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MacGyver (1985)

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An Adventure TV series, running from 1985 to 1992, starring Richard Dean Anderson. The title character didn't like guns (after a friend of his died in a revolver accident when he was a child), preferring to solve problems with his intelligence, resourcefulness and improvised gadgets. He often created some device worthy of Rube Goldberg out of whatever odds and ends were at hand, which is why MacGyvering is named after him.In the first season, he was an agent for the "Department of External Security", after which he left in favor of a philanthropic Heroes "R" Us organisation called the Phoenix Foundation for Research, an organization that, if not a front for the CIA, is almost certainly on its speed-dial, where his boss was one Pete Thornton (played by Dana Elcar).Mac would travel all over the world performing missions for good ol' Uncle Sam, retrieving spy satellite information and helping defectors from Commie Land get to the United States, but spent most of his time in California. He seems to have had several Busman's Holidays as well. The man seems to have had a plethora of ex-girlfriends and "old friends", who would turn up every so often, usually in need of help, though more often than not they would get killed in the first few minutes of the episode. As the show went on, an increasing percentage of episodes were devoted to Mac's attempts to help an old friend out of trouble.Among the show's cast of recurring characters were Pete Thornton (Dana Elcar), Mac's boss and friend at the Phoenix Foundation, Jack Dalton (played by veteran character actor Bruce McGill), airplane pilot, part time spy, and con artist, who was constantly embroiling Mac in backfiring get-rich-quick schemes, and Murdoc (played by British Rock Singer Michael Des Barres), an assassin for "Homicide International Trust", reputed Master of Disguise, or so we're told. He had a penchant for leaving every episode by falling off of something very high while shouting an enraged "MacGyver!", only to show up later down the line having survived his accident. Mac's most featured love interest was the scatter-brained Penny Parker, played by Teri Hatcher before Lois & Clark or Desperate Housewives.It is however, probably true that later seasons had a few too many Very Special Episodes, an indulgence that likely led to its declining popularity. Still, the show remains hugely memorable in the US (it was heavily referenced in the The Simpsons as a favorite show of Marge's sisters, Patty and Selma, and is parodied in the regular Saturday Night Live skit MacGruber where Richard Dean Anderson once made an appearance). It shows in prime-time in Indonesia and Ukraine. It initially ran on The BBC in the UK before moving to ITV.The show has had its fair share of spin-offs and other productions. Following the end of the series a few television movies were made continuing his adventures. In the early 2000's a pilot episode was shot called Young MacGyver featuring Mac's nephew Claynote even though he was an only child joining the Phoenix Foundation, starring Jared Padalecki, but was not picked up. A film based on the series was in consideration for years but never materialized. In 2015, in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering the original series creator invited people to submit ideas in remaking the show.The series was a production of Paramount. One of the show's producers was Henry Winkler, a veteran of Paramount's Happy Days, also on ABC.As an ABC program, MacGyver led into the network's presentation of National Football League games, Monday Night Football, from 1986 to 1991, covering six seasons, which was longer than any other ABC program that did the same, including several Paramount productions that went one-and-done as an MNF lead-in.In 2016 (with no overt connection to the prior project), a new series pilot starring Lucas Till was picked up. A complete remake, this time MacGyver is paired with two other agents to form a Power Trio as they handle high risk cases.Not to be confused with Guyver or MacGruber, an Affectionate Parody. Not to be confused with the trope of the same name, either.Trope Namer and Trope Codifier of MacGyvering.
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Axes at School
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Axes at School: The climax of "Hell Week" has a genius student, driven insane with despair (and being black-out drunk) after losing the barricade contest at his college (turns out that the other guy cheated) and apparently disappointing his hard-ass father (a professor at said college and Mac's mentor) creates an incredibly difficult-to-defuse bomb using the gear of the college's lab. The situation becomes Worse with Context when the professor mentions that the lab where the bomb is placed is underneath the college's nuclear physics lab that has plutonium, meaning that if the bomb goes off, the whole campus and the surrounding area will be irradiated.
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This Is My Boomstick
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This Is My Boomstick: In "Good Knight, MacGyver", Mac convinces King Arthur's court that he is a powerful wizard by lighting a match.
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Bloodless Carnage
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Bloodless Carnage: In "The Assassin", a woman gets stabbed by an assassin and has no blood on her whatsoever. This kind of thing seems to happen in most episodes where someone is shot or stabbed. People die within seconds without doing much bleeding.
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Improvised Zipline
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Improvised Zipline: In "The Prodigal", Mac and another guy have barricaded themselves in an attic by piling up furniture against the door as bad guys with guns try to catch them. Using cleaning fluid, a telescope, moth balls, rope, some handle bars and a pulley that all happen to be lying around the attic, Mac creates a spear gun that fires a rope to a tree outside. Then he and his sidekick zipline over vicious dogs and a tall fence to safety. In "Back from the Dead", Mac escapes from two mafia hit men using a fire hose to slide down a metal wire. First cut off with his Swiss army knife of course. In "Children of Light", MacGyver creates a zip line to escape from the roof of a building using a steel shaft from a large TV antenna and a large rope. He ties one end of the rope to the building and throws the other end to Pete Thornton who ties it to the bumper of his van. Pete then gets the driver to move the van forward in order to tighten the line. Meanwhile MacGyver bends the shaft of the TV antenna into the shape of a hook and uses his jacket to protect his hand from the friction, and proceeds to slide down the line with another person (whom he was trying to free from the building).
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Is invoked in "The Heist." After infiltrating a casino in order to get a glimpse at its safe, the girl of the week says:
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Parents for a Day
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Parents for a Day: In "Rock the Cradle," Jack Dalton's ex-girlfriend, on the run from criminals, leaves her son "Jack Jr." in Jack's airplane hangar, with a note asking Jack to take care of him. Jack and MacGyver have to look after the kid while trying to track down Mama.
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The Old Convict
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The Old Convict: Francois Villars in "The Escape".
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The Wild West
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The Wild West: The two dream episodes set in the town of Serenity.
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The Wildcats
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The Wildcats: The Wildcats was the name of the Pee Wee Hockey League team MacGyver belonged to as a boy, as seen in the episode "Harry's Will".
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Brainwashed and Crazy
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Jack is made into an unwilling assassin and programmed to kill mac at an awards ceremony in "Brainwashed". It's later revealed they got to Pete Thornton too.
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Bridal Carry
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Bridal Carry: Used as a distraction in "The Gauntlet". Mac approaches a two-soldier patrol carrying the journalist (who is playing injured or unconscious) he is working with. He tosses her at one of the soldiers, after which the two subdue their respective opponents.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: "Every Time She Smiles": "Rush to Judgement", as part of a Take That! against reporter Jake Baron's twisting of the Danby case as a racially-charged court case (the murder was actually masterminded by a woman who wanted to off the ex-athlete's wife in order to get into his pants):
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Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure
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Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure: Demonstrated in "The Golden Triangle", in a shot that was also used in the opening titles.
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Soft Glass
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Soft Glass: People crashing through windows happened on a regular basis on the show; always without any ill effects.
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The Caper
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The Caper: In "The Heist", a Virgin Islands casino owner steals $60 million in diamonds. Mac and an American senator's daughter plot to steal them back from the casino's impregnable vault.
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Saved by the Coffin: In the episode "Deathlock", Mac uses this ploy to be carried out of East Germany (with stolen microfilm). Of course in this case the coffin is also a fully functional motorized water vehicle.
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Drowning Pit
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Drowning Pit: At least twice crooks trap make in a flooding vessel in an attempt to kill him: a submarine in "Deep Cover" and a fishing boat in "Pirates". In each case he juryrigs a different means of escape.
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Cryptid Episode
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Cryptid Episode: In "Ghost Ship", Mac encounters Bigfoot.
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The Lava Caves of New York
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The Lava Caves of New York: "Good Knight, MacGyver" features a Literal Cliffhanger where Mac and Merlin end up dangling above a Lava Pit in a cave in Scotland (a region not exactly famous for its volcanic activity).
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Not the Intended Use
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Not the Intended Use: The entire premise of the series.
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All Crimes Are Equal
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All Crimes Are Equal: "Jack in the Box" combines this with the Small-Town Tyrant trope to create a plot wherein a town in the Deep South uses their "justice" system to recruit workers for a mine said to contain treasure.
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Angry Guard Dog
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Angry Guard Dog: In "Good Knight, MacGyver", Morganna uses an angry guard dog (unconvincingly disguised as a demon) as part of her defences. Mac defeats it by MacGyvering up a dog whistle.
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Heroes "R" Us
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Heroes "R" Us: The Phoenix Foundation, Mac's employer from the second season onward, though the DXS (a government department) also fits the type.
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Praetorian Guard
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Praetorian Guard: In "Humanity", MacGyver tangles with the K-Force, a group of Praetorian Guard still loyal to Romania's dead tyrant.
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Midair Repair
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Midair Repair: In the "opening Gambit" of one episode Mac uses a map to patch a hole in his hot air balloon after it is shot. In another episode Mac is forced to fix the landing gear of Jack's plane when it malfunctions as the plane is on its (because of plot reasons unstoppable) final approach. The impromptu skydive that happened when the gear finally works (Mac was thoughtful enough to strap on a parachute beforehand) became part of the show's opening credits montage.
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom: In "The Black Corsage", Mac and Frank Colton are captured in a fish processing plant, tied up and placed on a conveyor belt that will feed them into a fish grinder.
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Baseball Episode
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Baseball Episode: In "Squeeze Play", MacGyver helps take down counterfeiters who are making fake baseball collectors items.
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Devoured by the Horde
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Devoured by the Horde: In "Trumbo's World", Trumbo's native assistant is devoured by the swarm of army ants that overwhelm the plantation.
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Back for the Dead
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Back for the Dead: MacGyver's female friend Mike from "Jack Of Lies" returns in the first scene of "The Widowmaker"... just long enough for her to have a climbing accident, and for the rope to break before Mac can save her.
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The Diaper Change
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The Diaper Change: Happens when Mac and Jack Dalton have a baby dumped on them in "Rock the Cradle". Mac's solution to a unsatisfactory makeshift diaper is duct tape(obviously).
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Great Escape
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Great Escape: In "The Escape", Mac cooks up an elaborate plot to break a medical missionary out of a prison in French North Africa.
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Lemming Cops
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Lemming Cops: The cops who chase Mac through Budapest in "The Thief of Budapest". A lot of police cars get totalled as a result.
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Pinocchio Nose
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Pinocchio Nose: Jack Dalton's left eye twitches whenever he lies. It's mentioned in his first scene with Mac.
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: In "Hell Week" a picture is shown of Mac as a physics grad student. He still had the mullet, but also had a nifty Porn Stache.
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Trap Door
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Trap Door: In "Halloween Knights", Murdoc uses a trap door to drop Mac into a cage.
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Hollywood Heart Attack
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Paul, the titular character in "The Wish Child" is initially shown to be just a scammer who's just pretending to be a reincarnation of a legendary child who can supposedly bring good fortune to people and receives gifts in return and if someone links their soul with him, they'll become immortal. However, there's a number of things that match up with the original legend that surprise both Paul and Stone, who's setting up elaborate displays of his alleged Wish Child power: his background story is more or less identical to the legend complete with his skunk stripe that he somehow got after an accident, his face and handprint are a perfect match to those of the original Wish Child, and when he escapes the old businessman who was planning to enslave him for the rest of his life to gain the previously described immortality and said businessman suddenly falls dead from a Hollywood Heart Attack while trying to catch him despite being in good health up until that point, Paul is confused and thinks he somehow caused it.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_280333d4
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_280333d4
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_280333d4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2813c530
type
Laser Hallway
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2813c530
comment
Laser Hallway: deadly version in the pilot; detector version in "The Heist"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2813c530
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2813c530
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2813c530
 MacGyver (1985) / int_283d8c21
type
Forklift Fu
 MacGyver (1985) / int_283d8c21
comment
Forklift Fu: An early episode's Batman Cold Open shows villains trying to put Angus out of action with a forklift. In the end he turns the tables and returns the favor. Though at least all he does is lift their car up so they can't escape and calls his superiors to pick them up. Well, let them down and then pick them up...
 MacGyver (1985) / int_283d8c21
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_283d8c21
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_283d8c21
 MacGyver (1985) / int_287694ed
type
Disability Immunity
 MacGyver (1985) / int_287694ed
comment
Disability Immunity: In "Jenny's Chance", a deaf racehorse is key to a race-fixing scam involving a high-frequency tone generator due to his immunity to it, as a result of his deafness.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_287694ed
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_287694ed
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_287694ed
 MacGyver (1985) / int_297170d3
type
Halloween Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_297170d3
comment
Halloween Episode: "The Secret of Parker House". The premiere of season 4, actually aired on Halloween 1988, has an opening scene with kids trick-or-treating, and a plot that involves a somewhat spooky mansion? All checked.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_297170d3
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_297170d3
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_297170d3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_29f510be
type
Auction
 MacGyver (1985) / int_29f510be
comment
Auction: In "The Odd Triple", Pete deliberately drives up the bidding at a wine auction in an attempt to stall for time.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_29f510be
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_29f510be
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_29f510be
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2a9b1de6
type
Bear Trap
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2a9b1de6
comment
Bear Trap: There is an episode where Mac steps in a bear trap while hiking and is freed by two elderly sisters named Faith and Hope.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2a9b1de6
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2a9b1de6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2a9b1de6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2be271c7
type
Hollywood Hacking
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2be271c7
comment
Hollywood Hacking: In "Ugly Duckling", Kate somehow hacks a building's systems and makes elevators go to the wrong floor, alarms go off, printers start printing out things people haven't sent to the printer, photocopiers shoot paper out all over place, etc. Then she turns the lights off and escapes.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2be271c7
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2be271c7
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2be271c7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c3a7a97
type
Cast as a Mask
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c3a7a97
comment
Cast as a Mask: When MacGyver is disguised as Lucky Charlie in "Jenny's Chance", unrevealed to the viewer, he is played by Ed Trotta.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c3a7a97
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c3a7a97
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2c3a7a97
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c7dc9c6
type
No One Should Survive That!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c7dc9c6
comment
No One Should Survive That!: His first two presumed deaths (from his first episode) were realistically survivable. His subsequent deaths through the rest of the show... not so much.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c7dc9c6
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2c7dc9c6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2c7dc9c6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d3f662b
type
Chained Heat
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d3f662b
comment
Chained Heat: MacGyver spends much of the episode "The Lost Amadeus" chained to a very eighties Manic Pixie Dream Girl who also turned out to be a brilliant classical violinist. His first encounter with Penny Parker had them handcuffed for a good portion of the episode. It largely justified why they couldn't split up.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d3f662b
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d3f662b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2d3f662b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d5b1c65
type
Expansion Pack Past
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d5b1c65
comment
Expansion Pack Past: MacGyver has a college degree in physics, comprehensive knowledge of mechanics, chemistry, and any other specialty required by a given plot, worked as a deck hand on a tramp steamer, was a bomb disposal expert for the Special Forces in Vietnam, was a professional racing car driver, played Olympic-calibre ice hockey but had a tragic accident that kept him out of the Olympics, worked as an apprentice and assistant to a noted archaeologist, trained as a pilot, worked as a backwoodsman in the Rockies, a lumberjack and a taxi driver, all before becoming a secret agent. Adding to the confusion, the first and second seasons gave two incompatible versions of his initial meeting with Pete Thornton. Furthermore, the final episode reveals he has a long-lost son.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d5b1c65
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d5b1c65
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2d5b1c65
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d9e89f7
type
We Help the Helpless
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d9e89f7
comment
We Help the Helpless: The Phoenix Foundation (and thus Mac) does, when they are not playing spy.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d9e89f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2d9e89f7
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2d9e89f7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dadedfc
type
Improvised Diaper
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dadedfc
comment
Improvised Diaper: In "Rock the Cradle", Mac does use an actual diaper, but has to resort to duct tape to keep it on the baby.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dadedfc
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dadedfc
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_2dadedfc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dc35926
type
Ghost Ship
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dc35926
comment
Ghost Ship: The episode was even titled "Ghost Ship"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dc35926
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dc35926
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2dc35926
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dd4e28a
type
Clothesline Stealing
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dd4e28a
comment
Clothesline Stealing: In "The Gauntlet", Mac makes a pea shooter out of the map so he can steal clothes from a clothesline.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dd4e28a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2dd4e28a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_2dd4e28a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2efd276d
type
We Are Everywhere
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2efd276d
comment
We Are Everywhere: In "The Ten Percent Solution", MacGyver uncovers a massive Neo-Nazi conspiracy that has infiltrated a sizeable portion of America.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2efd276d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2efd276d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_2efd276d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f187e89
type
It Works Better with Bullets
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f187e89
comment
It Works Better with Bullets: Murdoc removes the shells from a shotgun and takes the person who later tries to use it on him hostage.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f187e89
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f187e89
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2f187e89
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f948e12
type
Throwing the Distraction
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f948e12
comment
Throwing the Distraction: In "Slow Death", MacGyver takes his shoe off and throws it on top of the train to make the bad guy think that he was up there when in reality he came up the stairs after him. It didn't work as he is hit with a gun and knocked down.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f948e12
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_2f948e12
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_2f948e12
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3036294e
type
Scary Black Man
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3036294e
comment
Scary Black Man: Axminster, the hit man from "Target MacGyver, can come off as this.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3036294e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3036294e
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_3036294e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3056adad
type
Witness Protection
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3056adad
comment
Witness Protection: Mac helped get someone into witness protection. Two episodes deal with this character, "The Eraser" and "Back from the Dead".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3056adad
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3056adad
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_3056adad
 MacGyver (1985) / int_31fcc258
type
Training Montage
 MacGyver (1985) / int_31fcc258
comment
Training Montage: Earl Dent goes through one when he is being trained by his 14 year old daughter Ronnie is preparation for his comeback fight in The Boxing Episode "Split Decision". Lots of running on a beach is involved.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_31fcc258
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_31fcc258
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_31fcc258
 MacGyver (1985) / int_325ef3ab
type
Incredibly Obvious Bomb
 MacGyver (1985) / int_325ef3ab
comment
Incredibly Obvious Bomb: The early episodes have bombs everywhere. The intro sequence for the first season or so has one with a nice big digital timer. The pilot has a missile with a timer inside it. Just about every explosive device (there are lots of them) has a timer, unless Mac made it himself. Of course, those are usually highly visible, but rarely incredibly obvious. One whole episode revolves around bombs actually well-disguised as electrical panels... which are nevertheless quickly identified as bombs by Mac. Subverted in one of the earlier episodes. Mac spends most of the episode disarming the bomb, and when he finally disarms it a set of blinking LEDs switch off and the apparatus falls silent... but the real bomb is underneath the entire rig (which was merely a detonator) and still ticking.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_325ef3ab
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-0.3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_325ef3ab
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_325ef3ab
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32976084
type
Destination Defenestration
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32976084
comment
Destination Defenestration: In "Phoenix Under Siege", the villain of the week happens to be a martial arts expert and makes a jump-kick at our hero in a high-rise building, but misses and ends up crashing through the window instead.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32976084
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32976084
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_32976084
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32c76085
type
Dumbwaiter Ride
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32c76085
comment
Dumbwaiter Ride: In "Fire & Ice", Mac sneaks into a consulate pretending to be a kitchen hand carrying a box of vegetables, then climbs into the kitchen's dumbwaiter to reach the upper level.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32c76085
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32c76085
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_32c76085
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32da548d
type
Arch-Enemy
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32da548d
comment
Arch-Enemy: Murdoc qualifies given that he appears the most often out of all the reoccurring villains. Also given that they make nice thematic opposites. Mac doesn't use guns, never kills and improvises from anything he can find. Stands to reason that his worst nightmare would be a man whose entire career and lifestyle comes down to using a wide variety of weapons to kill people and is Crazy-Prepared. A subversion in the first season finale, where MacGyver matches wits with an assassin who proves to be almost as resourceful as he is. He is killed at the end, landing on his own poison needle, and Mac laments he never got a definitive victory over him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32da548d
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_32da548d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_32da548d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33affa42
type
Government Agency of Fiction
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33affa42
comment
Government Agency of Fiction: The DXS (Department of External Security) was a U.S. intelligence agency where MacGyver and Peter Thornton are employed during the first season.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33affa42
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33affa42
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_33affa42
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33f89198
type
Blade Brake
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33f89198
comment
Blade Brake: MacGyver, in "Deadly Silents", got down from a catwalk by sticking his pocket knife through his wallet (as a guard) and then that through a curtain.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33f89198
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33f89198
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_33f89198
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33fd5904
type
Demolitions Expert
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33fd5904
comment
Demolitions Expert: Mac served in a bomb disposal unit in Vietnam War.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33fd5904
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_33fd5904
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_33fd5904
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3403abfc
type
Mugged for Disguise
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3403abfc
comment
Mugged for Disguise: In "The Assassin", Piedra drags a nun into a closet and steals her habit in order to get close his target, the archbishop. In "halloween Knights", MacGyver and Murdoc knock out a HIT board member and steal his costume so MacGyver can infiltrate a HIT board meeting that is taking place during a costume party.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3403abfc
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3403abfc
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_3403abfc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_352def2a
type
Burn the Witch!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_352def2a
comment
Burn the Witch!: In "Good Knight, MacGyver'', Sir Duncan attempts to burn Merlin at the stake after framing him for attempting to murder King Arthur.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_352def2a
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_352def2a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_352def2a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_353f2b06
type
"Die Hard" on an X
 MacGyver (1985) / int_353f2b06
comment
"Die Hard" on an X: "Phoenix Under Siege", where the headquarters of the Phoenix Foundation is taken over by criminals, trapping Mac and his grandfather (who had returned to the building to retrieve some hockey tickets) inside. And yes, the hockey tickets play a role in the ultimate resolution.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_353f2b06
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_353f2b06
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_353f2b06
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35888b74
type
Operation Game of Doom
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35888b74
comment
Operation Game of Doom: Attempting to move the bomb with the mercury switch in "Hell Week". And again in the Season 7 episode "The Prometheus Syndrome".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35888b74
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35888b74
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_35888b74
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35b241c0
type
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35b241c0
comment
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: English actress June Chadwick fights a losing battle with an American accent as Dr. Ludlum in "The Human Factor."
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35b241c0
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35b241c0
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_35b241c0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35fb9016
type
Gratuitous German
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35fb9016
comment
Gratuitous German: Invoked and lampshaded whenever German is spoken; it's the one language MacGyver could never get the hang of. Sometimes Played for Laughs:
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35fb9016
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_35fb9016
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_35fb9016
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3678fbfa
type
Mad Bomber
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3678fbfa
comment
Mad Bomber: In "The Prometheus Syndrome", Mac helps the arson squad invesigate a series of fires, all caused by a bomber calling himself Prometheus who thinks he's purifying the world.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3678fbfa
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3678fbfa
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3678fbfa
 MacGyver (1985) / int_36b4ad39
type
Building Is Welding
 MacGyver (1985) / int_36b4ad39
comment
Building Is Welding: The credits montage includes a shot of Mac welding (a scene taken from the first season episode "Trumbo's World").
 MacGyver (1985) / int_36b4ad39
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_36b4ad39
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_36b4ad39
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3754b680
type
Temporary Blindness
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3754b680
comment
Temporary Blindness: "The Negotiator", "Blind Faith." Pete's blindness in "Blind Faith" was real and permanent.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3754b680
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3754b680
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3754b680
 MacGyver (1985) / int_37a6a66a
type
Instrumental Theme Tune
 MacGyver (1985) / int_37a6a66a
comment
Instrumental Theme Tune: Composed by Randy Edelman.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_37a6a66a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_37a6a66a
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_37a6a66a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3820a9ea
type
Tomboyish Name
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3820a9ea
comment
Tomboyish Name: Mike Forrester in "Jack of Lies" and "The Widowmaker". Mike is short for Michelle and she is a tomboyish botanist with a passion for mountain climbing.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3820a9ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3820a9ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_3820a9ea
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3840c533
type
Heist Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3840c533
comment
Heist Episode: In "The Heist", MacGyver helps a politician's daughter steal back $60 million in diamonds that were stolen.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3840c533
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3840c533
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_3840c533
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38718ea8
type
Beautiful All Along
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38718ea8
comment
Beautiful All Along: "Twice Stung" references the cliché: for his next trick, Mac needs a woman's glasses, her hairpins and the top three buttons of her shirt (upper cleavage level). She complies and it turns out to be part of the con that they're pulling.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38718ea8
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38718ea8
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_38718ea8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38ac6c7d
type
Former Regime Personnel
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38ac6c7d
comment
Former Regime Personnel: In "Walking Dead", former members of the Tonton Macoute—Haiti's secret police—settled down in Little Haiti, in MacGyver's neighborhood. They are selling drugs, collecting protection payments and threatening shopkeepers with "Baron Samedi".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38ac6c7d
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38ac6c7d
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_38ac6c7d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38b05ae7
type
Poorly Disguised Pilot
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38b05ae7
comment
Poorly Disguised Pilot: "The Coltons", showcasing the whole family of bounty hunters that Mac had met individually throughout the show on a case that (only very barely) involved Mac.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38b05ae7
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38b05ae7
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_38b05ae7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38bbe8c3
type
Carrying the Antidote
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38bbe8c3
comment
Carrying the Antidote: In "Nightmares", the villain tries to get out some information from Mac by injecting a poison in him that kills him in 6 hours. Mac tries to steal back the antidote instead.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38bbe8c3
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_38bbe8c3
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_38bbe8c3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3b4bd0b4
type
Killer Cop
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3b4bd0b4
comment
Killer Cop: Manny Lopez in "Tough Boys", who uses the local youth centre to recruit the eponymous gang to act as vigilantes in destroying crack houses.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3b4bd0b4
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3b4bd0b4
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3b4bd0b4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c111ce6
type
Pistol-Whipping
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c111ce6
comment
Pistol-Whipping: In "The Assassin", Pete uses the butt of his pistol to knock out Piedra as he is about to stab the prone MacGyver.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c111ce6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c111ce6
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3c111ce6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c3b5c27
type
Vehicular Assault
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c3b5c27
comment
Vehicular Assault: In "Three for the Road", the bad guys after the Counterfeit Cash start by using their own car in an attempt to ram the '57 Cadillac Guy, June and Mac are travelling in off the road.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c3b5c27
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c3b5c27
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3c3b5c27
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7022ce
type
Mundane Solution
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7022ce
comment
Mundane Solution: Pretty rare with Mac, but still there. Kicking down doors was the most common example.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7022ce
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7022ce
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7022ce
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7d0418
type
Doom Magnet
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7d0418
comment
Doom Magnet: MacGyver's family have all died on him in unfortunate circumstances. He lost his mother, then his father and grandmother, and then finally his grandfather.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7d0418
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7d0418
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3c7d0418
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3cb9ed4d
type
Bulletproof Vest
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3cb9ed4d
comment
Bulletproof Vest: In "The Coltons" we learn that both Frank and Jesse wear these all the time on the instruction of their mother: a fact that saves their lives.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3cb9ed4d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3cb9ed4d
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3cb9ed4d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3dfa74a8
type
Corrupted Contingency
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3dfa74a8
comment
Corrupted Contingency: "The Human Factor" deals with an AI tasked with a top-secret research facility's security going haywire and attacking its creator.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3dfa74a8
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3dfa74a8
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3dfa74a8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e0a0709
type
Fur and Loathing
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e0a0709
comment
Fur and Loathing: When he helps a runaway turned hooker, she wears a rabbit fur jacket, until she's saved.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e0a0709
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e0a0709
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3e0a0709
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e2c9d95
type
Rock Bottom
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e2c9d95
comment
Rock Bottom: Casually averted in "The Gauntlet": the Girl of the Week proclaims that nothing more could go wrong, MacGyver admits she's probably right, and the scene ends without anything happening to either of them.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e2c9d95
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3e2c9d95
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e353a08
type
Accidental Kidnapping
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e353a08
comment
Accidental Kidnapping: In "Hearts of Steel", kidnappers accidentally kidnap the housekeeper's daughter rather than the daughter of a business magnate because the two girls have swapped jackets.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e353a08
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3e353a08
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3e353a08
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3ec7c277
type
Every Car Is a Pinto
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3ec7c277
comment
Every Car Is a Pinto: and some boats, too.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3ec7c277
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3ec7c277
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3ec7c277
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3eee0728
type
Captain Obvious
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3eee0728
comment
Captain Obvious: Dear Damsel of the Week, I'm sure Mac knows what he's doing. There's no need to remind him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3eee0728
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3eee0728
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3eee0728
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3f0b2f50
type
Make It Look Like an Accident
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3f0b2f50
comment
Make It Look Like an Accident: The bad guy in "Deadly Silents" goes to great lengths to make his attempts to kill Pinky and MacGyver look like an accident.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3f0b2f50
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_3f0b2f50
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MacGyver (1985) / int_3f0b2f50
 MacGyver (1985) / int_41a3e267
type
Hidden in Plain Sight
 MacGyver (1985) / int_41a3e267
comment
Hidden in Plain Sight: "The Wall" featured some criminals trying to get an East German expatriate to reveal where he had hidden some gold bullion they had him smuggle out when they got him through the Berlin Wall. The gold had been melted down and reshaped as figurines, which were then painted over and prominently displayed in the window of the man's toyshop. Everyone who looked at the painted toy soldiers made of a heavy metal assumed they were lead.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_41a3e267
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_41a3e267
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_41a3e267
 MacGyver (1985) / int_420c50b7
type
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
 MacGyver (1985) / int_420c50b7
comment
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: "The Human Factor" features a sentient computer AI, which is in charge of securing a top-secret research facility, that suddenly went haywire and turned against the AI's creator. Mac was originally sent to the facility to improve the security system by exposing apparent weaknesses (like what a white-hat hacker does), and eventually outsmarts the AI.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_420c50b7
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MacGyver (1985) / int_420c50b7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4536fd29
type
Energy Weapon
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4536fd29
comment
Energy Weapon: In "The Legend of the Holy Rose", Mac realises that Ambrose's artifacts can be assembled together into an optical pump: a device that captures and amplifies the sun's rays into a laser beam. Just like a Slow Laser, the laser beam is visible and red. The episode's villain dies when he steps in front of the optical pump just as the sun comes out from behind a cloud.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4536fd29
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_4536fd29
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4536fd29
 MacGyver (1985) / int_45cec696
type
God Guise
 MacGyver (1985) / int_45cec696
comment
God Guise: In "Walking Dead", Mac pretends to be Baron Samedi (or, more accurately, he takes the place of a Hollywood Voodoo priest who is pretending to be Baron Samedi).
 MacGyver (1985) / int_45cec696
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_45cec696
 MacGyver (1985) / int_467b8fd8
type
Cars Without Tires Are Trains
 MacGyver (1985) / int_467b8fd8
comment
Cars Without Tires Are Trains: In "Bushmaster", MacGyver breaks Henderson out of his cell with the help of a local contact, and they head toward the border in a broken-down jeep riding on train tracks. In "Inferno", the climactic part of the scheme to close a runaway fire on an oil well by blowing it up includes improvising a cart to deliver the explosives with some rail tracks and a burnt-out jeep.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_467b8fd8
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MacGyver (1985) / int_467b8fd8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_47325888
type
Latex Perfection
 MacGyver (1985) / int_47325888
comment
Latex Perfection: In "Jenny's Chance", Mac impersonates the Cuban drug lord, Lucky Charlie, with a realistic latex mask. He had to pull off this stunt after news broke out regarding the real Lucky Charlie that threw a wrench into the elaborately-designed sting operation, which included Jack impersonating Lucky Charlie.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_47325888
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MacGyver (1985) / int_47325888
 MacGyver (1985) / int_479f9ad0
type
Characterization Marches On
 MacGyver (1985) / int_479f9ad0
comment
Characterization Marches On: The pilot episode has quite a few, MacGyver actually uses an assault rifle once, returning fire. He also had to do extensive rock climbing to get to that perch and made a parachute escape, which doesn't mention his fear of heights either time. He later has a woman standing on his shoulders at one point (to fix an acid leak) and appears to look up her skirt, contrasting his more gentlemanly behavior later on. Also, his first name was originally meant to be "Stace" according to the pilot's script.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_479f9ad0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_479f9ad0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4856ac40
type
Stock Footage
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4856ac40
comment
Stock Footage: Many times in many episodes, but particularly noticeable in the following episodes: "The Thief of Budapest", in which violent handwaving is applied to justify reusing the entire car chase from The Italian Job. "Trumbo's World", where maybe a third of the episode consists of footage from The Naked Jungle, both of which were based on the short story Leiningen Versus the Ants. Also the second season episode "GX-1", which stole the footage for its opening aircraft sequence from another Paramount property: Top Gun. It is never explained why the secret stealth spy plane looks exactly like an F-14. You can also see it in the episode "Out in the Cold" with a painfully obvious stock-footage avalanche.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4856ac40
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4856ac40
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4856ac40
 MacGyver (1985) / int_48f977b0
type
Magic Brakes
 MacGyver (1985) / int_48f977b0
comment
Magic Brakes: "Hellfire" does a good job of setting up the sequence — there's a steep gradient, a reason for the brakes to fail just at that moment, and an actual danger from the load of unstable explosives on the back of the truck — but still falls inside the trope because the people in the truck, one of whom is the famously ingenious MacGyver, can't think of anything that might slow the truck down. "The Enemy Within" has a car with a punctured brake fluid cable accelerate out of control down a gentle slope for several miles while MacGyver climbs out onto the front of the car and does emergency repairs. (The driver does actually think to try the handbrake, but it's not working either.)
 MacGyver (1985) / int_48f977b0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_48f977b0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_496569e8
type
Race Against the Clock
 MacGyver (1985) / int_496569e8
comment
Race Against the Clock: See Exact Time to Failure above.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_496569e8
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_496569e8
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_496569e8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4aaffbd5
type
I Never Said It Was Poison
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4aaffbd5
comment
I Never Said It Was Poison: MacGyver catches a cheating contestant in a physics competition. The object of the competition is to create a barricade to a room with some unorthodox way to "unlock" the door. The good guy creates an optical illusion using a periscope to make the door look locked when it's really unlocked and vice versa. The villain eavesdrops on a conversation between his rival and a friend, and thus "wins" the competition... but he never actually looks into the room to see the periscope. Naturally, our hero notices this and...
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4aaffbd5
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4aaffbd5
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ad1816a
type
Everyone Knows Morse
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ad1816a
comment
Everyone Knows Morse: In "The Widowmaker", where Murdoc is hot on his trail in an off-season backwoods cabin location, MacGyver climbs a telephone pole and uses a copper bracelet to tap SOS directly into a phone line to summon help. The owner of the general store who hears the interference is retired military, and knows Morse from his military training. A more unique example in "Birth Day", Everyone Knows Marine Signal Flags. Mac uses some of these he steals off a docked boat in combination with a makeshift hot-air balloon to spell out "Help". The floating message is seen by a policeman, who is also a Navy veteran.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ad1816a
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4ad1816a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c23b50f
type
Land Mine Goes "Click!"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c23b50f
comment
Land Mine Goes "Click!": Mac once finds himself with a foot on a mine, and manages a daring escape, but, in jumping free, he's landed on another mine (which turns out to be a dud). There's also a slight variation in one episode where Mac finds himself having to prop up a rickety shelf that's holding several cases of unstable old dynamite. If he lets go, he'll go boom. And there was another episode where Murdoc was first introduced: Though the device wasn't explicitly called a mine, it worked on the Bouncing Betty principle. Mac sat down on his bed and that armed the bomb planted in it. Pete told him that it would only detonate when he got off the bed but the blast would be directed mainly upwards so if he jumped away fast enough he'd be safe. Yet another one took place in a snowy cave in which all Mac had to do was dig the snow out from the side and shove a metal bar into conveniently sized holes to stop the "platform" from springing up. Somewhat justified by the fact that the people who set it up were the survivors of a plane crash with little resources and on the verge of freezing to death and the trap was specifically set up for the person who betrayed them for the gold they were carrying and planned to get his hands on it later.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c23b50f
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4c23b50f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c506837
type
The Snack Is More Interesting
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c506837
comment
The Snack Is More Interesting: The Bugs Bunny Shout Out in "Target MacGyver".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c506837
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c506837
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4c506837
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c583974
type
A MacGuffin Full of Money
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c583974
comment
A MacGuffin Full of Money: In "Three for the Road", the MacGuffin is a satchel full of Counterfeit Cash that the crooks are attempting to retrieve. Any kind of valuable contraband could have served the same purpose.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c583974
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4c583974
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4c583974
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4d45aa06
type
Banana Republic
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4d45aa06
comment
Banana Republic: Mac found himself in quite a few of these in Latin America as well as Africa. One particular episode had Mac being sequestered by his CIA operative friend Abe into kidnapping a South American dictator. When Abe tells Mac this is because said dictator was on CIA's payroll, only for him to double cross them, we get this priceless exchange: Sambaka from "Early Retirement" seems to be this given the name of its president, but the episode also hints that it may be either Qurac or Bulungi.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4d45aa06
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4d45aa06
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4db582d6
type
Defector from Commie Land
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4db582d6
comment
Defector from Commie Land: A common plot in early seasons. Notably in an early episode when Mac smuggles himself out hidden in a casket that transforms into a jet ski.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4db582d6
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4db582d6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4e7017f1
type
Wig, Dress, Accent
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4e7017f1
comment
Wig, Dress, Accent: Mac in his nerd alias of Dexter Filmore, which simply consists tying his mullet back, throwing on a jacket and some glasses and slightly changing his voice.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4e7017f1
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4e7017f1
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ea822ce
type
Songs in the Key of Lock
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ea822ce
comment
Songs in the Key of Lock: "The Heist" features an ultra-high-tech (for the time) lock which requires four tones emitted by a remote control. This being MacGyver, he improvises by playing some wineglasses.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ea822ce
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ea822ce
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4ea822ce
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eaa9b84
type
Author Tract
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eaa9b84
comment
Author Tract: Multiple episodes. The most glaring was probably the one that opened with a warning about a graphic portrayal of a de-horned rhinoceros, then spent about half its running time explaining the poaching in Africa and ended with Richard Dean Anderson as himself narrating about what can be done about it. Very Special Episode, indeed.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eaa9b84
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eaa9b84
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4eaa9b84
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eb2ef02
type
Vehicle Vanish
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eb2ef02
comment
Vehicle Vanish: In "For Love or Money", Mac and Pete are watching a pair of defectors at the zoo who disappear when a crowd of pedestrians temporarily obscures their view.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eb2ef02
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4eb2ef02
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4eb2ef02
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ebb6d16
type
Lava Pit
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ebb6d16
comment
Lava Pit: Mac escaped from many variations of this, including an incinerator ("Jerico Games"), a nuclear reactor ("Flames End"), and even an actual pit of lava ("Good Knight, MacGyver"). Also, Murdoc threatens Pete with one (actually a vat of boiling water, but the same basic principle) in "Cleo Rocks."
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ebb6d16
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4ebb6d16
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ee487f2
type
Evil Makes You Ugly
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ee487f2
comment
Evil Makes You Ugly: Played straight with Murdoc; although his ugliness isn't caused by the use of any evil power it is a direct result of his own actions, as the near-deaths he's suffered at the hands of MacGyver and Pete gradually render him more scarred and hideous over the course of the series. He even gets his looks back after retiring, thanks to reconstructive surgery... and then when he turns evil again he gets some new scars to go with it.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4ee487f2
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4ee487f2
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4f4372e9
type
Early-Installment Weirdness
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4f4372e9
comment
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few episodes have something of a millionaire-playboy-adventurer feel to the character of MacGyver himself. He is shown living in a very nice house that borders on a mansion, and every episode has him working closely with a different woman who becomes smitten with him and they may share a Big Damn Kiss. His living conditions soon shifted to a more rugged (but waterfront) apartment and later a house boat, as well as his intimacy with girl of the week was phased out. Pete Thornton doesn't appear until later in the first season (though Dana Elcar did play a different character in the pilot) and MacGyver's Handler was ill defined, he was more of an on-call agent for a CIA analog called the DXO, Department of External Security. The second season introduces the Phoenix Foundation that deals with all manner of issues from international espionage to scientific studies, Pete is in charge and brought MacGyver with him as an all-purpose field agent. The Batman Cold Opens were used only in the first season, and only during the first half of it. Unlike the typical case of this trope, they were so iconic, people often insist they were a fixed feature for at least a few seasons and not just an early experiment.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_4f4372e9
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_4f4372e9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_505a1021
type
The Farmer and the Viper
 MacGyver (1985) / int_505a1021
comment
The Farmer and the Viper: In one episode the female antagonist is hanging from a ledge. Mac is all Take My Hand!, but the woman stabs him, causing him to drop her to her death. Pete tells Mac the tale of "The Scorpion and The Frog" to calm him when he questions why she would do that.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_505a1021
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_505a1021
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50871abc
type
Defeat Catchphrase
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50871abc
comment
Defeat Catchphrase: Murdoc's trademark MACGYVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50871abc
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50871abc
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_50871abc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50f66629
type
Crazy-Prepared
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50f66629
comment
Crazy-Prepared: In "The Assassin", Piedra goes through an Extended Disarming when he is captured. After that, it is revealed that his moustache is fake and contains wires that he uses first as lockpicks to remove his handcuffs, and then as a dart to kill his guard. And it is then revealed that he still has a poisoned needle hidden behind a fake scar.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50f66629
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_50f66629
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_50f66629
 MacGyver (1985) / int_513dd915
type
LiteralCliffHanger
 MacGyver (1985) / int_513dd915
comment
Literal Cliff Hanger: Happens at the end of the first part of the "Good Knight, MacGyver", where Mac and Merlin are left dangling above a lava pit (in Scotland!).
 MacGyver (1985) / int_513dd915
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_513dd915
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_513dd915
 MacGyver (1985) / int_516ac9a8
type
Viking Funeral
 MacGyver (1985) / int_516ac9a8
comment
Viking Funeral: In "Deadly Dreams", Dr. Zito convinces one of his clients to give himself a Viking funeral... And he takes a friend of Mac's to play the part of the slave.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_516ac9a8
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_516ac9a8
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_516ac9a8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5190aa9b
type
Theatre Phantom
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5190aa9b
comment
Theatre Phantom: In "Cleo Rocks", MacGyver's mortal enemy, Murdoc, who was horribly disfigured due to a flamethrower accident in a previous episode, disguises himself with a prosthetic face and goes by the name Jacques Leroux (a reference to Gaston Leroux). He falls in love with MacGyver's friend, Penny Parker, eventually kidnapping her, and the episode climaxes in an underground lair filled with booby traps.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5190aa9b
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5190aa9b
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5190aa9b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_520c77b4
type
Ignored Confession
 MacGyver (1985) / int_520c77b4
comment
Ignored Confession: In "Slow Death", MacGyver confesses his secret mission to a needling passenger on the train he just jumped. She assumes he was being sarcastic and feels bad enough to stop asking.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_520c77b4
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_520c77b4
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_520c77b4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_525478f9
type
Consulting Mister Puppet
 MacGyver (1985) / int_525478f9
comment
Consulting Mister Puppet: In "Rush to Judgement", a crazy old woman witnessed a murder, but acts like her pet parakeet is the only one who saw it. They bring her into court and ask her what the bird knows.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_525478f9
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_525478f9
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_525478f9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_52748705
type
Bamboo Technology
 MacGyver (1985) / int_52748705
comment
Bamboo Technology: In the opening of "Legend of the Holy Rose Part 1", MacGyver, with only a few hours, manages to design and build a whole working gyroplane out of bamboo, tarps, and an old cement-mixer engine.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_52748705
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_52748705
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_52748705
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5300b1de
type
Invincible Hero
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5300b1de
comment
Invincible Hero: Subverted, he feels pain from attacks and punches, he expresses fear in perilous situation, and he's caught often, but he always jimmies a non-violent way to solve his problem. Which, admittedly, was the expected and entertaining part.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5300b1de
featureApplicability
-0.3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5300b1de
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5300b1de
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5501256b
type
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5501256b
comment
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: This is Murdoc's main gimmick. In his very first appearance we're told he was assumed dead after having been chased into a demolition site years ago by Thornton and MacGyver, and he pulls the trick again repeatedly throughout the series.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5501256b
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5501256b
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5501256b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5521ed05
type
No Animals Were Harmed
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5521ed05
comment
No Animals Were Harmed: "Black Rhino" features an explicit message before the episode gets fully underway with its anti-poaching plot indicating that there is a scene depicting injury to an animal and that the injury and the animal have been simulated. The scene happens to be immensely heartbreaking, where a rhino had its whole horn shredded off by a chainsaw, is groaning as it bleeds out slowly, and it had to be put down.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5521ed05
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5521ed05
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5521ed05
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55473bc9
type
CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55473bc9
comment
CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: In "The Enemy Within", MacGyver and a friend apply CPR to the victim of an induced heart attack, demonstrating technique that would make a first aid teacher fail them on the spot, and keeping at it only long enough to show they tried before giving up and saying "He's dead" in a suitably dramatic voice. Later in the same episode, there's also a dodgy scene involving an improvised defibrillator.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55473bc9
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55473bc9
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_55473bc9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5581b443
type
The Walls Are Closing In
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5581b443
comment
The Walls Are Closing In: In "Eye of Osiris", Mac and the father-daughter archaeologist duo try to escape the walls that close in in Alexander the Great's real tomb (not the fake one located in the room before that was designed to trap tomb looters) once they and Nicolas von Leer (the brother of Erich von Leer, who acted as a villain in another treasure hunt episode, "Legend of the Holy Rose") get their hands on the jewel held by Alexander's mummified remains. The key to escaping lies in where the sunlight strikes after it's been refracted by the jewel.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5581b443
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5581b443
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5581b443
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55b1f9a1
type
Easy Amnesia
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55b1f9a1
comment
Easy Amnesia: Mac became an amnesiac several times as a result of blows to the head. Given that he's knocked unconscious at least once an episode, he's lucky that's the worst he ever got.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55b1f9a1
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55b1f9a1
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_55b1f9a1
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55c79f7c
type
Death Trap
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55c79f7c
comment
Death Trap: Murdoc is entirely too fond of these.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55c79f7c
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55c79f7c
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_55c79f7c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55f92df9
type
Wire Dilemma
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55f92df9
comment
Wire Dilemma: The pilot has one of these in its opening scene, prompting him to get out a paper clip and do his thing for the first time in the series. In "Off the Wall", Mac is trying to defuse a Time Bomb. He takes the cover off but when he touches the circuitry, the timer drops from 7:52 to 0:52.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55f92df9
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_55f92df9
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_55f92df9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56725578
type
Driving a Desk
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56725578
comment
Driving a Desk: Unfortunately painfully obvious in "Three for the Road" where much of the plot involves mac being in a car with the two guest stars.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56725578
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56725578
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_56725578
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56f9e23e
type
Gas-Cylinder Rocket
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56f9e23e
comment
Gas-Cylinder Rocket: In "To Be a Man", Mac uses a butane tank as torpedo to knock down a bad guy. In "The Odd Triple", Mac is locked up in the cellar of a winery. Needing to escape, he attaches several oxygen tanks to a large wheeled wine cask. Knocking the heads off the cylinders, he turns them into juryrigged rockets that propel the cask through the wall like a battering ram.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56f9e23e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_56f9e23e
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_56f9e23e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_574c0dd2
type
Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
 MacGyver (1985) / int_574c0dd2
comment
Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing: Or 'hot thing' in this case. In "Off the Wall", Mac has his hands and feet bound with plastic ties and is left in a condemned building alongside a Timebomb. He manages to hook a wire hanger into the faulty wiring so that it heats up and he can use it to melt through the ties.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_574c0dd2
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_574c0dd2
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_574c0dd2
 MacGyver (1985) / int_57541097
type
Near Misses
 MacGyver (1985) / int_57541097
comment
Near Misses: The opening sequence has a shot (from "The Golden Triangle") of MacGyver ducking for cover as twin lines of gunfire from a helicopter pass either side of him. "The Enemy Within": There's a good example of bullets kicking up dust always just behind the running hero.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_57541097
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_57541097
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_57541097
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5989e3b6
type
Enemy Mine
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5989e3b6
comment
Murdoc himself was afraid of snakes, which became a problem when he and Mac were trapped in a snake pit during the Enemy Mine episode.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5989e3b6
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5989e3b6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5989e3b6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5a7b4065
type
Bedsheet Ladder
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5a7b4065
comment
Bedsheet Ladder: In "Nightmares", Mac lowers a fire hose through a window in order to fool the bad guys into thinking he has escaped down it. He was actually hiding under an old turned over couch.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5a7b4065
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5a7b4065
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5a7b4065
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5aa2b7c8
type
Powder Trail
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5aa2b7c8
comment
Powder Trail: Mac improvises a powder trail - using the black powder charge from an antique grenade - to blow up an arms shipment in "The Escape".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5aa2b7c8
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5aa2b7c8
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5aa2b7c8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5b9cf82b
type
Education Mama
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5b9cf82b
comment
Education Mama: Ma Colton when it comes to the education of her youngest son Billy. She seems to have given up on the older two.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5b9cf82b
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5b9cf82b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5b9cf82b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdcc85a
type
Disney Villain Death
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdcc85a
comment
Disney Villain Death: Murdoc, repeatedly. This is what also killed Victoria James in Phoenix Under Siege and Deborah in Unfinished Business. In "Black Rhino", the Evil Poacher Ladysmith attempts to tip Mac over the edge of a dam only to end up going off the edge himself and plunging to his death atop his boat full of stolen rhino horn.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdcc85a
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdcc85a
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdcc85a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdf025f
type
Instant Sedation
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdf025f
comment
Instant Sedation: the gas sprayed by the helicopter in "Honest Abe" has this effect.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdf025f
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdf025f
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5bdf025f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5beef860
type
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5beef860
comment
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mac is afraid of heights, more so in the early seasons than the later ones. It's rarely crippling, but he has had bouts of vertigo at times. Murdoc himself was afraid of snakes, which became a problem when he and Mac were trapped in a snake pit during the Enemy Mine episode.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5beef860
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5beef860
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5beef860
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5c3206a
type
Ransacked Room
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5c3206a
comment
Ransacked Room: Subverted in the TV-movie "Lost Treasure of Atlantis". When MacGyver and co. enter Prof. Atticus's study, they think that this has happened. Then Atticus notes that it has always looked like that. Played straight in the subsequent film "Trail to Doomsday" when MacGyver and Natalia find the door to her apartment busted open, and the whole place ransacked.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5c3206a
featureApplicability
-0.3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5c3206a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5c3206a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5caef4ca
type
Chainsaw Good
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5caef4ca
comment
Chainsaw Good: The chief bad guy tries to kill Mac with a chainsaw during a fight in a sawmill in "Log Jam".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5caef4ca
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5caef4ca
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5caef4ca
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5cd8680b
type
Doorstop Baby
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5cd8680b
comment
Doorstop Baby: In "Rock the Cradle", Jack Dalton finds a baby, allegedly his son, in the cockpit of his plane.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5cd8680b
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5cd8680b
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5cd8680b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5d162996
type
Extended Disarming
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5d162996
comment
Extended Disarming: In the Season 1 finale, "The Assassin", MacGyver is pitted against a master assassin. Confronting him relatively early in the episode, Mac is able to best him in hand-to-hand combat despite his numerous concealed blades. After the assassin is arrested, it is shown that he had many other knives and weapons on his person. And they still missed a poisoned needle he concealed behind a fake scar. Recurring villain Murdoc, in "Strictly Business", is meeting with his superiors at HIT, and has to pass through a metal detector first, which reveals that he's carrying multiple weapons on his person that he has to remove. Being as good as he is, he manages to slip a knife though just to prove that he doesn't play by the rules.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5d162996
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5d162996
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5d162996
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5e9cddcc
type
Fake Wizardry
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5e9cddcc
comment
Fake Wizardry: In the 2-part "Good Knight, MacGyver", Mac is transported by to court of King Arthur, and ends up in a wizard's duel against Merlin. Mac quickly realises that all of Merlin's "magical powers" are actually simple conjuring tricks.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5e9cddcc
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5e9cddcc
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5e9cddcc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f207a1a
type
Courtroom Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f207a1a
comment
Courtroom Episode: "The Spoilers" spends much time on MacGyver and the Phoenix Foundation building a case against the villains.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f207a1a
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f207a1a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5f207a1a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f5aa5af
type
Bulungi
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f5aa5af
comment
Bulungi: The episode featuring Kambezi was unusual in that the country was actually indicated on a map (specifically, as being in the vicinity of South Africa). The name Sambaka from "Early Retirement" suggests this, but a line of dialogue implies it to be Qurac. Making matters worse, there's evidence it may be a Banana Republic.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f5aa5af
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5f5aa5af
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5f5aa5af
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5fc3eff4
type
Time Bomb
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5fc3eff4
comment
In "Off the Wall", Mac is trying to defuse a Time Bomb. He takes the cover off but when he touches the circuitry, the timer drops from 7:52 to 0:52.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5fc3eff4
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_5fc3eff4
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_5fc3eff4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60ea2a89
type
Starter Villain
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60ea2a89
comment
Starter Villain: Carl Steubens caused the explosion in the pilot.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60ea2a89
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60ea2a89
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_60ea2a89
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60fb097
type
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60fb097
comment
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: "Collision Course" involved a stock car race between the title character and an old rival. The rival had nitrous oxide installed in his car without his permission ("That's illegal"), but even though he was already ahead of MacGyver and would have won had he just kept the course, he decides to use the nitrous oxide he criticized anyway and ends up spinning out on the shoulder.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60fb097
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_60fb097
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_60fb097
 MacGyver (1985) / int_61375e57
type
BigDamnKiss
 MacGyver (1985) / int_61375e57
comment
The first few episodes have something of a millionaire-playboy-adventurer feel to the character of MacGyver himself. He is shown living in a very nice house that borders on a mansion, and every episode has him working closely with a different woman who becomes smitten with him and they may share a Big Damn Kiss. His living conditions soon shifted to a more rugged (but waterfront) apartment and later a house boat, as well as his intimacy with girl of the week was phased out.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_61375e57
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_61375e57
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_61375e57
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6201e8b0
type
I Have Your Wife
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6201e8b0
comment
I Have Your Wife: In "Hearts of Steel", disgruntled steel mill workers attempt to kidnap the daughter of the industrialist who put them out of work, but end up abducting his housekeeper's daughter instead.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6201e8b0
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6201e8b0
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6201e8b0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62907b90
type
Bottle Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62907b90
comment
Bottle Episode: When Mac and Harry drop by the Phoenix Foundation to pick up some hockey tickets in "Phoenix Under Siege", they find themselves in the middle of a terrorist attack and the terrorists seal the building.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62907b90
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62907b90
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_62907b90
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62fd5552
type
Bavarian Fire Drill
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62fd5552
comment
Bavarian Fire Drill: Especially when operating undercover.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62fd5552
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_62fd5552
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_62fd5552
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6375f746
type
Drill Sergeant Nasty
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6375f746
comment
Drill Sergeant Nasty: R.T. Hines (played by Richard Roundtree) from the episode "Tough Boys".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6375f746
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6375f746
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6375f746
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6451e544
type
Commie Nazis
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6451e544
comment
Commie Nazis: Played straight in "The Enemy Within" which began with Mac on a mission behind the Iron Curtain narrowly escaping from East German troops dressed in World War Two era Wehrmacht uniforms.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6451e544
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6451e544
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6451e544
 MacGyver (1985) / int_65573dc
type
Rock Star Parking
 MacGyver (1985) / int_65573dc
comment
Rock Star Parking: Mac is also always able to find a parking spot directly in front of whatever building he needs to visit, which are always on suspiciously empty streets.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_65573dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_65573dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_65573dc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66bee5ea
type
Shooting Gallery
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66bee5ea
comment
Shooting Gallery: "Halloween Knights" featured a shooting gallery called 'Death Row' used by Murder, Inc. organisation H.I.T. to test new recruits.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66bee5ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66bee5ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_66bee5ea
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66f59ad
type
Balloonacy
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66f59ad
comment
Balloonacy: In "The Thief of Budapest", Mac uses a big bunch of balloons tied to a police radio and a tape player and sets them free to jam the police communications and enable a family of Roma to defect to the west from Hungary.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66f59ad
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_66f59ad
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_66f59ad
 MacGyver (1985) / int_673999b1
type
Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
 MacGyver (1985) / int_673999b1
comment
Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: the Trope Namer. Happened pretty often, as you would expect.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_673999b1
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_673999b1
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_673999b1
 MacGyver (1985) / int_67f56a51
type
Thrown from the Zeppelin
 MacGyver (1985) / int_67f56a51
comment
Thrown from the Zeppelin: In "Legend of the Holy Rose", the bad guy has his advisor with a niggling conscience thrown from a helicopter when he is of no further use.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_67f56a51
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_67f56a51
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_67f56a51
 MacGyver (1985) / int_68068108
type
Evil Laugh
 MacGyver (1985) / int_68068108
comment
Evil Laugh: One of the Murdoc-centric episodes ends with MacGyver answering the phone to hear Murdoc's laughter.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_68068108
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_68068108
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_68068108
 MacGyver (1985) / int_680f950
type
Gilligan Cut
 MacGyver (1985) / int_680f950
comment
Gilligan Cut: "The Gauntlet", when the Girl of the Week declares she's not going to eat the lizard MacGyver is cooking for dinner
 MacGyver (1985) / int_680f950
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_680f950
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_680f950
 MacGyver (1985) / int_683bb900
type
Last Disrespects
 MacGyver (1985) / int_683bb900
comment
Last Disrespects: In "D.O.A: MacGyver", MacGyver discovers a bomb planted at a funeral, only to lose the memory after a head injury.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_683bb900
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_683bb900
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_683bb900
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6886fe24
type
Outfit Decoy
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6886fe24
comment
Outfit Decoy: In "The Endangered", Mac makes an assault using a decoy using rope, matches and a coat on a vine to set a time-delayed simulated "approach". When the hunters start shooting at the decoy, Mac shoots one of them using a slingshot made of a flashlight barrel and elastic cords from the jacket to shoot yet another tranquilizer dart.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6886fe24
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6886fe24
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6886fe24
 MacGyver (1985) / int_697b5232
type
Those Wacky Nazis
 MacGyver (1985) / int_697b5232
comment
Those Wacky Nazis: In "The Ten Percent Solution", a massive neo-Nazi movement within the American political system is uncovered by MacGyver after investigating the claims by a Holocaust survivor.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_697b5232
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_697b5232
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_697b5232
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69cce3dc
type
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69cce3dc
comment
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: in "The Odd Triple," Pete tells Jack the plan to rescue MacGyver, which involves Pete masquerading of a buyer of stolen gems and slowing down the auction to give a disguised Jack time to find Mac. Then Pete realises that it means he has to trust... Jack Dalton.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69cce3dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69cce3dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_69cce3dc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69fb91e8
type
Chewing the Scenery
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69fb91e8
comment
Chewing the Scenery: Murdoc again. In his second episode, he smashes through a window with a flamethrower manically yelling "time to die, MacGyver!"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69fb91e8
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_69fb91e8
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_69fb91e8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6acb89db
type
Evil Poacher
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6acb89db
comment
Evil Poacher: Mac clashes with evil poachers in "Eagles", "The Endangered", and "Black Rhino".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6acb89db
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6acb89db
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6acb89db
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6b2b3b59
type
The Reveal
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6b2b3b59
comment
The two part episode "Good Knight, MacGyver" where Mac found himself back in a pseudo medieval Scotland, primarily to set up The Reveal of Mac's first name. It's Angus.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6b2b3b59
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6b2b3b59
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6b2b3b59
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bc499da
type
Diplomatic Impunity
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bc499da
comment
Diplomatic Impunity: In "Fire and Ice", a murderer and jewel thief has diplomatic immunity as a cultural attaché. Mac and his team prove said attaché's criminality to the ambassador, who insists the attaché be returned to their home country to stand trial. The attaché pleads unsuccessfully to be allowed to face American justice instead.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bc499da
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bc499da
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6bc499da
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bfd0c5c
type
When the Planets Align
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bfd0c5c
comment
When the Planets Align: "Lost Treasure Of Atlantis" features this. For some reason, the planets are visible, to the point where they would actually collide with each other.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bfd0c5c
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6bfd0c5c
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6bfd0c5c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cb1745e
type
Streetwalker
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cb1745e
comment
Streetwalker: In "Runners", a teenage prostitute is trying to leave her pimp and return to her family. As MacGyver helps her to do this, it is revealed that she is also being abused by her father who blames her for the death of his wife.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cb1745e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cb1745e
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6cb1745e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cf80934
type
Big Word Shout
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cf80934
comment
Big Word Shout: Murdoc's recurring scream of "MACGYVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cf80934
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6cf80934
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6cf80934
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6d7cd3e
type
Dead Person Impersonation
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6d7cd3e
comment
Dead Person Impersonation: "Children Of Light," when a woman pretends to Mac's Chinese foster daughter. "Two Times Trouble," when Mac's pop singer friend Roxy thinks someone's trying to kill her. It's key to the plot, hence spoiler tag: Roxy thinks her twin sister Carla wants to get her; when they were on a climbing trip, Roxy Cut the Safety Rope to keep Carla (a much better climber, who was trying to rescue her) from being pulled over a cliff with Roxy, and Carla's Survivor Guilt has her pretending to be as Roxy.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6d7cd3e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6d7cd3e
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6d7cd3e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6dd4006e
type
The Great Repair
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6dd4006e
comment
The Great Repair: In "Final Approach", MacGyver and four young people are stranded in the wilderness by a plane crash, and Mac must figure a way to repair the plane and get it airborne again.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6dd4006e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6dd4006e
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6dd4006e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6e8b95dc
type
The Teaser
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6e8b95dc
comment
The Teaser: At least initially, each episode began with a mini-episode called the "Opening Gambit", which — unlike the teasers in most series — was unconnected to the rest of the episode, and often created by a different writer and director. Later episodes either had a standard teaser or went straight to the opening credits.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6e8b95dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6e8b95dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6e8b95dc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6ef9d3fe
type
Christmas Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6ef9d3fe
comment
Christmas Episode: "The Madonna". The plot revolves around a church's statue that was stolen before Christmas Eve, as well as the Challengers Club facing dire financial straits just as it was organizing a Christmas party.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6ef9d3fe
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6fed1f70
type
The Thing That Would Not Leave
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6fed1f70
comment
The Thing That Would Not Leave: Jack Dalton is this to MacGyver on occasion.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6fed1f70
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_6fed1f70
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_6fed1f70
 MacGyver (1985) / int_70638525
type
Luke, You Are My Father
 MacGyver (1985) / int_70638525
comment
Luke, You Are My Father: MacGyver's illegitimate and previously unknown son Sam shows up in the last episode, and demonstrates that Lamarck Was Right.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_70638525
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_70638525
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_70638525
 MacGyver (1985) / int_708cabf8
type
Sleeping Dummy
 MacGyver (1985) / int_708cabf8
comment
Sleeping Dummy: In "Jack in the Box", MacGyver and Jack hide chickens and pillows in their beds so it looks like they were still there when people were looking for them.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_708cabf8
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_708cabf8
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_708cabf8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7206c964
type
Pushy Gun-Toting Villain
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7206c964
comment
Pushy Gun-Toting Villain: More often than not, MacGyver and anyone else he's with on the adventure-of-the-week would be staring down the barrel of a pistol carried by the exploiting, dictatorial, vengeful, or just plain nasty hot-headed villain-of-the-week. Sometimes, just to be a jerkass, they would also put their victims in a slowly-advancing trap, or just make them suffer through an agonizing torture.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7206c964
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7206c964
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7206c964
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72217e12
type
Murder, Inc.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72217e12
comment
Murder, Inc.: Homicide International Trust - H.I.T.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72217e12
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72217e12
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_72217e12
 MacGyver (1985) / int_724ce186
type
Glasses and Ponytail Coverup
 MacGyver (1985) / int_724ce186
comment
Glasses-and-Ponytail Coverup: Mac would don glasses and pull his hair back in a (rather short) ponytail when he went undercover as computer nerd Dexter.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_724ce186
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_724ce186
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_724ce186
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7276d0de
type
Mugging the Monster
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7276d0de
comment
Mugging the Monster: A bunch of thugs try to mug the Woobie of the Week, a mentally unstable veteran with a wrestler's physique. Lampshaded by the would-be victim: "Are you crazy? I could have torn your head off!"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7276d0de
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7276d0de
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7276d0de
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72c8b35c
type
When She Smiles
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72c8b35c
comment
When She Smiles: Penny Parker made her debut in an episode called... "Every Time She Smiles."
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72c8b35c
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72c8b35c
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_72c8b35c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72d30083
type
Cheaters Never Prosper
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72d30083
comment
Cheaters Never Prosper: In "Collison Course", a race car driver tries to use an illegal Nitro Boost, which causes him to lose control of his car and spin out on the shoulder.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72d30083
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_72d30083
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_72d30083
 MacGyver (1985) / int_74a08ab1
type
Sky Heist
 MacGyver (1985) / int_74a08ab1
comment
Sky Heist: In the opening gambit to "Thief of Budapest", MacGyver's mission is to retrieve a very valuable horse from Arabian tribesmen who stole it. After a wild horse chase along a beach, a helicopter airlifts him and the horse away to safety.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_74a08ab1
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_74a08ab1
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_74a08ab1
 MacGyver (1985) / int_754df088
type
Put on a Bus
 MacGyver (1985) / int_754df088
comment
Put on a Bus: In a case of Shoo Out the New Guy, Pete Thornton casually comments at the start of one episode that Nikki Carpenter is on assignment in South America. She is never heard from or mentioned again in the show.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_754df088
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_754df088
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_754df088
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7570a10c
type
Bond Villain Stupidity
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7570a10c
comment
Bond Villain Stupidity: It's amazing how often MacGyver finds himself in some form of death trap that always has plenty of "useless" items lying around for him to use for escape. Lampshaded in the episode "The Ten Percent Solution", where a Nazi-lady tries to use a gas chamber on the heroes while a henchman ponders, "Why not just shoot them?"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7570a10c
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7570a10c
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7570a10c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75c93c08
type
Embarrassing Password
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75c93c08
comment
Embarrassing Password: "Ugly Duckling" revolves around a teenage computer hacker; at one point, MacGyver has to guess her computer password, and it turns out to be "uglyduckling".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75c93c08
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75c93c08
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_75c93c08
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75d6bf40
type
Belligerent Sexual Tension
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75d6bf40
comment
Belligerent Sexual Tension: The writers attempted to set this up between Mac and Nikki Carpenter. However, Nikki was not popular with fans and she was quickly Put on a Bus, never to be heard from again.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75d6bf40
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_75d6bf40
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_75d6bf40
 MacGyver (1985) / int_76305de0
type
Elevator Floor Announcement
 MacGyver (1985) / int_76305de0
comment
Elevator Floor Announcement: Jack Dalton issues one of these in the season two episode, "Dalton, Jack of Spies", when showing Mac where he runs his business.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_76305de0
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_76305de0
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_76305de0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7636678a
type
Tree Buchet
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7636678a
comment
Tree Buchet: When he needs to throw off some pursuers in the jungle in "The Road Not taken", MacGyver builds a tree-based catapult to throw stones, and puts a light-based fuse on it. First he pulls four flimsy trees together and bends them down to the ground. He routes them under a solid tree branch and ties them together with a thin vine. Then he sets down his friend's rosary to refract sunlight onto the thin vine, creating a fuse. He stakes the thin vine into the ground with a good knot on a pointed stick, and attaches the pockets from his jacket (filled with rocks) to the tree trunks.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7636678a
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7636678a
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7636678a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77414bc2
type
Action Prologue
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77414bc2
comment
Action Prologue: Most of the time, as can be expected from a show like this. Self-parodied in "Children Of Light", which opens with the implication that Mac is defusing a bomb that's set to go off in a minute with Pete present...but it turns out he's just fixing Pete's alarm clock radio with the alarm set to go off in a minute, which is why he's rushing Mac.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77414bc2
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77414bc2
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_77414bc2
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777baed3
type
Out-of-Character Alert
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777baed3
comment
Out-of-Character Alert: In "Countdown", Mac cues Pete in on the fact that he needs to speak to him on a private channel by 'reminding' him that they are due to play golf when he gets back. Mac has never played a round of golf in his life.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777baed3
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777baed3
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_777baed3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777c0033
type
Technical Pacifist
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777c0033
comment
Technical Pacifist: MacGyver vocally and obviously hates guns, but isn't averse to hitting people (with fists, or with a variety of heavy things), and for a "pacifist", he's awfully fond of creating explosives. He also doesn't hesitate to put people in what would, in reality, be very dangerous situations: shocking them with high voltage, suspending them high up in the air by flimsy cords, driving towards them at high speeds, slamming them headfirst into heavy objects, blinding drivers of fast-moving vehicles, hiding unconscious bodies inside heavy machinery, and so on. Probably the most egregious example of this is when he set up a trap that shot a bunch of automatic weapons at cars full of people... but aimed them at the tires.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777c0033
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_777c0033
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_777c0033
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77b03c0a
type
Remember the New Guy?
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77b03c0a
comment
Remember the New Guy?: Many, many episodes involved an old friend or girlfriend showing up in need of MacGyver's help, but it was never someone he saw fit to mention before or ever again.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77b03c0a
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_77b03c0a
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_77b03c0a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_78629e9c
type
Badass Pacifist
 MacGyver (1985) / int_78629e9c
comment
Badass Pacifist: Mac, of course:
 MacGyver (1985) / int_78629e9c
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_78629e9c
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_78629e9c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_786bf97f
type
Real Life Writes the Plot
 MacGyver (1985) / int_786bf97f
comment
Pete's blindness in "Blind Faith" was real and permanent.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_786bf97f
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_786bf97f
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_786bf97f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7953ff81
type
Improvised Screwdriver
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7953ff81
comment
Improvised Screwdriver: In "Last Stand", Mac and the Girl of the Week are literally Locked in a Freezer. Mac uses the tip of a meat hook as a screwdriver as part of his escape plan. In "Nightmares", Mac—having been stripped of his Swiss army knife—uses his belt buckle as an improvised screwdriver to remove the face plate on an electrical socket to get access to the wires.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7953ff81
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7953ff81
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7953ff81
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79631cf
type
Hungry Jungle
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79631cf
comment
Hungry Jungle: The eponymous place in "Trumbo's World" threatens to be engulfed by army ants.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79631cf
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79631cf
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_79631cf
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79fa704c
type
Training the Peaceful Villagers
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79fa704c
comment
Training the Peaceful Villagers: Mac has to train a peaceful village in a Republica del Platano to fight their drug lord oppressors, in the episode "The Golden Triangle".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79fa704c
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_79fa704c
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_79fa704c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a21fc07
type
New Old Flame
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a21fc07
comment
New Old Flame: "Flame's End", "The Endangered", "Jerico Games"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a21fc07
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a21fc07
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7a21fc07
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a555627
type
Honest Corporate Executive
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a555627
comment
Honest Corporate Executive: In "Murderers' Sky", Adam Chung, the Chinese CEO of a large shipping company, refuses to have his business taken over by a Hong Kong criminal cartel. This leads to two assassination attempts on him... with the second being the one to end his life.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a555627
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7a555627
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7a555627
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7b21ef92
type
Later-Installment Weirdness
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7b21ef92
comment
Later-Installment Weirdness: A mild example is the last seasons: while it remained a show about a Science Hero (and the Trope Namer for MacGyvering), situations where he had to use his skills included defusing a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax regarding Bigfoot, a Time Travel Or Was It a Dream? episode where he went back to the Middle Ages and had to adventure alongside Merlin, an adventure that took place in the afterlife...
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7b21ef92
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7b21ef92
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7b21ef92
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7bb844ec
type
Villain Decay
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7bb844ec
comment
Villain Decay: Played with. Murdoc starts out as a one-dimensional villain who would return once per season, try to kill MacGyver in progressively crazier ways, and fail miserably. However, these repeated failures convince him that he's "over the hill" and that it's time to retire... but his employers won't let him, kicking off his next cycle where he's trying to find a way out first by allying with MacGyver to take down his employers, then by asking them to take him back in exchange for MacGyver's head, and then by seeking another protector/employer.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7bb844ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7bb844ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7bb844ec
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c1bfcea
type
Scary Surprise Party
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c1bfcea
comment
Scary Surprise Party: Taking this to rather an extreme level, in "friends" Mac gets taken at knife-point by a disguised Jack Dalton to a birthday party.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c1bfcea
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c1bfcea
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7c1bfcea
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c5960bf
type
Hall of Mirrors
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c5960bf
comment
Hall of Mirrors: When Mac is chased by a brainwashed friend, he uses this to trick the friend into running out of ammo so he can approach and subdue him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c5960bf
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7c5960bf
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7c5960bf
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cc7ff15
type
Mental Time Travel
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cc7ff15
comment
Mental Time Travel: This might be what happens to Mac in "Good Knight, MacGyver". Or it might be All Just a Dream.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cc7ff15
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cc7ff15
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7cc7ff15
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cf49932
type
Doomed Appointment
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cf49932
comment
Doomed Appointment: In "Three for the Road", Mac is supposed to meeting a smuggler at a motel in the middle of nowhere. However, The Syndicate catch up with Mac's friend just as he arrives at the motel, giving him just enough time to hide the MacGuffin before being shot dead.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cf49932
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7cf49932
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7cf49932
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d34f23a
type
Reckless Gun Usage
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d34f23a
comment
Reckless Gun Usage: This caused the death of one of MacGyver's childhood friends, as shown during a flashback in "Blood Brothers".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d34f23a
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d34f23a
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7d34f23a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d8cdf17
type
Lumber Mill Mayhem
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d8cdf17
comment
Lumber Mill Mayhem: "Log Jam" climaxes in a fight between Mac and the bad guys in a sawmill, with the chief villain trying to kill Mac with a chainsaw.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d8cdf17
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7d8cdf17
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7d8cdf17
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7e22477f
type
Breakout Villain
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7e22477f
comment
Breakout Villain: Murdoc became popular enough to have one episode per season after his first appearance, one of them even had him teaming up with Mac to save someone else, his sister, whom Murdoc tried to hide all relations to so she wouldn't be dragged into the mix of his deadly profession.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7e22477f
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7e22477f
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7e22477f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7ed96790
type
Trapped in Containment
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7ed96790
comment
Trapped in Containment: In "Kill Zone" a scientist creates a chemical for maturing plants. When her dog knocks over the vial, she is trapped with it and ages to death.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7ed96790
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7ed96790
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7ed96790
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f2c7fae
type
Explosive Instrumentation
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f2c7fae
comment
Explosive Instrumentation: The bad guy in "Slow Death" is killed when he ignores Mac's advice and attempts to start the train again. The sabotaged control panel explodes and kills him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f2c7fae
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f2c7fae
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7f2c7fae
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f745ffa
type
Shackle Seat Trap
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f745ffa
comment
Shackle Seat Trap: In "Strictly Business", Murdoc rigs a Death Trap in which metal clamps spring out of a chair to hold him place, a statue of Cupid spins around automatically, and a candle burns through a string to launch a cyanide-coated dart from Cupid's bow at Mac's heart.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f745ffa
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7f745ffa
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7f745ffa
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7fd86888
type
Mountain Man
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7fd86888
comment
Mountain Man: Earthquake from "The Spoilers" is a modern day version of this.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7fd86888
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_7fd86888
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_7fd86888
 MacGyver (1985) / int_808cbaeb
type
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
 MacGyver (1985) / int_808cbaeb
comment
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The title sequence adds a single shot of MacGyver standing on a street corner enjoying an icecream to a montage otherwise composed of him risking his life performing dangerous action stunts.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_808cbaeb
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_808cbaeb
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_808cbaeb
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8183248
type
Never Mess with Granny
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8183248
comment
Never Mess with Granny: In "The Madonna", an elderly bag lady whom Mac and Peter Thornton are helping turns out to be not only a fount of wisdom, but also turns around a troubled youth by hustling him at pool.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8183248
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8183248
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8183248
 MacGyver (1985) / int_823c6e3e
type
Large Ham
 MacGyver (1985) / int_823c6e3e
comment
Large Ham: The coach in "Legend of the Holy Rose". "RYAN!!! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU!!!" Murdoc, in pretty much every appearance.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_823c6e3e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_823c6e3e
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_823c6e3e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82518cf7
type
Motor Mouth
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82518cf7
comment
Motor Mouth: Recurring character Penny Parker frequently delivers a nonstop stream of consciousness monologue that does not allow anyone else to get a word in edgeways. Perhaps best demonstrated in "The Secret of Parker House" where Mac's opening voiceover is delivered over Penny's constant babble and ends with "Wait. I think she's getting to the point..."
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82518cf7
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82518cf7
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_82518cf7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_829b958e
type
Embarrassing First Name
 MacGyver (1985) / int_829b958e
comment
Embarrassing First Name: MacGyver is not very happy with his first name, Angus. He always introduces himself as just MacGyver and it took four seasons for it to be told. One sixth season episode reveals that his full name isn't even mentioned in his grandfather's will.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_829b958e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_829b958e
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_829b958e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82b78473
type
Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82b78473
comment
Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: In "The Wish Child", Mac lights a fuse without a match by concentrating sunlight on the fuse with his watch crystal. He removes the crystal with his Swiss army knife and holds it so a fine point of light is focused at the fuse's end.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82b78473
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82b78473
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_82b78473
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82e9aaba
type
Down in the Dumps
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82e9aaba
comment
Down in the Dumps: The Batman Cold Open of an early episode takes place in a junk yard, complete with big magnet.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82e9aaba
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_82e9aaba
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_82e9aaba
 MacGyver (1985) / int_83ea0763
type
Rouge Angles of Satin
 MacGyver (1985) / int_83ea0763
comment
Rouge Angles of Satin: In his first episode, Murdoc tries to off Mac, Pete, and Jack by luring them to a junkyard. An obituary in the newspaper, which Murdoc planted, reads "In Memorium".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_83ea0763
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_83ea0763
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_83ea0763
 MacGyver (1985) / int_86f4f393
type
Stating the Simple Solution
 MacGyver (1985) / int_86f4f393
comment
Stating the Simple Solution: In "Deadly Silents", Karl's partner Neil keeps urging to just shoot Mac and Pinky and dump their bodies somewhere. After multiple attempts to Make It Look Like an Accident fail, Karl gives in and agrees to just shoot them. It fails.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_86f4f393
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_86f4f393
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_86f4f393
 MacGyver (1985) / int_872b9e12
type
Chained to a Railway
 MacGyver (1985) / int_872b9e12
comment
Chained to a Railway: In "Deadly Silents", MacGyver and an old man he is protecting are knocked out and tied to a railroad track by the villain; however, the railroad track is just a film studio prop, and the purpose is to scare the old man (who suffers from a heart condition) into having a heart attack.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_872b9e12
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_872b9e12
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_872b9e12
 MacGyver (1985) / int_87738d17
type
Blind Driving
 MacGyver (1985) / int_87738d17
comment
Blind Driving: "Blind Faith" features Mac's hands being injured and Pete being temporarily blinded. So they cooperate to escape from a sticky situation with Pete's hands on the wheel and Mac telling him where to go.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_87738d17
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_87738d17
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_87738d17
 MacGyver (1985) / int_878d235d
type
Couldn't Find a Lighter
 MacGyver (1985) / int_878d235d
comment
Couldn't Find a Lighter: In "Pilot", Mac lights a cigarette off a hidden laser, then uses the smoke from the cigarette to expose the laser beam and discover the laser's location.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_878d235d
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_878d235d
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_878d235d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_889cfd0c
type
Make the Dog Testify
 MacGyver (1985) / int_889cfd0c
comment
Make the Dog Testify: In "Rush to Judgement", Mac arranges to put a parakeet on the stand, with the elderly women who owned it acting as interpreter. In reality, the woman was the one who had witnessed the crime, but was too nervous to testify without using the bird as an intermediary.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_889cfd0c
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_889cfd0c
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_889cfd0c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_88e7f8b8
type
Batman Cold Open
 MacGyver (1985) / int_88e7f8b8
comment
The Batman Cold Opens were used only in the first season, and only during the first half of it. Unlike the typical case of this trope, they were so iconic, people often insist they were a fixed feature for at least a few seasons and not just an early experiment.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_88e7f8b8
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_88e7f8b8
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_88e7f8b8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a10399
type
Alien Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a10399
comment
Alien Episode: "The Visitor" has our hero dealing with mysterious happenings involving apparent flying saucers. At the end, after proving that the flying saucers were a hoax, he sees another, apparently real, UFO and it's implied that one of the people helping him out was actually an alien.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a10399
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a10399
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_89a10399
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a17726
type
Spell My Name with an S
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a17726
comment
Spell My Name With An S: "Phoenix Under Siege" is called "Phoenix Under Seige" in the actual episode credits. Oopsie.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a17726
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89a17726
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_89a17726
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89dcd4e
type
Small-Town Tyrant
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89dcd4e
comment
Small-Town Tyrant: In "Jack in the Box", Mac and Jack Dalton are arrested in Arkansas by a corrupt sheriff who puts the convicts to work in the nearby zinc mine.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89dcd4e
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_89dcd4e
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_89dcd4e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a0bc642
type
Unnecessary Combat Roll
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a0bc642
comment
Unnecessary Combat Roll: One of the assassins in "Target MacGyver", entering the house where Mac is staying—and very silly he looks, too.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a0bc642
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a0bc642
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8a0bc642
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a295a46
type
Cool Car
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a295a46
comment
Cool Car: Mac's 1957 Chevy Nomad, left to him by his grandfather. Also his 1987 Jeep Wrangler and 1941 Chevrolet ½-Ton Pickup Art Deco.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a295a46
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8a295a46
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8a295a46
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b4f2a4f
type
'80s Hair
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b4f2a4f
comment
'80s Hair: MacGyver himself.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b4f2a4f
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b4f2a4f
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8b4f2a4f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b5e7316
type
Cattle Baron
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b5e7316
comment
Cattle Baron: Pete Thornton in "Serenity".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b5e7316
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b5e7316
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8b5e7316
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b68d9a7
type
Stalker with a Crush
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b68d9a7
comment
Stalker with a Crush: "Cleo Rocks" is a riff on The Phantom of the Opera, with Penny Parker and Murdoc(!) in the lead roles.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b68d9a7
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8b68d9a7
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8b68d9a7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8c96ae78
type
No One Could Survive That!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8c96ae78
comment
No One Could Survive That!: Murdoc No One Should Survive That!: His first two presumed deaths (from his first episode) were realistically survivable. His subsequent deaths through the rest of the show... not so much.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8c96ae78
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8c96ae78
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8c96ae78
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8d83bed9
type
The Vietnam Vet
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8d83bed9
comment
The Vietnam Vet: MacGyver served as a bomb disposal engineer in The Vietnam War.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8d83bed9
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8d83bed9
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8d83bed9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dd4a996
type
Identical Grandson
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dd4a996
comment
Identical Grandson: MacGyver's identical ancestor (played by Richard Dean Anderson) in "Good Knight MacGyver".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dd4a996
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dd4a996
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8dd4a996
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dff5979
type
Homemade Flamethrower
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dff5979
comment
Homemade Flamethrower: In "Trumbo's World", MacGyver creates a flamethrower with a garden hose, some metal piping, a tin can, duct tape, and a large can of "kitchen magic" to thicken the gasoline to that it burns instead of exploding. When the ants approach the complex, Trumbo pumps gasoline into the flamethrower, allowing MacGyver to rain fire on the ants and brush surrounding the complex, stopping them temporarily.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dff5979
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8dff5979
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8dff5979
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e17482f
type
Hack the Traffic Lights
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e17482f
comment
Hack the Traffic Lights: In "The Thief of Budapest", Mac "hacks" the stoplights in a town in Europe to help him make his getaway, by putting fragments of a credit card in a timing gear.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e17482f
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e17482f
featureConfidence
1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
MacGyver (1985) / int_8e17482f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e6a882b
type
Prison Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e6a882b
comment
Prison Episode: In "Jack in the Box", Jack Dalton is sent to a prison farm by a Small-Town Tyrant who is using the prisoners as a workforce for his mine. Mac ends up in the same prison when he goes looking for Jack. In "The Escape", mac infiltrates a prison in French North Africa in order to break out an unjustly imprisoned missonary.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e6a882b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e6a882b
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_8e6a882b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e92e125
type
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e92e125
comment
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: In "Murderers' Sky", what is the game Luke is playing on the computer at his grandfather's house? Totally not Space Invaders!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e92e125
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8e92e125
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_8e92e125
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f228548
type
Booze Flamethrower
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f228548
comment
Booze Flamethrower: In "The Eye of Osiris", Mac throws alcohol in the face of a man holding a torch, setting the man's hat and shirt on fire.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f228548
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f228548
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_8f228548
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f9f71a8
type
Crazy Enough to Work
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f9f71a8
comment
Crazy Enough to Work: Pretty much every single episode. Crazy Enough To Work is the driving principle behind MacGyvering.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f9f71a8
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8f9f71a8
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_8f9f71a8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8fed141a
type
Bloody Handprint
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8fed141a
comment
Bloody Handprint: In "Ghost Ship" Mac comes across a deserted ship that's been run ashore and ransacked on the inside. Within he finds a Bloody Handprint several times the size of his own, which obviously could not belong to a human.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_8fed141a
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_8fed141a
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MacGyver (1985) / int_8fed141a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_905438eb
type
Recycled IN SPACE!
 MacGyver (1985) / int_905438eb
comment
Recycled In Space: Doctor Who ON 80's EARTH! Both feature a dashing anti-Establishment Technical Pacifist hero who gets into scrapes because of his big bleeding heart and gets out of them with his courage, quick wits, and scientific acumen. As if that wasn't enough, influential Doctor Who writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, worked on some of MacGyver's very first episodes. "Thief of Budapest" is The Italian Job in Budapest with a list of KGB spies as the MacGuffin, and the plot of "Trumbo's World" is Leiningen Versus the Ants on a cocoa plantation.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_905438eb
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_905438eb
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_905438eb
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9099c21c
type
GPS Evidence
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9099c21c
comment
GPS Evidence: In "Walking Dead", Mac is able to identify that the cult is using an abandoned dam as their base from the mixture of dried river silt and machine oil on a voodoo doll.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9099c21c
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9099c21c
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9099c21c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d44f44
type
Karmic Death
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d44f44
comment
Karmic Death: Sandra in "Kill Zone" dies because of the research project she flagrantly violated protocol for.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d44f44
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d44f44
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_90d44f44
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d60f4a
type
And Some Other Stuff
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d60f4a
comment
And Some Other Stuff: When describing his solutions, Mac always leaves out some steps when dealing with anything explosive.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d60f4a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_90d60f4a
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MacGyver (1985) / int_90d60f4a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91697559
type
Half the Man He Used to Be
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91697559
comment
Half the Man He Used to Be: "The Legend of the Holy Rose" uses the trope name verbatim... In the series' first two-part episode, Mac is strapped into a fiendish torture device vaguely inspired by The Pit and the Pendulum, and told by the Big Bad that he's about to be half the man he used to be.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91697559
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91697559
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_91697559
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91a7d252
type
Fake in the Hole
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91a7d252
comment
Fake in the Hole: In "For Love or Money", Mac removes the explosive core from a grenade and then tosses it at a group of border guards to distract them while he makes a run across the border.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91a7d252
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_91a7d252
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_91a7d252
 MacGyver (1985) / int_92c112f7
type
Bitter Almonds
 MacGyver (1985) / int_92c112f7
comment
Bitter Almonds: Used to identify a cyanide poisoning attempt on Peter Thorton, in "Fraternity of Thieves".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_92c112f7
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_92c112f7
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_92c112f7
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93168fb1
type
It's Quiet… Too Quiet
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93168fb1
comment
It's Quiet… Too Quiet: "MacGyver, something's not right. It's a little too quiet out here" - Charles Alden, "Trumbo's World"
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93168fb1
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93168fb1
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_93168fb1
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9350a0b9
type
The Tape Knew You Would Say That
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9350a0b9
comment
The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Mac does this to Pete in "The Odd Triple" via a message he left on his answering machine:
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9350a0b9
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9350a0b9
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9350a0b9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93a55c24
type
Shady Lady of the Night
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93a55c24
comment
Shady Lady of the Night: In the episode "The Assassin", the eponymous assassin would hire call-girls to do small errands for him, such as picking up a suitcase in the park. He would later kill them.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93a55c24
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_93a55c24
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_93a55c24
 MacGyver (1985) / int_943b920b
type
Electrified Bathtub
 MacGyver (1985) / int_943b920b
comment
Electrified Bathtub: In "Lesson in Evil", the Hannibal Lecter-esque Dr. Zito sets a trap for Mac by restraining a hapless victim (his own therapist, who he had succeeded in convincing he was "cured") in a bathtub, attaching an electric heater on top and leaving the water running.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_943b920b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_943b920b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_943b920b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94cc2c28
type
Exact Time to Failure
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94cc2c28
comment
Exact Time to Failure: In "Nightmares", an interrogator gives MacGyver a slow-acting poison, and tells him that if he doesn't get the antidote within six hours, his death will be inevitable. There is a prominently-displayed countdown timer. MacGyver gets the antidote with two and a half minutes to spare, and makes a full recovery. That's some poison.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94cc2c28
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94cc2c28
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_94cc2c28
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94d295c0
type
The Precious, Precious Car
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94d295c0
comment
The Precious, Precious Car: In "Three for the Road", Guy Roberts owns an immaculate red '57 Cadillac. Over the course of the episode, the car is gradually trashed due a combination of damage inflicted by the bad guys, and Mac stripping parts off the car to turn into makeshift weaponry (with the Running Gag of Mac apologizing and saying he will get it fixed later). True to his word, Mac has it fully restored for him at the episode.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94d295c0
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_94d295c0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_94d295c0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_95f972d2
type
Nitro Boost
 MacGyver (1985) / int_95f972d2
comment
Nitro Boost: In "Collision Course", Mac is up against a corrupt stock car racing driver who resorts to using nitrous oxide (as well as sabotage) to fix the race.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_95f972d2
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_95f972d2
 MacGyver (1985) / int_97522514
type
Heel–Face Revolving Door
 MacGyver (1985) / int_97522514
comment
Heel–Face Revolving Door: A tragic one for Deborah. In "The Negotiator" after her failed attempts to sway Mac Gyver away from the study and whack Mac Gyver, she agrees to a deal with him to accept the beach environmental eighteen month impact study and testify against her former boss Mr. Knapp cancelling his marina entirely and placing him behind bars a "touch longer". But then in "Unfinished Business", a full redemption it was not to be for Deborah and she aims to try and kill Mac Gyver again.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_97522514
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_97522514
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_97522514
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98c4ea5f
type
Falling Chandelier of Doom
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98c4ea5f
comment
Falling Chandelier of Doom: In "The Coltons", Jesse Colton takes out a gunman who has taken cover behind a table by shooting out the chandelier above him so that it falls on him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98c4ea5f
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98c4ea5f
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_98c4ea5f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98f22e5f
type
Wardens Are Evil
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98f22e5f
comment
Wardens Are Evil: In "Jack in the Box", the warden of a prison farm is a Small-Town Tyrant in cahoots with the local sheriff to jail people on trumped-up charges where they are used as a slave labor force to search an abandoned mine for hidden millions of dollars.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98f22e5f
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_98f22e5f
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_98f22e5f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9bbe05ee
type
Fantasy Keepsake
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9bbe05ee
comment
Fantasy Keepsake: At the end of the cowboy dream episode "Serenity", Mac wakes up and finds an antique Swiss Army Knife, like the one in his dream, on the floor next to him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9bbe05ee
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9bbe05ee
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9bbe05ee
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c23f3a0
type
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c23f3a0
comment
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: "Ghost Ship" features a Sasquatch that turns out to be a guy in a rubber suit... or does it?
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c23f3a0
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9c23f3a0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c47b23b
type
Dirty Communists
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c47b23b
comment
Dirty Communists: quite a few (see Cold War above). The very first of Mac's missions in the series had him rescuing an American pilot and destroying a sensitive piece of equipment right under the noses of the Soviet troops that shot them down, and the last episode involves him and his son trying to expose a gulag where the Chinese Communist government exploits political prisoners for slave labor. However, it's noteworthy that the show doesn't stick to a one-dimensional portrayal of the communists. You get your fill of Secret Police thugs and General Ripper types, but also plenty of cases of Worthy Opponent, Enemy Mine, Punch-Clock Villain, Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist, and even - more than once - Dating Catwoman. (Not to mention of course the defectors and reformers).
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c47b23b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c47b23b
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9c47b23b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c8701b5
type
A Day in the Limelight
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c8701b5
comment
A Day in the Limelight: "Early Retirement" for Pete Thornton.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c8701b5
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9c8701b5
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9c8701b5
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9d4b58ba
type
I Let Gwen Stacy Die
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9d4b58ba
comment
I Let Gwen Stacy Die: In "The Widowmaker", Mike dies after falling off a cliff while rock-climbing with Mac. Mac believes he blames himself for her death and is in a depressive funk for the first half of the episode as a result, and it will take both Nikki's convincing and the return of Murdoc to get him back into shape.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9d4b58ba
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9d4b58ba
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9d4b58ba
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e1b9a0e
type
Camera Fiend
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e1b9a0e
comment
Camera Fiend: One of Murdoc's little sadistic quirks was trying to have a camera set whenever possible to take a picture of one of his kills as it happened.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e1b9a0e
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9e1b9a0e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e74f33
type
Flock of Wolves
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e74f33
comment
Flock of Wolves: In "Honest Abe", Mac gets shanghaied by his CIA agent friend Abe to take down a South American dictator and a corrupt Army Major supplying the former with weapons. Eventually, one of the Major's lackeys reveals to the other he's a Federal agent... and the other lackey reveals he's one as well. And via background checks they find the real identities of Mac and Abe. Naturally they are dumbfounded at the revelation that they are involved in an operation involving four secret agents of different agencies while they previously thought they were acting alone.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e74f33
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9e74f33
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9e74f33
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9f7769a2
type
The Gunslinger
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9f7769a2
comment
The Gunslinger: Murdoc appears a stereotypical black clad gunslinger (seemingly a Type D) in the Western All Just a Dream episode "Serenity".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9f7769a2
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_9f7769a2
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_9f7769a2
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1b141f4
type
My God, What Have I Done?
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1b141f4
comment
My God, What Have I Done?: In "Hell Week" both David and his genius professor father have them. David has one when he realizes that his bomb will endanger his friend and Love Interest Janet when it takes out the nuclear physics lab located right above the physics lab. His father has one when he finally realizes how distant and emotionally abusive he has been to his son when he can't remember his own son's birthday. Both are remorseful and his father promises to be there for his son.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1b141f4
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a1b141f4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1c5e0cc
type
Trigger Phrase
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1c5e0cc
comment
Trigger Phrase: In one episode, Pete gets brainwashed into shooting whoever utters the trigger phrase "From the bottom of my heart, I salute you". The villain of the episode wanted to use him to kill a visiting dignitary (who was scheduled to give a speech containing that phrase at a dinner Pete would be attending).
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1c5e0cc
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1c5e0cc
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a1c5e0cc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1d70162
type
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1d70162
comment
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: In a flashback during the "Blood Brothers" episode, MacGyver accidentally kills Jesse, a childhood friend, when he drops his father's pistol and it goes off. This why Mac Does Not Like Guns.note  In real life, Guns Do Not Work That Way. Simply dropping one, even an older model from the 1960s, is very unlikely to result in an accidental discharge.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1d70162
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_a1d70162
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a1d70162
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a2b38d3b
type
Eye Scream
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a2b38d3b
comment
In "Slow Death", he sprays carbonated water into a bowl of salt, causing it to splash into bad guys' eyes.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a2b38d3b
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a2b38d3b
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a2b38d3b
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6467db
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Landing Gear Shot
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6467db
comment
Landing Gear Shot: MacGyver did this one when a villain went to Paris.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6467db
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6467db
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a6467db
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a65288e2
type
Ascended Extra
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a65288e2
comment
Ascended Extra: Pete Thornton appeared in a few season one episodes as Mac's friend and agency handler, one of several for a deliberately vague organization, before he become a regular cast member in season two as his boss at the Phoenix Foundation (his actor, Dana Elcar, had a small role in the pilot as an unrelated character).
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a65288e2
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a65288e2
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a65288e2
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a66b0789
type
Fingertip Drug Analysis
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a66b0789
comment
Fingertip Drug Analysis: Mac tests a suspected drug sample this way in "Black Rhino", only to find out that it's keratin (powdered rhino horn).
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a66b0789
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a66b0789
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a66b0789
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a681bfc6
type
Amicable Exes
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a681bfc6
comment
Amicable Exes: Mac has a lot of ex-girlfriends, but they all still seem to regard him as a quintessentially Nice Guy and good friend.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a681bfc6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a681bfc6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a681bfc6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6cbef9a
type
Joker Immunity
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6cbef9a
comment
Joker Immunity: Murdoc "dies" in almost every episode he's in, but he always manages to come back.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6cbef9a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6cbef9a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a6cbef9a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6f23b2d
type
Skepticism Failure
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6f23b2d
comment
Skepticism Failure: In "GX-1", MacGyver helps a Russian psychic who is portrayed as real, despite Mac's skepticism.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6f23b2d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a6f23b2d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a6f23b2d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a796d2a6
type
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a796d2a6
comment
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Mac is often shot at. The few times they hit is for plot purposes.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a796d2a6
featureApplicability
1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a796d2a6
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985)
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MacGyver (1985) / int_a796d2a6
 MacGyver (1985) / int_a8d644f6
type
Bizarre Beverage Use
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Bizarre Beverage Use: In "The Heist", Mac uses crystal wine glasses filled with different levels of wine to recreate musical tones to open the vault. In "The Prodigal", he mixes soda and popping candy with dry ice to simulate fire smoke through air vents. In "Countdown", he injects a mixture of low fat milk and oven cleaner via a pastry tube to neutralize an acid mixture inside the bomb. In "Slow Death", he sprays carbonated water into a bowl of salt, causing it to splash into bad guys' eyes. In "For Love or Money", he makes fake bloodstains from red wine and ketchup. In "The Odd Triple", he uses wine to help him wriggle out of ropes. In "The Endangered", he asks some people at a bar for matches in order to light some rum to create a fireball to create a diversion. But he can't find any matches and is nearly shot. In "Gold Rush", he uses high proof vodka as the fuel in a in a fire bomb to blow away some the snow surrounding the pane they are buried in. In "Serenity", he tosses whisky and a cigar butt down Wilt's pants as a distraction. In "Rush to Judgement", makes a soft drink dispenser spit out cans for distraction. In "MacGyver's Women", he pours alcohol on pine nuts in a stove, which mimics gunshots. In "Gunz 'n' Boyz", he uses whisky-soaked kindling in a wastebasket to light a fire.
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Roguish Romani
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Roguish Romani: The third episode kicks into gear when a young Romani girl pickpockets MacGyver's MacGuffin. She's a thief with a heart of gold, however, and MacGyver ends up helping her family escape Soviet Hungary before giving her his Swiss Army Knife as a farewell present.
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Obfuscating Disability
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Obfuscating Disability: One of the many tricks of "The Assassin".
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Fire Hose Cannon
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Fire Hose Cannon: In "Last Stand", Mac uses the hose on the fire truck to knock a bad guy off of a motorcycle. In "Deathlock", Mac uses a high pressure water outlet as a water cannon to push Quayle against overloaded fuse box to electrocute and stun him, before finishing him off with a punch. In "Tough Boys", Mac weaves a fire hose through the rungs of a ladder, which enables him to aim the hose at the roof of building before turning on the hose and blasting the thug on the roof.
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Doesn't Like Guns: Mac doesn't like guns to a childhood friend being accidentally killed by one.
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Ruthless Modern Pirates: In "Pirates", an archaeologist is kidnapped by pirates to help them find $60 million in sunken treasure at the bottom of the sea, and Mac must attempt a rescue on the isolated ocean.
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Nitro Express
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Nitro Express: In "Hellfire", Mac has to transport old, sweating dynamite cross-country from an abandoned mine to extinguish an oilwell fire on a friend's claim. In "Hell Week", a college student snaps and builds a bomb intending to blow himself and the school to kingdom come (and just to make it even more dramatic, he happened to place it in the same building as the nuclear physics lab, meaning it would cause radiation to spread). Said bomb has a "mercury switch", which consists of a drop of mercury placed in the very middle of a precariously balanced Petri dish with wires along the edges set to trigger the bomb if the mercury touches them. With no way to get inside the bomb's mechanism without triggering it (at least for the moment), Mac and the kid's emotionally abusive professor father who started the whole mess have to move the bomb very carefully to an elevator so that the explosion is sufficiently contained underground.
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Aggressive Negotiations
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Aggressive Negotiations: One episode features the very careful aversion of this trope: Mac acts as a go-between for two groups who recognize the need for peace, but can't be together for more than a few minutes without hurling insults, at the very least. He keeps them apart by putting them in comfortable suites at opposite ends of a skytram, and relays only written materials.
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Checkpoint Charlie
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Checkpoint Charlie: "Deathlock" has a Cold Open in which Mac is attempting to get out of an Iron Curtain country concealed inside a coffin.
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Red Scare
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Red Scare: in this case, actually called Soviets, but in later episodes, Soviet hardliners.
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The Hashshashin
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The Hashshashin: In "The Legend of the Holy Rose", the Brotherhood of the Hashshashin is one of the villainous groups after the Elixir of Life supposed to be stored in the Temple of the Holy Rose. They betray their partner in crime and shot him as he is not a true believer and therefore does not deserve eternal life.
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Knockout Gas
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Knockout Gas: An instantly sedating knockout gas was one of the weapon systems on the attack helicopter in "Honest Abe".
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Plot-Demanded Manual Mode
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Plot-Demanded Manual Mode: In "Rock the Cradle", Mac has to juryrig a way to manually lower the landing gear on a plane as Jack Dalton is bringing it in for a landing. He succeeds, but falls out the plane (he is wearing a parachute).
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Dreaming of Things to Come
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Dreaming of Things to Come: "Silent World" involves Carrie Linden, a teacher for the deaf and one of Mac's old friends, having strange recurring nightmares of her and Mac. These nightmares hold the key to foiling a plot by ex-CIA agent David Crane that involves stealing parts of a voice-activated missile and then smuggling the reassembled missiles in the black market.
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A-Team Montage
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A-Team Montage: Episodes would often feature a montage of Mac assembling his gadget of the week.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: "When I was a kid..."
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Toxic, Inc.
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Toxic, Inc.: In "The Spoilers", Mac and and a hermit from the mountains work to try and stop a group from illegally dumping radioactive and toxic waste into a stream.
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Convection, Schmonvection
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Convection, Schmonvection: Subverted. In the episode "Flame's End", the villain has locked him and a companion in a room at a nuclear power plant and he plans to flood it with the reactor's coolant water. Mac's companion points out that convection alone is going to kill them long before they have a chance to drown, scald, or be irradiated to death.
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Luxury Prison Suite
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Luxury Prison Suite: Khan lives in one in "The Escape".
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Tap on the Head
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Tap on the Head: This happens all the time, what with MacGyver's no-guns policy. The likelihood of knocking a bad guy out with a single blow is inversely proportional to his position on the bad guy ladder. Mac himself has also received enough knocks on the head that he's lucky never to have got anything worse than the occasional bout of Easy Amnesia.
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Enhance Button
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Enhance Button: Coupled with some superficially realistic-sounding Techno Babble: "Create a bitmap. Now increase the Z-axis while holding the X and Y axis steady." While this sounds ludicrous, it's basically the 1980's equivalent of getting a high resolution image file from a film negative ("Create a bitmap."), and using the zoom function on your computer ("Increase the Z-axis...").
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Asian Babymama
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Asian Babymama: The origin of Mac's long-unknown-to-exist son Sam, introduced on the final episode.
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Cut the Safety Rope
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"Two Times Trouble," when Mac's pop singer friend Roxy thinks someone's trying to kill her. It's key to the plot, hence spoiler tag: Roxy thinks her twin sister Carla wants to get her; when they were on a climbing trip, Roxy Cut the Safety Rope to keep Carla (a much better climber, who was trying to rescue her) from being pulled over a cliff with Roxy, and Carla's Survivor Guilt has her pretending to be as Roxy.
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Klingon Promotion
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Klingon Promotion: Anyone who screws up their duties in the highly competitive and murderous assassin's guild of H.I.T. (Homicide International Trust) is subject to be killed by someone more adept at doing their job then they were.
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No OSHA Compliance
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No OSHA Compliance: In "Flame's End", there is a room into which radioactive waste is dumped after 10 minutes of activation, with a door that can be pushed shut from the outside and has a timed lock that cannot be opened for 60 minutes after it is shut. And there is no emergency shutoff, handle or opening mechanism inside the room.
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Take That!
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"Rush to Judgement", as part of a Take That! against reporter Jake Baron's twisting of the Danby case as a racially-charged court case (the murder was actually masterminded by a woman who wanted to off the ex-athlete's wife in order to get into his pants):
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Borrowin' Samedi: In "Walking Dead", Former Regime Personnel exiled from Haiti have settled down in Little Haiti, in MacGyver's neighborhood. They are selling drugs, collecting protection payments and threatening shopkeepers with "Baron Samedi". One of the gang poses as the Baron, in a black suit and white-pained face to help sell the illusion. At the end of the episode, MacGyver dresses up like Baron Samedi and tells the people that they've been lied to.
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Cable-Car Action Sequence
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Cable-Car Action Sequence: "Cease Fire" has MacGyver dispose of a bomb on a gondola.
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Science Hero
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Science Hero: MacGyver, despite the jury-rigged nature of his devices, qualifies. After all, to accomplish all those things, Mac needs a great working knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and botany at the very least.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: At the start of "Target MacGyver", MacGyver takes his ski mask off in the middle of a covert raid for no in-story reason, just so the people he's raiding can get a look at his face and spend the rest of the episode trying to kill him.
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Noodle Implements: This is how every episode works, hence the parodies. Though we do get to see how he puts it all together, he can make anything out of anything. So if you've got Noodle Implements, he can get it done. Duct tape usually helps, though. Word of God states that the reason for this was to prevent children watching the show from trying to duplicate the experiments themselves and possibly getting injured.
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Fright Deathtrap
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Fright Death Trap: "Deadly Silents" used the 'Scared Stiff' version. The villains set up several stunts (a suitcase full of snakes, leaving him Chained to a Railway, etc.) to attempt to trigger a fatal heart attack in an elderly silent movie star.
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The Ace
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The Ace: He plays ice hockey and climbs mountains (the latter despite his acrophobia) in his spare time, used to serve in the military as a bomb defuser, used to be a race car driver, regularly faces enemies who do have guns and tends to make them look like chumps, is the key to defeating pretty much every security system conceivable, and is now synonymous with the concept of getting a bunch of random trash and making it do something amazing.
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High-Heel–Face Turn
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High-Heel–Face Turn: Karen in "Deathlock", Sara in "The Escape" and Holly in "Twenty Questions".
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Ten Little Murder Victims
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Ten Little Murder Victims: "The Invisible Killer" - just as Mac determines which of the Phoenix employees on his wilderness stress-relief retreat is an imposter, we find out that not one but two of them are really escaped convicts.
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: Penny Parker in a foreign country: "Oh, you don't know how good it is to see someone from back home. They're all foreigners here".
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Little Stowaway
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Little Stowaway: In "Bushmaster", MacGyver goes to Central America to rescue a pilot accused of being a spy, only to find the pilot's daughter has stowed away.
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Flashed-Badge Hijack
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Flashed-Badge Hijack: Done in "The Prodigal".
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Magical Defibrillator
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Magical Defibrillator: In "The Enemy Within", Mac juryrigs a defibrillator out of two candlesticks, a floor mat, and an electrical power cord. The idea was not to reverse fibrillation, but to counteract some kind of magnetic field that was causing an absorbed plastic in the victim's blood to expand, causing an embolism. It worked.
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Girl of the Week
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In "Last Stand", Mac and the Girl of the Week are literally Locked in a Freezer. Mac uses the tip of a meat hook as a screwdriver as part of his escape plan.
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Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction
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Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction: "Eye of Osiris". It's a plate-sized sapphire.
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Involuntary Battle to the Death
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Involuntary Battle to the Death: In "Humanity", Mac is captured in Romania by a member of the K-Force, a Praetorian Guard still loyal to Romania's dead tyrant CeauÅŸescu. After seeing Mac fishing, he becomes upset and later reveals that the K-Force's Training from Hell (which begins in early childhood) forbids any sort of friendship. When he and another kid he had befriended went fishing with some rods stolen from the base, they were caught and forced to have a knife fight to the death. Naturally, he won but he still feels guilty to this day.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_b949eac
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_b949eac
 MacGyver (1985) / int_b9fd7929
type
Morality Chain
 MacGyver (1985) / int_b9fd7929
comment
Morality Chain: Murdoch's sister is this to Murdoch in "Halloween Knights". Learning he had a sister causes Murdoch to attempt to go straight and quit the Murder, Inc. organisation he worked for. They respond by kidnapping the sister, forcing Murdoch into an Enemy Mine situation with MacGyver to rescue her. However, she dies before Murdoch's next appearance, causing him to revert to his villainous ways.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_b9fd7929
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_b9fd7929
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_b9fd7929
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ba112560
type
Throwing the Fight
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ba112560
comment
Throwing the Fight: In "Split Decision", Earl Dent agrees to throw his comeback fight so he can get enough money to regain custody of his daughter. When he changes his mind (at Mac's urging), the bookies kidnap his daughter to force him to go through with the fix.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ba112560
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ba112560
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_ba112560
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bcfc7495
type
Cowboy Episode
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bcfc7495
comment
Cowboy Episode: the series has two Wild West dream episodes, "MacGyver's Women", when MacGyver dreams that he's in the Wild West and has to defend three women from outlaws , and "Serenity".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bcfc7495
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_bcfc7495
 MacGyver (1985) / int_be009bbc
type
Alliterative Name
 MacGyver (1985) / int_be009bbc
comment
Alliterative Name: Penny Parker, Lampshaded.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_be009bbc
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_be009bbc
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MacGyver (1985) / int_be009bbc
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bf1a54d9
type
Indy Hat Roll
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bf1a54d9
comment
Indy Hat Roll: The show has one moment of the hat roll when they are trapped in an Ancient Indian Death Trap and Dalton reaches back to grab his pilot hat, much to Mac's irritation.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bf1a54d9
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MacGyver (1985) / int_bf1a54d9
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bffb777a
type
Sawed-Off Shotgun
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bffb777a
comment
Sawed-Off Shotgun: Jesse Colton's preferred firearm.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bffb777a
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_bffb777a
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_bffb777a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c0c460b4
type
Tribal Carry
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c0c460b4
comment
Tribal Carry: Mac is carried back to the village like this after being captured by the drug producers in "The Golden Triangle".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c0c460b4
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c0c460b4
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c0c460b4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c20a3586
type
Amnesia Danger
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c20a3586
comment
Amnesia Danger: Occurs in at least three episodes, where Mac loses his memory due to being drugged, shot in the head, etc.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c20a3586
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c20a3586
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c20a3586
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25c7890
type
Fun with Acronyms
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25c7890
comment
Fun with Acronyms: Murdoc works for the Homocide International Trust... making him a literal "HIT man".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25c7890
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25c7890
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c25c7890
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25cf377
type
Costumer
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25cf377
comment
Costumer: Had several dream episodes set in The Wild West town of Serenity. The two part episode "Good Knight, MacGyver" where Mac found himself back in a pseudo medieval Scotland, primarily to set up The Reveal of Mac's first name. It's Angus.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c25cf377
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c25cf377
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c322a093
type
A Bloody Mess
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c322a093
comment
A Bloody Mess: In "For Love or Money", Mac uses the condiments from a picnic basket (carefully mixing them to give the consistency of blood) to fake a bloody head wound so he can gain access to a hospital.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c322a093
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c322a093
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3478f1d
type
Badass Bookworm
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3478f1d
comment
Badass Bookworm: He doesn't look physically imposing, but he's more than capable of handling himself in a fight, whether through quick thinking or a punch to the face.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3478f1d
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3478f1d
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c3478f1d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3943bf3
type
Pilot
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3943bf3
comment
Pilot: Which did air as the first episode of the series, although it contained a couple of elements that were not continued — such as MacGyver actually pointing and firing a gun at an enemy.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3943bf3
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c3943bf3
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3a7dcab
type
Qurac
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3a7dcab
comment
Qurac: Sambaka from "Early Retirement" is implied to be this in a line spoken by Webber, though otherwise it seems like a Banana Republic. Making matters worse, its name suggests a Bulungi.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c3a7dcab
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c3a7dcab
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c41668cd
type
Needle in a Stack of Needles
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c41668cd
comment
Needle in a Stack of Needles: In "Lost Love", Mac is carrying a valuable Chinese artifact which he needs to get rid of in a hurry — so he finds a shop selling cheap replicas of the thing and puts it on the back of the shelf.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c41668cd
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c41668cd
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4846eda
type
Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4846eda
comment
Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper: In the episode "To Be a Man", MacGyver, who can always work his way out of anything on his own, is bedridden and helped by a lady and her son.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4846eda
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c4846eda
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4942576
type
Cunning Linguist
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4942576
comment
Cunning Linguist: He is proficient to a greater or lesser extent in Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and American Sign Language, and knows how to use International maritime signal flags and Morse code.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4942576
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c4942576
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4976d7c
type
Vehicular Sabotage
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4976d7c
comment
Vehicular Sabotage: One episode of MacGyver featured the tampering with brakes version as an excuse for the title character to repair a moving vehicle.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4976d7c
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c4976d7c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4c9bb40
type
Inner Monologue
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4c9bb40
comment
Inner Monologue: MacGyver, providing linking narration or relating a folksy anecdote about something in his childhood that the onscreen action reminds him of.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c4c9bb40
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c4c9bb40
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c67e470
type
But You Were There, and You, and You
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c67e470
comment
But You Were There, and You, and You: The Old West dream episodes: "Serenity" and "MacGyver's Women", and the King Arthur/Camelot episode "Good Knight, MacGyver".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c67e470
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c67e470
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c5ce4
type
Bedlam House
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c5ce4
comment
Bedlam House: In "A Prisoner of Conscience", Mac fakes insanity so he can infiltrate a Russian mental hospital to break out a political dissident.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c5ce4
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c5ce4
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c86cd
type
Collapsing Lair
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c86cd
comment
Collapsing Lair: At the end of "Legend of the Holy Rose", the Temple of the Holy Rose collapses, burying all of Ambrose's miraculous artifacts (although Mac and the Girl of the Week are outside at the time and so do not have to flee through the collapsing temple). Mac speculates that Ambrose had intended this to occur all along.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c86cd
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c86cd
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c6c86cd
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6e0455d
type
Afterlife Express
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6e0455d
comment
Afterlife Express: In "Passages", MacGyver is thrown off a parking garage while trying to stop the theft of an Egyptian artifact and falls into a coma. During his Adventures in Comaland, he follows his grandfather onto a boat taking people to Heaven, and he sees his parents and makes peace with the fact that he is dead. But Grandpa Harry reveals to him that Pete will die too unless he comes back to life, so he escapes the boat and has a resurrection.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c6e0455d
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c6e0455d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: "The Heist" has a sequence where MacGyver confronts the villain in a casino in a tuxedo; when he first appears in the tux, the background music starts with the same four notes as the James Bond theme. In another episode, he introduces himself to a female character with "Bond, James Bond". "Target MacGyver" has a scene where MacGyver builds a trap out of stuff he finds in the bad guys' kitchen; the first thing he finds is a bag of carrots, from which he carefully selects a single carrot that he then proceeds to not use in the trap in any way — but when the trap is ready, he picks up the carrot again and takes a bite of it Bugs Bunny style. In "Family Matter," Mac meets a man named Obedaiah Marsh.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c75df49a
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c75df49a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c895f927
type
Criminal Mind Games
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c895f927
comment
Criminal Mind Games: Mac had an escaped criminal foe in "Lesson in Evil", who went as far as to call him with math equations that would yield a clue when solved.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_c895f927
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_c895f927
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ca22ca46
type
Madwoman in the Attic
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ca22ca46
comment
Madwoman in the Attic: "The Secret of Parker House" had one of these. He turned out to be a nice guy.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ca22ca46
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ca22ca46
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_ca22ca46
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cadf2d2a
type
Death of a Thousand Cuts
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cadf2d2a
comment
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Two characters are eaten alive by ants in "Trumbo's World".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cadf2d2a
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cadf2d2a
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb092754
type
Musical Pastiche
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb092754
comment
Musical Pastiche: A pastiche of the James Bond theme is used when Mac donned a tuxedo and went into the villain's private casino in "The Heist".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb092754
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb092754
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cb092754
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb70651c
type
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb70651c
comment
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Vacuum cleaner salesman Phil Sternweis in "The Visitor". He gets MacGyver out of trouble several times in very unlikely fashion, and at one point can only be seen by MacGyver. The ending leaves the possibility open that he is a Human Alien. Paul, the titular character in "The Wish Child" is initially shown to be just a scammer who's just pretending to be a reincarnation of a legendary child who can supposedly bring good fortune to people and receives gifts in return and if someone links their soul with him, they'll become immortal. However, there's a number of things that match up with the original legend that surprise both Paul and Stone, who's setting up elaborate displays of his alleged Wish Child power: his background story is more or less identical to the legend complete with his skunk stripe that he somehow got after an accident, his face and handprint are a perfect match to those of the original Wish Child, and when he escapes the old businessman who was planning to enslave him for the rest of his life to gain the previously described immortality and said businessman suddenly falls dead from a Hollywood Heart Attack while trying to catch him despite being in good health up until that point, Paul is confused and thinks he somehow caused it. "The Madonna" features a homeless woman who shows up on Christmas Eve, Carol, and helps solve all the problems facing the Challenger Club, including donating the exact amount of money they need to pay their rent. But that >$700 donation comes out of a change purse that the audience earlier saw only contained a $5 bill. Oh, and the titular Madonna figurine that was stolen from a local church reappears on Christmas day, with a scratch on its hand in the exact place that Carol hurt her hand.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cb70651c
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cb70651c
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cbe687ab
type
Corrupt Corporate Executive
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cbe687ab
comment
Corrupt Corporate Executive: One of the stock villain types employed by the series, Corrupt Corporate Executives appeared in multiple stories.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cbe687ab
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1.0
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cbe687ab
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cbe687ab
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ccd7abf5
type
Fakeout Escape
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ccd7abf5
comment
Fakeout Escape: In "Nightmares", Mac lowers a fire hose through a window in order to fool the bad guys into thinking he has escaped down it. He was actually hiding under an old turned over couch.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ccd7abf5
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MacGyver (1985) / int_ccd7abf5
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd682fe1
type
Dodge the Bullet
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd682fe1
comment
Dodge the Bullet: Mac does this at times. He dives between lines of bullets shot by a helicopter in the early season intros. He's blocked a crossbow bolt with a 2x2 board. Practically nobody who shoots at him can hit him—if they do, they graze him (and cause amnesia). It's played off as luck, though, rather than skill, and he has a healthy respect for people pointing guns at him.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd682fe1
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd682fe1
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cd682fe1
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd8709e
type
Pendulum of Death
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd8709e
comment
Pendulum of Death: The Cliffhanger at the end of the first part of the two-part "Legend of the Holy Rose" has Mac strapped beneath a descending blade on a pendulum in a torture chamber exhibit.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cd8709e
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cd8709e
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cda501da
type
Killed Off for Real
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cda501da
comment
Killed Off for Real: MacGyver's grandfather passed away in Season 5.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cda501da
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cda501da
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cddc61ac
type
Fake-Out Make-Out
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cddc61ac
comment
Fake-Out Make-Out: Mac and his female partner pull this trick when they are caught by a motorcycle cop while scoping out the hospital they are planning to break into in "For Love or Money".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cddc61ac
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cddc61ac
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ce27dc3f
type
Protagonist Title
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ce27dc3f
comment
Protagonist Title
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ce27dc3f
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MacGyver (1985) / int_ce27dc3f
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ce2969d8
type
Spiritual Antithesis
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ce2969d8
comment
Spiritual Antithesis: MacGyver is almost the polar opposite of most action heroes. He isn't a gritty hardass, doesn't drink, not fond of Bond One Liners, Does Not Like Guns, competent at fisticuffs but often outmatched by musclebound brutes or martial artists, has a "good ole boy" midwest personality, spends time doing charity work, has several degrees in chemistry and physics and, of course, relies on improvised traps and constantly thinks his way through situations rather than just relying on being a badass.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_ce2969d8
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_ce2969d8
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cf36f69d
type
Reed Snorkel
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cf36f69d
comment
Reed Snorkel: Invoked in "Target MacGyver". Mac uses hollow reeds stuck into a piece of bark and sets it afloat in the water to make the bad guys think they are still in the water.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_cf36f69d
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_cf36f69d
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d0b60f23
type
GoshDangItToHeck
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d0b60f23
comment
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: MacGyver's clean-cut behaviour extended to sometimes ridiculously mild cussing, including a very close, "Gosh darn it!" in the pilot episode. An occasional "damn" or "crap" sometimes slipped through. Other characters were allowed to swear, subject to the limitations of the era's TV language restrictions.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d0b60f23
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_d0b60f23
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d0caee40
type
Uncanny Family Resemblance
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d0caee40
comment
Uncanny Family Resemblance: Jack Dalton and his father, Jack Sr., in "Ma Dalton".
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d0caee40
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1.0
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_d0caee40
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d137b509
type
Competence Porn
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d137b509
comment
Competence Porn: MacGyver was always a combination of DIY ingenuity and deep reserves of academic knowledge and skills. The fun was his ability to build the right device for the situation in relatively realistic ways; the show often details how seemingly useless items (at least for the problem at hand) could be used for another purpose. This made his name a pop culture icon and also considered the patron saint of Mythbusters.
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d137b509
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 MacGyver (1985) / int_d137b509
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1.0
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MacGyver (1985) / int_d137b509
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d25b27c3
type
Criminal Amnesiac
 MacGyver (1985) / int_d25b27c3
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Criminal Amnesiac: In "D.O.A. MacGyver", the Villain of the Week takes advantage of MacGyver's amnesia to convince him that Peter Thornton is actually a terrorist to be apprehended, and even supplies him with a gun to do the job. Since Mac's memory has started to come back, though, and since he and Pete are such good friends, it doesn't take long for Pete to talk him out of it. In that same episode, the writers play around a bit. Since all the flashes of memory (played by clips from other episodes) he gets are of explosions or other violent acts with him in the middle, Mac almost convinces himself that's he's really a Criminal Amnesiac.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The assassin Pierta, whose assassination methods of choice involved sharp poisoned objects. He tries to assassinate a priest, but scuffles with Mac, drops the pin, and ends up getting his hand pricked with it when he falls.
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Unwilling Suspension
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Unwilling Suspension: Happens to Frank and Jesse in "The Coltons."
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Locked in a Freezer
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Locked in a Freezer: Happens to Mac and a lady in "Last Stand". They get out when he manages to freeze and shatter the lock on the door.
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Dream Within a Dream
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Dream Within a Dream: One of the more unintentionally funny moments was in the brainwashing episode. Jack Dalton was having nightmares surrounding his brainwashing on a nightly basis, usually waking up in a cold sweat. One of those times he woke up, he was just having a normal morning with MacGyver. He was waving his hand around to make a point when he then noticed he was holding a gun. "Hey, where did that come from?" He then notices the symbol on MacGyver's pitcher is the same as his trigger, shoots it (with the show suggesting that MacGyver also got shot even though he was holding it away from his body), and then wakes up.
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Jury Duty
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Jury Duty: "Rush to Judgement": Mac gets called up for jury duty on a murder case in "Rush to Judgement" and, naturally, can't resist investigating the case on his own — which is illegal. Which is very much lampshaded by the episode, to be clear.
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Adventures in Comaland
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Adventures in Comaland: "Passages" had Mac put in a coma by assassins. He found himself on a cruise ship piloted by a guy claiming to be Anubis where he managed to talk one last time to his dead parents and just deceased grandfather before escaping.
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Hollywood Voodoo
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Hollywood Voodoo: Features heavily "Walking Dead". The episode at least pays lip service to voudon being a genuine religion and that what the villains are doing is a perversion of it. Also, in "The Hood", a character mimics many of the Hollywood aspects, but when the villain of the week gives in to his superstitious fear, she remarks, "Voudon is my religion. That was Saturday morning cartoons."
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: A variation in "Ma Dalton": Jack Dalton's mother gave him up for adoption to protect him from a mobster that was targeting her.
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Spexico
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Spexico: Take a band of Zapatistas. The more indigenous the better. Then drop them in the Rockies, dress them with the clothes left over by the Sicilian scenes of The Godfather and make them live in wooden barracks with bananas in the porch. According to MacGyver, this is the Basque Country.
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Writers Cannot Do Math
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Writers Cannot Do Math: "Ugly Duckling" shows a pretty accurate example of how triangulation works, with one little problem: the two base points they were taking readings off of were so close together, and the two angles they found were so different, that the third point would have had to be so close they could already see it. To get useful triangulation readings, they would have had to be a significant distance further apart.
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Intimate Healing
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Intimate Healing: Mac finds himself as a recipient of one from Natalia in "Trail To Doomsday" after he is caught in a poisoned boobytrap and loses consciousness.
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The Commies Made Me Do It
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The Commies Made Me Do It: In "Deathlock", the girl of the week turns out to be acting as a mole for the bad guys because they have her brother hostage.
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Newspaper-Thin Disguise
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Newspaper-Thin Disguise: "Thief of Budapest" has a scene in which McGyver hacks a stoplight control box standing in the middle of main street. His cover? People on both sides with newspapers spread out wide.
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Hand Wave
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"The Thief of Budapest", in which violent handwaving is applied to justify reusing the entire car chase from The Italian Job.
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Pulling the Rug Out
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Pulling the Rug Out: In "Three for the Money", Mac tries to talk down a belligerent drunk who is spoiling for a fight. When it becomes obvious, he cannot get away from the fight, Mac tales off his leather jacket and lays it on the ground; saying he doesn't want it to get damaged in the fight. Predictably, the drunk immediately stands on the jacket. Mac then yanks it out from under his feet, dropping the drunk and stopping the fight before it starts.
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Bad Guys Play Pool
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Bad Guys Play Pool: Nicholas Helman in "Halloween Knights". Also mooks in "The Wasteland".
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Vision Quest
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Vision Quest: Mac experiences one while being cared for by an old Indian after being Left for Dead in "Trail of Tears".
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Jack Dalton is moving around relatively freely in his barrack in prison in "Jack in the Box", is plotting his schemes, and is eating decent food.
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Television Geography
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Television Geography: The show was primarily set in Los Angeles. Production moved to British Columbia from the third through the sixth seasons, then returned to LA. As a result, Southern California looked very much like Canada for four years.
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Manchurian Agent
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Manchurian Agent: Done twice in "Brainwashed". Jack Dalton and Pete Thornton are both programmed with different code phrases buried in the speech to be given by the president of a fictional African country they're programmed to assassinate. The simultaneous missing weekend over which they were programmed is covered by Fake Memories.
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Bad Habits
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In "The Assassin", Piedra drags a nun into a closet and steals her habit in order to get close his target, the archbishop.
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Translation Convention
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Translation Convention: wherever MacGyver goes, everyone apparently speaks English, albeit with a range of funny accents.
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Friend to All Living Things
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Friend to All Living Things: Shown in "Eagles", when Mac fights some poachers who shot down a mother eagle, than at the end of the episode, saves its three babies still in their eggs.
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Whole-Plot Reference
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Whole-Plot Reference: Several episodes are either rare examples of a Whole-Plot Reference played entirely straight, or a cynical attempt to rip off the plot of a film most of MacGyver's audience wouldn't have seen — these include "Countdown" (Juggernaut), "Trumbo's World" (The Naked Jungle, which as noted above it even uses actual footage from), "Thief of Budapest" (The Italian Job (1969), also using footage from the film), "Kill Zone" (The Andromeda Strain) and "Hellfire" (Sorcerer).
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Hollywood Spelling
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Hollywood Spelling: Somehow, MacGyver apparently knows the correct letter case for and space in the password in "Ugly Duckling", though this may be justified thanks to the particulars of the system in question (Mac canonically knows his way around computers) and basic logic regarding English, respectively.
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Bounty Hunter
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Bounty Hunter: Mac frequently crossed paths with the Coltons, an entire family of bounty hunters. They only all appeared together in the Poorly Disguised Pilot for an aborted Spin-Off.
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The Charmer
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The Charmer: MacGyver.
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Load-Bearing Boss
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Load-Bearing Boss: Erich von Leer in "Legend of the Holy Rose, Part 2". When von Leer is killed, he stumbles backwards into the entrance of the Temple of the Holy Rose, which proceeds to collapse on top of him, burying the temple. (Properly the collapse is the result of a secondary explosion caused by the Frickin' Laser Beams that kill von Leer, and Mac speculates that the original designer of the temple intended for his work to be buried.)
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Affectionate Pickpocket
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Affectionate Pickpocket: In "Runners", teenage runaway Crystal hugs Mac when he drops her off at a shelter. Later on, he is filling up his Jeep and discovers that she has stolen his wallet.
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Clothing Combat
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Clothing Combat: In "To Be a Man", Mac uses a scarf and a stone as a sling to drop a bad guy off of his horse.
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Death Course
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Death Course: The show features several death courses, some linear, some (implicitly) not, typically they are associated with his arch-nemesis Murdoc. One particularly blatant episode, "Halloween Knights" (which has a rather The Man with the Golden Gun feel) involved a reformed Murdoc enlisting Mac's help to save Murdoc's sister, and being forced to traverse a linear Death Course by Murdoc's former mentor appropriately called "Death Row".
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Paper Key-Retrieval Trick
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Paper Key-Retrieval Trick: In "The Guantlet", MacGyver is able to retrieve a key which is in the lock but on the other side of the door by sliding a map under the door and pushing the key with his pen knife through the keyhole. The key falls on the map and MacGyver is able to slide it underneath the door and exit the room before he is apprehended.
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Percussive Maintenance
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Percussive Maintenance: In one episode, starting a car this way becomes a running gag. In "Split Decision", Ronnie is able to hit a vending machine in such a way to get it to give her a free candy bar.
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The Mole
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The Mole: In "The Enemy Within", Mac must discover the identity of a mole within the DXS who has caused the death of four agents.
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1-Dimensional Thinking
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1-Dimensional Thinking: "Fire and Ice" almost suggests that there is a mystical force that compels people to run in a straight line in front of oncoming objects. A man hit by a truck at the beginning of the episode would have been perfectly safe if he had not gone out of his way to run in front of the truck.
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Houseboat Hero
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Houseboat Hero: MacGyver lived on a houseboat for several seasons.
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Improbable Antidote
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Improbable Antidote: "Fraternity of Thieves" had Pete poisoned by prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) gas in a mall. Mac recognizes the poison by its distinctive almond smell and dashes toward a photo developer booth, whose printing machine contains sodium thiosulfate, an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: With a touch of '...or was it?' in the two-part episode "Good Knight, MacGyver".
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No Full Name Given
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No Full Name Given: MacGyver spends almost the entire series being known only as "MacGyver"; his Embarrassing First Name is eventually revealed in the final season. It's Angus.
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Swamps Are Evil
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Swamps Are Evil: MacGyver must rescue Pete and his family from a Louisiana swamp in "Family Matter".
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Sequel Episode
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Sequel Episode: "Unfinished Business" is this to "The Negotiator."
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Before becoming a secret agent, MacGyver first encounters his future nemesis Murdoc like this. Murdoc is dressed as a woman and on the run from Pete Thornton. Mac sees this and interferes by saving the apparent damsel; he soon learns who Murdoc really is and tracks him down alongside Pete. When Murdoc catches them and puts them in a Death Trap, Mac tries to appeal to his gratitude:
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Delivery Guy
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Delivery Guy: In "Birth Day", MacGyver becomes trapped in an abandoned factory with a pregnant woman fleeing a murderous husband, with her delivery imminent. The trope is only played with, however, because Mac readily admits he's not qualified to deliver a baby, and spends the entire episode trying to summon medical assistance. He succeeds, and the mother gives birth in an ambulance while he waits outside.
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Duct Tape for Everything: Many of Mac's little creations involve the use of duct tape.
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Martial Pacifist: Mac is somewhere between this and Actual Pacifist. He will never kill, no matter what. However, beating the crap out of people is fair game when called for, even if it's a last resort. He also has no problem setting bombs when all they cause is property destruction.
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Atlantis: As one might expect, Atlantis features in "Lost Treasure Of Atlantis".
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Autopsy Snack Time: "The Enemy Within" has Mac present at an autopsy that has the coroner halting his duties for an eggroll.
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Relocating the Explosion: In "Hell Week", Mac is confronted with a bomb in a sealed case. Unable to defuse the bomb because the tamperproof screws on the case are wired to the detonator, Mac decides to move the bomb to the basement where it will do the least damage. He is then faced with the challenge of moving the bomb without tripping the mercury switch inside.
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Deep Cover Agent: Ingrid Bannister in "The Enemy Within". She hypnotises her husband into telling her secrets on a frequent basis. Played by Lynn Holly Johnson, in case you're interested.
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A Handful for an Eye: Murdoc blinds MacGyver with a handful of dirt during a fight in a mine in the episode "Strictly Business". Mac himself blinds a bruiser with a bucket of ashes in "The Escape".
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: In "Strictly Business", Murdoc rigs a Death Trap in which metal clamps spring out of a chair to hold him place, a statue of Cupid spins around automatically, and a candle burns through a string to launch a cyanide-coated dart from Cupid's bow at Mac's heart.
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: In "The Black Corsage", Mac and this other guy are saved from being "processed" on a conveyor belt by being shunted... into a container of fish. The man's response? "Oh no! Fish! I hate fish!"
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Technicolor Toxin: "The Spoilers" starts off showing us a tanker full of toxic waste, which happens to be hot pink in color.
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Spider-Sense
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Spider-Sense: Frank Colton's eye twitches when something isn't right about a situation.
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Unconventional Food Usage
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Unconventional Food Usage: Mac plugs a sulfuric acid leak with chocolate. He states that chocolate contains sucrose and glucose. The acid reacts with the sugars to form elemental carbon and a thick gummy residue. ("Pilot") Mac uses salt combined with sugar and a small amount of chemical enhanced weed killer to create dynamite with a battery acid, or sulfuric acid, trigger. ("Thief of Budapest") Soda, fizzies (candy), and dry ice used to created simulated smoke. ("The Prodigal") Mac uses a baking soda and vinegar concoction to create a smoke screen. ("Deadlock") Mac pours salt in a bowl and uses a seltzer spray bottle to spray the salt into the face of the bad guy. ("Slow Death") Mac uses the condiments from a picnic basket to fake a head wound. ("For Love or Money") While shopping for groceries, Mac concocts home-made tear-gas out of a some selected spices (cayenne pepper), vinegar and baking soda. ("Blow Out") Trapped in a bed and breakfast with only two elderly women to help him, MacGyver fights off the attacking mobsters by blinding one by hitting him with a mop dusted with cayenne pepper, and spraying hot blueberry preserves through a vacuum cleaner into the other man's face.
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Brainless Beauty: Penny Parker. Penny isn't exactly stupid, but she tends to act without thinking things through, and has only a shaky grasp of how the world works.
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Expospeak Gag: In "Last Stand", Mac is holding some piece of equipment that he's supposedly going to use to fix up a plane so the bad guys can escape. When asked by his guard what the item is, he replies "Lateral... cranial... impact... enhancer", and smacks the guard across the head with it.
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Banana In The Tail Pipe: In "A Prisoner of Conscience", Mac stalls the car of the secret police who are tailing him by sticking a potato in the exhaust pipe.
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Underside Ride
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Underside Ride: Mac clings underneath a truck to escape the cops in the episode "Jerico Games".
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Pungeon Master
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Pungeon Master: Mac
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Ceiling Cling
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Ceiling Cling: Piedra does this in "The Assassin". After escaping from his cell in the safehouse, he avoids one guard by clinging to the ceiling before dropping down behind the guard and killing him.
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Never Found the Body
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Never Found the Body: Murdoc just can't. Stay. Dead. Not even after being blown up sky-high, falling down cliffs, into boiling water, and snake pits.
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Complexity Addiction
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Complexity Addiction: Karl, the bad guy in "Deadly Silents", seems to suffer from this; concocting several elaborate death traps to kill Mac and Pinky, even as his partner keeps urging him to just shoot them.
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Storybook Episode
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Storybook Episode: "Good Knight, MacGyver" transports Mac back to the court of King Arthur.
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Improvised Lockpick
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Improvised Lockpick: In one episode, Mac needs to open a door with a palm-print reader as the lock. He uses toner from a copier to adhere to the residue of the previous palm print, then carefully blows away the rest and lays a blank page on the scanner. Pressing his palm on the paper activated the scanner, which read the residual palm print of an authorized user, and grants Mac access.
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The Remnant
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The Remnant: In "Humanity", MacGyver tangles with the K-Force, a group of Praetorian Guard still loyal to Romania's dead tyrant CeauÅŸescu. And in the second TV movie, with a hard-left remnant of KGB alumni hoping to bring back the Soviet Union.
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Distressed Dude
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Distressed Dude: Especially in the later seasons; however, Mac usually freed himself, often with a Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: It's subtle, but almost any time MacGyver punches someone, his immediate response is cringe and shake his hand in pain.
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Explosive Leash
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Explosive Leash: In "Lost Love" part 1, the Russians place an explosive leash around the neck of Mac's ex-girlfriend of the week, to coerce him to steal one of China's national treasures. This plot twist serves as the episode's cliffhanger, unusual since almost all of the adventures were limited to single episodes.
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Oktoberfest
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Oktoberfest: In "The Wall", a bar in East (Eastern at the time of the airing) Berlin has Bavarian music playing and waitresses in traditional Bavarian dresses.
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Real After All
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Real After All: Seen in "Ghost Ship", and strongly implied in "The Visitors".
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Car Cushion
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Car Cushion: In "Passages," MacGyver falls two or three stories onto the roof of a car, putting him into a coma. He fell out of a car park, meaning that there wasn't a lot of sidewalk for him to hit. Since he's the hero, he gets better.
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Gadgeteer Genius
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Gadgeteer Genius: Mac was one of the most famous gadgeteers of TV, although he was more of a tinkerer. The series that spawned the term "MacGyvering." Usually worked alone, without a sidekick. Oddly enough, though, there was an episode where he teamed up with a classic Gadgeteer Genius girl — an ultra-intelligent schoolgirl who could match him move-for-move.
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Trash Landing
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Trash Landing: In "The Coltons", Frank and Jesse tackle a pair of bad guys out throw a second storey window and land in a dumpster which is miraculously full of bags of shredded paper.
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Handy Helper
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Handy Helper: "Blind Faith" has Mac and his boss, Pete, working together. Pete has been temporarily blinded and Mac can't use his hands. Together... they can operate a golf cart!
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Ant Assault
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Ant Assault: In "Trumbo's World", deep in the Amazon jungle, a horde of killer ants is destroying everything in its path. MacGyver helps his entomologist friend and the plantation owner to battle the ants before the plantation is destroyed.
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MacGyvering
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MacGyvering: The Trope Namer, of course. Special mention has to be made of MacGyver's ability to make aircraft: on separate occasions, he's built a hang glider, a two-seat fan-powered glider, a hot air balloon, and a Fan Man-type parachute-and-fan combo, all basically from scraps and duct tape. All four flew. And he patched the balloon up with a map when it got a hole in it.
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Master of Disguise
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Master of Disguise: Murdoc was said to be a master of disguise. But his disguises were so bad that viewers only fell for them because his appearances were spread out enough that the audience had forgotten what he looked like. This was also the M.O. of the eponymous assassin in "The Assassin".
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Buffy Speak
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Buffy Speak: Penny Parker tends to lapse into this whenever she shows signs of intelligence.
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Voodoo Zombie
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Voodoo Zombie: The 'living person in a deathlike trance' variety appear in "Walking Dead". The villain attempts to do it to Mac, but he is able to hold the effect at bay long enough to find the antidote.
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 MacGyver (1985)
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Beautiful All Along / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bedlam House / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bedsheet Ladder / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Big Word Shout / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bitter Almonds / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bizarre Beverage Use / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Blade Brake / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Blind Driving / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bloodless Carnage / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bloody Handprint / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bodybag Trick / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Booze Flamethrower / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Borrowin' Samedi / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bounty Hunter / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Brainless Beauty / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bridal Carry / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Building Is Welding / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bulletproof Vest / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bulungi / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Bus Crash / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
But You Were There, and You, and You / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cable-Car Action Sequence / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Car Cushion / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Carrying the Antidote / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cars Without Tires Are Trains / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cast as a Mask / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ceiling Cling / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Chained Heat / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Chained to a Railway / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Chainsaw Good / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Character Title / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Checkpoint Charlie / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Chekhov's Armoury / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Clothesline Stealing / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Clothing Combat / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Collapsing Lair / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Competence Porn / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Complexity Addiction / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Consulting Mister Puppet / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Conveyor Belt o' Doom / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Corrupted Contingency / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Costumer / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Couldn't Find a Lighter / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cowboy Episode / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Crazy Enough to Work / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Crazy Survivalist / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Criminal Amnesiac / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Criminal Mind Games / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cruise Episode / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cryptid Episode / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cunning Linguist / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Cut the Safety Rope / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dead Person Impersonation / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Death Course / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Death of a Thousand Cuts / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Deep Cover Agent / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Defeat Catchphrase / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Defector from Commie Land / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Delivery Guy / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Demolitions Expert / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Destination Defenestration / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Devious Daggers / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Devoured by the Horde / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Did You Just Have Sex? / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
"Die Hard" on an X / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Diplomatic Impunity / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dirty Communists / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Disability Immunity / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dodge the Bullet / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Doesn't Know Their Own Child / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Doesn't Like Guns / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Doomed Appointment / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Doorstop Baby / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Doppelgänger Crossover / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dream Within a Dream / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dreaming of Things to Come / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Driving a Desk / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dropped After the Pilot / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Drowning Pit / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dry Docking / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Duct Tape for Everything / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dumbwaiter Ride / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Dumbwaiter Ridelaunching Tonight / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Easy Amnesia / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Education Mama / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
'80s Hair / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Electrified Bathtub / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Elite School Means Elite Brain / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Embarrassing First Name / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Embarrassing Password / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Enhance Button / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Escape Artist / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Eskimos Aren't Real / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Everyone Knows Morse / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Evil Makes You Ugly / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Evil Poacher / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Exact Time to Failure / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Expansion Pack Past / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Experienced Protagonist / int_79ed424e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Explosive Instrumentation / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Explosive Leash / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Expospeak Gag / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Extended Disarming / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fake in the Hole / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fake-Out Make-Out / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fake Russian / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fake Wizardry / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fakeout Escape / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Falling Chandelier of Doom / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Family-Friendly Stripper / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fauxlosophic Narration / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fictional Video Game / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fingertip Drug Analysis / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fire Hose Cannon / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Flashed-Badge Hijack / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Flaunting Your Fleets / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Flock of Wolves / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
For Science! / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Forklift Fu / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Former Regime Personnel / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fourth Reich / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
French Jerk / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Friday Night Death Slot / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Fright Deathtrap / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
GPS Evidence / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Gadget Watches / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Gadgeteer Genius / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ghost Ship / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Girl of the Week / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Give Me Back My Wallet / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Given Name Reveal / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Glasses and Ponytail Coverup / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
God Guise / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Good Hair, Evil Hair / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Government Agency of Fiction / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Gratuitous German / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Great Escape / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hack the Traffic Lights / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hairpin Lockpick / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hall of Mirrors / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Handy Helper / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Heal It With Fire / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Heartwarming in Hindsight / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Heist Episode / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Heroes Love Dogs / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Heroes "R" Us / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hero's Classic Car / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hidden in Plain Sight / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
High-Heel–Face Turn / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Holiday in Cambodia / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hollywood Hacking / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hollywood Spelling / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hollywood Voodoo / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Homemade Flamethrower / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Honest Corporate Executive / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Houseboat Hero / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
How Unscientific! / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Hungry Jungle / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
I Can Explain / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
I Let Gwen Stacy Die / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
I Was Just Joking / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Identical Grandson / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
If I Wanted You Dead... / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
If It's You, It's Okay / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ignored Confession / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Impossible Genius / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improbable Antidote / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improvisational Ingenuity / int_79ed424e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improvised Catapult / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improvised Diaper / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improvised Lockpick / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improvised Screwdriver / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Improvised Zipline / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Incredibly Obvious Bomb / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Indy Hat Roll / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Indy Ploy / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Inner Monologue / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Instant Sedation / int_79ed424e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Instrumental Theme Tune / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Invincible Hero / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Involuntary Battle to the Death / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Invulnerable Knuckles / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
It Works Better with Bullets / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
It's Quiet… Too Quiet / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
It's What I Do / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Jailbird of Panama / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Jury Duty / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Just a Stupid Accent / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Killer Cop / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Knockout Gas / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Land Mine Goes "Click!" / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Landing Gear Shot / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Laser Hallway / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Last Disrespects / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Latex Perfection / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Latin Land / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Lava Pit / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Lead In / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Lemming Cops / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Lie Detector / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Literal Cliffhanger / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Literary Allusion Title / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Little Stowaway / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Load-Bearing Boss / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Locked in a Freezer / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Luke, You Are My Father / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Lumber Mill Mayhem / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Luxury Prison Suite / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Mad Bomber / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Magic Antidote / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Magic Brakes / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Magic Countdown / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Magical Defibrillator / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Make It Look Like an Accident / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Make the Dog Testify / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Man on Fire / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Manchurian Agent / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Martial Pacifist / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Master of Disguise / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Mechanically Unusual Fighter / int_79ed424e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Midair Repair / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Mountain Man / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Mr. Fixit / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Mugged for Disguise / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Multiple-Choice Past / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Murder Simulators / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Musical Pastiche / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
My Sibling Will Live Through Me / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Myopic Architecture / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
N.G.O. / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Nazi Gold / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Near-Death Clairvoyance / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Near Misses / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Neutral Good / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Never Learned to Read / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Never Mess with Granny / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Newspaper-Thin Disguise / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Nitro Boost / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Nitro Express / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
No Animals Were Harmed / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
No One Could Survive That! / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Non-Governmental Organization / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Noodle Implements / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Not the Intended Use / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Nothing Personal / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Nuke 'em / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Obfuscating Disability / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Off the Rails / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Oktoberfest / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
1-Dimensional Thinking / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Only So Many Canadian Actors / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Operation Game of Doom / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Or Was It a Dream? / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Outfit Decoy / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Paper Key-Retrieval Trick / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Parents for a Day / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Patron Saint / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pendulum of Death / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Percussive Maintenance / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Periphery Hatedom / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Phone-Trace Race / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pinocchio Nose / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pistol-Whipping / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Platonic Prostitution / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Plot-Demanded Manual Mode / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pocket Protector / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Powder Trail / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Praetorian Guard / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Private Eye Monologue / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Private Intelligence Agency / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Professional Killer / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Protagonist Title / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Psycho for Hire / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pulling the Rug Out / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pungeon Master / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Pushy Gun-Toting Villain / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Quest for Identity / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Qurac / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Race Against the Clock / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Raised Hand of Survival / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ransacked Room / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Rapid Aging / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Reckless Gun Usage / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Red Scare / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Reed Snorkel / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Relocating the Explosion / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Renaissance Man / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Renegade Russian / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Rewrite / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Right Hand Versus Left Hand / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Right-Wing Militia Fanatic / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Rock Bottom / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Rock Star Parking / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Rogue Juror / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Roguish Romani / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ruthless Foreign Gangsters / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ruthless Modern Pirates / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Saved by the Coffin / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Scary Surprise Party / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Science Hero / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Sentry Gun / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Shackle Seat Trap / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Shady Lady of the Night / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Shoo Out the New Guy / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Shoot Out the Lock / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Shooting Gallery / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Showy Invincible Hero / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Single-Episode Handicap / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Skeleton Key Card / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Skepticism Failure / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Sky Heist / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Sleeping Dummy / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Snake Pit / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Soft Glass / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Someone to Remember Him By / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Songs in the Key of Lock / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Spider-Sense / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Spies Are Despicable / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Stick 'em Up / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Stock Footage / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Storybook Episode / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Streetwalker / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Surprisingly Good Foreign Language / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Swamps Are Evil / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Tap on the Head / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Team Member in the Adaptation / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Technicolor Toxin / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Ten Little Murder Victims / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
10-Minute Retirement / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Backwards Я / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Caper / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Cast Showoff / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Coup / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Diaper Change / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Farmer and the Viper / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Foreign Subtitle / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Great Repair / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Gunslinger / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Hashshashin / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Horseshoe Effect / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Key Is Behind the Lock / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Lava Caves of New York / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Old Convict / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Precious, Precious Car / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Professor / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Snack Is More Interesting / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Teaser / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Vietnam Vet / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Wild West / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
The Wildcats / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Theatre Phantom / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Theme Music Power-Up / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
This Is My Boomstick / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Those Wacky Nazis / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Throwing the Distraction / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Throwing the Fight / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Time Bomb / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Tomboyish Name / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Toros y Flamenco / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Toxic, Inc. / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Trail of Blood / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Training Montage / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Trap Door / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Trap Master / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Trapped in Containment / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Trash Landing / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Tree Buchet / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Tribal Carry / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Trigger Phrase / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Twitchy Eye / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Uncanny Family Resemblance / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Unconventional Food Usage / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Unconventional Learning Experience / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Underside Ride / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Unnecessary Combat Roll / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Unwilling Suspension / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Vehicle Vanish / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Vehicular Assault / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Vehicular Sabotage / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Vigilante Man / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Viking Funeral / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Vision Quest / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Voodoo Zombie / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
War for Fun and Profit / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Wardens Are Evil / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Was Too Hard on Him / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
We Are Everywhere / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Weak, but Skilled / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Weapons Understudies / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
When She Smiles / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
When the Planets Align / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Wig, Dress, Accent / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Wire Dilemma / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Witness Protection / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Worthless Treasure Twist / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Wouldn't Hit a Girl / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Written-In Infirmity / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Yakuza / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
You Can Always Tell a Liar / int_f15f622e
 Macgyver1985
sameAs
MacGyver (1985)
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
Affectionate Pickpocket / int_f15f622e
 MacGyver (1985)
hasFeature
All Crimes Are Equal / int_f15f622e