcar's (Pete Thorton) stand-in/double

oh and he does use guns.... just doen't use them the way the manufacturer's intended. ;)
Amtray
10-02-2006, 11:54
http://www.specialfarm.net/macgyver2008/macgyver-header.jpg
Viljar
10-02-2006, 12:22
Macgyver kicks ass, but not too mutch. Only enough to knock you out.
:) Fantastic
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 16:53
Macgyver kicks ass, but not too mutch. Only enough to knock you out.
:) Fantastic


......and that is why Chuck Norris will win. He shows no mercy.
Drunk commies deleted
10-02-2006, 16:57
Anyone else like this hit 80s show? For those who don't know, MacGyver works for the Phoenix Foundation and usually ends up getting others or himself out of trouble. His creative mind will set up any number of ideas. He could get you out of prison with a piece of cheese (in effect). Best of all, he never uses guns to kill people(occaisionally as part of a diversion). I watched it a few years ago on TV Land and loved it. I now have seasons 1-4 on DVD and have seen all of those episodes except for 4 of them in season 2 (my sis lost the disc). My favorites are the ones that involve Communist nations. ;) Season 5 will be out 14 March. So anyone else?

PS: The people who played Pete and Harry(grandpa) have died. :(
You probably bought the DVDs like a sucker. I made my own out of three rubber bands, a paperclip, some used motor oil and a cigarette lighter.
Tactical Grace
10-02-2006, 18:36
LOL, I remember that show. So utterly shit, it's cult. :p
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 18:38
the final piece of evidence that will prove Chuck Norris is better than MacGyver: This thread won't go 1000 posts:eek:

thats right I said it.
Drunk commies deleted
10-02-2006, 18:40
the final piece of evidence that will prove Chuck Norris is better than MacGyver: This thread won't go 1000 posts:eek:

thats right I said it.
MacGyver wasn't all that good of a show. Airwolf, A-Team, and even Knight Rider were better. Man, 80's TV was weird.
Minoriteeburg
10-02-2006, 18:41
MacGyver wasn't all that good of a show. Airwolf, A-Team, and even Knight Rider were better. Man, 80's TV was weird.


sure was a weird decade and the cartoons weren't any less stranger than the shows.
Willamena
10-02-2006, 19:57
For those who don't know, MacGyver works for the Phoenix Foundation and usually ends up getting others or himself out of trouble.
He didn't start out working or the Phoenix Foundation, and the show was better before he did, in my opinion. It really worked better with a mysterious anonymous employer.

PS: The people who played Pete and Harry(grandpa) have died. :(
Yeah. :( 'Harry' was John Anderson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026930/), Richard's real grandpa. And his dad, Richard Anderson, was 'Oscar' who employed Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man.
Sel Appa
10-02-2006, 21:44
He didn't start out working or the Phoenix Foundation, and the show was better before he did, in my opinion. It really worked better with a mysterious anonymous employer.
I know, I just wanted to give a short summary.

Bit of Trivia. The Series SG-1 reuites two actors who starred in MacGyver. Richard Dean Anderson and Don Davis (who was in a couple of episodes and I believe he was also Dana Elcar's (Pete Thorton) stand-in/double

oh and he does use guns.... just doen't use them the way the manufacturer's intended. ;)
I said that.

MacGyver wasn't all that good of a show. Airwolf, A-Team, and even Knight Rider were better. Man, 80's TV was weird.
Silence infidel!
Auranai
10-02-2006, 21:54
MacGyver was my first crush. :D
Drunk commies deleted
10-02-2006, 22:01
MacGyver was my first crush. :D
Your real name wouldn't happen to be Selma Bouvier, would it?
Minoriteeburg
11-02-2006, 01:18
Your real name wouldn't happen to be Selma Bouvier, would it?


Just don't say that MacGyver's gay.